William W. O'Neal San Juan County, New Mexico

William W. O'Neal is a rancher of La Plata, who came from Long Beach, California, to San Juan County. New Mexico in 1903. He was born in Missouri in 1850 and removed to Kansas, where he engaged in business as a contractor and as a real estate dealer. He was also connected with the grain trade. He left Missouri in 1878 and Kansas in 1890, and after a sojourn on the Pacific coast came to New Mexico in 1903.

He is now largely engaged in the raising of grain, having three hundred and twenty acres of land devoted to that purpose.

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Source: History of New Mexico, Its Resources and People, Volume II, Pacific States Publishing Co., 1907.