James H. Mack
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 721

Graham County owes to the energy and enterprise of James 
H. Mack the development of one of the finest farms in that 
section from a tract of raw and unimproved land.  Mr. Mack 
was born in Georgia, February 20, 1851 a son of Henry and 
Martha (Swinney) Mack, the former a native of South 
Carolina and the latter of Georgia.  Both have passed 
away, the mother dying in 1863 and the father in 1883. 
In the family were twelve children of whom five are still 
living: James H. of this review; Charles, a resident of 
Safford Arizona; Tressie, wife of Joe Dodson of Oklahoma; 
Eliza, wife of William Mack of Texas and Louise, wife of 
John Sink, also a resident of Texas.

James H. Mack remained in George until seventeen when he 
removed to Arkansas and turned his attention to farming 
which he developed for fifteen years.  At the end of that 
time he spent one year in Colorado and then came to the 
vicinity of Pima Arizona where he purchased ninety acres 
of raw land for six hundred dollars.  Mr. Mack breeds high 
grade cattle, raises grain and fruits and is generally 
successful.

In Arkansas in 1880 Mr. Mack married Miss Mary Thomason, 
a native of that state and a daughter of John and Nancy 
(Bradley) Thomason who were born in South Carolina.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Mack are the parents of eleven children: John 
Wesley, engaged in mining in Nevada; Martha, wife of 
Kimball Maxham of Thatcher Arizona, by whom she has 
four children; James Arthur, of Pima who is married 
and has three children; Mary E., wife of Rollin Jones, 
principal of schools in central Arizona by whom she has 
three children; William Sanford, of Fairview who was 
sent by the Mormon church as a missionary to South 
Africa and spent three years there; Henry H., also a 
resident of Fairview; Amanda, wife of Hiram Larson of 
Fairview; Floyd, at home; Thomas a. and Tressie, 
both of whom have passed away; and Ella also at home.


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