William Wallace Mills, El Paso pioneer, second son of James P. and Sarah (Kenworthy) Mills, was born at Thorntown, Indiana, on February 10, 1836. He received his early schooling there, and although he later was appointed to West Point, he never attended. In December 1858 he followed his brother Anson Mills to the town of […]
Upper Valley pioneer was responsible for the location of the El Paso Country Club and the design of the stained-glass dome at the Camino Real hotel.
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Anson Mills, surveyor, builder, army officer, engineer, American boundary commissioner, diplomat, and inventor, was born at Thorntown, Indiana, on August 31, 1834, the son of James P. and Sarah (Kenworthy) Mills. He attended school in Indiana and New York and accepted an appointment to the United States Military Academy in 1855.
Benjamin Franklin Coons, merchant, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1826, the son of David and Mary Coons. He led wagon trains to Santa Fe in 1846, 1847, and 1848, and by September 1848 had established himself as a merchant in El Paso del Norte and elsewhere in Chihuahua.
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