Felipe de Barri he departed on March 26, 1775 for San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico. Later Barri became the Civil Governor of Durango, Mexico. He died in office in Durango in 1784. Felipe de Barri Felipe de Barri (?-1784) was Comandante of Alta California. He moved there from Loreto, Baja California Sur Pedro Fages served as the Military Governor from July 9, 1770 to March 23, 1774 at Presidio of Monterey, California. Barri has some friction with the President of the Catholic priests of the Franciscan order, Father President Fray Vicente Mora, but for the most part it was time of peace. But, Barri
Consuelo Reyes-Calderon Hourwich Reyher. Reyes-Calderon was also a music lover and took singing lessons. She was a long-life friend of Madame Aída Doninelli (1898-1996), a soprano from Guatemala. Reyes-Calderon and Vernon shared a Washington apartment from 1951 until Vernon’s death in 1975. They used to spend time in the summer at Highmeadow, biographer Alma Lutz and Marguerite Smith's country home in Berlin, New York, who were good friends from the National Woman's Party. She became a United States citizen by 1970. When Vernon died in 1975, Reyes-Calderon was noted for her devotion to her companion. According to archive records, she corresponded with