Elizabeth Cosner
6 Nov 1878 - 18 Nov 1970
bornDobyville, Texas, USA
diedArizona, USA
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BiographyTeacher.Came to Tempe in c1887 with her widowed mother and four sisters and brother. Attended the one-room adobe Double Butte Country School through the 8th grade, and then attended the Tempe Normal
School. Began teaching in Florence, Arizona, and then at the Stringtown School in Mesa for 3 years. She taught for over 30 years in Tempe in the Eighth Street School and the Tenth Street School [1925] until her retirment in 1939. She was absent only 3 days.
At conclusion of her teaching career, she was one of the highest paid teachers in Tempe, at $1,800 a year. ASU's Cosner Auditorium was named in her honor.
Was a member of the Normal School Alumni Association in the 1920s.
Member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Lived at 910 Forest Avenue in 1918, 1921,'23, -'25, -26, -'29, '31, '32; lived at 209 E. 7th Street; lived at 224 E. 8th Street in 1940.
OSB 90
BIO-Cosner
Elizabeth Cosner obit, TDN, 19 Nov 1970
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1880, 1900
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story, p. 200
Tempe CD, 1913-1921, '23, -'25 -26, '28,-'29, '30, '31, '32
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1940
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