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Last of the Buffalo Soldiers
Master Sergeant John P. Campbell, age 90, died at a nursing home Sept. 7, 1984, in Phoenix. Campbell was born Nov. 7, 1893, the youngest of 13 children in Evansville, Indiana. He finished high school joined the Army in 1911, and of his 35 years of service, 27 were spent at Fort Huachuca.
Cochise County Attorney Allen R. English
Allen Robert English, born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1858, earned a law degree by age 19. His father was a well-to-do shipbuilder and his mother was from a pioneer Irish family, the Fitzgeralds of Maryland.
Mining Man & Mayor
Abraham Hyman Emanuel was an Easterner who made his fortune in the gold and silver mines and mining towns of the American West.
Nogales Pioneer Leopold Ephraim
Leopold Ephraim, born in Chulm, Prussia (now Poland) on April 16, 1850, left Europe for America in 1869 to avoid military service for Russia.
Will Rogers, Jr.
Born in New York in 1911 when his famous father, the humorist Will Rogers, was starring in the Ziegfeld Follies, William Vann Rogers Jr. grew up in the house that is the centerpiece of Will Rogers State Historic Park.
The First Pima County Supervisors
With that proclamation, the first Pima County Board of Supervisors began its duties. The first four counties in the Arizona Territory — Yuma, Mohave, Yavapai and Pima — were created on Nov. 6, 1864. Each, at its own expense, had to provide a suitable courthouse, a jail and fireproof county offices.
A Tucson Civic Leader
Merrill Freeman was a pioneer Arizonan active in territorial politics and education. But his route to Arizona was circuitous, and he didn’t arrive in Tucson until he was well into middle age.
Southern Arizona’s Many Noons
Dr. Adolphus H. Noon arrived in Tucson in October 1879, with his oldest son Alonzo and a friend. Noon was looking for a place to settle, where he could set up a medical practice and also do some mining.
Tombstone’s Bird Cage Theater
Tombstone’s most celebrated theater was the Bird Cage. In its heyday between 1881 and 1889, the theater offered gambling, liquor, vaudeville entertainment and ladies of the night. In 1882, ~The New York Times~ referred to the Bird Cage as “the Roughest, Bawdiest and Most Wicked Night Spot between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast.”
Tucson, Tubac, Tumacacori, ‘Tohell’
Southern Arizona rancher Pete Kitchen was best known for his choice hams and his humor. His hams graced tables from Nogales to Santa Fe, and his humor was part of... […]
Santa Cruz County Pioneers
In 1910, Esther Rothrock, who lived in Elgin, a town southeast of Sonoita in Santa Cruz County, invited her sisters, Carrie and Rhoda Swigart, to come to Arizona to homestead land.
Louis Criger, Catcher for Baseball’s Best Ever
Louis Criger was born Feb. 3, 1872, in Elkhart, Ind. Small but with a strong, accurate throwing arm, Criger became a professional baseball catcher and called pitches for Cy Young, the winningest pitcher of all-time.
