People
Collection for person entities.
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- Neva Daniels
- First faculty member hired at CMC
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- Nevada (Lynch) Burford
- She was born in Utah and moved as a young girl to Grand Junction with her parents. She grew up in Grand Junction, where her father was involved in several enterprises, and in Kannah Creek, where her parents homesteaded. As a child, she belonged to the First Methodist Church in Grand Junction. After she married a sheep rancher named Walter Farmer, they lived in several locations in the Kannah Creek area, struggling to get by until Nevada separated from him and returned to Grand Junction with her children. Rod Thomas, the director of the First National Bank, hired her as a bookkeeper. She later worked at the Mesa County Courthouse as a bookkeeper for twenty years.
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- Newell W. Meigs
- Meigs was born in 1864 and died in 1932 in Dodge County, Wisconsin. He moved to Salida, Colorado in 1886 after buying out the express business of W.H. Freeman and J. Wood. He later ran 'The People's Store', a books and stationery store. By 1904, Meigs had his own photo gallery and he took many photographs of the Salida area. Meigs was also active in Salida city politics.