Sylvester Mowry
Sylvester Mowry was born in Rhode Island and stationed at Fort Yuma [1][4]. Around 1858, he established a settlement at the Mimbres crossing and laid out Mowry City, building solid stone and adobe houses [1][2][4]. Backed by a New York company, he made glowing reports of agricultural and mining possibilities [5]. During the Civil War, he was arrested for disloyalty and imprisoned in California by order of General Carleton [3][6]. He later appeared on the San Pedro River in Arizona, built a smelter, and obtained ores from the vicinity of what is now Tombstone [3][6]. Mowry died in London in 1868 [3][6].
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- The place has an historical interest, inas-… (1891)The place has an historical interest, inas- much as it was the oldest settlement within what are now the borders of Grant county, with the possible exception of Pinos Altos. The settlement was established about …
- The place has an historical interest, inas-… (1891)ted sway over the entire country now embraced in Grant county, as well as what is now Dona Ana, and a portion of Sierra. Nothing daunted at the obstacles which beset his path, Mowry pro- ceeded to lay out the…
- When the war broke out Mowry, despite… (1891)When the war broke out Mowry, despite the fact that he was a Yankee, in the fullest sense of the term, was very loud in his disaffec- tion to the government which had educated him. For his disloyalty he was …
- Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-07-24 (1891)and it might well be mistaken for an old habitation or stronghold of a once warlike people. The “city” was constructed of substan- tial stone and adobe houses, and when in the full tide of its glory, no d…
- Mowry was backed in his schemes by a… (1891)Mowry was backed in his schemes by a New York company, to whom he probably made glowing reports of the agricultural and mining possibilities, of the country. He builded better than he knew, and if he could r…
- Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-07-24 (1891)e would no doubt be considerably astonished. The company published pamphlets, maps and prospectuses, and among their views was Mowry City represented as a fairly populous town on the banks of the Mimbres, whi…