Hiram Walter Read: Pioneer Pastor And Postmaster.

LILLIAN GABBARD THEOBALD

Publication: Privately printed for the Arizona Historical Foundation, 1986, NP

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. Stiff pictorial wrappers, vii [3], 45 [4] pp., preface and acknowledgements, illustrated, footnotes, sources of information, facsimiles. Reverend Read came with the governor's party to the newly created Arizona Territory in 1863 with the title of Postmaster. He later settled in El Paso, Texas where he became one of the first Protestant ministers to serve there. He died in El Paso and is buried in Concordia Cemetry. As new.

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