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 Xi^TfiCWFRNO RS OF ARIZONA 
 
 2^
 
 GOVERNORS OF ARIZONA
 
 PORTRAIT 
 
 AND 
 
 Biographical Record 
 
 OF 
 
 ARIZONA. 
 
 COMMEMORATING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF CITIZENS WHO 
 
 HAVE CONTRIBUIED TO THE PROGRESS OF ARIZONA 
 
 AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS RESOURCES. 
 
 Chapman Publishing Co., 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 1901.
 
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 A I \ U I'" I'l ' 1 . sluil\ cif llic yruwlli :iuJ dcvelupment of ArizMii.-i leads in llu- inevitable con- 
 i lll^illll thai the results thus far attained are due to the exceptional enterprise of its citi- 
 zens The north and south, the east and west, have contributed hirsts (if their representa- 
 tive sons te) this future state, and the wideh differing characteristics of the citizens of these 
 several sections of the United States and Mexico, here combined and mingled, have resulted in 
 liringing- Arizona into an increasing prominence. .\t first largely attracted to the territory by its 
 remarkable mining possibilities, these men have later turned their attention to other industries. 
 They have developed agricultural resources in regions once supposed to be arid and barren. 
 They have built railroads and opened canals. At the same time they have maintained a connnend- 
 able interest in public affairs, and have given able statesmen to control and direct the territorial 
 legislative work. In fact, whatever progress Arizona has made in the past, and whatever growth 
 it will enjoy in the future, may be attributed to the energy and determination of its residents, 
 who have been undaunted by obstacles and undiscouraged by adverse circumstances. In 
 the lives of the citizens is the history of Arizona best narrated; and those who read the fol- 
 lowing pages will become acquainted with men and movements inseparably associated with the 
 history of the territory. 
 
 In the compilation of this work, and in the securing of necessary data, a innnber of writers 
 have been engaged for many months. They have visited leading citizens, and have used every 
 endeavor to produce a work accurate and trustworthy in even the smallest details. Owing to 
 the great care exercised in the preparation of biographies, the publishers believe they are giv- 
 ing their readers a work containing few errors of consequence. The biographies of some repre- 
 sentative citizens will be missed from this work : this, in some instances, was caused by their 
 absence from home when our writers called, and in other instances was caused by a failure on 
 the part of the men themselves td understand the scope of the work. The publishers, however, 
 have done everything within their power to make the volume a representative work. 
 
 The value of the data herein presented will grow with the passing years. Many facts secured 
 from men concerning their early experiences in the territory are now recorded for the first time, 
 and their preservation for future generations is thus rendered possible. Posterity will preserve 
 this volume with care, from the fact that it perpetuates biographical history which otherwise 
 would be wholly lost. In those now far-distant days will be realized, to a greater degree than at 
 the present time, the truth of Macaulay's statement that "The history of a country is best told in 
 the record of the lives of its people." 
 
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 HON. N. O. MURPHY, 
 
 GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA. 
 
 There is no name more intimately associated 
 with the history and progress of Arizona tiian 
 that of its present chief executive. This fact is 
 chie not alone to his occupancy of the hisjjhest 
 office in the territory, hut also to his long and 
 intimate connection with the mining interests 
 and public affairs of this future state. The prime 
 of his life and activity is being passed in the 
 midst of the enterprises and movements that are 
 working for territorial growth and development. 
 Scarceh- an industry can be mentioned which 
 may be regarded as a possil)le contributor to 
 local progress that has not felt the impetus of 
 his encouragement and active co-operation. Tn 
 certain important movements he has been par- 
 ticularly interested and with them his name is 
 most closely identified. 
 
 One of the movements in which he is deeply 
 interested is the development of the arid regions 
 of the west. Realizing that sufficient govern- 
 ment aid is improbable for the reclamation of the 
 millions of acres of desert lands, it has been his 
 hope that they might be ceded to the different 
 states and territories in which they are located, 
 and in this way, by the outlay of money on the 
 part of each commonwealth, its own arid lands 
 may be converted into fertile and wealth-produc- 
 ing tracts. In advocating this plan, he does so 
 with the realization that liberal appropriations 
 cannot be expected from congress, for its mem- 
 bership is composed of men from states in the 
 rain sections, who take little interest in the de- 
 velopment of arid lands. However, if the mat- 
 ter was placed in the hands of the locality vitallv 
 interested, it would be willing to bear the burden 
 in order that it might reap the rewards accruing 
 from the redemption. 
 
 Another measure to which Governor .Murphv 
 
 has devoted time and thought and labor is the 
 securing of admission as a state for Arizona. 
 Believing the territory to be fully ripe for self- 
 government, he has championed the cause of 
 statehood through the press and in the legisla- 
 tive halls of the nation. Admission is warranted 
 through the enormous increase of population in 
 the past decade, from 59,620 in i8go to 122,931 
 in 1900. It is also warranted by the hi,gh char- 
 acter of the population, which is mainly com- 
 posed of intelligent Americans. It is warranted 
 by the mineral resources of the territory, which 
 has an area in mineral lands of nearly thirty 
 million acres, with an output from the copper, 
 gold and silver mines of nearly $40,000,000 a 
 year, and possibilities for the future that are 
 illimitable. Then, too, the progress made in 
 ranching and farming warrants admission to the 
 Union. The receipts in the Salt River valley are 
 almost $2,000,000 a year. The aggregate acre- 
 age now in cultivation in the territory is nearly 
 one million, and the ainount of agricultural land 
 which may be brought under cultivation is 
 nearly ten million acres, which equals the entire 
 agricultural domain of Iowa. The average profit 
 of agriculture in the Salt River valley is from 
 $36 to $140 an acre, an amount no eastern state 
 has equalled. The alfalfa crop alone pays nearly 
 $36 an acre. One almond orchard near Mason 
 City pays its owner over $joo per acre net each 
 year. Cantaloupe crops have paid their owners 
 as much as $100 an acre. Other products have 
 been raised with equal success. When this mag- 
 nificent showing is considered, added to the 
 fact that Arizona has a population that only 
 four states surpassed at the time of their admis- 
 sion to the Union (California, Kansas, Utah and 
 Maine) an unprejudiced student of affairs must 
 concede that Arizona is well worthy to be added 
 to the galaxy of states, thereliy giving to the
 
 22 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 citizens of this commonwealth a stronger feeling 
 of security in investments, greater facility in the 
 development of natural resources, an influx of 
 industrious immigrants from the older states, to- 
 gether with the privilege of electing public 
 officials who are directly responsible to the 
 citizens themselves ; and, lastly, liberty and' free- 
 dom, the greatest privileges of Anu-rican citizen- 
 ship. 
 
 A native of Maine, born in Linci.iln county, in 
 1849, and in young manhood a teacher in \\ i^- 
 consin schools. Governor Murphy came to 
 Arizona in 1883 to engage in mining with his 
 brother, Frank M. Murphy, now president of the 
 Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railroad Com- 
 pany. His first connection with the official life 
 of the territory dates from i88g, when he was 
 appointed territorial secretary of Arizona. Two 
 years later, in May, 1892, he became governor, 
 although he had already for more than a year 
 been executive in all but name. In June, 1892, 
 he was a delegate from Arizona to the national 
 Republican convention held in Minneapolis, 
 where he secured, for the first time in a national 
 platform, a statement as to the necessities of the 
 arid regions. Although Arizona was at the time 
 Democratic, in November, 1894, he was elected 
 territorial delegate to congress, where he did all 
 within his power to bring before the considera- 
 tion of that body the needs of the territory as 
 well as the opportunities it ofifered for advan- 
 tageous cultivation. 
 
 It is a noteworthy fact that Governor Murphy 
 is the only territorial governor who has been 
 twice appointed to the office of executive. His 
 second term dates from July 16, 1898, at which 
 time President McKinley appointed him to suc- 
 ceed Hon. Myron H. McCord, who resigned to 
 accept the rank of colonel of the First Terri- 
 torial \'oluntcer Infantry in the Spanish-Ameri- 
 can war. During his present term, Clovcrnor 
 Murphy has emphasized his fitness for his high 
 office. Possessing the force of his convictions, 
 lie has always championed movements for the 
 benefit of the territory, and in his dealings with 
 the legislature he has shown himself a frank anrl 
 fearless executive. In his messages he has 
 urged the projier assessment of mines, railroatls 
 and personal i)roijerty, the reorganization of the 
 .Arizona X;ilional GiKird. the est.'d)lishnieni nf an 
 
 entirely new territorial prison, and the enact- 
 ment of primary election laws. Whatever makes 
 for the progress of the territory receives his sup- 
 port, and, both as public official and private 
 citizen, he has labored indefatigably for the 
 progress of Arizona and the development of its 
 resources. 
 
 HON. LOUIS C. HUGHFS. 
 
 In many respects the life-record of ex-Gov- 
 ernor Hughes is a history of the territorial de- 
 velopment of Arizona. Coming to Tucson in 
 December, 1871, he has since been identified 
 with the history of the city and territory, and no 
 name is better known here than his own. Prior 
 to his arrival in the southwest, he had, by dint 
 of laborious efifort, gained a thorough education 
 and received admission to the bar; and on iiis 
 arrival in Tucson he turned his attention to pro- 
 fessional practice. Soon afterward he was 
 appointed probate judge and ex-ofificio superin- 
 tendent of schools, later was twice chosen dis- 
 trict attorney, and also served in various munic- 
 ipal offices. 
 
 Establishing in 1877 the Weekly Star, and in 
 1878 the Daily Star, Mr. Hughes was thus 
 placed at the head of the first daily and the first 
 Democratic journal established in Arizona. Im- 
 mediately after its establishment, the paper be- 
 came a power in the territory. In its second 
 issue it declared a new policy for the treatment 
 of the Apache Indians, the criminal element of 
 which had caused constant disturbance and 
 brought terror amo-ng the residents of the ter- 
 ritory. Being placed on reservations, it had 
 been the custom of these Indians to sally forth, 
 at certain seasons, and everywhere they left be- 
 hind them ruin, disaster and death. Returning 
 to their reservations, they placed themselves 
 thereby under the protection of the government, 
 and the citizens were unable to mete out to 
 them the punishment their cruelties deserved. 
 Believing the only remedy was to remove the 
 worst element of these Indians entirely from the 
 territory, Mr. Hughes went to Washington, pre- 
 sented the matter fully to President Cleveland, 
 and succeeded in having a promise given that 
 the policy should be given a trial, (leu. Xel on 
 A. Miles was ;ippi)inte<l 1n settle tlu' Indian cpies-
 
 PORTRAIT AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 23 
 
 tion, whicii he did within six months by captur- 
 ing Geroninio and his tribe of Apache Tigers 
 and banishing them to Florida. 
 
 The next important question to wliich the 
 Star turned its attention was regarding the set- 
 tlement of the land grant titles in the territory. 
 The obscurity of these titles affected the posses- 
 sion of fourteen millions of acres in Southern 
 Arizona. The policy of settling the title by 
 congress the Star held to l)e too tedious, assert- 
 ing that investigation into legality of title was 
 not a legislative, but a judicial act, and that it 
 belonged to the judicial department of the gov- 
 ernment, and not to congressional committees, 
 which were changed with every congress. The 
 Star urged the creation of a special judicial tri- 
 bunal for the purpose of examining and passing 
 upon all private land claims, Spanish and Mexi- 
 can grants. The court was created, and in less 
 than ten years nearly all of the titles had been 
 settled. 
 
 .■\nother measure which the .Star advocated 
 from the first, but which has not yet been real- 
 ized, was the right of .\rizona to statehood. Not 
 only through his paper, but also by his service as 
 governor, Mr. Hughes gave himself enthusi- 
 astically to the movement for creating a state 
 out of this growing territory, it being his belief 
 that the formation of a state, with the added 
 dignities and rights thereby resulting, would at- 
 tract hither a high class of citizens from the 
 eastern and middle states. 
 
 .\pril 12, 1893, Mr. Hughes was appointed 
 governor of .Xrizona, being the eleventh to 
 occupy this office. His policy as governor was 
 that of financial retrenchment, and the first year 
 showed a reduction in the cost of maintaining all 
 institutions of from fifteen to twenty-five per 
 cent. Whereas previously the territory often had 
 an annual deficit of $40,000 or more, during his 
 first year as governor the expenditures did not 
 exceed the income ; the second year the income 
 was $50,000 more than the expenses, this result 
 being secured without any increase of taxation. 
 After his retirement from the gubernatorial 
 chair. Governor Hughes turned his attention to 
 mining, organizing the .\zurita Copper & Gold 
 Mining Com])any, of which he is now president, 
 and which is conceded to be one of the most 
 valuable groups of cdjipcr mines in the country. 
 
 CHARLES a: SHIBELL. 
 
 Mr. Shibell, who came to Arizona in 1862, and 
 is now recorder of Pima county, was born in 
 St. Louis, Mo., August 14, 1841, a son of George 
 and .Mary .\gnes (Byrne) Shibell, natives re- 
 s])ectively of Pennsylvania an<l Boston, Mass., 
 tile former of German extraction, the latter of 
 Irish descent. During the '30s the father settled 
 in .St. Louis, where he had various interests. 
 During the Mexican war he served as lieutenant 
 in a Missouri regiment. In 1861 he crossed the 
 plains to California, where he died at seventy- 
 seven years of age. His wife died in St. Louis. 
 ( )f their five children all but one attained matur- 
 ity, Charles A. being ne.xt to the oldest, and 
 the only one in Arizona. In 1854 he accompa- 
 nied his father to Davenport, Iowa, where he 
 attended the high school and Iowa College. In 
 1861 he left St. Louis with his father, traveling 
 with horse-teams via St. Joe, the North Platte, 
 and the Sweetwater, Humboldt and Carson 
 route through South Pass, to California, the trip 
 from St. Joe consuming sixty days. 
 
 After a short period as a clerk in Sacramento, 
 in the fall of 1861 Mr. Shibell entered the gov- 
 ernment employ as teamster. February 15, 1862, 
 he arrived at Fort Yuma, and from there started 
 toward the Rio Grande with the First and Fifth 
 California Infantry and the First California Cav- 
 alry Regiments. During this expedition he vis- 
 ited Tucson. On the ist of January, 1863, he 
 was transferred to Arizona, and returned to Tuc- 
 son, then a small town. After a few months 
 more of government service, he turned his at- 
 tention to mining, later engaged in ranching 
 and in transportation between Tucson and 
 'N'lnna. lie acted as treasurer of the Tucson 
 Ihiilding & Loan Association and also of the 
 Citizens Building & Loan Association. From 
 1865 to 1868 he engaged in farming sixty-five 
 miles south of Tucson. In 1876 he was elected 
 sheriff of Pima county, and was re-elected in 
 1878, serving four years. Next he became inter- 
 ested in the hotel business, operating what is 
 now the Occidental. In 1888 he was nominated 
 county recorder on the Democratic ticket and 
 was dulv re-elected. So satisfactory was his 
 service that he was re-elected successively in 
 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898 and 19CX), the last
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 time without opposition, and with the endorse- 
 ment of the Repubhcans. 
 
 Bv his first marriage Mr. Shibell had four 
 children: Mamie A. and LiUie M., of Tucson; 
 Charles B., of Los Angeles, Cal.; and Mercedes 
 A., Mrs. Green, of Los Angeles. The second 
 marriage of Mr. Shibell took place in San 
 Francisco and united liim with Miss Nellie Nor- 
 ton, a native of Alabama. To this union were 
 born two children; Lionel J., who is in the em- 
 ploy of the Southern Pacific Railroad; and 
 Orpha. Fraternally Mr. Shibell is connected 
 with the National L'nion and the .\ncient Order 
 of United Workmen. In the .Arizona Society 
 of Pioneers he has held the offices of secretary 
 and president. During three years in which 
 he was a member of the board of school trus- 
 tees he was for one year president, and for two 
 vears clerk of the board. 
 
 ALONZO BAILEY. 
 
 Alonzo Bailey, ice manufacturer and mining 
 operator, residing at Globe, Gila county, is 
 recognized as one of the most influential and 
 public-spirited citizens of his town. A native 
 of Dresden, Ohio, he was born February 5, 1847, 
 and is a son of Lawrence and Laura (Graves) 
 Bailey, natives respectively of Brookline, N. H., 
 and Croton Falls, Mass., and both of English 
 descent. Lawrence Bailey moved to Ohio in 
 1830, there married and became a large land 
 holder. He died in 1871 and his wife in 1867. 
 
 Until attaining the age of nineteen years, 
 Alonzo Bailey resided at home, meantime re- 
 ceiving his education in the public schools and 
 Kenyon College. After the death of his mother 
 in 1867, he went to Colorado and for two years 
 was engaged in farming and dairy work at Fort 
 Lupton. Subsequently he engaged in contract- 
 ing witii the Santa Fe and the Missouri, Kansas 
 & Texas railroads in Kansas and Texas for three 
 years. In 1872 lie removed to Silver City, N. 
 .M.. where he erected a sawmill, kept a set of 
 i)ooks, and served in various other capacities for 
 local concerns. His residence in Globe dates 
 from 1877, and for a year he engaged in mer- 
 chandising. From that time until icjoo he was 
 continuously devoted to the same line of busi- 
 ness, but in that \ear dispose<l of his interests. 
 
 For some time he acted as president of the Old 
 Dominion Commercial Company of Globe, es- 
 tablished in 1891. 
 
 From the earliest days of his residence in 
 Arizona, Mr. Bailey has been interested in min- 
 ing, and for some time was a principal owner in 
 the pioneer property and a large investor in the 
 Old Dominion. For several years he has l)een 
 associated with Alfred Kinney in the ice-manu- 
 facturing business, the two partners having de- 
 veloped the plant from a capacity of one ton per 
 day to that of twelve tons. The firm has adopted 
 the use of a Holden regealed ice machine. In 
 connection with the plant is a soda-water works. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Bailey is prominent in 
 Masonry, having been initiated into the order at 
 Silver City, N. M., in 1876. He is a charter 
 member of the blue lodge and chapter at Globe; 
 is a member of Arizona Commandery No. i, 
 K. T., of Tucson ; and Al Malaikah Temple, N. 
 M. S., of Los Angeles. In 1884 he served as 
 grand master of the grand lodge of Arizona, 
 which he had assisted in organizing two years 
 before. He is past grand master of the Odd 
 Fellows for Arizona. In the Episcopal Clun-cli 
 of Globe, of which he was an organizer, he 
 serves as senior warden. Politically he has 
 always been a consistent Democrat. He was a 
 member of the constitutional convention of .Ari- 
 zona and served in the council in the thirteenth 
 legislature. Among his interests are important 
 real estate holdings in Globe. In 1880 he mar- 
 ried Sarah Keimedy, a native of Kansas, and a 
 daughter of John Kennedy, a pioneer stockman 
 of Arizona, who was drowned in the \'erde river 
 in 1892. Mr. and Mrs. P>ailey have three 
 children, Wynette, Edith and Gertrude, all re- 
 siding at home. 
 
 EDWARD A. SAWYER. 
 
 Though a native of (Germany, Mr. Sawver has 
 i)een a resident of this country since his eigiith 
 year, and for twenty-three years has been iden- 
 tified with the far west. Born in 1858. he came 
 to the Unitetl States with an uncle in 1866, and 
 for eight years resided in Columbia, Tenn., 
 where he was educated. In 1874 he reiuoved to 
 C'incinnati. Ohio, and in that city remained until 
 1878. when the excitement accompanying the 
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 he removed to Otero, N. M., then a town of 
 about two thousand inhabitants, but now de- 
 funct. 
 
 The following years, up to 1885, Mr. Sawyer 
 spent principally in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, 
 where he continued in the same vocation, that 
 of clerk in mercantile houses. In 1885 he set- 
 tled in Winslow, and, forming a partnership 
 with Julius Lesser, engaged in the general mer- 
 cantile business, which relation has been sus- 
 tained to the present time. His business career 
 has been attended by success. Aside from the 
 business which engages most of his time, he has 
 been interested in stock-raising and mining in 
 various sections of Arizona. \\'ith his partner, 
 at one time he was interested in the manufacture 
 of brick, their plant producing the material from 
 which the schoolhouse, roundhouse and depot 
 hotel at \\'inslovv are constructed. 
 
 In politics a Democrat, Mr. Sawyer is one of 
 the most influential men of his party in Navajo 
 county. By appointment he served as the first 
 county treasurer upon the separation of Navajo 
 from Apache county in 1895. He was also the 
 first mayor of Winslow. For several years he 
 served as a member of the territorial central 
 Democratic committee. It is a noteworthy fact 
 that he has attended every territorial Democratic 
 convention since he became a resident of Ari- 
 zona. Fraternally he is a member of the blue 
 lodge in Masonry, a charter member of Winslow 
 lodge No. 13, in which he has passed all the 
 chairs, and is connected with the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks. He is one of the 
 public-spirited citizens of Winslow, and may al- 
 ways be depended upon to do his full share 
 toward furthering any movement inspired by a 
 desire to advance the best interests of his town. 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM H. BARNES. 
 
 Called to the exalted and highly responsible 
 office of associate justice of the supreme court 
 of .\rizona, Judge William H. Barnes acquitted 
 himself with distinction during his term, which 
 covered four years from 1885 to 1889. He also 
 enjoys the honor of having been the second 
 president of the Arizona Territorial Bar Associa- 
 tiiin. in wliicli orjrauization his counsels have 
 
 borne great weight during the more than a dec- 
 ade and a half of his identification with the 
 same. High as he undoubtedly stands in his 
 profession, he is equally important as a factor in 
 the councils of the Democratic party, and four 
 times, in 1876, 1880, 1884 and 1892, he was 
 chosen to represent his locality in the national 
 conventions of his party in the capacity of a 
 delegate. 
 
 The general public of Tucson and .\rizona 
 maintain such a degree of interest in Judge W. 
 H. Barnes that the follow'ing facts in regard to 
 his family and early history have been compiled. 
 His paternal grandfather removed from Mary- 
 land, his birthplace, to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 
 the early part of the just-completed century, and 
 in that town occurred the birth of Rev. William 
 Barnes, the judge's father, in 181 2. He received 
 a liberal education, completing his studies at 
 Yale, and was a minister of the Congregational 
 Church for many years. In 1853 he removed to 
 Alton, 111., and later, retiring from active labors, 
 spent his declining days in Jacksonville, 111. For 
 a wife he had chosen Eunice, daughter of Na- 
 thaniel Hubbard, and a native of Manchester, 
 Conn. Her father, who was a farmer, lived and 
 died in Connecticut, and her mother — a Miss 
 Talcott in her girlhood — was a niece of the 
 celebrated hero, Capt. Nathan Hale, who so 
 tragically lost his life in the war of the Revolu- 
 tion. 
 
 Judge W. H. Barnes was born in Hampton, 
 Conn., in 1843 — one of the four children of Rev. 
 William and Eunice Barnes. His brother, Capt. 
 N. H. Barnes, who died at Hartford, Conn., in 
 1899, was an officer in the United States navy. 
 When ten years of age, the judge became a resi- 
 dent of Illinois, and, after leaving the public 
 schools of .Alton entered the Illinois College at 
 Jacksonville, and subsequently w-as graduated 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1865, 
 from the University of Michigan. Then, taking 
 up the study of law, he was admitted to the bar 
 of Jacksonville, 111., in i866, and at once em- 
 barked in the practice of his chosen profession. 
 Continuing to rise among the lawyers of that 
 city, he enjoyed the confidence and genuine re- 
 gard of all with whom he was associated, and 
 . when he determined to cast in his lot with the 
 great southwest, it was a matter of sincere re-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 gret to his fellow-citizens of so long standing. 
 Since 1885 he has been identified with Tucson, 
 and, as previously stated, was an associate 
 justice of the supreme court of Arizona during 
 the first four years of his residence here, repre- 
 senting the first judicial district. In the 
 fraternities, he is connected with the Odd Fel- 
 lows and Order of Elks and was initiated into 
 Masonry in Tucson Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M. 
 
 In his early manhood, Judge Barnes was 
 united in marriage with Miss Belle J. Dail\-, the 
 ceremony being performed in Carthage, 111. The 
 only child born to them is Josephine, now the 
 wife of Col. John H. Martin, who has been in 
 command of the First Arizona National Guard 
 for the past nine years, and who is the junior 
 member of the well-known law firm of Barnes & 
 Martin, of Tucson. 
 
 EPES RANDOLPH. 
 
 Epes Randolph was born and reared in the 
 state of Virginia. A civil engineer of some 
 twenty odd _\ears' experience in the general 
 I)ractice of the profession, his most importani 
 connections have been as follows : Chief engineer. 
 Kentucky Central Railway, headquarters Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio ; chief engineer and general superin- 
 tendent, Elizabethtown, Lexington & Big Sand\ 
 Railway and Ohio & Big Sandy Railroad, head- 
 quarters Lexington, Ky. : chief engineer. Hunt- 
 ington Bridge, crossing the Ohio river at Cincin- 
 nati, and of the Louisville and JefTersonville 
 Bridge, crossing the Ohio river at Louisville, Ky.. 
 headquarters Cincinnati, Ohio;chief engineer and 
 general superintendent, Chesapeake, Ohio & 
 Southwestern Railway and controlled lines, head- 
 quarters Louisville, Ky. The above engagements 
 were filled between the years 1880 and 1895. 
 Superintendent Southern Pacific Company's lines 
 in Arizona and New Mexico from 1805 to this 
 date. 
 
 J. C. ADAMS. 
 
 The present pojudar postmaster and former 
 mayor of Phoenix is an exceptionally enterpris- 
 ing business man, and the important part he has 
 taken in the development of the city and in the 
 ])ublic affairs of Arizona, entitle him to a promi- 
 nent place in the roll of public-spirited citizens. 
 
 Today the beautiful Hotel Adams, one of the 
 finest modern hotels of the west and one of the 
 most imposing buildings in Phoenix, stands as 
 a monument to his genius and exemplifies the 
 faith he has always felt in the city's growth and 
 prosperity. 
 
 A native of Kingston, Canada, J. C. .Adams 
 was born in 1862, a son of J. O. and Margaret 
 Adams. His youth was chiefly spent in Illinois, 
 and his literary education was completed in Hed- 
 ding College, at Abingdon, that state. Later 
 he took up the study of law, and was graduated 
 from the law department of the Northwestern 
 L'niversity at Evanston, 111. In the mean time 
 he traveled for Janeway & Co., of New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J., remaining in the employ of that firm 
 for about five years, and making his home in 
 Rock Island, III, where he served for a term 
 in the city council. From 1890 to 1896 he en- 
 gaged in the practice of law in Chicago, where 
 he met with an encouraging degree of success. 
 
 On coming to Arizona, Mr. Adams made care- 
 ful investigations into its resources and pros- 
 pects, and the result was that he concluded to 
 settle in the territory. Purchasing property on 
 the corner of Adams street and Central avenue. 
 Phoenix, he set about the task of erecting the 
 hotel which bears his name, and which was built 
 under his personal supervision in every detail. 
 It is four stories in height, constructed of pressed 
 brick, with brown stone trimmings, and has a 
 frontage of a half block on each of the streets 
 named. The fact is noteworthy that within six 
 months after the ground was Ijroken for the 
 foundations, the building was completed, fur- 
 nished and in running order. Sixty-six of the 
 two hundred rooms (all outside rooms) are 
 equipped with private bathrooms, with porce- 
 lain tubs. Each room is provided with French 
 windows, opening upon verandas fifteen feet 
 wide, a very desirable feature in this climate. 
 The two dining rooms are spacious, the halls 
 wide, and the office, 60x40 feet, afltords every 
 convenience desired by guests. From Novem- 
 ber to May the hotel is managed on the Ameri- 
 can plan, rates ranging upward from $3 per day, 
 while the rest of the year the European plan 
 jirevails. 
 
 Few things in Phoenix are better calculated 
 to disabuse the minds of eastern people of the
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 idea that the far west is a semi-civilized com- 
 munity, where modern luxuries are compara- 
 tivel}- unknown, than a sojourn, however brief, 
 at the Plotel Adams. The tables are supplied 
 with all the delicacies which are procurable from 
 eastern and western markets, and local mar- 
 kets vie with one another in providing the best 
 of everything to the fortunate mortals domiciled 
 within these hospitable walls. It amazes many 
 to learn that often sixty employes are connected 
 with the establishment. Those who are aware 
 that this is the first hotel business with which 
 the proprietor has ever been associated are as 
 much surprised as interested to witness his re- 
 markable success. The handsome quarters of 
 the IMaricopa Club, those of the New York Life 
 Insurance Company, also a first-class drug store 
 and the offices of numerous leading physicians 
 are located in the hotel building. 
 
 From his early manhood j\lr. Adams has been 
 a valued worker in the Republican party, and 
 at present is chairman of the territorial Re- 
 publican central committee of Arizona. At 
 twenty-one he was elected by his party friends 
 of Rock Island to the city council, which fact 
 was notable, owing to his residence in a Demo- 
 cratic ward. Within a year and a half after his 
 settlement in Phoenix he was elected mayor of 
 the city, a tribute to his sterling worth and gen- 
 eral ability. In February, 1891, he resigned that 
 office to enter upon his present duties as post- 
 master, and as such has justified the wisdom of 
 the administration in calling him to this respon- 
 sible position. In 1899 he served as president of 
 the Phoenix board of trade. Fraternally he is 
 connected with the F.Iks and the Knights of 
 Pythias. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Adams married Miss Anna 
 Dimick, of Rock Island, 111., and they have one 
 child, Margaret. Mrs. Adams is a daughter of 
 Otis J. Dimick, a prominent business man of 
 Rock Island and Chicago. 
 
 JUDGE RICHARD E. SLOAN. 
 
 Judge Richard F. Sloan is one of the most 
 conspicuous figures in the history of jurispru- 
 dence in Arizona. Endowed by nature with 
 strong mental qualities, a keen, logical power 
 of resolving knotty problems of law, he is well 
 
 adapted to his chosen field of endeavor. His 
 career at the bar has been one of the greatest 
 honor, and for many years he has been known 
 far and wide for his sterling integrity and fear- 
 less loyalty to his convictions of right and 
 justice. 
 
 The patriotic and worthy family represented 
 by Judge Sloan is an old and honored one in 
 the United States. It originated in the northern 
 part of Ireland several generations ago, and our 
 subject's great-grandfather, Richard Sloan, w-as 
 the founder of the line in America. Settling in 
 South Carolina, his son Richard, and grandson 
 Richard, in the direct line of descent, were there 
 born and dwelt. His son Richard Sloan was a 
 participant in the Revolutionary war. and spent 
 his life upon a South Carolina plantation, and 
 his son, in turn, Richard Sloan, held a captaincy 
 in the war of 1812. Captain Sloan was a stanch 
 Presbyterian, and was opposed to the slavery 
 system, for which reason he joined a colony and 
 located some land in Preble county, Ohio, there 
 passing the rest of his life. 
 
 The parents of Judge Sloan are Dr. Richard 
 and ]\Iary (Caldwell) Sloan, the former horn in 
 South Carolina and the latter near Hamilton. 
 Ohio, though her father, Nathan Caldwell, also 
 was a native of South Carolina. She is of Scotch- 
 Irish extraction, and her grandfather, Capt. 
 William Caldwell, of the state just mentioned, 
 and a planter of prominence, held a commission 
 as an officer in the war for independence. He 
 died in Ohio. Nathan Caldwell was one of the 
 [jioneers of the Piuckeye state and owned a 
 valuable farm adjacent to Hamilton. He was 
 accidentally drowned in the Miami river. 
 
 Dr. Richard Sloan was graduated in the Ohio 
 ^Medical College at Cincinnati and for many 
 years w-as actively engaged in practice in Preble 
 county, Ohio. A strong abolitionist, he was 
 identified with the Whig party until the Repub- 
 licans were organized, when he joined their 
 ranks. His widow, now in her eightieth year, is 
 yet living on the old homestead near Oxford, 
 Ohio, and of their five children two sons and a 
 daughter survive. Mr. Sloan had been previ- 
 ouslv married, and his son by that union, Joseph 
 Ci., served in the Forty-seventh Ohio \'olunteers 
 during the Civil war and now resides in Pawnee 
 City, Neb.
 
 2,2 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Judge Sloan was born on the farm near Ox- 
 ford, Ohio, June 22, 1857, and was reared in that 
 state. An apt student, he pursued a course in 
 Monmouth College, where he was graduated 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1877, and 
 later, the degree of Master of Arts was bestowed 
 upon him. For about a year he taught in a pre- 
 paratory school and at that time took up legal 
 studies under the supervision of Mr. James, of 
 Hamilton, Ohio. In 1878 he went to Denver, 
 Colo., where he continued his researches in legal 
 lore, also being employed on the "Rocky Moun- 
 tnin News" as a journalist. In 1879 he went to 
 Leadville, and later became a temporary resident 
 of the mining camp of Breckenridge. Remain- 
 ing in that locality until January, 1882, he then 
 concluded to return to the law. 
 
 Matriculating in the Cincinnati (Ohio) Law 
 College, he was graduated there in 1884 and 
 started on an extended trip through the west 
 and northwest. In the autumn he located in 
 Phoenix, Ariz., and remained there about two 
 years, engaged in law practice. He then re- 
 moved to Florence, and in the autumn of 1886 
 was elected district attorney of Pinal county. In 
 1888 he was honored by election to the council 
 of the fifteenth general assembly of Arizona and 
 in that session served as chairman of the judi- 
 ciary committee and was a member of several 
 other committees. In October, 1889, under the 
 appointment of President Harrison, he was in- 
 stalled as associate justice of the Supreme 
 Court; with his headquarters at Tucson he pre- 
 sided over the first judicial district which then 
 embraced the territory now comprised in Pima, 
 Cochise, Graham and Santa Cruz counties. 
 
 June I, 1894, after he had made a splendid 
 record on the bench. Judge Sloan stepped down 
 into the private walks of life, owing to the 
 change in the administration. Having carefully 
 considered the matter, he decided to make 
 Prescott his place of future residence, and 
 arriving here, at once embarked upon a practice 
 which steadily increased in importance. In July. 
 1897, he was again honored by the chief execu- 
 tive of the United States, and under his appoint- 
 ment assumed once more the arduous duties of 
 an associate justice of the supreme court of 
 -Arizona. Since that time he has served in the 
 fourth judicial district which embraces the 
 
 counties of Yavapai, Mohave. Coconino, Apache 
 and Navajo. He belongs to the Territorial Bar 
 Association. Naturally, the extensive mining 
 interests of this territory have engaged his earn- 
 est attention, and besides having made invest- 
 ments in mining property, he has made a special 
 study of the laws relating to the subject. In 
 politics, he is an ardent Republican, as was his 
 father before him. Like him. reared in the 
 Presbyterian faith, he adheres to its principles, 
 though he attends the Congregational Church 
 of this city. 
 
 In Hamilton, Ohio, Judge Sloan married Miss 
 Mary Brown, one of the native daughters of that 
 place. Her father, William E. Brown, a success- 
 ful member of the local bar, is now the president 
 of the Second National Bank of Hamilton. Mrs. 
 Brown bore the maiden name of Mary Becket, 
 and comes of an old and respected family of 
 Hamilton. Mrs. Sloan possesses qualities which 
 render her presence a great addition to the best 
 social circles, and her education was completed 
 at Vassar College. Three children have been 
 born of this union : Eleanor, Richard E, and 
 Marv Caldwell. 
 
 ALFRED KINNEY. 
 
 Alfred Kinney, ice manufacturer and owner 
 of important mining enterprises, residing at 
 Globe, Gila county, has been one of the most 
 important contributors to the upbuilding of the 
 community in which he lives. Born in Greene 
 county, Ohio, January 5, 1856, he is a son of 
 Aaron and Sarah Kinney, who removed with 
 their family to Iowa in 1866. At the age of 
 fourteen years Alfred Kinney left his home to 
 make a way for himself in the world. Going to 
 Denver, Colo., he spent three years in the shops 
 of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, learning 
 the machinist's trade, after which he removed 
 to Trinidad in the same territory and operated 
 a sash and door factory. 
 
 After various other ventures, in 1878 he went 
 to New Mexico and sawed bridge timbers for 
 the Santa Fe Railroad Company for about two 
 years. Later he spent two months in Silver 
 City, N. M., after which he came to Arizona 
 January 5, 1881, and at once erected a sawmill
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 35 
 
 in the Pinal mountains, near Globe. Here he 
 engaged in sawing logs until May 6. following, 
 when, while thus laboring, he lost his right arm 
 by falling partly upon the saw. Si.x days later, 
 May 12, i88i, he was united in marriage with 
 Mrs. Clara W'eissig, a native of Germany. Im- 
 mediately afterward he came to Globe, erected a 
 house and began the manufacture of ice and the 
 bottling of soda water. For several years he 
 continued this business in partnership with 
 Alonzo Bailey, in the meantime also engaging in 
 mining in the Globe district. His wife, too, is 
 interested in mining, and is recognized as an 
 expert in this business. He owns one group of 
 mines on Mineral Creek and another group at 
 Riverside, one of the properties, the Bryan 
 mine, co])])cr and gold, being held by him at 
 $100,000. 
 
 Politicalh' Mr. Kiimey is independent, inva- 
 riably casting his vote for the man whom he be- 
 lieves to be best fitted for office. He is identi- 
 fied with tlie Knights of Pythias and with the 
 Odd Fellows, and has passed all the chairs in the 
 local lodge of the latter order. With his wife, 
 he is connected with the Rebekah lodge. 
 
 COL. WILLIAM CHRISTY. 
 
 Col. William Christy, president of tlie \ alle\ 
 Bank of Phoenix, is a member of a family long 
 identified with the history of the L'nited States 
 and to whose brave endurance of pioneer hard- 
 ships not a little of the development of our 
 country may be justly attributed. Originallv 
 from Scotland, thence migrating to the north of 
 Ireland at the time of the religious persecutions 
 in the former country, the family settled in Xew 
 Jersey during the latter part of the eighteentli 
 century. 
 
 Colonel Christy's grandfather, William 
 Christy, was a soldier in the war of 1812, during 
 which conflict he served with valor and fidelity. 
 By occupation a merchant tailor, he was for 
 some years engaged in that calling in Xew 
 Jersey, but finally removed with his family lo 
 Ohio, which at the time was considered the "far" 
 west. By means of blazed trees he ft)llowed the 
 unknown path, through trackless forests and 
 over wide-rolling prairies, to Tnnubull county, 
 
 where he settled on new land near Warren. The 
 outlook was one to discourage a man of les.i 
 strength of character than he possessed. No 
 improvements had been made. On everv hand 
 could be seen a thick forest. Neighbors there 
 were none. With the firmness of ]nirpose that 
 ever characterized him, he set about the difficult 
 task of placing the land under cultivation. The 
 first work was to hew the timber and burn the 
 logs, from which potasli was made, and this was 
 later sold, furnishing the family with moncv 
 needed for the paying of taxes. It is a com- 
 mentary ni)on the primitive customs of that dav 
 to state that there was little need for money for 
 any other purpose than this, as the necessities 
 of life were secured by trade or exchange. 
 
