John William (Jack) Swilling collection, 1830-1978 [manuscript].

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John William (Jack) Swilling collection, 1830-1978 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/611045435

This collection contains a variety of primary and secondary sources compiled by historians Mark Shields and Geoffrey P. Mawn. Items within the collection include biographical manuscripts, research notes, articles, correspondence, genealogies, and records of military service. Of significance is a surviving journal from the Phoenix Ditch Company chronicling financial dealings between the years 1870-1883.

1.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)

Arizona State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7792284

Arizona State University Libraries

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Mawn, Geoffrey P., 1947-

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Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Cavalry Regiment, 2nd

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Irrigation & Canal Co.

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Zarbin, Earl A.

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Sacks, Benjamin, 1896-1971.

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Benjamin Sacks was born on August 14th, 1896. He graduated from high school in three years and entered college at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, earning recognition as a Phi Beta Kappa for devotion to learning. Sacks advanced his education at Johns Hopkins in the School of Medicine. After he earned his M.D. in 1922, he began his career at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. In 1923, Sacks, along with partner Dr. Emanuel Libman, discovered an uncommon heart ailment ...

Escalante, Trinidad.

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Shields, Mark, 1890-1967

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Soldier, prospector, entrepreneur, and gentleman John William (Jack) Swilling was born in South Carolina on April 1, 1830. He spent the formative years of his life in the South before enlisting in the military in 1848 when he briefly served in the Mexican-American War. He then entered a rather tumultuous period in his life where it is believed he traveled around the South, during which he sustained a painful injury, thought to be a fractured skull, which would affect him the rest of...

Stover, Elizabeth Matchett

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Butterfield Overland Co.

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Phoenix Ditch Company

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Arizona Historical Foundation

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This collection is comprised of oral histories from a variety or unrelated sources, the majority resulting from three projects. These oral histories are not part of an existing manuscript collection and are arranged to allow for further additions. The Arizona Way project, created in 1977 as part of a project that examined the traditional values of Arizona, focused on the Anglo, Hispanic and Native American cultures through oral histories. It was funded by a grant from the Arizona Humanities Coun...

Gila Rangers.

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Snively, Jacob

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Swilling, Jack, 1830-1878

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Soldier, prospector, entrepreneur, and gentleman John William (Jack) Swilling was born in South Carolina on April 1, 1830. He spent the formative years of his life in the South before enlisting in the military in 1848 and serving in the Mexican-American War. In 1854, he sustained a painful head injury that would affect him for the rest of his life. He married and had a child in Alabama as before moving West. Swilling joined the ox train of the El Paso-Fort Yuma (Leach) Wagon Road at...