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…
Biographical information about Thomas B. Catron. CATRON, THOMAS BENTON: Republican; born near Lexington, Lafayette County, Mo., October 6, 1840; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1860; served 4 years in Confederate Army during the Civil War; moved to New Mexico…
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…
8 21 1837 Judge Henry L. Warren, a prominent member of the bar of New Mexico, is an ex-Chief Justice of Montana, and is now the senior member of the well-known law firm of Warren & Fergusson of Albuquerque. As such he is entitled to some special consideration in…
1831 By Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. New Mexico State Historian David J. Miller was born around 1831 in Alabama to parents who were natives of Maryland. Nothing is known of Miller's early childhood, but he spent two years during his youth living with the family of Tejano patriot José…
