Table Of ContentArizona Historical Foundation
Biography Files
The AHF biography files contain material relating to over 1750 individuals who
influenced Arizona, dating from Territorial times to the present. The individuals span
race, age gender and class. New files and additional material are added on a regular basis.
The files are an excellent resource for genealogists or students needing ready reference.
The initial files in the collection were intended to capture information about early settlers
of Arizona. AHF developed a four-page Pioneer Biography form which contains
sections on parents, siblings, spouses, children, education, work history, religious
affiliation, and military service. In addition the form asks for descriptions of when and
how the individual arrived in Arizona, and memorable experiences while living in
Arizona. The forms were filled out by the individual, usually with assistance from a
family member or student. Over a third of the files contain the forms, and are marked in
the list below.
The files vary widely, from one article in a folder to multiple folders for an individual.
The files contain newspaper clippings, obituaries, student research papers, resumes and
journal articles. Files may also contain original material such as correspondence,
certificates, receipts, court documents and photographs.
Below is a browsable list of the files. The biography files also are catalogued in the
Arizona Historical Foundation Index, available through the Arizona State University
Libraries website: http://knet.asu.edu/archives/?searchSPMI
CONTAINER LIST:
Box Title
1 Aaron, Sam
Abbey, Edward
Abel, Charles H.
Achauer, Adrienne Elizabeth (pioneer biography)
Acquanetta
Adams, Harvier (pioneer biography)
Adams, Howard
Adams, James Lewis (pioneer biography)
Agner, Ruby Helena Jones (pioneer biography)
Aiken, Hazel Bernice (pioneer biography)
Aiton, James Thomas (pioneer biography)
Ake, Felix Grundy
Aker, J.W.
Albrecht, Gladys Hamilton
Alchesay
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Alday, Charles Sr. (pioneer biography)
Aldous, Cora Daigherty (pioneer biography)
Aldrich, Mark
Aldridge, Ruben Milton
Aldrin, Buzz
Alexander, Thomas Matthew
Allen, Elijah (pioneer biography)
Allen, James David (pioneer biography)
Allen, John Brackett
Allen, John Seymour (pioneer biography)
Allen, Minnie I. (pioneer biography)
Allen, Norabelle (pioneer biography)
Allen, Warner Hoopes (pioneer biography)
Allen, William Coleman
Allyn, Joseph Pratt (pioneer biography)
Alsap, John Taber
Altshuler, Constance Wynn
Alvarez, Ernest (pioneer biography)
Alvarez, Esther (pioneer biography)
Anderson, Charles L.G.
Anderson, C.O.
Anderson, Elvira Aguirre (pioneer biography)
Anderson, John Reginald
Anderson, Mary Ann (pioneer biography)
Anderson, Thanks Albert (pioneer biography)
Angius, Danitza (pioneer biography)
Anglin, Ernest (pioneer biography)
Anglin, Virginia Lee (pioneer biography)
Anton, Gerald
Apache Kid
Appel, Nathan Benjamin
ApJohn, Henri
Appleby, Barney W. (pioneer biography)
Arbuckle, Jim
Arbuckle, John
Archer, Lou Ella
Arline, Kenneth
Armenta, Ramon A. (pioneer biography)
Armstrong, John Samuel
Arnold, Benjamin Lawton (pioneer biography)
Arnold, Oren
Arpaio, Joe
Atwood, Baynard McIntosh
Aubry, Francois Xavier
Austin, Harold Hendrix (pioneer biography)
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Austin, Lindsay Cedric (pioneer biography)
Avery, Ben Franklin
Avent, Jacques M.
2 Babbitt, Bruce (1 of 2)
Babbitt, Bruce (2 of 2)
Babbitt, Hattie
Babbitt, James E.
Babbitt, Viola Passey
Babcock, Roscoe Leonard (pioneer biography)
Backus, Charles E.
Backus, Henry T.