 Finally, after years of tireless efTort, William 
 Christy became the owner of a valuable home- 
 stead, one of the finest for miles around. His 
 last days were spent in quiet retirement, sur- 
 rounded by all the comforts of existence. At 
 the time of his death he was ninety-six years of 
 age. His wife was Margaret Snook, a native of 
 Germany, who accompanied her parents to 
 .\merica in childhood and settled in Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 At the time of the removal to Ohio, George 
 Christy, the Colonel's father, was a boy of 
 thirteen. His advantages were somewhat better 
 than those received by many in similar circum- 
 stances, and his schooling was sufficient to en- 
 able him to engage successfully in teaching. 
 Reared to farm pursuits, through his imaided 
 efforts he cleared a farm comprising about one 
 hundred acres. Somewhat later he turned his 
 attention to the mercantile business in Old- 
 town, where he remained until his store was 
 i)iirned down. In 1854, accompanied by his 
 family, he traveled via railroad to Rock Island. 
 111., and thence with teams to Osceola, Clarke 
 county, Iowa, where he secured two hundred 
 acres of government land. L'niike the property 
 on which his father had settled, this was a tract 
 of prairie land, and its cultivation was therefore 
 a less difficult task. He became influential in 
 local politics and was elected sheriff of Clarke 
 county on the Whig ticket. .\t the time of the 
 slaverv agitation, he espoused the cause of the 
 Abolitionists and had a station of the under- 
 groinul railroad on his farm. W'heti the Repub-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 lican party was organized, he idcnlified liiniself 
 with the new movement and ever afterward sup- 
 ported its principles. His interest in the anti- 
 slaverv cause was so great that he endeavored 
 to secure admission into the army, as a member 
 of the "Graybeards"' Regiment, but was re- 
 jected. He lived to see the institution of slavery 
 abolished and to rejoice in the perpetuity of the 
 Union. Fraternally he was connected with the 
 Odd Fellows. .\t the time of his death, in 
 August, 1869. he was fifty-four years of age. 
 
 The wife of George Christy was Jane Mar- 
 shall, a native of Trumbull county, Ohio, and a 
 daughter of Isaac Marshall, who was born in 
 ]^Iassachusetts, going from there to Ohio about 
 i8co and improving a farm in Trumbull countv. 
 During the war of 181 2 he served as a member 
 of an Ohio regiment. The farm that he bough: 
 from the government is today owned by his son, 
 Huston, who is eighty years of age. He himself 
 died when seventy-five. His father, who was a 
 Revolutionary soldier, died in Massachusetts. 
 The family descended from English ancestry and 
 were of the Presbyterian faith. Mrs. Jane 
 Christy died at the old home farm in Iowa. 
 January 13, 1901. Of her nine children all but 
 three attained mature years. William being the 
 second child and oldest son. The others are Mrs. 
 Lucinda Bonar ; Marshall, who was a sergeant 
 in the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, and is now living 
 in Phoenix, Ariz. ; Miles, a corporal in the 
 Eighth Iowa Cavalry, and now a business man 
 of Des Moines, Iowa; Orlo, a farmer living in 
 Phoenix; and Mrs. Theckla Kendall, of Iowa. 
 Both Mr. Bonar and Mr. Kendal! were soldiers 
 in the Civil war. 
 
 Col. William Christy was born in Trumbull 
 county, Ohio, February 14, 1841, and was 
 thirteen years of age when the family settled on 
 a farm near Oseola. Iowa. Although he had 
 few opportunities to attend school, he was of 
 such a diligent, industrious disposition that he 
 was fitted to teach school, which occupation he 
 began at the age of seventeen. He was a young 
 man of twenty when the Civil war threw its dark 
 shadow over our country. With the patriotic 
 fervor that was his by right of descent from 
 Revolutionary forefathers, he determined to en- 
 list in the Union army. July, 1861, found him a 
 member of a regiment organized to protect the 
 
 border. In ( )ctober of the same year he en- 
 listed in the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, being 
 mustered into service at Keokuk as a private. 
 In December, 1862, he was transferred to the 
 Eighth Iowa Cavalry and was commissioned 
 second lieutenant of Company D. During his 
 connection with the Fifteenth Regiment, he 
 participated in the battle of Shiloh, Siege of 
 -Corinth, and battles of luka and Corinth. Later 
 he was a member of a cavalry guard in Kentucky 
 and Tennessee, then took part in the battles of 
 Dalton, Buzzard's Roost, Snake Creek Gap, and 
 other engagements preceding the fall of Atlanta 
 and Stoneman's raid to relieve Andersonville. 
 In the battle of Jonesboro, July 29, 1864, he was 
 wounded four times, while leading a sabre 
 charge. In spite of the wounds in both shoulders 
 and through the left hand and arm, he made his 
 way back to the rear of the column and again 
 led a charge against the enemy. 
 
 The next day he was captured by the Confed- 
 erates and sent to a hospital in Newman, Ga.. 
 where he was seriously ill for three months. 
 From there he was transferred to the hospital 
 at Macon, and in December, 1864, was sent to 
 Milan prison, but a month later was paroled 
 under special arrangements. In February he 
 was exchanged. Meantime, during his imprison- 
 ment, he had been commissioned captain, and 
 as such he returned to his regiment, still, how- 
 ever, carrying his left arm in a sling. He had 
 command of his company in the Wilson raid, the 
 capture of Selma, and the battles of Mont- 
 gomery and Tuscaloosa. As soon as a vacancy 
 occurred, at the close of the war, he was raised 
 to the rank of lieutenant-colonel of his regiment. 
 At Macon, Ga., he was mustered out in August, 
 1865. 
 
 The serious nature of Colonel Christy's 
 wounds may be inferred from the statement 
 that, for more than three years after his return 
 home, he was obliged to carry his left arm in a 
 sling. This, however, did not prevent him from 
 entering actively upon a business career. After 
 completing a course in Bryant & Stratton's 
 Business College, at Burlington, Iowa, he taught 
 in that school for six months and then returnet! 
 to Osceola. In the spring of 1867 he became 
 cashier of H. C. Sigler's Bank, in Osceola, 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 i7 
 
 the interval having been nicrt^od inlo tin- ['irsl 
 National Bank of Osceola. 
 
 Meantime Colonel Chri.sty bad been active in 
 the Republican party. Hi.'; patriotic .spirit was 
 as evident in times of peace as in days of war. 
 and he was always interested in plans for the 
 party's welfare and success. Tn i<S72. on the Re- 
 publican ticket, he was elected state treasurer of 
 Iowa, receiving; a majority of sixty-eis'ht tliou- 
 sand votes and running three thousand ahead of 
 the presidential candidate, U. S. Grant. .\t the 
 expiration of two years he was re-elected \.o the 
 office, serving from January. 1873, to January, 
 1877, and meantime making his home in Des 
 Moines. On his retirement as state treasurer, 
 he became cashier and a director of the Capital 
 City Bank of Des Moines, in which capacity he 
 continued until 1881, meantime assisting in the 
 organization of the Merchants National Bank of 
 Des Moines, of which he was elected cashier. 
 
 On account of ill health. Colonel Christy 
 found it exjjcdient to resign his various positions 
 in Iowa and seek a more genial climate. Ac- 
 cordingly, in .\ugust, 1882, he came to Arizona, 
 where he purchased a ranch forty-five miles 
 north of Prescott. During the eighteen months 
 of his residence upon that place, he not only re- 
 gained his health, but found the cultivation of 
 his land and the raising of cattle a source of 
 financial profit. Coming to Phoenix in 1883, he 
 bought a farm west of Phoenix, consisting of 
 four hundred and forty acres, and here he has 
 since made his home, actively superintending its 
 management and engaging in stock-raising. 
 With his brother, he was interested in the in- 
 troduction of the first Shorthorns ever brought 
 to Arizona, and in this way has been an impor- 
 tant factor in the development of the stock in- 
 terests in this territory. Realizing the need of 
 irrigation, he has been a director in three canal 
 companies and acted as vice-president of the 
 company that built the Arizona canal. .Mto- 
 gether, his landed interests in the territory ag- 
 gregate one thousand acres, nuich of which is 
 tillable land. 
 
 The management of his property, however, 
 does not represent the area of Colonel Christy's 
 activities. In 1883 the Valley Bank was organ- 
 ized with a capital stock of $50,000 and himself 
 as cashier. Four years later the capital was in- 
 
 creased to .$100,000, and in 1890 he was chosen 
 its president, which responsible position he still 
 holds. Besides himself, the directors are Lloyd 
 B. Christy, E. J. Bennett, F. C. Hatch, M. H. 
 Sherman. J. C. Kirk))atrick and W. D. Fui- 
 weller ; the latter is also cashier and Lloyd B. 
 Christy assistant cashier. The \'allcy Bank is 
 incorporated under the laws of .Arizona, and a 
 general banking business is transacted. Its cor- 
 respondents are the Continental Bank of Chi- 
 cago, American Exchange National Bank of 
 New York, Wells-Fargo & Go's. Bank of San 
 Francisco, the First National Bank of Los 
 Angeles and Inter-State National Bank of 
 Kansas City. From the time of its organization 
 the \'alley Bank has had a successful history and 
 it has proved a great advantage to the growing 
 country in wliich it is located. Its soundness as 
 a financial institution is known to all bankers, 
 and it has the confidence of depositors to an im- 
 usual degree. 
 
 In the matter of fruit-raising. Colonel Christy 
 has been a jMoneer. Upon coining to .Vrizona 
 and studying the soil, climate, etc., he became 
 satisfied that citrus fruits could be grown in cer- 
 tain sections of the territory, and accordingly 
 gave his attention to the growing of oranges. 
 He successfully demonstrated that a fine quality 
 of oranges can be grown here, and also proved 
 that olives and peaches can be grown. In this 
 way he has been an influential factor in develop- 
 ing a new industry whose value will grow with 
 each passing year. 
 
 The marriage of Colonel Christy took place in 
 .\urora. III.. August 22, 1866, and united him 
 with ]\Iiss Carrie E. Bennett, a native of 
 Schuyler county, N. Y., and a daughter of 
 Charles M. Bennett, who removed from New 
 York to Illinois in an early day. The family of 
 Colonel and Mrs. Christy consists of five 
 children, namely: Lloyd B., who is a graduate 
 of the University of Southern California and as- 
 sistant cashier of the X'alley Bank: George, a 
 graduate of the University of Southern Cali- 
 fornia and Harvard College, who is an attorney 
 in Phoenix: Shirley, who acts as general agent 
 for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New 
 York in .\rizona and resides at Phoenix : Carrie 
 and Carroll, at home. During the Spani.sh- 
 .\merican war George and .'Shirley enlisted in
 
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 the service. The former was one of the first to 
 enHst in the First Territorial Infantry and 
 served as captain of Company A. The latter was 
 chief clerk to Paymaster Stillwell during the war. 
 
 In Masonry Colonel Christy stands high. He 
 was made a Mason in Iowa Lodge No. 5, A. F. 
 & A. M., at Des Moines, of which he was secre- 
 tarv and treasurer ; since then he has transferred 
 his membership to Arizona Lodge No. i. He 
 was made a Royal Arch Mason in Phoenix 
 Chapter No. i, R. A. M., and is also identified 
 with the commandery and Shriners at Phoeni.x. 
 and California Commandery, Loyal Legion, at 
 San Francisco. All matters pertaining to the 
 Grand Army of the Republic receive his 
 thoughtful attention, and he holds membership 
 in J. W. Owen Post No. 5. In religion he is 
 identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 At the time of the building of the edifice hero 
 he was chairman of the building committee. 
 
 The political activities of Colonel Christy did 
 not terminate with his removal from Iowa. 
 Here, as there, he has been steadfast in his al- 
 legiance to the Republican party, which un- 
 doubtedly has no member more prominent than 
 he, within the bounds of the territory. LTnder 
 Governor Irwin, in 1891 he was appointed ter- 
 ritorial treasurer, which office he filled for one 
 term. Twice he has been chosen chairman of 
 the territorial Republican committee, and prior 
 to his removal from Iowa he held a similar posi- 
 tion in the state central committee. In 1896 he was 
 chairman of the territorial delegation to the na- 
 tional Republican convention held in .St. Louis. 
 
 From the above review, it will be seen that 
 Colonel Christy has been a potent factor in the 
 advancement of Arizona. Not only have the 
 financial interests of the territory received the 
 impetus of his sound judgment and wise over- 
 sight, but other industries have been benefited 
 by his residence here, notably the fruit-growing 
 and cattle-raising interests. Religious, philan- 
 thropic and educational movements have been 
 the beneficiaries of his constant regard, and their 
 welfare has been promoted by his abilit\- and 
 watchful oversight. In the years to come, when 
 Arizona shall have risen to statehood and at- 
 tained a position of eminence among our 
 western states, the name of Col. William Christy 
 will be given a high place in the archives of 
 
 history and his influence upon the material and 
 moral interests of the country will be recognized 
 by an appreciative posterity. 
 
 FRED W. MORRISON. 
 
 Fred VV. Morrison, attorney-at-law, of King- 
 man, is rapidly coming to the front ranks of 
 his profession in Mohave county, where his 
 residence dates back but two years. For twenty- 
 two months he was associated with Fleetwood 
 Bell, their partnership having been entered upon 
 in August, 1899, soon after his arrival here. Be- 
 ing an able and ambitious young man, full of 
 energy and determination, he is receiving favor- 
 able notice among his professional co-workers. 
 
 A native of Missouri, Mr. Morrison was born 
 in Fayette, Howard county, in 1873. He re- 
 ceived the advantages of a liberal education, 
 attending the public schools and Central Col- 
 lege of his native place, after which he pursued 
 his higher studies in Christian Brothers College 
 in St. Louis. Before he had reached his ma- 
 jority, and because he was too young to enter 
 any profession, he traveled as salesman for a 
 St. Louis house, and also for some time repre- 
 sented the business interests of Swift Packing 
 Company, of Kansas City, on the road. In 1896 
 he began the study of law in the office of R. C. 
 Clark, of Fayette, .\fter due preparation, he 
 took the examination and in July, 1898, was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. In May, 1899, he was admit- 
 ted to practice in the supreme court of Missouri. 
 
 After establishing an office and practicing Law 
 in Fayette for a -few months, Mr. Morrison con- 
 cluded to try his fortunes in Arizona. In the 
 spring of 1899 he settled in Prescott and was 
 connected with the firm of Herndon & Norris 
 until August, 1899, when he came to Kingman. 
 His partnership with Mr. Bell was mutually 
 beneficial, and they were engaged as legal ad- 
 visers of the Gaddis & Perry Company, also 
 many of the leading business firms of the city 
 and county. They established a branch office at 
 Chloride and built up a large and profitable prac- 
 tice in that locality, where Mr. Morrison owns 
 some mining property. He is an active worker 
 in the Democratic party and is counted upon as 
 an ardent young politician. 
 
 Mr. Bell was graduated from the State LIni-
 
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 versity of Missouri at Columbia in 1897, and 
 during the same year was admitted to the bar 
 of his home state, after which he practiced in 
 Cokunbia until March, 1899. During June of 
 tl\at year he began professional practice in Ari- 
 zona. In the fall of igoo he sold his interest 
 in the law business to Mr. Morrison and moved 
 to Prescott. Since that time the latter gentle- 
 man has had in charge the management of the 
 liractice they had built up and at the same time 
 he has increased its volume by the gaining of 
 additional wnrk along professional lines. 
 
 HON. A. C. BAKER. 
 
 Peculiarly qualified by natural talents, by 
 systematic training and practical experience, 
 Hon. .\. C. Baker has occupied an enviable 
 position in the legal profession of Arizona dur- 
 ing the entire period of his residence in the ter- 
 ritory. When, step by step, he rose until at last 
 he was installed as chief justice of the supreme 
 court of Arizona, he indeed reached a distinction 
 which he had not expected to attain, but the 
 same characteristics which had hitherto been 
 displayed in his career held sway over him, and 
 every matter coming to his notice received seri- 
 ous and conscientious consideration. As in the 
 Inunbler walks of life and in minor official posi- 
 tions, so he now justified the confidence reposed 
 in him and added fresh laurels to his umblem- 
 ished record. 
 
 Judge Baker is a worthy representative of a 
 sterling old southern family. His father, Hon. 
 Benjamin H. Baker, was a native of Georgia but 
 was i)est known in Alabama, where he was a 
 very influential citizen. A leading legal light, 
 his practice was not confined to one locality, but 
 was carried on in different parts of his state, his 
 home, meanwhile, being in C"rawford, .\la. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war he was lieutenant-cok)nel of 
 the Sixth .Alabama Rifles, and his death, in 1864, 
 was directly traceable to the hardshijjs and ex- 
 posure to inclement weather which he had en- 
 tlured. I"or several terms he had ser\ed the 
 peojjle of his district as their representative in 
 the state legislature, and by everyone he was 
 held in high esteem. In the Masonic order and 
 in the Methodist Episcojial Church South he was 
 a i>roiiiinent member. He married Eliza (.ireer. 
 
 who was born in Forsythe, Ga., a planter's 
 daughter, and whose last years were spent at 
 the old homestead in Alabama. 
 
 Judge Raker was born in Girard, Russell 
 county, Ala.. February 15, 1845, and his youth 
 was spent in Crawford, Ala., where he attended 
 private schools. .\t the age of eighteen he en- 
 listed as a volunteer in Waddell's Battalion of 
 artillery and was made the color bearer. Gal- 
 lantly he performed his hazardous duties, taking 
 part in the siege of Vicksburg anil the Georgia 
 campaign from Dalton to Atlanta. T,ater he 
 participated in Wilson's raid at Columbus and 
 was captured by the Federals, but soon released 
 on parole. Returning home, he resumed hi-; 
 preparation for future duties. After spending 
 three years in the Eastern Alabama Male Col- 
 lege at Auburn, he left its halls at the close of 
 the junior year, in order to take up legal studies 
 with Judge \\'illiams. Being admitted to the 
 bar at Tuskogee, in 1868 he establishetl himself 
 in practice at Crawford, where he remained 
 some three years. Then going to San Diego, 
 Cal., he continued professional work there until 
 1876. The next year was spent in Los .\ngeles, 
 after which he resided in San Francisco three 
 years. Since 1879 he has been numbered among 
 the leading citizens of Phoenix. From 1882 to 
 1884 he served as district attorney, for four years 
 was city attorney, and for a like period was as- 
 sistant United States attorney. In 1887 the firm 
 of Baker & Bennett was formed and a large 
 general practice was soon established. 
 
 A great worker in the Democratic party. 
 Judge Baker was a delegate to the national con- 
 vention at Chicago in 1892. and there served on 
 the committee im resolutions. He has been 
 chairman of difi'erent conventions of the party, 
 I)(ith county and territorial. Elected to repre- 
 sent his district in the eleventh general assemblv 
 of Arizona, he won the commendation of his 
 constituents. In 1893 President Cleveland ap- 
 pointed him chief justice of the supreme court 
 of Arizona, in which position he served for four 
 years. He is ex-president of the Territorial Bar 
 .Association and for one term was a member of 
 the board of trustees of the Arizona Normal 
 School. As a lawyer he holds rank among the 
 ablest men in .Arizona. While he is an all-around 
 practitioner, many i.>f his friends consider that
 
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 his greatest strength lies in criminal law, and 
 they believe that he easily stands at the head of 
 his profession in that branch of the practice, hav- 
 ing won a repntation that is not limited to 
 Arizona, hnt extends along the entire Pacific 
 coast. 
 
 Jndge T.akcr was made a Mason in Auburn, 
 Ala. At this writing he is connected with 
 Arizona Lodge Xo. 2, F. & .\. M.; Phoenix 
 Chapter, R. A. AL; Arizona Connnandery, K. 
 T., and El Zaribah Temple, N. M. S. Religiously 
 he is an Episcopalian. 
 
 The marriage of Judge Baker and Miss Mary 
 Jesus Alexander was solemnized in Yuma, Ariz. 
 Her father, H. N. Alexander, attorney for the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad, was one of the early 
 settlers of the southwest. Born in Ohio, he 
 went to Los Angeles when the city was young, 
 and in California married a daughter of the 
 noted old Spanish house of Dominguez. Mrs. 
 Baker was born upon her father's ranch in Los 
 Angeles county. Cal. Four children comprise 
 the family of Judge and Mrs. Baker, namely: 
 Francisco, a student in Marlboro Academy ; 
 Mary, Alexander and Robert, who are students 
 in the Phoenix schools. 
 
 HON. THOMAS W. PEMBERTON. 
 
 In Phoenix, which has risen neath the magic 
 wand of a latter-day civilization, surrounded by 
 perpetually happy moods of cloud, sky and air, 
 and the rendezvous of travelers from all direc- 
 tions in search of homes and occupation, who 
 hopefully count no land, however sterile, as be- 
 yond redemption, have develo])ed on the erst- 
 while desert vastness the great enterprises which 
 have been the making of cities in the east and 
 elsewhere: in the same proportion also, with an 
 equal largeness of construction, and with an 
 exceeding intelligence when applied to manage- 
 ment. It is but natural that Phoenix should 
 benefit by the experiences of the east, and it is 
 therefore to the citizens who have settled within 
 lier borders that slie is indebted for the knowl- 
 edge that comes with them, and is here put to 
 the practical test. To be the chief promoter 
 in any one nf the avenues of growth in the town 
 of one's adoption is ever a matter of pride with 
 any true-hearted citizen, and to sav that Air. 
 
 Pemberton is proud of his association with the 
 development of the light and fuel cjuestion, of 
 which he has been the chief promoter in the city, 
 is to designate the chief cause of his success. 
 
 ( )f interest always are the early struggles and 
 attainments of men in high public esteem. Mr. 
 Pemberton was born in Milwaukee, Wis., Octo- 
 ber 24, 1845, and is of English ancestry. His fa- 
 ther, T. W. Pemberton, was born near Manches- 
 ter, England, and was a machinist by occupation. 
 Upon coming to America he lived for a time in 
 New York, and later removed to Milwaukee, 
 where he conducted a machine shop, and where 
 he died in 1841). at the age of thirty-three years. 
 His wife, Rachel (Cook) Pemberton, was born 
 in England and died in New Jersey. She was 
 the mother of three children, of whom Thomas 
 W. is the only one living'. When seven years of 
 age Thomas W. went with his mother to live 
 with an uncle near Summerville, Somerset 
 county, N. J., where he was reared on a farm and 
 educated in the public schools. When eighteen 
 years of age he went to New York, and in 1866 
 removed to Chicago, where he clerked for a 
 time, and in 1874 started in the produce and 
 commission business for himself. 
 
 Following a wisely directed inclination, Mr. 
 Pemberton came to Phoenix in 1888, and pur- 
 chased a farm two and a half miles northeast 
 of the city. Amid the crude and unpromising 
 conditions was again demonstrated the power of 
 man over nature's soil when abandoned by a pre- 
 historic people to countless centuries of lassi- 
 tude and inactivity. Upon his farm of eighty 
 acres the most modern improvements have been 
 brought ai)out by ceaseless devotion to artificial 
 irrigation, and is now a paying and satisfactory 
 investment. In 1894 Mr. Pemberton became in- 
 terested in the Phoenix Light & Fuel Company, 
 and was chosen president of the company in July 
 of 1897. The mission of the company is to fur- 
 nish light and warmth in the cooler months, and 
 a cheap and clcanl\- means of cooking during 
 the heat of summer, the latter an important item 
 in all semi-tropical localities. The advantages 
 of gas for cooking especially are being more and 
 more appreciated, and the increase in demand 
 has necessitated coiuinnal improvements in the 
 gas company's plant. The desire on the part of 
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 all improvements in other parts of the worlds 
 and in advance of the demands of their patrons 
 has required heavy outlays of capital, and the 
 exercise of continual vigilance. The new plant 
 was installed in September of i8y7 and is one 
 of the most complete in the west. Mains to the 
 c-xtent of seven miles have been laid in all parts 
 of tJie town, and the service given is most satis- 
 factory. The gas is made from crude petroleum, 
 procured from Los .\ngeles, C'al., and by means 
 of a superior appliance is converted into an ex- 
 cellent (|uality of gas. This is supplied at $2 per 
 thousand feet, and is both cheaper and cleaner 
 than ordinary fuel. Besides the gas works, the 
 company controls one of the best equipped elec- 
 tric systems in the country, which supplies the 
 city with fifty-four arc lights, and the stores and 
 residences with numberless incandescent lights. 
 Thus it happens that Phoenix, which is one of 
 the best watered cities in the land, is also one of 
 the best lighted. In the distributing system there 
 are ten mfles of line, and more than thirty miles 
 of heavy copper wire are utilized. This is run 
 not only throughout the city, but far into the 
 country, the Indian school being among the out- 
 side institutions benefited. The motive power 
 used is a four hundred horse-power engine, driv- 
 ing three large General Electric Company's dy- 
 namos, arranged for supplying both light .and 
 power, and the plant is constructed on the mono- 
 cycle system. The officers of the concern are 
 T. W. Pemberton, president and manager; E. B. 
 Gage, vice-president, and C. J. Hall, secretary 
 and treasurer. The capital stock is $500,000. 
 
 One of the really commendable things about 
 the comi):ny's efforts is the excellent and con- 
 siderate treatment accorded the large number of 
 employes. In this regard the gas company is 
 without a peer in the city. The management is 
 in the hands of capable, high-minded and suc- 
 cessful men, who have an enduring pride in all 
 that pertains to the best development of their 
 city, and whose success in other lines has been 
 l)roductive of sufficient capital to render possible 
 the adoption of any new and improved method. 
 .\side from his interest in the gas company, Mr. 
 I'emberton is vice-president of the Phoenix Na- 
 tional P.ank, and was a member of its first board 
 of directors. He is also interested in the sub- 
 ject of water production, and is a .director in 
 
 three canals, the Grand, Maricopa and Salt 
 River. L'nder Governor Irwin, Mr. Pemberton 
 was appointed conmiissioner of the insane asy- 
 lum and served for one term. He is a Repub- 
 lican in politics, has held many local and other 
 offices within the gift of the people, and sen'cd 
 as a delegate to various ferritorial and other 
 conventions. In i8y<S he was appointed terri- 
 torial treasurer by Ciovernor Murphy. 
 
 In 1S70 in Chicago. 111., Mr. i'emberton was 
 unitfd in marriage to Sarah H. Wiggins, who 
 was born in Chicago. ( )f this union there arc 
 five children, viz.: T. \V., Jr., an electrician, who, 
 during the Spanish-American war, served in 
 Troop B of the Rough Riders; Gertrude, who 
 is the wife of C. S. Birdsell, of Congress, Ariz.; 
 Eva ; Frances, and Harold, who are students of 
 the schools of Phoenix. 
 
 MURR.VY McINERN.VY. 
 
 The active, interesting and varied life of Mr. 
 Mclnernay has penetrated into many grooves, 
 and, covering many years, he has in the past fa- 
 miliarized himself with the people and condi- 
 tions of the enterprising west, taking an equally 
 important part in the development and progress 
 of the present. Many things contribute to the 
 popularity of the manager and proprietor of the 
 Prescott Hotel, not the least being the vast fund 
 of information picked up in travel, as Indian 
 trader, under sheriff, superintendent of a peni- 
 tentiary, soldier during the Civil war and all- 
 around observer of all that the west, east, 
 north and south has to offer. 
 
 When a boy of few years Mr. Mclnernay, who 
 was born in r)rooklyn, N. Y., December 18. 
 1850, of Scotch-Irish descent, was left mother- 
 less, three other children also comprising the lit- 
 tle family. The father, John, was a shoeman by 
 occuiKition, and lived for many years in Brook- 
 l\n. The (uilbreak of the Civil war was hailed as 
 an opi)ortnnity by two of the sons, the oldest 
 brother serving in the Thirteenth New York 
 X'olnnteer Infantry. He subse(|uently died in 
 Panama in 1886. Murray ^Mclnernay. at the 
 time of his enlistment in Company I. New York 
 Volunteer Infantry, was but fourteen years of 
 age, and in order to be able to serve his country 
 tnliste<l as a drunnner bov. The ruse was sue-
 
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 cessful, and he carried a musket with the cour- 
 age and assurance of the older soldiers, partici- 
 pating in the battle of Charleston, S. C, and 
 serving until the close of the war. He was mus- 
 tered out at David Island, N. Y., April 14, 1866. 
 
 The war having opened up vistas of usefulness 
 and interest to he found in different parts of the 
 world, Mr. Mclnernay undertook a journey of 
 eight luoiitlis in Hrazil in a company, and after 
 returning to TIrooklyn started for Arizona De- 
 cember, 1867. Arriving in San Francisco, via 
 Panama, he located for a time in San Pedro, and 
 then, accompanied by eight others, crossed the 
 desert by foot to Colorado, arriving at Fort 
 Mohave October 13. 1868. After a short so- 
 journ in Louisville, Ky., he returned to San Pe- 
 dro, walking a portion of the distance, and going 
 the remainder by boat. He was one of the 
 passengers on the first through train east over 
 the Central & L'nion Pacific, and remained in the 
 east until the fall of the same year, when he 
 came to Alontana, and up the Missouri river to 
 Fort Randall. He later prospected in Montana, 
 Idaho and Wyoming, and in December of 1870 
 returned to Arizona, going Ity way of San Fran- 
 cisco and San Diego to Yuma, and thence walk- 
 ing along the Colorado to Ehrenburg. From 
 there he walked to Prescott, Ariz., where he en- 
 tered the interior department as commissary 
 manager at the Date Creek Indian Reservation, 
 and during his time of service the Indians were 
 concentrated on the \'erde Reservation, which 
 was established in 1873. He there remained in 
 charge of the Indians until they were removed 
 to San Carlos. In December of 1874 he resigned 
 and entered the employ of the C. P. Head 
 Company, as Indian trader at Camp Verde, 
 where he remained for two years, and then turned 
 his attention to contracting for the govern- 
 ment at Camp Verde. In this capacity he did a 
 large freighting business, conveying his sup- - 
 plies by wagons and o.x teams. January i, 1889, 
 he was ap]iointed under sheriff of Yavapai 
 county, and in i8(jo was a candidate on the Re- 
 publican ticket for sheriff, and was defeated by 
 only nine votes. 
 
 In March of i8<;i Mr. Mclnernav was ap- 
 pointed su|)frinten(Ient of tile territorial jieniten- 
 tiary at 'i'uma by (Governor Irwin and remained 
 in charge uf that institution until the change of 
 
 administration April 21, 1893. Since then, 
 though interested in many directions, his chief 
 responsibility has been the management of the 
 Prescott Hotel, which, with the exception of the 
 disastrous fire of July, tgoo, has known an era of 
 uninterrupted prosperity. The new hostelry, 
 erected .above the ruins of the old, is one of the 
 fine hotels of .\rizona, and meets with all of the 
 requirements of an up-to-date accommodation 
 for the traveling ]niblic. Much of the patron- 
 age is due to the good fellowship, tact, and ex- 
 cellent knowledge of human nature and its de- 
 mands possessed by mine host, the manager, 
 who understands that rarest of all accomplish- 
 ments, the gift of putting every one in a good 
 humor with himself. 
 
 Since living in Prescott Mr. Mclnernay mar- 
 ried Alice Thorne, a native of Clinton county, 
 Iowa, daughter of Mahlon Thorne. Her par- 
 ents were both natives of the state of New York, 
 Mr. Thorne being of English descent, while his 
 wife was of German ancestry. Of this union 
 there are two children, Bessie and Alice. Mr. 
 Mclnernay is a member of the Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World 
 and the Knights of Pythias. He has never been 
 known to swerve from fealty to the Republican 
 partv, nor irom active participation in all its lo- 
 cal undertakings. He is one of the popular and 
 progressive and valued citizens of Prescott, and 
 has won his spurs as a man of unblemished in- 
 tegrity and absolute reliability. 
 
 CHAKLES PETERSEN. 
 
 It is doubtful if any man in the territory of 
 Arizona is more familiar with conditions as they 
 existed in the far west a numl)er of years ago 
 than is Mr. Petersen. Of a sturdy, stanch and 
 j)ersevering race, he was born in Schleswig- 
 Holstein, .April 10, 185 1. His paternal grand- 
 father, Jacob, was a native of the same part of 
 (iermany and was a miller during the years of 
 his activity, being an industrious and prosperous 
 man. The parents, Jacob and Frederica (Han- 
 sen) I'etersen, were natives of Schleswig-Hol- 
 stein, and there the father engaged in general 
 farming and stock-raising, also for some vears 
 conducted aw hotel business. During the revo- 
 lution of 1848 he served with distinction. Of
 
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 47 
 
 liis eleven cliildren all but one attained maturity 
 and seven are now li\iuL;, nf wIkhu three are in 
 Anieriea. 
 
 The voini,e;'est of the family, Charles Petersen. 
 was reared in his native land and educated in 
 public schools. In 1870 he enlisted in the I'rus- 
 sian arnu' for service in the I'Vanco-l'rus^ian war, 
 and after three months crossed the seas to .Vmer- 
 ica, settlinj;' in Illinois, where for a year he 
 worked on a farm near Dwight. In 1872 he 
 was initiated into the great, strange heart of 
 the west, by removing to Xewton. Kans., which 
 was then the terminus of the Santa I'e Railroad. 
 There he was engaged in hunting buffalo and 
 deer, and realized considerable from the sale 
 of the meat aiul hides. After two years the gov- 
 ernment employed him as a scout, and in that 
 capacity he served from 1874 until 1877, on the 
 trails west of Dodge City, Kans. During this 
 time his escapades with the Indians and hair- 
 breadth escapes were truly thrilling, but were 
 best appreciated when they had passed. His 
 service was under (icneral Custer in the south- 
 west, and lie would have shared the tragic fate 
 of that lamented general had not a providential 
 circumstance intervened, (jeneral Bankhe.ud, 
 wiio assumed for a time Custer's place, ordered 
 Mr. Petersen to remain with him. and thus the 
 latter escaped the awful massacre at Little ]'>ig 
 Horn. In 1876 Mr. Petersen was employed by 
 Captain Goodnight to assist him in the manage- 
 ment of his ranch at the head of Red river in 
 the Panhandle country, and in this capacity he 
 was employed until 1881. 
 
 Returning to Kansas in 1881, Mr. Petersen 
 settled on a ranch in Ellsworth county, where 
 he was interested in cattle-raising until 1888. 
 However, a succession of three years of drouth, 
 with a consequent loss of cattle and crops, cansetl 
 him to dispose of his Kansas interests, after 
 which he spent four months in Germany. When 
 again in the I'nited States, he engaged in farm- 
 ing for a ye.nr in Illinois, when, owing to the 
 death of his wife, he removed to Chicago. There 
 he was employed by an ice company. Subse- 
 quently he farmed for a year in Missouri, and in 
 November of 1890 settled in Phoenix, Ariz. 
 After two years of investigation into the various 
 industries there represented, he decided to em- 
 bark u])on an occupation which represented an 
 
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 imperative and ever-increasing demand. In 1892 
 he started the brick-yard which has since as- 
 sumed large pro])ortions, and which is accounted 
 nno of the best in .\rizona. The plant is at the 
 southwest of the city and covers an area of si.x 
 acres, with a bank of fine clay ten feet deep. 
 The brick manufactured is mostly of the build- 
 ing variety, and the capacity is twenty-four thou- 
 sand a day. 
 
 With others, in 1899, Mr. I'etersen undertook 
 the organization of the Phoenix Building Coni- 
 jjany, of which he is the secretary. Aside from 
 his business interests, he is variously identified 
 with manv of the enterprises and societies of a 
 progressive and interesting nature, in which his 
 adopted city abounds. Politically he is inter- 
 ested in the Democratic party, and has been a 
 delegate to several conventions. Fraternally he 
 is past noble grand in the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows, and is also connected with the 
 .\ncient Order of United Workmen and the 
 Woodmen of the World. Active in religious cir- 
 cles locally, he is a member of the Lutheran 
 Church. 
 
 In Illinois. Mr. Petersen married Pauline Nes- 
 sen, who was born and reared in Germany and 
 died in Illinois, leaving one son, Paul. The 
 second Mrs. Petersen was formerly Lena Papke, 
 born in (iermany, and a daughter of Christian 
 and Louisa (Stubb) Papke. The family lived 
 in the vicinity of Berlin. After the death of 
 her husband, Mrs. Papke came to .'\merica and 
 now makes her home in Phoenix. Of the union 
 of Mr. Petersen and Lena Papke there have 
 been four children: Robert, Theo, Fred and 
 Minnie. 
 
 HON. WEBSTER STREET. 
 
 In the last half century the lawyer has been a 
 pre-eminent factor in all affairs of private con- 
 cern and national importance. He has been 
 depended upon to conserve the best and per- 
 manent interests of the whole people and is a 
 recognized power in all the avenues of life. He 
 stands as the protector of the rights and liberties 
 of his fellow men and is the representative of a 
 profession whose followers, if they would gain 
 honor, fame and success, must be men of ment 
 and ability. Such a one is Judge Street, now 
 chief justice of Arizona.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He was born in Salem, Ohio, June 8, 1846, a 
 son of Samuel and Sarah (Butler) Street, the 
 former also a native of Salem, Ohio, the latter 
 of Philadelphia, Pa. His early ancestors on both 
 sides were of English descent and prominent 
 members of the Society of Friends. His 
 paternal grandfather, John Street, was born near 
 Philadelphia, Pa., and became a pioneer mer- 
 chant of Salem, Ohio. He married Miss Aim 
 Ogden of New Jersey. The maternal grand- 
 father, Benjamin Butler, was also a native of 
 New Jersey, and an early settler of Salem, Ohio. 
 His wife bore the maiden name of Webster. 
 The Judge's father was a farmer by occupation 
 and always adhered to the Society of Friends. 
 He died in Salem, Ohio, at the age of seventy 
 years. Of his seven children the Judge is the 
 only one living, and he was fifth in order of 
 birth. His brother, Ogden Street, entered the 
 Union army during the Civil war as captain of 
 Company C, Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
 and was mustered out as colonel of his regi- 
 ment. He engaged in the manufacture of iron 
 in different parts of Pennsylvania, Virginia and 
 Kentucky, and died at Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 During his boyhood and youth Judge Street 
 attended the public and high schools of Salem, 
 and completed his literary studies at Antioch 
 College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. He commenced 
 reading law under the direction of Thomas Ken- 
 nett, and was admitted to the bar at St. Clairs- 
 ville, Ohio, in 1871. For two years he was 
 engaged in practice at Letonia, that state, and 
 then removed to Pittsburg, Pa., where he 
 prosecuted his chosen profession until coming 
 to Arizona in November, 1877. He first located 
 at Prescott, but soon afterward removed to 
 Signal, Mohave county, and later spent one year 
 at Tucson. In 1879 ^^^ took up his residence in 
 Tombstone, Cochise county, and while there 
 served as county judge one term. In January, 
 1887, he came to Phoenix, where he was first 
 engaged in practice as a member of the firm of 
 Goodrich & Street, and later as a member of the 
 firm of Street & Frazier, which partnership con- 
 tinued until his appointment as chief justice in 
 October, 1897. His district comprises the 
 counties of Maricopa and Yuma. He is winning 
 high commendation by his fair and impartial ad- 
 ministration of justice, and is credited with being 
 
 the most popular official that ever presided over 
 the district. 
 
 At Yellow Springs, Ohio, Judge Street mar- 
 ried Miss Mary Gilniore, a native of that place 
 and a daughter of William and Mary E. Gil- 
 more. Her father was a merchant of Yellow 
 Springs. Two children were born of this union : 
 Lawrence, now deputy district clerk; and Julia, 
 wife of J. C. Wickham of Philadelphia, Pa. The 
 family is one of prominence in Phoenix. 
 
