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1841 By John B. Ramsay John A. Clark was the Surveyor General for the Territory of New Mexico from 1861 until 1868. In addition to his official records as Surveyor General he maintained a daily diary covering this period. The collection was given to the Angélico Chavez History Library…
By Rick Hendricks On 12 May 1737, Felipe IV granted Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza title to the governorship of New Mexico for a five-year term. At the time Mendoza had been serving as captain and ayudante mayor of the plaza of Ciudad Rodrigo in the Spanish province of…
Governor Pedro Reneros Posada, 1686-1689 by Rick Hendricks, Ph.D. On 23 September 1681, Pedro Reneros Posada passed muster before Governor Antonio de Otermín. He described himself as a thirty-year-old bachelor. Eleven days later he enlisted as a presidial soldier. Reneros was a native of Oceño (Peñamellera Alta) in eastern…
11 26 1858 By Corinne P. Sze Katharine Drexel was born shortly before the American Civil War to a deeply religious, Roman Catholic family distinguished by material success, philanthropy, and recurrent tragedy. She was the second of three daughters born to Francis Anthony Drexel, a banker of international renown…
6 27 1833 Who Killed Jose Francisco Chaves? By Mark Thompson Only two members of the New Mexico Bar have been honored by the naming of a New Mexico county—Thomas B. Catron in 1921, just four months before his death, and Jose Francisco Chaves, for whom the county was…
9 6 1802 Arms, Indians, and the Mismanagement of New Mexico: Donaciano Vigil By David J. Weber Donaciano Vigil was born in Santa Fe on 6 September 1802. He received an unusually good education for a frontiersman–his father, Juan Cristóbal Vigil, reportedly educated his sons at home. As one…
4 10 1910 By Suzanne Stamatov On 10 April 1910 Fabián Chavéz and María Nicolasa Roybal de Chávez welcomed the birth of their first child, Manuel Ezequiel Chávez, in the small northern town of Wagon Mound, New Mexico. The family, which would eventually include ten children, briefly left New…
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…
9 11 1923 By Rick Hendricks Roy Minoru Nakayama was born on 11 September 1923 to John K. and Tome Nakayama, both of whom had been born in Japan. At the time of his birth, Roy was the fifth of seven children. He would eventually have one more sibling,…
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