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05-30-2013, 01:22 AM
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Séc. XIX, João Ignácio d’Oliveira/"John Enos" (1838-1911), cowboy, industrial, hoteleiro e banqueiro.
- nasceu a 28 de Fevereiro de 1838 na freguesia de Santo Antão, ilha de São Jorge.
"João Ignácio emigrou como marinheiro de um navio de caça à baleia. Nos anos 60 já se encontra no rio Columbia, no extremo Noroeste americano, a trabalhar num barco a vapor, com o nome de John Enos – nome que resulta da evolução Ignacius-Ignácio-Inácio-Enos, explicam os etimólogos.
É nessa altura que começa a comprar gado, e em 1870 já está em Yakima, a oeste do rio, no seu primeiro rancho. Pouco depois atravessa a água e estabelece-se em Cannaway Creek, no então Lincoln County (...) imediatamente antes de se juntar ao Snake e rumar ao Pacífico – o chamado "Big Bend" (Terra da Grande Volta), uma planície "ondulante, desértica e semi-árida".
O seu rancho, dizia-se, estava assombrado. Enos gerava todos os mitos: envenenara três índios, enterrando-os no rancho junto com dois cowboys, enforcara um chinês, matara um jovem ladrão de cavalos, tinha cinco golpes na pistola, roubava cavalos e trazia-os para o rancho de noite, fugira da justiça no Leste da América, chicoteava os seus funcionários...
Muitas mães repreendiam as crianças com a ameaça: "Se não de comportares, Portegee Joe vai apanhar-te!" Mas, nos relatos dos que o conheceram, compilados mais tarde pelos jornais e pelos historiadores, Enos era precisamente o contrário: um homem afável e bondoso, embora irascível em determinados momentos.
John Enos era um visionário para a época, e essa é outra das características mais extraordinárias da sua história. No seu rancho de Cannaway Creek, criou um inovador sistema de rega, plantou um pomar que proporcionava maçãs aos funcionários, construiu uma casa em cima de uma fonte para usar a sua refrigeração, escavou uma adega atrás de uma colina e semeou árvores altas alinhadas, para proteger tudo contra o vento.
Em 1888 já tinha terras (22 mil hectares) e gado (mais de mil cabeças) no valor de vinte mil dólares. Tornou-se no segundo homem mais rico do condado de Lincoln.
John Enos enceta aquilo que viria a constituir uma mudança radical na sua actividade: a passagem de cowboy a industrial hoteleiro e, mais tarde, a banqueiro."
“João Ignácio d’Oliveira/John Enos was born on 29 February, 1838, in the parish of Santo Antão, São Jorge Island.
João Ignácio immigrated to the United States of America as a sailor on a whale hunting ship. In the 1860s, he had already been employed on a steamboat at the Columbia River, in the extreme American Northwest, with the name John Enos – a name that resulted in the adoption of Ignacius-Ignácio-Inácio-Enosm, the etymologists explain.
It was in that time that he began buying cattle, and in 1870 he was already in Yakima, located in the west of the river, in his first ranch. Shortly after, he crossed at the water and establishing in Cannaway Creek, the then Lincoln Country (…) immediately before boarding to Snake and heading towards the Pacific – the so-called “Big Bend” (“Big Bend Country”) a land that is “undulating, desert, and semi-arid”.
It was said that his ranch was hunted. Enos generated all the myths: he poisoned three indigenous peoples, burying them at the ranch along with two cowboys, hanging a Chinese, killing a young horse thief, he had five gun blows to the head, he would rob horses and would take them to the ranch at night, he escaped from the law in the America East, whip lashing his employees…
Many mothers reprimand children with the threat: “If you do not behave yourself, Portegee Joe will catch you!” But, in the reports of those that knew him, which were collected later by the newspapers and by historians, Enos was precisely the opposite: an affable and kind man, albeit irascible at certain moments.
John Enos was a visionary at the time, and this is the other most extraordinary features of his history. At his ranch in Cannaway Creek, he created an innovative watering system, planted an orchard that provided apples to the employees, he built a house on top of a fountain for use of his refrigeration, he dug a cellar behind a hill and planted tall aligned trees, to protect everything against the wind.
In 1888, he already had owned land (22 thousand hectares) and cattle (more than one thousand heads of cattle) with a value of twenty thousand dollars. He became the second richest man in the county of Lincoln.
John Enos began on what would emerge to constitute a radical change in his life: a cowboy, an hotelier at an unnamed hotel industry, and, much later, becoming a banker.
Source. (http://portugal-mundo.blogspot.pt/2010/11/john-enos-um-portugues-no-faroeste.html)
Information taken from:
An illustrated history of the Big Bend country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams, and Franklin counties, state of Washington (1904) (http://www.archive.org/stream/illustratedhisto02stee/illustratedhisto02stee_djvu.txt)
Séc. XIX, João Ignácio d’Oliveira/"John Enos" (1838-1911), cowboy, industrial, hoteleiro e banqueiro.
