U.S.,
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
about
Doss Younger Thornton
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U.S.,
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
about
Doss Younger Thornton
| Name: |
Doss Younger Thornton |
| City: |
El Paso |
| County: |
El Paso |
| State: |
Texas |
| Birthplace: |
Arkansas |
| Birth Date: |
10 Jul 1891 |
| Race: |
Caucasian (White) |
| Draft Board: |
1 |
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Age:
Occupation:
Nearest Relative:
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Signature:
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Paso; Roll: 1953279;
Draft Board: 1.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards,
1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World
War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards,
1917-1918.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records
Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family
History Library microfilm.
Worked as switchman at Smelter in El Paso (El
Paso Smelter Works)
Lived at 3817 Tularosa Avenue, in El Paso (House that is
there now was built in 1930! http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3817-Tularosa-Ave-El-Paso-TX-79903/27414870_zpid/
)
Brown Eyes/Brown Hair
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| Smeltertown
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=38098
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The Kansas City Consolidated Smelting and Refining Company
came to El Paso in the late 19th century, creating a mining
and smelting center for the Southwest.
In 1899, the American Smelting and Refining Company
(ASARCO) bought the operation and refined lead, copper and
other ores.
The need for a large labor pool brought in thousands of
Mexican immigrants; these workers established homes for their
families on company land around the smelter and developed a
dynamic community called Smeltertown, or La Esmelda.
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| The El Paso
Smelter Works is Seen in the Background |
| Smeltertown
Marker (English) is on far left.
Smeltertown Marker (Spanish) is in the center
and Madero Camp Marker is on the right.
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ASARCO,
originally known as the American Smelting and Refining
Company, traces its origins to 1881, when Robert Safford Towne
arrived in El Paso after touring the mines in the Mexican
state of Chihuahua.
Two
years later he organized the Mexican Ore Company, a small
plant that sampled and graded ore from the Mexican
mines.
In
1887 the ambitious Towne went to Argentine, Kansas, where he
secured the backing of the Kansas City Consolidated Smelting
and Refining Company for the construction of a major smelter
in El Paso to process lead and copper ores from mines in
Mexico and in the American Southwest.
Towne
bought 1,156 acres along the Rio Grande for $3,757, and within
five months the El Paso Smelter, with a 100-foot high chimney
and a workforce of 250, was ready to begin processing the
high-grade Mexican ore. The community that grew up around the
plant was called Smeltertown. (handbook of texas online)
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www.asarco.com
2301 West Paisano Drive
El Paso, TX 79922-1622
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| The Original Smelter Hospital Cirra
1898 |
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The smelter, El Paso,
1889 |
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Post Card |
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At the smelter, El
Paso, 1899 |
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