Sunday, November 28, 2010

New Mexico Ghost Town hook


I recently won this on ebay. From San Marcial, New Mexico a ghost town.
From Google Books:
New Mexican History

EDITED, COMPILED AND ANNOTATED BY

RALPH EMERSON TWITCHELL, Esq.

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO.
AUTHOR OF "THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF NEW MEXICO.
1846-1851." "THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO."

VOL. IV
ILLUSTRATED

THE TORCH PRESS
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
1917
E. GRANDJEAN

E. Grandjean, manager of the San Marcial Mercantile Company, was born in Switzerland, September 13, 1866, a son of L. J. and Mary Grandjean, both of whom are now deceased. In the schools of his native country he pursued his education and when sixteen years of age left home to start upon an independent career, since which time he has made his way in the world unaided. Through the passing years he has been identified with New Mexico and hei interests. He first located at Paraje, where he secured a clerkship, there remaining for ten years. In 1892 he removed to Cuchillo, where he spent ten years, and during the succeeding four years he was engaged in business on his own account in Paraje. On the expiration of that period he sold out and removed to San Marciat, where he opened a general mercantile store, which he has since conducted. The business has grown along substantial lines and he now has a store which would be a credit and an attractive mercantile feature in the business circles of a much larger city. He carries a large line of goods and employs six sales people.

In 1906 Mr. Grandjean was married to Miss May Leseemann and to them have been born three children, Mercella, Emil J., and George V. The religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist church and Mr. Grandjean also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He supports the republican party and there is no call upon him for public-spirited citizenship that does not find a ready response, his aid and cooperation being salient features in all those movements which work for the benefit of city and state.

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