Weekly journal-miner., 1921-10-19

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 "The following dates for the early times in Prescott are quoted from a history of Arizona published in 1884 by w. w. Elliott & Company of San Francisco:
 'The first number of the. Arizona Miner (so named by Judge H. w. Fleury) made its appearance on March 9, 1864.
 "Rev. William H. Reid was the first minister of the gospel in this section. He came in with Governor Goodwin's party
 "On June IA, 1866, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Bashford and Mrs Turner or ganized Sabbath school.
 "The first marriage ceremony in Prescott was between John H. Dick son and Miss Mary J. Ehle, Novem- Der Y, 1864, Governor Goodwin per forming the ceremony.
 "The first white child born here was Molly Simmons, January 9, 1865.
 "The military telegraph was estab- lished ill 1873. s .,,, :.
 "The first term of district court was opened in Prescott by Judge Allyn. Hon. Coles Bashford and Judge Howard were the only lawyers.
 "Aztlan lodge No. 177, A. F. and A. M., commenced its career, July l25, 1865. It was for a long time the only lodge of any kind in Ari- zona.
 "The first Odd Fellows lodge was organized here July 13, 1868.
 "The first bali was held here No vember 8, 1864. Ladies were very scarce.
 Potatoes and onions used to sell at 75 cents to $1 per pound and it tcok 100 greenback dollars to buy a sack of flour.
 Late California papers used to be four weeks old, while those from the Atlantic coast were six weeks old"
 Under the heading Women Pio- neers," the following is found:
 But not to the men alone belongs the honor and credit of hewing out foothold for our proud civilization of 1900 Woman was there with her gentle influence, and who can say how much the Prescott of today owes to those noble spartan wives and mothers, who, hand in hand, with husbands and sons, cheerfully and uncomplainingly endured the hardships, privations and dangers of those strenuous times. Within year after the advent of the Walker party several families had braved the peril ous overland journey and had in stalled themselves on Granite creek. The first family to arrive was that of Julius Sanders with his wife and daughter Mary, in March, 1864. As related elsewhere Miss Mary Sanders became the wife of our townsman s. C. Miller, in April, 1867, and has the distinction of being the first white woman to set foot in Yavapai. Other families who arrived in 1864: John Henry Ehl, wife and five daughters; Daniel Stevens, wife, son and three daughters; Capt. Lieb and wife; T. M Alexander, wife, three sons and three daughters; Louis A. Stevens and wife; John Simmons, wife, two sons and daughter; T. M Buckman, wife, three sons and daughter; J. P. Osborne, wife, three sons and four daughters. Mrs. R. C. Mccormick, the wife of our second governor, came out the same year and died i'll in 1866 in the Fleury house. Thus it will be seen that by the close of the year 1864 the com munity could boast of % of the | gentler sex. Nearly all of these pio- neer daughters of Yavapai were hap oily married within few years after their arrival and most of them are still living in the county and are re- spectcd mothers of families. Nor are instances wanting in the history of those days, when more than one of these brave wives and mothers were called upon by circumstances to seize arms in defense of their husbands. How Mrs. Sam Miller stood off the Apaches and saved her husbands cattle is told elsewhere; and old timers still relate with pride how Mrs. Louis A. Stevens, whose home vas in the suburbs, sent a boy up o her husband, who was sitting in he legislature to send her down ome ammunition as from the num- ger of Indians she could see lodging behind the rocks, she felt sure they were about toejump the place. It lid not appear to occur to this brave yoman that 1t was necessary for her