Badilla, Pedro Maria
Bagg, John Sherman
Baker, Albert Cornelius
Baird, Sibyl Gerrish (pioneer biography)
Bailey, Salome Lucille (pioneer biography)
Baker, Charles
Baker, Roland Gail (pioneer biography)
Ball, Robert August (pioneer biography)
Balsz, David
Banghart, George Washington
Banta, Albert Franklin
Banyacya, Thomas
Baptist, Gertrude L. (pioneer biography)
Barkley, Charles
Barmes, Flossie Dee Wills (pioneer biography)
Barnard, Barney
Barnd, Gladys
Barnett, Aaron
Barnham, Cordia
Barnhill, Frederick A.
Barnum, James Sly (pioneer biography)
Barr, Burton
Barr, George T.
Barrett, James
Barrow, Timothy
Barth, Solomon
Bartlett, John
Bartlett, William Hoyt
Basha, Edward N Jr. (Eddie)
Baskett, Margaret Alice (pioneer biography)
Baskett, Ralph Griffith (pioneer biography)
3 Bass, Ada L.
Bass, William Guy (pioneer biography)
Bass, William Wallace
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Bates, LaSelle Monford (pioneer biography)
Bates, Lucy Turley
Bates, Nellie May (pioneer biography)
Battiest, Dottie L.
Bauer, Carl Edward (pioneer biography)
Baumert, Jessie Creighton (pioneer biography)
Bayless, Arthur Joseph (A.J.)
Beach, Charles Washington
Beale, Edward Fitzgerald
Beals, Mary Alice (pioneer biography)
Beals, Stephen
Beaty, Orren Jr.
Beauvais, Edward
Becker, Julius
Behan, John H.
Bell, Bob Boze
Bellus, Ronald J.
Benedict, Albert Case
Bennett, Emma
Benson, Steve
Bentley, Emmet A.
Bernal, Pete Mason (pioneer biography)
Berry, Doris
Berry, Kevin
Best, Bessie Kidd
Bichard, William
Biddle, James
Bidwell, Bill
Bidwell, Thomas J.
Billison, Samuel
Billman, Sallie Dale
Bimson, Carl
Bimson, Earl
Bimson, Walter Reed
Binkley, Josephine (pioneer biography)
Birchett, Guess Eleanor (Mrs. Joseph T.) (pioneer
biography)
Bird, Georgia Eads (pioneer biography)
Bishop, C. Diane
Black, Arthur F.
Black, Bernard
Blake, William Phipps
Blew, Alma Hayden
Block, Benjamin
Bloom, John Porter
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Bodney, David J.
Boehringer, Louise
Boes, Peter
4 Boggs, Theodore W.
Bohn, Gertrude
Bolden, Laura Annie Garbarino
Boley, Raymond
Bombeck, Erma
Bommersbach, Jana
Bond, Perilla Ann (pioneer biography)
Bonillas, Ignacio
Bonthron, James
Borah, Charles
Borger, Christian Charles
Bork, Albert William
Born, Charles Dewey (pioneer biography)
Borneman, Ross Beardsley
Borques, Rosa Ruiz (pioneer biography)
Bottler, Ernest Lincoln (pioneer biography)
Botzum, Clara Osborne
Bourdett, Sarah
Bourke, John Gregory
Bouse, D.L.
Bouse, Nellie
Bowers, Edward Franklin
Bowers, George Washington
Bowman, Everett
Boyd, Consuelo
Boyd, Jerry
Boyd, John David (pioneer biography)
Boyer, Glenn Gordon
Boyer, Mary G.
Boyles, Henry Green
Bozarth, Catharine Hite
Bradley, Claude Donald (pioneer biography)
Bradley, Gilbert F.
Bradshaw, Isaac A.
Bradshaw, William D.
Brady, Peter Rainsford
Brandes, Raymond S.
Bray, Thomas C.
Breackenridge, William
Brewster, Harold L.
Brichta, Augustus C.
Bridwell, Lloyd
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Brill, Frederick Louis
Brimhall, Gail Knight
Brinley, Charles Henry
Brizee, Henry W.
Broadway, Noah Matthew
Brock, Arthur “Art” H.
