People

: Oramel N. Marsh; He was born to Mott Marsh and Samantha (Brown) Marsh in New York. He taught in a boy's school in Long Island prior to coming to Mesa County, Colorado. He became the second dean of Grand Junction State Junior College (now Colorado Mesa University) from 1928-1932. He was described as a “fine gentleman” and “a valuable addition because of his experience and his knowledge of sound educational practice” by oral history interviewee, Mary Rait. A marriage record from Oneida, New York shows him marrying A Marguerite Gomph on October 11, 1920. He is shown as single and living alone in the Grand Junction YMCA at the age of forty-nine in the 1930 US Census.

: Orel Melvin "O.M." Hopkins; He was the business partner of livestock auctioneer Howard Shults in Mesa County, Colorado. Together they opened a sale yard on Orchard Mesa in the location of what later became Duck Pond Park. They operated together in the business from 1936 to 1942. He may still have been involved in the business after Shults moved it to near the Durham Stockyard.

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