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By Mark B. Thompson Which (future) New Mexican voted against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson? No, it was not Edmund G. Ross, governor of New Mexico, 1885-89, famously portrayed by John F. Kennedy in “Profiles in Courage.” Ross, a senator from Kansas, voted with the majority against conviction…
Having served as the last Chief Justice of the territorial Supreme Court and the first federal judge after New Mexico achieved statehood, William H. Pope has a unique place in New Mexico history. By Mark B. Thompson Having served as the last Chief Justice of the territorial Supreme Court…
This is a WPA interview with C.D. Bonney. Bonney was one of the first settlers in the Pecos Valley; traveling from Mississippi in 1881. C. D. Bonney- Roswell Old Timer by Georgia B. Redfield. When this investigator on Writers' Project District 2, asked C. D. Bonney, old timer of…
A WPA interview. Marie Carter Anthony, New Mexico Interview 1,100 words Old Timers Dictionary In Detail Cecelia Richards Alvarez The day was Sunday. I recall it quite well. Because the neighbor's little girl woke me up to tell me that my cat had had kittens in her barn. Just…
In 1887 one of the disgruntled colonists sued, seeking money damages for wrongs committed by the leaders. Jessie Ellis alleged that John Newbrough and A.M. Howland had knowingly and falsely asserted: (1) that the property of the colony would be held in common; (2) that the community would be…
The Historical Society of New Mexico, the oldest organization of its kind west of the Mississippi River, was formally organized on December 26, 1859 when a number of New Mexicans, both Hispano and Anglo, including many officers, territorial officials, judges, lawyers, churchmen, politicians and merchants, signed the necessary corporation…
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,…
This is a WPA interview. Sr. Vicente Romero of Cordova tells of his various dealings with the Kiowa and Comanches during his trading expeditions. LOS COMANCHES Brown, L.B. April 6. 1937 "LOS COMANCHES" "Si Senor, if my daughter had not put iodine in my eye in place of the…
Likening the newspapers of the day to the bombastic extravagance of the carnival barker, historian Frederick Lewis Allen named the period of time just before the stock market crash of 1929 “the ballyhoo years.” “When something happened which promised an appeal to the popular mind,” Allen wrote, “one had…
Biography of William Henry Andrews. ANDREWS, WILLIAM HENRY: Born in Youngsville, Warren County, Pa., January 14, 1846; attended the public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Meadville and Titusville, Pa., 1880‑90; was also a builder of railroads; president of the Santa Fe Central Railway Co.; chairman…
