ERNEST ORLANDO LAWRENCE
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Date of Interview: 17 December 1979
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Scott, would you tell me a little bit about
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your family Background? Maybe start with your grandparents
and tell me their names and where they came from?
Seott:
Yes, I'm from Arizonag’originally, and my grandparents were
imnigrante,Vtrong’nostly Wales. nine tt
they settled in pis
Arizona, and worked for the Ph eles: Dodge copper mines.
no longer opert) ft's just a ghost town there.
They're
Aad T enjoyed ny
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boyhood very much with them, I was around tH I was about six
years old.
Andthey lived right on a street. called Brewery
Guich, which was loaded with second parid storesg and they'd budit
the Saint George Hotel, which still stands on the land that
they had.
The original home was completely removedg 1
it was
burned. out or sonething * 1 was born in Douglas, Arizona#’ Lacon
Februatythe ‘16th in 1909.
Mextco,.
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Aad’ I had some schooling in New
+ father was operating a steam shovel.
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en-ongihass) a locomotive engineer.
He was sort of
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Cyr went to the first grade
‘tn Santa:“Rita, New Mexico, and I found it 4 very interesting place
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it was ‘primarily Chicanos heor Mexicansg/or whatever we used
to callthemg "greasers." GsFfrom there we moved back to ny
ortetaaly
“place of birth, Douglas,
\qnd I went through two grades
there.”tay mother and father were continuously fighting and
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separating and: getting.back together again.
ok, is
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ihewhole,‘thing. “Gaaughingly)
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I got a little fed
mother
n older brotherand a younger brother. axamy mother
suring the latter part of
he‘never did anything with her courses.
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