Nevada History Mexican War 

[From Thompson & West's History of Nevada 1881, With Illustrations And Biographical Sketches Of Its Prominent Men And Pioneers, pp. 264-272]

264      HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEVADA. 

CHAPTER XXXVI.

MILITARY AFFAIRS AND INCIDENTS.

MEXICAN WAR VETERANS.

            Nevada, though having but a small population contains her share of the men who responded to the call of the United States Government for volunteers to quell the little unpleasantness which occurred with the Mexican Government in 1846. These men becoming accustomed to the hardships incident to a life in that country, were well fitted for pioneers on the Pacific Coast, and many of them arrived in California in early days, among whom we find many prominent and influential citizens. The same is true of the "Battle-born State," where the Mexican Veteran Association of the State of Nevada met and organized on the twelfth day of January, 1877, at Carson City. The following gentlemen were elected as its first officers: W. F. Stewart, President; A. D. Treadway, Vice-President; W. Garrard, Corresponding Secretary; E. B. Zabriskie, Recording Secretary. The names of the members are as follows:

                        Green B. Abel,                                                          G. G. Berry,

                        R. W. Bollen,                                                             George Bradley,  

                        Charles Billings,                                                          O. M. Beckstead,

                        Spencer Benson,                                                         E. Pearson,

                        William Cradlebaugh,                                                 J. D. Patterson,

                        F. Burning,                                                                  A. J. Powers,

                        R. Fielding,                                                                  D. H. Pine,

                        Thomas J. Gray,                                                          I. P. Richardson,

                        William Garrard,                                                        George Rouse,

                        James Hunt,                                                                J. E. Rooker,

                        James Hamilton,                                                         Thomas Rockhill,

                        William Heddington,                                                  Captain Rhoads,

                        T. C. Hayden,                                                              William F. Stewart,

                        S. F. Hoole,                                                                 G. H. Shepherd,

                        John W. Hall,                                                              William M. Smith,

                        Henry Junckins,                                                           David Swann,

                        James Jones,                                                                D. H. Thompson,

                        John M. Kirgan,                                                          A. D. Treadway,

                        Jerry Lehigh,                                                               J. S. Tipton,

                        D. W. Levan,                                                               A. G. Turner,

                        John M. Massey,                                                          Sam Turner,

                        John Maloy,                                                                 J. B. Van Hagan,

                        J. B. Moore,                                                                 David Wilkins,

                        W. W. McCoy,                                                            John W. Wingate,

                        James P. Pettigrew,                                                      C. B. Zabriskie,

                        William Patterson,                                                      E. B. Zabriskie.