A legendary craftsman 

In 1919, El Tucsonense, Arizona’s largest Spanish language newspaper, hailed Federico Ronstadt as “one of the most prominent figures in the higher commercial circles of Tucson.” The writer did not exaggerate. The progeny of a German engineer and his Mexican wife, Ronstadt was born at Las Delicias, Sonora, in 1868. At 14, he migrated north to …