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118. Contents of this file 1910 - 1966 – Volume 19 Biographies Biographies Francis A (Jake) Higgins -- R.F. Kilpatrick committee on Highways and Bridges all three terms; on Administration; Public Health; and Judiciary for two terms each; and Rules; and Municipalities for one term each, being chairman of the latter. He received the House "Gold Star" from Chief Clerk Ruby Sanders for not missing a roll call over a two year period. Mr. Higgins, of Irish ancestry, was born in Winchester, Indiana, on October 3, 1910, son of William Higgins and Ada Haworth Higgins. After he received his elementary and high school training, he studied electronic engineering. He married Lucile Brumley at F t. Wayne, Indiana, on January 6, 1930, and they became the parents of four children. He received his first class Broadcast Engineering license in 1932 after which he was associated with Radio Station WLBC in Muncie, Indiana, then with WDAN in Danville, Illinois. He was sent to KOY in Phoenix by WLS of Chicago, when KOY was purchased, to replace the chief engineer who had entered military service. Mr. Higgins himself served with the U. S. Office of War Information in London, and was attached to SHAEF, General Eisenhower's headquarters, as liaison between the U. S. Embassy and the Eisenhower command. From 1944 to the end of World War H he was engaged In broadcasting in English to the world's largest radio network from London. After the war, through 1954, he worked for radio stations in Indiana and Illinois before joining the executive staff of the Arizona network at KOY in Phoenix. He became first executive director of the Arizona Broadcasters Association. -387- He was a member of the Elks, Kiwanis, and several church related groups and services, being an elder of the First Christian Church. He retired in 1977 and remained active and in good health when contacted at his Phoenix home in mid-1988. HARRY W. HILL Harry W. Hill, accountant and chief clerk for the Phelps Dodge operations at Morenci, was sent to the State Senate for four consecutive terms from Greenlee County, and was chosen president of that body during his second and fourth terms. During the Eighth Legislature in 1927 and 1928, he served on the committees on Judiciary; Methods of Business; State Institutions; Highways and Bridges; Livestock; Banking and Insurance; and Style, Revision and Compilation. In the Ninth and Eleventh Legislatures he was Senate President and chairman ex officio of the Rules committee. in the Tenth Legislature he was on the committees on Banking and Insurance; Style, Revision and Compilation; Rules; Appropriations; Finance and Revenue; Education; Employees and Supplies; Labor and Capital; and Mines and Mining, of which he was the chairman. Harry W. Hill was born at Clinton, Missouri, on September 19, 1886, and attended the common schools there before going on to business college and studying correspondence courses. He was the son of Robert W. Hill and Elizabeth Hudson. He married Essa Pearl McCool at Morenci, on May 19, 1912, and they became the parents of three children. -388- He was employed as accountant by the copper company in Morenci from the time he came to Arizona on September 16, 1910, and continued in that employment until December 31, 1929. After that date he turned his attention to mining. Harry Hill served as Arizona District Director of the Office of Price Administration in 1944 and 19^5, and earlier was State Welfare Commissioner from 1938 to 1950. Mr. Hill died on September 1 4, 1954 in a Phoenix Hospital at the age of 68 years. RAYMONDS. HILL Raymond Spencer Hill, Phoenix Democrat, was a member of the House of Representatives in the Twelfth and Fourteenth Legislatures from Maricopa County. During the Twelfth Legislature he was assigned to the committees on Accounting and Business Methods of which he was chairman; Tudidary; Labor; and Ways and Means. In the Fourteenth he served on the committees on Effident Government; Accounting and Business Methods; Agriculture and Irrigation; Corporations; and 3 udidary. Mr. Hill was born on December 23, 1898, at Clifton, Arizona, son of Henry and Rose Hill. He completed the elementary school at Clifton, attended the Harvard Military Academy in Los Angeles, and studied business administration through the International Correspondence Schools. He married Mildred B. Loecher at Phoenix on October 29, 1930, but had no children. -389- He was a calculating machine operator. Mr. Hill died on December 20, 1965, a few days before his 67th birthday. A. E. HINTON Arthur Elmer Hinton, Douglas sm el term an and Democrat, was a member of the House of Representatives from Cochise County in the Ninth and Tenth Legislatures. During those terms, from January 1929 to January 1933, he served on the committees on Public Lands, of