5 Brodie, Alexander (1 of 4) (personal correspondence)
Brodie, Alexander (2 of 4) (military correspondence –
Rough Riders)
Brodie, Alexander(3 of 4) (business correspondence)
Brodie, Alexander (4 of 4) (business documents)
Brooker, Peter Simon (pioneer biography)
Brooks, George
Brooks, Hezekiah
Brooks, M.B. Jr. (pioneer biography)
Brooks, William E.
Brophy, Ellen Amelia Goodbody
Brophy, Frank Cullen
Brown, Bud
Brown, Charles Owen
Brown, Clarence
Brown, Florence Llewella (pioneer biography)
Brown, Glenn Nicholas (pioneer biography)
Brown, Isabelle Fuller
Brown, Lucille (pioneer biography)
Brown, Neilson
Brown, Wiley (pioneer biography)
Brubaker, Maxine Provost (pioneer biography)
Bruce, James Pyle (pioneer biography)
Brunier, Eugene Sr.
Bryan, Jonathan M
Bryan, Katherine Aurelia (pioneer biography)
Bryce, Ebenezer
Buckalew, Oscar
Buckingham, Georgia
Buffman, William Mansfield
Bufkin, Donald H.
Bufto, Olympia Carmen (pioneer biography)
Bull, James Perry
Bundy, Winifred
Bunger, Mrs. Evart L.
Burger, Elizabeth
Burger, John Henry
Burke, Frank Joseph
Burkhard, Samuel (pioneer biography)
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Burns, Mike
Burrows, Madalene Combs (pioneer biography)
Bush, Nellie T.
Butler, Albert Jesse (pioneer biography)
Butler, Marilyn
Butler, Ruby Trammell (pioneer biography)
Buttner, Adolph George
Byrd, Greenbury
Byrne, Angie Bell Parker(pioneer biography)
Byrne, Genevieve Gerald (pioneer biography)
6 Calderwood, Martin Heald
Caldwell, William Adron (pioneer biography)
Caldwell, Yount Martha (pioneer biography)
Calhoun, Bertha Alice (pioneer biography)
Calhoun, Clarence Angus (pioneer biography)
Calhoun, John Decatur Sr. (pioneer biography)
Calloway, William P.
Camareňa, Maria Lara (pioneer biography)
Cameron, Ralph Henry
Campana, Sam
Campbell, Bert
Campbell, Cloves C. Sr.
Campbell, Eugene Colin (pioneer biography)
Campbell, John Goulder
Campbell, John H.
Campbell, Mary Jane
Campbell, Ruth Echo (pioneer biography)
Campbell, Thomas E.
Capron, John Gaffield
Cardon, Susette Stalle
Carey, Ernestine
Carlson, Ray
Carr, Edward P. Jr. (pioneer biography)
Carr, John
Carrillo, Leor Redondo (pioneer biography)
Carter, James P.T.
Cartwright, Elmer Alexander (pioneer biography)
Case, Charles Orlando
Case, Ollie Belle (pioneer biography)
Case, Omar H.
Casillas, Mike
Castleberry, Rosa
Castro, Gumecindo Lucio (pioneer biography)
Castro, Raul
Cathcart, Marcia (pioneer biography)
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Celaya, Ann-Margaret Doan (pioneer biography)
Celaya, Ophelia Marion (pioneer biography)
Chaffee, Adna R.
Chamberlain, George
Chambers, Apphia
Champie, Charles Edward
Champie, Elizabeth
Chandler, A.J.
Chandler, Marian Lovina (pioneer biography)
Chanen, Herman
Chapin, Gurden
Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste
Chatto
Chaudhuri, Jean
Chauncy, Tom Webster
Childs, Thomas
Childress, Rose Nesbitt (pioneer biography)
7 Chingren, Amanda
Christenson, Chester (pioneer biography)
Christenson, Edna Mae (pioneer biography)
Christy, William
Chuka, Andy
Churchill, Clark
Clark, E.S.
Clark, James
Clark, Lloyd
Clark, Mark
Clark, Vernon L.
Clarke, John R.
