6 27 1833 Who Killed Jose Francisco Chaves? By Mark Thompson Only two members of the New Mexico Bar have been honored by the naming of a New Mexico county—Thomas B. Catron in 1921, just four months before his death, and Jose Francisco Chaves, for whom the county was…
12 26 1851 Historical Society of New Mexico, 1859-1976 By Myra Ellen Jenkins The Historical Society of New Mexico, the oldest organization of its kind west of the Mississippi River, was formally organized on 26 December 1859 when a number of Hispano and Anglo New Mexicans, including many officers,…
9 6 1802 Arms, Indians, and the Mismanagement of New Mexico: Donaciano Vigil By David J. Weber Donaciano Vigil was born in Santa Fe on 6 September 1802. He received an unusually good education for a frontiersman–his father, Juan Cristóbal Vigil, reportedly educated his sons at home. As one…
10 14 1819 Born on October 14, 1819 near Columbus in Franklin County, Ohio, the son of Samuel Loree, a farmer, and Nancy (Sanders) Axtell. Axtell was the brother of Silas H., Ephraim S., Sarah A., Rufus S., Mary R., Martha D., Nancy K., Josephus S., Phebe J., Pamela…
4 10 1910 By Suzanne Stamatov On 10 April 1910 Fabián Chavéz and María Nicolasa Roybal de Chávez welcomed the birth of their first child, Manuel Ezequiel Chávez, in the small northern town of Wagon Mound, New Mexico. The family, which would eventually include ten children, briefly left New…
1831 By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. New Mexico State Historian David J. Miller was born around 1831 in Alabama to parents who were natives of Maryland. Nothing is known of Miller's early childhood, but he spent two years during his youth living with the family of Tejano patriot José…
9 11 1923 By Rick Hendricks Roy Minoru Nakayama was born on 11 September 1923 to John K. and Tome Nakayama, both of whom had been born in Japan. At the time of his birth, Roy was the fifth of seven children. He would eventually have one more sibling,…
7 3 1840 L. (LeBaron) Bradford Prince 1889–1893 Born in Flushing, New York on July 3, 1840, the son of William R., a nursery proprietor, and Charlotte G. (Collins) Prince. Prince was the brother of Charlotte, Seraphine, and William. An Episcopalian of Mayflower ancestry, he was married on…
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