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    PEARCE, ARIZONA

    Nov 26, 2019 3 minutes
    BY TERRY HALDEN

    n 1868 James Pearce, a 26-year-old Cornishman who had started his working life as a miner in England, immigrated to the United States and resumed his mining career in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, while wife Maria ran a boardinghouse in that city. They saved their money, had two sons and a daughter, and when Tombstone’s fortunes ebbed due to a drop in silver prices amid the financial Panic of 1893, James quit mining and took up ranching, with the help of sons John and William running cattle

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