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    • McGowen Family History Part 1

    • McGowen Family History Part 1

    • McGowan, Ben and Carol Lee

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

    • William McGowan and family moved to Naco, Arizona from Austin, Texas in the late 1800's. Ben's grandmother was, in fact, the first Caucasian woman to live in Naco. William was a freighter, who owned his own horses and teams, was gone a lot...
    • McGowen Family History Part 2

    • McGowen Family History Part 2

    • McGowan, Ben and Carol Lee

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

    • Carol Lee begins Part 2 by telling us her side of the family's stories. Her father, Robert Hensley, came as a young man with his family to Tucson in 1925. His father had died when he was 14 years old, and so he was supporting his mother and...
    • McGowen Family History Part 4

    • McGowen Family History Part 4

    • McGowan, Ben and Carol Lee

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

    • In Part 4, Ben McGowan answers David Freu's questions about the area, including the Tonto Forest, the Experimental Farm and old C.C.C. Camp, old mining operations and residents of the area since the 1930's to present. Ben tells us of colorful...
    • McGowen Family History Part 3

    • McGowen Family History Part 3

    • McGowan, Ben and Carol Lee

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Gila County (Ariz.); Globe (Ariz.)--History; Globe (Ariz.)--social conditions; Biography; Mining; Westinghouse & Co.;

    • Ben McGowan begins Part 3 in his college years in Tucson at ASU, first studying Mechanical Engineering and then switching over to Industrial Engineering. He was in his third year when he got a job working for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. But the...

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