A century ago, the 17-year-old daughter of an ambitious Prescott, Arizona, pharmacist had traveled over three days and 2,400 miles to New York to represent her youthful state as the chosen christener of the USS Arizona. Fifty thousand or more gathered under bright skies at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on June 19, 1915, to cheer on young Esther Ross, just three years after Arizona had become the 48th state. Gov. George W.P. Hunt had chosen Esther to represent the state from her father William’s
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