Eugene A. Fiske Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-017
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of Fiske's professional papers. Series I consists of various legal documents, including a contract retaining Fiske as defense attorney in the trial of James G. Whitney for the murder of Manuel B. Otero, and 67 pages of testimony from the case of Edward Miller v. Alphonso Dockweiler over water rights involving the Rio Tesuque, Acequia Madre, and Acequia del Medio in northern New Mexico. Series II consists of legal documents, deeds, land conveyances, and other materials relating to litigation over many New Mexico land grants. Includes a survey, plat, partition, and list of heirs for the Plaza Colorado Land Grant, and testimony of New Mexico territorial governor Donaciano Vigil concerning the Sierra Mosca and Preston Beck, Jr. Land Grants.
Some materials are in Spanish.
Some materials are in Spanish.
Dates
- 1840-1968 (bulk 1840-1909)
Language of Materials
English, and Spanish.
Access Restrictions
None
Copy Restrictions
Limited duplication allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
Biographical Note
Eugene Fiske was a Santa Fe attorney who handled many land grant cases in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Organization
Collection is organized into two series:
- I. Miscellaneous materials
- II. Land grant materials
General
Contact Information
- New Mexico State Records Center and Archives
- Archives and Historical Services Division
- 1205 Camino Carlos Rey
- Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
- Phone: 505-476-7908
- Fax: 505-476-7909
- Email: archives@rain.state.nm.us
- URL: http://www.state.nm.us/cpr/ahsd_top.htm
General
- Acequia Madre (N.M.)
- Acequia del Medio (N.M.)
- Antonio Sedilla Land Grant (N.M.)
- Brazitos Land Grant (N.M.)
- Conveyances
- Deeds
- Ditches New Mexico
- Irrigation and canals and flumes New Mexico
- Land grants New Mexico
- Land titles Registration and transfer New Mexico
- Lawyers New Mexico
- Legal documents
- Map
- Maxwell Land Grant (N.M. and Colo.)
- Mora Land Grant (N.M.)
- Piedra Lumbre Land Grant (N.M.)
- Plaza Colorado Land Grant (N.M.)
- Polvadera Land Grant (N.M.)
- Preston Beck Land Grant (N.M.)
- Rio Tesuque (N.M.)
- Vigil, Donaciano, 1802-1877
- Water rights -- New Mexico
- Title
- Inventory of the Eugene A. Fiske Papers, 1840-1968 (bulk 1840-1909)
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Processed by Staff
- Date
- ©2000
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- June 28, 2004: PUBLIC "-//New Mexico State Records Center and Archives//TEXT (US::Nm-Ar::1960-017::Eugene A. Fiske Papers)//EN" "nmar1960-017.sgml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15).
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives Repository