People

: Phidelah "P.A." Rice; He was born in Kentucky to David Rice (a teacher) and Selina Huntington (Bender) Rice, and grew up there and in Missouri. The 1870 US Census shows him living in Missouri and making his living as a preacher at the age of 24. By 1880, he had married Annie M. (Bernard) Rice, and the family was living in Fremont County, Colorado. Shortly after, he became an early Grand Junction, Colorado pioneer. He and his brother W.A. Rice established Mesa County’s first sawmill by Enoch Lake on Pinon Mesa in 1883. It supplied the builders of Grand Junction and others in the county with timber for construction. They also ran a lumberyard near 249 S. 4th Street in Grand Junction. He was a prominent citizen, and was also the director of the local YMCA. He and Annie lived on the corner of First Street and Rood Avenue. They had two sons, Phidelah “P.W.” and Bernard, and a daughter named Mary. Mary cared for P.A. and Annie in their later years, until their deaths. He is buried in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery.

: Phidelah Dawes "P.W." Rice; He was born in Canon City, Colorado and raised in Grand Junction and Glade Park, Colorado. He was the son of prominent citizen and pioneer Phidelah "P.A." Rice, who owned the county's first lumber mill and a lumberyard in town. P.W. worked in the lumberyard as a young man. He also attended the Leland Power’s School of Elocution and would often practice dramatic readings of Hamlet and other works in the woods by their home in Glade Park, Colorado, and in Grand Junction. He went to Colorado College, where he was a member of the Glee and Mandolin Club, a group called the Pearsons, and where he took part in oratorical contests. By 1920, US Census records show him living in Brookline, Massachusetts, where his occupation was listed as "public reader." The 1930 US Census shows him as owner and teacher at the School of Dramatic Art. He married Elizabeth Pooler. They had a daughter named Carolee.

: Phil Eilebrecht; Born 1918, one of the original members of the Cattlemen's Days Association. Worked as a State Brand Inspector and a rancher on Ohio Creek. Married wife Patricia in 1946, with whom he has 2 daughters (one of which was Cattlemen's Days Queen in 1965) and 3 grandchildren. (source: Newspaper Clipping "The Three Granddaddies of Cattlemen's Days") Cattlemen's Days Parade Marshall 2000, President 1980 & 1981

: Phil Trimm; Phil Trimm, born in Illinois and raised in Grand Junction, was introduced to fly fishing as a child. However, Phil didn’t take much interest in the sport until he was in his early 20s, when he discovered for himself how much he loved fly fishing. Not long after that, he began tying his own flies. In search of fly tying materials and “the other necessities,” Phil began making regular trips to the Western Anglers fishing shop in downtown Grand Junction, where he became immersed in the local fly fishing community. Phil jumped at the chance to work at Western Anglers, where he worked more than nine years, six of those as manager. Currently, Phil is a sales consultant for Whiting Farms, a national hackle producer and distributor based in Delta. His hobbies are fly fishing, fly tying, and more fly fishing.

: Philip Arnold; A prospector from Kentucky who, along with his partner Captain Jack, salted a field on Diamond Peak in Colorado giving it the appearance of a an area rich in diamonds and other precious stones. He enriched himself by selling the claim for an enormous sum in 1872, before his misdeed was discovered. However, he was never prosecuted.

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