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Show Arizon a Pionee r Museum B 284 s 0 Barth, Solomon . Barth Resolu tion Honor eble WHEREAS, the Omnip otent hE1s colled to his father s, the soul of the d of honore and years in ripe a, of St. Johns, ~pache 6ounty , Arizon Solomon Barth, that the Senate men, a devote d husban d end a loving father , it is for poste rity bets forth the led rissemb n of the Eir:hth Stv te Legis lature in Fifth Specia l Sessio belove d said the of few follow ing facts conne cted with~ the lir'e c.1nd histor y citize n of the State of Arizon a: yenrs ceme Solomon Berth w£1s born in Pruss ia, in 1842 and at the oge o{ 13 and Before he wos 16 he had crosse d the plains afoot to Califo rnia to Ame r ica. gold rich the within a year or two he had worked hi~ way to the town of LaPez, s gold excit evariou the ed follow he LaPaz From di~gi.n gs on the Colore do River. uf an interp id ( sic) ments, includ inr,- those of Weave rville end Grimi te CreeK. tmd for sor.1e time he nEiture the voct1t ion of pony expres s rider appea led to him g- the Inditm s dodgin carrie d the mnil from Fort 1,hipp le to Snntfl .r'e, l~e'l"r .Mexico, ·Indirm trflder Eind] v,hen possib le, fig-hti ng them when necess c1ry, He next becR.me an that throug h tribal was so loved and respec ted by the Indian s of northe r Arizon a a equal in size rights Eind trenti es he was grente d a portio n of northe rn .Arizon ~ortio n of wh~t to Bny one of mflny of the enster n states and includ ing El major establ ished the is now Apache county Eind the Grand Canyon of the Colora do. He and deeded much of settlem ent of St. Johns, now ~he county seat of Apache county ory in number. Re the hcldin gs to the Mormon settle rs, then coming to the territ ors flnd fellow prospe red in busine ss and was many times honore d by his neighb and 19th territ orial 11th the of r membe A was He . citizi sens (sic) by public office the time of his death, legisl atures , where he served with hon?r and distin ction. At point of years of November 30, 1928, :::iolomun Bnrth was the oldes t white man in peace fully from the passed years 86 of age the reside uce, within the state, and at land he loved surrou nded by the loving members of hie family 0 taken from ~H8 ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, Phoen ix 12-22~ 28 1t2, 3, and 3:1 . ' ' 0 |
