EMIL MARKS


Emil Marks, a barber, completed his 1881 journey from Germany to Tombstone by stagecoach over the very rough road from Benson. He was to find himself shaving the beards and cutting the hair of the likes of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the Clanton boys, all of whom kept their guns on their laps during his ministrations. This made him very nervous.

He realized that his fears were well founded when hostilities opened up and he watched as the memorable gunfight at the OK Corral unfolded.


MICHEL GOLDWATER


In 1980 Bert Fireman wrote about a little-known event; "Prescott was a community of fewer than 3,000 souls, of whom about a score were Jews, mostly engaged in business. Upon the accidental death of little Albert Wollenberg, who was not yet six . . . when he fell under the wheels of a wagon loaded with firewood, in August 1880, . . . Michel Goldwater (grandfather of Senator Barry Goldwater) headed a minyan at the burial service. A local newspaper reported that he led the recital of the kaddish in Hebrew, and then spoke to the mourners in Yiddish . . . ."


BEN SCHLEIFER


Now in the 21st century, retirement communities are an accepted part of the culture, but prior to 1954 they didn't exist. It took the brainstorm of Arizonan Ben Schleifer (shown at left with Governor Howard Pyle) to conceive and execute the first retirement community in the nation on a cotton farm sixteen miles west of Phoenix --- Youngtown, Arizona.