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Emma Dutcher & Group at picnic at Point of Rocks, Prescott, Arizona.

Emma Ida Dutcher (b. 1879 – d. 1954) was born in Nineveh, Broome County, New York, on May 25, 1879. She was the daughter of Doctor Egbert and Ida (Smith) Dutcher. She came to Prescott, Arizona Territory, with her parents. She attended Prescott High School and then Mills College in Oakland, Alameda County, California, where she studied literary courses and graduated in 1902.

She was very involved in business and professional women’s organizations and served as president of the Prescott Business and Professional Woman’s Club. She was active at the statewide organization and chaired the five-state conference of business and professional women in 1935. She also attended national conferences. She was associated with several other professional organizations as well as St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Prescott.

She served as the librarian for the Whipple Barracks at Fort Whipple in Prescott. She loved traveling and visited many sites in Arizona as well as traveling to visit her mother’s family in New York State. She is memorialized in the Territorial Women’s Rose Garden, at the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, Arizona as is her mother, Ida Dutcher.

Emma died at the home of her brother, Egbert K. Dutcher, and his wife, Florence, at 201 S. Cortez Street on September 21, 1954. She was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Prescott.

Sources: Sharlot Hall Museum Territorial Women’s Rose Garden biography, February 15, 2014; updated June 20, 2015.

Handwritten on the back of the photograph are the following names: Prof. Braun, Theresa Shull, Beatrice Connell, Carrie Hartman, Nellie Crocker, Emma Dutcher, ? Hartin.