Sources:

Phone interview with Tom K. Sawtelle (grandson of W.H. Sawtelle) on March 8, 2015

Federal Judicial Center biography: www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj

1880 U.S. Census (Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama)

1900 U.S. Census (Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama)

Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957 (familysearch.org)

Lulie Mhoon Sawtelle Death Certificate (AZ Dept. of Vital Records)

Arizona Improvement Co. Records, 1907-1930 (MS30 AHS)

Fairmount Addition plat map (Pima County Recorders Office Bk 3 Pg 1)

1908 Tucson City Directory

"W.H. Sawtelle Purchases The Wright Building For $10,000," Tucson Citizen, Dec. 27, 1911

Sawtelle ad, Arizona Daily Star, July 9, 1912

Note on Sawtelle moving his practice, Arizona Daily Star, July 9, 1912

Joseph D. Andrews land deed (Book of Deeds: Bk. 23 Pg.243)

1912 Bargain and Sale Deed (Frank Allison et.al. to William H. Sawtelle)

"Five Airplanes From San Diego Delayed," Tucson Citizen, Dec. 6, 1918

"4 Airplanes In Tucson Today," Tucson Citizen, Dec. 7, 1918

"Air Squadron Departs With 'El Paso or Bust" As Goal," Tucson Citizen, Dec. 8, 1918

PCDOT File (Sawtelle Road)

Sawtelle Place plat map (Pima County Recorders Office Bk. 4 Pg. 73)

Floyd R. Negley, "Arizona Marriages: Pima County, Marriage Books 5-10, Feb. 1912 through Dec. 1926," Arizona State Genealogical Society, 1997

Gilbert Cosulich, "Sawtelle ? Years Old Today, Has Been On Bench 14 Years," Arizona Daily Star, Aug. 27, 1927

"Sawtelle Dies In Mishap At San Francisco," Tucson Daily Citizen, Dec. 18, 1934

Special Staff of Writers, "History of Arizona Vol. III," Record Publishing Co., 1930


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