Mary Florence Card Mann (1841 - 1897) - Educator

Florence Mann often taught business methods
 to her students.  Here is a poster highlighting the
 different business methods of the time. 
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Mary Florence was born about 1841 in Oswego, New York. She was the fourth of five children born to Daniel and Jane C. Shapley Card, farmers.


Mary Florence (she went by Florence most of her adult life) entered the Oswego Normal and Training School in her late teens, graduating in 1863 with a teaching degree. By 1867, she was earning $500 a year as a schoolteacher in Cuba, New York. Sometime in the 1870s, she married Henry D. Mann, a physician and surgeon. The young couple moved to Tiffin, Ohio, where Henry attended Heidelberg College. Later, he did his residency at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor before graduating from the Medical College in Albany, New York. He practiced for a short time in Ohio and Illinois before settling in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Florence continued to teach for a few years after marrying, but she is listed as a housewife on the 1880 federal census of Terre Haute. At some point thereafter, she and Henry separated but did not divorce.

In 1890, Florence came to Phoenix and was hired to teach in the Phoenix school system. Based on newspaper articles, she became well known as an educator. Besides teaching in the elementary schools, she often provided professional council and training at the Maricopa County Teachers’ Institutes, where she excelled in mechanical and industrial drawing.

She even persuaded the Phoenix school board to open a free night school for children over the age of 10 who were unable to attend day classes because of family obligations.

In 1893 Florence was appointed to the Maricopa Advisory Committee on Textbooks and School Law. Her duties included selecting the textbooks to be used throughout the district.

After retiring from teaching, she opened an art studio in Phoenix. A gifted artist, she painted many scenes of animals and the “wild and untamed west” in oils and watercolors. And she continued to volunteer at the night school she had started.

Florence died unexpectedly around 8 PM on March 22, 1897, while on her way home from seeing her students at the night school. Passersby heard her cry out in the alley beside the Ford Hotel on Washington Street and 2nd Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona, but she was gone before medical help arrived. Her doctor opined that she had died of an apoplexy—probably a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a burst aneurysm—as there were no signs of any trauma. She was 56 years old.

Mysteries of the Cemetery - Marron Child

Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.), 17 April 1898. 
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1898-04-17/ed-1/seq-5/

Julio Marron was married to Clara Woolsey, the daughter of King Woolsey, a territorial Arizona politician.  We recently found this article about his son while doing research, and added him to our burial book.

  Julio Marron and King Woolsey are also at the PMMP.
If anyone knows the name of this child, please let us know.

School in 1900

Tempe Arizona Normal School
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. USA
https://lccn.loc.gov/2007661425

• Most schools were one-room schoolhouses in rural areas
• Students were usually between five to twenty five years old
• The most common methods of teaching were memorization and repetition
• Very few students advanced beyond grade school
• Only 11% enrolled in high school
• Most Americans at the end of 1910 had only completed grade eight

- paraphrased from Encyclopeida.com

Anne Perley (1865 - 1932) - Educator

Pioneers' Cemetery Association Archives

Anne Morrison Perley was born January 28, 1865, in Henry County, Illinois, to Peleg Stone Perley and Nancy Eliza Morrison. Anne had three siblings: Bruce, Grace and Harriet (known as Polly).
Anne came from a family of teachers. Her grandfather, Nathaniel Perley, had been an educator for over 30 years, and her father Peleg was a teacher prior to becoming a lawyer and practicing law in Henry, Illinois.

Peleg Perley was the postmaster of Henry, Illinois, in the early 1880s. In 1883, he employed Anne as a postal clerk. She was attending Washington University’s College of Fine Arts in St. Louis in 1887.  The Perley family moved to Arizona where Peleg continued his legal career in a milder climate. Anne travelled to Tombstone to fill the position of assistant principal at Tombstone High School in January, 1892. It was a temporary appointment, and she returned to Phoenix at the end of the school year in June. Having acquired some administrative experience, she was then hired as the assistant principal for the old Central School at 201 North Central Avenue in Phoenix.

