Huerfano-Costilla County CO Archives Biographies.....Sanchez, Charles H. 1885 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 February 8, 2009, 11:02 pm Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918) CHARLES H. SANCHEZ. On the roster of county officials in Huerfano county appears the name of Charles H. Sanchez of Walsenburg, who is filling the position of county assessor. He was born in San Luis, Costilla county, Colorado, on the 16th of March, 1884, a son of M. A. and Manuelita (Medina) Sanchez. The father removed to Colorado in 1877 from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and through the intervening period has devoted his attention to merchandising and to stock raising. He is now a resident of Denver and at the present time is living retired. His wife also survives. Charles H. Sanchez was the second in order of birth in a family of seven children. The public school system of the state afforded him his educational opportunities. He passed through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school of Walsenburg with the class of 1901, the family having settled in Walsenburg during the early boyhood of Charles H. Sanchez. He afterward engaged in business with his father and was thus connected until the fall of 1916, when he was elected to the office of county assessor, and although the election was contested he was seated on the 17th of July, 1916. In the fall of that year he was reelected for a two years' term and is now again a candidate for reelection. He has made an excellent record by the prompt, faithful and systematic manner in which he has discharged his duties and the public on the whole has given warm endorsement to his official service. On the 20th of August, 1902, Mr. Sanchez was married to Miss Julia Barron, a native of New Mexico, and to them have been born four children, Charles, Bonnie, Santos and Aloysius. Mr. Sanchez is a Knight of Columbus of the third degree and belongs to the P. S. & J. organization. In politics he is a democrat, active in the work of the party, and has frequently been a delegate to county and state conventions and was also made a delegate to the national convention held in Baltimore. He enjoys fishing, hunting and other phases of outdoor life, to which he turns when leisure permits. He is also deeply interested in war work and cooperates most heartily and earnestly in every movement put forth to benefit the interests of the nation and its allies. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF COLORADO ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1918 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/huerfano/bios/sanchez288nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb