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Ives, Eugene Semmes Collection ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 949 East Second Street Library and Archives Tucson, AZ 85719 (520) 617-1157 [email protected] MS 1381 Eugene Semmes Ives Collection Manuscript Collection, 1884-1968 (bulk 1902-1940) DESCRIPTION The Eugene Semmes Ives Collection contains materials created by Eugene Ives and members of the Ives family, including Eugene’s father, Joseph Christmas Ives, an early explorer of the Colorado River. Eugene Semmes Ives was an attorney, miner and territorial legislator in Arizona. This collection consists of the political and legal correspondence and documents Ives’s career in Arizona territorial and state politics, and his legal work on behalf of numerous railroad, ranching and mining companies in Arizona and northern Mexico. 19 boxes, 1 oversized item #20, 11.5 linear ft. ACQUISITION The original collection was donated to the Arizona Historical Society by Eugene Ives Malone in 2004. The collection formerly known as MS 1114 was merged into this collection in 2015 and its acquisition is unknown. RELATED MATERIALS MS 978, Chamizal Title Company; MS 131, John Henry Campbell Papers; MS 1236, King of Arizona Mining and Milling Company; book From the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean : from explorations and surveys; Steamboat up the Colorado: From the Journal of Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives; Feud on the Colorado; and additional related materials at the University of Arizona Special Collections Library, AZ 143 and AZ 144. 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 MS 1381 was originally processed by Dena McDuffie in March 2010. MS 1114 was processed by Scott Denlinger in November 1998. The collections were integrated in September of 2015. ARRANGEMENT The collection is arranged topically. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Eugene Semmes Ives was the third son of Joseph Christmas and Cora Semmes Ives. Born in New York City on December 25, 1828, Joseph graduated from West Point in 1852. As an engineer in the U.S. Army, he worked with A.W. Whipple on the Pacific Railroad survey along the 35th parallel in 1853 and 1854. In 1859, the year his son Eugene was born in Washington, D.C., Joseph commanded the Colorado River Exploring Expedition to determine the head of navigation of the river, and to explore the river farther upstream by land. He was one of the first Anglos to set foot in the Grand Canyon and in 1861 he wrote about the experience, noting, “Ours has been the first, and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality.” Some accounts credit him as engineer and architect for the Washington national monument (1859-1860). In 1860 and 1861, he was surveyor of the boundary between California and the U.S. territories, and he explored Death Valley. Cora Semmes Ives was born in Washington, D.C. in 1870, the daughter of Southern aristocrats. Her father, a judge, was once referred to in print as “a vain, arrogant, hot-tempered man.” Cora lived until 1916, spending her last years at Dr. Strong’s Sanitarium in Saratoga Springs, New York. No doubt Cora’s Southern roots influenced Joseph when, in 1861, he resigned the Army to serve as aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. In a letter dated December 1861, Joseph wrote to Cora, “I have been running about with General Lee.” During the Civil War he served in several engineering capacities, and was finally appointed aide-de-camp to President Jefferson Davis (1863-1865). After the war he settled in New York City where he died in 1868. The Ives were devout Catholics. Frank and Eugene attended religious boarding schools abroad, at Feldkirch in Austria and St. Michel in Brussels, respectively. In 1874, Cora, Eugene and Frank made a religious pilgrimage in Europe to place Georgetown University's students' flag of America at Our Lady of Lourdes after it had been blessed by Pope Pius IX at the Vatican. During that trip, they also visited the abbey of Einsiedeln (Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland), and Louise Lateaux, a stigmatic living near Brussels. Like their father, Eugene’s oldest brother Edward Bernard Ives, graduated from West Point and served in the U.S. Army. After he was forced to resign due to illness, he studied with Thomas Edison and became chief of the electrical bureau at the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He died in Washington D.C. in 1903. Eugene’s next oldest brother, Frank Joseph, became a doctor and served in the U.S. Medical Corps. He served in the Geronimo campaign in 1886 and in the Philippines. Frank died in Toronto in 1908. Eugene, the youngest child of Joseph and Cora Ives. