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Show 916 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY demands of the local leaders met with approval at Washington. William T. Thornton.*** a former law partner of Thomas B. Catron, 435 William T. Thornton was born in Calhoun, Henry county, Mo., February 9, 1843. His father was Dr. W. Thornton and his mother, Caroline V. Taylor. Governor Thornton received his education in a private school near Sedalia, Mo., and afterward graduated from the law department of the University of Ken- tucky. In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate army as a private, serving with the army of General Sterling Price for two years. He was captured by Union ek, Nai. A a i em ee ee Se ee) forces during the retreat of the Confederates from Springfield, Mo., in February, 1862, and sent to Alton, Ill., where he was kept in confinement for nearly a year, when he was exchanged and served until the close of the war. In 1876, he was elected a member of the legislature of his native state. His health partially failing, he came to Santa Fé in 1877. In 1880, he was elected a member of the legislative assembly, and, in 1891, was chosen mayor of Santa Fé, the nominee of both political parties. In April, 1893, he was appointed governor of New Mexico and served his full term of four years. Shortly after the nomination of his successor by President McKinley, he left the territory and took up his residence in Mexico, where he engaged in mining. He is at the present time (January, 1912) a resident of the city of Santa Fé. Thomas Smith is a native of the state of Virginia, having been born in Culpeper county, July 26, 1838. His father, Governor William Smith, was 2 descendant of two ,of the most prominent and notable families of the Old Dominion, the Donaphins and the Smiths. He received his education in Virginia and graduated from William and Mary college. He studied law in the University of Virginia. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Kana- major of the 36th Virginia, OC. 8. A. 1885, he was appointed United of political offices in his native state. States attorney for New Mexico, holding Ee Eo ere In x zat ELS PEP er hth De ee, S bh toe Satake Sem, | Fd Sede, Ten "«¢-? eer ree ek ee ke 2 2 Le SS a Poe es ae ee Sa Fs 5 Wt ee er te Ce ee Oe eee er oo’! ak ok ere SaaS. a eeeek ee eekaeeka eee. Reea eS Sn aA Re ee ee ee of his profession and held a number the office four years, during which time he conducted the prosecution of many New Mexicans for alleged land frauds. After the election of Benjamin Harrison as president, he returned President Cleveland. beth sae iving. Fairfax Gaines, to Virginia, and in 1893 On the 10th of October, was appointed chief justice by 1894, he was married to Eliza- a daughter of Judge William Gaines, of Virginia. io he held four years, when he again returned to Virginia, where he 1s now Bacon Fall was born at Frankfort, Kentucky, November 26, 1861. HisAlbert ancestors were Scotch and came to America in 1812, locating in Trigg county, Ky. His great-grandfather served under the Duke of Wellington, having been lieutenant-colonel of the Scotch Grays of the English army. Judge Fall was privately educated. He ‘read law at Frankfort, Ky., in the office 0° Judge Lindsley, afterward a member of the senate of the United States. Pro! to his coming to New Mexico, in 1888, Judge Fall had lived in Texas, ieee 4 . was engaged Mexico in the he began real this career estate business. in the Shortly political affairs after of was elected to the legislative assembly twice as a democrat. associate member public arrival 1m ane Ana county, an He was appointe justice of the Supreme court in 1893, but resigned in 1895. While i of the legislature he materially assisted in the passage of the ‘«Paullin school Regiment his Dofia law. He was commissioned during the Spanish-American War Mexico, ing to New after the mustering a captain in the Ist but saw no active service. out of his regiment, Territori® saber he resumed th? Major W. H. H. Llewellyn, First 2+ a ed x. woh ton ital) Pre+ Pree FPP ie LS eeae ee ee ee te ee commissioned ah AF) MAR LEFe SP.oo a ~~ ror oor bee Et et BPR re rere oe ee eree 5 Rifles, but was soon re wha He was in command of his regiment at the battle of Fort Donelson and captured a battery from the Union forces. He successfully withdrew his troops from the fort during the negotiations for a surrender and was afterward promoted to the rank of colonel. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general shortly before the evacuation of Richmond. After the war he resumed the practice |