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    • Bittorf Family History, Part 1

    • Bittorf Family History, Part 1

    • Bittorf, Mary Ellen

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Pinetop (Ariz.); Pinetop Lakeside (Ariz.); Arizona Pharmacist; Blue Ridge Unified School District (Navajo County, Ariz.); Apache County (Ariz.);

    • Part 1 covers the Bittorf family history. Mary Ellen's parents came to Arizona during the Great Depression. She was born in Phoenix, but lived in Buckeye, Prescott, Casa Grande and Yuma with her parents as her father traveled with his career at...
    • Bittorf Family History, Part 2

    • Bittorf Family History, Part 2

    • Bittorf, Mary Ellen

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Pinetop (Ariz.); Pinetop Lakeside (Ariz.); Town and city histories

    • Part 2 is devoted to Mary Ellen Bittorf's participation in the Chamber of Commerce, which lead to her contributions toward the incorporation of the town of Pinetop-Lakeside, and then her work serving as the first Vice-Mayor on the newly appointed...
    • 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...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 1

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 1

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

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

    • Part 1: The history of Esther Lee begins with her paternal grandfather, John McNeil, born on the Isle of Mann. He was a shoemaker and a violinist. At age 13, he went to sea and served on the same ship as his father and brother. When he was 21,...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 2

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 2

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

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

    • Part 2: Esther Lee tells of how her grandfather, John McNeil, and how his families moved to Forestdale before there was a Show Low, living among the Indians on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. John McNeil built his home without access to...
    • 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...
    • Penrod Family History

    • Penrod Family History

    • Penrod, Sue Jacobs

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Educators -- Arizona -- Biography; Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography;

    • Sue tells the stories passed down through her family of the history of Pinetop, Arizona from the earliest Penrod family settling the area to the recent past. She shares her childhood memories of growing up, the school, her friends and relatives...
    • 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...
    • Perry Family History, Part 1

    • Perry Family History, Part 1

    • Perry, Edgar

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); McNary (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona; White Mountain Apache Indians--Biography; White Mountain Apache Indians--Arizona;...

    • Part 1: Edgar Perry is a History, Sociology and Anthropology scholar of his people, the White Mountain Apaches. He is also a renowned artist, vocalist, and terrific storyteller. He begins by telling us the story of the Athabaskan ancestors of the...
    • Perry Family History, Part 2

    • Perry Family History, Part 2

    • Perry, Edgar

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); McNary (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona; White Mountain Apache Indians--Biography; White Mountain Apache Indians--Arizona;...

    • Part 2: Even though Edgar Perry was McNary High School's Best Player when he graduated in 1959, he was denied a scholarship because he chose Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, a private Christian school. While attending college, he and his wife...

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