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    • Lopez Family History

    • Lopez Family History

    • Arthur John Lopez

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining; Ranching History of Gila County;

    • Arthur (Johnny) Lopez tells of his grandfather immigrating from Mexico, of meeting his grandmother, who was a young Apache Indian girl rescued by the Padre at San Xavier Mission and planning to be a nun. They married and moved to Globe, where the...
    • Cline Family History

    • Cline Family History

    • Bessie Cline Turner

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Agriculture; Ranching History of Gila County; Homesteading;

    • Bessie tells of her family moving to Arizona and to Pleasant Valley in the 1920s. Her father was a homesteader, a farmer, who grew all sorts of fruit and vegetables and made sorghum to sell. She tells of growing up in the little community of...
    • Ridenhour, Cappy Joy

    • Ridenhour, Cappy Joy

    • Cappy Joy Ridenhour

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining; Ranching History of Gila County; Military Nurses -- personal narratives; Military Nurses -- history -- United...

    • Cappy tells of her grandparents' families, the Haughts and Carrie Martin, coming from Texas to Arizona, meeting, marrying and settling on a ranch on Walnut Creek. Her mother, Virgie, grew up, married and remained on her parents' ranch, as did...
    • Salas Family Oral History

    • Salas Family Oral History

    • Cruz Salas

    • Oral histories; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining; Ranching History of Gila County; Education; Job Corps, San Carlos Indian Reservation

    • Cruz tells how his family escaped from Mexico during Pancho Villa's Revolution to Globe in the early 1900's. His grandfather worked in the Old Dominion Mine. Cruz's grandfather made the cross that sits on the hill, and Cruz was named after the...
    • Culver-Sullivan Family, Part 1

    • Culver-Sullivan Family, Part 1

    • Culver, Kip

    • Oral histories; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Globe (Ariz.)--1900-1910; Railways; Railway stations; Historic preservation--Arizona

    • Kip Culver tells the history of his family coming to Globe and Miami, Arizona at the turn of the 20th Century, when the mines where operating and the community was prosperous and optimistic. His grandfather Sullivan came as a young man with the...
    • Culver-Sullivan Family, Part 2

    • Culver-Sullivan Family, Part 2

    • Culver, Kip

    • Oral histories; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Globe (Ariz.)--1900-1910; Railways; Railway stations; Historic preservation--Arizona

    • Kip Culver talks about the history behind some of Globe's historic buildings and of our past colorful and influential residents that formed Globe-Miami's unique mining culture.
    • Sparks Family Military Careers

    • Sparks Family Military Careers

    • Earl Sparks

    • Oral histories; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; WWII Biographies

    • Earl Sparks tells us about his time as a Communications Officer during WWII flying in B26 bombers, on D Day, and then later during the Korean War setting up communications in Europe. Earl also tells an exciting war story about dislodging a 1,000...
    • Sparks Family Mining Careers

    • Sparks Family Mining Careers

    • Earl Sparks

    • Oral histories; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining History of Gila County.

    • Earl Sparks tells how his family came to Miami, AZ, his childhood during the Great Depression, and of his childhood friend, Jack Elam. He always knew he wanted to be a Mining Engineer, and except for his military terms, he relates his...
    • Thompson and Zache Family History

    • Thompson and Zache Family History

    • Elizabeth Thompson Zache

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining; Locomotive works-- United States -- History; Great Depression

    • Elizabeth Zache tells of her family coming to Miami, AZ and describes growing up in a mining community and culture. Her father was a locomotive brakeman, fireman and then engineer working for the mines. She met her husband when he was in the...
    • DeRose Family Oral History

    • DeRose Family Oral History

    • Eunice Bradley DeRose

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; County attorneys Arizona; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining History of Gila County; Superior Court (Arizona)

    • Eunice Bradley DeRose talks of her family's and the DeRose family's migrations to Globe and early memories of growing up in a copper mining town through the Great Depression. She tells of marrying her childhood friend Barry DeRose and the events...
    • DalMolin Family Oral History

    • DalMolin Family Oral History

    • Frank and Betty DalMolin

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining; Ranching History of Gila County.

    • Frank DalMolin tells of his family's immigration from Italy to America and then to Globe to work in the Old Dominion copper mine. He and Betty tell stories of early ethnic cultures merging and mingling within the immigrant mining town and how they...
    • Banicevich Family Oral History

    • Banicevich Family Oral History

    • Frank Banicevich

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Biography; Mining History of Gila County; Political History of Arizona

    • Frank tells how he and his parents came to America from Yugoslavia (now Croatia) and operated a restaurant in Globe called the El Monte. Frank grew up in Globe, graduated from Globe High in the Great Depression, worked in the local mines until...
    • Maslovar Family History

    • Maslovar Family History

    • George Maslovar

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining;

    • George Maslovar tells his family history, and growing up in the early mining days of Miami, AZ. He joined the Army and then the Air Force, and then worked for the US Govt. in many other places around the world before returning to the Globe-Miami...
    • Barela Family Oral History

    • Barela Family Oral History

    • Gil and Margaret Barela

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Electrical Injuries United States; Mining; History of Gila County.

    • Gil Barela and his sister Margaret Lopez tell of their family's history and migration to Globe in 1920. Their father became a delivery man for Solomon Wickershaw during the Great Depression. Gil and Margaret tell of growing up in the ethnic...
    • Cox Family Oral History

    • Cox Family Oral History

    • Hazel Cox

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining; Ranching History of Gila County.

    • Hazel Cox remembers her family's immigration from Cornwall, England to work in the copper mines in Globe. She talks of the early days, the customs of the immigrant mining town, early families and how they survived the Great Depression. She also...
    • Stiles Family History

    • Stiles Family History

    • Jean Woody Stiles

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining History of Gila County

    • Jean Woody Stiles talks about her family history in Globe-Miami area of Gila County. Her mother, Clara T. Woody, was inducted in Arizona Women's Hall of Fame for her extensive interviewing of pioneer families in Gila County. Her large collection...
    • Mercer Family Oral History

    • Mercer Family Oral History

    • John and Colleen Mercer

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining History of Gila County.

    • John tells of how his grandfather, a mining engineer, came to homestead in what became Radium in Wheatfields and discovered what would become the Inspiration Mine. He tells of each succeeding generation staking claims and mining as well. Aside...
    • Bates, Josephine

    • Bates, Josephine

    • Josephine Bates

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Education; History of Gila County.

    • Josephine Bates remembers her first career as an educator in Globe and Miami and her second administrative career working for the Arizona Education Association as the teachers' ombudsman handling various teachers grievances in four counties,...
    • Lewis Family Mining History

    • Lewis Family Mining History

    • Lewis, Ray

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 19th Century; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining;

    • Ray Lewis tells of his grandfather, James Lewis, coming to America from Wales, arriving in Arizona between the 1870's and '80's to work in the mining operations of the Stonewall Jackson Mine in McMinnville, north of Globe, AZ Territory. Since...
    • Loew Family and the First Presbyterian Church History

    • Loew Family and the First Presbyterian Church History

    • Loew, Edmund A. Jr.

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Biography; Mining; Presbyterian church -- Arizona -- History;

    • Edmund Loew first tells the 100+ years of history of the First Presbyterian Church in Globe, how it started, how it is unique from other congregations because of its flexibility and subsequently, how it has uniquely contributed to the community. ...

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