By Rick Hendricks William Osterton was born in Oldenburg in Lower Saxony around 1834. By 1857 he was living in Baltimore, Maryland. On 7 March 1860, Osterton became a naturalized citizen and on 30 June the US census for Santa Fe, New Mexico, listed him as a bookkeeper. He…
By Rick Hendricks In September 1890 more than three thousand spectators were on hand for the laying of the cornerstone of the first building erected on the campus of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Las Cruces. The large turnout was an indication of the excitement…
By Rick Hendricks The individual known to history as Francisco Cuervo y Valdés first appears in the historical record in the Americas in 1678 as an infantry captain in San Juan Bautista in Sonora. At that time of his life, don Francisco styled himself Cuervo de Valdés. The details…
By Rick Hendricks John Alexander Dowie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847. In 1860 he moved to Australia and in 1888 relocated to the United States. In 1896 Dowie founded the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. Dowie established the city of Zion, which was formally founded in 1900 in…
By Thomas Shumaker, PhD By 1914, when war began in Europe, New Mexico had only been a state for just two years. Despite the relative freshness of its entry into the Union, it was nevertheless open to the wider world, as it always had been. Chinese immigrants had come to…
By Rick Hendricks Théodore Rouault was born in Combourg, France, on 29 May1850. In 1876 at the age of twenty-six, the young priest sailed to the United States and was soon serving Immaculate Conception church in Yuma, Arizona, and he was exercising his priestly duties in Mesilla, New Mexico,…
Translated by Rick Hendricks Answered on 30 June Don Manuel Álvarez Alburquerque June 17, 1848 My dear sir and friend, I have proposed to take up a pen to inform you about what is happening in the Rio Abajo, because I know you are an impartial man, one of…
Transcripción de Rick Hendricks Contestada el 30 de Junio Señor Don Manuel Albarez Alburquerque Junio 17 de 1848 Muy Señor mio y amigo Mé propuesto tomar la pluma con el fin de imforar a Usted lo que pasa por este rio abajo Porque conozco que es…
Translation by Rick Hendricks As governor and commander of the Department of New Mexico, I consulted the Most Excellent Assembly, received the ayuntamiento of Santa Fe, and convoked a meeting of the principal citizens of the Department. I explained to them all the very critical circumstances in which I…
Transcripción de Rick Hendricks Como Gobernador y Comandante del Departamento de Nuevo Megico, con- sulte a la Excelentísima Asamblea; recivi al Ayuntamiento de Santa Fe; Convoque una Junta de los Principales Vecinos del Departamento, y a todos les manifesté con cuantas razones pude las circunstancias tan…
