Angela Hutchinson Hammer: Arizona's Pioneer Newspaperwoman

226 Pages·2005·19.202 MB·English

by  Betty E. Hammer Joy

......_, Angela Hutchinson Hammer

ANGELA
HUTCHINSON
HAMMER
.,--....._, Arizona's Pioneer Newspaperwoman
BETTY E. HAMMER JOY
The University of Arizona Press
'Tucson
The C niversity of Arizona Press
© 2005 The Arizona Board of Regents
All rights reserved
This book is printed on acid-free, archival-quality paper.
Manufactured in the United States of America
10 og o8 07 o6 os (j 5
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Joy, Betty E. Hammer (Betty Evangeline I lammer}, 19:)2-
Angela Hutchinson Hammer : Arizona's pioneer
newspapcnvoman /Betty E. llammer Joy.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-Ij: 978-o-8165-2:357-.3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: o-8165-2357-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Hammer, Angela Hutchinson, 1870-1952. 2.journalists
United States-Biography. .'j. Journalists-Arizona-Biography.
4· Women journalists-United States-Biography. 5· Women
journalists·~ Arizona-Biography. I. Title.
PN4874.H22j7J68 2005
070·4'3'ogz-dc22
2005004939
To Chris, Anna, Marilyn, Cy, Rebecca, my grandchildren,
and to all the progeny of the Hutchinson sisters as you each
continue the odyssey begun so long ago. It is mainly for
you that this book exists.

Contents
List of Illustrations 1x
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Angela Comes to Arizona Territory 3
2 Clouds Are Made of Smoke 30
.'3 Saturday Night Celebrations 54
4 A Pig in a Poke 6g
5 An Unholy Alliance 94
6 A Lovely Stretch of Desert 109
7 Misplaced Faith 123
8 Fissionable Thought 137
9 To the Source It Returns 160
Appendix 187
Bibliography 197
Index 201

Illustrations
Mary Adelaide Hutchinson and Angela Hutchinson 5
Mary Patricia Hutchinson 5
Mary Monica Hutchinson 6
Map of portions of Pinal and Maricopa Counties, 1883 9
Mary Genevieve Hutchinson 14
Pinal City, ca. 188o 17
John Kennard Murphy 28
Map of Wickenburg and vicinity, 1902 34
William Tallentyre Hutchinson 51
Angela andjoseph Hammer 56
Angie and Tom Kellis in front of the Miner building 78
Angela in the office of the Wickenburg Miner 78
The Wickenburg post office fire, 1910 So
Francis Xavier O'Brien 83
The Gold Bar Mine crew 84
Angela in her forties 95
Damage from the Main Street fire in Casa Grande 11.':3