Pauline Schindler O'Neill
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| In 1884 Captain W.F.R.
Schindler was posted to Fort Whipple, bringing with him his wife, Rosalie, and his
daughter, Pauline. Pauline taught elementary school, probably in Williamson Valley. Buckey
O'Neill first saw her at a traveling medicine show, and wrangled an introduction.
Women's Relief Corps members, about 1896. Pauline O'Neill is at lower right and her mother, Rosalie Schindler, is third from left in the lower row.
W.F.R. Schindler, Pauline's father, who had served in the California Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He commanded the Grand Army of the Republic for Arizona Territory in 1908.
Gavel presented to W.F.R. Schindler as commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for Arizona Territory. Courtesy Catherine Dervin.
Pauline M. O'Neill, about 1898. Pauline has too often been hidden in the shadow of her famous husband. Like Buckey, she was ambitious, bright, talented, and skillful at winning public office. During her long life (1865 - 1961), she was an Arizona State Legislator (1917 - 1921), presidential elector, suffragette, temperance worker, teacher, businesswoman, writer, artist, wife, and mother.
Representative Pauline M. O'Neill is identified by number 20 in this picture of the 1917 Arizona State Legislature. Courtesy Department of Library, Archives, and Public Records.
Letter written by Governor Thomas Campbell to Anthony Johns, presenting him with the pen used to sign House Bill 105, the legislation that authorized the purchase and preservation of the 1864 Governor's Mansion. This bill was sponsored by Pauline O'Neill in 1917.
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When Pauline Marie Schindler married William Owen O'Neill in April 1886, her new husband announced his happiness in Hoof and Horn, the newspaper which he published. He prescribed the "right kind of girl" as what every man needed to keep his head above water. Their thirteen-year marriage seems to have been a happy one, so perhaps Pauline was just such a perfect partner.
Buckey and Pauline O'Neill with friends, probably 1898. Front row: unidentified, Alice Day, Clyde Watson, Pauline O'Neill. Middle row: unidentified, Isabel Smith, Agnes Conlon, Eugene Brady O'Neill, unidentified. Back row: Sarah McRae, Etta Dewitt, Joe Morrison, Mabel Genung, Buckey O'Neill, unidentified. Courtesy Arizona Department of Library, Archives, and Public Records.
Four-year-old Maurice Piles was adopted by Buckey and Pauline O'Neill in 1893. Photo courtesy Michael Bickley.
This Is My Tribute to My Dead Hero, Who Fell on Santiago's Bloody Field. By Pauline O'Neill, Widow of the Famous "Buckey." You men who clamored for war, did you know what it would mean to the women of our country, when strife and bloodshed should sweep o'er the land; when the shouts of victory would but ineffectually drown the moans of the women who mourned for the lives of those that were given to make that victory possible? . . . To you who will celebrate our nation's success, when your spirits are raised in triumph and your songs of thanksgiving are the loudest, remember that we, who sit and weep in our closed and darkened homes, have given our best gifts to our country and our flag. Patriotism, how many hearts are broken in thy cause? The Examiner, San Francisco August 7, 1898 Following Buckey's death Pauline inherited about $200,000 in life insurance, property, and assets. She moved to Phoenix, and in 1901 married Buckey's younger brother, Eugene. Pauline died in 1961 at the age of 96.
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