Background
Twitchell, Ralph Emerson was born on November 29, 1859 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Son of Daniel Sawin and Delia (Scott) Twitchell.
Twitchell, Ralph Emerson was born on November 29, 1859 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Son of Daniel Sawin and Delia (Scott) Twitchell.
Student of University of Kansas. Bachelor of Laws, University of Michigan, 1882.
Assistant solicitor for New Mexico of A.,T.&San Francisco Railway Company. District attorney New Mexico, 1889-1892. Actively identified with reclamation and conservation, since 1889.
1st vice president National Irrigation Congress.
Chairman Republican Territorial Committee, 1902-1903. Receiver New Mexico Central Railway Company, 1918-1919.
President New Mexico Bar Association, 1888-1889. Vice-president, director New Mexico History Society.
Member State Board of History Service, 1918-1920.
Regent New Mexico State Museum. Member managing committee Archæol. Institute America; chairman New Mexico Board Exposition Mgrs.
Panama-California Exposition Editor Old Santa Fe, history quarterly.
Author: Military Occupation of New Mexico, 1846-1851, 1909. Leading Facts of New Mexican History (2 volumes), 1910.
Spanish Archives of New Mexico (2 volumes, complied by authority of state under statutory enactment), 1914.
Fellow American Geography Society Special assistant attorney general in charge of Pueblo Indian litigation in the Southwest.
Married Margaret Olivia Collins, December 9, 1885 (died 1899).