An Arizona Pioneer, Mrs. Annie W. Riecker was born in Birkenhead, England. She came to Prescott, Arizona, in 1877 with her husband, Paul F. Riecker, an engineer with the U. S. Surveyor General’s Office. Her husband was one of the first to survey the Grand Canyon. He also established a number of county lines in Arizona. The family moved to Tucson in 1880. Mrs. Riecker had four children: Fred, Eugene, Edna, and Eleanor. The Annie W. Riecker Lectureship Foundation was established by her daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Riecker Ritchie, with a gift of a $10,000 endowment to the University of Arizona in 1953.
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