Greenhaw Collection, 1910-1920

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Greenhaw Collection, 1910-1920

NAU.PH.98.68


Overview of the Collection

Creator: Greenhaw family
Title: Greenhaw Collection,
Inclusive Dates: 1910-1920
Quantity: 65 black-and-white photographs.
Abstract:Photographs of the Greenhaw family.
Identification: NAU.PH.98.68
Language: Material in English
Repository: Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department
Northern Arizona University
Box 6022
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022
Phone: 928 523-5551
Fax: 928 523-3770
Email: special.collections@nau.edu

Biographical Note

Hosea George Greenhaw was bom July 10,1848 in Union County, Arkansas, one of nine siblings bom to Joseph D. and Mary A. Greenhaw. The 1860 census lists his parents as innkeepers in this cotton plantation district situated on the southem boundary of Arkansas. Hosea's older sister, Alabama Rebecca Greenhaw, had already left home in an 1859 marriage to Mahonn Fitzpatrick. But she much preferred to be called "Allie" for that was the name used on this, and a subsequent, recording of her marriages. She was bom in 1840 when her parents lived in Alabama. It would be Allie, at a later date, who forged the link between two families that were among the first to bring civilization to the Salt River Valley. Hosea, at age 20, left his family and the crowded inn, and struck out for Arizona Territory in 1868.

By 1863, Allie had a daughter, named Mahone. But no husband. Whether divorce or death, no record reveals the fate of Mahonn Fitzpatrick. But census records do advise that by 1870 many Arkansas residents had fled the wretched conditions created there by the War Between the States. Most went to Texas. But many of the Greenhaw family sought a new beginning out West, and followed Hosea to the Salt River Valley. Owing to the cotton plantation economy of his Arkansas home, farming is what Hosea knew. About 12 miles west of present-day Phoenix Hosea homesteaded 160 acres and purchased an additional 320. He also specialized in raising mules and horses and prospered in that endeavor. And he was attracted to the new movement of bringing irrigation water to Valley farmland, becoming a director of both Maricopa Canal Company and Salt River Valley Canal Company.

In 1876, an interesting young woman, newly arrived in the Valley, caught the eye of Hosea. She was Elizabeth Amy Barton, a college graduate and practicing schoolteacher, who agreed to help her father and three siblings drive their band of 2,500 sheep from Anaheim, Califomia - a trek of 10 months across the desert. After the drive, Elizabeth returned to Califomia, but Hosea followed and there they married. Of that union were born eight children, five surviving to maturity. Elizabeth was popular among her Arizona neighbors not only for cultural refinement but also for her knowledge of medicine and which herbs to use in treating illness. Her early impression of Hosea was that of a musician. Despite a scant education, he played both piano and violin, and moreover, visitors commented on his singing voice, fine and mellow. The Greenhaw family attained the distinction of owning either the first or second piano in Phoenix, which arrived by ship around Cape Horn to San Francisco, by train to Yuma and wagon to Phoenix. Eventually, the long hot summers encouraged Hosea and family to try life in the State of Washington, but after seven months they returned to Arizona. Later, Hosea bought a home in San Diego, Califomia and there they spent the hotter part of each year. At age 63, on August 16,1911, Hosea died of pneumonia at Arlington, Arizona. Elizabeth lived on until 1926. Even earlier than Hosea's move west, another young man had also left his Illinois home in 1853 to seek a fortune in Califomia.

He was John Britt Montgomery, just 14 years old, bom January 4,1839 at Decatur, Illinois. Possibly, dreams of finding his fortune in the California gold rush attracted John. He made it to California, moved on to Idaho, returned again to California, and in 1864 arrived at the mining camp of Wickenburg, Arizona to find work at the Vulture Mine. The following year, John tried his luck at farming and put in a crop of grain along the bank of the Hassayampa River, two miles south of Wickenburg. But, ventures away from settlements had special risks in those years as John later explained in his deposition concerning Indian depredation claims: "I had two horses . . . we took them out and herded them on some grain by the Hassayampa under some cottonwood trees. I was herding them one morning, sitting right on the edge of a little mesa. I had a rifle and a six shooter, of course, watching them horses; been there about an hour and a couple Indians came down the wash ... I never seen them until they got on a trail about 40 or 50 yards. I didn't wait long. As soon as they got straightened out, one after the other, I fired. The bullet went through them both. One died on the side of the hill, and the other (later at Tyson's Well)."

