Rafael Castro Estrada
ABT 1867
bornFlorence, Arizona, USA
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BiographyLaborer; constable.Came to Tempe in c1888.
Came to the United States in 1884; had become a naturalized citizen by 1910.
He worked at Hayden Flour Mill. He was constable of Tempe, c1910-1916. In 1918, he was hired by the Arizona Cotton Growers Association as a Field Superintendent, or enganchista, a hiring agent, to recruit laborers from Mexico and transport them to Tempe. In 1923 was interpreter for Ariz Cotton Growers Assn.
About 1889, he built a small adobe house at the base of Tempe butte. He later moved to West 1st Street. He also lived on Mill Avenue, between 2nd and 3rd streets, c1890s. Moved to E. Dewey Street (c1906), 1st Street in East Tempe (1910); McAllister and Orange (1911), 927 Van Ness (c1913), 1923,, 619 S. Mill Avenue, c1920.
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Federal census (Florence), 1870, 1880
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Amanda Soza Galaz, genealogy notes
Clara Urbano, genealogy notes
Florence Cath. Church, Marriage Register, 1889
TDN, 26 Apr 1971
Ralph Estrada obit, TDN, 5 Oct 1979
Pete Estrada obit, TDN, 11 Jul 1980
Tempe CD, 1892-1920, 23
Peterson, Twentieth Century Journey to Cibola
Maricopa County Great Register, 1894
Solliday, Journey to Rio Salado, pp. 74, 95
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