James A. Ownbey collection.

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James A. Ownbey collection.

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The collection includes 44 photographs, 28 of which are family photos of James A. Ownbey, his wife Pearl Gaynor Ownbey, sons Donald and James Ownbey, and other unidentified family members and friends. Sixteen photographs are of the Wooton Land and Fuel Company, Wooton, Colorado (near Trinidad) which was owned jointly by Ownbey and J.P. Morgan. For biographical information pertaining to James Ownbey, see the Fall 1971 edition of Colorado Magazine, pages 319-336: "Triumph to Disaster: Colonel James A. Ownbey" by Lawrence R. Borne, pages 319-336. For information pertaining to the Wooton Land and Fuel Company, see the Summer 1969 edition of the Colorado Magazine, pages 189-208: "The Wooton Land and Fuel Company, 1905-1910" by Lawrence R. Borne.

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Boulder Public Library

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Boulder Public Library

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Ownbey, James.

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Ownbey, Pearl Gaynor McGaffey, d. 1933.

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Ownbey, James A., 1854-1927.

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James A. ("Colonel") Ownbey moved west to Colorado with his family in 1870. He represented J. P. Morgan's mining interests in the state for many years and in 1906 founded the Wootton Land and Fuel Company to develop coal fields in southern Colorado. [Source: A Guide to Manuscript Collections, 2nd ed., Western Historical Collections, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1982, p. 64.]. From the description of James A. Ownbey Papers 1906-[1929]. (Boulder Public Library). WorldCat record id:...

Ownbey, Donald.

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