History

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This is an image demonstrating Pioneers' Home for Time Life magazine
This is an article from Time Life magazine published on November 3, 1947. Bill #2 was passed to establish the Pioneers' Home on March 10, 1909.

 

Harvey House Girls

For more information on Harvey House

 

Cora Scott

  • Born 7/31/01 in Neenah, Wisconsin
  • Passed away 1/30/2002
  • AZ Pioneers’ Home resident #2373, entering 3/31/1978, from Phoenix, AZ.

Marie Zismann

  • Born 6/12/07 in Durham, Kansas
  • Passed away 3/30/2003. 
  • AZ Pioneers’ Home resident #2594, entering 3/17/87, from Kingman, AZ

Rosella Myers Viedorfer

  • Born 1/15/08 in Tell City, Indiana
  • Passed away 3/27/03. 
  • AZ Pioneers’ Home resident #2617, entering 12/22/87, from Prescott, AZ

Diana McGonagill

  • Born 3/22/23 in Ash Fork, Arizona 
  • Passed away 9/14/2014.
  • AZ Pioneers’ Home resident #3197, entering 12/21/2011, from Prescott, AZ

Emma A. Street

  • Born 7/1/1897
  • Passed away 10/26/1987.
  • AZ Pioneers' Home resident #2543, entering 9/20/1984, from Ash Fork, AZ

Notable Residents

The following are notable residents of the Arizona Pioneers' Home.

 

Sharlot Mabridth Hall

  • Resided in Room 108. She moved into the Pioneers’ Home on April 2, 1943, and passed away April 9, 1943.
  • More info on Sharlot Hall

 

Mary K. Cummings (Big Nose Kate)

 

John Miller (Possibly Billy the Kid)

 

Nathan Boyd Tenney (AZ Senator)

 

Albert Franklin Banta

 

Opal Tenney-Allen

  • Founding member of Yavapai College and dubbed “The Mother of Yavapai College.”

 

Frances Knagge (was in movies with John Wayne)

 

Mrs. Margaret Rowe Clifford

  • Author of Arizona's first state anthem, titled "Arizona," copyright 1915.
  • Resident of the Pioneers' Home from 1921-1926.

 

Effie Anderson Smith AKA Mrs. A. Y. Smith

  • Known as the Dean of Arizona Women Artists. Effie was an impressionist painter of desert landscapes, many of Cochise County, and the Grand Canyon.
  • More info on Effie Anderson Smith

Timeline

The following newspaper articles about the Arizona Pioneers’ Home have been transcribed verbatim, utilizing typeset as close to the original as possible.
Many more articles throughout the years have been printed about the Home.
Only a few articles of interest from each decade have been included.
Please select a decade to view the articles from that period.

 

1909-1919     1920-1929

1930-1939     1940-1949

1950-1959     1960-1969

1970-1979     1980-1989

    1990-1999     2000-Present

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