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Chester E. "Chet" Smith
Former Mayor of El Paso
Former Volunteer Fire Department Chief

Term as Mayor 1935 -1941 Term as Fire Chief of the Derby Volunteer Fire Department 1952 - 1978

Tags: Chet Smith, City of El Paso, Derby Fire Chief, El Paso Mayor

El Paso Business District
Derby Police Department, 229 N. Baltimore
(Historic Landmark #2)

On July 11, 1871, J. Hout Minnich and John Hufbauer filed a town plat for El Paso in Sedgwick County, Kansas. It established streets from Madison to Kay and from Water Street to Georgie Avenue, and business boomed.

Around the turn of the century,…

Tags: Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railroad, Baltimore Avenue, Baltimore Market Place, barber, business, Catholic Church, Chet Smith, Chet Smith Grocery and Locker, City of Derby, Davidson & Case Lumber Company, dry goods, El Paso, El Paso Business District, El Paso Water Company, Farmers & Merchants Bank, First Presbyterian Church, Georgie Avenue, Gertie's Cafe, grain elevator, grocery, H. Jones General Store, hardware, Horace Jones, hotel, Independent Oil Company, John Hout Minnich, John Hufbauer, Kay Street, landmark, Lock Edwards Grocery, Madison Avenue, Market Street, mission church, Odd Fellows Hall, police, post office, Presbyterian Church, railroad, railroad depot, Santa Fe Railroad, Sickler brothers, T. D. Wardell, Thomas Weston, Trading Post Lumber Yard, train depot, Washington Street, Water Street, watering trough

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Chester E. "Chet" Smith Former Mayor of El Paso Former Volunteer Fire Department Chief

El Paso Business District Derby Police Department, 229 N. Baltimore (Historic Landmark #2)

Chester E. "Chet" Smith
Former Mayor of El Paso
Former Volunteer Fire Department Chief

El Paso Business District
Derby Police Department, 229 N. Baltimore
(Historic Landmark #2)