Casa Magoffin Companeros

06/18/2026

We would like to thank Dr. Albert Burnham for a wonderful, insightful, educational, and dramatic talk at the Magoffin Visitor Center for their Brain Trust Lectures. Please stay tune for next month talk!

06/18/2026

Go see see what going at Magoffin Partner's site.

06/16/2026

06/15/2026

Annette Magoffin Dwyer(1838-1926) Sister of Judge Joseph Magoffin

Born in Chihuahua, Mexico on Oct 10 1838. She was a daughter of María Gertrudis (Valdez) and James Wiley Magoffin. She married Army major Joseph Edward Dwyer in 1862 in the old Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas. Joseph Edward Dwyer(1841-1884) was born in San Antonio. He was a prominent politician in San Antonio. his father, Edward Dwyer was immigrant from Ireland who established a large mercantile business in San Antonio and his mother, Marianna Ramon Leal came from the prominent elite in San Antonio. Annette died in San Antonio on March 8 1926 at age 87 and is buried at San Fernanda #1 in San Antonio . She was the last living child of James Wiley Magoffin. A letter to from sister to brother is in series 3. Annette and Joseph had eight children with Joseph Edward Dwyer.

1.Edward Dwyer, 1863–1921 was a district judge in San Antonio.
2. Joseph E Dwyer Sr, 1866–1940
3. Mariana Dwyer,1868–1870
4. Annette Marie Dwyer Schmitt, 1871–1942
5. Samuel Joseph Dwyer Sr,1871–1951
6. James Magoffin Dwyer,1873–1953
7. Patrick Anthony Dwyer Sr,1874–1951
8. Gertrude Josephine Dwyer, 1880-1954.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49547059/annette-dwyer

06/13/2026

We are so proud of the Magoffin Home Staff and volunteers!

06/10/2026

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06/08/2026

check out events at the Magoffin Home Visitor Center!

06/08/2026

Who was Kate Moore Brown?

Kate Moore Brown was an influential educator, arts advocate, and civic leader in El Paso. She was among the first graduates of El Paso High School and became the first music teacher in the El Paso Schools in the 1890s, reportedly riding a bicycle to work. citeturn1fetch_file0
She played an important role in the city’s cultural development by helping organize the El Paso Symphony Association, where she later served as president, and by helping found the El Paso International Art Museum. Her public service extended beyond the arts: she served on the state board of welfare in 1923, was president of the El Paso Women’s Club, and served on the El Paso School Board in the 1920s, where she opposed the Ku Klux Klan.

In 1932, Josephine Glasgow, a friend of Kate Moore Brown, invited the El Paso Pioneer Women Association to the Magoffin Home, where Brown was serving as president. During the visit, Brown played the 1880s piano still displayed in the formal room, and the women dined at the same table where Brown had once eaten her wedding breakfast. Mrs. Glasgow also presented letters written by James Willey Magoffin

For more on Kate Moore Brown see "Kate Moore Brown: A Woman of Many Firsts, Borderlands, publication of El Paso Community College, Vol. 30, p.12. and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Moore_Brown

06/05/2026