Roscoe Willson collection, 1923-1976.

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Roscoe Willson collection, 1923-1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25530140

Consists of correspondence, clippings and manuscript material on Arizona and western history, most of which was used in Willson's "Arizona days and ways" newspaper column. Also includes biographical information, business records, personal correspondence and diaries.

20 cu. ft.

Arizona State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7146064

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Willson, Roscoe G. (Roscoe George), 1879-1976

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Roscoe George Willson was born in Granite Falls, Minnesota, July 13, 1879. His family moved to the Dakota Territory in 1881. During the construction of the Great Northern Railroad Roscoe's father ran a farm machinery business and started the Pembina County Democratic Weekly Newspaper. Roscoe graduated from high school in Bathgate, North Dakota at the age of 16 and began working at his father's newspaper. In 1898 Roscoe went to Minneapolis to work in his uncle's printing plant. He also did police...