 The Judge was made a Mason at Salem, ( )hio, 
 and now holds membership in Arizona Lodge 
 No. 2, and Arizona Chapter, R. A. M. He also 
 belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the .\ncient 
 Order of United Workmen and the Maricopa 
 Club. Religiously he is an Episcopalian. In 
 politics he is a stanch Republican, and he has 
 served successively as secretary and chairman 
 of the territorial committee. He is also e.x- 
 president of the Territorial Bar Association. 
 His mind is analytical, logical and inductive. 
 With a thorough and comprehensive knowl- 
 edge of the fundamental principles of law, he 
 combines .a familiarity v,'ith statutory law and 
 a sober, clear judgment, which makes him not 
 only a formidable adversary in legal combat, but 
 has given him the distinction of being one of the 
 ablest jurists of the territory. 
 
 COL. JOSHUA E. PRICE. 
 
 During the greater part of his active and suc- 
 cessful life. Colonel Price has made a practical 
 and scientific study of farming, an appreciation 
 of which w.as instilled into his enthusiastic box- 
 hood days by a father who knew the value and 
 utility of the soil, and had found it a sure com- 
 pensation for wisely and persistently directed 
 effort. Although not one of the earliest cniucrs 
 to the Salt River valley, having arrived in 1891, 
 lie is yet one of the most enthusiastic, as are 
 most who have formerly been dependent upon 
 the changeful conditions of the cast. 
 
 Of Scotch and English extraction. Colonel 
 Price was born in Huntingdon county. Pa., July 
 4, 1843, and is a son of Daniel and Sophia (Ed- 
 wards) Price, also born in Pennsylvania. For- 
 tunate in his educational advantages, Joshua E. 
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 school and qualified as a teacher when already 
 quite young. His first aspirations towards self- 
 sujiport were along educational lines, and pre- 
 vious to the breaking out of the war he taught 
 in the schools of his native county for four 
 terms. The harmony of an otherwise uneventful 
 life terminated in .\iigust of 1862, when he en- 
 listed in Company l'. One Hundred and Twenty- 
 I'Mfth Pennsylvania \'olunteer Infantry, and 
 served in the army of the Potomuc for nine 
 months. Company F participated in the bat- 
 tles of Chanccllorsville, South Mountain. Antie- 
 tam, and in the last-named battle he was 
 wounded in the head. In April of 1863 he 
 was discharged from the service, and in Jan- 
 uary of 1864 re-enlisted in Battery E, First 
 Pennsylvania Light Artillery, which also was at- 
 tached to the army of the Potomac. He was 
 present at the fall of Richmond, and at the battle 
 of Petersburg was wounded in the side and in- 
 cajiacitated for a short time. July 5. 1865, he 
 was honorably discharged at Philadelphia, Pa., 
 having been raised during the second enlistment 
 from a private to the rank of second lieutenant 
 in the First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, as a 
 result of meritorious services during the siege of 
 Petersburg. 
 
 l'"oIlowing the restoration of peace. Mr. Price 
 went, in January of 1866, to Hamilton county, 
 Ohio, where for a time he again engaged in edu- 
 cational work, and subsequently turned his at- 
 tention to farming. Beginning with 1873, he 
 lived for .a time in Doniphan, Brown and Nem- 
 aha counties, Kans., and became prominently 
 identified with the political and other afifairs of 
 Kansas. I^'or nine months he served as quarter- 
 master-general of the department of the Kansas 
 Grand Army of the Republic, under (ien. Ira 
 F. Collins, the department commander. Later 
 he served as adjutant-general for four months, 
 having in Ixiih cap.acities held the rank of colo- 
 nel. .\s mayor of the city of Sabetha, Kans., he 
 served for one year, and was for two years a 
 member of the city council. 
 
 In Ohio, Deccmljer 5, 1867, Mr. Price mar- 
 ried Alice J. Cosbey, a native of Hamilton 
 count). Ohio, and a daughter of D.avid L. and 
 Hannah (I.\nn) Cosbey. ()f this union there 
 have been two children: F.leanor, who is the 
 wife of Dr. Charles II. Jones, of Tem])e. .\riz., 
 
 and Ralph, who is living at home. On his well- 
 conducted ranch in the vicinity of Tempe, Colo- 
 nel Price is carrying on large agricultural inter- 
 ests, and has been gratifyingly successful in his 
 chosen occupation. With the peculiar enter- 
 prises which are indigenous to .Arizona and Cal- 
 ifornia, as artificially irrigated centers, he has 
 been greatly interested, and helpfully studious, 
 and was for five years president of the southern 
 branch of the Tempe canal, and for one year a 
 director in the Tempe Irrigating Canal Com- 
 pany. He is a Republican in politics, and. is a 
 member of the John A. Logan Post No. 7, G. A. 
 R., at Tempe, and has been commander of the 
 post. In the religious world he has wielded an 
 extended influence for good, and is connected 
 with the First Congregational Church of Tempe, 
 in wliich he was formerly superintendent of the 
 Sunday-school for seven years. Of all the dwell- 
 ers of the valley none is held in higher esteem 
 than Colonel Price, nor are any more appreci- 
 ated as friend and large-hearted citizen, and gen- 
 eral promoter of the public good. 
 
 COL. H. C. HOOKER. 
 
 There are few residents of Arizona to whom 
 the name of Colonel Hooker is unfamiliar. As 
 the owner of Sierra Bonita rancho, near Willcox, 
 he stands at the head of the ranchmen and stock- 
 breeders of the territory, and it is everywhere 
 conceded that no one is more familiar than he 
 with the many details connected with the stock 
 business. His specialties are beef cattle and 
 fine horses, for which he has abundant room on 
 his range, twenty-seven miles wide and thirty 
 miles long. In former days he lost very heavily 
 by reason of droughts, but, having developed 
 the water facilities during recent times, droughts 
 no longer have the terror for him which they 
 once possessed. In cattle he favors the Here- 
 fords, which are particularly desirable as range 
 cattle, having greater powers of endurance than 
 the shorthorn : while, at the same time, as they 
 produce a greater quantity of hind-quarter meat 
 than any other breed, butchers are always glad 
 to buy them. 
 
 .'\mong his horses Colonel Hooker has many 
 possessing especially fine qualities. Among them 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 thirty-seven performers in the 2:30 list and thir- 
 teen in the 2:20 list. When four years old, Stam- 
 boul made a record of 2:17^, won in a race at Los 
 Angeles. A year later he lowered his time to 
 2:14^, while the next year it was 2:1 if. Colonel 
 Hooker is particularly proud of \'albrino, sired 
 by Stamboul, and showing many fine points; he 
 is also equally proud of Parisee, probably one of 
 the best-bred horses in the world: sired by Palo 
 Alto, record 2:o8'|, against time, to a high- 
 wheeled sulky; and another record of 2;20 for a 
 sixth heat at four years old, won at Detroit in 
 1886. The dam of Parisee was by General Ben- 
 ton, who got twenty performers in the 2:30 list, 
 four of which trotted below 2:20. The two 
 stallions, \'albrino and Parisee, unite in their 
 pedigrees not only the best trotting blood of the 
 past thirty years, but behind that is the endur- 
 ing blood of the thoroughbred, without which no 
 horse can hope to last through a severely con- 
 tested race of broken heats. 
 
 The Sierra Bonita rancho has had among its 
 guests in days gone by men whose names are 
 known all over the country, among them Gen. 
 Xelson A. Miles, Gen. George Crook, Gen. 
 Alexander D. McCook, Gen. O. O. Howard, 
 Gen. C. H. Sherman, Whitelaw Reid and many 
 others. 
 
 WILLIAM T. BROWN. 
 
 All of the members of this particular branch 
 of the Brown family have been prominent and 
 successful in the different lines of occupation 
 to which they have been called by inclination 
 and ability. To an inherent integrity and high 
 moral courage is added a dogged perseverance 
 which recognizes no obstacles, and which is the 
 birthright of the best and most favored sons of 
 Scotland. William T. Brown was born in Edin- 
 burgh, Scotland, January 14, 1850, and within 
 the borders of the Scottish Athens received an 
 excellent home training and a substantial edu- 
 cation at the grammar school. When sixteen 
 years of age he was apprenticed out to a ship- 
 building firm at Leith, and diligently applied 
 liimself to a mastery of the business. 
 
 In the meantime there were other sons of 
 William and Janet (Thomson) Brown, who were 
 forging to the front and preparing for future 
 
 activity in the best marts of the world. The 
 father was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, and came 
 of an old and distinguished Fife and Perthshire 
 family. He was a railroad and bridge con- 
 tractor in Edinburgh, and eventually died at 
 Musselburgh, his seaport home, six miles east 
 of Edinburgh. The mother was a native of 
 Edinburgh, and to her were born five sons, all of 
 whom became a credit to their early teachings, 
 and to the communities in which they lived: 
 Robert Lewis Maitland started out in the world 
 in the wholesale commission and other business 
 at Columbia, Ceylon, where he was very suc- 
 cessful, and became the possessor of large tea 
 estates. He eventually retired to England, where 
 he died in 1898. C. Douglas, who is now a part- 
 ner of William T. in the hardware and machinery 
 business at Prescott, originally went to Aus- 
 tralia as a mining engineer, and in 1874 came 
 to the LInited States and accepted a position 
 with the Almaden Quicksilver Mining Company. 
 In 1878 he came to Prescott and joined his 
 brother, .going to Scotland in 1896, and to Cey- 
 lon in 1898, where he is at the present time 
 arranging his late brother's affairs. He has 
 served in Yavapai county as under sheriff, and 
 was for one term in the territorial legislature. 
 Julius A. came to America in 1870, and located 
 at San Jose, where he had charge of a foundry, 
 and in 1883 came to Prescott, where he en- 
 gaged with William T. in the cattle business, in 
 which they are still mutually interested. In 
 1888 he removed to San Diego, Cal., and be- 
 came a member of the firm of George M. Hale 
 & Company, and at the present time resides at 
 Hemet, Cal. He has been prominent in politics, 
 and served in the thirteenth Arizona legisla- 
 ture. Marcus J. Brown is an attorney at Edin- 
 burgh, Scotland. 
 
 William T. Brown came to America in 1871, 
 and located at San Francisco. In 1873 he joined 
 the English marine, and sailed the high seas 
 l)etween San Francisco, Hong Kong and Yoko- 
 hama. In 1877 he came to Prescott and started 
 the first foundry in the territory, and success- 
 fully conducted the same until the silver mines 
 closed down, and there was no longer a demand 
 for castings. He then became chief engineer of, 
 the McCracken mill in Mohave county, which 
 piisition he held for three vears, or until he was
 
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 incapacitated by being accidentally shot in the 
 foot. In 1 88 1 he made a radical change in occu- 
 pation, and in partnership with his brother, J. 
 A., went into the cattle business, on a rancJi 
 which they purchased forty-five miles east of 
 Prescott. This ranch, which is known as the 
 Agua Fria Vale, is still in the possession of Mr. 
 lirown, their cattle brand being Box O. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Brown returned to Prescott and, 
 with his biother, C. Douglas, started the hard- 
 ware business of Brown Brothers. The firm 
 carries all kinds of mining machhiery, engines, 
 boilers, etc., and is the largest house of its kind 
 in northern .\rizona. They represent the Fair- 
 l)anks-Morse Company, manufacturers of gaso- 
 lene hoists and engines, and carry a general 
 and complete line of hardware. The afTairs of 
 the concern are carried on in a store which is 
 5o.\i5o feet in ground dimensions. Mr. Brow-n 
 is also the possessor of other property in Pres- 
 cott. 
 
 .\t Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1891, Mr. Brown 
 married Isabella Richardson, of Scottish birth 
 and education. A Mason of long standing, he 
 is a member of .Vztlan Lodge, Prescott. With 
 his wife, he is a member of the Congregational 
 Cliurch. 
 
 FREDERICK ARNOLD SWEET, M. D. 
 
 •As chief surgeon for the Copper Queen Con- 
 solidated Mining Company, and fur the com- 
 pany's road, the Arizona & Southeastern, Dr. 
 Sweet is not only the moving spirit in medical 
 and surgical circles in Bisbee, but has as well 
 been identified with territorial matters generally 
 since coming here in 1890. 
 
 Coming from a genealogical line that helped 
 to lay the foundation of the American republic, 
 Dr. Sweet was born in Johnston, R. I., February 
 10, 1862, and is a son of Lieut. Daniel Sweet, 
 who attained to distinction during the Civil war," 
 and died at the early age of thirty years. The 
 family were first represented in the United 
 States by one John Sweet, an Englishman who 
 settled at Salem, Mass., about 1630, and re- 
 moved to Rhode Island in 1636 with Roger 
 Williams. He became conspicuously identified 
 with the colonial days of Rhode Island, and was 
 virtually the leader of the colony, a position 
 which was later filled bv his son Tohn, The 
 
 next in direct line was Benjamin Sweet, and 
 after him came three Philips, all of whom were 
 men of extended influence in their community. 
 -After Nathaniel Sweet came the parental grand- 
 father. Rev. Daniel Sweet, an eloquent and lead- 
 ing clergyman in the Baptist church. The 
 mother of Dr. Sweet was formerly Ellen Rey- 
 nolds, who was born at Providence, R.I., being a 
 descendant of the Arnolds and Whitfords, 
 prominent and early settlers of Newport, R. I. 
 
 -As the only child in the family. Dr. Sweet re- 
 ceived the early care and training calculated to 
 develop the best traits of his mind and char- 
 acter. He was educated at the public schools 
 and at the Silver Lake English and Classical 
 College at Providence, R. I. Having decided to 
 devote his future efforts to the science of medi- 
 cine, he entered the medical department of the 
 L'niversity of the City of New York, from which 
 he was graduated with honors in the class of 
 1889. He was then appointed on the house staff 
 of the post-graduate hospital, and served in that 
 capacity for eighteen months, locating in Bisbee 
 in 1890. At first assistant surgeon of the Cop- 
 per Queen Mining Company, he became, in 
 1891, chief surgeon, and at the present time has 
 two assistants and a pharmacist on his staff. He 
 is also chief surgeon of the company's hospital 
 corps, the hospital being one of the best 
 equipped in the territory, and maintained by the 
 Copper Queen Mining Company for the benefit 
 of its employes. The department of medicine as 
 conducted by Dr. Sweet is exceedingly broad in 
 its liberality, and is a source of pride not only 
 to the people connected with the mine, but to 
 the town in general. Dr. Sweet represents the 
 highest type of gentleman and physician, and 
 adheres to the best tenets of a profession which 
 is prolific of opportunity and splendid in result 
 when in the hands of such an able and con- 
 scientious exponent. 
 
 In 1891 Dr. Sweet married Julia Harkncs>, 
 and of this union there is one child, Philip, 
 called after the early-day Philips, whose deeds 
 and lives are fondly cherished by the latter-dav 
 descendants. In national politics Dr. Sweet is 
 a stanch Democrat, and has been actively inter- 
 ested in the politics of his locality. He has 
 served as chairman of the county central com- 
 mittee for four years, and was a member of the
 
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 territorial coiuiiiittee for se\'eral years. He is a 
 member of tiie Territorial Medical Association. 
 Fraternally, he is associated with and past mas- 
 ter of Perfect Ashlar Lodge Xo. 12, F. & A. M.; 
 past high priest of Landmark Chapter, R. A. M. ; 
 and a member of Arizona Commandery Xo. i, 
 K. T., and of El Zaribah Temple, X. M. S., of 
 Phoenix. 
 
 THOMAS A. PASCOE. 
 
 Thomas A. Pascoe, speculator and promoter 
 of some of the most substantial projects for the 
 benefit of Globe, was born in Galena, Jo Daviess 
 county, 111., in 1846. His parents, William T. 
 and Mary C. Pascoe, were born in England, 
 and upon arriving in the United States settled in 
 Illinois, subsequently removing to California, 
 where they lived in Nevada and Yuba counties. 
 They were engaged in general farming, and 
 eventually died in Yuba county. 
 
 When but six years of age, T. A. Pascoe was 
 taken to California by his parents, and there re- 
 ceived the education and early training which 
 iitted him for the future responsibilities of life. 
 Upon starting out in the world to face an inde- 
 pendent existence, he came to Arizona and lo- 
 cated in Globe in 1881. At that time the now 
 famous settlement contained but a few hardy and 
 venturesome miners and prospectors, who were 
 willing to brave the dangers of life in the immedi- 
 ate shadow of the ever upraised Indian toma- 
 hawk and the privations and hardships incident 
 to life in the early mining camps of the west. 
 For four years he was engaged in mining and 
 prospecting, and during part of the time was 
 under sheriff for his brother, B. F. Pascoe, who 
 was sherifif of Gila county from 1882 to 1886. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Pascoe established the Pascoe 
 livery barn, in coiuiection with which was con- 
 ducted an extensive hay and grain business, the 
 supply being shipped from the Gila river. 
 Though very successful in this undertaking, Mr. 
 Pascoe disposed of his interests in Xovember 
 of 1899, to his brother, the former sheriff of 
 Gila county. .\t the present time Mr. Pascoe is 
 interested with .C. T. Martin and R. C. Brown 
 in erecting the water-works for Globe, which 
 will be on as complete and modern a scale as 
 are the similar enterprises in larger and older 
 towns. They sank a well one and a half 
 
 miles from the town, and turned on the water in 
 February, 1901. The reservoir containing the 
 mountain spring water holds one hundred 
 and forty thousand gallons of water, and the 
 pumping capacity is two hundred thousand gal- 
 lons every twenty-four hours, large enough for 
 a town many times the size of Globe. The whole 
 town is benefited by the enterprise and 
 arduous labors of the gentlemen concerned in 
 thus promoting the interests of their adopted 
 settlement, and an important step has been taken 
 in the march of progress and general conven- 
 ience. 
 
 Among the various additional interests that 
 conmiand the time and attention of Mr. Pascoe 
 must be mentioned the farming and stock-rais- 
 ing enterprises which are conducted in Gila and 
 Graham counties. Xear Thatcher, in Graham 
 county, is an especially beautiful and complete 
 farm, with a fine house, orchard an<l windmill, 
 and all modern and up-to-date improvements 
 antl labor-saving devices. In politics a Repub- 
 lican, Mr. Pascoe has never entertained political 
 aspirations, although he is deeply interested in 
 the undertakings of his party. While living in 
 Hollister, Cal., he was made a Mason, and in 
 Globe is a member of the Globe White Moun- 
 tain Lodge No. 3. He was married in 1886 to 
 Mrs. Elsie Nichols, a native of Scotland. 
 
 JOHN A. McDOUGALL. 
 
 The territory of Arizona does not contain a 
 more expert gas engine manipulator than is 
 found in John A. McDougall, of Morenci. He 
 was born in Canada, May 3, 1866, and is a son 
 of Roderick and Mary McDougall, both na- 
 tives of Canada. He received his early education 
 in his northern home, and in addition to a sub- 
 stantial home training and a considerable mer- 
 cantile experience, served his apprenticeship as 
 a master machinist. Thus equipped for the fu- 
 ture responsibilities of life, he came, at the age 
 of seventeen, to the LTnited States, in the hope 
 that the oi>portunities here afforded would meet 
 the recjuirements of youthful enthusiasm and am- 
 bition. 
 
 Upon arriving in New York Mr. McDougall 
 engaged in the gas engine business, and was 
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 57 
 
 until i8yo. Next he started an independent 
 venture along the same lines, and was success- 
 ful in the same until 1899. He was then fortu- 
 nate in securing recognition for his ability from 
 no less a firm than the Phelps-Dodge Company, 
 of New York City, who appointed him gas engi- 
 neer of their works in Morenci, known as the 
 Detroit Copper Company, and at Nacosari, 
 Mexico. This large responsibility Mr. McDou- 
 gall has discharged with great credit to himself 
 and to all concerned, and his services are valued 
 and appreciated by the company to a gratifying 
 extent. In the Detroit mine alone there are 
 eleven gas engines, and in the Mexican mine ten. 
 In 1888 Mr. McDougall married Eva Kitchin, 
 who was born in Nova Scotia. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 McDougall have been born two children, James, 
 who is ten years of age, and Elva, who is three 
 years old. Mr. McDougall is fraternally asso- 
 ciated with the Masons in Nova Scotia, and 
 himself and wife are members of the United 
 Presbvterian Church. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM M. GRIFFITH. 
 
 This prominent citizen of Tucson, who is now 
 serving as United States Marshal of Arizona, 
 has been actively identified with the business in- 
 terests and political affairs of this territory since 
 1870, and is a recognized leader in the Republi- 
 can party. He claims Pennsylvania as the state 
 of his birth, being born near Westchester, Ches- 
 ter county, April 14, 1839, ^nd is the oldest in a 
 family of four children, only two of whom are 
 now living. His brother, E. E. Griffith, now a 
 manufacturer of New^ York City, belonged to a 
 Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil war and was 
 one of General Rosecrans' body guard. Our 
 subject's paternal grandfather, Abel Griffith, 
 was a native of Wales, a farmer by occupation, 
 and a member of the Society of Friends. On 
 coming to this country he settled in Chester 
 count}% Pa., where our subject's father, Thomas 
 S. Griffith, was born. The latter was graduated 
 from a college in Philadelphia, and as a minister 
 of the Baptist Church he afterward preached in 
 Westchester and Hepzabaugh, Pa. He died at 
 an early age. His wife, who bore the maiden 
 name of Jane Hare, was born in Philadelphia of 
 English ancestry, and died in W'estchester. 
 
 Our subject was reared in that city and ac- 
 quired a good practical education in its public 
 and private schools. In 1856 he took Greeley's 
 advice to "go West" and went to St. Louis, and 
 later to Pilot Knob, Mo. During the Civil war 
 he entered the quartermaster's department of 
 the Army of the Southwest under command of 
 General Steele. He was present at the battles 
 of Haines Bluff, Chattanooga and Lookout 
 Mountain, the siege of Mcksburg and the At- 
 lanta campaign, and was with General Thomas' 
 command when in pursuit of Hood, which re- 
 sulted in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, 
 Tenn. In the fall of 1864 he became ill at 
 Huntsville, Ala., and on his recovery entered the 
 quartermaster's department at Nashville, under 
 Captain Irvin, remaining there until the close of 
 the war. During most of his service be was 
 master of transportation. 
 
 On the return of peace Mr. Griffith became a 
 mail contractor, starting at Fort Smith, .'\rk. In 
 1874 he assisted in establishing the stage and mail 
 route between San Diego, Cal., and Fort Worth, 
 Tex., becoming manager and later president of 
 what was known as the Texas & California 
 Stage Company. Their main line was one 
 thousand seven hundred miles and required 
 twelve hundred horses to operate it. Mr. Grif- 
 fith was connected with that enterprise for eight 
 years with headquarters first at San Diego, and 
 later at Yuma and Tucson, Ariz., locating at the 
 last-named place in 1878. In 1881 he sold his 
 interest in that company and embarked in the 
 cattle business, starting a ranch at Dripping 
 Spring, Gila county, one hundred miles from 
 Tucson as president and manager of the Drip- 
 ping Spring Cattle Company, whose specialty 
 was Shorthorn and Hereford cattle. Mr. Griffith 
 disposed of his interest in that business in 1896. 
 During his residence here he has operated local 
 stage lines and engaged in mining. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Griffith married Miss Dora Flem- 
 ing of Macon, Ga. The only son born of that 
 vmion, E. E. Griffith, was educated at the Chris- 
 tian Brothers College, St. Louis. Mo., and the 
 State Agricultural College in Ft. Collins, Colo., 
 and is now engaged in mining at Morenci, Ariz. 
 In 1874 Mrs. Griffith died at their residence at 
 Fort Smith, Ark. 
 
 The Republican party has always found in Mr.
 
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 Griffith a stanch supporter of its principles. In 
 July, 1897, he was appointed by President Mc- 
 Kinley as United States marshal of .Arizona, 
 with headciuarters at Tucson. He has since dis- 
 charged the duties of that ofifice in a most com- 
 mendable and satisfactory manner. Since the 
 convention at Minneapolis in 1892 to which he 
 was elected a delegate, he has served as a mem- 
 ber of the national Republican committee. He 
 was also a delegate to St. Louis in 1896, and 
 again to Philadelphia in 1900. He is a thirty- 
 second degree Mason, a member of the blue 
 lodge chapter and commandery of Tucson, and 
 El Zaribah Temple, N. M. S., at Phoenix. He 
 is also a member of the Elks Club, and one of 
 the leading and influential citizens of Tucson. 
 
 HON. OTIS R. HALE. 
 
 Piorn in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1873, Mr. 
 Hale is a son of Capt. Hiel Hale, a native of 
 Columbiana county, Ohio. The family has long 
 been represented in America, and the great- 
 great-grandfather served his country with 
 courage and distinction in the Revolutionary 
 war. The grandfather, Nathan S., who subse- 
 quently died in Arizona, was a native of Colum- 
 biana county, Ohio, and was an industrious tiller 
 of tiie soil during the greater part of his life. 
 Captain Hale was a ])rominent man in whatever 
 locality he chanced to live, and after remov- 
 ing to Arizona was a participator in the most 
 substantial effort for the territory's growth. In 
 Ohio he conducted large farming interests, but 
 changed his residence to Iowa in 1850. During 
 the first three months of the Civil war he served 
 in the First Iowa Infantry, and was after that 
 captain of Company D, Twelfth Iowa Infantry. 
 Upon being captured at Pittsburg he suffered 
 the confinement and horrors of Libby prison for 
 eight months, and was paroled in 1864. The 
 local political affairs of his locality in Towa were 
 materially advanced by his services in several 
 important offices, among which was the position 
 of sheriff of Linn county, which he held for two 
 terms. For six years he was city marshal of 
 Cedar Rajjids, and for five years was the deputy 
 warden of the Iowa state penitentiary at Fort 
 Madison. From the latter position he was forced 
 to resign because of ill health, and in search of 
 
 a change of climate and occupation he came to 
 Arizona in 1882. At the present time he is en- 
 gaged in mining, and resides in the old and his- 
 torically interesting town of Tucson. His ability 
 was recognized by his fellow townsmen, who 
 elected him to the nineteenth general assembly, 
 during the sessions of which he served on sev- 
 eral important committees, and ably represented 
 the interests of Yuma county. He is a member 
 of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 The mother of O. R. Hale was formerly Sarah 
 M. Dawley, who was born in Indiana, and subse- 
 quently removed with her parents to Iowa. She 
 is the mother of two children, of whom O. R. 
 is the younger. Albert Hale is a locomotive 
 engineer with the Southern Pacific Railroad. 
 The youth of O. R. Hale was an industrious 
 one, and at a very early age he faced the prob- 
 lem of self-support. When but nine years of 
 age he moved with his father to Tucson, and at 
 the age of fourteen his education in the public 
 schools was interrupted by his apprenticeship in 
 the machine shops of the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road. Following the four vears spent in the 
 shops, he worked as a machinist" in different 
 eastern cities for a couple of years, and upon 
 returning was with the same railroad company 
 until his resignation in 1899. At this time he 
 Iniilt a machine shop on Tenth street, Tucson, 
 and, in partnership with Mr. Myrick, conducted 
 a well-drilling and general machine plant under 
 the firm name of Myrick & Hale. The firm 
 are among the large business concerns in the 
 city, and are experts in their particular line, 
 and particularly "efficient deep well drillers. So 
 large is the demand for their services that they 
 keep two drills in operation the greater part 
 of the time. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Hale was nominated on the Re- 
 publican ticket for the legislature, and elected 
 by a good majority. He served on the judiciary 
 committee and was chairman of the library com- 
 mittee, and of several others of equal impor- 
 tance. He was instrumental in securing the pas- 
 sage of the bill providing the appropriation for 
 the University of Arizona, the money to be paid 
 in regular yearly installments, and to be used in 
 maintaining the highest possible management of 
 the institution. He has served also as a member 
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 he is associated with the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks, and belongs to the club maintained 
 by the order. He is a member of tiie Interna- 
 tional Association of Machinists. 
 
 F. M. MURPHY. 
 
 The development of the Santa Fe, Prescott 
 & Phoenix Railroad is in a large measure due 
 to the wise judgment and tireless energy of the 
 president, F. M. Murph\-, whose name has been 
 indissolubly associated with the enterprise from 
 its inception to the present time. Bom in 
 Maine, reared in Wisconsin, and identifieil with 
 the history of Arizona since 1878, he unites the 
 solid and substantial traits characteristic of New 
 Englanders with the progressive spirit that is 
 a peculiarly western attribute. During the pe- 
 riod of his residence in Arizona, he, with his 
 brother, the present governor, has been an influ- 
 ential factor in the development of territorial 
 resources. His interests have been varied and 
 many. As the fir.st superintendent of the Con- 
 gress gold mine, he placed its affairs upon a 
 profitable basis, and its success was largely due 
 to his . foresight. At the present time he still 
 owns a large part of the mine's stock. Among 
 his other interests may be mentioned the liash- 
 ford-1'.urmister Company, one of the best- 
 known mercantile establishments of the south- 
 west. As president of the Prescott National 
 Bank, he has been instrumental in establishing 
 a conservative policy which has given that insti- 
 tution prestige throughout the entire territory. 
 
 Intimate as has been his identification with 
 these and other enterprises, Mr. Murphy is best 
 known as president of the Santa Fe, Prescott 
 & Phoenix Railroad. At an expenditure of al- 
 most $5,000,000, this road was placed in working 
 order, and his successful management of this 
 enormous responsibility during the well-remem- 
 bered panic of 1893 attracted widespread atten- 
 tion and gave him a position among the recog- 
 nized financial giants of the country. 
 
 HON. CHARLES H. AKERS. 
 The life of Hon. Charles H. Akers, secretary 
 of Arizona, has been an eventful one, and rep- 
 resents the successful strivings of a man who. 
 unaided save by his own nobility of character 
 
 and great perseverance, has known how to con- 
 quer obstacles and avail himself of opportuni- 
 ties. 
 
 The ancestors of the Akers family were orig- 
 inally loyal subjects of the English crown, and 
 their ambition did not extend beyond the bor- 
 ders of their native island until the latter part 
 of the eighteenth ceniury, when the paternal 
 great-grandfather, Peter Akers (or .\cres, as the 
 name was then spelled), emigrated to America, 
 landing at New Castle. Del., in the year 1780. 
 (3n this ocean voyage, William .Vkers, the 
 grandfather uf Hon. Charles H., was born. 
 Shortly after settling in this country the great- 
 grandfather, Peter, died, and his widow subse- 
 quently married Joshua Lee, and henceforward 
 made her home in Pennsylvania. William Aker.> 
 married Nancy Holmes in 1807, and settled on a 
 farm near the present site of the village of New 
 .\thens, Harrison county, Ohio. In 1822 he 
 removed to Richland county, Ohio, and located 
 lour miles north of the town of Mansfield. .\t 
 the time of this removal there were eight chil- 
 dren in the family, the youngest being but one 
 year old. John Holmes, the father of Hon. C. 
 H. Akers, was then ten years of age, and drove 
 one of the teams to the Richland county home. 
 In 1834 the family left Richland county and re- 
 turned to their former home in Harrison county 
 in the vicinity of Athens. The children born to 
 William and Nancy Akers were : Elizabeth, 
 John II., Mary, Abraham H., Margaret, Wil- 
 liam, Rebecca, Susan, Eli D., and Thomas R. 
 
 John H. Akers, M. D.. was the oldest son in 
 his father's family, and was born in Harrison 
 county, Ohio, in 1812. His early life was that of 
 the average farm-reared youth, and in 1836 he 
 married Nancy Rankin, who died in 1845. He 
 was a man of marked ability, and his achieve- 
 ments in later life more than realized the prom- 
 ise of his youth. During the greater part of his 
 active career he was a prominent physician and 
 surgeon, having graduated from an eastern med- 
 ical college. He first practiced in Ohio, and 
 later settled in Millersburg, Iowa, where he was 
 not only a practicing physician but also a prom- 
 inent citizen. The most active part of his life 
 was spent in Kansas, to which he moved in 
 1859, settling in Shawnee, Johnson county. 
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 for a time as government surgeon at Leaven- 
 worth, and was surgeon after the battle of West- 
 port, Mo. In tender soHcitude for the wounded 
 in this battle, his wife walked the distance from 
 Shawnee to Westport, and dressed the wounds 
 and alleviated the sufferings of those who had 
 been injured in the cause. 
 
 Aside from his ability as a healer of men, Dr. 
 Akers was an eloquent speaker, and exercised 
 his gift in advocating the principles of the Re- 
 publican party and in the cause of abolition. 
 He was a devoted member of the Methodist 
 church, and convincingly preached the gospel of 
 kindliness and good will as occasion offered. 
 One of his best remembered efforts as a public 
 speaker was at tlie first meeting for securing the 
 Terminal Railroad for Kansas City. Up to the 
 time of his death in March of 1881, at the 
 age of seventy-two years, he was vitally inter- 
 ested in the prosperity and development of Kan- 
 sas, and was regarded as one of the brightest 
 lights in the medical profession in the state. 
 He was twice married, and of his union with 
 Nancy Rankin there were four children : Eliza- 
 beth, Christine (deceased), Nancy J., and Ada- 
 tilda. Dr. Akers married for his second wife 
 Almarine Harbaugh, who was born in Trenton, 
 Tuscarawas county, Ohio, being the daughter of 
 Benjamin Harbaugh, of Maryland. Benjamin 
 Harbaugh was a cabinet maker by trade, and 
 an early settler in Trenton, Ohio. He served 
 in the war of 1812, and married Judith Knaus, 
 a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of 
 Lewis Knaus, representative of an old Pennsyl- 
 vania family. Mrs Akers, who is now living 
 in Prescott, Ariz., is the mother of four children. 
 Of these John B., met a tragic death while su- 
 ])erintendent of a sawmill near Prescott, No- 
 vember 19, 1887. When fifteen years of age he 
 enlisted in the Civil war in the Sixteenth Kan- 
 sas Regiment, and was slightly wounded at the 
 Ijattle of Westport. In 1865 he started for the 
 far west with ox-teams and wagons and spent 
 two years on the government trail, subsequently 
 settling in Prescott, where he lived until his 
 death. The other members of the family are: 
 Josephine, who is now the wife of K. L. Mills, 
 of Kansas City, Mo.; Charles H., anil J. W'.. 
 who came to Arizona in 1882, and is now post- 
 master at Prescott. 
 
 Charles H. Akers was born in Millersburg. 
 Iowa, September 21, 1857, and until his four- 
 teenth year was reared in Shawnee, Kans., and 
 educated in the public schools. At fifteen he 
 started out to face the bread winning and re- 
 sponsible side of life, accompanied only by the 
 splendid enthusiasm of youth, and a firm deter- 
 mination to succeed. For three months he 
 worked in a brick yard, and then obtained em- 
 ployment with Banning & Gallup, a large rail- 
 road and ditch contracting concern, whose 
 mules and horses he herded at night for two 
 and a half years. LTpon returning to Shawnee, 
 Kans., he attended school during the winter, 
 and in the spring of 1875 went to Creston, Iowa, 
 and was in the employ of Thomas Hall in the 
 stock business for one year. He later assumed 
 charge of the engine-house in Creston, and had 
 the training of the first team used in the house 
 which eventually became the prize team in the 
 state. In 1879 the mining boom of Leadville 
 stimulated him to a journey westward, and for 
 a year he prospected with ups and downs in the 
 mining regions around Leadville. An unex- 
 pected drawback presented itself in 1880 when 
 he was taken with pneumonia, and his recovery 
 was equally on the unexpected order. In the 
 meantime his father had died. 
 
 In December of 1880, Mr. Akers started for 
 Arizona, journeying by rail to Albuquerque, and 
 thence by horseback to Prescott. His first 
 employment in the territory was in a sawmill, 
 working for his brother John in the Curtis mill. 
 After six months he engaged in mining, and in 
 1882 struck some good luck, and from then on 
 looked at life through more ambitious glasses. 
 For two and a half years he was subsequently- 
 employed in a sutler's store, owned and man- 
 aged by C. P. Head & Co., at Camp Verde, 
 but was again overtaken by the mining fever in 
 January of 1885, and prospected and mined at 
 the Tip Top mines for two years This proved 
 an unsuccessful venture, and in hopes of im- 
 proving his future prospects Mr. Akers came 
 to Phoenix and entered the employ of the Mari- 
 copa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley Railroad 
 Company, under Mr. Porter. In the spring of 
 1888 he became a bookkeeper for James Dough- 
 erty, a general merchant in Prescott, and in Sep- 
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 recorder of Yavapai county on tlie Ixi-publican 
 ticket, and elected the first Republican recorder 
 of the county, and the third Republican to hold 
 any office in the county. The popularity of Mr. 
 Akers may be estimated when it is known that 
 in a strong Democratic community he received 
 one hundred and sixty majority. In iSyo he 
 was re-elected by a majority of six Inmdred, and 
 served for two terms. In the fall of 1892 Mr. 
 Akers was nominated sheriff of Yavapai county, 
 but was beaten in the election. He served as 
 recorder until 1892, and in 1893 was appointed 
 clerk of the board of supervisors, which position 
 he held until December 31, 1896. From Sep- 
 tember 1894 until 1896 he served as chairman 
 of the Republican County Central Committee, 
 having been elected in 1894 by a unanimous 
 vote. In that election, out of thirteen candi- 
 dates, nine were elected in the county. Since 
 that time Yavapai county has not elected a 
 member of the Republican partv to ofifice. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Akers was elected a delegate 
 to the Republican convention at St. Louis. Six 
 of the delegates were from the start in favor of 
 the nomination of Mr. McKinley. To the ad- 
 mirable services of Mr. Akers in this regard is 
 undoubtedly due his later appointment as sec- 
 retary of Arizona. In January of 1897. he 
 opened an abstract ofifice in Prescott, and 
 May 19, of the same year, was appointed secre- 
 tary of Arizona by President McKinley. July 
 I, 1897, he assumed the duties of his responsible 
 position, and a few days later, upon the removal 
 of Governor Franklin, he became acting gover- 
 nor until Governor McCord was sworn in. It 
 is doubtful if any man in the territory could 
 invest this position of trust with greater satis- 
 faction or dignity, or with greater credit to him- 
 self and the wonderful territory which he repre- 
 sents. Mr. Akers was further honored by the 
 people of the territory in 1900, by being unani- 
 mously elected chairman of the Republican dele- 
 gation to the Philadel])hia National Convention, 
 and was appointed a member of the committee 
 on platforms and resolutions. 
 
 In addition to the numerous political res]jon- 
 sibilities to which Mr. Akers seems by nature 
 and adaptability heir, he is interested fraternally 
 and socially in many of the organizations of the 
 city of Phoenix. He is a nunnber of the Benev- 
 
 olent Protective Order of F.Iks, the Woodmen of 
 the World, the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, the Knights of Pythias, of which he is Pa.st 
 Chancellor and member of the (irand Lodge, 
 and the Moderns and Masonic order. He is 
 a member of the Maricopa Club, and attends the 
 Episcopal church, of which his wife is a member. 
 April 10, 1889, Mr. .-\kers was united in mar- 
 riage with Emily Philpot, who was born in Salis- 
 bury, Mo., and was a niece of John C. Herndon. 
 of Prescott. Mrs. Akers dieil on her weilding 
 journey while in Kansas City, Mo., Mav 26, 
 1S89. Mr. Akers was married December i, 
 1 891, in Phoenix, to Jennie Bryan, a native of 
 New York state, and a graduate of Mills Semi- 
 nary. Of this union there are three children ; 
 Brvan, Tohn Kelsev, and Henr\- Harlow. 
 
 JOHN F. JUDIA. 
 