Clements, Aaron Boyd
Clements, Frances Wolcott
Clements, John M.
Clements, William Wallace
Clifford, Josephine Woempner
Cline, Claude Walter (pioneer biography)
Cline, Platt
Cloud, Daniel T.
Clum, John P.
Clymer, H. Vance
Cochise
Cochran, Daisy Byers (pioneer biography)
Cochran, Thomas “Bob” R.
Cocks, Bertrand
Coggin, Mason
Coggins, Milt
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Cohen, William S.
Coit, Lilly Hitchcock
Coke, Harry J. (pioneer biography)
Colangelo, Jerry
Colbert, Margaret Frances (pioneer biography)
Cole, Dora Lee (pioneer biography)
Cole, LaRue Mabel (pioneer biography)
Coleman, Emmet Grattan (pioneer biography)
Coleman, Lue Annie (pioneer biography)
Coles, Frank Edgar (pioneer biography)
Collins, Tom
Colquhonn, James
Colten, James
Colton, Mary
Combs, Martha (pioneer biography)
Conlan, John
Conley, Ethel Eunice Knowles (pioneer biography)
Conley, Richard H. (pioneer biography)
Connelly, Tom
Connoly, Rosa Powell (pioneer biography)
Conrad, Aline Maise (pioneer biography)
Contzen, Frederick
Cook, George F.
Cook, Henrietta Charlotte (pioneer biography)
Cook, Neil
Cook, Orpha Bell
Cooler, George
Cooley, Corydon Eliphalet (includes photos)
Coolidge, Dane
Cooper, Donald H.
Cooper, Jim
8 Cooper, Nel Sweeten (pioneer biography)
Cooper, Virgil Kesterson
Coppersmith, Sam
Coppinger, Myrtle (pioneer biography)
Corbin, Bob
Cordes, Claire
Cordes, Fred J.
Corn, Roy Peter (pioneer biography)
Corpstein, William Henry (1 of 2) (genealogy, legal
documents, radio interview, travel journals)
Corpsetin, William Henry (2 of 2) (correspondence)
Cosner, Elizabeth (pioneer biography)
Cosulich, Bernice
Coulter, C.W.
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Coulsen, Charles Bela (pioneer biography)
Coury, John E.
Coverdale, Hassie May (pioneer biography)
Cowden, Ray E.
Cox, Cleo Rosa (pioneer biography)
Cox, James Oliver
Coze, Paul
Craig, Mrs. Dudley Irion
Craid, Gerald Irvine (pioneer biography)
Craig, Jubal Early
Crandal, Robert M.
Crandall, Beatrice Cora (pioneer biography)
Crawford, Albert M.
Crawford, Ina Jeanette (pioneer biography)
Creighton, Allen M.
Creighton, Deane Smith (pioneer biography)
Creighton, James Miller
Creighton, Robert E.
Creighton, Roy Lamont (pioneer biography)
Cress, Clarice L. (pioneer biography)
Crismon, Virgil
Crisp, Mary
Crook, General George
Crose, George Harold (pioneer biography)
Cross, Edward Ephram
Cross, Leaf (pioneer biography)
Cross, Mary Iva (pioneer biography)
Crowley, Patricia
Cruz, Delores Stiles (pioneer biography)
Cruz, Margaret Contretras (pioneer biography)
Culling, Charles C. (pioneer biography)
Cummins, Everett James (pioneer biography)
Cummins, Sara Frost (pioneer biography)
Curry, William Raymond (pioneer biography)
Curtis, Alfred George Jr. (pioneer biography)
Curtis, Joseph Nahum Jr. (pioneer biography)
Curtis, Tiffany
Cushing, Frank Hamilton
Cushing, Howard B.
9 Dahl, Noralee
Daly, Maud (pioneer biography)
D’Ambrosi, Jasper
Dana, Charles Morris (pioneer biography)
Daniel, Laura
Daniels, Bill Arp (pioneer biography)
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Description:Biography Files. The AHF biography files contain material relating to over 1750
individuals who influenced Arizona, dating from Territorial times to the present.
