People in Santo Domingo
These are the people who worked at, financed, or visited the Santo Domingo mine. A full genealogy of the Hardison descendents is also provided.
| Portrait | in Peru | Notes |
1895-96 & various visits Founder & co-owner of Inca Mining Co.
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Co-founder of Union Oil (now Unocal) and who went to Peru to investigate an oil prospect in 1895. Instead, he purchased the option for a gold mine. Wallace went to the mine many times, but did not reside in Peru for an extended period. | |
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1896-1910 General Manager of Inca Mining Co. |
During the fourteen-year period Mr. Brown secured from the Peruvian Government the concession for rubber lands by building a road and trail to a navigable point on the upper Amazon. By the building of roads and trails he secured in fee one million acres of land which was covered by all kinds of tropical timber, among which were rubber trees. This part of On one of his visits to Los Angeles he was married to Miss Helen Louis. WL Hardison's nephew |
 Fred Magner |
c. 1896- c. 1907 Photographer & manager of Astillero rubber outpost |
In 1892 Fred Magner was twenty-five years old when he left his home in Paris, Illinois. Within a few months he was five thousand miles away, working for the Inca Mining Company at the Santo Domingo gold mine in the southern Peruvian Andes. He spent the next decade and a half in Peru, returned to Illinois about 1907, and died nine years later at the relatively young age of forty-eight. He never married and left no immediate survivors. Magner, who had studied engineering, was one of countless young men who left their prairie homes to seek their fortune in the world, and his life might have gone unnoticed were it not for the fact that he took up photography. |
 Allen "Allie" Hardison |
1896 - 1901 Assistant engineer-manager |
We went to Peru with his wife Cora Crane. Had Ernest "Domingo" Hardison in Peru. WL Hardison's nephew |
 Martin Chambi |
Alcohol bootlegger | Accompanied his father when he went to work at the mine. After his father died, Martin stayed at the mine, selling alcohol to the miners and becoming familiar with photography with the company photographer (perhaps Magner). |
Harriet Chalmers |
Adventurer and wife of mine employee | Traveled to Latin America with her husband in 1904. Frank obtained work with the Inca Mining and Rubber Company inspecting mines in Central and South America, and the company would pay their passage. |
 Emery, Lewis, Jr. |
Owner of the mine after CP Collins sold out. | Of Bradford, McKean County, Pa. Republican. Lewis Emery Jr., was a Pennsylvania State Senator from 1892 to 1900. He was pioneer oil developer in Bradford, starting in the early 1870s. |
 1877-1907 |
Director of transportation and roadbuilding for Inca Mining Co. |
The task was a tremendous and dangerous one, for all the gold taken from the mine had to be carried out by Mr. Brown, and all the provisions to feed some two hundred employees had to be brought to the mine over the highest points of the Andes, on the backs of Indians. WL Hardison's nephew |
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1863 - |
Ruth was married to Fred Brown. She was with him in Peru during all the years there. Solon Bailey claimed that Ruth was the first woman to reach the summit of El Misti near Arequipa. WL Hardison's neice. |
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| Guy Hardison |
WL Hardison's son |
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| Cora Crane Hardison | The wife of Chester Brown. | |
| Burt Harrison Collins | The son of CP Collins worked a number of years as the manager of the Inca Mining properties. WL Hardison's grandnephew |
People Who Visited the Mine
1847-1918 |
Chairman of Inca Mining Co. |
CP Collins remained in Bradford, PA but visited the mine several times. WL Hardison's nephew |
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1854-1931 |
Director of Harvard Observatory in Arequipa |
He traveled over the Andes to the mine and then to the Tambopata with Chester and Fred Brown. He wrote about this trip in the National Geographic. There is an Article on Bailey in the American Scientist Sept-Oct 2001. |