In his fine Spencerian script Probate Judge John T. Alsap for Maricopa County wrote that he had "joined in legal marriage Miss Allie Fitzpatrick and Mr. John B. Montgomery on November 1, 1876." Thirteen-year-old daughter, Mahone, accompanied the bride. Alabama "Allie" Greenhaw Fitzpatrick, as well as her mother Mary, and several other Greenhaw children had all left Arkansas for Arizona. By this marriage. Judge Alsap joined two families, each destined to play important roles in developing the Salt River Valley. But that such joining should occur at all is remarkable since the vicious War Between the States was not long past. For Alabama's family supported the South, and John's allegiance to the North reasonably might be inferred since his home was Abraham Lincoln's own state of Illinois.

But John seemed to be more interested in the pitch Jack Swilling was making in Wickenburg about starting a ditch company to divert water for farming from the Salt River. Swilling was able to raise $400 from the mining community, formed the ditch venture, and within a year opened a ditch over a mile long on the north side of the river. John Montgomery came to the Salt River Valley to farm on that land, and is regarded as the first "outsider" to reach the Valley after Swilling's ditch project. Of course, the ancient Hohokam people were first, but both John and Hosea Greenhaw were among the earliest of white settlers to bring water to the land. Besides farming, John also developed his real estate. In 1885 he subdivided most of the 160 acres acquired from Darrell Duppa, the English remittance man who conferred the name "Phoenix" on the new settlement. The Montgomery Addition occupies the area generally southwest of Central Avenue and Harrison Street in Phoenix.

Although a Republican in a thoroughly Democratic community, John was so popular that he won the 1891 race for sheriff of Maricopa County. Those duties involved him in the final episode of the Graham-Tewksbury Feud. He arrested John Rhodes, the Tewksbury relative charged with the murder in Tempe of Tom Graham, the last survivor of the Graham clan. It was the second day of the trial, and at the time no one thought it particularly odd that Tom's widow, Annie, insisted on sitting inside the railing. Dressed all in black and clutching her handbag, the 26-year-old widow quietly followed the interrogation of Rhodes. But, suddenly, she burst from the bench, dashed to Rhodes, shoved her husband's .45 caliber single action revolver against his chest and pulled the trigger. Silence. The gun failed to fire! The falling hammer had caught on part of the bag in which she hid Tom's gun, keeping it from striking the cartridge. Sheriff Montgomery and his deputy rushed Annie before she tried again. Bystanders said the grieving widow's strength was so great in her hysterics that both officers had much difficulty in wresting the revolver from her. Still struggling, the widow implored them: "But he killed my husband! Oh, God! Let me kill him!"

Alabama "Allie" Montgomery died May 3,1903, at age 63, the same age reached by Hosea. Following the loss of Allie, John raised cattle over a large range extending some 25 miles along the Gila River below its confluence with the Hassayampa. At age 77, on the Christmas Eve of 1916, at the home of his daughter at Palo Verde, Arizona, John Britt Montgomery died of bronchial pneumonia.

In life, the Greenhaw and Montgomery families together pioneered the settlement of the Salt River Valley; in death, their remains lie together still in plots adjacent in the Greenwood Cemetery of Phoenix.


Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs of the Greenhaw family and scenery around northern Arizona (Stoneman Lake, Montezuma Well, El Tovar Camp Grounds, Leupp Indian School and Trading Post, Greenhaw Ranch, Mormon Lake, Meteor Crater, Grand View Hotel (Grand Canyon), Flagstaff Sawmill, Petrified Forest).


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Digital versions of parts of this collection are available online herehere.

Preferred Citation

Greenaw Collection, NAU.PH.98.68. Special Collections and Archives. Northern Arizona University. Cline Library. Flagstaff, Arizona.


