Culin papers, 1836-1961 (bulk 1885-1900).

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Culin papers, 1836-1961 (bulk 1885-1900).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38150074

Family history, wills and legal documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and medical notebooks relating to the Roskruge, Wood, and Marshall families from Missouri in 1836 to Arizona in the 1890s. Primarily family photographs but also documents such as notebooks from Dr. Melville Leslie, circa 1883, containing ingredients for medicines; legal documents of early slave and land transactions of the Wood family, 1836 to 1857, in Missouri; and a reminiscences of George Roskruge describing a journey from Denver to Prescott, Ariz. in 1872. Photographs are chiefly portraits of family members but also include an outing to Sabino Canyon circa 1895, photographs of Roskruge ancestors, and three photographs of Harold Bell Wright, author. Also present are scrapbooks belonging to Sally Wood Leslie and James Ostrander.

2 linear ft. (3 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7400679

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Roskruge family

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Ostrander, James.

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Marshall family

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Wright, Harold Bell, 1872-1944

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Wright was born on May 4, 1872 in Rome, NY; educated in the student preparatory dept. of Hiram College; worked as a painter and decorator (1887-92) and as a landscape painter (1892-97); became a pastor in the Christian (Disciples) Church, Pierce City, MO, (1897-98), and at churches in Pittsburg, KS (1898-1903), Kansas City, MO (1903-5), Lebanon, MO (1905-7), and Redlands, CA (1907-8); retired from the ministry in 1908; became a novelist whose published works include That printer of Udell's (1903...

Wood, John S., 1827-

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Culin, Beppie Leslie.

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Daughter of Sally Wood Leslie; Sally's sister, Pauline Wood married George Roskruge, pioneer Arizona surveyor. Sally and Pauline were the daughters of Probate Judge John S. Wood, also a Tucson pioneer. Beppie married John Culin in 1913; John died in 1925. From the description of Culin papers, 1836-1961 (bulk 1885-1900). (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 38150074 ...

Wood family

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Roskruge, George James, 1845-1928.

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Pioneer Arizona surveyor; appointed U.S. deputy land and mineral surveyor in 1880, served four years as Pima County surveyor and three years as City Engineer of Tucson, and in 1893 was appointed chief clerk in the U.S. Surveyor General's Office. Also served as U.S. Surveyor General from 1896 to 1897. He is known as the father of Arizona Masonry and was the National Rifle Association Secretary for Arizona. From the description of Roskruge papers, 1872-1928 (bulk 1872-1900). (Arizona H...