MRS. AMELIA HUNT GARCIA
History of Arizona, Page 484

In one of the most exacting of vocations Mrs. Amelia Hunt Garcia 
has achieved distinctive success.  She has long been active in 
education affairs and is now serving as Superintendent of Schools 
of Apache County and as a member of the State Board of 
Education. She was born on her father's ranch, about eight 
miles north of St. Joseph, Yavapai County on November 15, 
1876, and is a daughter of James Clark and Juanita (Rubi) 
Hunt, the  former of whom is referred to on other pages of 
this work.  She attended the public schools, completing her 
education in St. Johns Academy and the high school at Prescott 
in 1891. In that same year she began teaching in the schools 
at St. Johns and during the two following years taught at 
Concho. In 1896 she served as principal of the Concho schools 
in 1900 took the school at El Tule, where she remained two 
years, followed by another year as principal of the school 
at Concho. In 1907 Mrs. Garcia gain resumed her education 
work by taking the school at St. Johns after wihch she 
devoted her attention to her home until 1923 when she was 
elected County Superintendent of Schools, which position 
she is still filling.

On July 7, 1902 she became the wife of Monico Garcia of St. 
Johns, who at that time was County Recorder.  During the 
ensuing five years he served as Justice of the Peace and Notary 
Public, and as manager of A&B Schuster Company at Concho. In 
1908 he was elected County Superintendent of Schools and Probate 
Judge, which dual position he held for two years, after which he 
was elected County Treasurer, in which office he served from 
1910 to 1914.  In 1926 he graduated from the State Teachers 
College, since which time he has served as principal of the 
St. Johns schools.

To Mr. and Mrs. Garcia have been born four children: Mrs. Della 
Parks, of Los Angeles, California, Lupita, Mrs. Harry Nace of 
Phoenix; James Hunt, a law student in Southwestern University 
at Los Angeles and Margaret.


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