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    • Fish Family History, Part 2

    • Fish Family History, Part 2

    • Fish, Rollin

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers -- Arizona -- biographies; Sawmills -- accidents; Sawmills -- Arizona;

    • In part 2, Barry Richens continues to interview Rollin Fish, Ferrell Fish's father, in 1977. Mr. Fish continues to recall his life in Lakeside, working in the family store and for the family sawmill. He ends by telling of an accident that cut off...
    • Fish Family History, Part 3

    • Fish Family History, Part 3

    • Fish, Ferrell

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers -- Arizona -- biographies; Educators -- Arizona -- biographies

    • In Part 1, Ferrell Fish tells the story of his great grandfather Fish migrating to Arizona in response to Brigham Young's sending out of Mormon pioneers in the mid-late 1800's. He adds how his grandfather and six other families moved to what would...
    • Fish Family History, Part 4

    • Fish Family History, Part 4

    • Fish, Ferrell

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • Part 2, Ferrell Fish continues to remember the early days of Lakeside and of his youth. He gives his impressions of attending school in Lakeside and gives special recognition to teachers who inspired him to go on to college. His own personal...
    • Fisher Family History, Part 1

    • Fisher Family History, Part 1

    • Fisher, H.W. and Mary Lee

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.);

    • H.W. and Mary Lee Fisher give a excellent lesson on the history of the early to mid 20th Century timber industry and the sawmill town of McNary, Arizona, from the African-American laborer's perspective. They came as newly-weds from Mississippi to...
    • Fisher Family History, Part 2

    • Fisher Family History, Part 2

    • Fisher, H.W. and Mary Lee

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.);

    • H.W. and Mary Lee Fisher continue their excellent lesson on the history of the early to mid 20th Century timber industry and the sawmill town of McNary, Arizona, from the African-American laborer's perspective. They came as newlyweds from...
    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 1

    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 1

    • Frost, Nella

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; Lakeside (Ariz.); Pinetop (Ariz.); Railroads -- Arizona -- History; Electric cooperatives

    • Nella’s great grandmother Medlock immigrated to Salt Lake City, Utah from England, pushing a hand cart across the United States. Joseph Albert Lewis, Nella's great grandfather, was born in Utah. They met and married there, and then moved to...
    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 2

    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 2

    • Frost, Nella

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; Lakeside (Ariz.); Pinetop (Ariz.); Railroads -- Arizona -- History; Electric cooperatives

    • Part 2, Nella continues to talk about her father's contributions to the area, of his annual work as the cook feeding hundreds of Navopache Electric Co-op's customers and other community groups. She describes his full life to his death. Then she...
    • Guenther Family History, Part 1

    • Guenther Family History, Part 1

    • Guenther, Minnie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Biography; Missionaries -- Arizona --Biography; Native Americans; Lutheran minister; Navajo County (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache Indians -- Arizona; Guenther, Edgar E.; Guenther, Minnie

    • This interview of Minnie Guenther, the wife of Edgar Guenther, an early Lutheran missionary to the Apache Indians, was recorded in 1977. She gives a background of her German immigrant upbringing, of meeting her future husband, and their subsequent...
    • Guenther Family History, Part 2

    • Guenther Family History, Part 2

    • Guenther, Minnie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Native Americans; White Mountain Apache Indians -- Arizona;

    • In Part 2, Minnie Guenther begins by describing her first impressions of the White Mountain Apache culture. She remembers their early attempts to reach out to school children, their first baptism, and her children being born without medical or...
    • Hansen Family History, Part 1

    • Hansen Family History, Part 1

    • Hansen, Don L.

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Biography; Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona --Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Crook's Trail (Ariz.); Roads -- Arizona; Automobiles -- Arizona -- White Mountains -- 1900's;...

    • In Part 1, Don L. Hansen gives a brief history of his ancestors. He was born in 1900 to Niels S. and Rosebelle Gardner Hansen in Snowflake. His great-grandparents Hans and Sophia Hansen Sr. and her sister immigrated from Denmark to the United...
    • Hansen Family History, Part 2

    • Hansen Family History, Part 2

    • Hansen, Don L.

