Rockfellow papers, 1875-1935.

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Rockfellow papers, 1875-1935.

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Correspondence, manuscripts, appointment books, business records, maps, and a scrapbook mostly relating to his interest in the history of the Sulphur Springs Valley and the Dragoon Mountains including the Apache Indians, Cochise, Tom Jeffords, and early settlers. His correspondence relates to Arizona politics, Tom Jeffords and Cochise, the Dragoon Mountains, one invitation to the 1938 Arizona Desert Rats meeting, and a 1917 letter from the Arizona Council of Defense. Correspondents include E.R. Wash of Indiana and Robert Forbes. His diaries are actually appointment books except one dated 1884 which contains student lists for his 1896-1897 mathematics classes. Drafts of his book "Log of An Arizona Trail Blazer" are present and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Manuscripts about Pete Kitchen, Camp Rucker, the Chiricahua Cattle Company, and Cochise County Ranches are also present. There are financial and business records for J.E. Durkee, owner of the Gird Ranch, and for the Tombstone Consolidated Mines Company, 1901-1904, and the Tombstone Mill and Mining Company, 1883-1893.

2.75 linear ft. (6 boxes)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7520716

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Durkee, J.E.

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Rockfellow, John Alexander, 1857-1947.

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Cheyney, W.J.

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Jeffords, Tom, 1832-1914

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Biographical note: Thomas Jeffords, Indian agent at Fort Bowie was remembered as the "blood brother" of Cochise. He was born in New York in 1832 and came to Arizona in 1860. He died at Owl Head in Pinal County in 1914. From the description of Jeffords lawsuit materials, 1883-1888. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 50012214 ...

Rockfellow, John Alexander, 1858-1947.

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Rancher; Rockfellow arrived in Arizona in 1878. He was a miner in Tombstone, then established the NY Ranch in the Sulphur Spring Valley near Cochise Stronghold in partnership with Walter E. Servoss and Jack Spencer. He also taught mathematics for two years at the University of Arizona, served four years as Cochise County School Superintendent circa 1908, and maintained a civil engineering practice in Tombstone. His memoirs were published as "The Log of an Arizona Trailblazer." From t...

Arizona. Council of Defense.

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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. ...

Chiricahua Cattle Company

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Kitchen, Pete, 1823-1895.

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Biographical note: Pioneer rancher; Kitchen established the Potrero Ranch between Tubac and Nogales following his arrival in Tubac in 1854. From the description of Pete Kitchen biographical materials, 1870-1948. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 49980519 ...

Tombstone Consolidated Mines Company

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Wash, E.R.

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Cochise, d.1874.

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Tombstone Mill and Mining Company.

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