William H. "Will" Chamberlin
Former El Paso City Council Member
Terms as El Paso City Council Member At Large <br />Apr. 13, 1915 - Apr. 08, 1921<br />Apr. 10, 1923 - Apr. 10, 1925<br />
<ul>
<li>elected Apr. 05, 1915</li>
<li>sworn in Apr. 13, 1915</li>
<li>re-elected Apr. 02, 1917</li>
<li>re-elected Apr. 07, 1919</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>elected Apr. 02, 1923</li>
<li>sworn in Apr. 10, 1923</li>
</ul>
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City of Derby
S. A. Ambler
Former El Paso City Council Member
Terms as El Paso City Council Member At Large<br />Jan. 12, 1915 - May 10, 1921<br />Apr. 10, 1923 - Aug. 1924<br />
<ul>
<li>nominated and confirmed Jan. 12, 1915 to fill the unexpired term of L. L. Cully</li>
<li>elected Apr. 05, 1915</li>
<li>sworn in Apr. 13, 1915</li>
<li>re-elected Apr. 02, 1917</li>
<li>re-elected Apr. 07, 1919</li>
<li>re-elected Apr. 04, 1921</li>
<li>resigned May 10, 1921 leaving an unexpired term</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>elected Apr. 02, 1923</li>
<li>sworn in Apr. 10, 1923</li>
<li>resigned in Aug. 1924 leaving an unexpired term</li>
</ul>
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City of Derby
Jim Mitchell
Member of the First City Council of El Paso/Derby
Term as El Paso City Council Member At Large <br />Jun. 1903 - Apr. 1905
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City of Derby
Linton N. "L N." McCrocklin
Member of the First City Council of El Paso/Derby
Term as El Paso City Council Member At Large <br />Jun. 1903 - Apr. 1905
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City of Derby
Dr. William E. "W. E." Dixon
Member of the First City Council of El Paso/Derby
(photo circa 1906)
Term as El Paso City Council Member At Large <br />Jun. 1903 - Apr. 1905
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P. Kleinegger
Former Mayor of El Paso
Member of the First City Council of El Paso/Derby
Term as Mayor <br />Apr. 1907 - Apr. 1909 <br /><br />Term as El Paso City Council Member At Large <br />Jun. 1903 - Apr. 1905
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City of Derby
Lewis Edward "L. E." Sloat
Former Mayor of El Paso
Former El Paso City Council Member
Term as Mayor <br />1911 - 1913<br /><br />Term as El Paso City Council Member At Large <br />Apr. 13, 1915 - Apr. 1921<br />
<ul>
<li>elected Apr. 05, 1915</li>
<li>sworn in Apr. 13, 1915</li>
<li>re-elected Apr. 02, 1917</li>
<li>re-elected Apr. 07, 1919</li>
</ul>
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City of Derby
Thomas D. "T. D." Wardell
Former Mayor of El Paso
Member of the First City Council of El Paso/Derby
Hardware Merchant 1888 - 1931
Term as Mayor <br />1917 - 1921 <br /><br />Term as El Paso City Council Member At Large <br />Jun. 1903 - Apr. 1905 <br />
<p>Thomas D. Wardell came to El Paso around 1878 as a young man at age 20. Like many other people who arrived during El Paso’s early years, he came from Tuscarawas Township, Ohio, the former home of El Paso co-founder, J.H. Minnich, who promoted the new town heavily to residents of his previous home state.</p>
<p>Being young and single, T.D. Wardell was probably in search of a place to make his fortune, as he is found in the 1880 U.S. census living in Leadville, Colorado, a hot-spot due to its active mining. But his occupation is listed as a farmer in the census instead of a miner, while apparently living in a boarding house with other young men, some of whom did work in the mines. And, like most of those hoping to strike it rich in Colorado, Wardell didn’t stay long.</p>
T.D. Wardell was back in Rockford Township, Kansas, by 1885, where he had married Carrie Moon and they had a one-year-old son. Carrie was the daughter of one of Sedgwick County’s early settlers, Arnold Moon, who preempted his quarter-section farm in 1871, three miles east of the new town of El Paso. Unfortunately, Carrie died a few months after the census was taken in 1885. Wardell remarried two years later, to Carrie’s older sister, Hester Moon, who had also been married previously. <br /><br />
<p><a href="https://derbykshistorymuseum.org/blog/f/td-wardell-community-leader" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click here to read more about T. D. Wardell</a> by the Derby Historical Society and Museum.<br /><br />(Image is a slide created in 1969 of an original photo)</p>
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