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Biography; Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona --Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Crook's Trail (Ariz.); Roads -- Arizona; Automobiles -- Arizona -- White Mountains -- 1900's;...

    • In Part 2, Don L. Hansen is 21 years old and now an adult applying for his own homestead of 90 acres. He would work at the sawmill during the day and then plow his fields by moonlight. Then for seven years he worked for his father's dairy. In...
    • Jacobs Family History

    • Jacobs Family History

    • Jacobs, Sue Penrod and Jacobs, Jake

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; Pinetop (Ariz.); Railroads -- Arizona -- History; Lodging-houses--United States--History--19th century

    • Jake Jacobs came to Arizona August 1953 to help his in-laws move to Chandler with full intentions of returning to Indiana. While working in a service station to get enough cash to return, he met the Superintendent of McNary Schools, who was...
    • Johnson Family History, Part 1

    • Johnson Family History, Part 1

    • Johnson, Raymond

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers -- Arizona -- biographies; Sawmills -- Arizona; Lakeside (Ariz.); White Mountains -- 1900's; Irrigation -- Arizona -- 1880's...

    • Part 1: Raymond Johnson tells of his grandparents migrating to Arizona Territory from Utah in the 1880's and settling in the White Mountains. Raymond's father Abe grew up on the Milk Ranch and went to school with the Cooley children. Raymond's...
    • Johnson Family History, Part 2

    • Johnson Family History, Part 2

    • Johnson, Raymond

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.);

    • Part 2: Raymond's story picks up describing the Great Depression in Lakeside, and then how World War II affected the community. He talks about those who left for the War and never returned. He describes the Lakeside schools, its educators, and...
    • Johnson Family History, Part 3

    • Johnson Family History, Part 3

    • Johnson, Raymond and Thomas, Martha

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • Part 3: Raymond Johnson graduated from high school during the Korean War. He was drafted shortly thereafter and served in the South Pacific. After he returned he went on a mission trip to South America. He returned in 1961, went to college and...
    • Jordan Family History, Part 1

    • Jordan Family History, Part 1

    • Jordan, Jack; Jordan, Wanda; Jordan, Terry

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); McNary (Ariz.); Biography; Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest (Ariz.); Railroads--Arizona--History;

    • Part 1: Jack and Wanda Jordan come from a long line of railroad engineers. Here they and their daughter Terry give a brief history of the sawmill town of McNary, Arizona and of the Apache Railroad. In 1923, Jack's grandfather, Henry Jordan, was...
    • Jordan Family History, Part 2

    • Jordan Family History, Part 2

    • Jordan, Jack and Jordan, Wanda

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); McNary (Ariz.); Biography; Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest (Ariz.); Railroads--Arizona--History;

    • Part 2: Jack and Wanda returned from the Air Force to McNary to discover the steam engine had given way to the diesel locomotive in their absence. Young Jack was offered the fireman position on the railroad that his father had once run, and...
    • Larson Family History, Part 1

    • Larson Family History, Part 1

    • Larson, Augusta

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Coconino County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers -- Arizona; Mormon women; Educators -- 20th Century -- Biography;

    • In Part 1, Augusta Larson tells of her affluent beginnings in Flagstaff, her education and her early career as a schoolteacher in Holbrook, Arizona. She recalls what influenced her to convert to the Latter-day Saints' religion, and of meeting and...
    • Larson Family History, Part 2

    • Larson Family History, Part 2

    • Larson, Augusta

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers -- Arizona; Mormon women; Educators -- 20th Century -- Biography;

    • in Part 2, Augusta Larson continues to talk about her life as the wife of Wallace Larson, her growing family and her teaching career in Snowflake, Lakeside, and Whiteriver schools. She tells of her husband's meteoric rise from getting his high...
    • Larson Family History, Part 3

    • Larson Family History, Part 3

    • Larson, Augusta

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers -- Arizona; Mormon women; Educators -- 20th Century -- Biography; Mormon women--Political activity--United States--History.

    • In Part 3, After Augusta Larson describes other early Lakeside residents, she briefly describes her career as an Arizona State Legislator.

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