People

: Joseph John Egger; Early Mesa County resident, fruit farmer, and cattle rancher. He was born in Blackhawk, Colorado to Michael Egger, an immigrant from the Germanic Tyrol region, and Josephine (Hime) Egger from North Carolina. In 1891, when he was ten years old, his parents settled the area just northeast of Grand Junction, where they planted fruit trees. The 1900 United States Census shows the family living in the Allen area (Fruitvale). As a child he herded the family's milk cows and tried to sell butter. Due to dire economic circumstances experienced by many valley residents, his efforts to sell butter were largely unsuccessful. He married Mary Magdeline Egger on June 30, 1909 in Mt. Angle, Oregon. They had sixteen children. Egger lived in a few different places in the valley. From around 1940, he lived in the Rapid Creek area of Palisade, where he farmed. By the 1970's, he was living in Fruita.

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

: Joseph M. Cuenin; Joe Cuenin was the first ranger for the Cochetopa National Forest in 1905. He knew and wrote about the early Utes of Chaffee County, including Chief Ouray and his wife Chipeta.

: Joseph Mills Hutchinson; Son of Major Joseph Sykes Hutchinson and Anabel McPherson, pioneer family of Chaffee County.

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