Description

Elva E. (Haskell) Carroll (b. 1877 – d. 1844) was born September 19, 1877. She was the only child of Helena "Nellie" (Miles) Haskell, born in Kansas on January 28, 1858, and Alvin S. Haskell, born in Deer Isle, Maine on November 28, 1845.

Her mother died when she was seven. She attended local schools until she was fourteen and then attended St. Joseph’s Academy graduating in 1896 as class valedictorian. As a young girl, she “reigned as queen” over the Fire Department and rode on the Hook and Ladder truck for two or three years. Her badge is part of the Sharlot Hall Museum collection.

Her first teaching job was at a one-room school in Oak Creek Canyon. In 1900, she was teaching school in Congress Junction when she met her husband, Edward W. Carroll.  Edward came to Arizona in 1876 and first settled in southern Arizona, but later he became a cyanide miner in the biggest gold mine in the West at that time. Edward and Elva married on August 15,1901 and moved from mining town to mining town.

Handwriting on back of photograph reads: "This is a picture of Elva Haskell Carroll born in Prescott September 1877. The pin I am wearing was made by the George Curry jewelry store. It is now in the Prescott Museum of Sharlot Hall."

Sources: Sharlot Hall Museum Library & Archives Carroll surname folder and Arizona Historical Society (Tucson), Manuscript Collection - MS 135; Arizona County Marriages 1871-1964.