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Don Juan Frankenberg
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Don Juan Frankenberg

11 Aug 1873 - 30 Mar 1952
bornTowanda County, Kansas, USA
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
SchooltblData
BiographyRancher and farmer.
Graduate of the Arizona Normal School, then studied law briefly at the University of Ohio.
In 1915, he was selected to experiment with Pima long staple cotton as part of the program from the Experimental Farm at Sacaton, Arizona.
He was a shareholder in the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company in 1923.
He owned S2 NE4 section 25, T.1 N.,R.4 E. (80 acres), and N2 S2 section 2, T.1 S.,R.4 E.
(157 acres), in 1924. In 1929 a trustee of Bd. Of Ed.
Board member, Tempe Union High School District, 1920-1930, and served as President of the Board in 1925. In 1925 lived a R D 2. He lived at 2222 S. Price, the Frankenberg homestead, until 1932, when hardships during the
Depression forced foreclosure and the family moved to Phoenix.
OSB 7; OSB 49; OSB 50
Federal census (Tempe), 1880, 1900, 1910
BIO-Frankenberg Tempe CD 1923, '25, -'29
BIO-Finch
HPS-209
TH-231
Tempe CD, 1913-1914, '29
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1924
Tempe Union High School District, Board minutes
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Person TypeIndividual