Let’s Talk Clovis: Honoring all Veterans and 59 Clovis Gold Star Heroes
The Clovis Museum will continue its tradition of honoring 59 Clovis Gold Star Heroes and all veterans at its monthly…
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Clovis History
Let’s Talk Clovis: Civic Leader Alfred Peter Biglione (1900-1988)
We are sharing an undated article Alfred Biglione wrote regarding the history of his family and his early life here…
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Let’s Talk Clovis: The James Wiggins Cate Family
James Wiggins Cate, the 10th of 12 children, was born in 1828 in New Hampshire. In 1838, his family relocated…
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Let’s Talk Clovis: Herbert G. and Anna Johnson, 1902 Clovis pioneers
Herbert’s parents Samuel Johnson (1831-1893) and Hannah Hall Johnson (1842-1877) lived in New York state when he was born in…
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Let’s Talk Clovis: ‘Growing up in Clovis’ by Esther Jessie Keller Benschoter (1908-1984), Part I
We are sharing Esther Jessie Keller Benschoter’s story that was written in the 1950s about her remembrance of Old Town…
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Let’s Talk Clovis: Clovis Police Chief Thomas W. Higgason (1956-1980)
Thomas “Tommy” Higgason was born in Tennessee in 1923. His family moved to Clovis in 1925. We are sharing information…
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Let’s Talk Clovis: Eleanor Swenson, 1931 Clovis High Graduate
Eleanor Swenson (1914-2006) was born to Louis and Ida Swenson in the Scandinavian Colony near Sierra Vista and Dakota in…
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Let’s Talk Clovis: 1957 Clovis Business Directory
By Peg Bos, Clovis Museum We are sharing information published in 1957 by the Clovis Chamber of Commerce that was…
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Let’s Talk Clovis: Myrtle Howison-Stone Family
In 1903, Myrtle Howison’s family left Warrensburg, Ohio and arrived in Clovis. Their relative John Cadwallader (1863-1938), a large landowner…
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Let’s Talk Clovis: Phoebe Smith, 1914 Clovis High graduate
Of the original 40 students in the 1910 Clovis High School freshman class, only 17 (three men) graduated in 1914.…
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