Isaac Taft Stoddard papers
Photograph of Isaac Taft Stoddard Riding a Horse, circa 1900.
Collection area: Political Affairs
Collection dates: 1890-1943
Correspondence, legal papers, financial records, maps, and geologists' reports related to the Stoddard Copper Company and Copper Mountains Mines Company in Yavapai County, Arizona; records of the Stoddard Incorporating Company and its dealings with mining firms; and a scrapbook of photographs of mine construction and operations. Includes materials on Arizona economy and politics. Materials from Isaac's son, Celora Martin Stoddard, include personal and business papers, stories and sketches, papers concerning the Great Western Firm Corporation, and a photograph album from his school days. Also included is a 1902 diary by Isaac's daughter, Florence. Note: Material in Volumes 8, 9, and 10 are a selected representation of the business carried on by the Stoddard Incorporting Company. Lesser, routine and fragmentary accounts were not retained.
Arizona businessman and politician; Secretary of Arizona Territory, 1901 to 1904.
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