Anne remained in Phoenix, teaching, until after the death of her parents--her father in 1898 and her mother in 1900. Thereafter, she went to teach in Bisbee, returning to Phoenix in 1903. A few years later, Anne departed Arizona for New York and accepted an offer to teach in Puerto Rico. She arrived there in September 1909 aboard the Steamship Coamo. The 1910 federal census recorded her as a schoolteacher living in Pueblo Norte, Aibonito.

It is not known how long Anne remained in Puerto Rico teaching. However, by 1920 she was back in Brooklyn, New York, and working as a translator for an export business. Presumably, she was by then fluent in Spanish.

Anne was still living in Brooklyn in 1930 when she fell ill and was sent to a private sanitarium in Stamford, Connecticut. She died there on May 23, 1932. Her sister Grace arranged for her cremains to be returned to Arizona where she was buried in her parents’ cemetery plot in Porter Cemetery.

Mysteries of the Cemetery - Flower Vandals

Flower Vandals
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.), 14 April 1895. 
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1895-04-14/ed-1/seq-1/

University of Arizona - 1891

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Here is an article about the early years of the University of Arizona, which includes some of the courses of study.......

Professor Dayton Reed (1841 - 1895) - Educator

Pioneers' Cemetery Association

Dayton Reed was born on 22 Dec 1841 in Millbrook, Wayne County, Ohio. He was one of seven children born to James and Mary Ann Reed. 

Dayton became a teacher and moved to Belleville, Ohio where he was a high school principal from 1866 to 1873.  During that time, his sister Eliza Douglass came to live with him bringing her son Beach.  Her marriage to William Douglass had ended in divorce. 

Dayton married Sarah Ordway on December 27, 1871 in Richland, Ohio.  That marriage seems to have ended with each one going their own way.  Sarah was living with her widowed father in Belleville, Ohio in 1880. 

Dayton moved to Los Angeles, California around 1873 where he continued to teach for 12 years.  He then moved to Arizona where he became principal for the Phoenix Public Schools in 1885.  He resigned that position in 1887 to enter into the more lucrative real estate and banking business in Phoenix.   

On June 28, 1890, Dayton became the third principal of the Arizona Territorial Normal School (Arizona State University) where he taught language, mathematics and pedagogy.During his short ten month tenure as principal, he supervised improving the appearance of the campus by having fencing, trees and plumbing installed.  His salary was $200 a month.

Dayton was forced to resign his position because he was suffering from consumption.  A long-time member of the Masons, he was elevated to Grand Master of the Phoenix lodge prior to his death.  He died July 12, 1894 and is buried in the Masons Cemetery of Phoenix Military and Memorial Park. 

Dayton’s sister, Eliza Douglass, died February 3, 1895 of cancer and is buried next to her brother.

Stock Brands - 1891

Brands
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Just in case you lose your farm animals........

Our homesteader, Rebecca Davenport, most likely had horses and cattle on her homestead.  This is a list of some of the brands established by owners at the time.  There are actually pages of these in many newspapers.  I guess there were more stray cows than one would think.  

Rebecca Reid Davenport (1820 - 1907) - Homesteader - Enterprising Women

Gila River
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Rebecca Reid Davenport was born October 1820 in Indiana.  Rebecca was married to Bailey McNess Davenport most likely in Missouri around 1840.  She was the mother of 10 children.

The family remained in Missouri until 1854, when they moved to California. The family prospered while in California, but sadly Bailey died on July 17, 1875 in Los Angeles County.  Rebecca administered the estate, and Bailey was buried with a beautiful headstone in the Santa Ana Cemetery.

Rebecca left California for Arizona around 1880.  Her son Jacob was married by then and working in Phoenix.  She would travel back and forth to California where her other children still lived.  In 1892, Rebecca began homesteading 158 acres in the area of what is now Citrus Valley Road and W. Sisson in Gila Bend.  Rebecca wrote in the homestead application that she first lived in a tent before the house was built a year later.  She would have been 74 years old.

Rebecca described her house as being built of lumber and having three rooms.  Another house was added along with a well, two corrals and a dairy room.  She indicated that 80 acres had been cleared and were in use.  Her sons Jacob and Thomas were living with her and working the land.  Some of those outbuildings can still be seen on the property.

Rebecca was living alone by 1899 according to her homestead application, and in 1900 she was granted a land patent.  She went to California for a short time and was living with daughter Martha Ivory.  

