In the Christmas Day pardon of Macario Leyba in 1907, Territorial New Mexico’s Governor George Curry explained that the custom of granting what he called “Holiday Pardons” to deserving inmates of the Territorial Penitentiary in Santa Fe had been found to have “excellent moral effect in that institution.” Gender,…
Born on April 4, 1823 in Mansfield, Ohio, the son of Gavin Mitchell. Of Scotch-Irish ancestry, Mitchell was married in January 1855 to Jennie St. John, by whom he was the father of Henry St. John and a child who died in infancy. After studying law with John K….
Born in 1800 in Nelson (now Spencer) County, Kentucky, the son of John Donaldson and Frances (Brent) Connelly. A Roman Catholic of Irish ancestry, Connelly was married in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1838 to a Mexican woman, by whom he was the father of three sons, including Peter. Following the…
Born on December 7, 1826 at Ashland, Ohio, the son of Sylvester Flint, a farmer, and Cynthia (Rice) Ross. Ross had thirteen brothers and sisters, including Sylvester, William, Nancy, George, Charles, and Walter. A Presbyterian of Scottish ancestry, he was married in October 1848 to Fanny M. Lathrop of…
Born in Worcester, Otsego County, New York on August 30, 1831, the son of Allen and Anna Maria (De Les Dernier) Sheldon. Of English and French ancestry, Sheldon married Mary Green Miles of Elyria, Ohio in December 1868. Sheldon moved with his parents to Lagrange, Ohio, where he attended…
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…
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…
This is the first constitution of what was to become the State of New Mexico. It was drafted in 1850 but never went into effect because at that time New Mexico was not yet an organized territory of the United States but was under the direction of a military…
The Civilian Government and Military Commanders Bitterly Disagree on Native Relations In this document, the civilian government and military commanders bitterly disagree on how to handle relations between Native Americans and the local residents. In this document, the civilian government and military commanders bitterly disagree on how to handle…
8 12 1798 Rencher, Abraham Abraham Rencher was born on August 12, 1798 near Raleigh in Wake County, North Carolina, the son of John Grant, the county Sheriff, and Ann (Nelson) Rencher. An Episcopalian whose father migrated from Ireland. Rencher was married to Louisa Mary Jones of Chatham County,…
