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Nebham, James

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Nebham, James

August 20, 2026

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James Nebhan, a Lebanese American El Paso businessman born in New York City in 1899, recalled being taken as a child to meet Pancho Villa in Juárez, where the revolutionary lifted him onto his lap. After arriving in El Paso at age six, Nebhan worked as a surveyor’s…

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