Greenway, John Selmes. ARMY RESERVE CORPS Only son of John C. & Isabella Greenway. His father was the engineer, who developed the New Cornelia open-pit copper mine. His mother, Isabella (Selmes), became Arizona’s first Congresswoman in 1933. Jack was born in 1924 in Santa Barbara, California. After his father’s death in 1926, the family moved to Tucson in 1930. They kept their Ajo home, the Greenway mansion. For many years it was their voting address. “At eighteen he had enlisted in the Army Reserve Corps and spent a year, 1942 to 1943, training with the Army Air Force at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.” [Source page 250: Isabella Greenway an Enterprising Woman.] He returned to school at Yale but by 1944 left school to join up. Jack went on to Ohio and then Texas for further training in cryptography. In April 1945 he was shipped to the Aleutian Islands. After his discharge Jack earned a law degree from the University of Arizona in 1954. He was very active in the Tucson business and political community. He was the director of the Arizona Inn (Tucson) and for a time was the chairman of the Arizona
Democratic Party in the 1950's as well as a Democatic National Committeeman. Jack never married.
Jack had an older half brother and half sister[Robert and Martha ] from his mother’s first marriage to Robert Ferguson, and stepsisters and a stepbrother from her last marriage to Harry Orland King. Jack Greenway was a prominent philanthropist at the time of his death in 1995. His remains were interred at the family cemetery on the Dinsmore farm in Kentucky.
Note: Article compiled by G Louie Walters Curator Ajo Museum 5/6/2017.
Democratic Party in the 1950's as well as a Democatic National Committeeman. Jack never married.
Jack had an older half brother and half sister[Robert and Martha ] from his mother’s first marriage to Robert Ferguson, and stepsisters and a stepbrother from her last marriage to Harry Orland King. Jack Greenway was a prominent philanthropist at the time of his death in 1995. His remains were interred at the family cemetery on the Dinsmore farm in Kentucky.
Note: Article compiled by G Louie Walters Curator Ajo Museum 5/6/2017.
Greenway, John Selmes. ARMY RESERVE CORPS Only son of John C. & Isabella Greenway. His father was the engineer, who developed the New Cornelia open-pit copper mine. His mother, Isabella (Selmes), became Arizona’s first Congresswoman in 1933. Jack was born in 1924 in Santa Barbara, California. After his father’s death in 1926, the family moved to Tucson in 1930. They kept their Ajo home, the Greenway mansion. For many years it was their voting address. “At eighteen he had enlisted in the Army Reserve Corps and spent a year, 1942 to 1943, training with the Army Air Force at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.” [Source page 250: Isabella Greenway an Enterprising Woman.] He returned to school at Yale but by 1944 left school to join up. Jack went on to Ohio and then Texas for further training in cryptography. In April 1945 he was shipped to the Aleutian Islands. After his discharge Jack earned a law degree from the University of Arizona in 1954. He was very active in the Tucson business and political community. He was the director of the Arizona Inn (Tucson) and for a time was the chairman of the Arizona
Democratic Party in the 1950's as well as a Democatic National Committeeman. Jack never married.
Jack had an older half brother and half sister[Robert and Martha ] from his mother’s first marriage to Robert Ferguson, and stepsisters and a stepbrother from her last marriage to Harry Orland King. Jack Greenway was a prominent philanthropist at the time of his death in 1995. His remains were interred at the family cemetery on the Dinsmore farm in Kentucky.
Note: Article compiled by G Louie Walters Curator Ajo Museum 5/6/2017.
Democratic Party in the 1950's as well as a Democatic National Committeeman. Jack never married.
Jack had an older half brother and half sister[Robert and Martha ] from his mother’s first marriage to Robert Ferguson, and stepsisters and a stepbrother from her last marriage to Harry Orland King. Jack Greenway was a prominent philanthropist at the time of his death in 1995. His remains were interred at the family cemetery on the Dinsmore farm in Kentucky.
Note: Article compiled by G Louie Walters Curator Ajo Museum 5/6/2017.
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