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- John E. Taylor
- A US Navy lifer and Vietnam veteran. He was born in Cheney, Washington, south of Spokane. He was put up for adoption as a baby and raised by parents Harold E. Taylor and Agnes (Holzer) Taylor in Vancouver, Washington. He did not know his birth parents. According to the 1950 US Census for Clark County, his adoptive father worked in a metal services department. His mother was a homemaker. He graduated from Hudson’s Bay High School. During his senior year, he joined the Naval Reserves, getting special permission from his mother to do so, since he was seventeen years old. He joined the reserve submarine service and trained on weekends until his high school graduation. He joined the US Naval Reserves for three years of active service in February 1964. His submarine preparatory training took place in San Francisco. He then attended radio school in San Diego for twenty-two months, where he trained as a radioman. He reported for duty above the U.S.S. Spinax in San Diego, a World War II era, diesel submarine. There, he took part in photo reconnaissance missions off the coast of North Vietnam. After his submarine service, he reenlisted for radioman service aboard an Armored Troop Carrier river patrol boat in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. He was stationed in Dong Tam and took part in extensive combat as part of US Navy Riverine Force River Assault Squadron 9, River Divisions 91, 92. This was part of the Mobile Riverine Force, a partnership with the Army. He saw action in this capacity in 1967 and 1968, including during the Tet Offensive. He received several medals, including a Navy Achievement with a Combat V and a Purple Heart. In 1968, his tour in Vietnam ended and he reported for duty at the communications station in Quonset Point, Rhode Island Naval Air Station. He married at that time and tried to transition to civilian life, but returned shortly to the US Navy. His first marriage ended in divorce. He attended Vietnamese language school prior to his second stint in Vietnam, this time at Nha Be as part of an advisory group where he trained Vietnamese radiomen as a Chief Radioman. He also received and delivered classified messages. He left Vietnam during the US pullout in 1973. He then served in Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines. He returned to duty in the United States, working in a classified capacity in Pacific Beach, Washington. He remarried in 1976. He and his family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, where he worked as a recruiter at the US Navy Recruiting Station. At the time of his oral history interview, he had achieved the rank of E-6. *Photograph from Hudson's Bay High School (Washington) 1963 yearbook
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- John Edgar Chenoweth
- He was a US representative from the 3rd Congressional District who helped Bob Rockwell in his campaign for the 4th Congressional District during a special election in 1941. He served in Congress until 1949, when he lost a bid for reelection. He returned to Trinidad and practiced law until his death in 1986. *Public domain photograph from US House of Representatives.
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- John Edward Bryant
- He was born in Indiana to John Strange Byrant, a farmer, and Rachel Elvira Bryant, a homemaker. Indiana marriage records show him marrying Susan Warthen on September 24, 1872, when he was 22 years old. US Census records show them living in Gage County, Nebraska by 1880, where John was a farmer. Susan died in 1889 and John subsequently remarried to Anna Soule. US Census records show them living in Nebraska in 1900. By 1910, they lived in the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado, where John farmed and raised cattle. He was also a member and minister of the Church of the Brethren in Appleton, and, according to local historian Al Look, a strict, diehard enforcer of religious doctrine. His son was the locally famous artist Harold Bryant.
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- John Ellis Jones
- He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1860. He grew up in Kansas and followed first the baking and then the printing trade. In 1893, he came to Ridgeway, Colorado. He worked briefly on Ouray’s newspaper, The Plaindealer, before gaining employment in a mine. He later became a coach painter in the Denver & Rio Grande roundhouse.
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- John Etcheverry
- Along with his brother, he was a Western Slope sheepherder and rancher. Both were Basque immigrants to Western Colorado.