MSS-83
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Overview of the Collection | |
| Creator: | Young, George U., 1867-1926 |
| Title: | George U. Young Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1894-1922 |
| Quantity: | 8 Boxes (4.0 Linear Feet) |
| Abstract: | The George U. Young Papers date from 1894 to 1922 and include correspondence, commercial documents, legal documents, articles, and news clippings describing Young's industrial, journalistic, and political activities. They are divided into four series. |
| Identification: | MSS-83 |
| Language: | Material in English |
| Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, AZ 85287-1006 Phone: (480) 965-4932 E-Mail: archives@asu.edu Questions? Ask An Archivist! |
George U. Young, mining and railroad executive, journalist, and politician, was born to John Alexander and Mary (Wilson) Young in Hamburg, Indiana on February 10, 1867. The Youngs moved to Kansas when George was thirteen, and he began teaching in his home two years later. He also studied law and was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1890. Subsequently, he moved to Arizona and obtained employment with a railroad line. With Rough Rider and lawman William "Bucky" O'Neill, he co-founded the Santa Fe and Grand Canyon Railroad.
Young was active in Arizona politics. He served a term as Secretary of the Territory of Arizona from 1909 to 1912 and was acting Governor during part of that time. He was subsequently an unsuccessful candidate for the governorship of the state. In addition, Young served as Mayor of Phoenix from 1914 to 1916, as Arizona manager of the Robert LaFollette presidential campaign in 1924, and as a Draft Board member during the First World War. Young owned several mining properties in Arizona and participated in their operation through correspondence with their on-site managers. He was also the owner of The Williams News (Arizona) and authored numerous articles about Arizona and a guidebook to the Grand Canyon.
George Young married Mary Ellen Smith (1884-1940) in 1900 and the couple had three children: George U., Helen E., and E. Lucille. George U. Young Sr. died in 1926.
The George U. Young Papers date from 1894 to 1922 and include correspondence, commercial documents, legal documents, articles, and news clippings describing Young's industrial, journalistic, and political activities. They are divided into four series.
Series I: Correspondence dates from 1984 to 1922. Each aspect of Young's public life is represented, but this correspondence is preponderantly a compilation of routine business, traffic, personnel, and engineering communications addressing Young's mining concerns.
Series II: Financial Records dates from 1901 to 1921 and comprises Young's files of accounting source documents for his various commercial holdings. The majority of these records derive from the operations of the Young, Madizelle and Mammoth Mining Companies at Prescott and Goldfield, Arizona.
Series III: Mines and Mining contains correspondence, legal documents, articles, and news clippings concerning Young's commercial holdings. These items range in date from 1894 to 1915.
Series IV: City of Phoenix contains correspondence, commercial documents, legal documents, and news clippings. It dates from 1914 to 1915 and highlights Young's career as Mayor. Folders 28, 29, 34, 35 and 37 of Box 8 contain items concerning efforts to reform Phoenix municipal government during his tenure.
To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or calling (480) 965-4932. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Monday through Friday. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.
Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.
[Identification of item], George U. Young Papers, MSS-83, Arizona State University Library.
The George U. Young Papers were purchased from Antiquarian Books of Scottsdale, Arizona in 1985 (ACC #1985-00117).
| Series I: Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence, 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence, 1901 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence, 1902 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence: Puritan Group of Mines, 1902 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence, 1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence, 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence, 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Correspondence, 1906 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Correspondence, 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Correspondence, 1908 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Correspondence, 1909 January-June | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Correspondence, 1909 July-December | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Correspondence, 1911 January-July | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Correspondence, 1911 August | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Correspondence, 1911 September | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Correspondence, 1911 October-November | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Correspondence, 1911 December | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Correspondence, 1912 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Correspondence, 1914 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Correspondence, 1916 | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | Correspondence, 1916 January-June | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Correspondence, 1916 July | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Correspondence, 1916 September | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Correspondence, 1916 October | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Correspondence, 1916 October | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Correspondence, 1916 November-December | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Correspondence, 1917 | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Correspondence, 1918 January | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Correspondence, 1918 February | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Correspondence, 1918 March | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Correspondence, 1918 April | |||||||||
| 3 | 8 | Correspondence, 1918 May | |||||||||