which he was chairman in the Ninth; Appropriations, of which he was vice chairman in the Tenth; Education, on which he was a member both terms; Public Institutions; Fish and Game; and Judiciary. Mr. Hinton was bom on January 9, 1866, in Linn County, Kansas, son of George H. and Mary E. Haverly Hinton. He attended the common schools of Kansas, and moved to Globe, Arizona, in 1883 where his uncle was engaged in ranching and freighting. He worked for his uicle for six months, both on the ranch and helping with freighting between Globe and Willcox with a 16-mule team. He then moved to Phoenix in 1888 where he engaged in the mercantile business, with some interests in farming and cattle raising. He married Emma C. Harbert in Phoenix on September 26, 1888, and became the father of two sons. He went into Mexico in 1903 because of interest in several mining ventures, but returned to Arizona in 1908 to become employed by the Phelps Dodge Company at its Douglas smelter. He remained there the remainder of his working career, having completed 23 years at the smelter at the time he was in the Legislature in 1931. -390- In Douglas he was elected to the board of city aldermen in 1928 and served two years before becoming Mayor of Douglas where he continued in office eight years, 1921 through 1928. After his retirement from his work at the smelter, he lived in Douglas, and it was while he was on a visit to one of his sons, C. G. Hinton, in Vancouver, Washington, that he died on December 1, 1937, a few weeks before his 72nd birthday. WALTER C. H1RSCH Walter C. Hirsch, Phoenix office equipment store owner and a Republican, was a member of the House of Representatives of the Twenty-first Legislature, during which he was assigned to the committees on Appropriations; Banking and Insurance; and Ways and Means. Mr. Hirsch was born at Neche, North Dakota, a few miles from the international boundary between his home state and Manitoba, Canada, on September 10, 1904, son of L. A. Hirsch and Wilhelmina Hirsch. He completed high school before entering Wesley College at Grand Forks, North Dakota, and attended Hamline University at St. Paul, Minnesota. He arrived in Arizona in 1942, having taught school and been a salesman. He married Neva 3. Edwards at Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 27, 1946, and they became parents of a son and a daughter. Mr. Hirsch died on February 7, 1975, at the age of 70 years. GEORGE HOCHDERFFER George Hochderffer was appointed to the Arizona State Senate during the Third Special Session of the Eleventh Legislature in 1933 to fill the vacancy - 391 - created by the resignation of Senator Eari C. Slipher of Coconino County. He served on the same committees to which Senator Slipher had been appointed. Mr. Hochderffer was born at Bethlehem, Illinois, on December 22, 1863, and at the age of 24 years, in 1887, started for California. He reached Flagstaff, Arizona and decided to remain there. He spent the rest of his life in Arizona. He did farming and ranching in the vicinity of Flagstaff but eventually settled in Hart Prairie among the aspens, a place which became known as Hochderffer Hills. At one time he served as a deputy sheriff of Yavapai County, and was known as a writer, artist and civil servant. He served the Democratic Party as a precinct committeeman for 69 years. He was instrumental in the development and establishment of the Arizona National Guard, which became activated through legislation approved on March 19, 1891. Immediately he helped organize Company I in Flagstaff, and he was made Captain of the company. He advanced in rank to Major in 1894 and Lieutenant Colonel in 1901. After his retirement in 1904, he returned to the rank of Captain. Because of his record, he was commissioned Colonel, Infantry, Honorary Retired List, which rank he held from 1910 until his death on December 4, 1955, at Cottonwood, Arizona, where he moved from Flagstaff in 1953. He was 91 years old. ROBERT HODGE Robert (Bob) Hodge served Yuma County in the House of Representatives in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Legislatures, from January 1951 through December 1954, and served on seven standing committees. -392- In the Twentieth Ley si ature he was chairman of the committee on Natural Resources and was a member of the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation; Arizona Development; and EAication. In the Twenty-first Legislature he was a member of the committees on Agriculture and Irrigation; Counties and Municipalities; and Education. Robert Hodge was born on August 5, 1916, at Toronto, Canada, son of David M. and Sarah C. Hodge. After finishing his elementary and high school education, he attended college for two years in Los Angeles. A year before moving to Arizona, he married Florence M.

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