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- John Fleming Baker
- He was born to John S. and Caroline Baker in New York State. US Census records show the family living in Seneca, New York in 1870, when John F. was 9. He married Alice M. Gauthier, the daughter of French Canadian immigrants. They lived with their children in Kankakee, Illinois. Following John's younger brother Homer, who was ranching near Cedar Mesa, they moved to Delta County, Colorado, arriving on March 8, 1908. There John raised horses. According to the recollections of Baker's daughter, Eda (Baker) Musser, the family lived primarily in Delta, but also seems to have lived in Cedaredge, in Grand Junction, and back in Illinois. The family lived for a time at 12th Street and Grand Avenue in Grand Junction, near the racetrack at Lincoln Park, so that the horses could participate in races there. Baker raced his horses all around the state and elsewhere, for both large and small purses. He exercised his horses on the small Cedar Mesa ranch owned by Homer.
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- John Francis Goulet
- He was born to Francis Adrian Goulet and Anne Elizabeth (Sheahan) Goulet in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The 1910 US Census record shows that his father was a cutter in a shoe shop, and that his mother was a presser in a shoe shop. His father’s background was French Canadian. His mother was the daughter of Irish immigrants. Massachusetts death records show that John’s mother died in 1928, when he was seventeen or eighteen years old. The 1930 US Census shows John living with his father and brother at 24 15th Avenue in Haverhill, where his father continued to be a shoe cutter, and with John working as a clerk for a dry goods store at the age of nineteen. By 1940, he was living as a lodger at 213 Beacon Street in Boston, where he worked as the sales manager of a dry goods store. Naturalization records for his wife, Isabelle Salaun of Brest, France, show that John married her in Boston on March 21, 1942. They had two sons. He served in the United States Army from December 11, 1942 to September 4, 1944, during World War II. His war enlistment records show his civil occupation as author, editor, reporter, and that he had a high school education at the time of enlistment. The 1950 US Census shows John and Isabelle living with their seven year old son in Boston, where he worked as an advertising executive and she was a homemaker. They moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in May 1951. There, he worked for the Daily Sentinel in the advertising department. He and his wife became life-long friends with Al Look, who also worked in the department. He was a poet and a musician. He composed a piece for piano entitled Western Colorado Fantasy in dedication to fond memory of “many hikes and picnics in the hills of Western Colorado." The piece aired on KREX radio, most probably in the 1950's or 60's. He also played a piano piece by Mendelssohn with the Grand Junction High School orchestra on November 25, 1958. The family moved to Santa Fe, though it is unknown exactly when this happened. They later moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where John and his wife passed away. He died at the age of 94 and is buried in Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee.
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- John Frank Sleeper
- Owner of the Sleeper Ranch in the Pinon Mesa area. He was born in Rochester, New Hampshire to Charles Wesley Sleeper and Sarah E. (Peavey) Sleeper, both native New Hampshirites. His father was a blacksmith, cattle raiser, and railroad engineer. His mother was a homemaker. John attended Dartmouth College from 1884 to 1886. It appears from his listing in the Non-Graduates section of the Dartmouth College 1910 catalog that he did not graduate, but he did receive sufficient training to become a civil engineer in Mesa County, Colorado. He moved to Mesa County in the 1880's after his schooling at Dartmouth and settled in the Glade Park area. According to John Jay Collier, husband of Sleeper’s daughter, John Sleeper came to the area as a lawman pursuing a criminal and ended up staying. According to his obituary, published in the Daily Sentinel in 1932, his Sleeper Ranch was one of the earliest ranches along the Little Dolores River and in Glade Park (Daily Sentinel, 30 December 1932, p.10). He owned the 2-V Ranch on Pinon Mesa along with Wendell Phillips Ela, who was also from Rochester, New Hampshire. He married Louise Amelia Sieber Saxon on November 26, 1902 in Grand Junction. The 1910 US Census shows the couple and their children living at 114 White Avenue in Grand Junction, with John working as a civil engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation. He designed the grades in what is now known as the Colorado National Monument’s Serpent’s Trail (then part of the road to Glade Park). By 1920 they had moved to Glade Park, where the family ranched. New Hampshire death records show that he died of acute nephritis in 1932 at the age of 67, and that he had been living back in Rochester for three years at the time of death.
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- John Frey
- A volunteer with the Mesa County Oral History Project.