William was born in New York and began teaching in public schools at the age of 16. At age 23 he was principal of the largest evening school in the city. He became a lawyer in New York and was elected to the New York Legislature. He introduced a bill establishing the 30^th of May as "Decoration Day" – New York was the first state to take this step. In 1882 he moved to Tombstone and opened a law practice. Wyatt Earp was his client at one point. He was twice Attorney General of Arizona, the first president of the Bar Association of Arizona and chancellor of the Board of Regents. Herring Hall on the Univ. of Arizona campus is named in his honor.

Samuel was born in 1829 in Pembrokeshire, Wales and emigrated with his family in 1840 to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He worked as a tool maker, a baker, and a cook before coming to Tucson in 1858. Sam opened a butcher shop, a cigar store, helped incorporate Tucson in 1871, served as alderman, county and Territorial treasurer, sheriff, and Territorial Adjutant General. He even helped build the first Congregational Church. Sam was also instrumental in bringing the Sisters of St. Joseph from St. Louis to open a convent to broaden the availability of education in Tucson. He married Atanacia Santa Cruz in 1863 and fifteen children resulted from that marriage. Atanacia had very little formal education but became a accomplished harpist. Sam Hughes Elementary School is named for Sam.

Jacob was born in 1834 in Pasewalk, Germany and immigrated to California in 1856. After a stop in Nevada, he moved to Tucson where he operated the first bookstore "Pioneer News Depot and Bookstore." He started the first lending library in the West. An ardent supporter of Tucson, he was appointed one of four University Regents and helped find the site for the future University of Arizona. After badgering the owners of forty acres, he attended the ground breaking of the new University on October 27, 1887. He was a founder of the Society of Arizona Pioneers and was president at the time of his death.

Larcena, 23 years old, was abducted in 1860 from her tent in Madera Canyon by Apache Indians. She survived, after being lanced by her captors, by crawling on her hands and knees for several days. A year later her husband, John Page was also killed by Indians and then her father and her brother – all in southern Arizona. She later married William Fisher Scott and lived a long and productive life. Pennington Street is named for her family.

"Fisher" was born in Scotland, arrived in New York in 1845 and went on to become involved in the gold excitement in New Mexico in 1861. He developed the Naguila Silver mine but eventually built the Eagle Flour Mill on the Santa Cruz River with James Lee. He was naturalized in Tucson and became a charter member of the Society of Arizona Pioneers. Scott Street is named for him.

SARAH HERRING SORIN (1861-1914)

Sarah, daughter of William Herring, was Arizona’s first female lawyer. She was also the first female lawyer to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court without male counsel! And she won! After the death of brother, a partner with their father in the law practice in Tombstone, she took her brother’s place, read many law books, and obtained a degree from New York Univ. School of Law .She married Thomas Robinson Sorin, a mining and newspaper man of frontier times. She became very skilled at mining law. Sarah and her father moved to Tucson, and she was counsel for mining companies in Tucson and Globe. In 1914, she appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court and won a large mining suite for the Old Dominion Copper Mine in Globe.