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- Alexander (Bob) Thompson Alexander
- "A surprise birthday dinner was held at the Spring Creek Chalet on Oct. 15, 1993, in honor of Robert Alexander's 98th birthday, according to a family spokesperson. Those in attendance were his seven children, their wives. and husbands, and two granddaughters: Karen Alexander of Grand Junction; Terrie Andrews, her husband David, and two daughters: Kerri and Lacy, of Norwood; grandson Frank Kinion, of Montrose; Don and Betty Andrews, of Nucla; Louise Carpenter, Jessie AF , drich, of Montrose; Dick and Virginia Stoddard, a niece, from Grand Junction; and the residents and staff of the Chalet. Alexander came to Montrose in June of 1913 and his first job was putting up hay on the Ralph Smith ranch in for Colona. That fall he picked apples for Ashenfelter and spuds for Farris. He went to Telluride in 1916 and worked on a dairy where he met his wife, Oda Collins. They were married on Sept. 1, 1917, and had celebrated 72 years of marriage before Mrs. Alexanders died the next June. They ran a dairy until 1928 in Telluride before going into the sheep business and moving to Norwood in 1935. The Alexanders were in the sheep ranching business until they sold out in 1967 to their son, Kirk; who still runs the business. The Alexanders traveled through Europe, Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, and most of the U.S.A. Alexander now resides at the Spring Creek Chalet where he has made his home since December of 1990." --Taken from an unidentified newspaper article, found in Bob & Oda Alexander's oral history folder, located in the Wilkinson Public Library, in the Telluride Room.
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- Alexander Lee Guerrie
- He was born in Colorado to Italian immigrant parents. He was a laborer in the steam railroad shop for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Grand Junction.
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- Alexander R. "Alex" Bauer
- He was born to George Bauer and Katherine “Katie” (Hosseiler) Bauer in Morganthau, Russia. His family belonged to a community of Germans living there. Fearing revolution, his family immigrated to the United States in 1913, when Alex was four years old. His father found work as a blacksmith in Kansas and then with the Missouri Pacific Railroad in Idaho in 1917. His mother was a homemaker. Alex and his siblings could not speak English when they started school. In 1923, when Alex was about fourteen, the family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado, where his father found work in the machine shop of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (just following the Great Railroad Strike of 1922). Alex started as a laborer for the railroad in 1925, giving his first paychecks to his family. He advanced to machinist apprentice and was transferred to Salt Lake City in 1928. He returned to Grand Junction before 1930, when the US Census shows him living with his parents at 415 South Avenue. He married Edith L. Scarlett, whom he had met at the Mile-Away Dance Hall, on October 15, 1940. She was a school teacher, Alex’s secretary, and later taught disabled children. They had four children. Alex became the union shop steward and traveled as a representative of the International Association of Machinists in 1940. He became the Service Representative of the IAM in 1944. In 1961, he became the Administrative Assistant to the International President of the union, a position that took him to Washington D.C. He retired in 1974 at the age of 65. At that time, he was presented with a pin for 49 years of service.
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- Alexandra Hamilton
- Student at Colorado Christian University, graduated May, 2015.