People

: James McConnell; He was born in Ohio to an Irish immigrant father and German immigrant mother. Along with Mr. Lowe, he was the owner of the McConnell-Lowe shoe store in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was Glenn McFall’s boss, and a devout Catholic, which at the time caused him trouble from the Ku Klux Klan. Their discriminatory practices adversely affected his business.

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

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

: James Moore Beard; Doctor in Fruita, Colorado in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. His office was in Cleveland, a small town adjoining Fruita on the southeast. He made his office in his home, where he also had a drug store and a small hospital. He later helped to establish and run the Fruita Community Hospital and, according to Cordelia (Hamilton) Files, was also a surgeon for the Unitah Railway. He attended his house calls by horse and buggy. When Files' entire family became ill from Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever in the 1900’s, Beard was one of the only people unafraid to come to the house, which he did a few times a week. Files also maintains that he used radium to treat cancer, beginning in the 1890’s. He made uranium into discs to take x-rays. Files remembered him as a kind person who would invite her to his house for dinner on the night of their mutual birthday. With Files’s Uncle George, he constructed a static electricity machine. With George, he also built and drove the town’s first car. He was a hobby astronomer who built an observatory in the top of his home. He was the grandfather of Leonard Larkin Raber.

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