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Biography

Here are brief "tidbits" on folks born in or associated with Socorro County. Contribute your own!

Elfego Baca (1865-1945) gunman, lawman, lawyer, and politician. Two interviews with Elfego Baca are available online at LOC.gov. For a stylized Walt Disney production of his life, see "Nine Lives of Elfego Baca"

Thomas C. Brown (1895-1969) engineer who introduced daytime electric power service to Socorro

George Edmund Cook (1877-?) proprietor of the G. E. Cook Garage & Transfer Co., Socorro, New Mexico, was born in Parsons, Kansas; began working in coal business c. 1906. Source: Coal Men of America, Chicago, The Retail Coalman, 1918

Conrad Nicholson Hilton (1887-1979) the founder of the Hilton Hotels chain; worked as a boy for his father's business in Socorro

Theodore "Ted" Hughes, lumberman and owner of many sawmills, died in California, July 15, 1950

Juan A. A. Sedillo (1902-1982) writer, lawyer, public servant; best known for his short story "Gentleman of Río en Medio."