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1878 with a B.A., with an M.A. in 1888, and with a Ph.D. in 1889. He studied law at Columbia College, was drawn to politics, and served as a New York State Senator. In 1889, when Eugene was 30, he married 19-year-old Anna Maria Waggaman. They were married at Trinity Church in Washington D.C., Anna’s hometown; Eugene’s best man was Hugh J. Grant, mayor of New York City. Anna and Eugene had eight children: ● Annette Clara was born in 1890 in New York City. She received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Southern California, and was teaching at USC and working on a Ph.D. in French literature at Johns Hopkins in 1929 when she was killed in a car accident; 2 ● Cora Matilda was born in 1891. Cora and Annette lived at Happy Creek Ranch in California for a number of years. She died in Los Angeles in 1965; ● Around 1892, Jane Lenthall Ives was born; she died within the year; ● In 1893, Helen Virginia was born in Spring Valley, New York. She married Anthony Russell Malone in 1920. They had a son, Eugene, and a daughter, Ann Sweet. Helen Ives Malone died in 1960; ● Miriam (“Mig” or “Mimsy”) Lenthall was born in Yuma in 1897. In 1910, she was at Sacred Heart Convent in Menlo Park, California. She died in 1927; ● After five girls, Thomas Ennalls Waggaman Ives was born in 1898. In 1913, he was in Austria studying with priests. He married Byrd Greer Walmsley of New Orleans in 1930. Thomas and Byrd had one son, Thomas Ennalls Waggaman Ives Jr. Thomas Senior died in Santa Barbara in 1987; ● Eugene Junior was born in 1903. He became an attorney in Los Angeles and died in Pasadena in 1972; ● Elinor Randolph, born in Tucson in 1906. She attended Cornell Medical School in Ithaca, New York. Elinor Ives M.D. arrived in Los Angeles in 1933 for her internship at Los Angeles County Hospital. In 1946, she became the first woman neurologist on staff. She entered private practice in 1953 and remained involved with the Department of Neurology at that hospital until her death in 2001. In 1895, Eugene and Anna moved to Yuma, Arizona Territory, from New York City. Eugene established a law practice in partnership with Marcus A. Smith, with offices both in Yuma and Tucson. In 1901, the Ives family moved to Tucson. Eugene was elected to the 20th and 21st territorial legislatures and served as president both years. He was a candidate for Democratic nomination for U.S. senator after Arizona became a state, but was defeated in the primary. He did not run again for public office. By 1902, he was general counsel for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The same year, he forced the resignation of Arizona Governor Nathan O. Murphy, after accusing Murphy of malfeasance. Ives enjoyed a successful law career, representing such Arizona legends as W.P. Hunt and William Greene. He is also known for his representation of Mexican citizens in 1911 in the Chamizal Land Company lawsuit in El Paso, Texas. Eugene was also the manager of the King of Arizona Mine, the largest gold producer in the Lower Colorado Basin. Charles Eichelberger discovered the mine in 1895, and formed the King of Arizona Mining and Milling Company (his partners were Henry Gleason, Epes Randolph [Superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad], R. J. Duncan [mayor of Yuma] and Eugene Ives) to develop it. The mine, north of Yuma, Arizona, operated until 1910. Like their parents’ families, Eugene and Anna’s family was very active in the Catholic Church. The Ives family donated to the Church and maintained correspondence with priests and nuns. One of Anna’s chers, Sister Laura Hart, was a lifelong correspondent. The children went to religious schools in both the U.S. and abroad. The four eldest Ives children spent 1912 and 1913 in Europe, attending convent schools in Germany, Italy and Austria. Letters from their mother often asked them to offer prayers for people back home. Eugene Semmes Ives died in 1917, while visiting his daughters Anne and Cora at Happy Creek Ranch in Raymond, California. Anna lived until 1951. 3 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The collection includes personal correspondence and legal documents related to Ives’s political and legal activities in Arizona. It contains Ives’s incoming and outgoing correspondence with Arizona political figures, and includes legal correspondence related to his law practice, predominately mining, railroad and corporate law. Business materials relate to cases argued by Ives on behalf of clients including George Hunt, Albert Steinfeld, and the citizens of Mexico in the famous Chamizal land dispute. Among the highlights of the collection are a letter book containing copies of letters Joseph Christmas Ives wrote to his wife Cora while Joseph was on expedition to explore the Colorado River ca.
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