 Though at present a farmer in the vicinity of 
 Solomonville, Mr. Judia is possessed of many at- 
 tainments, having at different times during his 
 life engaged in his trade of carpenter, builder 
 and painter, and also worked as an engineer, 
 miller, miner, barber, and has been an all-around 
 utility man. A native of Tennessee, he was born 
 in Giles county in 1850, and is a son of Henry 
 and Nancy E. (Clark) Judia. Henry Judia was 
 born and reared in Clark county, Ky., and event- 
 ually became a very early settler in Tennessee, 
 where he died in 1856. The mother died in 1899. 
 John F. Judia left the familiar surroundings of 
 his youth in 1872, being well equipped for the 
 battle of life with a good common school educa- 
 tion and the trade of carpenter and builder. In 
 Colorado he worked at his trade for a year, and 
 then returned to Tennessee, where he was simi- 
 larly engaged until the fall of 1875. .V later ven- 
 ture was at Fort Worth, Tex., from where he 
 removed to Weatherford. of the same state, and 
 was there engaged in farming for about six years, 
 with a moderate degree of success. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Judia spent a short time at El 
 Paso, and from there went to Oregon City, N. 
 M.. where he became interested in mining, 
 and continued the same for three years. He 
 also visited Georgetown, N. M., and eventually 
 returned to his occupation of building and con-
 
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 tracting. For a time also he worked in a stamp 
 mill, and then went to Deming, N. M., and 
 worked at carpentering and building for about a 
 year. Upon returning to El Paso he was one 
 of the carpenters who built the big smelter at 
 that place, and he subsequently engineered one 
 of the furnaces for three months. 
 
 When he first came to Arizona Mr. Judia lo- 
 cated in Bisbee, and after engaging in building 
 for about ten months, continued the same in 
 Clifton for a short time. He then settled in the 
 Gila valley and worked at his trade for a couple 
 of years, and also dipped into other occupations 
 that happened to be at hand. In the mean time 
 he had become favorably impressed with the 
 conditions existing in the Solomonville valley, 
 and homesteaded his farm of ninety acres with 
 every hope of success. The land is just east 
 of the town of Solomonville, south of the main 
 road and one mile to the center of the village. 
 The owner thereof sold to the mill company 
 the site for their mill and now the mill water 
 power runs along the south line of his farm to 
 the foothills then north along the west line to the 
 mill. This supplies plenty of water for irriga- 
 tion and has enabled him to place fifty-five acres 
 under cultivation. The farm has improvements 
 and modern up-to-date devices which render it 
 one of the best in the valley and it is favored 
 with a tine and comfortable rural residence, 
 fences, good out buildings, and cooled in the 
 heat of summer by the shade from many trees. 
 Mr. Judia farms on scientific lines, and keeps 
 in touch with the improvements and methods 
 adopted in older and more settled localities of 
 the country. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Judia and Susan Porter 
 occurred in 1869. Mrs. Judia was a daughter 
 of George W. Porter, of Giles county, Tenn., 
 and died in 1875. To this couple were born two 
 children: Henry, who is in Texas, and Mrs. 
 Ida Cooper, of the vicinity of Deming, N. M. 
 A second marriage was contracted by Mr. Judia 
 in 1881 with Mrs. Theodocia Pollard Johnson. 
 Four children are the result of this union, viz.: 
 Bert, Lillie, Earnest and Earl. The children 
 are living at home, and all are attending the 
 Solomonville high school. In politics Mr. Judia 
 is a Democrat, but is not desirous of holding 
 
 office. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Ivnights of Pythias, and is vice-chancellor and a 
 charter member of the Solomonville Lodge. 
 Himself and family are members of the Cath- 
 olic Church. 
 
 ROBERT NASH. 
 
 One of the "forty-niners" who were the fore- 
 runners of civilization and wonderful prosperity 
 on the Pacific coast, Robert Nash is entitled to 
 a place on its roll of honor. Moreover, he was 
 one of the first permanent white settlers in the 
 Gila valley, and for more than a quarter of a cen- 
 tury has resided within the borders of Arizona, 
 actively connected with its development and use- 
 ful enterprises. 
 
 The parents of the above-named respected cit- 
 izen of Graham county were James and Mary 
 (Scott) Nash, natives of Kentucky, who took 
 up their abode in Indiana in its early days as a 
 state. The father departed this life in 1852, 
 and after surviving him many years the mother 
 passed to her reward, aged about eighty-two. 
 In 1849, accompanied by their children, they 
 crossed the great western plains to California, 
 and suffered the privations of frontier life. 
 
 Robert Nash was born in Marshall county, 
 Ind., in 1835, and thus was in his fifteenth 
 year when he made the long trip to the western 
 slope. For a score of years he was occupied in 
 placer mining in California, and it was not until 
 1875 that he left that state to try his fortunes in 
 Arizona. Locating near Prescott, he farmed 
 and freighted for some five years, and then, hav- 
 ing heard of the natural superiority of the Gila 
 river bottom lands, he came to this vicinity. 
 The county seat was then at Safford, very few 
 white families lived in the valley, and only three 
 white men resided at Solomonville. Renting a 
 tract of land for five years, Mr. Nash then pur- 
 chased a quarter section of the rich bottom 
 lands — which is more highly productive, un- 
 doubtedly, than any other region in this repub- 
 lic. Good improvements have been instituted 
 here by the energetic owner and today the 
 homestead is considered a model one. A sub- 
 stantial and convenient brick house, a thrifty 
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 to the value of the farm and speak vohimes for 
 the enterprise of the owner. He keeps a small 
 herd of high-grade cattle, but devotes his chief 
 attention to agriculture. As a public-spirited 
 citizen he has striven to perform his due share 
 in the affairs of his comnnmitv and has served 
 as a road overseer and school trustee. In na- 
 tional elections he uses his ballot in favor of 
 Republican measures. .\ man of strictly tem- 
 perate habits and noted for his sterling integrits 
 and indnstr\'. he enjijys the sincere respect of 
 all who know him. 
 
 June M, 1864, Mr. Nash married Miss Mary 
 Ann Orry, of California, a native of New York 
 state, who passed through Arizona on her way 
 to California with her parents in 1859. They 
 have reason to be proud of their five manly sons, 
 namely: John F., a professor at Thatcher (Ariz.) 
 College; James E., who is operating a farm 
 which adjoins that owned by his father; Henry 
 R., who farms and rents an entire section of 
 land, this tract also being adjacent to the old 
 homestead; George H., likewise engaged in ag- 
 ricultural pursuits; and Robert L., who lives at 
 home and assists in the management of the place. 
 Mary A. and Minnie H., the daughters, reside 
 with their parents. 
 
 HON. SAMUEL HUGHES. 
 
 Honored and respected by all, there is no man 
 in Arizona who occupies a more enviable posi- 
 tion in commercial and financial circles than 
 Sanuiel Hughes of Tucson, not alone on account 
 of the brilliant success he has achieved, but also 
 on account of the honorable, straightforward 
 business policy he has ever followed. 
 
 A native of Wales, he was born in Pembrook- 
 shire. August 28, 1829, a son of Samuel and Eliza- 
 beth (Edwards) Hughes, natives of the same 
 place and representatives of old Welsh families. 
 ( )ur subject traces his ancestry back to the an- 
 cient Piritons. His paternal grandfather and 
 great-grandfather both bore the name of Samuel, 
 and were the owners of a large estate in Wales. 
 In 1837, the father, accompanied by his family, 
 came to the new world and shortly after his ar- 
 rival settled on the Schuylkill river near Mana- 
 vuiik, Pa., where he ensfasred in dairving for two 
 
 years. About 1840 he removed to a farm a mile 
 and a half from .Allegheny City, that state, where 
 the mother died in 1843. Soon afterward the 
 father was seriously injured and rendered a 
 cripple for the remainder of his life. He died at 
 the age of over seventy years. In the familv 
 were ten children, namely : John and IMargaret. 
 both of whom died in Penn.sylvania; Sanniel, our 
 subject; David, a prominent man of New Or- 
 leans, La., where his death occurred; Mrs. Sallv 
 Taylor and Lizzie, both residents of DeSoto, 
 "Kans. ; William, who was a member of a Kansas 
 reginunt in the Civil war and is now a residen; 
 of Lawrence, that state ; Lewis C. ex-governor 
 of Arizona, who was a member of a Pennsylva- 
 nia regiment in the Civil war and is now editor 
 of the Star of Tucson ; Thomas, also a resident 
 of Tucson, who entered the service as a drum- 
 mer boy of a Kansas regiment and when mus- 
 tered out was serving as colonel; and .Annie, 
 who makes her home in Tucson. 
 
 Samuel Hughes was about eight years of age 
 when he came with his parents to this country, 
 the family taking passage at Liverpool on the 
 North Star, a sailing vessel, which dropped an- 
 chor in the harbor of Philadelphia after a voy- 
 age of sixty days. At an early age our subject 
 was obliged to begin the battle of life for hiiu- 
 self and consequently had no educational ad- 
 vantages. His first work was on a farm. In 
 1844 the family removed to Allegheny City, Pa., 
 wdiere the children were under the guardian- 
 ship of Gen. William Robinson. P>y the death 
 of his oldest brother the res])onsibility of caring 
 for the family devolved upon our subject. He 
 found employment as driver of a canal boat 
 mounted on trucks, his route being over the .\l- 
 legheny mountains, and for this work he re- 
 ceived only $6 per month. As this was the first 
 money he had ever earned he took a just pride 
 in its possession. On his return from a trip 
 (leneral Robinson expressed a desire to have 
 him attend school, but this he would not ac- 
 cede to unless proper prov.ision was made for 
 the support of the remainder of the children, 
 then eight in number, he agreeing to take care 
 of himself if such arrangements could be made. 
 .\s nothing could be done, he and his I)rolher 
 William secured employment in the spinning 
 department of Blackstock's cotton factory.
 
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 where he received $1.25 and WiUiam seventy- 
 five cents per week, while their combined ex- 
 penditures amounted to $1.75 for board and ten 
 cents for vvasliing per week. It was thus amid 
 trying difficulties that Mr. Hughes started out 
 upon his business career. The diligence with 
 which he applied himself to his tasks soon at- 
 tracted the attention of the proprietor. Mr. 
 Blackstock, who induced him to enter the de- 
 I)artment of the factory devoted to blacksmith- 
 ing, where he soon familiarized himself with the 
 details of that trade. During his earlv connec- 
 tion with the factory he had one sad experience. 
 A belt had been cut and he was accused of do- 
 ing it and accordingly dismissed, but a girl in an 
 adjoining factory knowing that he was falsely 
 accused acknowledged that several girls in her 
 establishment had cut it for mischief, thus ex- 
 onerating the lad. An offer of $40 reward had 
 been made to any one who would bring for- 
 ward the culprit, but she refused the reward. 
 Many years after this, in 1880, while visiting the 
 old place, Mr. Hughes found this woman in des- 
 titute circumstances, and paid her the $40 with 
 interest, which then amounted to $460, so that 
 virtue at length had its reward. 
 
 During a strike in the factory in 1846, Mr. 
 Hughes was thrown out of employment, but 
 with characteristic energy he soon found a posi- 
 tion in a confectionery and bakery establishment 
 where he remained until the end of the strike, 
 when he resumed work in the machine shop of 
 Mr. Blackstock's factory, where he was em- 
 ployed for some time. In 1848 lie went as cabin 
 boy on a steamljoat at $15 per month, and the 
 following year (1849) made his first trip to New 
 Orleans. While returning from there to Cin- 
 cinnati on his second trip cholera carried off 
 fort_\-seven of the deck passengers. He con- 
 tinued steamboating until 1850. when he con- 
 ceived a desire to try his fortunes in the gold 
 fields of California, of wliicli he had heard such 
 glowing accounts, .\ccordingly on the loth of 
 April, 1850, he started from St. Joseiih, 'Slo., 
 with a train of sixty-six wagons. In payment 
 for his trip across the plains and mountain, Mr. 
 Hughes contributed his services as a cook, an 
 
 art he had acf|uired during his steamboat career. 
 Soon after starting the train was divided into 
 three equal parts, and the section to which he 
 
 was allotted required that he should walk in- 
 stead of ride, which was quite a different ex- 
 perience to one who had recently been riding on 
 palatial steamboats. From St. Joseph the train 
 proceeded to Fort Kearney, crossed the Platte, 
 Sweetwater and Creen rivers, and finally 
 reached Humboldt. Thus far thev had trav- 
 ersed what was known as the I\it Carson route, 
 but believing they could make better time they 
 decided on another. Losing their way they had 
 to return to the original route and thus wasted 
 ten days following the Humboldt route. They 
 arrived in Hangtown, (now Placerville) Cal., on 
 the loth of June. When within sixty miles of 
 that place Mr. Hughes met a man who offered 
 him a half ounce of gold per day for his labor, 
 and accepting this proposition he remained at 
 Hangtown until the following October. He 
 spent the winter at Sacramento, and in the 
 spring of 1851 went to Yreka, in Siskiyou 
 county, for the purpose of opening a restau- 
 rant, remaining there until the spring of 1852, 
 when he crossed the Siskiyou mountains to 
 the Rogue River valley in Oregon, and was 
 one of the first to discover Rich Gulch 
 at Jacksonville. \\'hile many of the miners 
 were troubled by Indian depredations, Mr. 
 Hughes experienced none, his treatment of 
 them being kind and fair, and he was held in 
 high esteem by them, often acting as medi- 
 ator between the white and red men. On his 
 return to Yreka he opened a hotel in the fall of 
 1852, but in tlie spring of 1853 was called upon 
 to participate in another raid upon the Indians 
 at Evans creek, called the Rogue River war. 
 In the fall of 1853 he purchased the Mountain 
 House (now called Cole .Station), at the foot of 
 the Siskiyou mountains on the California side, 
 on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and kept the 
 stage station for the California & Oregon stage 
 line, remaining there until 1856, when he re- 
 turned to the Shasta valley, and soon thereaftci' 
 became interested in the stock business. 
 
 Owing to ill health .Mr. Hughes was com- 
 I)elled to seek a more congenial climate, and de- 
 cideil to come to .Arizona. On the ist of Janu- 
 ary, 1858, he left Yreka, and went to San I'ran- 
 cisco, and from there to Los .Angeles, where he 
 purchased mules and horses, which lie drove 
 over the mountain.s, arriving in Tucson in
 
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 69 
 
 March. The admirable climate of this locality 
 soon built up his shattered health, while the 
 kindness and liberality of its citizens persuaded 
 him to make this his permanent place of resi- 
 dence. Specimens of ore brought in by pros- 
 pectors led him to the belief that there were 
 valuable deposits of precious metal within the 
 territory and he soon embarked in prospecting 
 and kindred pursuits, which he has continued up 
 to the present time with marked success. He 
 has also been indentified with other enterprises, 
 and for years w'as generally known as the ''Tuc- 
 son butcher," the appellation being acquired 
 from his extensive meat market which he oper- 
 ated with his usual success. He has also en- 
 gaged in merchandising, and has done an exten- 
 sive business as a contractor, both for the gov- 
 ernment and private parties. He organized the 
 first bank of Tucson ; later became president of 
 the Santa Cruz bank; and has been interested 
 in a number of other financial institutions, hav- 
 ing been a director of several banks. 
 
 Mr. Hughes was married in Tucson to Miss 
 Atanacia Santa Cruz, who was born here in 
 1850, and is a daughter of Juan and Manuella 
 (Borquez) Santa Cruz, also natives of Arizona 
 and representatives of two of its oldest families. 
 Her father served as a soldier in the Spanish, 
 Mexican and Indian wars, and both he and his 
 wife died in this territory. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hughes have a family of ten children, namely: 
 Elizabeth, wife of J. Knox Corbett of Tucson ; 
 Margaret Frances, wife of Frank Treat of the 
 same place ; Steven Samuel, one of the proprie- 
 tors of the Orndorfif Hotel ; David Louis, ranch 
 superintendent for Mrs. Stevens ; Thomas F.lias, 
 who died in Tucson ; Petra Emma, w ifo of 
 Frank Landoii, a resident of San ['rancisco : Jes- 
 sie was educated at Belmont College, Nash- 
 ville, Tenn., where she had special training in 
 vocal and instrumental music and carried off 
 the honors in both in the class of 1900, having a 
 fine mezzo soprano voice with great volume 
 and sweetness of tone ; Atanacia, wife of Clar- 
 ence Barnhart, of Willcox, Ariz.; I'arrell Saf- 
 ford, and Mary, a student at St. Joseph's .Acade- 
 my, Tucson. 
 
 Up to and <luring the Civil war Mr. Hughes 
 was the best known man in the territory. His 
 enterprise, liberality and humanit.'irianism were 
 
 proverbial, and many were indebted to him for 
 the homes they lived in as well as the food 
 which kept soul and body together. He has 
 always been a friend to the poor and needy. 
 Originally he was a Whig in politics, and a per- 
 sonal friend of Henry Clay, for whom he had 
 the greatest admiration. On the dissolution of 
 that party he joined the Republican ranks, and 
 was a strong supporter of the Cnion during the 
 dark days of the rebellion, for which he was 
 often threatened with death and the confiscation 
 of his property, but he never swerved in his al- 
 legiance of what he believed to be right. l)nr 
 ing his long experience in the west he has nic! 
 with many adventures, in which more than once 
 he escaped with his life only by his shrewdness 
 and bravery. Public-spirited and enterprising 
 he has taken an active interest in the develop- 
 ment and upbuilding of his adopted territory, 
 and has done all in his power to advance its wel- 
 fare. He assisted in organizing the city of Tuc- 
 son, and was one of its first aldermen, in which 
 office he served for seven years, but refused the 
 mayorship. He was adjutant-general of Arizona 
 six and a half years, and also served as territorial 
 and county treasurer, but when elected to the 
 legislature refused to qualify. He has never 
 soug'ht political honors, preferring to give his 
 undivided attention to his extensive business in- 
 terests, leaving the ofiices to those wdio care 
 more for such positions. He has always taken a 
 commendable interest in educational atlfairs, and 
 is untiring in his efforts to advance the schools 
 of this territory. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Hughes is a thirty-second-de- 
 grce Mason, and is also connected with other 
 benevolent and popular organizations. He was 
 one of the organizers of the Arizona Pioneer 
 Society, of which he was president and director 
 until he finally handed in his resignation. In 
 promoting the growth and prosperity of the 
 county along many different lines he has been 
 foremost. He is a man to whom the most envious 
 can scarcely grudge success, so well has he 
 earned it, and .so admirably does he u.<e it. He 
 is kind, unaffected and approachable, and is 
 always ready to aid and relieve suffering and 
 distress. His career seems alnio.st phenomenal, 
 vet his success has been by no means the result 
 of fortiniate cirt-nnKt.uK-fs. It has come to liim
 
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 throiigli energy, labor and perseverance, 
 directed by an evenly balanced mind and by 
 honorable business principles. He has proved 
 himself in all the relations of life an earnest, 
 honest and upright man, and a citizen of whom 
 any community might be justly proud. 
 
 HON. (iE(jR(;E W. P. HUNT. 
 
 .\s a business man of unblemished integrity, 
 as a pronujler whose wisely conservative policy 
 has tempered ultra-enthusiastic projects insepara- 
 ble from the development of all rapid wealth- 
 producing centers, and as a legislator whose 
 every undertaking has been compatible with the 
 highest political honor, Mr. Hunt represents the 
 kind of commercial and social life which consti- 
 tutes the desired Mecca of the first citizens of 
 the land. 
 
 Through the chance of possessing a rare busi- 
 ness mind, coupled with great energy, he has be- 
 come identified with one of the most interesting 
 as well as one of the earliest pioneer enterprises 
 of southern .\rizona, namely, The Old Dominion 
 Commercial Company. This organization, of 
 which Mr. Hunt is now the president, was 
 founded by Alonzo Bailey in 1877, and has since 
 known an uninterrupted season of prosperity. 
 Long before the whistle of the iron horse was 
 known in this part of the world, the company 
 was a source of supply to prospectors and mi- 
 ners for a radius of hundreds of miles. Every- 
 thing included in the term general merchandise 
 is carried in stock, and one may purchase all 
 that intervenes between a spool of thread and a 
 lunijjer wagon. The firm carries a stock of 
 about $50,000, and does an enormous monthly 
 business. In connection there is conducted a 
 large banking business, which is a wonderful 
 accommodation to the people ol the town, and 
 which does a large exchange business as well 
 as handling local deposits to the extent of at 
 least $50,000. This many-sided enterprise neces- 
 sitates the employment of many people, for 
 things are received in carloads, and numerous 
 warehouses are required for their reception and 
 housing, and numerous hands for their subse- 
 quent <listril)Ution, 
 
 I'runi the ]iosition of clerk with the C)ld Do- 
 
 minion Commercial Company in 1890, Mr. Hunt 
 so masterfully acquired a knowledge of every 
 detail of the business tliat in 1896 he became a 
 partner in the concern, and in 1900 was elevated 
 to the position of president. Nor are his inter- 
 ests confined to this responsibility, for he owns 
 mining claims which promise good returns, and 
 a valuable ranch (in the .Salt river banks in Cila 
 county. It ma}- also be truthfully said that in 
 no undertaking for the best advancement of this 
 great mining center has the co-operation and 
 assistance of Mr. Hunt been wanting, for he 
 is thoroughly in touch with all that tends to 
 introduce the most desirable methods of com- 
 mercial and municipal well-being. 
 
 As a stanch adherent of the Democratic party, 
 Mr. Hunt has been a guiding influence in Gila 
 county, and was a member of the territorial leg- 
 islature during the eighteenth and nineteenth 
 assemblies, and of the nineteenth and twentieth 
 councils. When the town was incorporated in 
 1900 he was elected the first mayor, and he was 
 also county treasurer for part of a term. I'rom 
 1894 until 1898, through the administrations of 
 Hughes, Franklin, McCord and Murphy, he 
 served as emigration commissioner. He was a 
 delegate to the Kansas City convention in 1900, 
 and has otherwise been identified with local and 
 territorial political affairs. Fraternally Mr. 
 Hunt is associated with the IMue Lodge of 
 Masons in Globe and the Knights Templar, is 
 a member of the Odd Fellows and a charter mem- 
 ber of Globe Lodge, P. G. He is a member of 
 the \'irginia Historical Society, and of the Soci- 
 ety of Sons of the American Revolution. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Htmt was centered in 
 Huntsville, Randolph county. Mo., a town inter- 
 estingly reminiscent of the early struggles and 
 rugged pioneership of the paternal grandfather, 
 who laid out the site long before Missouri had 
 been raised to the dignity of a state. The very 
 early members of the family were identified with 
 some of the landmarks in the country's growth, 
 and the great-great-grandfather was a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary war. G. W. P. Hunt was 
 born in 1859, and was reared and educated near 
 the town of Huntsville. When nineteen years 
 of age he departed from the old familiar sur- 
 roundings and faced an indejiendence whose 
 bumant possibilities and hopes have been some-
 
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 what realized. For three years he prospected 
 and investigated the conditions in Colorado, 
 Xew Mexico and Old Mexico, and in July of 
 ]88i came to Arizona, locating in (ilobe the 
 following October. For a while he worked in 
 the mines, and was then in the cattle business 
 for about eight years, and in 1890 became identi- 
 fied w'ith the general merchandise business. Mr. 
 Hunt is a cousin of Governor Richard Yates, of 
 Illinois. 
 
 LOUIS ZECKENDORF. 
 
 The splendid development of Arizona during 
 the last few years, which followed in the wake 
 of the uncertain pioneer days so fraught with 
 danger and adventure to the hardy dwellers 
 within the Indian-infested region, the hardships 
 and vicissitudes which accompanied those who 
 jiad the courage and faith to foresee the im- 
 limited possibilities awaiting the stout of heart 
 are embodied in the life and ambitious schemes 
 for advancement of I^ouis Zeckendorf, the mer- 
 chant prince of Arizona. To those who in the 
 (lawn of the awakening civilization anticipated 
 the every-day and practical needs of the wealth 
 seekers, no less than to the miners who wrested 
 from mother earth her jealously guarded treas- 
 ure, is due the introduction of prosperity, law, 
 and order in this seat of the oldest civilization in 
 the new world. 
 
 In the estimation of all who know him .Mr. 
 Zeckendorf represents the most advanced type 
 of twentieth-centur\- comnierciali.'^m. The force 
 of character which has withstood the test of loss 
 and discouragement, and the conservatism 
 which has proceeded cautiou.sly along the high- 
 way of finance is imdoubtedly largely due to 
 those traits of character which insure success 
 to so many of Teutonic birth and training. .\ 
 native of the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, he 
 was born' .\])ril 6, 1838. and received his educa- 
 tion in Hamelin, renowned in rhyme and story 
 as the home of the rat-catcher. This distin- 
 guished destroyer of all the rodents in the town, 
 in revenge for not receiving the requisite re- 
 ward for his services, exercised his art as a 
 flutist to draw all of the rising generation from 
 the town. And so he has been handed down 
 for centuries in pictorial art an<l merry verse, 
 3 
 
 a lank, tall member of the genus homo, blythely 
 dancing along to the sound of his magic in- 
 strument, followed by scores of admiring and 
 heedless children. 
 
 With his education and training Mr. Zecken- 
 dorf imbibed an ambition which extended be- 
 yond his native land, and which found vent in 
 1854, when he boarded a sailing vessel bound for 
 the shores of .\merica. .After a wearisome 
 journey he landed in Xew York, going almost 
 immediately to Santa Fe, N. M., the journey 
 from Kansas City being taken by means of ox- 
 teams and wagons. .Arriving in the .Mexican 
 city, though a stranger in a strange land, he was 
 not entirely alone, for a brother, .Aaron, had for 
 some time been conducting a small general mer- 
 chandise store, and he soon became a partner in 
 the then unimportant enterprise. In 1856 he 
 entered upon an independent venture and 
 started a branch at .Albuquerque, N. M., both 
 stores doing a good business until the breaking 
 out of the Civil war, and the consequent de- 
 pression in general trade. Their business was 
 especially unfortunate owing to the defeat by 
 the Southern of the Northern troops and their 
 occupation of Xew Mexico, which entailed 
 heavy ta.xation upon the Union merchants. The 
 situation was intensified by the fact that the 
 younger brother, William, was an officer in the 
 I'nion army. After the Southern troops were 
 driven out of New Mexico the firm again gath- 
 ered together its patrons and business, and en- 
 joyed an era of success until 1865, when there 
 were other severe losses occasioned by the de- 
 cline in merchandise on account of the goods 
 being snowed under in the Raton mountains. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Zeckendorf took to Tucson a 
 $50,000 stock of goods, which were sold to 
 Charles T. Hayden, another pioneer merchant 
 and mill-owner, and the founder of Teinpe. In 
 1867 he removed to New York City and estab- 
 lished the purchasing branch for the firm, and 
 since then, with the exception of frequent trips 
 to .Albuquerque and Tucson, he has attended to 
 the purchasing end of the business. Tlie present 
 Tucson branch was established in 1868, and con- 
 ducted by the brother William, although .Aaron 
 still retained his interest in the business, to the 
 time of his death in 1872. .After that the enter- 
 prise continued to be conducted by the two
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 brothers, Louis and William, under the firm 
 name of the Zeckendorf Brothers, and in 1878 
 Louis bought out the interest of William, and 
 associated himself with a nephew, Albert Stein- 
 feld, under the present firm name of Louis 
 Zeckendorf &• Co. From this comparatively 
 small beginning the interests of the establish- 
 ment have broadened in every direction, and 
 with the knowledge of its sound financial basis 
 and incorruptible business methods, has con- 
 tinued to supply an increasing demand, and for 
 vears has been one of the largest enterprises of 
 the kind in the territory. They are known far 
 and wide, in small town and remote mining 
 camps, and have an enviable reputation for fair- 
 ness and sound commercial integrity. 
 
 While Mr. Zeckendorf has been zealously 
 loyal to every broadening enterprise in the ter- 
 ritory, and though absent a greater portion of 
 the time his influence is apparent in more direc- 
 tions than is implied by his well known title of 
 merchant prince. The mining industries of the 
 territory have received his substantial backing 
 and support, and he was one of the incorporators 
 of the famous Copper Queen Mining Company, 
 which had its origin in 1882, and is one of the 
 most widely advertised and successful mining 
 properties in the west. He was the first treas- 
 urer of the company, and as secretary and man- 
 ager launched its possibilities on to an ever- 
 broadening sea of inexhaustible success. Al- 
 though at present in the sixties, and having 
 already lived and accomplished more than many 
 do in twice the length of time, he is a man 
 youthful in manner and appearance, his genial 
 personality radiating success a?kl happy optim- 
 ism wherever he may choose to go. That his 
 friends are legion admits of no doubt, and that 
 lie richly deserves their consideration and re- 
 gard is best answered by those who appreciate 
 his many fine and noble traits of character. 
 
 j.A.Mr-:.'^ K. KKDDK.V, 
 
 The now famous Salt Ri\Tr valley is indebted 
 for its development and its rank among the gar- 
 den spots of the country to such men as Mr. 
 Redden, who have brought hither from other 
 parts of the land .1 wealth of experience and a 
 scientific knowleifge of the best and most practi- 
 
 cal means of conducting a farm. Though not one 
 of the earliest pioneers, having come here from 
 California in 1888, Mr. Redden has accomplished 
 gratifying results, not only as an agriculturist, 
 but also as an apiarist. In the latter occupation 
 he has so far studied the habits and methods 
 of these industrious little food-producing bees 
 as to have gained a reinUation as an authority on 
 bee culture. He is contemplating entering even 
 more e.xtcnsively into the raising of hone)-, and 
 devotes much time to imjiroving the methods of 
 caring for his bees. In this coiuicction he is a 
 member of the Salt River \'allcy Honey Tro- 
 ducers' Association and a director in the same. 
 
 The splendidly improved farm of Mr. Redden 
 is located about eight and a half miles southeast 
 of Tempe, and is three hundred and ten acres 
 in extent. Under his unfailing patience and in- 
 terest in the possibilities of the soil, the land has 
 been made to produce abundantly, and now 
 bears but a slight resemblance to its originally 
 crude and unpromising condition. It is well fit- 
 ted with all modern labor-saving devices, and 
 has the distinction of being adorned by one of 
 the most comiuodious, comfortable and tip-to- 
 date rural houses in the valley. On the claim 
 general farming and stock-raising are exten- 
 sively carried on. 
 
 The ancestry of the Redden family is English 
 on the paternal side and German on the maternal 
 side. Mr. Redden is a native of Jackson county, 
 Iowa, and was born December 4, 1840. His 
 parents, Edward and Amy (Wood) Redden, arc 
 natives respectively of Alaryland and Kentucky. 
 They were agriculturists during the years of 
 their activity and reared their children to habits 
 of thrift and economy. They were early settlers 
 in Jackson county, Iowa, having removed there 
 in the early ',^os. Their son, James, lived on the 
 home farm iinlil grown to manhcHid, anil in the 
 meantime acquired the education ol)taiiiabk' at 
 the public schools of his county, and under his 
 father's able instruction learned the l)cst way 
 to conduct a farm. 
 
 .Much of his success in life Mr. Redden gener- 
 ously attributes to the able assistance of his wife, 
 wlu) has ]5roved a helpmate indeed, and a worthy 
 assistant in the uphill struggle for success and 
 competence. Mrs. Redden was fornicvls .Siis;ni 
 n. .'-^lieih, a native of l\'nns\ l\ aiiia. ( M' this
 
 PORTR.\IT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 niiioii there Iia\'e been nine children, viz.: Low- 
 ell E.; Amy B., who is the wife of Thomas H. 
 Brown, of Jerome, Ariz.: Homer: Byron A.: 
 Walter; Monroe; Enos, who is deceased: Alark; 
 and James E. The marria<:;:-e of Mr. Redden and 
 Miss Sheih was solemnized in Iowa Mav 3. 1864. 
 and dnrini; the same sprins.^ they decided to take 
 advantage of the larsjer possibilities of the far 
 west, and journey to Butte county, Cal. Here 
 they resided for .several years, and engaged in 
 general farming and stock-raising. .'^ubse- 
 quently they took up their residence in Modoc 
 county, C"al.. and were forty miles from the cele- 
 brated lava beds, in Modoc coimiy. .Shortly 
 ifter arriving there Captain Jack's war com- 
 menced, with the details of which ]\Ir. and Mrs. 
 Redden are very familiar. .After engaging in cat- 
 tle-raising for a number of years in Modoc 
 county, .Mr. Redden removed to Sonoma county, 
 Cal., where he remained until 1888, .Tt which 
 time he permanently settled in .\rizona. 
 
 Mr. Redden is greatly interested in the cause 
 of education, and invariabl\- lends his influence 
 on the side of the most advanced means of im- 
 parting knowledge. For several years he has 
 served (Jii the school board of his district, known 
 as the Kyrene district. In national politics he is 
 an advocate of the ])rinciples of the Democratic 
 party, but entertains nevertheless exceedingly 
 liberal ideas regarding the politics of the ad- 
 ministration. He is progressive and enterprising 
 regarding all matters that pertain to the up- 
 building of his adopted locality, and exerts a 
 wide influence along all lines of progress. 
 
 WILLIAM W. COOK. 
 
 Coming to Arizona on the 7th of November, 
 1876, Mr. Cook has for almost a quarter of a 
 century been identified with the cattle business 
 of this territory, and is a worthy representative 
 of one of its most prominent pioneer families. 
 His father, Josiah D. Cook, was a native of Tip- 
 pecanoe county, Ind., and belonged to an old 
 New Jersey family of English origin. When a 
 young man he went to Crbana, Mo., and later 
 became a resident of St. Louis, where he learned 
 the saddler and harness-maker's trades. In 1852 
 he went to California by way of the Isthmus of 
 Panama, and in ( )akland opened a shop and 
 
 worked at his trade. He started a stage line 
 from Oakland and also engaged in the cattle 
 business. In 1863 he went to Walla Walla, 
 Wash., where he carried on the harness and hotel 
 business until coming to Prescott, .\riz., in 1876. 
 Here he embarked in the dairy business, which 
 he continued to follow throughout the remain- 
 der of his life, and also engaged in government 
 contracting. 
 
 As a Republican, J. I). Cook took a very 
 active and influential part in political af- 
 fairs, and was serving as a member of the general 
 assembly from Yavapai county at the time of 
 his death. He also filled the oflfice of county su- 
 pervisor several years, and was county treas- 
 urer of Walla Walla, county, Wash. He died 
 in San Francisco, in May, 1894. when nearly 
 sixty years of age. In early manhood he mar- 
 ried Virginia Cave, a native of Grayville, 111., 
 who died in 1883. Her father. Prof. William K. 
 Cave, was born in Somerset, England, and was 
 a graduate of Oxford College. He came to this 
 country with Rolaert Dale Owen, the founder of 
 the New Harmony community in Illinois, and 
 became musical director for the same. After- 
 ward he was one of the early surveyors of Texas, 
 but died in Illinois. In 1856 Mrs. Cook and 
 her sister, I'annie A. Cave, crossed the Isthmus 
 and took up their abode in San I'rancisco. Both 
 married in California. Fannie became the wife 
 of L. .\. Stevens, who was born in Mississippi 
 and went to California in 1849. I" 1862 they 
 settled in Prescott, Ariz., and had some exciting 
 experiences during the Indian troubles in this 
 territory. At one time Mrs. Stevens drove a 
 number of Indians out of her house and ofif the 
 ranch. Her husband was engaged in the cattle 
 business with the father of our subject, under 
 the firm name of Stevens & Cook, and was a 
 member of the territorial legislature at two dif- 
 ferent times. He died in 1878, and Mrs. Stevens 
 now makes her home in San Francisco. 
 
 W. W. Cook, of this review, is the oldest in a 
 family of three children, the others being Sidney 
 L, who was formerly a mining assayer and mill 
 man at Boulder, Colo., but is now head of the 
 mining bureau of the republic of Ecuador, and 
 also in charge of any mining done by the Guaya- 
 quil & Quito Railroad ; and F. Stephen, who is 
 a graduate physician, and is now engaged in
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 practice at Eutopia. Mexico. Our subject was 
 born in Oakland, Cal., January 17, 1859, and was 
 reared principally in Walla W.alh, Wash. He 
 attended the city schools of that place, the high 
 school at Rockport, Ind.. for two years, and 
 completed his education by his graduation from 
 Bryant & Stratton"s Commercial College of Cin- 
 cinnati. He had previously come with the fam- 
 ily to Prescott, Ariz., in 1876, and on leaving 
 school in 1880 returned to this place. He estab- 
 lished what is known as Cook's ranch on the 
 head waters of Xew river, fifty-five miles from 
 Phoenix, being the first to engage in the cattle 
 business in that locahty. Upon his place he has 
 imported full-blooded Shorthorn and Hereford 
 cattle, and now has a herd of about fifteen hun- 
 dred. His ranch is on the line between Maricopa 
 and Yavapai counties. Since 1894 he has made 
 his home in Phoenix, having purchased a pleas- 
 ant residence at No. 476 North Fifth avenue. 
 
 On the 5th of February, 1885, at Rockport, 
 Ind., Mr. Cook was united in marriage with 
 Miss Stella Laird, a native of that place, a daugh- 
 ter of Jesse and Celia (Rogers) Laird. She was 
 educated in the Rockport high school. Her 
 father was an attorney of that place and served 
 as county clerk two terms. He was born in 
 Indiana, and was a son of Judge J. D. Laird, 
 one of the pioneers of Spencei county, that 
 state, where he served as county judge. Mrs. 
 Cook's mother was a native of New Harmony, 
 Ind., and a descendant of John Rogers, of Con- 
 necticut, who was burned at the stake on ac- 
 count of his religious views. Her father, E. J. 
 Rogers, was born in New Haven, Conn., and 
 in 1818 removed to the Hoosier state, later 
 becoming a merchant of Posey county. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Cook were the parents of one child, Joe 
 Jesse, who was born in IVescott, January 20, 
 1886, and was accidentally killed while Iiunting, 
 October 27, 1900. 
 
 Mr. Cook is a prominent Mason, holding 
 membership in Arizona Lodge No. 2, F. & A. 
 M.; Phoenix Chapter, R. A. M.; Phoenix Com- 
 mandery No. 3, K. T., and El Zaribah Temple, 
 N. M. S. He also belongs to the Odd Fellows 
 lodge. Encampment and Uniform Rank. By his 
 ballot he supports the men and measures of the 
 Republican party, and has served on the terri- 
 torial committee. His wife is a member of the 
 
 Presbyterian Church. During his long resi- 
 dence in Arizona he has championed every 
 movement designed to promote the general wel- 
 fare, has supported every enterprise for the pub- 
 lic good, and has materially aided in the advance- 
 ment of all social, educational and moral inter- 
 ests. His genial, pleasant manner has made 
 him quite popular in both business and social 
 circles, and he is recognized as a valued citizen 
 of tlie connnunitv. 
 
 ALBERT J. STRAW. 
 
 A native of Derbyshire, England, Mr. .Straw 
 was born July 18,' 1858, and is a son of William 
 and Mary (Else) Straw, who were born in Eng- 
 land. William Straw was for many years a 
 general merchant at Pinxton, Derbyshire, and 
 after his sixteenth year his son, Albert, assisted 
 him in the discharge of his business enterprise, 
 and learned every detail of the mercantile busi- 
 ness. The youth received an excellent education 
 m the public schools of his native land, and 
 developed industrious and praiseworthy traits of 
 character at a very early age. 
 
