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See also:TUCSON (possibly from Piman styuk-son, " dark or See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown See also:spring," pronounced Tooson) , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Pima county, See also:Arizona, U.S.A., on the See also:Santa Cruz See also:river, in the S.E. See also:part of the See also:state, about 130 M. S.E. of See also:Phoenix. Pop. (188o), 7007; (1890), 5150; (1900), 7531 (2352 See also:foreign-See also:born, chiefly from See also:Mexico); (1910), 13,193. It is served by the See also:Southern Pacific and the Twin Buttes See also:railways, the latter connecting with the mines of the Twin Buttes See also:district, about 27 M. See also:south by See also:east, and with the See also:Randolph lines in Mexico. The city lies about 2360 ft. above the See also:sea in a broad valley sheltered by mountains 5000-9000 ft. high. Its See also:climate, characteristic of southern Arizona, attracts many invalids and See also:winter visitors. Tucson is the seat of the university of Arizona (1891; non-sectarian, coeducational), which is organized under the See also:Morrill Acts; in 1909 it had 40 instructors and 201 students. At Tucson also are a See also:desert botanical laboratory (owning a See also:tract of some r000 acres about 1 m. See also:west of the city) established by the See also:Carnegie Institution of See also:Washington, St See also:Joseph's See also:Academy (See also:Roman See also:Catholic); a Roman Catholic See also:cathedral; the Tucson See also:Mission (Presbyterian), a boarding school for See also:Indians, the See also:San See also:Xavier Mission for Indians (Roman Catholic) and a Carnegie library. In 1900 Tucson became the see of a Roman Catholic See also:bishop. The surrounding See also:country is arid and unproductive except where irrigated; but the See also:soil is very See also:rich, and Tucson is the centre of one of the See also:oldest farming and ranching districts of the state. The Southern Pacific railway has See also:division headquarters and repair shops here.
Tucson is first heard of in See also:history in 1699, conjecturally, as an See also:Indian rancheria or See also:settlement; and in 1763 certainly as a visita, in that See also:year temporarily abandoned, of the Jesuit mission of San Xavier del Bac, founded between 1720 and 1732, 9 M. south of what is now Tucson; in 1776 it was made a presidio (San Augustin del Tugison), or military outpost, and although a' few Spaniards may possibly have lived there before, the See also:foundation of Tucson as a See also:Spanish See also:town See also:dates from this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. It was never after abandoned during the Indian See also:wars. In 1848. it had 76o in-habitants. The See also:- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")
abandonment by the Mexicans in 1848 of the mission towns of Tamacacori (a visita of Guevavi, a mission founded in the first third of the 18th See also:century) and the presidio at Tubac (established before 1752) increased its importance. Tucson See also:lay within the territory acquired by the See also:United States by the See also:Gadsden See also:Purchase in 1853; it was occupied by the United States in 1856. Fort See also:Lowell, 7 M. See also:north-east of the city, was built as a See also:protection
against the See also:Apache Indians in 1873; it was abandoned in 189r. In the earlier days of Territorial history Tucson was the See also:political centre of Arizona. Here were held in See also:August 1856 a See also:convention that demanded a Territorial See also:government from See also:Congress, another in See also:April 186o that organized a provisional government independently of Congressional permission, and others in 1861 that attempted to See also:cast in the See also:lot of Arizona with the Confederate states. Tucson was occupied by the Confederates in See also:February 1862 and by the See also:Union forces in May. It was the Territorial See also:capital from 1867 to 1877. Its prosperity fluctuated with the fortunes of the surrounding See also:mining country. Tucson was incorporated as a town in 1877, and chartered as a city in 1883.
End of Article: TUCSON (possibly from Piman styuk-son, " dark or brown spring," pronounced Tooson)
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