Ada Diefendorf Bass
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Ada Diefendorf Bass, music teacher and wife of Grand Canyon pioneer William Wallace Bass. Her Arizona roots were first planted in Prescott, when she arrived as Miss Ada Lenore Diefendorf to visit her aunt, Mrs. Anna C. McGowan, in January 1894. Ada’s aunt was the proprietress of the Williams House, a Prescott hotel.
Twenty-six-year-old Ada traveled by train from her parents’ home in East Worchester, New York, for a visit that lasted almost a year. A teacher and musician trained at the Boston Conservatory of Music, she became involved in the Prescott community, offering music lessons during the spring and summer of 1894.
For January 4, 1895, Ada wrote in her diary, “Left Prescott for Williams with W.W. . . W.W. went to Flagstaff to get license.” On Sunday, January 6, 1895, Methodist minister Rev. McFadden married Ada and W.W. They stayed in Williams two days before heading to the Canyon. Their “honeymoon” trip, accompanied by two other men and filled with rain, snow and high water, gave Ada a rude introduction to the many hardships she would endure over the next three decades helping her husband make a living as a Grand Canyon guide.
Photo Courtesy of Grand Canyon National Park’s Museum Collection, Bass Family Collection. #17796
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