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Dixon Fagerberg Family Papers, SHM MS-41 1897–2005

SHM MS-41

Biographical Note

Born March 30, 1909, at 215 N. Pleasant St., Prescott, Dixon Fagerberg Jr moved with his father Dixon Sr, mother Amy and his younger sisters, Louise and Jean, in 1915, to 128 N. Mount Vernon, Prescott into a house bought from Judge Richard Sloan, the last Governor of Arizona Territory. A wholesale grocer who eventually owned a warehouse on south Montezuma in downtown Prescott, Dixon Sr, first arrived in Prescott in 1902. As a youngster, Dixon Jr worked for his father at the warehouse and was a door-to-door distributor of The Literary Digest, a popular magazine in the early 1900s.

Dixon Jr attended Washington Elementary School before transferring to Page Military Academy in Los Angeles in 1921, for grades 7-8 prior to returning to Prescott where he graduated from Prescott High School in 1927, with 29 classmates. Four years later, Dixon Jr graduated from Stanford University at Palo Alto, CA with two of his high school classmates. (Stanford University Admissions Office ranked the academic performance of freshman students by the high schools from which they graduated. Among the several hundred high schools represented, Prescott High School ranked #1).

After graduating from Stanford University, Dixon Jr. began a 40-year career in public accounting. He gradually developed a state-wide practice and became well known as Arizona’s Flying CPA and management accounting expert for highway construction and mineral enterprises. Later, he became a partner in the international firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. He retired in 1971, and 12 years later authored the book Meeting the Four O’Clock Train and Other Stories Boyhood Recollections of Prescott, AZ 1909-1927 published by Sharlot Hall Museum Press in 1983.

Scope and Content

The Edith Dial Collection consists of photographs which span the years 1920 to 1935. The photographs contain images of Frances Dial with her parents, John and Edith, alonf with neighbors and friends at unknown locations. The collection also includes images of Frances' 6th birthday, and photographs of Frances and her family at various locations around Prescott, Arizona, and at the Grand Canyon National Park. Additionally, there are photographs of Frances and her family while the Dials were proprietors of the Hotel Vendome in Prescott, Arizona, approximately 1922-1927. This includes Frances Dial with family, friends, and guests of the hotel. Some of the guests include actors of movies filmed in the Prescott, Arizona, area.

There are also photographs of the Prescott, Arizona area including some Smoki Ceremonies, the Dial family at the Yavapai County Courthouse Plaza, Downtown Prescott, a parade, plus nearby locations such as Granite Dells, and the Big Pine Mine. The Collection includes a Williams, Arizona newspaper from 1949, with an article on Jim Mahone, an Indian Scout who is pictured as a guest of the Dials in the photographs; Frances Dial’s Elementary School Diploma; and an envelope from the Hassayampa Hotel, Prescott, Arizona.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the following series:

Restrictions

Conditions Governing Access

None.

Conditions Governing Use

Unpublished and published manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder. The Sharlot Hall Museum may not own copyright to all parts of this collection. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the State of Arizona and the Sharlot Hall Museum - this includes its Board of Trustee officers, employees, outside contractors, and agents from and against all claims made by person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

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Administrative Information

Custodial History

Preferred Citation

Dixon Fagerberg Family Papers, SHM MS-41. Sharlot Hall Museum Library & Archives.

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