 In the fall of 1878 Albert J. Straw immigrated 
 to the LTnited States, sailing from Liverpool to 
 New York. He settled at once in Peoria, III, 
 and was there engaged as a clerk in a large 
 mercantile establishment for several years. In 
 1885 he removed from Illinois to Arizona, and 
 settled on his present ranch in the vicinity of 
 Peoria, Maricopa county, which has since been 
 the scene of his undivided attention. He was 
 one of the very first settlers of his locality, and 
 has witnessed man-y changes in the at first un- 
 promising country. His ranch consists of eighty 
 acres of land, and has become, by cultivation, a 
 paving and interesting venture. In connection 
 with the improvement of his own land, Mr. 
 Straw for four years managed the famous ranch 
 belonging to S. C. Bartlett, near Glendale. An 
 added source of revenue also is derived from the 
 occupation of well drilling, of which Mr. Straw 
 is an expert. In this line he is accorded the 
 majority of the patronage of the valley. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Straw and Elizabeth 
 Goodall, a native of England, occurred in Eng- 
 land in May. 1883. Mr. Straw is interested in 
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 79 
 
 inent of his locality, and is one of the reliable 
 and esteemed members of the community. He 
 has great faith in the future of his especial part 
 of the valley, which is undoubtedly the secret 
 of his gratifying success. 
 
 HON. ELISHA M. SANFORD. 
 
 Just eighteen years ago E. M. Sanford estab- 
 lished his home and office in Prescott, the 
 "charming mountain city," as it has often been 
 called by enthusiastic visitors. To-day and for 
 many years past he has been ranked among the 
 leading members of the legal profession of this 
 county, and is continually adding to the laurels 
 which he has already won. At the same time, 
 he is a public-spirited citizen, doing everything 
 within his power in the advancement of this, his 
 chosen place of abode. 
 
 The Sanford family is an old and honored one 
 in New England and originated in our mother 
 country. The paternal grandfather of E. M. 
 Sanford was a hero of the war for independence, 
 and lived in Connecticut, his ancestral state, un- 
 til early in the century just completed, when he 
 became a pioneer of Allegany county, N. Y. 
 There his son, Ephraim H., father of E. M. San- 
 ford, was born and reared. Early in his career 
 he went to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he pub- 
 lished a newspaper for a period, in the meantime 
 studying law and finally being admitted to the 
 bar. Then he proceeded to establish himself in 
 practice in New London, Ohio, and later re- 
 moved to Des ^loines, Iowa, where he assisted 
 in the organization of the Iowa Land Company, 
 a successful venture. In 1856 he became a resi- 
 dent of Marysville, Kans., and was one of the 
 most energetic and valued vitizens of that state. 
 During the troublous period of the Civil war, 
 when Kansas was almost torn asunder by con- 
 tending factions within her borders, he played 
 an important part in maintaining order and pro- 
 tection, serving as a captain in Colonel Moon- 
 light's regiment of home guards. He is was who 
 founded the now thriving town of Eskridge, 
 Kans., where he lived for many years and 
 carried on a law and real estate business. 
 
 His death occurred April 11, 1901, at Colum- 
 bus, Ohio, whither he had removed in i8i;S. 
 His wife, Rebecca Mary Merrick Moses, daugh- 
 
 ter of Dr. Elisha Moses, was born in Mount 
 Morris, N. Y., and departed this life in 
 1898. Her father was a prominent physician of 
 Rochester, N. Y., for a long period, and her 
 grandfather, Elisha Moses, was one of the 
 pioneers of the Genesee valley in New York, 
 coming to that locality from Rhode Island. The 
 Moses family was founded in New England soon 
 after the "Mayflower" made its first historic trip 
 to these shores, and prior to that, flourished in 
 old England. Mrs. Sanford is far from unknown 
 to the general public, as she achieved distinction 
 as a lecturer, poet and writer on many of the 
 important issues of the times. She possessed a 
 natural charm of manner, which, added to a 
 liberal education and ability, made her 
 thoroughly entertaining and sought for in 
 society. Under the auspices of Susan B. 
 Anthony and others, she delivered the first lec- 
 ture on woman's suffrage in Rochester, N. Y., 
 in a Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 E. M. Sanford, born in Mount Morris, N. Y., 
 February 6, 185 1, is the only child of E. H. and 
 Rebecca M. Sanford who lived to maturity. 
 After completing his studies in the academy of 
 his native town he commenced to teach school 
 and continued his researches in the fields of 
 science, higher mathematics and the languages. 
 In 1866 he went to Kansas, where he devoted 
 several years tOr the saw-mill industry, chiefly in 
 the vicinity of Manhattan and Alma. Then for 
 some time he edited the Eskridge "Landmark," 
 a progressive newspaper which attained a wide 
 circulation. 
 
 Having decided to enter the legal profession, 
 E. M. Sanford pursued his studies along that 
 line under the guidance of his father, and in 
 1873 was admitted to the Kansas bar. From 
 that time until 1881 he was successfully occupied 
 in practice at Alma, Kans., and then located in 
 El Paso, Tex. It was not long, however, ere he 
 took up his residence in Silver City, N. M., and 
 in March, 1883, the superior climate and other 
 advantages of Prescott led him to become a per- 
 manent resident of this place. Here he has built 
 up a large and renumerative practice, many of 
 his clients being classed among the representa- 
 tive citizens of this locality. From 1884 to 1893 
 he was attorney for the .Atlantic & Pacific Rail- 
 road in Arizona, and of late years his general
 
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 practice has occupied his entire attention. In 
 political creed he is a Republican. In religion 
 he is a member of the Episcopal Church. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Sanford and Miss Fannie 
 L. Stimson took place in Topeka, Kans., 
 November ii, 1877. Battle Creek, Mich., is her 
 birthplace, and her girlhood was passed in Mich- 
 igan and Kansas. Three children bless the home 
 of our subject and wife, namely : Jessie F., Earl 
 A. and Pearl. 
 
 WILLIAM H. COUGHRAN. 
 
 Besides being a piominent farmer of the Salt 
 River valley, Mr. Coughran has responsibilities 
 as a veterinary surgeon, and as trustee of the 
 Riverside school district No. 2. He was born 
 in Caledonia, Wis., October 3, 1847. His par- 
 ents, James and Mary J. (Cronk) Coughran, 
 were natives of Vermont, and devoted the 
 greater part of their years of activity to farming. 
 James Coughran was an ambitious man, who 
 saw beyond the confines of his Wisconsin farm, 
 and was inspired with the longing for wealth 
 which took so many from the various occupa- 
 tions all over the country to California in 1849. 
 He crossed the plains with a train of emigrants 
 in that memorable year, and for a time mined in 
 the state of California. Going back to Wiscon- 
 sin, he returned after several years to the far 
 west, and in September, 1869, located in Skull 
 valley, Ariz., but in 1870 moved to what is now 
 the People's valley. Here he engaged in ranch- 
 ing, and also kept a station for the accommoda- 
 tion of stage passengers, an important and neces- 
 sary work in the early days. He is one of the 
 early and enterprising pioneers of Arizona, and 
 has contributed his share toward the develop- 
 ment of the localities in which he has lived. At 
 present he is residing with his son, William H. 
 His wife died in 1887, in Reedsburg, Wis. 
 
 When a small child, William H. Coughran 
 moved with his parents to Reedsburg, Wis., 
 where he received an excellent home training, 
 and was educated in the public schools of the 
 town. He first came to .Arizona in 1872, and 
 was immediately initiated into the peculiar con- 
 ditions existing at that time. The stage coach 
 was then an important factor in the land, the 
 mails and traveling public being dependent upon 
 
 this method of transportation. For two years he 
 was employed on a stage line between Prescott 
 and San Bernardino, Cal., and was the agent 
 at Ehrenburg for James Grant, the sole pro- 
 prietor of the stage line. Subsequently he re- 
 turned to Wisconsin, and qualified for future in- 
 dependence by learning the veterinary surgeon's 
 occupation, and until 1886 practically applied his 
 calling at Sparta, Wis. In the same year he re- 
 turned to Arizona, and has now come to regard 
 the territory as his permanent habitation. 
 
 For two years after returning to the territory, 
 Mr. Coughran was employed in the large mer- 
 cantile establishment of J. L. Fisher, at Prescott, 
 and in 1890 settled on the land which has since 
 been the object of his untiring energies. His 
 ranch is located west of Phoenix, in the Salt 
 River valley, and is one hundred and seventy 
 acres in extent. The wise application of effort 
 has been rewarded by gratifying results, for the 
 farm bears scarce a trace of resemblance to its 
 former sterile condition. 
 
 Mr. Coughran married Jennie Heimann, who 
 was born in Germany. To this couple have been 
 born two children, Alma and Samuel J. In 
 national politics Mr. Coughran is a Republican. 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order 
 and prominent in Masonic circles. He is enter- 
 prising and progressive, and interested in educa- 
 tion and all that pertains to the general well- 
 being. 
 
 R. S. STURMER. 
 
 A baker and confectioner by trade, a master 
 in his line, and a sound financier, Mr. Sturmer 
 would undoubtedly make a success of his busi- 
 ness wherever he might elect to reside. From a 
 small start he began in Jerome in 1894, occupy- 
 ing the old Grand \^iew building, and soon 
 worked up a good trade, which necessitated an 
 increase of stock and larger quarters. A change 
 was compulsory, however, for he was the vic- 
 tim of a fire in September, 1898, and all his 
 goods were destroyed, as well as the building 
 which contained them. To tide over the disas- 
 ter he purchased the property upon which he is 
 now conducting business, and temporarily 
 erected a small wooden structure. In 1899 was 
 erected the present building, a commodious and
 
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 convenient store, three stories in height, and 
 26x62 feet in ground dimensions. A fine stock 
 of general furnishings and merchandise is car- 
 ried, amo\uiting to about $1,200, and the fixtures 
 are valued at $2,500. Mr. Sturmer is entitled to 
 great credit for the rise which he has made in 
 Jerome, for his original enterprise was valued 
 at only $200. He realizes a large profit from 
 his bakery, which occupies one floor of the store 
 building. 
 
 A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Sturmer was 
 born in Piltston, Luzerne county, in 1864, and 
 was reared and educated in the city of his birth. 
 Upon leaving the home surroundings, he went 
 to New Mexico, and at Deming, Grant county, 
 worked at his trade of baker and confectioner, 
 which he had learned in Pennsylvania. This 
 occupied his time for seven years, when he en- 
 gaged in the grocery and bakery business at 
 Deming for four years. From Deming he came 
 direct to Jerome, and has since been one of the 
 strong commercial forces of the town. He owns 
 considerable real estate in his adopted city, as 
 well as coal lands and mining claims in the 
 county. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Stunner married, in Deming, 
 N. M., Miss C. Lena I. Merrill, who was born in 
 Maine, and to this couple has been born one 
 son, Merrill. Mr. Sturmer was a member of 
 the first board of aldennen of Jerome. He has 
 since been active in local politics, but has never 
 been a seeker after political preferment. Fra- 
 ternally he is a Knight of Pythias, and is asso- 
 ciated with Jerome Lodge No. 18, and past 
 chancellor of the same. 
 
 HON. PROSPER P. PARKER. 
 
 This prominent civil and mining engineer and 
 representative citizen of Phoenix, was born in 
 Barnston, Province of Quebec, Canada, Decem- 
 ber 26, 1835, and is the oldest son in a family 
 of six sons and two daughters, all of whom are 
 now living with the exception of one son and 
 one daughter. His father, A!])heus Parker, was 
 also a native of Barnston and a son of Joshua 
 Parker, who was born on Lake Qiamplain, near 
 Bethel, Xt., and at an early day removed to 
 Barnston, Canada, where he followed farming. 
 His old homestead at that i)lacc is still in pos- 
 
 session of the family. His wife, who in her 
 maidenhood was Judith Bartlett, was also a 
 native of the Green Mountain State and a 
 daughter of Joseph Bartlett, who fought for the 
 freedom of the colonies in the Revolutionarv 
 war. The father of our subject engaged in farm- 
 ing on the old homestead until his death in 1891. 
 He married Susan Roxanna Crooker, who was 
 born in Woodstock, N. H., and is a daughter of 
 Josiah Crooker, also a native of that state and a 
 farmer by occupation. He was closely related 
 to the Churchill, Randolph and Alger families, 
 who were prominent in the Revolutionary war. 
 Mrs. Parker is still living in Canada at the ad- 
 vanced age of ninety-three years. 
 
 During his boyhood and youth P. P. Parker 
 attended the district schools and the Barnston 
 Academy, and at the age of eighteen engaged in 
 teaching, after which he clerked in a general 
 store at Magog, Canada, one year. In 1858 he 
 removed to Bloomington, 111., where he taught 
 one term of school, and in the fall of that year 
 went to Pike county. Mo., where he followed the 
 same jnirsuit. In the spring of 1859 he started 
 across the plains for Pike's Peak with ox teams, 
 going by way of Fort Riley and the Republican 
 Fork of the Kansas river to the junction of the 
 Platte and South Platte, and thence to the pres- 
 ent site of Denver. During the sunnuer he en- 
 gaged in prospecting and mining, and then re- 
 turned to Missouri to resume teaching in the 
 same district where he had previously taught. 
 Later he followed farming there until the in- 
 auguration of the Civil war. 
 
 In 1861 Mr. Parker joined the Home Guard. 
 becoming first lieutenant of Company C, Sixth 
 Missouri Militia, and in September of the fol- 
 lowing year was mustered into the United 
 States service as first lieutenant of Company H, 
 Thirty-second Missouri \'olunteer Infantry, 
 which was assigned to General Sherman's com- 
 mand. He participated in the battle of Haines' 
 Blufif, .Arkansas Po.st, the siege of \'icksburg,the 
 battles of Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, 
 and the .\tlanta campaign. At the surrender of 
 Atlanta his regiment, which had entered the 
 service one thousand two hundred strong, was 
 reduced to one hundred and thirty-six men and 
 formed three companies of a battalion, the sur- 
 plus officers having been mustered out. He was
 
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 made captain of his company in July, 1864, and 
 was honorably discharged late in the fall of that 
 year. 
 
 Returning to his home in Missouri, Mr. 
 Parker was there married, in January, 1865, to 
 Miss Susan F. Hendrick, a native of Pike 
 county, Mo., and a daughter of Moses and 
 Amanda Hendrick, who removed from Ken- 
 tucky to Missouri in pioneer days. Four chil- 
 dren blessed this union : Angie Belle, deputy 
 clerk of the United States supreme court of 
 Arizona: Earl H.. a civil engineer with the 
 Santa, Phoenix & Prescott Railroad extension ; 
 and Henry Clay and James A., both at home. 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Parker engaged in 
 farming in Missouri one year, and then em- 
 barked in general merchandising. Nine months 
 later he was elected clerk of the district court 
 and register of deeds of Pike county, in which 
 offices he served four years, and then engaged 
 in railroad contracting on what is now the Chi- 
 cago & Alton from Roodhouse, 111., to Jeiiferson 
 City, Mo., and later on the St. Louis, Hannibal 
 & Keokuk Railroad. Having made a study of 
 surveying it helped him greatly as a railroad 
 contractor. He built the lime works at Bowling 
 Green, Mo., which he operated until 1884, and 
 then removed to Devil's Lake, Towner county, 
 N. D. He was appointed by the governor as 
 one of the commissioners to organize that 
 county, which they did, and was also appointed 
 to help select the site for the county seat and 
 build the court house. There he engaged in 
 farming and stock raising, and also served as 
 clerk of the district court until coming to Ari- 
 zona in 1888 as a contractor on the South (lila 
 canal in Yuma county. In April, 1889, he lo- 
 cated in Phoenix, where he has since made his 
 home. He was one of the promoters of the 
 Rio Verde canal ; surveyed the original levels, 
 and has been interested in it ever since as a di- 
 rector. He served as president of the com- 
 pany for a time and is now treasurer. They have 
 large reservoirs and the canal when completed 
 will be one hundred miles in length, $200,000 
 have already been expended upon it. Mr. 
 Parker is also interested in mining, and is super- 
 intendent of the Arizona Copper Mountain Min- 
 ing Company in the New river district. He 
 stands high as a civil and mining engineer and is 
 
 well posted in irrigation engineering. His homo 
 is in the capitol addition of Phoenix. 
 
 Mr. Parker was elected to the territorial legis- 
 lature in 1896, and was a member of the nine- 
 teenth general assembly, in which he served as 
 chairman of the committee on irrigations, and 
 as a member of the committees on rules, ways 
 and means, counties and county boundaries, and 
 appropriations. He was also very active in se- 
 curing appropriation for building the present 
 capitol. In the fall of 1900 he was again the 
 Democratic candidate for representative to the 
 legislature. He served as lieutenant-colonel and 
 aide-de-camp on the staffs of both Governor 
 Franklin and Governor McCord. He has been 
 a member of the territorial central committee, 
 and is one of the most prominent Democrats of 
 Maricopa county. During the session of 
 January, 1901, twenty-first legislature, he was 
 elected speaker, and filled the office with emi- 
 nent ability, being very popular with the mem- 
 bers. 
 
 In religious belief Mr. Parker is a Congrega- 
 tionalist. He is a member and ex-director of the 
 Maricopa Club, and also belongs to the Arizona 
 Society of Civil Engineers and the Arizona So- 
 ciety of the Sons of the American Revolution. 
 An honored member of J. W. Owen Post, No. 
 15, G. A. R., he is now serving as department 
 commander of the department of Arizona. He 
 is one of the most prominent Masons of the ter- 
 ritory ; is past illustrious potentate of El Zariba'a 
 Temple, N. M. S., and was grand commander 
 of the grand commandery of Knight Templars 
 of Arizona in 1898 and 1899. He is a pleasant, 
 genial gentleman joi high social qualities and 
 very popular, having a most extensive circle of 
 friends and acquaintances who esteem him 
 highly for his genuine worth. 
 
 RICARDO EDSALL MINER. 
 
 The popular cashier of the Arizona Water 
 Company, Mr. Miner, was born in Freedom, La 
 Salle county. 111., January 7, 1856. On the 
 paternal side the family trace their Scotch ances- 
 try back to the thirteenth century. Grandfather 
 Miner was a farmer during the years of his 
 activity, and settled in Illinois at an early day, 
 where he conducted large general farming and
 
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 stock-raising enterprises, and where he eventu- 
 ally died at an advanced age. His son. Sam- 
 uel Edsall, the father of Ricardo, was born in 
 Xew York, and was a grain dealer in ( )ttawa, 
 111., and afterwards went into the meat business 
 in Chicago, 111. In iH~<) he removed to liigbug, 
 Ariz., and engaged in general merchandise busi- 
 ness, and also became interested in mining. In 
 1887 he removed to the Salt River valle\-. and is 
 now, at the age of seventy-nine years, retired 
 from active participation in business affairs, and 
 residing with his son in Phoenix. His wife, for- 
 nierl}- .\senath D.arrow, was born in Massachu- 
 setts, and was a daughter of Ouartus Darrow, 
 also of that state. In time Mr. Darrow remove<l 
 to La Salle county, 111., where he was a suc- 
 cessful farmer and stock-raiser. Mrs. Miner 
 died in Phoeni.x at the age of seventy-two. She 
 traced her descent back to some of the Ivcvolu- 
 tionary heroes, and was of English ancestry. 
 
 Of the two children in his father's faniilv, 
 Ricardo Edsall is the younger and the only 
 one living. He received his education in the 
 jjublic schools, and was graduated from the high 
 school. When old enough to assume responsi- 
 bility he assisted his father in conducting the 
 general merchandise store, and in this way ac- 
 quired considerable useful knowledge of the 
 ways of commerce. In 1882 he came to Bigbug, 
 Ariz., having been ^previously employed in the 
 construction of the Cliicago postoffice as time- 
 keeper. In Bigbug he entered his father's em- 
 ploy, and at the same time became interested in 
 mining, and opened and operated what was after- 
 wards known as the Henrietta and \'al mines, 
 and also had an interest in the C. O. D. mine. 
 With the latter enterprise he is still connected. 
 Since 1882 the father and son have been engaged 
 in raising cattle in the .Vrizona mountains, which 
 forms a considerable source of revenue. In 1887 
 Mr. Miner settled in Phoeni.x and purchased a 
 ten-acre farm adjoining the city. To the man- 
 agement and improvement of this land he has 
 given much time and attention. In 1894 he was 
 em])loyed by the .\rizona Improvement and the 
 Canal Companies as cashier and paymaster, 
 and continues to hold the position at the present 
 time, and after the reorganizing of the compa- 
 nies in 1898, into the .\rizona Water Company. 
 
 In Chicago, 111., Mr. Miner was united in mar- 
 
 riage with hannie Church, a native of Lancaster, 
 Ohio. ( )f this union there is one child, George 
 Edsall. Mr. Miner is associated with the Re- 
 publican ]iarty, and is intere.sted in all of its 
 issues and undertakings. He is also a member 
 of the .\rizona Sons of the Revolution. Mrs. 
 Miner is a mend)er of the lia])tist Church. He 
 represents the most substantial and enterprising 
 of the business men of Phoenix and is esteemed 
 for his innumerable excellent traits of mind, 
 character and attainment, llis high princi])les 
 and all-around geniality and good fellowship 
 have gained for him many friends, and his up- 
 right business methods the confidence of his 
 employers and the communitv at large. 
 
 CAPT. WILLIAM OWEX O'XEILL. 
 
 Without question one of the most po])ular citi- 
 zens of .Arizona was Capt. William O. ( )".\eill. 
 familiarly known throughout this section of the 
 southwest as "Buckie" O'Neill. He possessed 
 the courage, pluck and ha])i)v good-fellowship 
 which distinguish many of the typical frontiers- 
 men of the west, and in his death .\rizona feels 
 that a ]iul)Iic loss has been sustained. Words 
 of eulogy are needless, for the widespread thrill 
 of sorrow which was felt by all who had known 
 him, aye, and by many who knew him only in 
 a general way — when the news of his tragic 
 death in the forefront of battle at .Santiago 
 flashed over the wire — is in itself a testimony 
 to the hold which he had upon the hearts of the 
 ])eople. 
 
 Turning backward the pages in the life record 
 of the gallant captain it is learned that his 
 ])arents, Capt. John Owen and Mary (McMena- 
 men) O'Neill, were natives of Ireland. The 
 mother, who survives her husband, and lives in 
 Washington, D. C. is a daughter of William 
 Menamen, whose death occurred in the Emerald 
 Tsle. Her jKiternal grandfather, however, came 
 to this country and for a long period was en- 
 gaged in farming near Philadeijihia, his demise 
 taking place when he was in his ninety-ninth 
 \ ear. 
 
 Capt. John (hven O'Neill lived in St. Louis 
 and Philadelphia until the Civil war, and sub- 
 sequently was employed in the treasury depart-
 
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 nient at Washington, D. C. until he was suni- 
 fiioned to the silent land, January 13, 1897. In 
 his early manhood he had achieved great suc- 
 cess in the business world, being interested in 
 a wholesale hardware establishment. He pos- 
 sessed the same patriotic zeal and invincible 
 courage which characterized his son, the sub- 
 ject of this article, and when the Civil war began 
 he at once set about the raising of a company 
 of volunteers to defend the Union. Throughout 
 the war he served as the captain of Company K, 
 One Hundred and Sixteenth Pennsylvania 
 Volunteers, which was a part of that celebrated 
 "Irish" Brigade so prominently mentioned in 
 the annals of the war. In the fiercely-con- 
 tested battle of Fredericksburg he distin- 
 guished himself and command by his brilliant 
 action, though he was wounded five times. Alto- 
 gether during the war he received fourteeen 
 wounds, and in the possession of his family are 
 five minie-balls which were removed from his 
 body. For more than three decades his health 
 was greatly impaired by reason of his army 
 service, and during all of those weary years he 
 was a cripple, obliged to use crutches. In May, 
 1863, he was commissioned by President Lin- 
 coln to a Veteran Reserve Corps, and during 
 the latter part of the war was provost-marshal 
 m the district of Columbia, and a member of 
 the military commission for the seven south- 
 western counties of Virginia. He was an hon- 
 ored member of the Union Veteran League, the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion, 
 the Odd Fellows order and the Masonic order. 
 in which he attained the thirty-second degree. 
 
 Capt. William Owen O'Neill, born in St. 
 Louis, Mo., February 2, i860, was the eldest of 
 four children. His brother, John Bernard, a 
 graduate of the Georgetown (D. C.) law school, 
 is practicing his profession in Washington, and 
 another brother, Eugene Brady, likewise a 
 graduate of the same college, has been an attor- 
 nev-at-law in Phoeni.x since 1896. Miss Mary 
 Henning O'Neill, the only sister, resides in the 
 national capital. 
 
 Reared in Washington. Capt. W. O. O'Neill 
 received excellent educational advantages, and 
 after being graduated in the classics at Gonzaga 
 College pursued a course in the law department 
 of the National University, where he was gradu- 
 
 ateil in 1879. Coming direct to Phoenix, he 
 became the editor and manager of the city 
 "Herald." Subsequently, he officiated as court 
 stenographer at Albuquerque, N. M., practiced 
 law in the southern part of .\rizona and was 
 court reporter again. After trying his fortunes 
 in different parts of this territory, he located in 
 Prescott, where he was the court reporter in 
 1883. Mining enterprises naturally won his at- 
 tention, and at dififerent times he made invest- 
 ments in local mining property, and for a period 
 was the vice-president and general manager of 
 the Grand Canyon Mining Company, a success- 
 ful enterprise. Besides, he was the president of 
 the .Arizona Onyx Quarries until the property 
 was sold. In 1885 this versatile man again took 
 up journalistic work, becoming the editor of the 
 "Hoof & Horn," devoted to the interests of 
 stockmen, and for a number of years he was at 
 the head of the paper, which met with marked 
 favor in the West. In the organization of the 
 famous Buckeye Canal he was very active, and 
 for some time prior to his death held the posi- 
 tion of president of the same, also owning prop- 
 erty irrigated by the canal. He built the O'Neill 
 block, at the corner of First avenue and Adams 
 street, and a second building, known by his 
 name, at the corner of Second and Washington 
 streets. Phoenix. 
 
 In the ranks of the Republican party, Capt. 
 O'Neill was a leader, and served for one term as 
 probate judge of Yavapai, having been elected 
 by his party friends. He also served in the ca- 
 pacity of sheriff, and in his dealings with the 
 numerous outlaws and desperadoes of the terri- 
 tory had need of -the fearlessness, coolness and 
 strength of character for which he is noted. 
 Many an unpleasant experience did he have, and 
 not the least was his pursuit and capture of the 
 train robber called "Caiion Diablo." Following 
 the highwaymen into Utah, he finally overtook 
 them, and a running fight of a most exciting- 
 nature resulted. When the Spanish-American 
 war was declared, the Captain was mayor of 
 Prescott, and when he enlisted with the "Rough 
 Riders" of Arizona he was given a leave of ab- 
 sence from his position, which, as destiny de- 
 creed, he never was to resume. Of the Prescott 
 Grays, A. N. G., he had been the captain, and 
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 zona. He was, moreover, huiiureil 1j\ Ijciny ap- 
 pointed to serve on the Arizona board of com- 
 missioners of the World's Coknnbian Fair, and 
 at another time was a delegate to the National 
 Irrigation Congress, held in Phoenix. In 1894 
 he was a candidate for Congress on the Populist 
 ticket, but was defeated, and in iSqS. when he 
 was the Populists' choice for like honors, he was 
 defeated, owing to the minority of his party. 
 
 Capt. William O. O'Neill was the first volun- 
 teer mustered into the army after war with Spain 
 was declared, it is generally believed, as he took 
 the oath April 28, 1898, and was placed in com- 
 mand of Troop A, the noted "Rough Riders." 
 Their history, their intrepidity, their service to 
 the cause of right and justice is so fresh in the 
 minds of the public that naught is needed more 
 of praise. "Who would not gamble for another 
 star in the flag," words spoken to his comrades 
 by Captain O'Neill, were characteristic, evincing 
 his conviction that personal interests, even life 
 itself, should be considered secondary to pa- 
 triotism. The imiumerable dangers which he 
 had passed through, unscathed, among the out- 
 laws in the west, and his many escapes from in- 
 jury in Cuba, inspired him with a mistaken con- 
 fidence, for, indeed, it appeared to many that 
 he ''led a charmed life." On that memorable 
 July I, 1898, while awaiting orders from his 
 superior ofificers, he rashly stood erect among 
 his men who were lying on the ground, while the 
 Spanish bullets were showering above their 
 heads. In response to the friends who urged 
 him to be careful, he said lightly, "The Spanish 
 bullet was never moulded that will hit me," and 
 instantly he fell dead, killed by a leaden missive 
 of the foe. Mourned by his hosts of friends, east 
 and west, north and south, he is sleeping his 
 last sleep in the Arlington National Cemetery, 
 near Washington, his old home. He was a 
 Knight of Pythias and affiliated with the Wood- 
 men of the World. 
 
 In Prescott occurred the marriage of Capt. 
 O'Neill and Miss Pauline Schindler, April 27, 
 1886. She was born in San Francisco, and her 
 parents, W. F. R. and Rosalie (Young) Schind- 
 ler, are natives of Germany, the father of Berlin, 
 and the mother of Thuringia. For several years 
 he served in the regular army of this, his 
 adopted, country, and after his settlement in 
 
 California became captain of a company of the 
 First California Regiment, Volunteers, in the 
 Civil War, taking part in some of the local up- 
 risings and assisting to quell the Arizona Indi- 
 ans. For several years he was the editor of the 
 San Francisco "German Post," and later was 
 employed in the commissary department of the 
 United States army service, being transferred to 
 Fort Whipple and then to Fort Bowie, .\riz. 
 Resigning, he located in Prescott, where he was 
 assistant probate judge and assistant editor of 
 the paper "Hoof & Horn." Now about seventy 
 years of age, he is living retired in Phoenix. He 
 is an honored member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic and of the Loyal Legion. Mrs. 
 O'Neill, who is an only child, received good edu- 
 cational advantages in the schools of San Fran- 
 cisco, and is a graduate of the Normal of that 
 city. Since November, 1899. she has resided in 
 Phoenix, giving her chief attention to her little 
 son, Maurice, another son, John B., having died 
 in infancy. In the best local society of Prescott 
 and Phoenix she is popular, and now is the 
 president of tlie Equal Suffrage Association of 
 Arizona. 
 
 FRED A. TRITLE, JR. 
 
 The present register of the United States 
 land office at Prescott is regarded as one of 
 the most promising politicians in the territor\-. 
 Of interesting ancestry, the former bearers of 
 the family name have been prominent in many 
 walks of life, and more recent members have 
 figured conspicuously in high political circles 
 of the west, Hon. Fred .\. Tritlc, Sr.. having 
 been governor of Arizona. 
 
 The youth of Fred .\. Tritle, Jr., was spent in 
 Virginia Citv, Xev., where he was born January 
 10, 1866, and is the second oldest in a family 
 of five children. In 1880 he removed to Oak- 
 land, Cal., and took a course at Sackett's Clas- 
 sical School, and then prepared for Harvard Col- 
 lege at Exeter, Rockingham county, N. H. 
 However, later developments interfered with 
 his proposed entrance to Harvard, and in 1886 
 he came to Prescott, his father having arrived 
 here in 1881. .-\n almost immediate opening 
 was presented in the shape of a position as time- 
 keeper with the Prescott & Arizona Central
 
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 Railroad Company, in which capacity he served 
 until 1887. In the mean time he had employed 
 such leisure as he could command in studying 
 law, and in 1889 entered the department of the 
 county recorder, under Secretary Akers, where 
 he remained until 1897. He then opened an ab- 
 stract, real-estate and insurance office with 
 Charles H. Akers, which enterprise was exceed- 
 ingly short-lived, owing to the appointment of 
 Mr. Tritle, in May of 1897, to the office of reg- 
 ister of the United States land office, and the 
 later appointment of Mr. Akers as secretary of 
 Arizona. 
 
 July I, 1897, Mr. Tritle took the oath of office, 
 and has since had charge of the land cases. His 
 district is the largest in the territory, and in- 
 cludes the northern part of Yuma, Maricopa, 
 Gila and Graham counties, and all of Mohave, 
 Yavapai, Coconino, Navajo and Apache coun- 
 ties. It is needless to state that the office has 
 been managed to the satisfaction of all con- 
 cerned, and that the record of Mr. Tritle has jus- 
 tified the expectations of those who were instru- 
 mental in securing his appointment. He has 
 further interested himself in the general well- 
 being of the town, and is popular socially and 
 fraternally. As a stanch Republican he is a 
 member of the territorial central committee, and 
 was city treasurer for three years, from 1894 to 
 1897. He is a member of the Benevolent Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks, and is past chancellor of 
 the Knights of Pythias. Like the majority who 
 come here, he is interested in mining and cattle 
 raising. He is affiliated with the Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 W. S. LOW. 
 
 A pioneer hotel man, the subject of this article 
 has made a thorough success of his various en- 
 terprises in this direction, and not the least of 
 these is his most recent achievement. The Hotel 
 San .Xugustine, of Tucson, undoubtedly is the 
 most unique and interesting hostelrv in the 
 west, and certainly few, if any, others would 
 have dreamed of converting the old cathedra! 
 into a modern hotel. Seated in the dining-room 
 of today (the .audience' room of the devout as- 
 semblages who met here for many years), the 
 fancy necessarily strays into the past, and some- 
 
 times a sigh, but more often a smile, is evoked 
 by the contrast. On the walls are to be seen 
 the time-honored paintings, and as far as possi- 
 ble the old decorations have been untouched. 
 The room is so large and pleasant that it may 
 be used for a ball or for private theatricals, as it 
 is provided with a stage at one side (this hav- 
 ing formerly been the chancel). Two attractive 
 interior courts add much to the beauty and cool- 
 ness of the building, and the complete remod- 
 eling which has been carried out by the present- 
 proprietor renders this a thoroughly desirable 
 hotel. It extends from the Church plaza to 
 Church street, and occupies extensive ground 
 space, a new wing having been added to the 
 original structure. 
 
 "Yankees" always have been credited w'ith 
 foresight and noticeable sagacity in all of their 
 undertakings, and W. S. Low certainly is no 
 exception to the rule. He is a native of Gray, 
 Cumberland county. Me., his birth having oc- 
 curred July 31, 1839. He is of English descent, 
 and his grandfather, Nicholas Low, a native of 
 Maine, was a soldier in the war of 181 2. Wil- 
 liam, father of W. S. Low. also was born in 
 Cumberland county. Me., and was a selectman 
 of the town of Gray. He was a dealer in live 
 stock, and passed his entire life in his native 
 county. The wife and mother, Eunice, was a 
 daughter of Amos Cummings, and also was from 
 Maine. Of her twelve children, all but two lived 
 to mature years. 
 
 W. S. Low left home at the age of fifteen to 
 seek his fortune in the far west, crossing the 
 continent and journeying across the plains in a 
 mule train from Omaha along the Carson route 
 to San Francisco. His father and brother Wil- 
 liam had preceded him in 1849, voyaging 
 around South America, and upon arriving in 
 San Francisco the father took the contract for 
 making the first plank street in the city. From 
 the time that he reached the Pacific coast until 
 the spring of 1898 he was connected with hotel 
 enterprises, and thus is a veritable pioneer hotel 
 man. At first he was engaged in the business 
 in San Joaquin, Salina and Alameda counties, 
 Cal., and then in Contra Costa county. Going 
 to Santa Barbara, Cal., he was the proprietor 
 of the Santa Barbara Hotel for twelve years, 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 ing. Three and a half years ago he came to Tuc- 
 son, and formed the original idea of transform- 
 ing the old cathedral into a hotel, believing that 
 the central location and the architectural fea- 
 tures of the building would l)f advantages 
 worthy of consideration. Having obtained a 
 lease to the property, he proceeded to carry out 
 his ideas, aud. with characteristic cnergv, is 
 running the liolcl on apprnvcd modern methods. 
 In addition to this, he has investmciUs in min- 
 ing projjcrly. 
 
 Mr. Low has found a real helpmate in liis 
 wife, formerly Miss Caroline Edwards. They 
 were iiiarried in San Francisco and have two 
 children, Bernice and Glendlon. Mrs. Low was 
 born in Minnesota and is well educated and tal- 
 ented. Possessing fine natural ability as an art- 
 ist, she has devoted considerable time to paint- 
 ing, and her excellent taste has been exercised 
 upon her surroundings with good effect. She 
 holds membership in the Episcopal Church. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Low are the possessors of what is un- 
 doubtedly the finest collection of Indian baskets 
 in the entire west. In the fraternal orders Mr. 
 Low is connected with the Odd Fellows, Red 
 Men and the lodge and club of the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks. In political creed 
 he is a stalwart Republican. Personally he is 
 very popular and has a wide acquaintance with 
 the traveling public. His first visit to Arizona 
 occurred in 1862, and the changes which have 
 since taken place are notliing short of marvelous 
 in his eves. 
 
 ROBERT H. BURMISTER. 
 
 A public-spirited business man and the pre- 
 sent mayor of Prescott, Robert H. Burmistcr is 
 extremely popular in representative commercial 
 circles. Thoroughly patriotic and anxious to 
 promote the welfare of his chosen city, county 
 and territory, he loses no opportunity of advo- 
 cating progressive measures and by his means, 
 as well as by his influence, has aided in the great 
 work of advancement. He bears the reijutation 
 of being "liberal to a fault," and his kindly 
 nature and optimistic views life of cheer man\ 
 a person iti his battle with adversity. 
 
 In a mining country the commercial import- 
 ance oi its cities depends largely upon the num- 
 
 ber and value of the mines Ijy which thev are 
 surrounded. Undoubtedly it would be a great 
 surprise to the inhabitants of eastern cities of 
 the same population to learn what an amount 
 of business is transacted in Prescott annually. 
 Though by no means limited, the local trade is 
 biU one of the restjurces of our merchants, for 
 llu- numerous mining camps, dotted here and 
 there among the UKjuntains of this section of the 
 couiUw contribute materially to the wealth of 
 Prescott, as most of their sui)plies are obtained 
 here. I'l-ominent among the dealers in gent'ral 
 merchandise and miners' necessaries is the R. 11. 
 Ikirmister & Sons Co., whose spacious new 
 store is ranked with the largest and handsomest 
 establishments in this territory. It is centrally 
 located, being on Curley street, and is 50x125 
 feet in dimensions. 
 
 The senior member of this prosperous firm. 
 Robert H. Burmister, was born in Mecklen- 
 burg-Schwerin, Germany, .\ugust 17. 1847. 
 \\ ith his parents, Frederick and Bernadine (Zel- 
 lener) Burmister, he crossed the ocean when 
 three years of age and at first lived in BufTalo. 
 N. Y., whence the family removed to Cleveland. 
 Ohio. After eleven years of residence in that 
 city, they made several changes of location and 
 finally settled upon a farm near Indianola, Iowa. 
 Agricultural pursuits were not to the liking of 
 young Robert, who from childhood displayed a 
 strong bent toward business, and from the age 
 of fifteen |3ractically has made his own way in 
 the world. In 1864 he left home and four years 
 later entered the dry goods house of Clark & 
 Forbes, of Oshkosh. Wis. At first employed as 
 a clerk on a small salary, he soon wim the good 
 will of his employers, who i)romoted him until 
 he held the best-salaried position in the house. 
 
