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Notable Women in El Paso History 1920s-1970s.: Entrepreneurs Businesswomen, and Public Service.
A Celebration of Women History Month by Joseph Longo
Notable Women in El Paso History from the 1920s-1970s : Athletes, Artists, and Writers.
Celebration of Women’s History Month. by Joseph Longo
Notable Women in El Paso History from the 1920s-1970s : Educators and Activists.
A Celebration of Women History Month by Joseph Longo
The Empire Club and Gillespie’s Steak House: 1946-1986
Gillespie Steak House was established in Five Points in 1946 on 2810 Montana. Gillespie opened the Empire Club in 1959 on 2814 Montana. Gillespie mother,Stella was the manager of the steakhouse. Gillespie also operated Wyoming inn on 916 Wyoming Street, Gillespie’s Chicken House on 2810 N.Copia. The Gillespie Steakhouse was named Gillespie Grill and […]
Anna B. Newman: First Curator of the El Paso International Art Museum.
Anna Butterfield was born and rasied in Knob Knoster, Missouri in 1881 to Maurice and Luvina Butterfield. Newman first came to El Paso in 1902 and believed have met her husband,Charles Moorehead Newman on the Newman Family Ranch in Northeast El Paso. The Newman was a prominent farming family and land developers in El Paso. […]
Helen Farrington Kister: First Curator of the El Paso County Historical Society.
Photo Credit: El Paso Times Helen Farrington was the first curator of the El Paso Historical Society.Farrington succeeded Dorothy Ormsby as director of the El Paso Main Library in 1945. Ormsby was acting director , who wa appointed in 1943, after the sudden death of Maud Durlin Suilvan. Farrington was born in Chicago and graduated […]
Fannie Schutz Spitz: Inventor of the first Machine to Shell Pine Nuts for Commercial Use was born in El Paso.
Fannie S. Spitz was an inventor who patented the first machine to shell pine nuts for commercial used. Fannie Schutz was born in El Paso and was the daughter of Samuel Schutz and Friederike Siebenborn in 1873. Fannie’s cousin, Solomon C. Schutz was a prominent merchant and went on to serve as mayor of El Paso. Fannie traveled and […]
El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame 1955-2018
Take a tour of this gallery of images from our El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame Collection, 1955-2018. Joseph Longo, EPCHS Curator (Pleace click on images for a closer look)
Curator Corner: Some Resources for Genealogy Research
City Directories There are various ways you can access them online and physically: El Paso Main Library ‘s Border Heritage UTEP Special Collections: Burges House’s Jane Burges Perrenot Research Library. How can you access them Online? https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/CIT/ http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/city_direct/ Both are free. Online Resources http://www.epcounty.com/publicrecords/officialpublicrecords/OfficialPublicRecordSearch.aspx free. Open Records( Birth,Marriage,Deeds,and other legal records.) https://www.familysearch.org/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://newspaperarchive.com/(free if […]