Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-13
MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR NAMING OF
FLAGSTAFF RESIDENT OF DOUGLAS

In a little mirror repair shop at
427 Tenth street lives and works an
aged, crippled gentleman who is one
of the Oldest, if not the oldest, resi-
dent of the state of Arizona in the
number of years spent in the state
and who was one of a party of six
youths from New England who raised
the first flag on the spot now known
as Flagstaff, Arizona, and RESPONSE
BILE for the derivation of the city's
name.
He is Horace L. Mann, now ap-
preaching IS years of age, and a
direct descendent of the famous Mann
and Turner families, famed in Revo-
lutionary war history, and with a
lineage of English ancestors traced
back to the eleventh century.
Mann traces the history of the
Mann family in England back to 1887,
and that of the Turner'S back to 1857.
one of his forefathers was aboard
the Mayflower when it landed the
first group of hardy Pilgrims at Ply
mouth in the year 1920. An ancestor,
Colonel Amos Turner, was one of the
leaders in the war of the colonies
against England for freedom.
Descendants of the family con-
tinued to make the tewn of Plymouth
their home decade after decade until
in the year 1853 Horace L. Mann was
born there. He spent his boyhood
there and went to the schools in the
village He was forced to quit school
at the age of II to go to work.
1t was in the winter of 1875 that
Judge Cousins, a traveller and lee
turer, aroused the interest Of entire
New England through his lecture on
"a Marvellous Country of the Sunset
Land" having the great southwest as
his theme.
Sturdy New England youths listened
and dreamed. The older men through
out the territory were just as inter-
ested. Dreams grew into realities,
and spurred on by the spirit of youth
a party of 100 men, young and old,
evolved a great colonization plan,
with far away Arizona, then coun-
try practically unknown, as the goal.
On February 30, 1876, the party
bade goodbye to it's wives and sweet
hearts and boarded a train for the
farthest point in the Southwest to
which the line extended, West Las
Animas, Colo. When the colonizers
arrived there after five days of weary,
/ slow train riding, they failed to find
the town they expected. There was
not a single house. In those days
Putnam cars and diners were un-
known and in, spite of the bleak as
pect, the pioneers eagerly craWled
from the train to pitch camp.
They purchased 21 mules and six
wagons from Pat Stanley, railroad
contractor, and started for the land
of their dreams Stanley later located
at Mcmillan, Arizona. The first real
town that they reached was Trinl-
dad, Colo 1t had one two-story
building, which was the United States
hotel.
They left Trinidad and continued
their journey to the top of Ration
pass, where they reached Dick Woot-
ems toll gate. Whooten was a pioneer
scout and former companion of XII
Carson. They next jumped to Las
Vegas, N M, and then to Albu-
querque.
Leaving the New Mexico town, they
passed the Zuni Indian village, Jacobs
Well and Inscription Rock. This roch
was a large piece of sandstone, and
even at that early date covered with
hundreds of carved names and init
ials. The colonists inscribed theirs.
They saw their last house in pass
ing McCartys ranch on Silver creek
and turned due westward, with their