Rebecca returned to Phoenix where she transferred ownership of her property to son Charles prior to her death.

Rebecca is buried in the City Loosely Cemetery surrounded by her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Fashion of the 1890s

"Men's Fashion 1890's"
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C.

http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.45062/

"Women's Fashion 1890s"
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C.

https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.45006

One of our last blog posts was about a tragic death of a young woman named Lunice Teel.  She worked at the Boston Store.  These would have been some fashions that may have been sold there during this time.....

Lunice Teel (1883 - 1905) - Tragic Death

The Boston Store

Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.), 04 Nov. 1900. 

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020558/1900-11-04/ed-1/seq-6/

Lunice, nicknamed "Linnie", was born in McFall, Gentry County, Missouri, in April 1883 to Thomas Ross Teel and Rebecca Ann Graham.  She was the second of eight children, of whom Chloe, Linnie, Elizabeth ("Lizzie") and Alfred were born in Missouri.  Sometime between 1891 and 1893, the family moved to Phoenix where Edith, Mabel, Sadie and Ross Graham were born. 

It's unclear whether this Teel family was related to the Peter Teel family that migrated from Texas to Arizona in the 1870s, although census records show that some of them had also been in Illinois and Missouri before settling in Texas. 

In Missouri, Thomas R. Teel's family had been farmers  and owned a flour mill.  Later, in Arizona census records, Thomas was listed as a farm laborer and his death certificate describes him as a "miller". 

Lunice E. Teel, just 3 months short of her 22nd birthday, died of pneumonia on January 13, 1905, at her parents' home at 507 North 4th Street, Phoenix, Arizona.  She was buried in Rosedale Cemetery. 

Linnie's obituary noted she was employed at the Boston Store and that she was "an estimable young woman" and "well-known and respected by a large circle of acquaintances". - Story by Sue Wilcox

Saloma Newland (1838 - 1898) - Lady Prospector - Enterprising Women

Globe Mining District
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Saloma E. Larcombe Newland was a female prospector in territorial Arizona. She was born around 1838 in Massachusetts.  It is unknown who her parents were, or if she had any siblings.  Prior to 1880, there are no census records that list her, and what has been discovered comes mostly from newspaper articles. 

She lived in Ohio at some point, as her daughter Flora Larcombe was born on January 14th, 1859 in Steubenville, Ohio. Flora had married Barry Baldwin in 1875 who was a United States Marshal for the Northern District of California. 

Saloma also lived in California on and off for several years as Mrs. S.E. Larcombe, having married a Thomas B. Larcombe, a miner, at some point.  She divorced him in 1870.  In 1864, she worked as a sales agent in Virginia, Nevada Territory for the Florence sewing machine.  In 1866, she worked as the manager of the Western Union Telegraph Office in Santa Barbara, along with another job as operator at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.  She left California in 1877, and came to Arizona to pursue her interest in prospecting. 

She would continue her mining endeavours in Globe while managing a hotel in “Watsonville”, a mining camp near Ramboz peak.  After marrying Thomas Newland in 1878, together, they mined several claims, which included prospecting the Defiance, Pioneer, and Saloma Mines in the area of Globe.  In 1896, Thomas died of  chronic pneumonia at 66 years of age.  Saloma continued mining their prospects, earning her notoriety in the Arizona Republic, and an article written about her in the The San Francisco Call in 1897 called “Arizona’s Lady Prospector”. 

Saloma Larcombe Newland died of cancer December 31, 1898, and is buried in Loosley.  She has no headstone.  For more information on her, come to the Pioneer Military and Memorial Park to learn about this fascinating “lady miner”. 

Spanish Flu - Pandemics - Early 1900s

"Influenza Ward"
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a39569

The Spanish Flu was an influenza pandemic that arrived in the United States around 1918.  It was first identified in military personnel, and infected about 500 million people worldwide, with 675,000 deaths occurring in the United States alone.  There were national quarantines, as well as school and business closures.  The strain was H1N1, and had an avian origin.

There is no one in the PMMP listed as having died of the Spanish Flu.  The cemetery had closed about four years prior to the outbreak.  However, in reading this article it is interesting to note that the United States went through some similar events that we are now experiencing at this time.  

Quarantine Lifted
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Mask Order
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