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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Arizona.  Our family was very recent arrivals but there were definitely people who were sort of the  “old established” families that were either Mexican families that came with the Spanish garrisons or merchants or mining families that came in the 19th century.

For instance Linda ronstadts family arrived in the 19th century:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Ronstadt
The Goldwater family came to Arizona in the 1860s to open stores:
http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/morris_goldwater.xml
The Babbitt came on the 1880s to ranch but then also got into the mercantile business:
http://www.babbittswholesale.com/about-us.htm#:~:text=The%20Babbitt%20brothers%20%2D%20David%2C%20George,The%20historic%20C.O.
Jeff flake’s ancestors were part of the wagon trains west to California and helped settle parts of Arizona in the 1880s—I went to school with cousins of his and they definitely knew that history.
So basically a lot of the 
More well known families in Arizona in the 20th century were families that got a foothold during the 19th century, using either in ranching, mining or mercantile, and I think the families that were successful in that endeavor knew the family history.  I’d guess the people that weren’t as successful probably died off or moved back east.  [/quote]

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