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Show in New Mexico. father of Francisco, was born at José Antonio Manzanares, His son, man. Nacimiento, Rio Arriba county, where he married Maria Manuela Valdez, also 3 descendant of the early Spanish settlers. José A. Manzanares was Ue | € ea tae ee ee ee ee eae a) A a ra sesases nF re ens pre Pare eA > 1Sery JO ArTO}TAII L 9Yt 70 yan0H “ULdyoO PV WSR ourardng a cs a ey se ee See, ees ee er! * ea t Uiaeh, saith. lad, ee et oe | ee Saree et te Pepe ee eer ee ee ny Reet hee ee ee So es a er he ol Pe eo ee eS ae . a a ot eer A Pt SSE re eS ere ene I Bd HH Bea His ancestors were from Spain and ‘were among the early settlers His grandfather, Anselmo Manzanares. was a very prominent ae Jan. 25, 1843. Py ® a es Peete i oe the slightest discredit as poignantly 28 @ His high sense of honor felt useful life there were none to east re wound, and at the close of a long and flection upon a single action of his career. M., Francisco A. Manzanares was born at Abiquiti, Rio Arriba county, N. Ms world. ere as Kansas City, Mo., December 5, 1893. In his business career he established thirty-five houses and gained a most distinguished position in the commercial 5 ee ee ol Eee i papO ee following the line of construction of the Union Pacific, with stores at Ellsworth, Sheridan, and Kit Carson, from which latter place the entire business was removed by wagons to Granada, Colorado, on the line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad; thence following the construction of the railroad they moved west and south until the business was finally established at Las Vegas, In a business way L. P. Browne was known to the people of half the N. M. continent. He was a man of honest impulse and honorable action. He died o OTT MON In 1857, on the death of Walker, be with W. H. Chick, with headquarters at Kansas City a2 Their place of business in Kansas City Leavenworth, Kas. ‘‘Levee’’ at the foot of Delaware street. In 1866 the place fire and the firm moved to Junction City, Kansas, thence OOTX chandizing and trade with the Indians. associated himself with a branch at was located on the was destroyed by [DO SeeaTqs up oyBLoossy the Eastern Railway Company of New Mexico, which line exte nds from Rio Puerco, on the main line of the Santa Fé, west of Isleta, to Texico, on the wned eastern line of New Mexico, known as the ‘‘Belen Cut-off,’’ now 0 by and a part of the Santa Fé system. 399 The companies most prominently engaged in this business were Chick, Browne and Company, later Browne and Manzanares; and Otero, Sellar and Company, later Gross, Blackwell and Company, today Gross, Kelly and Company. Lawrence P. Browne was born in Lancaster county, Pa., December 7, 1830. he received a common When quite young his parents removed to Peru, Il., where school education. Afterward he attended Jones’s commercial college at St. In 1852 he went to Louis, Mo., in which city he began his business career. Kansas City, entering the employ of Joe] Walker, at the time engaged in mer: L men, > 9 enterprising v of ‘“( vou It a number 110q OY were > southwest bi the and who, keeping pace with the advance of railway construction, finally located their permanent places of business in New Mexico, contributing in great measure to the industrial and commercial progress and importance of the territory.**® f mountains IT Deming was of the two divisions of the Southern Pacific Railroad. from the also the point of junction of this road with the Santa Fé in Mexico New placed roads two north, and the completion of these Gulf the Coast, Pacific the with routes shortest the by communication and the northern cities of the United States. Almost simultaneously with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé the Denver and Rio Grande Railway was built into New Mexico from the north, near Antonito. Formerly engaged in overland freighting across the plains to the ‘O HIP 0} 4yzerory ‘Surpueig HISTORY > 9 MEXICAN t OF NEW Pt FACTS v LEADING — Ss 488 |
