Eusebio Chacon (son of Rafael), undated
LHP_Intern2020-01-09T23:01:56+00:00He was an important lawyer, writer, editor of El Progreso paper, and deputy District Attorney for Las Animas County in the 1890s
Four ”bright young men” from Trinidad work for Colorado Senate, 1899
LHP_Intern2020-01-09T23:02:35+00:00Includes Ed Garcia and N. Chavez
Hispanics on juries, 1875
LHP_Intern2020-01-09T23:02:52+00:00The jury for 4 murder trials in 1875 included both “Mexicans and and Americans,”all said to be among “the most enlightened of our citizens”
P. L. Sanchez, 1912
LHP_Intern2020-01-09T23:03:19+00:00P. L. Sanchez was Assessor of Huerfano County in 1912
José Vivián Abeyta, 1883-5
LHP_Intern2020-01-09T23:03:54+00:00José Vivián Abeyta, a barber who represented Las Animas County in the Colorado General Assembly House of Representatives
Rafael Chacón , 1858
LHP_Intern2020-01-09T23:04:22+00:00Major Rafael Chacón and his wife Juanita Páiz de Chacón. He served in the U.S. Army in New Mexico during the Civil War; after his retirement from the military, he moved to Trinidad, where he served as Las Animas County Treasurer and Sheriff
José Ramón Aguilar, 1881-2
LHP_Intern2020-01-09T23:04:41+00:00José Ramón Aguilar, who served in the Colorado General Assembly House of Representatives and later as Las Animas County Commissioner; he was also Mayor of Aguilar, which was named in his honor