April 17, 2024
1880's CS Fly-Tombstone Arizona Territory Photo Mrs BA Fickas
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Original 1880's C.S. Fly, Tombstone Arizona Territory Cabinet PhotoC.S. Fly was famous for the photographs he took in and around Tombstone, Arizona during the heyday of the wild west. He was a witness in 1881 to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which took place outside his photography studio.Card measures 4 1/4" x 6 1/2". The photo is of Mrs. Mary Ella Fickas, wife of B.A. Fickas.B.A. Fickas was a prominent figure in Tombstone and Territorial Arizona as an entrepreneur, businessman, newspaperman and public servant. He relocated from San Diego to Tombstone, AT in 1878. He ran for mayor of Tombstone in January of 1880 and was narrowly defeated. While in Tombstone he served as a member of the Eleventh Territorial Legislature, where he was instrumental in the formation of Cochise County and as Clerk of the Cochise County District Court. He was the first Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Arizona and served as Commander of Tombstone's Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic in 1882.
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