Riordan Family manuscript collection, 1883-1930.

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Riordan Family manuscript collection, 1883-1930.

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Personal papers and letterbooks of Michael J. Riordan; letterbooks of the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and the Riordan Mercantile Company, as well as other records of the Riordan Mercantile Company; scrapbooks of Riordan family trips; newspaper articles by Michael Riordan; letters to the editors; Verde Council of Knights of Columbus minute book; Central Arizona Railway records; First National Bank of Flagstaff records, 1929-1930. Overall date ranges are from 1883-1930.

30 linear ft.

Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7595493

Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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First National Bank of Flagstaff.

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Riordan, Michael.

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Central Arizona Railway.

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Knights of Columbus.

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The Knights of Columbus originated in New Haven, Connecticut in 1882. The group's expansion to Iowa was the result of the efforts of Patrick McArdle, Illinois state deputy director. The first Iowa council was established in Dubuque in May, 1900 followed by council in Davenport in September of the same year. The Iowa State Council was instituted in 1902 with the first state convention being held in Dubuque that year. From the description of Knights of Columbus in Iowa records, 1904-20...

Riordan Mercantile Company.

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Riordan, Elizabeth Metz.

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Arizona Lumber and Timber Company

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In 1887 Denis Riordan purchased the Ayer Mill, which had been established in Flagstaff in 1881. Riordan renamed the company the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and became its first president. His brothers, Michel and Timothy, joined him in Flagstaff to help him with the business. The Arizona Lumber and Timber Company suffered a devastating fire on its first day of operation-July 16, 1887. The reconstruction of the plant saw many innovations which made this lumber company one of th...

Chambers, Blanche Riordan, 1896-1985

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The Riordan family first established themselves in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1884 when the oldest of three brothers, Denis Matthew ("Matt") Riordan, became general manager of the Ayer Lumber Company (established in 1881 following the demand for railroad ties for the Atlantic-Pacific rail line project). In 1887 Denis ("Matt") Riordan bought the Ayer Lumber Company, which then became the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company, and his brothers Timothy and Michael Riordan helped run the operati...

Riordan family.

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