Andrew Hornick, H. McWard, George Lyles, —— Tibbits, —— Milby, David
Knox, Bill Conklin and Tom Miller.
There were usually about a dozen United States army officers at old Fort
Bliss, now East El Paso.
The most prominent Mexican citizens in Paso del Norte (now Juarez) were:
Dr. Mariano Samaniego, Inocente Ochoa, José M. Flores, all still
residing in Juarez; José M. Uranga, Jefe Politico, dead; Juan N.
Zubiran, collector of customs, my partner and friend; and the venerable
Ramon Ortiz, who ministered there as curate for fifty years, and died a
few years since, beloved of the two races.
The Americans living at Ysleta and San Elizario before the war were:
Price Cooper, Henry Corlow, Tom Collins, Henry Dexter, James McCarty, A.
C. Hyde, William Claude Jones; and Fred Pierpoint, who died of
hydrophobia at El Paso in 1869.
Of those named above as residing at El Paso in 1860, the following left
with the retreating Texans in 1862: Crosby, Hart, the Gilletts, the
Magoffins, Herbert, Merritt, O’Bannon, Morton, Cook, Skillman, Dowell,
Richardson and Russ Howard. Some of the last named remained away for
years and others never returned.
In their places there came soon (mostly discharged Union officers and
soldiers): A. H. French, J. A. Zabriskie, G. J. Clarke, E. A. Mills,
Nathan Webb, A. J. Fountain, William P. Bacon, Edmond Stein, S. C.
Slade, John Evans, George Rand, Joe Shacker, Solomon Schutz, Louis
Cardis, and Charles H. Howard.
Except those last named, there was but little increase in the American
population of El Paso for about fifteen years.
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