Ronstadt family history
Ronstadt's father came from a
pioneering Arizona ranching family[SUP]
[29][/SUP] and was of
German,
English, and
Mexican ancestry.[SUP]
[30][/SUP] The family's influence on and contributions to Arizona's history, including wagon making, commerce, pharmacies, and music, are chronicled in the library of the
University of Arizona.[SUP]
[31][/SUP] Her great-grandfather, graduate engineer Friedrich August Ronstadt (who went by Federico Augusto Ronstadt) immigrated to the
Southwest (then a part of Mexico) in the 1840s from
Hanover, Germany, and married a Mexican citizen, eventually settling in Tucson.[SUP]
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[33][/SUP] In 1991, the City of Tucson opened its central transit terminal on March 16 and dedicated it to Linda's grandfather,
Federico Jos? Mar?a Ronstadt, a local pioneer businessman; he was a wagon maker whose early contribution to the city's mobility included six mule-drawn streetcars delivered in 1903?04.[SUP]
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Ronstadt's mother Ruth Mary, of German, English, and
Dutch ancestry, was raised in
Flint, Michigan. She was a granddaughter of
Lloyd Groff Copeman, a prolific inventor and holder of many patents. Copeman, with nearly 700 patents to his name, invented an early form of the toaster, many refrigerator devices, the grease gun, the first electric stove, and an early form of the microwave oven. His flexible rubber ice cube tray earned him millions of dollars in royalties.
on that one, just a coincidence that there was a strike in the background-not the actual ball?
how is everyone this morning?? Good I hope !!
