| Name |
Benjamin Franklin Darbyshire |
| Birth |
17 May 1862 |
Clinton County, Ohio  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
1870 |
Richland Township, Clinton County, Ohio [1] |
| Census |
1880 |
Sabina, Clinton County, Ohio [2] |
| Occupation |
1880 |
Clinton County, Ohio |
| store clerk |
| Census |
1900 |
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas [3] |
| Census |
1910 |
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas [4] |
| Census |
1920 |
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas [5] |
| Census |
1930 |
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas [6] |
| Death |
5 Jun 1949 |
El Paso County, Texas [7] |
| Cause: arteriosclerosis |
| Burial |
7 Jun 1949 |
Evergreen Cemetery, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas |
| Notes |
Excert from Book History of Evergreen Cemetery by Fred Morales:
Benjamin Franklin Darbyshire (1862-1949) was born on the 2500 acre family farm in Sabina, Clinton Co., Ohio. His ancestors were Quaker immigrants from England and they settled in Pennsylvania in 1770. They later moved to Ohio, settling on land given to them for services to the American Revolution. At age 16 he became a newspaper reporter for the Clinton County newspaper and then he studied at the New Orleans Business College in Louisiana. He then became an Associated Press reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1884 he became the secretary of the Pecos Valley Railroad Co. and in 1880's he came to El Paso as a railroad agent for the Texas and Pacific Railway and he resided at 811 E Overland. By 1903 the Darbyshire Fuel Co. was established and it had an office in the Buckler Building. The business sold wholesale coal, coke, fuel oil and wood and he now resided at 719 N. Florence. By 1904 he bought some oil lands near Beaumont, Texas and later he bought the defunct Pass City Foundry from the Terrazas family of Chihuahua. He made Crawford Harvie, a former master mechanic for the Southern Pacific, his partner and general manager of the newly formed Darbyshire-Harvie Iron and Machine Company. The foundry was located at the corner of Florence and Fifth streets and he bought a limestone quarry at the southern tip of Mt. Franklin. He had also been instrumental in starting what is now known as the Sun Carnival, but in those days it was called the "Osaple Carnival" (El Paso spelled backwards). He was a member of the old Commercial Club, the Toltec Club, the El Paso Country Club and the secretary-treasurer of old El Paso and Northeastern Railroad. Darbyshire was also involved in the establishment and building of Cloudcroft, New Mexico, He contributed generously to the various hospital and church buildings of the city, like the Church of St. Clements and the Museum Building at Texas Western College, (later the University of Texas at El Paso). He had also been a State National Bank director for more than half a century.
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| Person ID |
I66970 |
Family |
| Last Modified |
8 May 2023 |
| Family |
Mary Catherine Spencer, b. 4 Apr 1862, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri d. 6 Oct 1933, El Paso County, Texas (Age 71 years) |
| Marriage |
1885 |
| Age at Marriage |
He was ~ 22 years old - She was ~ 22 years old. |
| Children |
| + | 1. Esther Darbyshire, b. 8 Feb 1886, El Paso County, Texas d. 19 Dec 1974, El Paso County, Texas (Age 88 years) |
| + | 2. Russell Oliver Darbyshire, b. 19 Sep 1887, El Paso County, Texas d. 23 Oct 1953, El Paso County, Texas (Age 66 years) |
| – | 3. Margarite A. Darbyshire, b. 26 Jan 1890, El Paso County, Texas d. 20 Jan 1976, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas (Age 85 years) |
| – | 4. Martin Spencer Darbyshire, b. 21 Feb 1894, El Paso County, Texas d. 17 Apr 1963, El Paso County, Texas (Age 69 years) |
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| Family ID |
F18940 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
April 2‚ 2026 
1862 - 1949 (87 years)
: Address
: Location
: City/Town
: District/Township
: County/Shire
: State/Province
: Country
: Not Set
