People

: Henry "Indian Henry" Huff; A Ute Native American resident who lived in the Paradox Valley in the early 1900’s. Oral History interviewee Ella O’Brien was a child when she knew him. In the story that Henry apparently related to her, he was accidentally left behind as a baby by a Ute party that was camping near Norwood in the late 1800’s. A party of white settlers came upon the Ute camp soon after and found Henry. A woman named Huff refused to let another while settler kill the child, and raised him with her three boys. Henry stayed in the Paradox area, Bull Canyon particularly, though he lived at a spring near the Dolores River in the winter. As an adult, he was friends with John Keski, who killed Henry over a card game when both were drunk.

: Henry Anderson; Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.

: Henry Clay Schneider; An early schoolteacher in the Redlands area of Mesa County, Colorado. He had a talent, particularly, for winning respect from his young, male students. William Rump, who went to the Redlands School and had Schneider as a teacher, gave this description of him: “Probably he was well liked by, particularly, the boys. He was a real athletic sort of a fella. In fact, he was the one that was involved in giving those kids all of the lickings. There was an article in the paper by one of the old timers here a couple, three, years ago where we were going to have a big gang fight among the kids and all and he caught us and brought us back to the schoolhouse and said, ‘Okay, boys, you’re going to have to face up to it. You’re either gonna take a lickin’ or you can lick me’. And I was a sort of a cocky kid, I guess, and I said, ‘Okay, guys, let’s have at him’. I was going to try and get out of that doggone lickin’ and I started my operation and nobody backed me up. So we ended up taking a doggone beating. But anyway, he was a real great guy and if his name is still…if he’s still living around, I would like to see him.”

: Henry Collbran; Radio and mining operator for whom the town of Collbran, Colorado is named.

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