Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

When the family of William Isaac came to Phoenix in the spring of 1878 it brought the first musical in strument into the Salt River valley. It was a four and one half octave melodeon. For a number of years, according to John Isaac, one of the sons. now night jailer at the county Jail, the melodeon was used at the Sunday school and services in the South Methodist church, now the Central Methodist church. The me lodeon was played by MT. Isaac's brQther and sister. On Sundays the ment and 1t could then be carried easily in a buggy. It was taken reg ularly to the services from the Isaac home and after the services taken back home. Often friends gathered at the Isaac home and spent the eve ming or Sunday afternoon in singing.
 Two members of the Isaac family still live in the Salt River valley. They are John Isaac and his broth CT. w. o. Isaac, who now lives on the original homestead taken up by their father, one and one-half miles west of Phoenix on the Christy road. The family arrived in Arizona on the evening of July 1, 1875, coming from Salinas City, Calif., in two wagons with four horses to each wagon. Sev- en children besides the parents made the trip, which took about 60 days. An older daughter remained in Cal ifornia with her husband, but came to Arizona later.
 On the morning of July 1, 1875, MT. Isaac said, the family ate break fast in California and at noon ate dinner in Nevada. They had supper in the evening at Hardyville, Ariz., x~r1n &h4 Vol 1D ,-fxr CT. July 4, 1876, which was MT. Isaac's nineteenth birthday. the fam fly spent within 40 miles of Prescott They arrived in Prescott four days later, where they lived until the spring of 1876, when they moved to Phoenix. In the fall of 1875. MT Isaac said, his father and the sons came to Phoenix and staken out the homestead on the Christy road.
 When the Isaacs first came to Phoenix they lived in large adobe house on the corner of Seventh ave nue and Jackson street. Later they moved into the house which they built on their ranch west of town This house. MT. Isaac said. was the first house of any size in the valley to be constructed entirely of lum- Der. It was one story in height and consisted of nine rooms, and burned to the ground ten years after it was built. The lumber for the house was hauled from Prescott by freight teams, some of it by the Isaac boys who took load of grain to Prescott and returned with a load of lumber They made several trips in this man ner.
 It was on one of these trips, MT Isaac said, that he and his brother w. O. Isaac met an Apache Indiar who had left the reservation to com, down as an envoy to the Pima In dians to make heap big talk" in al effort to buy some squaws from thu Pimas. The Apache wore only breach clout, and Mr. Isaac asked him if he did not get cold in win ter. The Apache asked him if hi, face got cold. and MT. Isaac answered no, whereupon the Apache said, "M, face all over" The Apache ther asked MT. Isaac how many squaws he had and when MT. Isaac answered that he did not have any the Apache drowned and lost all interest in him but remarked that he had three squaws. The Apaches, MT. Isaac said evidently rated their wealth on how many squaws they were able to keeY and therefore believed him to be very poor man.
 Phoenix, MT. Isaac said, an old man his two sons and a daughter cam rnlough bound for California; l cowboy fell in love with the daugh ter and joined the family. The,