Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-05-07

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to America, first locating in New York
City, where he engaged in various bust
ness pursuits. He enlisted in 1882 in the
9th L. S. cavalry. with which he served
five years. He was with troop ID under
General Crook and Major General Miles
in the Arizona and New Mexico Apache
campaigns against Chief Geronimo.
After securing his discharge he travelled
extensively, and in 1883 located in Santa
Fe, entering the general merchandise
business. Captain Muller served two
terms as school trustee of Santa Fe
county and was elected collector OF the
county in Nobember, 1896. He was APP
pointed major of the New Mexico Ma
tional Guards and served in that capa-
city one year, resigning to accept the
captaincy of troop A, April %. 9s.
1sT LIEUT.. WIN. ELKINs GRIFFIN
| Was born in Santa Fe in 1867. He re-
ceived his education in the public schools
of Santa Fe, the Swarthmore, Pa, col
lege, which he attended four years, and
the Pierce business college in Phila-
delphia. After leaving school he re-
turned to Santa Fe, where he served
one year and a half in the bank, and
later five years under Collectors Nc
Grorty and Hughes as deputy internal
revenue collector. He then entered the
insurance business. Lieutenant Griffin
was a member of troop e, 1st regiment
of cavalry, National Guards of New
Mexico, entering the ranks as a
private, and rising to corporal, SER
geant, 1st lieutenant and then captain.
He was commissioned 1st lieutenant of
troop A BY Governor Otero, April rs, '9s.
2ND LIEUTENANT sHERRARD COLEMAN,
Of troop A, Is a native of Jerdone Castle,
Louisa county, Va, being born in Aug
ust, 1864. His education was acquired
in a private school at his birth place,
and the public schools of Richmond.
After leaving school he was engaged
with the engineering corps in the cor
struction of the Chesapeake & Ohio
railway, from Richmond to Newport
News. After completion of the road he
acted as travelling salesman for a period
of five years, leaving that position to
come to Santa Fe in 1887, where he was
employed as U. S. deputy surveyor, UNI
til 1896, when he was appointed especial
agent in the department of justice and
assigned to the court of private land
claims. Lieutenant Coleman was an
old time member of company c., 1st regi-
ment Virginia National Guard, which
company has gone to the front in the
present war. At the time of his Cole
man's) enlistment General Fitzhugh Lee
was brigadier general of the Virginia
forces. When troop E, 1st regiment
cavalry, N. M. N. g.. of Santa Fe, was
organized he was commissioned End
lieutenant by Governor Thornton and
was later promoted to 1st lieutenant by
Governor Otero. He was commissioned
End lieutenant of troop A, April rs, '9s.
CAPTAIN MAXIMILIANo LUNA
Was born in Los Lunas, N. NJ, June IS,
1870, and received his education in the
Las Vegas Jesuit college and the George
town college in the District of Columbia.
In the Goth legislative assembly he
served as chief clerk of the council.
In 1s93-94 he filled the positions of coun-
ty and probate clerk of Valencia county
and in 1894 was elected sheriff of that
county, holding the Office for two years.
In 1896 he was elected a member of the
house of representatives of the 32d
legislative assembly. On June II.
1897 he was appointed captain of troop
Il, LIST regiment cavalry, N. M. N. g..
which command he held until April %,
1898, when Governor Otero commissioned
him captain of troop Il. lst regiment,
United States volunteer cavalry, which
was mustered in yesterday evening.
1sT LIEUTENANT II. w. wEAKLEY,
OF troop b, was born in Shelbyville,
Ind, in 1868. He received his educa.
tion in the city of his birth, gradual
ing from the high school of that place.
He then entered the druggist pro.
~fession. following it until 1892, when he
came west and engaged in mining, fol
lowing the business until the present
time, travelling extensively throughout
the west and Old Mexico. Lieutenant
Weakley has served in company G., end
Indiana volunteer infantry, company B,
End regiment Colorado National Guard,
and was with the Chaffee light artillery
in the Cripple Creek strike in 1894.
2D LIEUTENANT MAXWELL KEYEs,
Of troop B, first saw the light of day al
Fort Sill, Indian territory, in 1873. He
attended school at the Christian Brothers
college in st. Louis. His father being
major in the Sd U. s. cavalry, young
Keyes residence was varied. After re.
turning from school, from 1884
to 1890, he lived at Fort Sumner,
then spent several years in Texas, going
from there to Montana. From M~ontana
Lieutenant Reyes returned to st. Louis,
where he served three years in the army
being discharged as sergeant. He en-.
listed with Captain Luna's contingent OF
volunteers for the present war at Albu'
querque, and was commissioned I'd lieu
tenant of troop B.
CAPTAIN W. IL. II. LLEwELLYN
Was born in Monroe, Green county
public schools of his native state. From
Wisconsin he went to Montana as 9
young man, where he remained severa
years, going from there to Nebraska.
From 1874 to 1880 he was a special agent
of the department Of justice, serving IN
Montana and Dakota, during which
time he was engaged in hunting down
desperadoes and criminals, and was in
charge of the posse that relieved that
section of the country in those border
%ruffian days of the operation of the pow
erful Middleton gang of counterfeiters,
cattle thieves and murderers. In this
duty he was shot twice. In 1881 he
came to New Mexico and engaged in
mining and stock raising.
From 1881 to 1886 he was United
States Indian agent for the Mescalero
and Jicarilla Apaches in Lincoln county,
and from 1887 to 1893 held the position
of livestock agent for the Santa Fe rail
road. .
He was secretary and member of the
New Mexico board Of Worlds exposition
managers In 1898, and served as aide-de-