- nasceu a 28 de Fevereiro de 1838 na freguesia de Santo Antão, ilha de São Jorge.
"João Ignácio emigrou como marinheiro de um navio de caça à baleia. Nos anos 60 já se encontra no rio Columbia, no extremo Noroeste americano, a trabalhar num barco a vapor, com o nome de John Enos – nome que resulta da evolução Ignacius-Ignácio-Inácio-Enos, explicam os etimólogos.
É nessa altura que começa a comprar gado, e em 1870 já está em Yakima, a oeste do rio, no seu primeiro rancho. Pouco depois atravessa a água e estabelece-se em Cannaway Creek, no então Lincoln County (...) imediatamente antes de se juntar ao Snake e rumar ao Pacífico – o chamado "Big Bend" (Terra da Grande Volta), uma planície "ondulante, desértica e semi-árida".
O seu rancho, dizia-se, estava assombrado. Enos gerava todos os mitos: envenenara três índios, enterrando-os no rancho junto com dois cowboys, enforcara um chinês, matara um jovem ladrão de cavalos, tinha cinco golpes na pistola, roubava cavalos e trazia-os para o rancho de noite, fugira da justiça no Leste da América, chicoteava os seus funcionários...
Muitas mães repreendiam as crianças com a ameaça: "Se não de comportares, Portegee Joe vai apanhar-te!" Mas, nos relatos dos que o conheceram, compilados mais tarde pelos jornais e pelos historiadores, Enos era precisamente o contrário: um homem afável e bondoso, embora irascível em determinados momentos.
John Enos era um visionário para a época, e essa é outra das características mais extraordinárias da sua história. No seu rancho de Cannaway Creek, criou um inovador sistema de rega, plantou um pomar que proporcionava maçãs aos funcionários, construiu uma casa em cima de uma fonte para usar a sua refrigeração, escavou uma adega atrás de uma colina e semeou árvores altas alinhadas, para proteger tudo contra o vento.
Em 1888 já tinha terras (22 mil hectares) e gado (mais de mil cabeças) no valor de vinte mil dólares. Tornou-se no segundo homem mais rico do condado de Lincoln.
John Enos enceta aquilo que viria a constituir uma mudança radical na sua actividade: a passagem de cowboy a industrial hoteleiro e, mais tarde, a banqueiro."
“João Ignácio d’Oliveira/John Enos was born on 29 February, 1838, in the parish of Santo Antão, São Jorge Island.
João Ignácio immigrated to the United States of America as a sailor on a whale hunting ship. In the 1860s, he had already been employed on a steamboat at the Columbia River, in the extreme American Northwest, with the name John Enos – a name that resulted in the adoption of Ignacius-Ignácio-Inácio-Enosm, the etymologists explain.
It was in that time that he began buying cattle, and in 1870 he was already in Yakima, located in the west of the river, in his first ranch. Shortly after, he crossed at the water and establishing in Cannaway Creek, the then Lincoln Country (…) immediately before boarding to Snake and heading towards the Pacific – the so-called “Big Bend” (“Big Bend Country”) a land that is “undulating, desert, and semi-arid”.
It was said that his ranch was hunted. Enos generated all the myths: he poisoned three indigenous peoples, burying them at the ranch along with two cowboys, hanging a Chinese, killing a young horse thief, he had five gun blows to the head, he would rob horses and would take them to the ranch at night, he escaped from the law in the America East, whip lashing his employees…
Many mothers reprimand children with the threat: “If you do not behave yourself, Portegee Joe will catch you!” But, in the reports of those that knew him, which were collected later by the newspapers and by historians, Enos was precisely the opposite: an affable and kind man, albeit irascible at certain moments.
John Enos was a visionary at the time, and this is the other most extraordinary features of his history. At his ranch in Cannaway Creek, he created an innovative watering system, planted an orchard that provided apples to the employees, he built a house on top of a fountain for use of his refrigeration, he dug a cellar behind a hill and planted tall aligned trees, to protect everything against the wind.
In 1888, he already had owned land (22 thousand hectares) and cattle (more than one thousand heads of cattle) with a value of twenty thousand dollars. He became the second richest man in the county of Lincoln.
John Enos began on what would emerge to constitute a radical change in his life: a cowboy, an hotelier at an unnamed hotel industry, and, much later, becoming a banker.
Source. (http://portugal-mundo.blogspot.pt/2010/11/john-enos-um-portugues-no-faroeste.html)
Information taken from:
An illustrated history of the Big Bend country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams, and Franklin counties, state of Washington (1904) (http://www.archive.org/stream/illustratedhisto02stee/illustratedhisto02stee_djvu.txt)