New Mexico

New Mexico WW2 NMCG Casualty List – C Surnames

CALDWELL, Elmer Leroy, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Dolores Mildred Caldwell, Box 312, Roy. CASH, James Frank, Pvt., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben L. Cash, 1013 E. Silver Ave., Albuquerque. CASIAS, Daniel Joseph, Aviation Radioman 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Casias, Koehler. CHANT, Walter Joseph, Pvt., USMCR. Wife, Mrs. Mary E. Chant, Rt. 1, Box 3, Estancia. CHAVES, Paul Corden, Seaman 1c, USNR. Mother, Mrs. Pauline Sanchez Orville, Gen. Del., Acomita. CHAVEZ, Fred, Pfc., USMCR. Father, Mr. Moises Chavez, Box 209, Old Albuquerque. CHAVEZ, Moises Climaco, Seaman 2c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Bennina Maria Chavez, Ranchos … Read more

New Mexico WW2 NMCG Casualty List – D Surnames

DALY, Walter Leo, Electrician’s Mate 3c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burhl A. Daly, Rt. 1, St. Vrain. DAVIS, Jack LaFayette, Quartermaster 3c, USNR. Father, Mr. LaFayette Lincoln Davis, A. S. R. Mine, Venadium. DELGADO, Frank Martin, Lieutenant (jg), Supply Corps, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Delgado, 2310 Hot Springs Blvd., Las Vegas. DELGADO, Joseph V., Jr., Pfc., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Irene Delgado, 403 Washington Ave., Santa Fe. DIMAS, Fred, Seaman 1c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Mary Ann Dimas, Cerrillos. DI PAULI, Joe Anthony, Shipfitter 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Panfilo DiPauli, 406 W. Wilson Ave., Gallup. DIXON, … Read more

New Mexico WW2 NMCG Casualty List – N Surnames

NEIHART, Cloyd Wayne, Fireman 1c, USN. Mother, Mrs. Artie G. Neihart, Rt. 2, Box 541, Albuquerque. NEWMAN, Victor Dav, Shipfitter 2c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Mart Newman, 601 Richardson St., Artesia. NORTHAM, James Thomas, Electrician’s Mate 3c, USNR. Mother, Mrs. Dora E. Mason Northam, Edgewater Star Rt., Albuquerque.

New Mexico WW2 NMCG Casualty List – O Surnames

OGWIN, Charles Huitte, Seaman 1c, USNR. Mother, Mrs. Pearl M. Holmer, Box 5655, Roswell. ORIN, Charles Hart, Chief Machinist’s Mate, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Emma Herra Orin, Box 4, Springer. OSBURN, Randall Ward, Electrician’s Mate 3c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Lydia Jane Osburn, Box 282, Hot Springs. ORTEGA, Telesfor, Pfc., USMCR. Father, Mr. Filiberto Ortega, 404 Teclote St., Las Vegas. ORTIZ, Alfredo Juan, Seaman 1c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Librado Ortiz, 1295 Cerro Gordo, Santa Fe.

Manuelito: A Navajo War Chief

You all remember how the Indian chiefs went with me to see the great American chief, President Grant, in Washington, and what a long ride we had before we took a train. Well, during that trip we rested for two days at Fort Wingate in New Mexico, and here for the first time I saw some Navajo Indians. They are cousins of the Apaches, and the language of the two tribes is so much alike that they can easily understand each other. Some people have said that the word Navajo comes from the Spanish word for knife, but probably it … Read more

Cochise, The Chiricahua Apache Chief

Once upon a time, far away in New Mexico, an Indian tribe lived on a large stretch of land near a place called Tulerosa. They had not always lived there, but now the white men said they must stay there and nowhere else, for there was much land, many trees, and plenty of water. But the ground was really too poor for the Indians to plant, and they said the water made the children sick. The chief of this tribe, the Mescalero Apaches, was Victoria, a good man who was troubled for his people. He knew they were discontented and … Read more

Kiowa Apache Indians

Kiowa Apache Indians. The name is derived from that of the Kiowa and from the circumstance that they spoke a dialect related to those of the better-known Apache tribes, though they had no other connection with them. Also called: Bad-hearts, by Long (1823). (See Kaskaias.) Cancey or Kantsi, meaning “liars,” applied by the Caddo to all Apache of the Plains, but oftenest to the Lipan. Essequeta, a name given by the Kiowa and Comanche to the Mescalero Apache, sometimes, but improperly, applied to this tribe. Gáta’ka, Pawnee name. Gǐnä’s, Wichita name. Gû’ta’k, Omaha and Ponca name. K’á-pätop, Kiowa name, meaning … Read more

Kiowa Indians

The best-known historic location of the Kiowa Indians was a plot of territory including contiguous parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.

