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- John Horan-Kates
- John Kates was born in Detroit, Michigan on 5 May 1945 to John Rowen Kates and Bessie Alma Virdin Kates. He attended Redford High School in northwest Detroit where he played football and baseball. Horan-Kates graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit with a B.S. in Business Administration. After college, Horan-Kates attended the US Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. He served fourteen months in Vietnam. In 1974, John Horan-Kates arrived in Vail for the position of Marketing Manager for Vail Associates. In 1976, he was promoted to Vice-President of Marketing and worked primarily with the Beaver Creek Resort. In 1978, Horan-Kates established the Vail Valley Foundation (VVF) where he worked closely with President Gerald R. Ford. The VVF was instrumental in bringing the American Ski Classic and the 1989 World Alpine Ski Championship to Vail. The VVF also inaugurated the World Forum and helped build the Ford Amphitheatre and the Vilar Center for the Performing Arts. In 1998, Horan-Kates also helped establish Vail Christian High School in Edwards, Colorado. In 1999, he founded the Vail Leadership Institute. In addition to golf and skiing, Horan-Kates enjoys maintaining and improving the log home he and wife, Pam Horan-Kates, built in Lake Creek near Edwards. John Horan –Kates is generous by nature and reports that his personal purpose is to “build spiritually-oriented community” in the Eagle River Valley. It is no surprise that he enjoys personal development and leadership seminars. In 1998, he attended the Hudson Institute and received certification as an Executive Coach. In 2016, he attended Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of The Making of a Community: The Vail Way. At marriage, John and Pamela Horan-Kates joined their surnames to keep her family name “alive.” The couple has celebrated forty-five years together and they have two children: Conor Horan-Kates and Brooke Horan-Kates Petterson.
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- John Hular
- Early resident of Crested Butte, Colorado. Died in the Jokerville Mine Explosion on January 24, 1884.
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- John Jackson
- He was born in Iowa. Around 1856, he took a job driving a stagecoach between Independence Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He joined the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment in 1861, under the command of Colonel John M. Chivington. During his tenure in the regiment, Jackson took part in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, and also fought in the Battle of Glorieta Pass, where he engaged the Confederates at Apache Canyon. He moved to the Western Slope from Trinidad in 1886, settling first near De Beque and then in Meeker, where he cut logs for road builders. He eventually homesteaded on Plateau Creek, before selling out to his son-in-law in 1904 and moving to Steamboat Springs. His wife was Susan Whitely Jackson of Pueblo, Colorado.