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- James Edward "Jimmy" Massey
- He was born to Phillip W. Massey and Rosa Bell Gordon Massey in Grand Junction, Colorado. He seems to have been named for his uncle James Massey. He grew up on the Massey Ranch, near the town of Whitewater and in Unaweep Canyon. He attended Grand Junction High School and Ross Business College before his father signed a document giving him special permission to join the US Navy at the age of seventeen. He arrived at boot camp in San Diego on August 25, 1941 and entered the Navy on September 16, 1941. He was stationed in Hawaii and served on the U.S.S. Curtis. He died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. *Photograph from 1938 Grand Junction High School yearbook
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- James Edward Hall
- Miner in Unaweep Canyon. Upon moving with his wife, Orpha Shugar Hall, to Whitewater, he had a contract to construct Whitewater's first telephone line.
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- James Emil "Jim" Jaenicke
- He was born in Logan, Kansas to Robert Jaenicke and Mary (Baker) Jaenicke. His father was a farmer. He attended Pleasant Hill School in Glade, Kansas. He married Ida Hempler of Phillipsburg, Kansas on January 19, 1926. The 1930 US Census shows them farming in Logan. They had moved to Westcliff, Colorado by 1937. At that time, they came to Loma, Colorado along with several other families as part of the US Farm Security Administration’s resettlement program, which relocated refugees from the Dust Bowl. He belonged to the Potato Growers and Bean Growers. The Jaenicke’s had two children, Kenneth James and Larry Lee, that died shortly after birth.
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- James F. Stewart, Jr.
- Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.
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- James Franklin "Jim" Shults
- He was born in Salem, Missouri to Francis Marion Shults and Levina (Wempler) Shults. His father was a farmer and his mother was a homemaker. He grew up in Salem and Springfield, where he attended a teacher's college. He took a teaching position at the Loma School in Mesa County, Colorado in 1902. He worked as a schoolteacher in Pear Park from 1903-1904. He married fellow Pear Park teacher Daisy De Genira Hosey, also from Missouri, on February 25, 1904. They moved to Fruita and taught in a school house two miles west of town, before moving north of Loma, where they had their twin boys Howard and Harold in 1905. There, he worked as a road supervisor from 1905-1908. The family moved to Grand Junction and he worked in the county assessor’s office for a time. In 1909, they moved to Cottonwood Creek, south of Molina, and then to Collbran. He taught at the Eaglite School and later became an auctioneer in Plateau Valley. Shults taught in what Howard Shults called "trouble schools". He also farmed. He was the auctioneer who sold off much of Cross Orchards and also the holdings of land baron Verner Z. Reed. He continued to farm on the side and when the family returned to Grand Junction in 1919, they lived on a farm on F ½ Road. From 1926-1931, Shults was the owner of the Golden Hills Ranch in Loma, a large apple growing operation. He later became an auctioneer. He was the last person to organize the Mesa County Fair when the Fairgrounds were still in what is now Lincoln Park (in 1923 or 1924). He was elected county assessor in 1938 and served in that capacity until 1938. He was a member of the Congregational Church. He served on the Grand Junction Irrigation Board. His wife passed away in 1947. He died a year later at the age of 73 and is buried in Fruita’s Elmwood Cemetery.