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Greenway Family Papers, 1864 - 1969 ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 949 East Second Street Library and Archives Tucson, AZ 85719 (520) 617-1157 [email protected] MS 1020 Greenway Family Papers, 1864 - 1969 DESCRIPTION The Greenway Family Papers consists of manuscript materials, scrapbooks, reports, and maps relating to the activities of John Greenway and Isabella Greenway King from 1864 to 1969. Family correspondence, financial records, certificates, and blueprints are also present. John Greenway materials features his engineering and mining interests and ranching & hotel investments. Isabella Greenway King’s ownership of the Arizona Inn in Tucson and her work with the American Woman’s Voluntary Services organization during World War II are especially important in the collection. Materials relate to and supplement the larger Greenway Collection, MS 0311. 12 Box, 6 linear ft. ACQUISITION Donated by Martha Munro Ferguson Breasted and John S. Greenway in 1985. ACCESS There are no restrictions on access to this collection. COPYRIGHT Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be addressed to the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, Archives Department. PROCESSING The collection was previously processed and revised by Dave Tackenberg in March 2009. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Isabella Selmes Munro Ferguson Greenway King (1886-1953) Isabella Selmes Greenway, Arizona Congresswoman, was born on March 22, 1886 in Boone County, Kentucky. She was the only daughter of Tilden Russell Selmes (1852-1895) and Martha “Patty” Flandrau Selmes (1861-1923). Her father died in 1895 and for the next five years, Isabella and her mother lived at various times with her maternal grandfather in St. Paul, Minnesota and with her great-aunt Julia Dinsmore in Boone County, Kentucky. In 1901, Isabella moved with her mother to New York City, where she attended Spence School and Miss Chapin’s School. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her school friend Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 17, 1905. On July 15, 1905, Isabella married Robert Harry Munro Ferguson (1868-1922), a native of Scotland and a former Rough Rider with Theodore Roosevelt. They had two children: Martha Ferguson Breasted (b. 1906) and Robert Munro Ferguson (1908-1984). When her husband developed tuberculosis in 1908, Isabella moved the family for his health first to Saranac Lake, New York (1908-1910), then to Silver City, New Mexico (1910-1913), and finally, to a homestead in Tyrone, New Mexico (1914-1922). Later, they also resided in Santa Barbara, California (1919-1922), where the children attended school. In 1918, Isabella was appointed chairperson of the New Mexico chapter of the Women’s Land Army, an organization of women founded to replace the enlisted men on the farms and to raise the crops during World War I. She also served on the Grant County, New Mexico Board of Education. In November 1922, her husband died, followed in July 1923 by her mother. On November 4, 1923, Isabella married General John Campbell Greenway, vice-president of the Calumet & Arizona Mining Company, in Santa Barbara. Their son, John Selmes Greenway, was born on October 11, 1924. In January 1925, they built a residence in Ajo, Arizona, and Greenway retired from C & A Mining Company in May of that year. He died of complications following gall bladder surgery in January 1926. In 1927, Isabella purchased the Quarter Circle Double X Ranch in Williams, Arizona. The ranch remained in the family until its sale in 1977. Also in 1927, Isabella moved to Tucson and established the Arizona Hut to provide employment opportunities for war veterans. The Hut, which manufactured and sold furniture, was unsuccessful, due to the Depression. In 1930, with proceeds from the sale of her copper stock, Isabella built the Arizona Inn, furnishing it with the products made at the Hut. Isabella Greenway’s political career was launched in 1928 when she was elected Democratic National Committeewoman for Arizona. She was re-elected in 1932. In 1933, Arizona Congressman Lewis W. Douglas resigned to become Director of the Federal Budget, and Isabella won the election to fill his seat in Congress. She was re-elected in 1934, but chose not to seek another term in 1936. On April 22, 1939, Isabella married Harry Orland King (1890-1976), president of the Institute of Applied Econometrics and deputy National Recovery Act administrator with whom she had worked in Congress to write the copper code. She divided her time among residences in New York City; Fairfield, Connecticut; and Tucson. During the 1940’s, Isabella was national chairwoman of the American Women’s Voluntary Service, a board member of the American Arbitration Association, and an advisory board member of the Committee for Constitutional Government. She was also a board member of the Fay School in Southborough, Massachusetts, which her son attended. Although she was a personal friend of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, she