4 1880 By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Lansing Bloom's poor health (he had lost a lung due to tuberculosis) brought him to New Mexico. He began life in Auburn, New York, in April 1880. His father was the Richard Hutchinson Bloom. Little is known about his early life,…
1912 By Matthew Martínez My grandmother Esther Martínez often introduces herself by saying that she was born in 1912, the same year New Mexico became a state and the Titanic sank. The metaphor of the birth of a new period in history as well as the sinking of the…
By Marinella Lentis At the end of the nineteenth century, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Thomas J. Morgan (1889-1893) and Superintendent of Indian schools Estelle Reel (1898-1910) introduced art instruction in the curriculum of federal boarding schools as an optimal means to reach the goals of assimilation. Morgan mandated the…
First Lady Susan Wallace, storyteller and writer, tells of a winters' day when she took a walk and discovered hundreds of years of New Mexico's history–neglected in a shed. Here, in her own words, she tells of her discovery: North of El Palacio, is a waste spot of earth,…
By Michael Ann Sullivan On October 27, 1937, the Santa Fe Maternal Health Center (SFMHC) opened under the auspices of Margaret Sanger and the New York Clinical Research Bureau. Florence Davenport, Faith Meem, and several other prominent Santa Fe women had invited Sanger to tea the previous summer to…
Albuquerque's 20th century suburban growth by David Kammer From its inception as a railroad town in 1880, Albuquerque has undergone continuous growth. During its first two decades much of that growth occurred within the 3.1 square miles of the original town site, with the earliest residential sections appearing on…
By Lauren Gray Coinciding with the end of World War I in 1918, the Spanish Influenza rapidly spread across the globe and devastated populations world-wide. The pandemic reached New Mexico in late fall of 1918; by October 26, 1918, fifteen thousand New Mexican residents had been struck ill and…
Partial Bibliography of the Writings of Fabián García Compiled by Rick Hendricks Press Bulletins of the State College Experiment Station 351 Plant Pollinizers in Orchards 363 Tomato Culture 378 A Good List of Varieties of Fruits for New Mexico 379 Cold Frames and Early Cabbage 384 Size of Apple…
By Rick Hendricks Fabián García was born in Chihuahua on 20 January 1871 to Ricardo García and Refugio Romero de García. Orphaned of both parents soon after his birth, García moved to the Mimbres Valley in southwestern New Mexico with his paternal grandmother, Jacoba García, when he was…
1881 By Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Ph.D. Adelina (Nina) Otero Warren—suffragist, educator, politician, entrepreneur, and writer– was born in 1881 in La Constancia, New Mexico, near Los Lunas. She was the second child of Manuel B. Otero and Eloisa Luna Otero. Both her parents had deep roots in New Mexico,…
