Sarrels papers, 1892-1957 (bulk 1892-1901).

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Sarrels papers, 1892-1957 (bulk 1892-1901).

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Summary: Typescript correspondence, photographs and other personal papers concerning Maude Sarrels' friends and family activities. There are photographs of Tempe Normal School student friends in the mid-1890s including the Davenport, Parker, and Cole families as well as schoolteachers and friends in Gila Bend, Arizona. There are a few photographs of the Tucson area including Lexington Stable, Ida Howell's boarding house on South Fifth Avenue, the Carnegie Library, San Xavier Mission, San Agustin Mission ruins, and a Tohono O'odham home. Other images include a Douglas, Arizona bullfight and a Southern Pacific train wreck at Esmond, Arizona. There are two S.P.R.R. engineer report books, dated 1929. Also present is a membership list of the National Women's Party, Tucson branch, dated 1938 and a newspaper clipping about the organization. There is also a small amount of material about the Sarrels homestead near Golf Links and Pantano Roads. Typescript correspondence between family members is also present.

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7601134

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Tucson Public Library

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Sarrels, Hudson Oran, 1880-1967

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Railroad engineer Hudson O. Sarrels started as a railroad fireman in 1900 in Austin, Texas. He moved to Tucson the following year to work for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a fireman and later as an engineer. From the description of Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers ledger, 1903-1904. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 43208376 ...

Parker family

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Lexington Stables (Tucson, Ariz.)

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Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...

Cole family

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Davenport family

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Sarrels, Maude Jennie, 1876-1957.

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Biographical note: Maude Jennie Welcome arrived in Gila Bend, Arizona in 1887. She graduated from Tempe Normal School about 1895 and was a schoolteacher in various small towns prior to her marriage. In Tucson, she lived briefly with Miss Ida Howell before marrying Hudson Oran Sarrels, a Southern Pacific Railroad engineer, in Tucson in 1903. They had four children Dorothy (Ellis), Marian (Evans), Greta (Ezell), and Oran. From the description of Sarrels papers, 1892-1957 (bulk 1892-190...

National Women's Party (Tucson, Ariz.)

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Tempe Normal School of Arizona

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Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, was originally founded as the Territorial Normal School at Tempe in 1885. It eventually became the Tempe Normal School in 1901, which it remained until 1925, when its name changed to Tempe State Teacher's College. The original mission was to train teachers to serve in Arizona's public schools, and graduates were awarded a teaching certificate. From the description of Tempe Normal School records, 1885-1930. (Scottsdale Public Library)...

Sarrels family.

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