Container List

NAU.PH.98.68: Photographs, 1910-1920
Digital versions of parts of this collection are available online herehere.
NAU.PH.98.68.1: Photographer unknown, 1919. Mary Greenhaw looking over Grand Canyon., Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.2: Photographer unknown, 1919. Mary Greenhaw and Vita Bauerlein, 6/22, [two women sitting on man-made wall at Grand Canyon.], Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 12x6.5.
NAU.PH.98.68.3: Photographer unknown, 1919. Mary Greenhaw in Petrified Forest, 6/24/19., Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 6.5x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.4: Photographer unknown, 1919. Vita Bauerlein in Petrified Forest., Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.5: Photographer unknown, 1919. Miriam and Clinton in Petrified Forest, 6/24/19., Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 6.5x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.6: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Vita, Mary, Miriam., location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.7: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Mr. Back, owner of Montezuma Well, Vita Bauerlein and Mary Greenhaw., location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 12x5.
NAU.PH.98.68.8: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Miriam drinking from Montezuma Spring., Montezuma Spring (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.9: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Paul, Jr. playing in Montezuma Spring, Dad with him., Montezuma Spring (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.10: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Wild larkspur and Paul, Jr. at Cherry Creek., Cherry Creek (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.11: Photographer unknown, 1918. Elizabeth A. Greenhaw, grandmother, and Paul, Jr., grandson, 1918., location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 11x8.
NAU.PH.98.68.12: Photographer unknown, 1918. Baby 2 1/2 ds old, grandson, Grandma Greenhaw with babie Glen., location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 11x8.
NAU.PH.98.68.13: Photographer unknown, ca. 1910. Stella Greenhaw. [Standing in front of ranch house.], Arizona. Black-and-White Photograph, 9x8.
NAU.PH.98.68.14: Photographer unknown, ca. 1910. Mrs. Stella Greenhaw and Mrs. Maggie West., location unknown. Picture Postcard, 11x7.
NAU.PH.98.68.15: Photographer unknown, ca. 1915. [Portrait: two young girls in matching dresses in a chair.], location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 14x9.
NAU.PH.98.68.16: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Cherry Creek, [group gathered for picture.], Cherry Creek (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 12x7.
NAU.PH.98.68.17: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Storekeeper and family at Leupp Indian School., Leupp (Ariz.) /// Navajo Indian Reservation. Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.18: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Indian boys at Leupp Indian School., Leupp (Ariz.) /// Navajo Indian Reservation. Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.19: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. [Man and young woman with horses.], location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 8x7.5.
NAU.PH.98.68.20: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. [Girl on horse.], location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 8x10.
NAU.PH.98.68.21: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. [Woman on horse with another woman standing in front of horse.], location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 8x10.
NAU.PH.98.68.22: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Forest Ranger at El Tovar Camp Grounds., Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.23: Photographer unknown, 1916. [Three girls in a horse-drawn carriage] Oct. 9, 1916., location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.24: Photographer unknown, 1919. Ice Caves; [eight people in group.], Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.25: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Camp at El Tovar Camp Grounds., Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.26: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Montezuma Well Camp Ground., Montezuma Well (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.27: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Camp 6 miles from Cordez., Cordes (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.28: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Washing dishes on Agua Fria River at Canyon City., Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.29: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Camp at Stoneman's Lake., Stoneman Lake (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.30: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Stop for lunch-Canyon City., Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.31: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Almost home-1000 miles., Arizona. Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.32: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Fishing in Stoneman's Lake., Stoneman Lake (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.33: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Petrified Forest, Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.34: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Sigellaria Forest- showing Petrified trees and a view of the Painted Desert in background., Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.35: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Painted Desert., Painted Desert (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.36: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Sunset Mountain., Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.37: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Sunset Meadow near Winslow., Winslow (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.38: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Meteoric Crater bet. Winslow and Flagstaff., Meteor Crater (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.39: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Rock formation on way to Winslow, 6/24., Winslow (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.40: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Desert scene between Flagstaff and Winslow., location unknown. Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.41: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Lava Beds near Sunset Peak on route to Canyon., Sunset Peak (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.42: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Lava beds., Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.43: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. The Canyon taken from Grand View., Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.44: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. View from Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon., Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 12x7.
NAU.PH.98.68.45: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. View of Grand Canyon., Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.46: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Thors Hammer from Hammer Point., Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 12x7.
NAU.PH.98.68.47: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. View of Montezuma Well., Montezuma Well (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.48: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. View of Montezuma Well, cliff dwellings on opposite side., Montezuma Well (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.49: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Montezuma Well., Montezuma Well (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.50: Photographer unknown, 1919. View of Montezuma Well, 6/17/19., Montezuma Well (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.51: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Verde River., Verde River (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.52: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. St. Mary's Lake. [?Lake Mary.], Arizona. Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.53: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Mormon Lake., Mormon Lake (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.54: Photographer unknown, 1919. Mormon Lake, 6/19/19., Mormon Lake (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.55: Photographer unknown, 1919. Stoneman's Lake, 6/19/19., Stoneman Lake (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.56: Photographer unknown, ca. 1919. Stoneman's Lake., Stoneman Lake (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.57: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Prehistoric dwellings near Flagstaff., Walnut Canyon National Monument (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.58: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Prehistoric dwellings near Flagstaff., Flagstaff (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.59: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Greenhaw Ranch showing CB potter in the rear. Can't decipher the others. Sent Sept. 1, 1944 by CB Potter Cambridge, Wis., Arizona. Black-and-White Photograph, 8x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.60: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. McWright Ranch? Phoenix., Phoenix (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 8x10.
NAU.PH.98.68.61: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.62: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Abandoned hotel at Grand View, Grand Canyon., Grand Canyon (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.63: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Sawmill out from Flagstaff., Flagstaff (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.64: Photographer unknown, 1919. Camp Verde Ford, 6/16/19., Camp Verde (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.
NAU.PH.98.68.65: Photographer unknown, ca. 1920. Trading post near Leupp Indian School., Leupp (Ariz.). Black-and-White Photograph, 7x12.