Fred J. Joyce
9 May 1881 - 1 Dec 1967
bornDeSoto, Missouri, USA
diedPhoenix, Arizona, USA
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BiographyCame to Tempe in 1911.Graduated from Missouri School of Mines.
Worked as an assayer and chemist in Leadville, Colorado (c1900-1904); El Potosi, Chihuahua, Mexico (c1904-1907); and in Ray, Arizona, for the Ray Consolidated Mining Co. (1907-1911).
Worked for the Federal Reclamation Sevice in 1913. Insurance agent for Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, 1907-1953.In 1922, -24, District Manager.
Tempe City Councilman, 1924-1926.
Served on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Public Service Co., c1935-1965.
Member of the ASTC Board of Education, c1929-1933.
Charter member and first President of the Tempe Rotary Club, 1923, and district governor, 1929-1930.
Member of the Elks Club, Arizona Club, Phoenix Country Club, and Life Underwriters Association.
As a young man, he had played baseball and turned down an offer to play in the Major League; he later served as president of the Arizona State Baseball League.
Lived at 121 W. 6th Street (c1914-1915); l Lived ived at 830 Forest Avenue, c1919-1959, when the property was purchased by ASU.
Fred Joyce obit, TDN, Dec 1967
TDN, 3 Oct 1955, 17 Apr 1958
Old Settlers collection, THM
Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story, p. 222
Painter Scrapbook, p. 28
TH-311
Tempe CD, 1913-1922, -24, -25, -'26, '28, '29, '30
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1924, 1940
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