 In 1873 IMr. Burmister married .Margaret V.. 
 daughter of ex-Gov. Coles Bashford. of \\'iscon- 
 sin, later member of congress from .Arizona, 
 who for several years had spent much of his time 
 in this territory and at the time of his daughter's 
 marriage was upon the point of removing his 
 family west. Joining them, Mr. lUirmister and 
 his bride spent some months in San Diego. Cal.. 
 and in May, 1874. took up their permanent resi- 
 dence in Prescott. They have two sons and a 
 daughter, of whom they have reason to be 
 proud, namelv: Robert B.. Howard C. and
 
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 Helen F. Mr. and Mrs Burmister and tlieir 
 daughter are identified with the Congregational 
 Church. 
 
 Becoming a member of the firm of L. Bash- 
 ford & Co., Mr. Burmister was connected with 
 the same for many years, gradually advancing in 
 prosperity. In 1886, when L. Bashford retired 
 from the firm, it Ijecame Bashford & Burmister, 
 and in 1892 it was organized as a stock com- 
 pany, R. H. Burmister being president. In 
 1900 he withdrew from the business, and in part- 
 nership with his sons, started an independent 
 enterprise. He is the president of the R. H. 
 Burmister & Sons Co., Robert B. being secre- 
 tary and treasurer, and Howard C. vice-presi- 
 dent. Notwithstanding the severe losses and 
 business depression occasioned here by the 
 great fire of July, 1900, the firm transacted a 
 fine wholesale and retail trade, having increased 
 its business more than threefold within the year. 
 Mr. Burmister has expended a vast amount of 
 money in developing the mineral resources of 
 Arizona, and never has relinquished his deep in- 
 terest in -mining properties. Politically, he is a 
 stanch Republican, and served on the board of 
 equalization under Governor McCord. Justly 
 popular with the public, he was a candidate for 
 the mayoralty in the fall of 1900, and was elected 
 by a handsome majority. 
 
 HON. CHARLES W. JOHNSTONE. 
 
 During the fifteen years of Mr. Johnstone's 
 residence in or near Phoenix, he has been thor- 
 oughly interested in everything pertaining to 
 its progress, and has contributed much to its 
 welfare. Since January, 1894, he has been a 
 justice of the peace, the first time by appoint- 
 ment, and twice, subsequently, by election, his 
 majorities being large even in decided Demo- 
 cratic districts. August 3, 1897, he was honored 
 by appointment of Governor Mc.Cord with the 
 important post of treasurer of Arizona, in which 
 capacity he served until a change of adminis- 
 tration. For seven years and at the present 
 time he has been the county coroner of Maricopa 
 county, and in addition to this is the commis- 
 sioner of the L'nited States court. 
 
 In tracing the career of this sterling citizen 
 it is learned that he is of Scotch ancestrv on 
 
 the paternal side. His grandfather, James 
 Johnstone, was a life-long resident of the land 
 of the "thistle and heather," and the father, 
 James B. Johnstone, was born near Edinburgh. 
 At the age of eighteen he came to the United 
 States, and settling in Louisville, Ky., engaged 
 in merchandising there until his death, which 
 took place before the Civil war. He had been 
 well educated in the I'niversity of Edinburgh, 
 and was reared, as a Presbyterian, but, becoming 
 more liberal in his religious views, identified 
 himself with the Universalists. His wife, Ellen 
 C, was a daughter of James T. Worthington, 
 and was born in Mercer county, Ky. Her father 
 likewise was a native of Kentucky, and her 
 mother, Mary T. (Slade) Worthington, was born 
 in Maryland. Mrs. Johnstone departed this life 
 in 1867. Her elder son, Edward, who served 
 as adjutant of the Fifth Kentucky Infantry 
 throughout the Civil war. died in Denver, Colo. 
 
 The birth of Charles W. Johnstone took place 
 in Louisville, Ky., March i, 1842. Reared in 
 that city, he received a liberal education in the 
 conmion and high schools, and at the age of 
 eighteen entered upon a career as a railroad 
 man, in which line he was destined to give more 
 than two decades of his life. Though reared 
 under the influences which upheld slavery, the 
 young man early became a pronounced aboli- 
 tionist. 
 
 Hoping that the dr\ air and sunshine of Ari- 
 zona might be of benefit to his daughter, Mr. 
 Johnstone came to Arizona in 1886, and, buy- 
 ing a ranch situated about three miles northwest 
 of Phoenix, operated it for a year. In 1887 he 
 bought the Phoenix "Gazette," and for five 
 years managed that journal. Then, having be- 
 come greatly interested in horticulture, he lo- 
 cated upon a forty-acre ranch, seven miles north 
 of the city, on the Arizona canal, started an 
 orange orchard, and, having carefully attended 
 to it until it was in full bearing condition, sold 
 it in 1900. Success has blessed his business 
 undertakings, and from time to time he had 
 made good investments in city property. About 
 five years ago he was admitted to the bar under 
 Judge Baker. He has been the president of 
 the board of the .\rizona Normal, a member 
 of the territorial bdanl i.if education and insur- 
 ance ci.innnissiiiners. In the societies he is con-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 nected with the Order of Elks and is a Mason 
 in high standing, being a charter member of 
 Phoenix Commandery No. 3, K. T., of which 
 he is past excellent commander; and being a 
 member of El Zaribah Temple. N. M. S. He 
 belonged to the famous drill corps of DcMolav 
 Commandery in Lonisvillc. that received numer- 
 ous j)rizcs in different parts of the I'nited States. 
 Like his ancestors, a Presbyterian in creed. Mr. 
 Johnstone has been president of the board of 
 trustees of the Phoenix Church, and is liberal 
 to religious enterprises. 
 
 HARLEY C. HITCHCOCK. 
 
 A goodly share of the prosperity and substan- 
 tial growth which has visited Globe during re- 
 cent years is directly traceable to the untiring 
 and intelligent efforts of one of her most capable 
 and large-hearted citizens, Mr. Hitchcock. 
 Twenty-two years ago, shortly after the first 
 great nuggets had been found in the vicin- 
 ity, and a few hardy miners had penetrated 
 beyond the "dead line" (by which name 
 Pinal creek, the western boundary of the 
 Apache reservation was known), Mr. Hitchcock 
 came here and industriously sought to wrest 
 from Mother Earth a share of her hidden wealth. 
 Armed with nothing but a dogged perseverance 
 and a determination to succeed, he was enabled, 
 at the end of two years, to start a little drug 
 business in the camp, his stock being packed on 
 mules and brought from Casa Grande. This 
 was the first exclusive drug enterprise in Globe, 
 and the venture was inaugurated in an adobe 
 house. With the increase of population a frame 
 building succeeded the adobe house, and later 
 still, when the practically inexhaustible supply 
 of siKcr was abandoned for the more remunera- 
 ti\e copper, and a substantial basis had replaced 
 the visionary dreams of the early adventurers, 
 a iiuxlern structure became the home of the 
 drug enterprise, and is by far the most complete 
 store in this part of Arizona. Two stories in 
 height, and 25x60 feet in dimensions, on a lot 
 25x100 feet, it is fitted out with plate-glass win- 
 dows and beautiful and artistic fixtures. Of 
 pressed brick and with iron front, the upper part 
 is arranged for the offices of doctors and attor- 
 neys, who are as convenientlv housed as are 
 
 the members of the professions in larger and 
 much older cities. 
 
 Nor does this modern store represent the ex- 
 tent of the possessions won by the push and 
 energy of Mr. Hitchcock. He also owns four 
 liouses and a large plot of ground on top of a 
 hill adjacent to Main street, which constitutes 
 the best residence locality in the city. These 
 houses are kept in goo<l repair and are in con- 
 stant demand l)\- renters. The yards are large 
 and well irrigated by a well and four thousand 
 gallon tank, with ])ipes constructed liy the 
 owner. ( )no of the dwellings is occupied by 
 him. fn addition, Mr. Hitchcock is extensively 
 engaged in mining, and owns ten good copper 
 claims, which are well developed. At present 
 he is preparing to ship ore. and anticipates good 
 results in the future from his mining ventures. 
 
 The state of Ohio has furnished many sons 
 who have aided in the development of Arizona. 
 Mr. Hitchcock was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 
 1854, and is a son of Samuel and Matilda Hitch- 
 cock, natives respectively of Massachusetts and 
 Ohio. The father was one of the very early set- 
 tlers of Ohio, having gone there about 1830. 
 The mother was born, reared and died on the 
 farm which witnessed the birth of her son, H. 
 C. Until his twent\-second year he remained 
 under the home shelter and then went to Athens, 
 Tenn., and entered the East Tennessee Wes- 
 levan University, the president of which was his 
 half-brother, John F. Spence, LL. D., now chan- 
 cellor of the American University of Harriman, 
 at Harriman, Tenn. Here he finished his educa- 
 tion which was supplemented by a course in phar- 
 macy, in which he was graduated in June of 1879, 
 going immediately thereafter to Globe, Ariz. 
 
 December 4, 1888, Mr. Hitchcock married 
 Caroline Oates, a daughter of Philip and Anna 
 Oates, residents of Cdobe. Of this union there 
 have been four children, Leslie, Lillian, Ben and 
 Harley. The children are all living at home and 
 are attending school. In politics Mr. Hitchcock 
 is a I^ei)ul)lican, and is a strict party man. He 
 was county treasurer of Gila county for four 
 years, his term of .service extending from 1894 
 until 1898. With his wife and children, he is a 
 devoted member 01 the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, and in 1881. when the church of that 
 denomination was erected, Mr. Hitchcock
 
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 helped in the building of the same, and put on 
 the first coat of paint. Among the Odd Fellows 
 he exerts a wide influence, and is a charter mem- 
 ber and past grand master of the jurisdiction of 
 Arizona. .\t the present time he is past grand 
 patriarch in the drand Lodge of Odd Fellows,- 
 and was a member of the Grand Lodge and En- 
 campment at Globe in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hitchcock are members of the Rebekahs. 
 
 HOX. GEORGE R. DAVIS. 
 
 \\ hilc the duration of his residence in Arizona 
 covers a comparatively few years only, Judge 
 Davis has, owing to his prominence in judicial 
 circles, become a v^'ell-known figure of the terri- 
 torial life. He is a native of Ohio and was born 
 in Logan county December 13, 1861. At the 
 age of seventeen years he was graduated from 
 the Wapakoneta high school, after which he 
 turned his attention to the study of law, and was 
 admitted to the bar when twenty-one years of 
 age. Inimediatel}- afterward he began the prac- 
 tice of his professidu at Wapakoneta, where he 
 soon became known as a rising lawyer and pro- 
 gressive citizen. Mean time he identified him- 
 self with public affairs and took an active part in 
 the Republican party and its work in Ohio, be- 
 coming in this way acquainted with President 
 McKinley, between whom and himself a per- 
 sonal friendship sprung up. 
 
 In July, 1897, he was appointed an associate 
 justice of the supreme court of .\rizona, his ap- 
 pointment having been a personal one, made by 
 the president himself. .Accepting the commis- 
 sion, the Judge removed his family to Tucson, 
 where, in addition to his duties in the supreme 
 court, he presides over the district court of the 
 first judicial district of the territory. 
 
 JUDGE PHILIP M. THURMOXD. 
 Covering a period of many years. Judge Thur- 
 mond has practice<l law in Kentucky, Te.xas and 
 Arizona, and wherever his lot has been cast has 
 won an enviable reinitation as an exponent of 
 legal science and as a legislator, and as a man 
 and citizen of unblemished honor and unques- 
 tioned allegiance to the best interests of friends 
 and townspeople. The earlier part of his life 
 was s]jenl in Kentuckv. He was born in Car- 
 
 roll county, Tenn., October i, 1839, but has 
 always regarded himself as a Kentuckian. His 
 parents, Philip and Rebecca Ann (Snead) Thur- 
 mond, were natives respectively of Kentucky 
 and Tennessee. The family has long been rep- 
 resented in .America, and great-grandfather 
 Cartvvright was a courageous soldier in the Rev- 
 olutionary war. 
 
 •After an education acquired in the public 
 schools, Mr. Thurmond received an almost in- 
 stant recognition of his ability, for when but 
 twenty-nine years of age he represented Lyon 
 and Caldwell counties in the Kentucky legisla- 
 ture, and was at the time the youngest member 
 of the house, his term of service extending from 
 1869 to 1871. With the breaking out of the 
 Civil war he enlisted in the First Kentucky Bat- 
 tery (Cobb's B.attery), which formed a part of 
 the division commanded by Gen. J. C. Breck- 
 inridge, and served the Confederacy until the 
 termination of hostilities. In 1871 he removed 
 to Texas, and for seven years was engaged in 
 the practice of law, migrating in 1879 to Tucson, 
 Ariz., where he continued to practice for a short 
 time. A subsequent place of residence was 
 Tombstone, Cochise county, from which he re- 
 moved in 1883, having in the meantime been 
 interested in mining and the practice of law. 
 Upon coming to Clifton, Graham county, in 
 1883, he was further interested in mining, in 
 connection with law. and in 1891 rcjjresented 
 Graham county in the territorial council. After 
 a short residence in Solomonville he located in 
 (ilobe in the fall of 189 1, and in 1896 filled out 
 an unexpired term as district attorney. In 1898 
 he was elected probate judge, his term of service 
 extending to December 31, 1900. His adminis- 
 tration was well received, and tempered with a 
 maturity of judgment and excellence of ad- 
 justment that won the approval of even his polit- 
 ical antagonists. 
 
 One of the finest homes in Globe is owned 
 and occupied by Judge Thurmond, and he is 
 prominentlv associated with the material and 
 social life of the place. In politics a Democrat, 
 he is activelv interested in the various issues 
 that are developed in the i>arty from time to 
 time. Fraternally he is connected with the Chap- 
 ter Masons, which organization he joined di- 
 recll\- after the war.
 
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 99 
 
 GEN. GEORGE CHRIST. 
 
 A member of an old and distinguished Penn- 
 sylvania family, (jeneral Christ was born in 
 Beaver eoimty of that state. He was the young- 
 est of seven sons, six of whom served in the 
 Civil war in an Iowa regiment, and two lost their 
 lives for their country. Two were promoted to 
 the rank of officers. The father was one of the 
 early settlers of the vicinity of Cleveland. C~)hio, 
 and later removed with his wife and sons to 
 Clayton county. Iowa, where he was one of 
 the successful pioneer farmers. His son George 
 continued to farm until 1867, and then set- 
 tled in Des Moines, Iowa, where he engaged 
 in the merchandise business. He became 
 prominent in political and other affairs, and was 
 chief of police of Des Moines for four years. 
 Later he went to Washington, D. C, as chief 
 of a division in the interior department, and 
 was then a special agent of the treasury depart- 
 ment. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Christ came to .\rizona and held 
 a position in the district from El Paso to San 
 Francisco, and with the change from President 
 Arthur's to the succeeding administration, went 
 out of politics for a time and engaged in mining 
 in Sonora, Mexico. While thus employed he 
 incorporated the Le-Andreana Gold Mining 
 Company, with himself as president and man- 
 ager. When President Harrison came into 
 power he went to Washington and secured the 
 segregation of the customs district of Arizona 
 from the El Paso district, and was appointed first 
 collector of customs, and in this connection es- 
 tablished the post of entry at Nogales. During 
 the following administration Mr. Christ again be- 
 came interested in mining, and in 1897 was ap- 
 pointed by President .McKinley surveyor-general 
 of Arizona. 
 
 .As a stanch Repulilican Mr. Christ has been 
 identified with the most prominent undertakings 
 of his party, and has invariably wielded a wide 
 influence on the side of progressive methods and 
 issues. He has been active in the territorial 
 committees and served as national conniiittee- 
 man of -Arizona from 1888 to i8y2, also was a 
 delegate to the national conventions at Chicago 
 and .\i inni-api ills. In 1 Sgfi iu' was pmniinenll \ 
 idcntitii'il with the work" of the .\';ilii)n;d l.eagnc 
 
 of Republican Clubs, and served as financial 
 agent of the league. Fraternally he is a Mason. 
 Mr. Christ was united in marriage with 
 Mary Forney, a native of Wisconsin, and of 
 this union there are two sons and four daughters, 
 viz.: -Amy, who is now Mrs. M. H. Jones, of 
 Tucson: Elizabeth, the wife of C. O. Nourse, of 
 Des Moines: Cliarles, who is a member of the 
 Fourth L'nited States Light .Artillery, and is now 
 serving in the Philippines; Mary, who is the wife 
 of Edward Titcomb, of Xogales; George, Jr., 
 and Catherine, who make their home with their 
 parents. General and Mrs. Christ are members 
 of the iMethodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 HON. ROBERT EMMET MORRISON. 
 
 L'nquestionably one of the ablest members of 
 the Arizona bar to-day is he of whom the fol- 
 lowing sketch is penned. Tliat his marked abil- 
 ity and executive talents are recognized and 
 appreciated, and that he enjoys great popularit)- 
 with the general public, have been plainly mani- 
 fested, time and again, within the past decade, 
 for though Yavapai county is strongly Demo- 
 cratic and he is a stanch Republican, as 
 his i)artv's nominee, he has been elected 
 by good majorities. It is needless to say that he 
 has fully justified the confidence thus reposed 
 in him, and no eulogy, save the bare records of 
 the work which he has accomplished in the inter- 
 ests of the people, is required to perpetuate his 
 name and fame. 
 
 In view of the disadvantages under which his 
 father, Hon. A. L. Morrison, labored in his 
 youth, he, too, is a really remarkable man. He 
 was born in Ballycastle, county .Antrim, Ire- 
 land, and as the little schooling which he en- 
 joyed was received jirior to liis twelfth year, he 
 is truly self-educated. Nature endowed him 
 with talents of no mean order, and to-day he is 
 a well-known ])ublic speaker, having the power 
 to move his audiences to tears or laughter. In 
 the Republican party he is an influential factor 
 in New Mexico, and on many an occasion has 
 scored triumphs for that grand political organi- 
 zation. When seventeen years of age he came 
 Id the Cniled Slates, and suon |>roved his devo- 
 linn 1(1 the land nf his choice !)\ enlisting in it.s
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOC7RAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 army and taking part in the Mexican war in a 
 New York regiment. A chairmaker by trade, 
 lie followed that calling in New York City and 
 in Troy, N. Y., for many years. About 1853 he 
 located in Chicago, and while industriously pur- 
 suing his usual occupation and providing for the 
 needs of his family, the ambitious young man 
 took up the study of law by himself. Having 
 passed the examination required, he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar of Illinois in 1868, and con- 
 tinued actively engaged in practice in Chicago 
 until 1881. For a number of years he served 
 as a police magistrate on the west side of the 
 city, and made a fine record. In 1881 he was 
 appointed by President Arthur as United States 
 marshal of New iVIexico, with his headquarters 
 at Santa Fe. Going to that point he met his 
 responsibilities nobly and continued actively 
 occupied in practice until 1885. Under Harri- 
 son's administration he was the registrar of 
 United States land office at Santa Fe, holding 
 that position until 1893. He is a personal friend 
 of President McKinley, and was appointed by 
 him to the post of collector of internal revenues 
 of the district of New Mexico and Arizona, with 
 headquarters at Santa Fe. With his sons he was 
 financially interested in the cattle business in 
 Arizona for a number of years, their ranch 
 being in Apache county, at the headwaters of 
 the Little Colorado river. While in Illinois he 
 served in the legislature during the sessions of 
 1871-2, in which the revised constitution of the 
 state was adopted. Now about three-score and 
 ten years of age, he is still hale and hearty, 
 retaining to the full his distinguished mental 
 powers. Throughout his life he has been a great 
 student, and is so well posted on contemporary 
 history and national politics that he is looked 
 upon as an authority. 
 
 The loved wife and companion of Judge A. 
 L. Morrison bore the maiden name of Jane 
 Clark. She was also of Irish descent, and was 
 bom in Troy, N. Y., and died in July, 1899. 
 Thev had two daughters and five sons. A. L., 
 Jr., is his father's chief clerk ; John V., who was 
 a sergeant in the Rough Riders regiment dur- 
 ing the late war, is the manager of a large sheep 
 ranch near Socorro, N. M., and has been exten- 
 sively engaged in the cattle business in these 
 two territories; Hugh O'Neil is employed in the 
 
 auditor's office of the Santa Fe, at Los Angeles, 
 Cal. ; and Joseph E. is an attorney of Prescott. 
 Hon. Robert E. Morrison was born July 13, 
 1856, in Chicago, 111., and was reared in that 
 city. Having completed the high school course 
 there he entered the Union College of Law of 
 that metropolis, and was graduated therefrom 
 in 1877, being admitted to the bar previously, 
 before the supreme court. Then until the fall 
 of 1883 he was engaged in practice in Chicago, 
 and that year came to Arizona. Establishing a 
 ranch at the head of the Little Colorado river, 
 in Apache county, he continued in the cattle 
 business there for three years. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Morrison was elected county 
 judge of the Apache county court, being ex- 
 offrcio probate judge and superintendent ■ of 
 schools also. He assumed the duties of his 
 office in January, 1887, and though the legisla- 
 ture abolished the county court the same year, 
 he succeeded in disposing of an inmiense 
 amount of business in the mean time. In his 
 court the grand jury returned thirty indictments 
 against horse and cattle thieves, for the county 
 was literally overrun Ijy those outlaws, and this 
 severe treatment by the administrators of the 
 law caused that class to clear out of the county. 
 Resuming his law practice at the expiration of 
 his tenn, Mr. Morrison was located at St. Johns 
 until the autumn of 189 1, when he permanently 
 settled in Prescott. Under appointment he had 
 served as judge of the probate court and ex- 
 officio superintendent of schools of Apache 
 county, his term expiring at the close of 1888. 
 
 In 1892 he was elected district attorney of 
 Yavapai counly, which, as is well known, is 
 strongly Democratic. At the close of his term 
 he was triumphantly re-elected, and thus 
 officiated in that res])onsiblc office from January 
 I, 1893, to January i, 1897. In P^bruary, 1898, 
 he was appointed by President McKinley ITnited 
 States attorney for Arizona, and since entering 
 upon his new duties he has efficiently and satis- 
 factorily discharged his obligations. His pri- 
 vate practice has steadily grown in importance 
 and volume during all of these years, and he is 
 looked upon as one of the finest authorities on 
 the laws pertaining to corporations and mining 
 that we have in this territory. Probably for this 
 reason his clients come from far and near, aivl
 
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 lOI 
 
 by no means is his practice limitctl to the boun- 
 daries of his own county. He is a member of 
 the Territorial and American P)ar Associations. 
 The marriage of Mr. Morrison and Lizzie A. 
 Kneipp, a native of Chicago, and a member of 
 one of the (jidest families in America, was sol- 
 emnized in that city. Mrs. Morrison was for 
 years a leading church choir singer and, as Miss 
 Lizzie Klar. was well known in nnisical circles 
 In Chicago. 
 
 HON. FREDERICK A. TRITLE. 
 
 A volume depicting the lives of well-known 
 men of Arizona would be incomplete were no 
 mention made of ex-Governor Tritle, who for 
 years has been intimately identified with the d<> 
 velopment of the territory and has been :i 
 prominent factor in its progress and growth. 
 Born near Chambersburg, Pa., he is a descend- 
 ant of German ancestry through his grandfather, 
 John Tritle, a farmer of Pennsylvania. His 
 parents, Frederick and Martha (Cooke) Tritle, 
 were born near Chambersburg, and spent their 
 entire lives upon a farm in that locality. They 
 became the parents of three sons and two 
 daughters. One of the sons, John, who served 
 as a lieutenant during the Civil war, died in 
 Pennsylvania, and another son, George, died in 
 Indiana. The mother was a daughter of David 
 Cooke, a farmer in Pennsylvania and the 
 descendant of Scotch ancestors. 
 
 The youngest of the family, P'rederick .\., was 
 born on the home farm .August 7, 1833. .\t the 
 age of twelve years, his father having died, he 
 accompanied his mother to Chambersburg anfl 
 there attended the academy for several years. 
 Beginning the study of law on the conclusion of 
 his academic studies, he was admitted to the bar 
 April ID, 1855, and immediately began the prac- 
 tice of his profession in his native town. How- 
 ever, six months later he went to Iowa, settling 
 in Des Moines, where, in addition to a general 
 practice, he carried on a land business with 
 Henry C. Nutt, afterward president of the At 
 lantic & Pacific Railroad. In 1857 he removed 
 to Council Blufifs, Iowa, where he embarked in 
 a banking and land business as a memljer of 
 the firm of H. C. Nutt & Co., meantime con- 
 linuintr his land business in Des Moines inider 
 
 the firm name of F. -\. Tritle & Co. The latter 
 partnership was dissolved in 1858 and the next 
 year he closed out the business in Council Bluffs 
 and started across the plains for California, 
 where he arrived in the fall of 1859. February 
 of the next year foimd him in Carson City, Nev., 
 where he engaged in the mercantile business 
 for two years and at the same time acquired 
 some important mining interests. 
 
 After his marriage, in the fall of 1862, Mr. 
 Tritle removed to Virginia City, Nev., and 
 there, in 1863, he organized the Belcher Mining 
 Company, of which he w-as chosen president. 
 This proved a most fortunate venture. Success 
 followed in the steps of the company. For sev- 
 eral years large dividends were paid the stock- 
 holders, and the concern became known as one 
 of the most profitable in all the west. However, 
 in 1867, the upper levels were exhausted, aijd 
 although prospecting was continued for some 
 time, no rich developments resulted. When the 
 corporation, which had been organized in 
 Nevada, changed to California, in 1868, he re- 
 signed his connection with the same. 
 
 In spite of the engrossing and responsible 
 nature of his private business affairs, Mr. Tritle 
 was interested in public matters from the earliest 
 period of his residence in the west. By his fel- 
 low-citizens he was recognized as a man pos- 
 sessing qualities that eminently fitted him for 
 the public service. In 1866 he was elected to the 
 senate of Nevada, which two years before had 
 been admitted to the Lhiion and about the time 
 of his election had been bounded by its present 
 limits. As a member of the first state senate, 
 his duties were of a most important character. 
 He was appointed chairman of the committee on 
 ways and means, and was instrumental in in- 
 augurating a system of taxing the proceeds of 
 mines, thereby putting the state upon a solid 
 financial basis. The services wdiich he rendered 
 the state were of such a valuable nature that the 
 people of his party (the Republican) determined 
 to place him in nomination for the office of 
 governor of Nevada. Resigning the office of 
 senator, he gave his attention to the canvass for 
 the gubernatorial chair, biU, while making a 
 splendid run, he was defeated by Mr. Bradley, 
 the Democratic candidate. 
 
 \i the time of the completion of the Central
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Pacific Railroad, in 1869, Mr. Tritle was ap- 
 pointed a United States commissioner to receive 
 and examine the road. As a member of tlie 
 Nevada commission, lie presented the solid sil- 
 ver spike for Nevada that was driven in at the 
 connecting point of the two lines. This he pre- 
 sented, with the Nevada sentiment, "To the iron 
 of the east and the gold of the west, Nevada 
 adds her link of silver to span the continent and 
 wed the oceans." 
 
 Dnring 1871 Mr. Tritle embarked in the stock 
 brokerage business in \ irginia City, Nev., where 
 he continued until November, 1880. However, 
 the cares incident to the management of his 
 large business, added to the anxieties connected 
 with the various mining interests that he pos- 
 sessed, proved too great a strain upon his health, 
 and he was obliged to seek a change of climate. 
 For this reason he came to Arizona in the latter 
 part of 1880, and since then his history has 
 been, to a large extent, the history of Arizona, 
 his own success having been won simultane- 
 ously with the progress and development of the 
 territory. After the death of President Garfield, 
 he was appointed, by President Arthur, gov- 
 ernor of Arizona, February 6, 1882. His previous 
 experience in public affairs in Nevada rendered 
 him peculiarly fitted for this responsible task, 
 and he acquitted himself honorably and well as 
 the chief executive of the territory, continuing 
 as such until October, 1885, when a change in 
 politics of the national administration caused 
 him to resign. 
 
 Since coming to Arizona, Governor Tritle has 
 been interested in important mining concerns. 
 Having bought and developed the United Verde 
 group of mines, he organized the United Verde 
 Company, which continued until $100,000 had 
 been distributed among the stockholders ; how- 
 ever, on account of a reduction in copper, the 
 mine was closed down and the company dis- 
 solved. Since then he has had other mining 
 interests, that have taken much of his time and 
 thought. In 1894 he was elected county re- 
 corder of Yavapai county, which he held until 
 January, 1897. President McKinley in 1899 3P" 
 pointed him supervisor of the census of Arizona, 
 and as such he had charge of the taking of the 
 census for the territory in 1900. Fraternally, 
 he was made a Mason in Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 and was raised to the chapter and commandery 
 in Virginia City. 
 
 In Sacramento, Cal., Mr. Tritle married Miss 
 Jane Catherine Hereford, who was born in 
 Springfield, Mo. Her father was I'^rancis Here- 
 ford and her mother was a daughter of Gov- 
 ernor Henry S. Foote, of Mississippi. The fam- 
 ily of Governor and Mrs. Tritle consists of one 
 daughter and four sons, viz.: Catherine ; 'Fred- 
 erick A., Jr., whose sketch appears on another 
 page of this work ; Frank Hereford, a graduate 
 of Yale College, and an electrical engineer, who 
 died in Lynn, Mass., at the age of twenty-four 
 years ; John Stewart, an electrical engineer in 
 St. Louis, Mo. ; and Harry Russell, assistant 
 secretary of Arizona, of whom mention is made 
 elsewhere in this work. 
 
 HON. BENJAMIN JOSEPH FRANKLIN. 
 
 A descendant of a \irginia family that settled 
 in Kentucky in a very early day, ex-Governor 
 Franklin was born in Maysville, Ky. His edu- 
 cation was excellent, being obtained principally 
 in the college at Kentucky Center. During the 
 days when Kansas was the. seat of the contest 
 between the pro-slavery element and the 
 free-state party, he settled in Leavenworth 
 and engaged in the practice of law, gain- 
 ing such prominence and intluence that 
 he was chosen to represent his district 
 in the state senate. However, the war coming 
 on, his plans were changed and he determined 
 to enter the Confederate army. As a captain 
 under General Bragg, he remained at the front 
 for four yearsy until the southern army was 
 forced to lay down its arms. He then went to 
 Missouri, but, not being permitted to practice 
 law, he gave his attention to the management 
 of his farm near Columbia. In 1868 he opened 
 an office in Kansas Cit)- and later served for 
 six years as prosecuting attorney of Jackson 
 county, after which he resumed his private prac- 
 tice. 
 
 Soon he became a factor in public life. In 
 1874 he was elected to congress from the fifth 
 Missouri district and two years later was re- 
 elected, serving for four \ears. During this 
 time he was chairman of the connnittee on ter- 
 ritories and introduced a 1)ill for the organization
 
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 105 
 
 of Oklahoma Territurv . which, however, failed 
 to pass at the time. The provision of the bill 
 was to allot lands to Indians in severalty, which 
 policy has since been adopted by the govern- 
 ment. Through his efforts the first federal build- 
 ing was secured for Kansas City and the first 
 United States court established there. Under 
 the administration of President Cleveland, in 
 1885, he accepted an appointment as United 
 States consul to Han-Kow, China, the largest 
 tea market in the world, where he spent the next 
 five years. Returning to this country in 1890, 
 he spent two years in Los Angeles and in 1892 
 settled in Phoenix, where he engaged in the 
 practice of the law. On the removal of Gov- 
 ernor Hughes, March 30, 1896, he was ap- 
 pointed governor of Arizona, and continued in 
 this responsible office until July 20, 1897, re- 
 signing upon the change of administration. Re- 
 tiring from the gubernatorial chair, he resumed 
 the practice of law, but his health soon became 
 so seriously affected that continuance in pro- 
 fessional work was impossible. He died May 18, 
 1898. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Franklin united him with 
 Miss Anna Johnstone, of Missouri, and now a 
 resident of Phoenix. They became the parents 
 of three children, namely: Mary, of Phoenix; 
 James, who has a ranch near this city ; and 
 Alfred, who was his father's private secretary 
 during his term as governor, and from 1897 to 
 1898 served as assistant United States district 
 attorney, since which time he has engaged in 
 the practice of law in Phoenix. Both sons, like 
 their father, are stanch adherents of the Demo- 
 cratic party. 
 
 WILLIAM FENIMORE COOPER. 
 
 This influential representative of the bar in 
 Tucson was born in Dublin, Wayne county, 
 Ind., August 6, 1858. The family of which he 
 is a member trace their descent through English 
 history to one Sir Astley Cooper, the famous 
 surgeon, who lived from 1768 until 1841. The 
 first of the name to emigrate to America came at 
 a very early day and identified their fortunes 
 with the state of Massachusetts. The paternal 
 grandfather, Ezekiel, was born in Virginia, 
 where he in time became a planter on a large 
 
 scale, subsequently removing to Wayne county, 
 Ind. He was a first cousin of J. Fenimore 
 Cooper, the novelist, who was a contemporary 
 of Sir Astley. Ezekiel Cooper served in the war 
 of 181 2, and lived to be ninety-three years of 
 age. The family have a vein of longevity, for 
 Ezekiel's brother, John, was killed in a railroad 
 accident at the advanced age of one hundred 
 and four years. 
 
 Prof. John Cooper, the father of William, was 
 one of the prominent educators of his day. A 
 native of the Shenandoah valley in Virginia, he 
 removed with his parents, when six years of age, 
 to Randolph county, Ind., where he spent the 
 greater part of his youth. A graduate of Miami 
 University at Oxford, Ohio, he was a classmate 
 of ex-President Harrison, and Thomas Marshall 
 of Kentucky, and upon graduating received the 
 degree of Bachelor of Arts, later becoming a 
 Master of Arts. From his sixteenth to his 
 seventy-second year he was engaged in educa- 
 tional work in Indiana, and during the fifty-six 
 years was at times superintendent of the schools 
 at Richmond, Evansville, Winchester, and Dub- 
 lin. He is a member of the Methodist church, 
 and is at present residing in Indianapolis, Ind. 
 His wife, formerly Mary Witt, was of German 
 descent, and was born in Dublin, Ind., a 
 daughter of Dr. Caleb W^itt, a native of White 
 county, Tenn., and one of the organizers of the 
 old Wayne agricultural works. After graduat- 
 ing from the Eclectic Medical College at Cin- 
 cinnati, he was for a time professor of that insti- 
 tution and later settled in Dublin, where he prac- 
 ticed medicine and manufactured agricultural 
 implements for the greater part of his life. He 
 was one of the trustees of the Otterbein Univer- 
 sity, at Westerville, Ohio, organized in 1849, 
 under the direction of the United Brethren 
 Church, of which he was a member. His useful 
 and noble life reached eighty-seven years. Mrs. 
 Cooper, who is sixty years of age, is the mother 
 of two sons and two daughters, of whom one 
 daughter is deceased. Emma, who married H. 
 B. Stratton, died in Leavenworth ; Nellie is liv- 
 ing in Indianapolis, and H. Orvillc is a guard at 
 the Yuma territorial penitentiary. 
 
 Until fifteen years of age William Cooper 
 lived in Indiana, and received his education in 
 the public schools, graduating from the Rich-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 mond high school in 1873. After attending- the 
 Otterbein University for a year, he entered the 
 military academy at Peeksville, N. Y., and was 
 graduated in June of 1877 at the head of his 
 class. After graduating from the academy 
 at Peekskill, he located in Richmond and 
 read law with William A. Peele, ex-lieuten- 
 ant governor of Indiana, but was subse- 
 quently obliged to seek a change of climate and 
 occupation owing to failing health. Following 
 the advice of physicians and friends he sought 
 the west in 1878, and for a time lived in Pueblo. 
 Colo., and in December of tlie same year went 
 to Leadville. While engaged in prospecting and 
 mining he contracted a severe case of pneumo- 
 nia, and after recovering returned to his former 
 home in Indiana. In 1880 he went to the Pa- 
 cific coast, and visited various towns along the 
 sea, finally settling on a cattle ranch at Gilroy, 
 Cal., where he found perfect health and spirits 
 from association with outdoor life and two years 
 spent in the saddle. During this time he gained 
 avoirdupois from one hundred and seventeen to 
 one hundred and sixty-nine pounds. 
 
 After a short trip to the east in 1883 Mr. 
 Cooper returned to the sunshine and promise 
 of California. For a time he engaged in various 
 journalistic ventures throughout the state, and 
 in 1891 located in Kingman, Ariz. He subse- 
 quently accepted a position on the Phoenix Ga- 
 zette, and later bought the Florence Tribune, 
 which paper he edited for fourteen months. In 
 connection with the newspaper work he con - 
 tinued his law studies and was admitted to the 
 bar in Florence in 1894, since which he has 
 been admitted to practice in the courts of 
 Arizona, and also in the superior court of Cali- 
 fornia. In 1896 Mr. Cooper sold out the Flor- 
 ence Tribune and located in Tucson, as city edi- 
 tor of the Tucson Citizen, which position he re- 
 tained for ten months. A later occupation was 
 in the office of Selim M. Franklin as stenog- 
 rapher and legal assistant, and in 1898 he was 
 nominated on the Republican ticket fr)r district 
 attorney. So satisfactory were Mr. Cooper's 
 services that he was re-elected district attorney 
 in 1900, his term of office extending from Jan- 
 uary, 1899, until January. 1903. 
 
 While living in Florence, Ariz., Mr. Cooper 
 married Lizzie Douglass, a daughter of James 
 
 Douglass, one of the pioneers of Arizona, and 
 first sherifif of Pima county. To Mr. and 
 Mrs. Cooper have been born four children : Jo^hn 
 Douglass, Vida Ellen, Orville Witt, and XuUa 
 Mathilda. In politics Mr. Cooper is a firm be- 
 liever in the principles of the Republican party, 
 and has served as a member of the territorial 
 central committee, and is ex-secretary of the 
 Pinal county central committee. For two years 
 he was clerk of the territorial hoard of equaliza- 
 tion. Fraternally he is associated with the Be- 
 nevolent Protective Order of Elks, Foresters, 
 Tonights of Pvthias, Ancient Order of LTnited 
 Workmen, and the Spanish Alliance. 
 
 HARRY R. TRITLE. 
 
 Harry R. Tritle, the popular assistant secre- 
 tary of the territory of Arizona, was born in Yn- 
 ginia City, Nev., September 30, 1874. His 
 father, ex-Governor F. A. Tritle, of Prescott, 
 Ariz., of whom extended mention is made in 
 another part of this work, filled the guberna- 
 torial chair of .\rizona during the administration 
 of President Arthur. 
 
 As the youngest child among the five which 
 comprised his father's family, Harry R. Tritle 
 spent his days of extreme youth in Nevada, and 
 in 1882 removed with his family to Prescott, 
 Ariz. He here began his education in the public 
 schools, and in 1887 entered the Hopkins Gram- 
 mar School at New Haven, Conn., in anticipa- 
 tion of a future entrance to Yale College. By 
 the time he was graduated from the Grammar 
 school in 1893 ^^ h^d reconsidered his deter- 
 mination to enter Yale, and returned to his home 
 in the far west. In Prescott he entered the em- 
 ploy of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Rail- 
 road Company, and was time keeper during the 
 construction of the road until 1896. He then 
 entered the Prescott office of the recorder of 
 Yavapai county for about a year, and in June of 
 1897 was appointed by Secretary Akers as assist- 
 ant secretary of the territory of Arizona, with 
 headquarters at Phoenix. 
 
