Las Animas-Huerfano County CO Archives Biographies.....Cruz, Casimiro 1871 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

CASIMIRO CRUZ.

    Casimiro Cruz, editor and owner of El Anunciador, published at Trinidad, was
born in Huerfano county, Colorado, on the 4th of March, 1871, a son of F. S. and
M. R. (Romero) Cruz. The father was a stock raiser and came to Colorado in 1867,
settling near Walsenburg, where he spent his remaining days. He is survived by
his widow, who yet makes her home in Walsenburg.

    Casimiro Cruz was educated in the public schools, passing through
consecutive grades to the high school, and later he spent one term as a student
in the State Normal School at Greeley. He then took up the profession of
teaching, which he followed for twelve years in the public schools of the state,
and on the expiration of that period practically resurrected El Anunciador, -for
the paper had ceased to exist when he took charge. Its chief circulation is
among the Spanish speaking people of Colorado and New Mexico. It is democratic
in politics and is the only Spanish democratic paper in the state. Mr. Cruz is
much interested in political questions and issues of the day and gives earnest
and active support to the party. He has attended every state democratic
convention since attaining his majority and he has been an untiring worker in
behalf of the organization and the principles which it represents.

    On the 12th of January, 1898, Mr. Cruz was united in marriage to Miss Mary
King, of Colorado, and to them have, been born two sons and five daughters. The
oldest, Delia, only seventeen years of age is already teaching in one of the
public schools. Mr. Cruz has membership in the S. B. M. and the F. S. & J., two
Spanish organizations. For six years he has been Spanish interpreter of the
district court in Trinidad, and has rendered valuable service in this
connection. He is a member of the Council of Defense for Las Animas county and
of the 100% Club, and is also connected with the Red Cross committee and deeply
interested in everything that has to do with the work of promoting the country's
welfare in this critical period in its history. He stands for local progress and
improvement and has contributed in large measure to the development of community
and state. In a word, his aid and influence are always on the side of progress
and advancement and his labors have been largely resultant in that direction.



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HISTORY OF COLORADO

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VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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