Biography of John F. Church

JOHN F. CHURCH, senior member of the well-known firm of Church & Kissel, Winona, Missouri, is one who has built by years of industry and good management a business that is recognized as being one of the best of its kind in the country, a credit to Winona and Shannon County. Mr. Church is a man who possesses the inherent qualities requisite to commercial success, in a very high degree, and in his chosen calling has attained an eminent position among his compeers, and the high regard of his fellow-citizens, entirely through his own efforts and sterling personal qualities. Mr. … Read more

Apache Indians

Apache Indians. Located in southern New Mexico and Arizona, western Texas, and southeastern Colorado, also ranging over much of northern Mexico. Together with the Navaho, the Apache constituted the western group of the southern division of the Athapascan linguistic stock.

Jemez Indians

Jemez Indians. Located on the north bank of Jemez River, about 20 miles north-west of Bernalillo.With the now extinct Pecos, the Jemez constituted a distinct group of the Tanoan linguistic family now a part of the Kiowa-Tanoan stock.

Pecos Indians

Pecos Indians. Located on an upper branch of Pecos River, about 30 miles southeast of Santa Fe. The Pecos belonged to the Jemez division of the Tanoan linguistic family, itself a part of the Kiowa-Tanoan stock.

Pueblo Indians

Pueblo Indians. A general name for those Indians in the Southwest who dwelt in stone buildings as opposed to the tribes living in more fragile shelters, pueblo being the word for “town” or “village” in Spanish. It is not a tribal or even a stock name, since the Pueblos belonged to four distinct stocks. Following is the classification of Pueblos made by F. W. Hodge (1910) except that the Kiowa have since been connected with the Tanoans and a few minor changes have been introduced,

Tiwa Pueblo Indians

Tiwa Pueblo Indians. The Tiwa Pueblos formed three geographic divisions, one occupying Taos and Picuris (the most northerly of the New Mexican Pueblos), on the upper waters of the Rio Grande; another inhabiting Sandia and Isleta, north and south of Albuquerque respectively; and the third living in the pueblos of Isleta del Sur and Senecu del Sur, near El Paso, Tex., in Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico, respectively.

Ute Indians

Ute Indians. In central and western Colorado and all of eastern Utah, including the eastern part of Salt Lake Valley and Utah Valley and extending into the upper drainage area of the San Juan River in New Mexico.

Biography of William A. Johnston, Mrs.

A few days after his graduation, in June, 1879, Willis Bailey started with a span of horses for Kansas. His location was in Nemaha County, seven miles west of Seneca, the county seat. There he opened up a ranch, and on that ranch a town was subsequently started, named Baileyville. Governor Bailey took an active hand in the management of the Bailey ranch until 1906. In that year he removed to Atchison, Kansas, became vice president of the Exchange National Bank, and for over ten years had been the managing official of this institution. His interest in banking dates even … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Knox Taylor

This gentleman, who has furnished for this work the history of the mines with which he has been connected, is a native of New Jersey, born at Highbridge, on the 19th of October, 1873. His father and grandfather are the principal owners of the large Taylor Iron and Steel Works at his native place, the grandfather being the president of the company. Knox Taylor was educated in the noted College of New Jersey at Princeton, graduating in the class of 1895, and he has made metallurgy and mining engineering a specialty. After graduating he went to New Mexico to engage … Read more

Biography of Robert E. McFarland

Robert E. McFarland, late incumbent of the responsible position of attorney general of Idaho, by his faithful and capable discharge of duty won the highest commendation. Thoroughly versed in the principles of jurisprudence, he was well fitted to handle the intricate problems which presented themselves for solution, and his success affords the best evidence of his capabilities. He is a native of Missouri, born in Independence, November 21, 1857. The family is of Scotch lineage, the first American ancestors having crossed the Atlantic in colonial days and actively participated in the events which form the history of that epoch. They … Read more

Biography of Jacob Shafer

Jacob Shafer. An old and honored resident of Kansas, Jacob Shafer for the past ton years had lived on his fine farm north of Topeka, among his children and surrounded with the comforts which his life of earnest endeavor and industry have enabled him to accumulate. A native of Indiana, he was born in 1844 in Tippecanoe County about nine miles south of the historic battleground where General Harrison fought the Indians just prior to the outbreak of the War of 1812. His father was Jacob Shafer Sr., a native of Ohio, while the grandfather was born in Pennsylvania about … Read more

Biography of William R. Lott

William R. Lott. A resident of Kansas since 1893, William R. Lott came to this state to secure feeding grounds close to the central market. He had for a number of years been extensively engaged in ranching in New Mexico, and is one of the men most familiar with the life of that former territory, especially of conditions there twenty-five or thirty years ago. The fact that he went to New Mexico and sought his fortunes in a country and period where only the strong and the courageous survive is suffleient to indicate the independence and enterprise of Mr. Lott. … Read more