Carmen Teresa Gabaldon Rios was a skilled and intelligent business woman who helped make the Rios Wood Yard in Santa Fe the successful operation that it was for many years on Camino Monte Sol. She also raised a large family in which she was its heart and soul Carmen Teresa Gabaldon…
Born on December 15, 1871 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of James John, a mining executive, and Anna Hex (Osborne) Hagerman. Of German ancestry, Hagerman never married. Hagerman attended school in Milwaukee and studied for a time at Colorado College. He received a B. Litt. degree in 1894 and…
Born on October 17, 1859 in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Miguel Antonio, a prominent banker, businessman, and lawyer, and Mary Josephine (Blackwood) Otero. Otero was the brother of Mamie J., Gertrude, and Page B. A Roman Catholic of Mexican ancestry, he was married at Las Vegas, New…
Born on February 9, 1843 in Calhoun, Henry County, Missouri. the son of Dr. William Tucker, a physician, and Caroline Virginia (Taylor) Thornton. Thornton’s English ancestors settled in Virginia in 1646. He was married on June 30, 1868 to Helen Maitby of Oneida, New York. Thornton received his early…
Kearny Address United States Army Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny in Las Vegas, makes his first address to the Alcalde and the people of New Mexico on August 15, 1846. This is the first official statement of the United States in the invasion of the Southwest. “Mr. Alcalde, and people…
Arms, Indians, and the Mismanagement of New Mexico: Donaciano Vigil By David J. Weber Donaciano Vigil was born in Santa Fe on September 6, 1802. He received an unusually good education for a frontiersman–his father, Juan Cristóbal Vigil, reportedly educated his sons at home. As one merchant later recalled,…
Born on January 11, 1849 at Yazoo City, Mississippi, the son of William, a physician and planter, and Harriet (Beale) Mills. An Episcopalian, Mills was married at West Haven, Connecticut on January 14, 1885 to Alice Waddingham, by whom he was the father of Wilson W., Alice L., and…
Biographical essay of Territorial Governor George Curry. George Curry, the second to the last Territorial Governor of New Mexico, was born April 3, 1861 at Greenwood Plantation, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, located north of Baton Rouge. As the eldest of the four sons of George Alexander and Clara Madden…
Antonio Lucero was New Mexico's first Secretary of Stat Antonio Lucero had the distinction of being the first Secretary of State for New Mexico. He was born on October 6, 1863, thirty-five miles southwest of Las Vegas and grew up in a small-town near the Pecos River until his…
By: R.E. Twitchell Biography of F. M. Bojorquez, a rancher and stockman of Sierra County, living at Arrey, was born in San Bernardino, California, on the 18th of March, 1865, a son of Jesus and Lawrence Bojorquez, who in the early '40s crossed the Atlantic from Barcelona, Spain. F….
