Mills, Anson
August 20, 2026
Anson Mills, born in Indiana in 1834, became an important figure in El Paso’s early development after arriving by stagecoach in 1858 from San Antonio through dangerous, sparsely settled country. He found the American settlement on the Rio Grande—then called Franklin, later El Paso—to be a small…
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