Forbes papers, 1869-1966 (bulk 1915-1950).

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Forbes papers, 1869-1966 (bulk 1915-1950).

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Biographical material, correspondence, observation diaries, notebooks, manuscripts, publications, speeches, legislative bills, resolutions and reports from Forbe's career; especially significant in the areas of agricultural research, politics and the development of the University of Arizona, Colorado River water rights, and his correspondence with key individuals involved in the development of Arizona. Family materials include research on the Indian depredations against the Pennington family. There is also research about the Crabbe expedition, including correspondence with W.J. McGee; correspondence about Tucson and University of Arizona history; and interviews with early Arizona residents including Tom Jeffords, Sam Hughes, and Nabor Pacheco. Agriculture materials include research on cotton, date palms, and more and early operations of the University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station and College of Agriculture. Correspondence with George W.P. Hunt, A.E. Vinson, Byron Cummings, and Thomas F. Hunt, while Forbes was in Egypt and Africa, contains information about state and local politics, University of Arizona politics, and agriculture. Also present are correspondence and legislative materials concerning Colorado River water rights, groundwater, and other issues. Legislative correspondents include G.E.P. Smith, Carl Hayden, and Sidney P. Osborn.

52.5 linear ft. (105 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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University of Arizona. Agricultural Experiment Station

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Cummings, Byron, 1860-1954

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Osborn, Sidney Preston, 1884-1948

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Sidney Preston Osborn was born May 17, 1884 in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from Phoenix Union High School in 1903 and attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., where he developed an interest in politics. From 1903 to 1905 he was a delegate to the U.S. Congress, and in 1910 was a member of the Arizona Constitutional Convention. Osborn also served as Arizona's Secretary of State from 1912 to 1919 and Arizona's Collector of Internal Revenue from 1933 to 1934. He made three unsuccessful b...

Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972

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Vinson, A. E.

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McGee, W. J., 1853-1912

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Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. From the description of Papers of W. J. McGee, 1822-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78067600 Biographical Note 1853, Apr. 17 Born near Farley, Iowa 1878 1882 Made surveys of the geology of Iowa...

Hunt, George W. P. (George Wylie Paul), 1859-1934

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Hunt, Thomas Forsyth, 1862-1927

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Thomas Forsyth Hunt was born in Ridott, Illinois in 1862. He received his B.A. (1884), M.A. (1892), and Ph.D. (1903) in Agriculture from the University of Illinois. He began his career in 1885 as an assistant to the state entomologist of Illinois. He then served as Assistant Professor of Agriculture at the University of Illinois (1886-1891); Professor of Agriculture at Pennsylvania State College; Professor of Agriculture and Dean of the College of Agriculture and Domestic Science at Ohio State U...

Smith, G. E. P. (George Edson Philip), 1873-

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George Edson Philip Smith was born 29 December 1873 in Lyndonville, Vermont, the son of Franklin H. Smith and his wife Harriet Lovisa Powers. Both parents died by the time Smith was 12, and he spent the rest of his youth living with his grandparents. In 1893, he entered the University of Vermont at Burlington, graduating in 1897 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. He taught at the University of Vermont for three years before coming to Tucson and the University of Arizona. ...

Forbes, Robert Humphrey, 1867-1968

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Dean Emeritus of the College of Agriculture. The Agriculture Building was renamed the Robert H. Forbes Building in 1985. From the description of Records relating to the construction of the Agriculture Building at The University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.), 1913-1915. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 41284198 Educator, researcher and legislator; director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Arizona and director of the College of Agriculture. ...