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- Minnie (Beer) Hall
- She and her husband Lewis Hall had one of the first families to settle in the Gateway, Colorado area. Also, she established and ran the first post office there.
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- Minnie (Crouse) Rasmussen
- She was born to Charlie Crouse and Mary (Law) Crouse in Browns Park, where Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming meet. Her father had served in the Civil War and then come West, working as bullwhacker and freighter for railroad construction outfits. He ended up in Green River City, Wyoming, and then bought a horse ranch in Browns Park, Colorado. Her mother was from a pioneering Mormon family. She grew up as a youthful friend to African-American cowboy Isam Dart and as an acquaintance of Butch Cassidy, whose hideout was nearby. Her father would send a messenger ahead to Cassidy’s hideout if he saw lawmen approaching. The family went to nearby Rock Springs, Wyoming for supplies twice a year. She was educated by tutors, then sent to a Catholic boarding school in Iowa in 1891, when she was nine. She returned home permanently when she was eighteen. In his article "The Legendary Minnie Crouse Rasmussen", based on his oral history interviews with her, Tennant describes Minnie at this age as a stunning redhead (The Daily Sentinel, June 26, 1983, p. 12). When her mother died, she and her father homesteaded at Grindstone Park in Wyoming. Her father died in 1906, and she built the cabin and finished proving up the claim by herself. She kept touch with an old family friend, John Jarvie, who owned a general store in Bridgepoint. They read and shared the same books. When he was murdered, she left the area for nearby Linwood, Utah, on the Wyoming border. She was in her mid-twenties and ran a boarding house with Mrs. Marius Larsen. She married Knudt Ronholdt in 1915. They had a daughter before divorcing in 1919. She became the postmaster of the town in 1917, when she was about thirty-five years old, and held the position until 1952. She married the proprietor of the general store where the post office was located, George Rasmussen, in 1924. They were married until his death in 1962, when she was eighty. When the Flaming Gorge Dam was built, Linwood was slated to be inundated with water, and she burnt down her hotel rather than have it moved to higher ground. She then moved with her dauther in Arizona. She died at the age of ninety-nine.
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- Minnie (Curtis) Tufly
- She was born in Iowa in 1866 and married George Tufly. Around 1910, they traded their farm in Iowa for a farm in the Appleton area of Mesa County, Colorado, where they moved with their children. There they raised sugar beets, oats and alfalfa. The two separated sometime between 1910 and 1920. She kept the farm.
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- Minnie (Virden) Geiger
- She was born near Canon City in the Colorado Territory. She moved with her parents to the Whitewater area of Mesa County, presumably in 1880's, after the removal of the Utes. She married John V. Geiger, a homesteader from Pennsylvania, in December 1984. She was a homemaker on a fruit growing farm.
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- Minnie Ackerman
- From an unknown newspaper article: "Minnie M. Ackerman Sept. 23, 1914-Dec. 22, 1992 Minnie M. Ackerman, 78, of Montrose and a former Telluride resident, died Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1992, at her home in Montrose from a sudden illness. Minnie M. Silva was born Sept. 23, 1914, at Canon City, the daughter of John and Mary (Oberto) Silva. Her childhood was spent in Canon City and she graduated from Telluride High School. Mrs. Ackerman had lived in Telluride for 57 years before moving to Montrose in 1986. She had served as the Postmistress of the Telluride Post Office for 26 years. She was a member of St. Patrick’s Church of Telluride and St. Mary’s Church of Montrose. Minnie Silva married Theodore “Ted” Ackerman on Oct. 10, 1937 in Telluride. He preceded her in death on Jan. 30, 1966 in Telluride. Survivors include two sons: Ted Ackerman, of Aurora, and John Ackerman, of Denver; and three grandchildren. Other survivors include a brother, Charles Silva, and a sister, Madeline Studebaker, both of Montrose. She was proceeded in death by her parents and husband. Mrs. Ackerman enjoyed her children and their families, and she liked to play bridge."
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- Minnie Alice (Eaves) Jones
- She was born in Denver in 1861 and grew up in Kansas. She came from a pioneering family in Colorado.
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- Minnie Ann (Andress) Roberts
- Minnie Ann Roberts discusses moving from Iowa to a homestead in Montrose County, Colorado in the early 1900s. Minnie explains the social scene near Bedrock, memories of her wedding, and baby showers and shivarees. She also talks about canning meat, preserving other foods, doing the wash, making her own clothes, and taking care of her family at the homestead. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
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- Minnie Chatfield
- She was a teacher at Pear Park Elementary School in the Pear Park area of Mesa County, Colorado. She was very influential in her field, and was visited by teachers from around the state who wished to observe her methods. Chatfield Elementary School, on D ½ Road near 32 Road, just next to the old Pear Park Elementary School, was named for her.