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PLEASE NOTE:

We do NOT have the resources to assist with genealogical research.

For GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH please contact:
 
*UTEP Special Collections Dept

* El Paso County Historical Society

*El Paso Public Library Border Heritage Center

For GENERAL RESEARCH  assistance contact Rachel Murphree at murphree@
elp.rr.com
 
For REPRINTS of Borderlands issues please contact Ruth Vise at  rvise@
epcc.edu.

Fred Hervey, two time mayor and founder of Circle K chain
 

Borderlands Sources

Handbook of Texas Online

 

Library Catalogs

  • EPCC Online Catalog

    Keyword search of the catalog shows only mention of the Water Reclamation plant
    But through Google books:
     

  • UTEP Library Catalog

    • Keyword search shows nothing.
       

  • El Paso Public Library Catalog

    Keyword search shows nothing.  But you need to check the Vertical File and the Newspaper index at the Border Heritage Center, downtown public library.

    Mentioned in Texas Big Rich. Library has copies at:

    Irving Schwartz Branch Library Non-Fiction 976.4060922 Sh35t
    Main Library Reference Southwest 976.4060922 Sh35t,
    Main Library Southwest, Non-Fic 976.4060922 Sh35t
     

  • NMSU Library Catalog (especially if you are researching a New Mexico topic)  

Books on Reserve (list of standard books)

  • Timmons, El Paso : a Borderlands History  pp.249, 250,295-296
  • El Paso Chronicles p. 245 (first circle K opens here 1951)
  • Historic El Paso: 107-108

Password (Journal of EP Historical Society) and its Archives

  • "Tribute to Fred Hervey", by H.T. Etheridge, Jr.: art., xxi, 140-142
  • Hervey, Fred: 40, 31; 41, 108
  • Hervey, Fred: i, 114
  • Hervey, Mayor Fred: xxvii, 173; xxviii, 181
  • Hervey, Mayor Frederick Taylor (Fred): xviii, 143; xxi, 140; xxiii, 127; xxv, 25, 90, 99, 136; "Tribute to Henry T. Ponsford," art., xxv, 145

There are a handful of photos including Fred Hervey in the Archives of the Historical Society.

Google Books

EPPL: Border Heritage Center

  • Call and ask the staff before you go down (915-543-5440), if there is an entry in their vertical file.  This is a collection of photocopied articles on a person or topic.
     
  • In addition, check the newspaper card catalog to see other articles available. You would then have to search for the article in the microfilms, ask at the reference desk around the corner from the readers for help.

UTEP Library's Special Collections Department

UTEP's Institute of Oral History

Local and National Newspapers

Library of Congress Memory Project

 

 

page compiled by Rachel Murphree
Last updated 09/03/2008

Borderlands is published annually by El Paso Community College, P.O. Box 20500, El Paso, TX 79998. 

It is a collection of student written articles on the history and culture of the El Paso, Juárez, Las Cruces border region, comprising the states of Texas, New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Chihuahua.   This site was created with seed money from the Integrating Technical Contexts into Academic Courses (ITAC) Project, and maintained by the Northwest Community Library staff.  Funds for the program were provided by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board under the auspices of the federal Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998.  

Ruth Vise, Borderlands Director, EPCC
Monica Wong, Project Coordinator, Head Librarian,  Northwest Community Library,  EPCC
Joe Old, Technical Consultant, ITAC Project
Mary Sarber,  Lorely Ambriz, and Library Staff.
Rachel Murphree, web weaver

Copyright  2001-2008 El Paso Community College