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A collection of the interesting — and sometimes unusual — events that happened this week in Arizona history.March 13On this date in 1913, Eliphalet B. Gage, former superintendent of the Grand Central Mine at Tombstone, president of the Tombstone Consolidated Mines Company and president of the Phoenix National Bank, died in San Francisco at the age of 74.
Arizona history -March 14-20 FacebookTwitterEmail Sunday, March 14 On this date in 1849, Bill Williams, mountain man, fur trapper and guide, died. The town of Williams, Bill Williams Fork and Bill Williams Mountain are named after him. On this date in 1911, the polished, native granite cornerstone was placed for the Phoenix Women’s Club Building on First Avenue and Bennett Lane by Mrs. Dwight B. Heard. On this date in 1913, a mountain lion measuring 8 feet (2.4 meters) long was found in a fox trap in Sabino Canyon near Tucson. On this date in 2013, a federal appeals court throws out the con...