 September 21, 1898, Mr. Tritle was united in 
 marriage with Harriett Fisher, who was born in 
 Prescott, Ariz. Her father, Hon. J. L. Fisher, 
 who until his death was a large merchant in 
 Prescott, was prominent in the political affairs
 
 PORTRAIT AxND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 109 
 
 of his city, and was at one time mayor of his 
 adopted town, and also served as a member of 
 the legislature. He was born in England, and 
 possessed the substantial and reliable traits of 
 character which we are wont to associate with 
 the sons of our sister country. Mrs. Tritle is a 
 woman of excellent education, and was gradu- 
 ated from the Irving Institute in San Francisco. 
 She is the mother of one child, Lloyd Hereford. 
 Mr. Tritle represents the most enterprising of 
 the younger element of business men in Phoenix, 
 and is variously associated with the political, fra- 
 ternal, and social institutions which enliven the 
 city. In politics a Republican, he has served as 
 president of the Young Men's Republican Club, 
 and is a member of the county, executive and ter- 
 ritorial committees. He is a member of the 
 Maricopa Club, and of the Pi Sigma Tau. With 
 his wife he is a member of and liberal con- 
 tributor to the Episcopal Church. 
 
 W. B. CLEARY. 
 
 As corporation counsel of the Arizona Water 
 Company, Mr. Qeary came to the territory from 
 New York City in 1898. and is looking after 
 the interests of the bondholders, and discharg- 
 ing the arduous duties connected with his re- 
 sponsible position in a manner highly creditable 
 to all concerned. The four water-ways under 
 his jurisdiction, and which are merged into the 
 -Vrizona Water Company's enterprise, are the 
 Arizona, Grand, Maricopa and the Salt River 
 canals, in length, respectively, forty-two, thirty, 
 twenty-eight and twenty-eight miles, making a 
 total of one lunidred and twenty-eight miles, 
 and in addition, about nine hundred miles of 
 laterals. In 1899 ^I''- Cleary was appointed gen- 
 eral manager of the water company and is thus 
 at the head of a concern which represents the 
 life and vitality of the agricultural districts and 
 is therefore the foundation of the prosperity of 
 the territory. 
 
 The life of Mr. Cleary has been an interesting 
 one and has held some of the adventure which 
 was merged into that of his latter day ancestors. 
 A native of the District of Columbia, he was 
 born September 29, 187 1, and is a son of Frank 
 D. Cleary, a native of X'irginia. The ancestral 
 home of the family is Ireland and the paternal 
 
 great-grandfather, Michael, was horn in county 
 Tipperary, Ireland. Owing to complicity in the 
 revolution of 1798 he was forced to leave his 
 native land and in company with several broth- 
 ers sought the larger freedom and possibility of 
 the United States. He settled in Virginia and 
 became a planter on a large scale. The next in 
 succession, his son William, was bom in Vir- 
 ginia in the dawn of the century in 1806, and 
 when arrived at years of discretion interested 
 himself in the fishing business at Opequon, Va., 
 and was the owner of a busy sloop. During the 
 Civil war he served as a confederate in a Vir- 
 ginia regiment and subsequently died at Wash- 
 ington at an advanced age. In his early man- 
 hood he married Miss Hannah McLean, a sis- 
 ter of Wilmer McLean, at whose residence in 
 Appomattox General Lee surrendered to Gen- 
 eral Grant. 
 
 Frank D. Cleary, the father of W. B., was 
 reared and educated in Virginia, and early dis- 
 played an ambitious spirit which saw beyond the 
 borders of his native state. In 1852 he crossed 
 the intervening plains and arrived in the far 
 west and in time found himself in Utah, where 
 he became clerk in the quartermaster's depart- 
 ment in Pope's expedition against the Mormons. 
 When the Civil war intercepted the peace of the 
 country his sympathies were on the side of the 
 Confederacy and he served with the rank of ma- 
 jor on Gen. Henry A. Wise's staff until captured 
 as a spy. After nine months' imprisonment at 
 P'ort Delaware he was sentenced to be shot, 
 but the sentence was later commuted to parol- 
 ment. through the kindly interest of Archbishop, 
 afterward Cardinal. McClosky, who was the 
 uncle of the mother of Mr. Cleary, and Arch- 
 bishop Hughes. Pending the time when peace 
 should be declared he was sent to Europe and 
 remained there until the trouble arose between 
 France and Mexico, when he courageously de- 
 cided to go to Mexico and enlist in the service 
 of the unfortunate Maximillian. A subsequent 
 and wiser resolution resulted in his return to 
 \irginia and his later removal to Washington, 
 where he engaged in the real-estate business, 
 and where he died in 1899. 
 
 The mother of Mr. Cleary was formerly Ehza- 
 belli .Mullen, who was born in Philadelphia, a 
 (laughter of Etiward Mullen, a native of the
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 north of Ireland. Edward Alullen inimijjrated 
 to America at an early day, in company with his 
 four brothers, and assumed charge of a Phila- 
 delphia branch of a wholesale tobacco business, 
 which was also represented in New Orleans, 
 Boston and New York. He died while on a 
 business trip to California. Mrs. Cleary is now- 
 living in Washington, D. C. and is the mother 
 of five children, three sons and two daughters ; 
 Edward, the oldest, a resident of Washington, 
 D. C. ; W. B., our subject: I>ank R., who is 
 living at Glendale, Ariz., and is a zanjero in the 
 employ of the Arizona ^^'ater Company; .\nna 
 and Elizabeth, residents of Washington, D. C. 
 
 The education of W. P. Cleary was acquired 
 at a private school and at St. John's Institute, 
 Washington, D. C, from which he was subse- 
 quently graduated. He later entered George- 
 town College in the sophomore year, but dis- 
 continued study at that institution to take up 
 the three years' course in the law department 
 at the National University in Washington. After 
 graduating in law in 1894 with the degrees of 
 LL. B. and LL. M. he located in New York 
 City and began the practice of his profession 
 with the firm of Hornblower, Byrne, Taylor & 
 Miller, at No. 45 William street. He was later 
 with the firm of Hatch & Wicks, a corporative 
 law concern, and in 1896 engaged in an inde- 
 pendent practice w'ith an office at No. 45 Cedar 
 street, New York. 
 
 A year later Mr. Cleary went to .\laska in the 
 interest of eastern parties who desired him to 
 pass judgment upon the merits of certain mining 
 claims. His experiences in the gold regions 
 were attended by extreme hardship and he found 
 few inducements for a permanent residence or 
 even large investment of capital. With sledges 
 and dogs he succeeded, after weary days, in 
 crossing the Chilcoot Pass, and upon arriving in 
 Dawson was the possessor of seventy-five cents. 
 Nevertheless, he got along fairly well until Sep- 
 tember of 1898, and then built a boat and floated 
 down the Yukon river to the mouth. On the 
 trip to St. Michael's he shipped as an able sea- 
 man, an unexpected adventure, and a hitherto 
 unacknowledged ability. Upon returning from 
 a trip to Golivan bay they encountered a severe 
 storm and were driven to the coast of Siberia. 
 The cost of food alone from Dawson to St. 
 
 Michael's was $17.50. Arriving in Seattle in No- 
 vember of 1898, Mr. Cleary at once departed 
 for New York, and having reported to the pro- 
 ])osed investors of Alaska mining stock received 
 the appointment which resulted in his dei^arture 
 for Arizona. 
 
 In Philadelphia, Pa., Mr. Cleary was united in 
 marriage with Nellie Slioemaker, born in Cam- 
 den, N. J., and a daughter of J. K. Shoemaker, 
 who is passenger agent for the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company. To Mr. and Mrs. Cleary 
 have been born three children: W'illiam B. (de- 
 ceased), William F., and Nellie M. In addi- 
 tion to the other interests which engaged his 
 attention Mr. Cleary is a director in the San 
 Domingo Gold and Copper Mining Company, 
 which operates mines in the San Domingo and 
 Trilby districts. In 1899 he was admitted to 
 practice in the supreme court of Arizona. He 
 is a member of the board of trade, president of 
 the Young Men's Institute, and member of the 
 Athletic club. In politics he is a Democrat, and 
 is fraternally associated with the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks, the .Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen and the Fraternal Brother- 
 hood. 
 
 GEN. L. H. MANNING. 
 
 Upon arriving at the threshold of manhood L. 
 H. Manning decided to cast in his destiny with 
 the great territory of .\rizona which had but 
 recently entered upon the progressive march to- 
 wards civilization and power among the states 
 of the west. He comes from another section of 
 the old south, Mississippi, in which state his 
 parents, and grandparents, on both sides of the 
 family, were born and lived. His paternal 
 grandfather, Reuben Manning, was a rich and 
 influential planter in the state mentioned 
 throughout his life. The maternal grandfather 
 was William W. Wallace, of the old and hon- 
 ored Wallace family of Scotland. He owned a 
 plantation in Mississippi and for some years was 
 a merchant of Holly Springs, as well. 
 
 The parents of the subject of this article were 
 Hon. Van H. and Mary (W^allace) Manning, the 
 former now deceased and the latter residing in 
 Washington, D. C, where she has made her 
 home for a number of years. During the Civil 
 war the father enlisted in the Confederate army,
 
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 and .served until the close of the conllict with 
 the rank of colonel of the Third .fXrkansas Regi- 
 ment. Then, resuming his interru])ted law prac- 
 tice at Holly Springs, he continued in that voca- 
 tion until he was honored by being elected as 
 a member of congress at Washington, where he 
 represented the second congressional district of 
 Mississippi for ten years. His death took place 
 a short time after his retirement from that of- 
 fice, in 1893. In state and social circles and in 
 the Masonic fraternity, with which he was identi- 
 fied, he was held in high esteem, and to his chil- 
 dren he left the proud record of a noble life and 
 an unblemished name. 
 
 Next to the eldest in a family comprising four 
 sons and four daughters, L. H. Planning was 
 born in Halifax county, N. C, May 18, 1864. 
 His brother, Van H., Jr., is in charge of a gov- 
 ernment surveying corps, and the younger 
 brothers, J. R. and W. R., are interested in 
 various Arizona enterprises with him. The 
 higher education of L. H. Manning was ob- 
 tained in the University of Mississippi, at Ox- 
 ford. In the early spring of 1884 he came to 
 Tucson. For two years he served in the ca- 
 pacity of general manager of the Tucson Ice 
 & Electric Light Company. During tiie latter 
 part of President Cleveland's first administration 
 he held the position of chief of the mineral de- 
 partment in the office of the United States 
 survey. In 1893 he was appointed surveyor- 
 general of the same office, by Cleveland, and 
 'Very creditably discharged the duties devolving 
 upon him until 1896, when he resigned, owing to 
 the multiplicity of his personal business interests. 
 For the past five years Mr. ^^lanning has de- 
 voted the major share of his attention to mining 
 in old Sonora, Mexico, where he has opened a 
 luimber of mines. In June, 1900, he bought out 
 the old firm of Norton & Drake, and this gen- 
 eral mercantile house is now known as that of 
 the L. H. Manning Company. Of this flourish- 
 ing enterprise he is the president and manager. 
 When favorable opportunities presented, he 
 made investments in real estate in this city, and. 
 in addition to the Owl Club, which he built, four 
 substantial residences stand as monuments to 
 his good taste and good business ability. In 
 company with our well known citizen. Leo Golcl- 
 schmidt, he organized the Franklin Park Com- 
 
 pany, anil is its president and manager. I'"ra- 
 ternally he is associated with the lodge and 
 club of the Benevolent Protective Order of 
 Elks. In political affairs he is a Democrat. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Manning and Miss 
 Gussie Lovell took place at the home of her 
 father, Judge Lovell. in 1897. She was born in 
 San Jose, Cal. 
 
 HON. GEORGE W. CHEYNEY. 
 
 The well-known and popular postmaster of 
 Tucson was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Septem- 
 ber I, 1854, and is a son of Waldron J. Cheyney, 
 a native of Chester county, that state, and a 
 representative of an old English family which 
 belonged to the Society of Friends and came to 
 America with William Penn. Our subject's 
 paternal grandfather, Waldron J. Cheyney, Sr., 
 was a farmer of Chester county. The father 
 served as captain on the staff of General Hall 
 of New York in the Civil war, and was in the 
 service from the opening of hostilities uiUil 
 Lee's surrender at Appomattox. For many 
 years he has been a business man of Philadel- 
 phia, and since 1877 has been largely interested 
 in mining in Arizona and California. During 
 this time he has made numerous trips to this 
 territory, and was one of the original investors 
 at Tombstone. In religious belief he is an Epis- 
 copalian and in politics a Republican. His wife, 
 who bore the maiden name of Frances Potts, is 
 a native of Philadelphia, of which city her father. 
 Edward Potts, was also a native and a prominent 
 banker for many years. The Potts family is also 
 connected with the Society of Friends and was 
 founded in America during William Penn's time, 
 their early home being on the Schuylkill river in 
 Pennsylvania. Our subject is the oldest of a 
 family of eight children, all of whom are living, 
 hut he is the only one residing in this territory. 
 His brother, Samuel W., is mining in Cali- 
 fornia, while the others are all residents of 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 George W. Cheyney passed his boyhood and 
 vouth in the city of his birth, and is indebted to 
 its public schools for his educational advantages. 
 Tn 1 87 1 he went to New York City, where he 
 was in the employ of James \\'. Queen & Co., 
 opticians, until 1877, and then returned to Phila-
 
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 delphia, where the following two years were 
 spent. He then went to Atchison, Kans., and 
 later to Leadville, Colo., and from there re- 
 turned to Philadelphia. In 1881 he came to 
 Tombstone, Ariz., and has since engaged in 
 mining in this territory, being superintendent of 
 the Tombstone Mill & Mining Company for 
 five years, which is the largest in that locality. 
 In July, 1898, he w'as appointed postmaster of 
 Tucson, and assumed the duties of that office 
 on the 2d of August. 
 
 At .\tchison, Kans., Mr. Cheyney was mar- 
 ried, September 20, 1882, to Miss Annie Neal, 
 a native of that place, of which her father, 
 Clement J. Neal, is a pioneer. As a young man 
 he was one of the original boy riders of the 
 Pony E.xpress, between St. Joseph, Mo., and 
 San Francisco, Cal., and had many narrow 
 escapes. He was one of the earliest settlers of 
 Kansas and became a leading architect and 
 builder of Atchison, where he still resides. Our 
 subject and his wife have six children, namely: 
 Bernice, Frances, Mary Neal, Ruth, Edith and 
 Eleanor. 
 
 Mr. Cheyney is a member of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, and is a prominent 
 Knight Templar Mason, having been initiated 
 into the mysteries of the order at Tombstone. 
 He is now a member of the commandery at 
 Tucson, and is past grand master of the grand 
 lodge of Arizona, and past grand high priest of 
 the grand chapter. The Republican party has al- 
 ways found in him a stanch supporter of its prin- 
 ciples, while he has done all within his power to 
 insure its success. He has served on the terri- 
 torial and county central committees, and in 
 1890 was a member of the constitutional con- 
 vention. That same year he was the Republican 
 nominee for delegate to congress, but owing 
 to the large Democratic majority in Arizona he 
 was defeated. He has twice been elected to the 
 territorial counsels, being a member of the fif- 
 teenth and seventeenth general assemblies. He 
 was superintendent of public instruction for four 
 years under Governors Wolfley, Irwin and 
 Murphy, and was ex-ofificio member of the board 
 of regents. Over his life record there falls no 
 shadow of wrong ; his public service has been 
 most exemplary, and his private life has been 
 marked by the utmost fidelity to duty. He is 
 
 to-day one of the most prominent citizens of 
 Tucson. 
 
 HON. COLES BASHFORD. 
 
 This name awakens chords of deep feeling in 
 multitudes of hearts, for few of the actors on 
 the stage of the just-completed century played 
 more important parts or accomplished more for 
 the rights, liberty and progress of the people 
 than did Gov. Coles Bashford, statesman, lawyer 
 and pioneer. While Wisconsin and other states 
 have great reason to claim him as their own, 
 Arizona undoubtedly has even stronger claims, 
 for, prior to the organization of the territory, 
 he cast in his fortunes here, served as our first 
 attorney-general, was president of the first terri- 
 torial council or legislature, was our congress- 
 man in the Fortieth Congress at Washington, 
 D. C, was secretary of Arizona, and with other 
 frontiersmen risked his life hundreds of times 
 while striving to carry out his noble work for the 
 people of this future state, traveling through dis- 
 tricts in all parts of the territory where the In- 
 dians were exceedingly hostile. But it is im- 
 possible to briefly summarize the great and 
 noble achievements of this distinguished citizen, 
 and from contemporary authors and later writ- 
 ers the following facts and tributes have been 
 gleaned. 
 
 Born near Cold Springs, N. Y., January 24, 
 1816, Coles Bashford received a thorough train- 
 ing in the classics at Wesleyan Llniversity, of 
 Lima, N. Y. Then for seven years he studied 
 law, practically preparing himself for his future 
 career, and in the meantime was largely depend- 
 ent upon his own resources for a livelihood. 
 Admitted to practice before the supreme and all 
 other courts of New York state, October 28, 
 1842, he at once entered upon his life-work in 
 Wayne county, N. Y. June 7, 1847, the young 
 man was chosen as the nominee of the Whig 
 ]iarty to the ofiice of district attorney, and was 
 elected that autunm. The energy and ability 
 which characterized all of his undertakings 
 thenceforth, elicited the commendation of Wil- 
 liam H. Seward and eminent lawyers of the 
 period. 
 
 In 1850, resigning his position, Mr. Bashford 
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 with the ablest lawyers of the state. Settling in 
 Oshkosh, he soon became well known and was 
 elected to the state .senate on t!ic Whig ticket, 
 from Winnebago county, tlunigh the Demo- 
 cratic vote in that district was a close second. 
 Becoming a recognized leader in the young 
 state's legislative body he declined the honor of 
 being a nominee for congress when the ])roposi- 
 tion was made to him, preferring to labor in his 
 own locality. Then he was re-elected by a good 
 majority and in the sessions of 1854-55 occurred 
 the bitter discussions on the Missouri Compro- 
 mise. It is almost needless to say that Senator 
 Bashford earnestly declared himself against the 
 pernicious extension of the slavery system into 
 states hitherto free from the curse. "A motion 
 to indefinitely postpone in the state senate a 
 joint resolution which had been carried through 
 the lower house cleared the field for action. 
 Governor Bashford was the first to speak on the 
 question. He refused to be gagged by tlie senate 
 and proceeded to raise his voice in an eloquent 
 peroration against the spreading of the slavery 
 evil in any state or territory. His withering de- 
 nunciation of Senator Stephen A. Douglas, of 
 Illinois, the author of the Nebraska bill in con- 
 gress, earned for him a reputation which spread 
 throughout the north." 
 
 Upon the organization of the Republican 
 party Governor Bashford was one of the first 
 in Wisconsin to espouse its principles, and Sei)- 
 tember 5, 1855, the state convention of the new 
 party, after adopting a strong anti-slavery plank, 
 nominated him for the gubernatorial chair, the 
 showing of the first ballot being one hundred 
 and twenty-four out of two hundred and ten 
 votes in his favor. The Democrats had renom- 
 inated William A. Barstow and succeeded in 
 electing every candidate (jn their ticket. The 
 board of state canvassers, under a claim of ir- 
 regularities practiced in certain counties at the 
 polls, gave Barstow the preference, certificate of 
 election and had him inaugurated at tiie state 
 capitol January 15. 1856. Then was seen of 
 what spirit Senator Bashford was made. Being 
 thoroughly convinced that he had been justly 
 elected by the people, he took the oath of office 
 on the same day as did Barstow. and began to 
 battle for his rights w-itli that determination 
 which always carried everything before it. Be- 
 
 ginning a suit by quo warranto before the su- 
 preme court of Wisconsin, providing for the 
 setting aside of his opponent on the grounds of 
 fraudulent election returns, the evidence there 
 submitted proved beyond a doubt that a villain- 
 ous attempt had been made to disfranchise the 
 voters, who rose in their majesty and turned the 
 usurper from the office, placing the man of their 
 choice at the head of affairs. The counsel em- 
 ployed in this celebrated case comprised some 
 of the most eminent legal minds of tJie time; 
 the contest lasted for three months and the pre- 
 cedent thus established has left a lasting imijress 
 upon our national history. The arguments ad 
 vanced by counsel, the decisions of Judge W'hi 
 ton, are to be found in the Fifth Wisconsin 
 Reports — occupying fully two hundred and fift\ 
 closely printed pages. "The demeanor of Gov- 
 ernor Bashford throughout the exciting contest 
 was worthy of a Ciromwell. Unmindful of threats, 
 above the contumely and scorn of his assailants. 
 strong in a righteous purpose, unflinching in his 
 just demands and fully aware of the great stake 
 at issue, he went on sternl}- and boldly, imtil 
 fraud was unmasked, villainy suppressed and the 
 cause of truth, freedom and that purity of the 
 ballot-box triumphed. Never was a man sub- 
 jected to severer test and never was truer mettle 
 or purer character exhibited, and Coles Hashford 
 won not only the plaudits of friends, but the 
 admiration and respect of all honorable political 
 opponents." 
 
 Thus, March 25, 1856, Governor Biashford 
 assumed the duties and responsibilities to wliicii 
 the public had called him. and at the expiration 
 of his term the following highly-deserved reso- 
 lution was unanimously adopted by the Republi- 
 can state convention : "Resolved, That the 
 warmest thanks of the i)eople of Wisconsin are 
 due to Governor Bashford for the zeal, energy, 
 ability and perseverance with wiiicli he has 
 ])rosecuted to a successful issue before the su- 
 preme court of this state his claim as the legally 
 elected governor of Wisconsin: that 1)\ this act 
 he U]>iield justice. law and the constitution, and 
 vindicated tJie rights of sovereignty of the peo- 
 ple : that we honor him for his administration of 
 ihe state govenmient and that wherever justice 
 triumphs over fraud, and the rigiits of the peo- 
 ple at the ballot-box are held sacred, the name
 
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 of Coles ISashford will be held in grateful re- 
 membrance and respect." 
 
 Thus the first successful candidate in the 
 United States for the exalted ofTice of governor, 
 elected under the banner of the then new party, 
 was the subject of this review. It required no 
 modicum of courage and resolution to serve 
 under the prevailing disafifection, and though he 
 "was weighed in the balances and not found 
 wanting," it is not strange that he often yearned 
 for the quiet, comparatively untrammeled life 
 of the private citizen. The press, his party and 
 host of friends urged him most earnestly to 
 again make the race for the ofifice he then held, 
 and it became evident that his manly course had 
 attached great numbers of his former opponents 
 to him. Nevertheless, he repeatedly declared 
 that nothing, save the absolute need of the peo- 
 ple, shown by almost unanimity of action, could 
 prevail upon him to accept a re-nomination, and 
 in a speech before the convention he positively 
 declined to consider the matter. Some of his 
 political enemies, fearing his increased popular- 
 ity, instituted a series of attacks upon his 
 administration, whereupon the governor imme- 
 diately demanded an impartial investigation of 
 all of his official acts by a commission to be 
 appointed by the legislature. The two Demo- 
 crats and three Republicans thus chosen com- 
 plied with their instructions, and unanimously 
 exonerated him from each and every charge 
 which -had been made against him. Thus he 
 retired from his position with the cordial respect 
 and confidence of the masses, the general ver- 
 dict being that he had been a faithful, inde- 
 pendent and trustworthy servant of the people. 
 
 Though his law practice had necessarily suf- 
 fered greatly, Governor Bashford soon was 
 absolutely burdened by his immense business, 
 and when, in 1859, he was urged to become a 
 candidate for the judgeship of the circuit court 
 of the tenth judicial district, he refused, even 
 though nearly all of the members of the bar of 
 the district had signed the request. Again in 
 the following year the political tempter appealed 
 to his ambition, seeking by voice and petition to 
 have him become a candidate for congress, but 
 the result was the same. During the winter of 
 1862-63, however, he lived in Washington, D. C, 
 where business affairs demanded his presence. 
 
 The pioneer spirit always had been inherent in 
 the governor, and when Arizona was organized 
 as a territory he accompanied the newly-ap- 
 pointed officials to their new field of action, aid- 
 ing them in establishing headquarters at Navajo 
 Springs, where they arrived December 29, 1863. 
 Governor Goodwin, realizing that the old Mexi- 
 can laws must hold until a territorial legislature 
 enacted others, felt the great responsibility so 
 severely that he was glad to appoint Governor 
 Bashford as attorney-general, thus being re- 
 lieved of much care. The duties of his office 
 were very taxing, as the entire territory was one 
 judicial district, and duty called him to every 
 section, even to points where the Indians were 
 the most hostile. .-Ml of his acquaintances mar- 
 veled at his wonderful escapes from the treach- 
 ery and open attacks of the red men, as he 
 journeyed, so often alone, over vast stretches of 
 otherwise uninhabited localities. He was the 
 first lawyer admitted to practice in the courts 
 of Arizona, as May, 1864, this ceremony was 
 gone through with at Tucson. 
 
 Pima county elected Mr. Bashford to the first 
 Arizona territorial legislature, and that body 
 chose him as president, for there was much to 
 be done, a code of procedure to be adopted 
 and important laws to be formulated on every 
 subject relating to the new territory's welfare. 
 So well did he meet the expectations of his col- 
 leagues and the general public that he was 
 elected to the next sessions. Then, as chairman 
 of the committee on judiciary, the code was 
 framed, and the records demonstrate that not 
 one of the other members of the legislature took 
 so active and useful a part in the weighty de- 
 liberations before them. To his surprise, in 
 1866, a convention of over one himdred citizens 
 of Pima county unanimously nominated him for 
 delegate to congress, party lines not having 
 been drawn there, as yet. Elected by a good 
 majority, he carried out the wishes of his con- 
 stituents in the Fortieth congressional sessions 
 at the nation's capital, and at the close of his 
 term was appointed secretary of Arizona by 
 President Grant. This kept him in that responsi- 
 ble position for a term of fovir years, and in 
 1871 the territorial assembly selected him to 
 compile the various sessions laws into one vol- 
 ume. With due regard to exactness and with
 
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 an intelligent regard for con\enii'nco of refer- 
 ence this great work was performed. Recogniz- 
 ing that the administration of (Jovcrnor llasli- 
 ford as secretary of Arizona had been thoroughly 
 satisfactory, President Grant re-appointed him 
 to the same office in 1873, and it was not until 
 private business interests demanded his making 
 his residence at Prescott. where he had made 
 investments, that he resigiied, Tucson then be- 
 ing the capital city. 
 
 Almost continuously for about three decades 
 Governor P.ashford had been prominently as- 
 sociated with the management of public afTairs, 
 and at the age of three-score he felt that the 
 remainder of his life might well be devoted ex- 
 clusively to his family and personal interests 
 thenceforth. His long and eventful career has 
 been rarely equalled, and the high principles by 
 which he ever was governed shone forth con- 
 spicuously in his every action, thus endearing 
 him to all who knew him. April 25. 1878, he 
 was called to his eternal reward, his demise 
 occurring at his Prescott home. The western 
 descending sun gilds the solid shaft of granite 
 which marks the last resting-place of the mortal 
 remains of this true patriot and pioneer, at 
 Mountain \'iew cemeterv, at Oakland, Cal., and 
 illuminates a line which is inscribed thereon, a 
 favorite quotation of his, "Write me as one that 
 loves his fellow-men." 
 
 The widow of Governor Bashford resides in 
 Oakland, Cal., where she may readily visit the 
 beautiful city of the dead, though well she real- 
 izes that a more enduring monument to his 
 memory was erected by himself in the historv of 
 his time, and that his memory is tenderly cher- 
 ished in the hearts of a multitude of the people 
 whom he so well and conscientiously served 
 through his long and distinguished career. In 
 her girlhood she bore the name of Frances 
 Adams Foreman, Seneca Falls, K. Y., being her 
 birthplace. Her father, David Foreman, was a 
 pioneer in Wisconsin, where he was extensiveh 
 engaged in the manufacture of lumber for vears. 
 Born of their union were seven children : I'.liza- 
 beth, w-idow of G. A. Sprecher: .Margaret, wif'.' 
 of R. H. Burmister; William C.. of Prescott: 
 Helen B., widow of W. 1'.. Sniitli ; jlcllc, who 
 died at eleven years of age; I.ilHan I',., wife of 
 .\.\\'. Kirkland,and F.dward l..,i)i ( )akland, Cal. 
 
 HON. JOSEPH B. CORBFTT. 
 
 This able and thoroughly enterprising young 
 man represented his district in the twenty-first 
 general assembly of .-Krizona. making a credit- 
 able record. Tie was nominated on tlie Repub- 
 lican ticket from Pima county in the fall of 
 1900 and was elected, receiving the highest ma- 
 joriiy vote of an\- nominee on thv Republican 
 legislative ticket. He served in the session of 
 1901, being a member of the following com- 
 mittees: On corporations, education, and ways 
 and means. Political and public afl'airs have en- 
 gaged his serious attention since he left the 
 school-room and the future undoubtedly has 
 further honors in store for him, for he is not 
 only well posted on the leading questions of the 
 day, but is strictly conscientious in the discharg- 
 ing of every duty and confidence reposed in him, 
 and would be incapable of proving a traitor to 
 the cause in which he believes, or to the friends 
 who delegate him as their representative. 
 
 A westerner by birth and training, J. !'>. Cor- 
 bett is a native of San Francisco, born (Jctober 
 27, 1870. His parents were James and Mary 
 (Bayley) Corbett, and he is one of five brothers 
 and sisters. A brother, James Corbett, is em- 
 ployed as an engineer on the Mexican Central 
 Railroad, one sister is deceased and the other two 
 are making their home with our subject. Their 
 mother died in San Francisco and the father is 
 still living chiefly in that city, engaged in mining 
 engineering. 
 
 The boyhood and youth of J. B. Corbett were 
 passed in San Francisco and Oakland. He re- 
 ceived a liberal education in the grammar and 
 high schools of Oakland, his graduati<in Irom 
 the last-named institution taking jjlace in June. 
 1886. He then started as an apprentice ma- 
 chinist in the West Oakland shops and remained 
 there and with the McKinzie Machine Works 
 for two and a half years. He then was given 
 a position as fireman on the line of railroad run- 
 iiing between Oakland and S;icramenlo and at 
 the early age of nineteen. w;is promoted to the 
 post of engineer, his run lying between ( )akland 
 and .'Sacramento, on the Southern Pacific. He 
 continued to occupy that i^o.sition until .\pri!. 
 i,X<)j, when he came to Tucson, and since th.il 
 time has piloted his engine between this city
 
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 and Yuma. He belongs to the Brotherhood of 
 Locomotive Engineers, was secretary of his di- 
 vision for several years and was chairman of the 
 grievance committee for many years. In Ma- 
 sonic circles he stands high, having been initi- 
 ated into the order in Brooklyn Lodge No. 225, 
 F. & A. M., of East Oakland. Since coming 
 to this place he was raised to the Royal Arch de- 
 gree in Tucson Chapter No. 3 and became a 
 member of Arizona Commandery No. i, K. T., 
 also being identified with the Order of the East- 
 ern Star. 
 
 MARCUS W. MESSINGER. 
 
 No citizen of Phoenix stands higher in the 
 hearts of the people than does M. W. Messinger, 
 former county treasurer of Maricopa county. 
 His life is exemplary and his broad-minded 
 humanitarianism has endeared him to the high 
 and low, the rich and poor. Born March 19, 
 1844. on a farm in Morton, Tazewell coimty, 111., 
 he is a son of Martin and Lucinda (Parmenter) 
 Messinger. On the paternal side he is of Ger- 
 man descent, and his grandfather, Lyman Mes- 
 singer, a native of Massachusetts, and a farmer 
 of New York state, was a veteran of the war of 
 1812. The maternal grandfather, Nathan Par- 
 menter, ser\'ed with the rank of captain in the 
 same great war, and his father was an officer in 
 the Revolution. Both were pioneers of Ver- 
 mont, the younger having been born in that 
 state, and there, after a life spent in quiet agri- 
 cultural pursuits, he was called to his reward. 
 Mrs. Lucinda Messinger, his daughter, was 
 born at Brandon, and died in Illinois when in 
 her seventy-ninth year. One of the early set- 
 tlers in that then frontier state was Martin Mes- 
 singer, whose birth-place was in New York. 
 When a young man he went to Vermont, and 
 met and married the lady of his choice in Bran- 
 don. Then, after spending a few years in Ohio, 
 he made his way to Illinois, passing through 
 Chicago in 1835, when it was considered a hope- 
 less swamp. Locating upon a tract of wild land 
 in Tazewell county, he improved it and when he 
 wishcfl to dispose of some wheat, for instance, 
 was obliged to haul it one hundred and sixty 
 miles, to Chic.'igo, from which city he conveyed 
 luml)er used in ni.;ikin" floors in his house. 
 
 After living for a long time on one farm, he 
 removed to another one in the same vicinity, and 
 continued to cultivate that place of eighty acres 
 from 1854 until his death in his seventy-seventh 
 year. In principle he was a strong Abolitionist, 
 and was known as a conductor on the under- 
 ground railroad. Two of his children survive, 
 M. W. and George P.. the latter a merchant of 
 Manistee, Mich. 
 
 The boyhood and youth of M. W. Messinger 
 passed uneventfully upon the jMrental home- 
 stead. In the common schools he laid the 
 foundations of knowledge, and attended the 
 high school of Tremont, 111., which was kept in 
 the court house where Abraham Lincoln regu- 
 larly came to practice law. Later he was a stu- 
 dent in the Illinois State Normal at Normal, 111. 
 At the end of two years spent in that institution 
 he was forced to return home, owing to illness. 
 Later he went to Chicago and attended Bryant 
 & Stratton's Business College, after his gradua- 
 tion being sent by the firm to Burlington to 
 establish a branch college. For two years he 
 was connected with that institution under salary, 
 and then, in partnership with Col. William 
 Christy, bought the college, which they con- 
 ducted for two years. Then selling his interest, 
 he returned home and purchased the farm which 
 he managed until 1875. When Colonel Christy 
 was elected treasurer of Iowa, Mr. Messinger 
 became cashier of the First National Bank of 
 Osceola, Iowa, but at the end of a year returned 
 to his Illinois farm, which he so thoroughly tiled 
 and improved that it won the name of being one 
 of the best countrj'-seats in the county. In 1888 
 he accepted a good price which was tendered 
 him for the farm, and came to the southwest. 
 
 Since coming to Phoenix Mr. Messinger has 
 been connected with many different enterprises, 
 and as a horticulturist has been as successful 
 as he formerly was as a general farmer. His 
 twentv-acre orange orchard, and liis twenty 
 acres of olive-trees, situated about six miles 
 north of Phoenix, are well provided with water 
 and are vielding abundant harvests annually. 
 ( )ne of the organizers and the present president 
 of the Ingleside Company, which owns two hun- 
 dred acres of orange trees near the falls of the 
 Arizona canal: and vice-president of the Salt 
 River Valley Orange .Association, he is deeply
 
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 interested in this important branch of our trade. 
 While a resident of Illinois Mr. Messinger 
 held a number of local official positions, and was 
 a member of the county central committee of 
 Republicans, hi i<S88 lie became a director and 
 the assistant cashier of the Valley Bank of Phoe- 
 nix, and from 1892 until the fall of i8g8 was 
 the cashier of the same. .\t the time last men- 
 tioned he was nominated and elected on the Re- 
 publican ticket to the responsible office of county 
 treasurer. His majority was one hundred and 
 twenty over a nominal Democratic majority of 
 over four hundred votes. Having" tendered his 
 resignation as cashier of the bank, he entered 
 upon his new duties January i, i8gg, and at the 
 expiration of his term was again nominated, but 
 was defeated. F"or some years he was connected 
 with the old organization known as the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce. 
 
 In the county of his l)irth Mr. Messinger mar- 
 ried Miss Mary -A. Roberts, likewise born there, 
 and daughter, of John M. Roberts, a prominent 
 farmer, originally of Wales. The eldest of the 
 four sons of our subject and wife is Albert Fen- 
 ton, a graduate of the high school and formerly 
 a student of Kno.x College of Illinois, and now 
 the receiver for Ryder's Lumber-yards. \'ictor 
 Emanuel, employed in the interests of the same 
 concern, as manager of the Glendale (Ariz.) 
 branch yards, is a graduate of the high school, 
 and for two years attended Leland Stanford 
 (Cal.) University. John Montgomery was a 
 member of the high school class of 1900, and 
 Charles Herbert, the youngest, is in the public 
 school. The parents of these manly sons have 
 just cause for pride in them, for they are, in- 
 deed, worthy children of sterling parents. 
 
 While every form of human activity and every 
 effort to promote civilization are of great interest 
 to Mr. Messinger, he is especially devoted to 
 Sunday-school work, believing that in the well- 
 grounded principles of the young lies the hope 
 for our country. Soon after coming to Phoenix 
 he identified himself with the l'resl)yterians. and 
 now is the senior ruling elder of the church. 
 While the church edifice was in process of con- 
 struction he served as chnirman of the building 
 committee. For a numiier of years he officiated 
 as superintendent of the Sunday-school, only 
 leaving that position because of his being called 
 
 to the wider work of the territorial organization 
 of Sunday-schools. Since the inception of that 
 society — some eleven years ago — he has been the 
 secretary of the board, which is doing a world 
 of good. He also is a member of the board of 
 home missions of the Presbytery of .\rizona and 
 with great joy sees the cause of Christianity be- 
 ing advanced along all lines. 
 
 HON. RIDGLEY C. POWERS. 
 
 In tracing the lives of men it is often 
 extremely interesting- to note the utterly unex- 
 pected order of events, the unforeseen interven- 
 tion of what we sometimes call destiny, and 
 which Shakespeare terms that "Providence 
 which shapes our ends, rough !ie\\ ilieni how we 
 will." Strange, indeed, does it seem that R. C. 
 Powers, who valiantly fought for three \ears 
 against the Confederacy, should, only seven 
 years after the termination of that struggle, 
 become the governor of the old southern state 
 of Mississippi, but such was the case. In that 
 responsible position he did not make enemies, 
 as many might have done, but on the contrary, 
 he succeeded in arousing a more kindlx feeling 
 for the north, whence he had recently come. 
 Thus he assisted the difficult task of recon- 
 struction. His tact proceeded from a genuine 
 kindliness of spirit and a liberal mind. 
 
 For the past twenty-two years ex-(iovernor 
 Powers has been a resident of .Arizona, and has 
 been actively connected with many of its chief 
 industries. He is a native of Trumbull county, 
 Ohio, the only son and oldest of the seven chil- 
 dren of Milo and Lucy .\nn (Dickenson) 
 Powers. His great-grandfather Towers, the 
 founder of the family in America, was a nati\e 
 of England and settled in New Jersey. The 
 grandfather, Jacob Powers, was burn in that 
 state, partici])ated in the war of 1812. and was 
 an earlv settler of Westmoreland county. Pa., 
 later of Trumbull county. Ohio. .Milo I'owers 
 was born in Westmoreland county. Pa., and for 
 many vears was a farmerand merchant in ( )hio. 
 .\fter retiring from business, he went to Mis- 
 sissippi, where he died at his son's home. His 
 widow is living with a daughter in \ew ( )rleans. 
 La. She was born in Connecticut eighty-four 
 \ears ago and is of English descem. Her father.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Capt. Samuel Dickenson, was a native of the 
 same state and won his title by gallant service 
 in the war of 1812. With a colony from his own 
 state he went to Ohio in an early clay and there 
 passed his remaining years. 
 
