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Chapter 5: Troubled Waters
Left: Albuquerque Airport
Courtesy: The Albuquerque Museum, PA 1968.001.253 photo by Three Hawks
1928
Above: Biplane on runway, Albuquerque
caught cold, so Albuquerque’s Dr. Walter Hope treated her. One look at Carrie’s flushed face prompted him to detain her to chase the cure. Dr. Cooper married the couple in the parsonage on South Walter, and the Tingleys moved into a TB cottage on the south side. Carrie healed and thereafter helped the community’s sick, calling on them every day and providing financial assistance. Because his wife was wealthy, Clyde didn’t work and could get acquainted with his adopted town. In no time at all, he was involved in local politics. Starting as ward alderman, he worked his way up to “mayor.” No matter what form of government Albuquerque operated under—mayor or chair—Tingley always called himself “mayor.” Albuquerque’s self-appointed guardian would play a major role in the future.
Airport
Courtesy: Ward Greenberg family photo by John Ward
1930
Below: Carrie and Clyde Tingley, tuberculosis cottage, South Iron Street
Courtesy: The Albuquerque Museum, PA 1976.142.004
circa 1911
Albert Gallatin Simms and his brother, John Field Simms, came west as “lungers” in the 1900s; both recovered and entered politics. Widower Albert and Ruth Hanna McCormick, widow of Senator Medill McCormick, met when they were both U.S. representatives and wed. When Albert’s TB recurred in the thirties, the newlyweds came back to New Mexico. Albert purchased the Elena Gallegos Land Grant, an old Spanish property that extended from the Rio Grande to Sandia Crest. Prominent
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