Jerry S. and Elizabeth M. Stover papers, 1825-1965 (bulk 1949-1964).

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Jerry S. and Elizabeth M. Stover papers, 1825-1965 (bulk 1949-1964).

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Contains correspondence, notes, charts and printed matter which are the results of genealogical research, primarily on Jack Swilling, the founder of Phoenix, Arizona. Though the collection ranges in dates from 1825-1965, the bulk of the collection covers from 1949 to 1964, and represents Elizabeth Stover's correspondence with relatives.

3 ft.

Arizona State University Libraries

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Stover, Elizabeth Matchett

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Stover, Jerry S.

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Swilling, Jack, 1830-1878

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Soldier, prospector, entrepreneur, and gentleman John William (Jack) Swilling was born in South Carolina on April 1, 1830. He spent the formative years of his life in the South before enlisting in the military in 1848 and serving in the Mexican-American War. In 1854, he sustained a painful head injury that would affect him for the rest of his life. He married and had a child in Alabama as before moving West. Swilling joined the ox train of the El Paso-Fort Yuma (Leach) Wagon Road at...