A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.Feb. 28On this date in 1856, Solomon Warner arrived in Tucson from Yuma with a train of 13 mules loaded with merchandise for Tucson’s first general store.On this date in 1859, the first Indian reservation in Arizona was established on the Gila River for the Pima and
Arizona history Feb. 28-March 6
Feb. 24, 2021
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Sunday, Feb. 28
On this date in 1856, Solomon Warner arrived in Tucson from Yuma with a train of 13 mules loaded with merchandise for Tucson’s first general store.
On this date in 1859, the first Indian reservation in Arizona was established on the Gila River for the Pima and Maricopa Indians.
On this date in 1925, Phoenix celebrated the opening of the Phoenix-Yuma-Imperial Valley Highway.
On this date in 2009, Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation’s most familiar voices, dies at age 90 at a Phoenix hospital.
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LT HOWARD CUSHING
There were many brave officers in the Frontier Army during the darkest days of the Apache campaigns in the late 1860s and early 1870s but none braver than Lieutenant Howard Cushing. He was a member of one of America’s most famous family of war heroes that included brothers, Milton Jr., Alonzo and John Cushing.
Their father, Dr. Milton Cushing Sr. received his medical degree and settled in Zanesville, Ohio where he married his first wife Abigail. They had four children. She died in 1833. Three years later he married Mary Smith and they would have five children, Milton Jr., Howard, Alonzo, John and Mary. He died of tuberculosis in 1847 leaving her penniless and nine children to raise. Abigail’s children were nearly grown. Eventually Milton Jr. and Howard would take jobs to help support the family. When war came in 1861, all of Mary’s four boys joined the Union cause. Mary would outlive all her four sons.