| 3 | 9 | Correspondence, 1918 June | |||||||||
| 3 | 10 | Correspondence, 1918 July | |||||||||
| 3 | 11 | Correspondence, 1918 August | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Correspondence, 1919 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Correspondence, 1921 March | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Correspondence, 1921 June | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Correspondence, 1921 July | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | Correspondence, 1921 August | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | Correspondence, 1921 September | |||||||||
| 4 | 7 | Correspondence, 1921 October | |||||||||
| 4 | 8 | Correspondence, 1921 November | |||||||||
| 4 | 9 | Correspondence, 1921 December | |||||||||
| 4 | 10 | Correspondence, 1922 | |||||||||
| 4 | 11 | Correspondence, Undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 12 | Correspondence, Undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 13 | Miscellaneous Correspondence, Undated | |||||||||
| Series II: Financial Records | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 4 | 14 | Invoices and Receipts, 1901 | |||||||||
| 4 | 15 | Invoices and Receipts, 1902 | |||||||||
| 4 | 16 | Invoices and Receipts, 1903 | |||||||||
| 4 | 17 | Invoices and Receipts, 1904 | |||||||||
| 4 | 18 | Invoices and Receipts, 1905 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Invoices and Receipts, 1906 | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Invoices and Receipts, 1906 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Invoices and Receipts, 1907 | |||||||||
| 5 | 4 | Invoices and Receipts, 1907 | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Invoices and Receipts, 1907 | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | Invoices and Receipts, 1907 | |||||||||
| 5 | 7 | Invoices and Receipts, 1907 | |||||||||
| 5 | 8 | Invoices and Receipts, 1907 | |||||||||
| 5 | 9 | Invoices and Receipts, 1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 10 | Invoices and Receipts, 1908 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Invoices and Receipts, 1909 | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 | Invoices and Receipts, 1911 | |||||||||
| 6 | 3 | Invoices and Receipts, 1914 | |||||||||
| 6 | 4 | Invoices and Receipts, 1915 | |||||||||
| 6 | 5 | Invoices and Receipts, 1916 | |||||||||
| 6 | 6 | Invoices and Receipts, 1917 | |||||||||
| 6 | 7 | Invoices and Receipts, 1918 | |||||||||
| 6 | 8 | Invoices and Receipts, 1918 | |||||||||
| 6 | 9 | Invoices and Receipts, 1918 | |||||||||
| 6 | 10 | Invoices and Receipts, 1919 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | Invoices and Receipts, 1919 | |||||||||
| 7 | 2 | Invoices and Receipts, 1919 | |||||||||
| 7 | 3 | Invoices and Receipts, 1919 | |||||||||
| 7 | 4 | Invoices and Receipts, 1920 | |||||||||
| 7 | 5 | Invoices and Receipts, 1921 | |||||||||
| Series III: Mines and Mining | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 7 | 6 | Address to the 17th Annual Session of the American Mining Congress, Undated | |||||||||
| 7 | 7 | Affidavit of Labor Performed and Improvements Made to Mining Claims, 1913-1915 | |||||||||
| 7 | 8 | Amended Location Certificate, 1903 | |||||||||
| 7 | 9 | Anita Copper Mines, Undated | |||||||||
| 7 | 10 | Article Drafts, Undated | |||||||||
| 7 | 11 | Articles of Incorporation of the Avondale Improvement Company, 1909 | |||||||||
| 7 | 12 | Bank Draft Non-Payment Protest, 1903 | |||||||||
| 7 | 13 | Cancelled Checks, 1897 | |||||||||
| 7 | 14 | Certificates of Assay, 1909 | |||||||||
| 7 | 15 | Coconino County Recorded Document, 1899 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 1 | Derby Mines Deed, 1902 | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Derby Mining Company Stock Certificates, 1903-1904 | |||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Detroit Copper Mining Co. Concentrator, 1914 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Goldfields/Mammoth Group At Goldfield, 1915 | |||||||||
| 8 | 5 | Information Required When Considering Purchases of Mining Properties, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 6 | Live Stock Contract, 1894 | |||||||||
| 8 | 7 | Madizelle Mining Company, 1909 | |||||||||
| 8 | 8 | Madizelle Mining Company Insurance Policy, 1910 | |||||||||
| 8 | 9 | Mammoth Group, Known as Mammouth or Goldfield Mines, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 10 | Mammoth Mine Draft Sale Contract, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 11 | Mazatzal Group, 1907 | |||||||||
| 8 | 12 | Mining Deed, 1901 | |||||||||
| 8 | 13 | North Star Mine Claim Notices, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 14 | Notice of Black Warer Mine Location, 1900 | |||||||||
| 8 | 15 | Notices of Mining Location: Lode Claims, 1907 | |||||||||
| 8 | 16 | Notices of Mining Location: Lode Claims, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 17 | Orr and Miller Company Articles of Incorporation, 1915 | |||||||||
| 8 | 18 | Report on Lowery Hill Group of Mines, 1902 | |||||||||
| 8 | 19 | Report on the Pride of Arizona Claims Group, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 20 | Specifications of Machinery and Equipment: Twenty Stamp and Cyanide Process Plant, 1911 | |||||||||
| 8 | 21 | Synopsis: Mammoth Mine, 1911 | |||||||||
| 8 | 22 | Timber Sale, 1907 | |||||||||
| 8 | 23 | Young Mines Company, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 24 | Young Mines Company, Ltd. Employees, 1911 | |||||||||
| Series IV: City of Phoenix | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 8 | 25 | Balance Sheet, 1915 | |||||||||
| 8 | 26 | Balance Sheet, 1914 November | |||||||||
| 8 | 27 | Balance Sheet, 1914 December | |||||||||
| 8 | 28 | Changes in City Hall, 1915 | |||||||||
| 8 | 29 | Charter Revision Committee Letter, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 30 | George U. Young Mayoral Calling Card, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 31 | Mont Anderson V. City of Phoenix, 1916 | |||||||||
| 8 | 32 | Municipal Government Questionnaire, 1916 | |||||||||
| 8 | 33 | Pay-up Week Proclamation, 1916 | |||||||||
| 8 | 34 | Resolution on City Manager, 1915 | |||||||||
| 8 | 35 | Resolution on Costs and Operations, 1915 | |||||||||
| 8 | 36 | Specifications for Proposed Incinerating Plant, Undated | |||||||||
| 8 | 37 | Testimony Against City Manager, 1915 | |||||||||