Governor Joaquín del Real Alencaster, 1803-1808 By Rick Hendricks Joaquín del Real Alencaster was born to Antonio del Real and María Antonia Alencaster in Cádiz, Spain, around 1761.According to testimony by his brother, Antonio, the family moved from Cádiz, where the brothers were born, to Algeciras where Antonio, at…
1 28 1814 By Samuel Sisneros Padre Ramón Ortiz’s parents were don Antonio Ortiz and doña Teresa Miera, both descendants of prominent Spanish colonial families in New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Mexico City. Padre Ortiz’s paternal ancestor was Nicolas Ortiz the progenitor of the prominent Ortiz family in New Mexico….
12 24 1809 By William H. Wroth Christopher (Kit) Carson (1809-1868) was born December 24, 1809, in Madison County, Kentucky and moved with his family when he was one year old to Boon’s Lick, Howard County, Missouri. His father died when he was nine years old and by age…
4 22 1904 By Michael Ann Sullivan Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born 22 April 1904 to Julius and Ella Oppenhiemer. Julius, a German-Jewish immigrant, came to America from Germany in 1888. His father started with nothing and worked hard to become a successful cloth importer. His mother Ella came…
12 7 1859 By Suzanne Stamatov Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, son of Don Octaviano and Doña Donaciana Corral de Larrazolo, was born on 7 December 1859 in El Valle de San Bartolo (later known as Allende) in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. His father Don Octaviano was a prosperous landowner….
12 20 1862 By Suzanne Stamatov Near Armstrong Mills in Belmont County, Ohio, on 20 December 1862, Washington E. Lindsey was born to Robert W. and Julia A. Shipman Lindsey. Lindsey’s great grandfather had been a blacksmith, shoeing horses, in General Washington’s army during the Revolutionary War. During his…
1840 By William H. Wroth Adolph F. Bandelier (1840-1914) was one of the most important and influential historians and anthropologists in New Mexico in the nineteenth century. He was born in 1840 in Bern, Switzerland, the son of Adolphe Eugene Bandelier and Mary Senn, both members of prominent families…
Lawyer and banker of Clovis, NM, and had extensive agricultural interests throughout Curry County. Born in southwest Missouri, January 16, 1877, and attended public schools there and at the Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar, Mo., where he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in 1897. For another year…
5 16 1894 by Michael Ann Sullivan Fabiola Cabeza de Baca was born 16 May 1894 in Las Vegas, New Mexico to Graciano Cabeza de Baca and Indalecia Delgado. The Cabeza de Bacas trace their ancestry back to Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca who explored New Mexico in the…
1907 Grandma was a tall woman, who would never hesitate to get on the floor to play with the glorious dollhouse she had at her house, or go out into any weather to push me and my sister in the backyard tire swing. As little girls, my grandma would…
