Gen. James Wiley Magoffin

Lived in Chihuahua, Mex where his daughter Annette was born. His brother was Gov Beriah Magoffin of KY.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fma13

James Wiley Magoffin, pioneering El Paso settler and merchant, was born in 1799 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, the son of Beriah and Jane (McAfee) Magoffin, Sr., and the brother of Beriah Magoffin, Jr., who later became governor of Kentucky. In 1824 or 1825 he sailed from New Orleans on a ship bound for Tampico, Tamaulipas, but a storm wrecked the vessel in Matagorda Bay. He and the other passengers were eventually rescued by a coasting schooner and taken to Matamoros. Magoffin was the American consul in Saltillo, Coahuila, from 1825 to 1831.

He married the widow María Gertrudis Valdez de Veramendi, a San Antonio native, in Saltillo in 1834. With headquarters in Matamoros he established important commercial relations between Texas and New Orleans, trading Texas products, particularly cotton, for finished goods such as machinery, hardware, furniture, and clothing. By 1836 he had moved to Chihuahua, where he became a prominent Santa Fe trader and became involved in copper mining. "Don Santiago," as he was called, developed a reputation as a shrewd businessman and a genial host given to entertaining lavishly. In late 1841 he led a caravan to St. Louis and returned by way of Santa Fe with forty wagons of merchandise. South of Santa Fe he encountered the bedraggled prisoners of the fruitless Texan Santa Fe expedition. He provided them with coffee and tobacco, and gave them food and champagne in Chihuahua.