People

: Henry S. Griffith; He was born in Ohio. He later moved with his wife and children from Missouri to Las Animas, Colorado, where he painted houses and worked for the Santa Fe Railroad.

: Henry Slown; Henry administered the Rio Grande Railroad property as a trustee. He was associated with the Slown Land and Cattle Company, which was a large northwestern Colorado livestock concern.

: Henry Spomer; He was born to a German farming family in Vidak, Russia, the youngest sibling of five children. Henry left Russia to avoid serving in the army before the Russian Revolution, and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to live with his sister in 1913, when he was 18 years old. There, they lived in a community of Germans from Russia. His parents, Pete Spomer and Mary Margaret (Georg) Spomer, refused to move and lived in Russia until their death. In Lincoln, Henry worked at an ice house for the railroad and eventually became a farm laborer, focusing on beets. He also met Marie Geier, whom he married. They later moved to Mesa County, Colorado with other Germans from Russia to raise beets in the Fruitvale area. US Census records show them living with five children in the Pomona area by 1930. He also worked on a farm for the Redlands Company, for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and as a janitor at the Lowell School before retiring at 67.

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

: Henry Tupper; An attorney who, along with Ben Griffith, helped write the bill organizing a new drainage district in the Grand Valley, which was passed into law by the Colorado State Congress in 1923. He and Silmon L. Smith, were partners in the firm Tupper and Smith in early Twentieth century Grand Junction.

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