Sam Abraham
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 841

Sam Abraham, proprietor of one of the leading hotels in Clifton 
rejoices in the proud American title of self-made man, his 
success having come to him by reason of his own indefatigable 
and long continued labor.  

Mr. Abraham was born in San Francisco in 1864 and is a son of 
David and Esther Abraham.  The father was a pioneer in the 
southwest and a prominent and successful merchant in El Paso, 
for a number of years conducting a large store there in the 
early 1870's when the town was called Franklin.  He later 
engaged in merchandising in Shakespeare, Arizona and in 1874 
came to Clifton where from that time until his death he did 
constructive and progressive work in the interest of the 
community.  He constructed the wagon road from Silver City, 
New Mexico to Clifton, Arizona for the Arizona Copper 
Company and became one of the most prominent mining men 
in this section of the state, being remembered in its 
history as one of the original discovers of the rich copper 
district around Clifton.  During the remainder of his life 
he continued to be interested in copper mines and had 
charge of construction work through the mining district, 
building over one hundred and ten miles of road.  To him 
and his wife were born seven children: Abe, who is 
identified with hotel interests in Silver City New Mexico; 
Phoebe, who married Ned Levy, of New York City by whom 
she has six children; Anna, the widow of J.S. Bernstein 
of Clifton and the mother of one son; Hyman, probate 
judge of Silver City, New Mexico, who is married and has 
two children; Louis, a furniture dealer of Silver City; 
Jacob who is living retired in Los Angeles; and Sam of 
this review.

Sam Abraham acquired his early education in Chicago, where 
he had gone to make his home with his aunt after the death 
of his mother.  His advantages along educational lines were 
extremely limited, for at the age of fourteen he began 
earning his own livelihood, working for the Longfellow 
Copper Mining Company in Clifton.  He was employed in the 
store department and rose rapidly through the various 
departments until he was one of the most trusted and 
able men in the service of the corporation.  After ten 
years he turned his attention to the hotel business in 
which he has engaged since that time.  In 1901 he 
purchased a twenty room hotel in Clifton and has since 
added to it at intervals until it now contains eighty 
large well furnished rooms.  

Mr. Abraham married in 1890 to Miss Laura Dorsey, a native 
of Kansas, who was reared in Silver City, New Mexico.  She 
is a daughter of James and Elizabeth Dorsey, the former a 
native of Kansas and the latter of Pennsylvania.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Abraham have two children.  The eldest, Edwin D, 
twenty four years of age, acquired his preliminary education 
in a private school in Clifton and later graduated from 
Harvard School of Los Angeles.  He is now a student in the 
medical department of the University of Chicago.  Leah is 
thirteen years and a student in the public schools of 
Clifton.

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