Oral history interview, 1971 May 13 [sound recording].

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Oral history interview, 1971 May 13 [sound recording].

Sound recording of interview relating reminiscences including Pancho Villa's siege of Agua Prieta; Apache May, the adopted daughter of John and Viola Slaughter; the kidnapping of Aimee McPherson; and other events in the Douglas, Ariz. area after 1914.

Transcript (12 p.)

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McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944

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Evangelist, radio speaker, founder of International Church of the Foursquare Gospel; born Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy to Canadian parents on October 9, 1890; married Robert Semple in 1908; went together to China as missionaries but she returned to the United States in 1911 with her baby daughter after Robert's death; in 1912, she married Harold McPherson, who she divorced in 1921; began to travel as an independent evangelist in 1916; eventually settled in Los Angeles, where in 1923 she founded the I...

Slaughter, John H. (John Horton), 1841-1922

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Biographical note: Rancher; John Slaughter served two terms as Cochise County Sheriff beginning in 1887, served a term in the Arizona Legislature in 1906, helped to develop the town of Douglas, Arizona, and was a stockholder in the Bank of Douglas. In 1883, John Slaughter purchased about 40,000 acres of the San Bernadino Land Grant in southeastern Arizona on the Mexican border. He operated the San Bernadino Ranch and lived at the ranch until 1921. From the description of Slaughter fi...

Schaaf, Emil F., 1908-1973,

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Villa, Pancho, 1878-1923

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Revolutionary leader in Mexico. From the description of Pancho Villa letter, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536890 From the guide to the Pancho Villa letter, 1921, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Stephens, Rachel

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School teacher, Douglas, Ariz.; wife of George D. Stephens. From the description of Oral history interview, 1971 May 13 [sound recording]. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 36023251 ...

Apache May.

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