People

: Huberto Maestas; An artist who had artwork displayed in the Art on the Corner (AOTC) exhibit in Downtown Grand Junction.

: Hugh Bigham; School psychologist who did some of the early testing for students being admitted into the Mesa County School District 51 special education program. He later went into private practice.

: Hugh Clark Boon; Hugh Clark Boon, whose great uncle was Daniel Boon (or Boone), was a Civil War veteran who settled in the Lake County region, before it was Chaffee. He was Cleora's first postmaster, and was Lake County superintendent of schools. He built the first road (for the mining community) over Monarch Pass and was a miner himself, joining his friend Alex Hogue in mining at Granite, Garfield, and Monarch.

: Hugh Gallagher; Hugh Gallagher was an early settler of Grand Junction. He was a passenger conductor for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company. When he retired in 1936, he was the longest tenured employee. He worked as a time keeper on the first rail laying gang west of Grand Junction in the early 1880's. He is the father of Hubert R. Gallagher, and husband of Margaret Gallagher.

: Hugh McGee; Contributor to "Just One More Day: A Gunnison Valley Journal," A retired high school choral director who has been writing poetry for many years. (source: Just One More Day: A Gunnison Valley Journal)

: Hugh R. Jones; He was born to William William Jones and Jannie E. (Sluder) Jones in Bucklin, Kansas. His father was a farmer and Welsh immigrant. His mother was a homemaker born in Missouri. He attended the Eagle School in Bucklin from grades 1 to 8. He later received his GED in Sterling, Colorado. Because of the Dust Bowl, he moved to the Roan Creek area in August 1938, when he was about 21 years old. The 1940 US Census shows him living in Garfield, County. There he met his future wife, Virginia R. Mahaney of Denver. They married on June 22, 1941. He worked as a ranch hand near De Beque until 1942, then briefly relocated to Grand Junction before moving to Richmond, California to work as a machinist in the shipyards during World War II. He returned to Western Colorado in 1945 and resumed ranching, this time in Grand Valley (now called Parachute). In 1947, he began working for the Colorado Department of Wildlife as an irrigator. He started in Meeker at the Little Hills Experiment Station and was quickly promoted. He stayed with the Colorado Department of Wildlife for 25 years, working as a Field Assistant, Custodian, and lastly as a Wildlife Conservation Officer (game warden).

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