Francisco Perea

Francisco Perea (January 9, 1830 – May 21, 1913) was a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico, and cousin of Pedro Perea. Perea was born January 9, 1830 in Los Padillas, New Mexico (then in the United Mexican States) in what is now Bernalillo County, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was the third child of Juan Perea and his wife, Josefa Chaves de Perea. He was a maternal grandson of Governor Francisco Xavier Chávez, the first Governor (1822-1823) of the Departmento de Nuevo México under the independent First Mexican Empire shortly after Mexican War of Independence from Spain ended in 1821. Perea attended select schools in Bernalillo County and at Santa Fe from 1836 to 1839. He enrolled at the Jesuit College, St. Louis, Missouri from...