She was probably the first woman in the…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

r City’s first plate-glass was dragged across the sandy wastes by ox cart. The Indians were still on the loose when Mrs. Warren became the “man of the family,” for not until 1886 did Geronimo sub- mit to American arms, and go upon' a reser- vation. But nothing dismayed her. She was probably the first woman in the United States to own a recording agency. At least no information to controvert the claim has come to light. She organized and operated the Grant County Abstract Company, which for so many years served Silver City, Lords- burg, Deming and other parts of that broad land. She was the first woman to be appointed a general insurance agent in the Territory of New Mexico, and the first woman to be com- missioned a notary public in the Territory. Old-timers still remember the long lines of miners and prospectors at her office door, wait- ing for her to affix the notarial seal and signa- ture to the papers which represented their mineral holdings. In 1901, Mrs. Warden entered a new bn&i-- ness. She acquired the old Timmer Hotel, a three-story brick structure containing 50 rooms, on Broadway between Hudson and Main streets. This she remodeled and re- named the Hotel San Vicente. The Hotel San Vicente, its facilities organized under medical