strongly opposed efforts to re-elect him for a third term in 1944. Isabella Greenway King inherited Dinsmore Farm in Boone County, Kentucky from her aunt Sally Flandrau Cutcheon in 1947. After a year-long series of heart attacks, Isabella Selmes Greenway King died on December 18, 1953 at her home in Tucson. She was buried at Dinsmore Farm. John Campbell Greenway (1872-1926) John Campbell Greenway, mining engineer and Spanish-American War Rough Rider, was born on July 6, 1872 in Huntsville, Alabama. The son of Gilbert Christian Greenway (1849-1912) and Alice White Greenway (d. 1912), he attended school in Arkansas and Virginia. He received a Ph.D. in engineering from Yale University in 1895, where he was a noted football athlete and president of his class. He began his mining career in 1895 working for the Carnegie Steel Company in Duquesne, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the United States Volunteer Cavalry (Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders) during the Spanish-American War. He was promoted from private to first lieutenant for his bravery in the Battle of San Juan Hill. In 1899, he resumed his mining career as the Assistant Superintendent of Mines at Ishpeming, Michigan for the U.S. Steel Corporation. In 1905, he was named General Superintendent of the Oliver Iron Mining Company at the Mesabe Range in Minnesota. In July 1910, he moved to Bisbee, Arizona where he became General Manager of the Calumet & Arizona Copper Company, General Manager of the New Cornelia Copper Company in 1911, Vice-President and General Manager of the Cornelia & Gila Bend railway, and Vice- President of the Ahumada Lead Company. Greenway was instrumental in the development of five mining communities: Coleraine (1906), Marble (1908), and Taconite (1905) in Minnesota; Ajo, Arizona (1911); and Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico (1922), where the Ahumada and Erupcion mining companies were located. He was also involved in the power dam project at Diamond Creek on the Colorado River in 1922. In October 1917, Greenway was commissioned a major in the Corps of Engineers, 1st and 26th Divisions, and was assigned to France. Later, he became Lieutenant Colonel of the 101st Infantry, 26th Division. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and several French decorations for bravery. Greenway became a Brigadier General in the Army Reserves following World War I. Politically, Greenway was a staunch supporter of Theodore Roosevelt. Greenway’s name was placed in nomination for Vice-President at the Democratic National Convention in June 1924. He also served as regent of the University of Arizona from 1911-1912 and received an honorary doctor of laws degree there in 1916. On May 27, 1925, Greenway retired as general manager of Calumet & Arizona. That fall, he suffered a gall bladder attack. On January 15, 1926, he underwent elective surgery in New York City, but died of a blood clot of January 19, 1926. He was buried in Ajo, Arizona. On May 24, 1930, a statue of General John Campbell Greenway was unveiled at Statuary Hall, Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C. John Selmes Greenway, 1924- John Selmes Greenway, lawyer and hotel executive, was born on October 11, 1924 in Santa Barbara, California. He is the son of Arizona Congresswoman Isabella Greenway King and mining engineer John Campbell Greenway. He attended Fay School and Phillips Academy, prior to enrolling in Yale University. During World War II, he left school to serve in the Army. He graduated from Yale University in 1949 and from the University of Arizona Law School in 1954. He owned the Arizona Inn; which was built by Isabella Greenway in 1930. He was actively engaged in ranching at the family's Quarter Circle Double X Ranch in Williams, Arizona until its sale in 1977. When his mother died in 1953, he inherited Dinsmore Farm in joint ownership with his sister, Martha Ferguson Breasted, and his brother, Robert Munro Ferguson. John Selmes Greenway has served as chairman of the Pima County Democratic Central Committee; director of Southern Arizona Bank; board member of the University of Arizona Foundation; board president of Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; board member and officer of Arizona Historical Society; and trustee of St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. HISTORICAL NOTES The Arizona Inn The Arizona Inn, a prestigious Tucson resort hotel built by Isabella Greenway, was designed by noted architect M. H. Starkweather. Construction of the Inn, consisting of individual cottages grouped around a central garden, began in September 1930. It was furnished largely with products of the Arizona Hut, a manufacturing plant and sales outlet founded by Mrs. Greenway on 1927 to provide work for disabled World War veterans. The Inn opened on December 18, 1930. In 1931, Mrs. Greenway oversaw completion of the adobe walls and landscaping and ordered the construction of five more guest houses, a new dining room and banquet hall, and a central heating plant.
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