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John Y. Hewitt (10-11-1836 to 1-8-1932) saw Union military service in New Mexico during the Civil War. He returned to the state in 1879 and started practicing law in White Oaks. Hewitt's professional career was responsible for his becoming a judge, owner and president of Old Abe Mining Company, owner and editor of the Old Abe Eagle newspaper, first president of the Exchange Bank of White Oaks, financial backer of the White Oaks Academy Association, Democratic party member, active participant in territorial politics, and Departmental Commander in New Mexico of the Grand Army of the Republic from 1887 to 1888.

Andrew H. Hudspeth (10-23-1874 to?) was born in Hunt County, Texas, educated in Greenville, Texas, and attended law school at Cumberland University in Tennessee. He came to Lincoln County, New Mexico, in December of 1894 and was until 1902 the secretary to the Angus V.V. ranch. Thereafter, until 1913, he became a member of the Hewitt and Hudspeth law firm in White Oaks. Afterwards, he began his own practice in Carrizozo. A Democratic party member, Hudspeth was elected and served one term in the state legislature, acted as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1908, served as a delegate to the New Mexico Constitutional Convention, sat as chairman of the Democratic State Control Committee of New Mexico in 1912, and received an appointment the following year from President Woodrow Wilson to a position as United States Marshal for New Mexico.

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