 Born December 24, 1836, Hon. Ridgley C. 
 Powers lived in Trumbull county, Ohio, until 
 he was grown. He attended the Western 
 Reserve Seminary, and later took a scientific 
 course in the University of Michigan, complet- 
 ing his education in Union College, Schenec- 
 tady, N. Y., where the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts was bestowed upon him in 1862. After 
 the close of the Civil war the degree of Master 
 of Arts was conferred upon him. Leaving col- 
 lege, in August, 1862, he enlisted in the One 
 Hundred and Twenty-fifth Ohio Infantry, and 
 was made second lieutenant of Company C. 
 Later he was promoted to be first lieutenant and 
 then became captain of his company, after which, 
 he was assigned to detached duty as assistant 
 adjutant-general in the first brigade of the 
 Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps. 
 Subsequently he was connected with the Second 
 Division of the same corps, as assistant adjutant- 
 general, and on two occasions, for gallant and 
 conspicuous bravery in battle, was promoted, 
 first to brevet-major, then to brevet lieutenant- 
 colonel. He participated, with the army of the 
 Cumberland, in thirteen liard-fought battles and 
 one hundred or more skirmishes, taking part in 
 the whole campaign from Murfreesboro to 
 Nashville, and the Georgia campaign. He was 
 slightly wounded at the battle of Jonesboro, but 
 did not leave his regiment. With his comrades, 
 he was mustered out at New Orleans in Sep- 
 tember, 1865. 
 
 As one of the results of the war, many north- 
 erners made settlement in the south. Having 
 been impressed with Mississippi, Governor 
 Powers purchased a fine cotton ])lantation of 
 two thousand acres, situated on the Noxubee 
 river, near Macon, and this he successfully oper- 
 ;ited for sixteen years. That he thoroughly 
 adjusted himself to the conditions in the south 
 and that he jjossesses qualities to connnand 
 admiration became evident when, in 1869, he 
 was elected licutcn:int-goyein<ir of the state, 
 with ]. L. Alciirn. i^uvcnmr. In 1X71, when 
 .Alcorn was elected lo the United Slates senate, 
 
 by virtue of his office Mr. Powers became gov- 
 ernor, serving as such through 1872 and 1873, 
 his administration being exceedingly peaceable 
 and prosperous. In later years it has been con- 
 ceded, by thinking men of both parties in Mis- 
 sissippi, that the state never had a chief execu- 
 tive who atlministered affairs more successfully 
 or who was more popular among all classes, than 
 was Governor Powers. 
 
 On the expiration of his term, Governor 
 Powers returned to his plantation, which he sold 
 in i87(), in order to remove to Arizona. Here 
 he has been engaged in civil engineering and 
 at present is I'nited States deputy mineral sur- 
 veyor. At different times he has been employed 
 in important government work as surveyor, and 
 ever since his arrival here he has been interested 
 in mining, having opened several mines. One of 
 these, the Model, was sold by him in 1901 to the 
 Model Gold Mining Company of Chicago, which 
 is one of the strongest gold mining companies 
 in the west and in which he still retains an inter- 
 est. He also operates a gold mine, the Emmett, 
 situated about twenty miles east of Prescott. At 
 this writing he is president of the Good Govern- 
 ment League of Prescott and president of the 
 Miners' Association of Yavapai county. 
 
 In the Grand Army of the Republic, Governor 
 Powers is deservedly popular, and is past com- 
 mander of the Phoenix Post. His political 
 influence is given to the Republican party. In 
 the Alethodist Episcopal Church and Sunday- 
 school he is an active member and a trustee. 
 He was married, in Cleveland. Ohio, October 
 ij, 1892, to Miss Mary Wilson. His only child, 
 Ridgley C. Powers," Jr., is now a student in 
 Pomona College in California. 
 
 HON. SCOTT WHITE. 
 In the various enterprises which have been 
 instituted for the tipbuilding of Cochise county 
 Mr. White, sheriff of the county, and secretary 
 of the La Cananea Consolidated Copper Com- 
 pany, has ever been in the front ranks as a pro- 
 moter of progress. A native of Lagrange, Fay- 
 ette county, Tex., he was born in 1856, and \y.as 
 educated in the public schools of Texas and the 
 University <if Virginia. His father. John W. 
 White, was born in A'irginia. ami was fni- sev- 
 eral vears a merchant in Texas.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 127 
 
 As secretary and assistant manager of a min- 
 ing company, Scott White came to Arizona in 
 
 188 1, and was for eleven years located at Bowie 
 station, .\fterwanls he engaged in prospecting 
 and in tlu- cattle business in the San Simon 
 valley, where he had a ranch at Dunn's Springs, 
 near Fort Bowie, In 1892 lie removed to Tomb- 
 stone and still continued his cattle business, to 
 the extent of several hundred head. After com- 
 ing to -Vrizona he rapidly grew in popular favor 
 and was elected a member of the territorial 
 legislature on the Democratic ticket in 1886. He 
 was elected supervisor of Cochise county for the 
 long term in 1890, from which position he re- 
 signed in 1892 upon his election as sherifif of 
 Cochise county. In 1895 he was appointed by 
 Judge Bethune clerk of the district court of 
 Cochise comity, and held the position until 1896, 
 when he was again elected sheriff. At the ex- 
 piration of his term he was re-elected to the 
 office. His administration has been well re- 
 ceived, and the various matters which have come 
 to him for adjustment have been fairly and tact- 
 fully met. 
 
 In 1899 Mr. White became associated with 
 the mining concern of which he is secretary, 
 and whose interests he has done much to further. 
 In 1889 he was united in marriage with Lady 
 Lyons, and of this union there are three chil- 
 dren, who are living in Tombstone. Fraternally 
 Mr. White is associated with the Cochise Lodge 
 No. 5, F. & A. M., Tombstone Chapter No. 4, 
 R. A. M., Knight Templars Commandery at 
 Tucson, and El Zaribah Temple, N. M. S., at 
 Phoenix. He is also connected with the Ancient 
 Order of Cnited Workmen, and with the Tucson 
 Lodge No. 385, B. P. O. E. 
 
 ALBERT STEINFELD. 
 The great establishment of L. Zeckendorf & 
 Co., Tucson, Ariz., of which Albert Steinfeld is 
 the resident partner and manager, is a splendid 
 monument to the earnest and unremitting 
 efforts and the genius of the man who manages 
 the varied interests of the firm. For twenty- 
 four years he has been a partner in the concern 
 and since 1872 has made his home in Tucson, 
 devoting his entire time and attention to the 
 business which has been conducted in the south- 
 west for nearly half a century. 
 6 
 
 Mr. Steinfeld is a native of Hanover, Germany, 
 his birth having taken place in that city Decem- 
 ber 23, 1854. With his parents he came to the 
 I'nited States in 1862 and, living in New York 
 City, received a liberal English education in the 
 publir schools. His first commercial venture was 
 with the wholesale dry-goods firm of Eldridge, 
 Dunham & Co., successors to George Bliss & 
 Co., in whose employ he remained two years. In 
 1871 he crossed the "father of waters" and be- 
 came identified with the great west. At Denver, 
 Colo., he was employed by his uncle, Charles 
 Ballin. a dry-goods merchant. In January, 1872, 
 he arrived in Tucson, where he first became con- 
 nected with the enterprise of his uncles, A. & 
 L. Zeckendorf. Having thoroughly demon- 
 strated his ability and fidelity by several years 
 of service, he was admitted to the firm, w-ith 
 which, as previously stated, he has been the 
 moving spirit ever since, and which owes the 
 prosperity of this large concern to the broad- 
 gauge management of his bright genius. He is 
 very popular in commercial circles of the city 
 and for a period served as president of the old 
 Chamber of Commerce, later being the vice- 
 president of its successor, the present Board of 
 Trade. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Steinfeld is prominent in 
 Masonic circles, and by his means, influence and 
 ability contributes more than his full share to 
 the general welfare and prosperity of the city 
 of Tucson and Pima and Santa Cruz counties. 
 To his employes and assistants he is a kind ad- 
 viser and friend, and he can rely on the un- 
 swerving fidelity of every man in the firm's 
 employ. The name of the firm of L. Zeckendorf 
 & Co., of Tucson, and of Albert Steinfeld, its 
 manager, is known in every mining camp and 
 ranch for hundreds of miles around, in .\rizona, 
 New and Old Mexico, where the firm do busi- 
 ness from all their varied departments. The 
 casual visitor is astonished and surprised when 
 he walks from one department to another in this 
 great building, for he finds every class of mer- 
 chandise that a miner, rancher, or business man 
 can use, and on the main floor are to be found 
 the general ofiices and Mr. Steinfeld's private 
 office, which is always open to the various and 
 sundry callers who visit the store. A larger 
 floor space is occupied by this establishment
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ihan any other in the territory, ami the annual 
 business transacted here exceeds that of the 
 ether commercial houses of Arizona. 
 
 In addition to this business, Mr. Steinfeld is 
 identified with various other industries in South- 
 ern Arizona, each nf which shows his indomit- 
 able pluck, spirit and energy in the success that 
 has attended it. No man in Southern Arizona 
 has been in closer touch with the development 
 of her many and varied resources than Mr. 
 Steinfeld, and it is in a large measure due to his 
 good judgment, enterprise and energy that the 
 development of this great section has been 
 brought about, not alone in the enterprises with 
 wliich he is directly or indirectly connected, but 
 the assistance, good advice and help he has 
 given to others. Today he occupies the en- 
 viable position of being the head of the mercan- 
 tile interests of Arizona ; highly respected and 
 esteemed by all wdio know him ; a man whose 
 word or actions have never been questioned. 
 
 February 15, 1883. in Denver, Colo., Mr. 
 Steinfeld married Miss Bettina \'. Donau, 
 daughter of Simon Donau, of San Francisco. 
 They have a very attractive home on South 
 Main street, built in the old Mexican style, 
 whose light and pride are their four children, 
 named respectively, Lester, Irene, Harold, and 
 Viola. 
 
 BENJAMIN FANEUIL PORTER. 
 
 The gen.eral superintendent of the Maricopa 
 & Phoenix & Salt River Valley Railroad is 
 B. F. Porter, whose life-long experience in rail- 
 roading renders him peculiarly fitted for his re- 
 sponsible position. Closely connected with the 
 construction and management of this railroad 
 since its earliest days, he is and has been deeply 
 interested in the great work which has played so 
 important a part in the upbuilding of Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Porter is a worthy representative of a 
 sterling family of I he old south, of English de- 
 scent. His father, judge Benjamin F. Porter, 
 was born in Charleston. S. C. in which city the 
 grandfather, John Richardson Porter, was a 
 leading business m.an for many years. He was 
 bom in one nf the Bermuda Islands, and died 
 in Charleston. Judge Porter, who was recog- 
 nized as a leading member of the bar, ser\'ed as 
 
 reporter of the supreme court of Alabama, rep- 
 resented his district in the state legislature for 
 upwards of a decade, and rounded his career by 
 presiding as judge of the circuit court. His eru- 
 dition and general competency for the duties of 
 that office led to his re-election at the expira- 
 tion of his first term, and he was actively en- 
 gaged in his professional labors when he died, 
 in 1868, in his sixty-third year. In the ranks of 
 the Masonic order and the Odd Fellows, and in 
 the r.aptist Church, to which he belonged, he 
 was highly honored and beloved. His home for 
 many years was in Tuscaloosa and Greenville, 
 .Via., and in the town last named both himself 
 and estimable wife were residing at the time of 
 death. Mrs. Porter was Eliza Taylor Kidd prior 
 to her marriage, and of their ten children nine 
 lived to maturity. Born in Chesterville, S. C, 
 she was a daughter of Hon. John Kidd, likewise 
 a native of that state, and for many years a 
 prominent member of the legislature of Ala- 
 bama. In 1829 he removed to a plantation near 
 Fort Claiborne, Ala., and there spent the re- 
 mainder of his life. One of his sons, Leroy, also 
 served in the state legislature, and his wife, Ade- 
 laide Adair, a native of Iventucky, was a niece of 
 Governor Adair, of that state, and was a near 
 relative of Zachary Taylor. The Kidd family 
 was founded in Virginia and later in South Car- 
 olina by the descendants of an Irish gentleman 
 of the name, and a brother of Hon. John Kidd, 
 .Andrew Kidd, was one of the pioneers of Ken- 
 tucky, and participated in the hardships of that 
 then wilderness with Daniel Boone and other 
 heroes of his ilk. 
 
 Dr. J. R. Porter^ the first-born child of Judge 
 Porter and wife, w as graduated from the Nash- 
 ville Medical College, and was the surgeon of the 
 Eighteenth Mississippi regiment from 1861 to 
 1864, when, on the battle-field of Franklin, he 
 was placed in command of a company by Gen- 
 eral Hood, and was killed ere the conflict was 
 over. Rev. James D. Porter was engaged in 
 the practice of law with his father until he en- 
 t^red the army, being connected with the Sixth 
 liattalion of .Alabama Cavalry. The hardships 
 which he endured so preyed upon his health that 
 hv became dangerously ill while participating 
 in the battle of Shiloh, and returned home, a 
 wreck of his former self. When he had par-
 
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 129 
 
 tially recovered, he entered the ministry, and 
 for years prior to his death in 1880 was rector 
 of the Episcopal Church of Greenville, Ala. 
 Capt. R. Y. Porter, the present mayor of Green- 
 ville, where lie has been engaged in the insnr- 
 ance business for years, has taken a very prom- 
 inent part in the military affairs of his state. 
 The eldest sister, Mrs. Julia R. Pratt, departed 
 this life at her home in Brooklyn. X. Y. Her 
 husband. John Pratt, was the inventor of the first 
 l\pewriter, the one now known as the "Ham- 
 mond." During the progress of the Civil war he 
 perfected his wonderful invention, which has 
 been of untold value in the w'orld of commerce, 
 and. as affairs in the United States w'ere in such 
 a state, he ran the blockade and went to Eng- 
 land, where he took out patent-rights on his 
 machine. Returning at the close of the war, he 
 exhibited it at the New Orleans Exposition, at 
 which time he became associated with the Mr. 
 Hammond whose name the machine bears. Mrs. 
 J. R. Abrams. whose husband is deceased, and 
 who was a successful merchant, resides in Green- 
 ville, Ala. Mrs. Ina M. P. Ockenden, of Mont- 
 gomery, Ala., was connected with the editorial 
 staff of the Greenville "Advocate" for fifteen 
 years, and is an author of marked ability, many 
 of her prose articles and poems possessing ex- 
 ceptional merit. Mrs. Emma Bedell lives in Gal- 
 veston, Tex., where her husband is a lumber 
 merchant. Mrs. Ann J. Anderson, a widow, re- 
 sides near Hempstead. Tex. 
 
 The birth of Benjamin F. Porter occurred 
 April 15, 1842, in Tuscaloosa. Ala. When he 
 was six years old he accompanied the family to 
 Floyd county. Ga.. and in 1852 went to Marshall 
 county, Ala. Leaving Hearn School, at Cave 
 Springs, Ga., where he was pursuing his studies, 
 the youth commenced his business life by enter- 
 ing the engineering cori)s of the ]>resent Ala- 
 bama (jreat Southern Railroad. .\t the end of 
 a year and a half he became one of the engmeer- 
 ing corps of the Tennessee & Coosa Railroad 
 Company, and after the grading work had been 
 completed became connected with the Mobile 
 & Great Northern (now the Louisville & Nash- 
 ville Railroad) and was thus employed until the 
 beginning of the Civil war. 
 
 For five months B. F. Porter served with the 
 Barlow Rangers on the ( Julf coast, when he was 
 
 detailed by John T. Milner, of Birmingham, 
 .\la.. to enter the service of the Southern & 
 Northern Alabama Railroad. Proceeding into 
 tlic coal regions of northern Alabama, accord- 
 ing to his instructions, and in the interest of the 
 .Alabama Arms Manufacturing Company, he 
 laid claim to some public lands in Jefferson 
 county, and continued to look after this enter- 
 jirise until the close of the war. In the mean- 
 time, when Wilson's army was traversing the 
 northern part of Alabama, Mr. Porter was placed 
 in cliarge of a supply train for General Forrest's 
 forces, and continued to act thus as a conductor 
 on the train until he was captured by the Fed- 
 erals at Demopolis, Ala., wdiile endeavoring to 
 save the rolling stock in his care from destruc- 
 tion at the hands of the Northerners. Ten days 
 after his capture, however. General Lee surren- 
 dered, and he was paroled by Brigadier-General 
 W'inthrop. 
 
 Going to Greenville. Mr. Porter remained 
 there for two years as assistant agent for the 
 Alobile & Montgomery Railroad, and in the 
 spring of 1868 went to Selma, Ala., becoming 
 conductor and superintendent of construction 
 on the Selma & (iulf Railroad. Later he held 
 a like office with the Western Railroad of Ala- 
 bama, and after its completion, in 1871, w-as 
 placed in charge of the construction of the Mo- 
 bile & Birmingham. When thirty miles of the 
 road had been finished, he was installed as a 
 conductor, of a passenger train, made the first 
 run northward to Birmingham, and continued 
 to act in this capacity for eighteen months. His 
 next undertaking proved unfortunate, for he lost 
 all of his means when the partly constructed 
 \icksburg & Nashville Railroad went into bank- 
 ruptcy. Other reverses, also, were in store for 
 him. for, while in his next position, engaged in 
 superintending the repairing of the Memphis & 
 Little Rock Railroad, he was stricken with 
 smallpox, in December, 1872. For almost a 
 month he had no medical attendance, and 
 though he nearly died, his fine constitution 
 brought him through the illness. Returning to 
 Mem|)his. he accepted a position, as foreman of 
 the track-laying department, with the Memphis 
 & Paducah Railroad. .Again he was laid low, 
 this time with cholera, and he was removed 
 twelve miles upon a hand-car to Memphis.
 
 130 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Upon his recovery he went to St. Louis, a more 
 healthful locality, and thence proceeded to Graf- 
 ton, 111., where he was foreman of the work of 
 quarrying stone used in the construction of the 
 celebrated Eads Bridge. Two years later, de- 
 siring an entire change of occupation, he pur- 
 chased a farm in Jersey county, 111., and for more 
 than a decade operated his homestead. 
 
 In the fall of 1886 Mr. Porter sold his property 
 and identified himself with the building of the 
 Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad. Arriving in this 
 locality at the opening of the year 1887, he rap- 
 idly pushed the work forward, and at the end of 
 six months the road was entirely ready for traf- 
 fic. For eleven years thereafter lie held the 
 position of road-master of the line, which is 
 forty-two miles long, with the Mesa branch, and 
 connects with the Southern Pacific. During 
 these eleven years he was absent from the road 
 only nine days — a record rarely surpassed, and 
 attesting his faithfulness. January 15, 1898, he 
 was appointed acting superintendent of the road, 
 and on the ist of the following April was pro- 
 moted to the general superintendency, his pres- 
 ent position. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Porter married Miss Mary E. 
 Thomas, a native of Mississippi, and reared in 
 Alabama. Three sons bless their union, namely, 
 Walter Kidd, B. P., Jr., and Joseph R. Walter 
 K., quartermaster's agent on the transport "Bel- 
 gian Kuig," in the United States navy, is now 
 located in the vicinity of the Philippine Islands 
 B. F., Jr., is employed in the freight department 
 of the Arizona & New Mexico Railroad, with 
 his headquarters at Clifton. 
 
 One of the foremost organizers of the Arizona 
 Mutual Savings & Loan Association, Mr. Por- 
 ter holds the office of president of the same. He 
 also is a member of the city board of trade and 
 of the Maricopa Club, and is prelate of Phoenix 
 Lod"e, No. 2, K. of P., and belongs to the 
 Order of Elks. Politically he is a Democrat, and 
 has been a member of the county central com- 
 mittee. Mrs. Porter is a member of the Method- 
 ist I'lpiscoiwl Church South. 
 
 JUDGE JOHN II. LAN(;STON. 
 'I'his well-known probate judge was born in 
 Mason county. 111., February 13, 1874. and is 
 a son nf Joseph M. and Helen May (Whiteford) 
 
 Langston, natives of the same state and county. 
 His father was for many years a farmer and 
 horse dealer in Mason county, and subsequently 
 removed to Sangamon county, 111., near Spring- 
 field, where he conducted farming interests. 
 Upon removing later into the city of Springfield, 
 he became prominent in the affairs of the town, 
 and served for many years as justice of the peace. 
 His early aspirations were turned in the direc- 
 tion of law as a means of livelihood and outlet 
 for ambition, and in due time he was admitted to 
 jiractice at the bar of Illinois. In 1896 he lo- 
 cated in Phoenix, .Vriz., and continued the prac- 
 tice of iaw. Subsequently his son, J. Henry, be- 
 came a partner under the firm name of Langston 
 & Langston. Mrs. Langston was a daughter of 
 John Whiteford, a wealthy farmer of Mason 
 county. 111., who died at the age of seventy-nine. 
 Mrs. Langston died in 1877, leaving three chil- 
 dren, all still living, John Henry being the sec- 
 ond oldest. 
 
 The early years of Mr. Langston were un- 
 eventful, and were spent in Mason county, where 
 he received a good education in the public 
 schools, supplemented by more extended study 
 after the removal of the family to Springfield. 
 .\s an independent venture he began to carry 
 papers for the "Morning Monitor," and later 
 worked up to the important position of busmess 
 manager for the paper. As regards his life 
 work, he early decided to follow the example of 
 jiis father, and entered upon the study of law 
 with E. L. Chapin. and was admitted to the bar 
 June 10, 1896. For a time he practiced the pro- 
 fession at Springfield, and in 1899 removed to 
 Phoenix, and entered into a law partnership 
 with his father, the firm carrying on a general 
 law practice, and receiving the patronage and 
 appreciation due their painstaking and con- 
 scientious methods of conducting business. This 
 partnership continued until our subject assumed 
 the duties of his office. 
 
 In Springfield, in 1897, Mr. Langston mar- 
 ried Bertha A. Magee, a native of Illinois. Of 
 this union there are two children, Edwin Henry 
 and Helen Evelyn. In the fall of 1900 Mr. 
 Langston was nominated for the office of pro- 
 l)ate judge on the Democratic ticket, was duly 
 elected, and is the present incumbent. He is a 
 Knight of Pythias, and past chancellor of Per-
 
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 cival Lodge, No. 262, Springfield, 111., and a 
 member of the Fraternal Army of America. He 
 is also associated with the Mutual Protective 
 League, and is president of the Phoenix Council 
 No. 246. In the work of the Young Men's 
 Democratic Club of Maricopa county he is 
 actively interested and is also a member of the 
 JefTersonian Club. 
 
 JOHN H. NORTON 
 
 And His Many And Successful Business 
 Ventures. 
 
 Although since 1885 a resident of Los 
 Angeles, Cal., the territory of Arizona does not 
 relinquish its claim upon Mr. Norton, for the 
 links have been and yet are too close. Almost 
 his entire mature life has been devoted to the 
 development and furthering of Arizona's in- 
 dustries, and, needless to relate, it has resulted 
 in mutual benefit. Although he suffered many 
 vicissitudes, as is common to the frontiersman, 
 yet he remembers those early days as among 
 the best of his life, and never regretted casting 
 his lot with the pioneers of Arizona. 
 
 Born in Milton, seven miles from Boston, 
 Mass., in 1847, a son of Hubert and Mary Nor- 
 ton, his early years were chiefly spent in "the 
 Hub" where he received a liberal high-school 
 education. The attractions of the great west 
 lured him beyond what was then considered the 
 pale of civilization, and after spending a year 
 employed as a clerk in Kansas he went to 
 Colorado. At twenty-two years of age the 
 ambitious young man embarked in business on 
 his own account at Las Animas, Colo. In 1876 
 he started for the wilds of Arizona, and after 
 traveling eight hundred and fifty miles from a 
 railroad, by stage, reached Tucson where he 
 spent a few months. Then he established the 
 business and became a member of the firm of 
 Norton & Stewart at Fort Grant, .A.riz., where 
 for several years they conducted a large store 
 and handled government contracts for supplying 
 the fort and other posts in the interior. The 
 nearest town to Fort Grant at that time was 
 Tucson, one hundred and twenty miles distant ; 
 but when the railroad was built that far, a 
 station was established for and twenty-five miles 
 from the post, at Willcox. Mr. Norton also had 
 
 contracts for carrying the United States mail, 
 his route being seven hundred and fifty miles 
 long ; and the faithful manner in which he per- 
 formed his duties won the admiration anil 
 esteem of everyone. 
 
 The condition of the territory at that time is 
 vividly described in "Arizona and its Resources." 
 In those early days the territory's business 
 was necessarily conducted under great dif- 
 ficulties. Most of the merchants of the terri- 
 tory purchased their goods in San Francisco, 
 and the freight charge from there to Fort Grant 
 was eleven to twelve cents per pound. One 
 large firm in Tucson sent ox trains to the west- 
 ern terminus of the Santa Fe Railroad, to haul 
 goods purchased in the eastern markets, and it 
 took a year for them to make the round trip. 
 Mr. Norton quickly saw that New York was the 
 proper place to buy his goods, and started east 
 for that purpose. He took the stage at his store 
 at Fort Grant, and after a ride of seven hundred 
 and sixty miles reached Trinidad, Colo., then the 
 terminus of the Santa Fe Railroad. Arrange- 
 ments were immediately made with one of the 
 large forwarding and commission firms there to 
 forward to Fort Grant one hundred and twenty- 
 five thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand 
 pounds of freight as soon as it should arrive 
 from New York, and he hastened on his journey 
 to make the purchases. Concluding his busi- 
 ness in the east he started on his return trip and 
 reached Trinidad shortly after his goods had 
 arrived there and been forwarded. Taking the 
 stage again he rode to Fort Grant, and although 
 it was Arizona he was glad to reach home. To 
 show the difference between the freight charges 
 then and now, the rate from New York to 
 Trinidad was fifty cents per one hundred 
 pounds, and eight cents per pound from Trini- 
 dad to Fort Grant. Upon the arrival of these 
 eastern purchases at Fort Grant all of the 
 officers and ladies of the post visited the store 
 to witness the opening of the various lots of 
 goods. Food supplies were quite different in 
 those days from what is found today ; caimed 
 goods had to be almost wholly relied upon, and 
 all the vegetables obtainable were such as came 
 in cans. Potatoes and cabbage were rare 
 luxuries. A small "truck garden" was started 
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 the man arrived at the post upon his trips the all 
 important question was not as to the prices he 
 charged, but how to so divide the contents of the 
 wagon as to make them go around and give all 
 at least a few fresh vegetables. At that time 
 Fort Grant was regimental headquarters, having 
 seven troops of cavalry and the band. The 
 troops were to protect the settlers against about 
 si.x thousand San Carlos Apache Indians. Mr. 
 Norton can hardly remember a year among the 
 first ten that he was at Fort Grant when there 
 was not an outbreak, and a great many of the 
 Indians left the reservation. It then was the 
 duty of the troops to go after and bring them 
 back. The Indians were well fed and cared for 
 by the government, but still they would periodi- 
 cally break out, and the troops were sometimes 
 out seven to ten months trying to force them to 
 return. Of course, during all this time, the 
 settlers would be excited and very anxious. In 
 1881 Mr. Norton, when furnishing flour to the 
 San Carlos Agency, had one hundred thousand 
 poimds hauled by ox train: the Indians charged 
 the train, killed five of the men and destroyed 
 large quantities of the flour. They would take 
 sacks containing one hundred pounds, open 
 them, pour out about half of the flour, re-sew the 
 mouth of the sack, tie half of the flour intO' each 
 end of the sacks, throw them over the backs of 
 their horses and start for their mountain fast- 
 nesses. As the troops followed and more and 
 more crowded them they would throw ofif 
 some of this flour to lighten the loads of their 
 animals, and make it possible to travel faster; 
 and they were trailed more than a hundred miles 
 by the flour so thrown away. Tlie claim for this 
 damage was filed with the Government, and it 
 was some eight years before the matter reached 
 final adjustment and payment. 
 
 Large quantities of hay were annually cut in 
 the Sulphur Spring valley, in which Fort Grant 
 is located ; this had always been done by hand, 
 with hoes, scythes and sickles. But when Mr. 
 Norton secured the contract to furnish hay to 
 the government he had several mowing ma- 
 chines shipped from the East with which to cut 
 it : they were the first such machines ever seen 
 in this section ; the freight which he paid upon 
 even one of them would almost paralyze the 
 farmers of today. But they introduced mod- 
 
 ern methods, and revolutionized the sickle cut- 
 ting. 
 
 One of the great features of early Arizona 
 days was the stage, as it offered the only means 
 for travel and distributing the mails, except 
 when done by horseback. This was gradually 
 changed as the railroad was extended. And as 
 these changed conditions gradually took place 
 it was very freely predicted that the railroad 
 would destroy the country ; business was, for a 
 time, reduced, as the large number of freighters 
 and freight teams previously handling the carry- 
 ing trade were laid ofT, but this was only tem- 
 porary. There was less of lawlessness in the 
 territory before than after the advent of the rail- 
 roads, and civilization and crime came hand in 
 hand. 
 
 The entire territory in those days was sup- 
 ported by the moneys disbursed by the govern- 
 ment for supplies and the pay of troops at the 
 various military posts. It would perhaps be 
 hard to find any stronger illustration of the de- 
 velopment along one line, the cattle industry, 
 since 1881, than the fact that in this year Mr. 
 Norton had to send to Chihuahua, Mexico, for 
 a herd of cattle to furnish fresh beef to the Indi- 
 ans on the San Carlos Reservation, while, to- 
 day, there are nearly sixty thousand head of cat- 
 tle shipped from this neighborhood each year. 
 Such an undertaking to drive cattle from 
 Chihuahua to San Carlos was very risky, as they 
 had to pass through two hundred miles of the 
 Indian country. Mr. Norton's brother, B. E. 
 Norton, had just arrived from the east, and 
 thought that to go for these cattle would be 
 a nice trip, and furnish him with some new ex- 
 ])eriences, so he, in company with John H. 
 Riley, a thorough cattle man of wide experience 
 and now one of the largest cattle men of Colo- 
 rado, started from Fort Grant. They were a 
 month on the road to Chihuahua and three 
 months driving the cattle up from there, and say 
 that they shall never forget the experiences of 
 those four months. 
 
 Soon after the Southern Pacific Railroad was 
 constructed through Arizona Mr. Norton, with 
 his partner, Mr. Stewart, laid out the town site 
 of Willcox. and the house of Norton & Stewart 
 was founded at that place. They were the first 
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 building in the town. This was in the winter of 
 1881. F"ive years later the junior partner with- 
 drew. Since that time the firm has been kn(jwn 
 as John H. Norton & Co. H. A. Morgan, the 
 resident partner and general manager, has been 
 connected with Mr. Norton since 1878, and is 
 thoroughly trusted and relied upon. The busi- 
 ness of the firm has grown with the town and 
 increased with the development of the surround- 
 ing country ; they now have branch stores at 
 Pearce, Cochise and Johnson, each of them im- 
 portant and growing mining camps in the Dra- 
 goon mountains, and in the aggregate transact 
 a large business each year. The Willcox store 
 has a large trade, both wholesale and retail. In 
 addition to the large and handsome building 
 occupied in the chief business part of the town 
 they have several conmiodious warehouses near 
 the railroad, one of them being 40x100 feet. 
 Tlie financial responsibility and conservative 
 management of this firm commend it to the 
 connnercial world. Young men cannot do bet- 
 ter than emulate the example thus set before 
 them. Mr. Norton, with his brother, B. E. 
 Norton, owns a large stock ranch at Cedar 
 Springs, which was the scene of the attack bv 
 the Indians upon the ox-train loaded with flour 
 for San Carlos, in 1881, as has been mentioned 
 above. Having early adopted the policy of im- 
 ])orting thoroughbred Hereford bulls their stock 
 is of extremely high grade, and the cattle bear- 
 ing their brand, "N. N.," find a ready sale. 
 
 During the past five years Mr. Norton has 
 moved to and made his home in the beautiful 
 city of Los Angeles, and is connected in busi- 
 ness there. He is president of the Bluewater 
 Land & Irrigation Company of Bluewater, N. 
 M. They have a dam sixty-five feet high at the 
 mouth of the Bluewater cafion, impounding 
 four thousand acre feet of water ; also about 
 sixty miles of fence and thirty miles of distribut- 
 ing ditches covering about four thousand acres 
 of land. It is the intention to build the dam 
 higher so that the balance of the land in the 
 valley, some twenty-five thousand acres, may be 
 brought under ditch. He is president of the 
 Western Contracting and Construction Com- 
 pany and vice-president of the Norton-Drake 
 Company, both of Los Angeles, and is a director 
 of the Chamber of Commerce, which has done 
 
 so much for Los Angeles and vicinity, making 
 known to the world the resources of the famous 
 fruit belt of SoiUhern California. To all of these 
 enterprises he gives more or less of his personal 
 attention, and brings to his affairs all the vigor 
 and acumen of a man in the prime of life. Since 
 residing in Los Angeles he has, as first vice- 
 president of the Jonathan Club, and by connec- 
 tion with many other social bodies, cultivated a 
 host of friends. 
 
 Having accumulated a competency in his long 
 and prosperous career Mr. Norton has of late 
 years made numerous investments, and thus is 
 deriving an income from mines, cattle, mer- 
 cantile enterprises, etc. Perhaps one of the 
 chief secrets of the success he has achieved has 
 been his concentration of energy in the crucial 
 early years of his career in the world of business. 
 Though always an enthusiastic Republican, in 
 national affairs, and often strongly urged to ac- 
 cept political preferment, he steadfastly has de- 
 clined public honors, feeling that his business 
 interests demanded his personal attention. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Norton and Miss M. F. 
 \'an Doren took place in 1886; they have one 
 daughter. Amy Marie, now eleven years of age, 
 and it was largely for her sake and that she 
 might have the best educational advantages, that 
 her parents moved to Los Angeles, where the 
 schools are unsurpassed. 
 
 CAPT. JOHN J. NOON. 
 
 Well known as one of the oldest residents of 
 southern Arizona, Captain Noon was born in 
 County Mayo, Ireland, July 27, 1828, and came 
 to the United States with his parents, John and 
 Mary ( AIcManamon) Noon, when only six years 
 old. The family located in Jennings county, 
 Ind., where John J. received his education in the 
 public schools, later attending the Jesuit Col- 
 lege in Cincinnati. His otherwise uneventful 
 youth was rendered interesting when he accom- 
 panied an elder brother, Patrick, on a trip 
 through the south and west. On arriving in 
 St. Louis in 1844 he heard Hon. Thomas Ben- 
 ton, the great statesman of Missouri, deliver one 
 of his famous speeches. In the spring of the 
 following year he returned to his home in Jen- 
 nings county, Ind. Needless to say that after 
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 period, the surroundings and possibilities of 
 Jennings county seemed circumscribed, and the 
 youth determined to avail himself of the more 
 remunerative activity of New Orleans. On the 
 way he stopped and visited Andrew Jackson at 
 the old Hermitage near Nashville, Tenn. Arriv- 
 ing in this southern city for a second time, he 
 was employed by Augustus W. Walker, the 
 great grain merchant of that city, and at the 
 breaking out of the Mexican war, in 1847, he 
 joined the Second Ohio Regiment under Colonel 
 Weller. 
 
 Owing to an accident received at New- 
 Orleans Mr. Noon did not immediately partici- 
 pate in the affairs of the Mexican war, but in 
 May of 1847 again joined his regiment, then 
 stationed at Vera Cruz, his reception by his 
 comrades and the officers of the regiment being 
 rendered particularly gracious on account of a 
 letter given him by his former employer, Mr. 
 Walker, to a nephew. General Walker, who was 
 commissary-general under General Scott. After 
 witnessing the bombardment of Vera Cruz 
 by the United States guns, he was detailed with 
 the quartermaster's train in the campaign 
 against the City of Mexico, but the first day out 
 was so seriously kicked by a mule that he was 
 necessarily sent to a hospital in New Orleans. 
 Upon recovering, the war being over, he at once 
 sought the assistance of Mr. Walker, who, true 
 to his former friendship, gave him a position in 
 his establishment. The following year he 
 returned to Cincinnati, ( )hio, and there, in Feb- 
 ruary, 1849, married Margaret King, who was 
 born in Ireland, and reared in Ohio. With his 
 bride he started for Minnesota, but at the outset 
 of the journey cholera broke out on the steamer 
 and he was obliged to disembark at St. Louis 
 and seek the seclusion of a hospital for four 
 months. Subsequently he returned to New 
 Orleans and bought some dray teams and en- 
 gaged for a time in teaming and freighting. 
 
 In May of 1850 Captain Noon decided to try 
 his fortune in the west, and boarded the steamer 
 Alabama (his wife having returned to Cincin- 
 nati) and went, via Panama, to San Francisco. 
 At the isthmus the steamer was detained for 
 three months on account of the absence of coal, 
 and they did not reach San Francisco until Sep- 
 tember 5, 1850. Covering a period of forty years 
 
 Captain Noon was engaged in mining and pros- 
 pecting in California, Nevada, Utah and 
 Arizona, during which time he was successful 
 and unfortunate by turns, but came out in the 
 end the winner by a considerable majority. At 
 one time he owned several good mining prop- 
 erties, and was at different times superintendent 
 of mines for some of the large companies. Dur- 
 ing this period he was one of the founders and 
 first settlers of Unionville, Humboldt county, 
 Nev., and also of the towns of Austin and Bel- 
 mont, and was one of the first to discover the 
 Revelle district in Lincoln county, Nev. While 
 prospecting at Tentic, Utah, he met a namesake. 
 Dr. A. H. Noon. Captain Noon was interested 
 in mines on Big Cotton Wood creek, which he 
 later sold to Judge Bennett and others of Salt 
 Lake City. He was one of the first settlers on 
 Jordan creek in Idaho, where he had a fine and 
 remunerative placer claim. 
 
 In 1879 Captain Noon and the doctor came 
 into Arizona, where for ten years they were 
 interested in mining at Oro Blanco, Pima 
 county. In 1889 he started for Nogales, and 
 on the way thither located the famous St. Pat- 
 rick mine, twelve miles west of Nogales, which 
 he later sold for $20,000 cash. Arriving in 
 Nogales with a burro train of rich ore, which 
 he disposed of, he finally bought and located on 
 a piece of land in the Santa Cruz valley adjoin- 
 ing the city. Since then he has successfully 
 raised fruit for market, his land having been 
 wonderfully improved and fitted out with ail 
 modern devices for the carrying on of a large 
 fruit enterprise. The land is planted with about 
 eight hundred trees bearing all manner of fruit, 
 for which there is a ready demand. The prop- 
 erty has been a source of violent litigation, and 
 was formerly a grant from the Mexican govern- 
 ment to several men, the title being hotly con- 
 tested in the courts. Captain Noon was able to 
 furnish proof of the first title given by Spain to 
 Mexico, and so won his suit and retained his 
 land. In these early and trying times he was 
 a member of the committee of citizens known 
 as the Nogales Protective Association. In 1893 
 his possessions were increased by the purchase 
 of land adjoining on the south, which was laid 
 out into lots and sold, and is known as Noon's 
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 111 all that has assisted in the present pros- 
 perity of the city of Nogales Captain Noon has 
 been influential. He is especially interested in 
 the matter of education, and has helped to ren- 
 der possible the fine school buildings and system 
 that prevail here. He was active in securing 
 the setting apart of Santa Cruz county, and 
 served as the Republican mayor of Nogales for 
 one term, and as councilman for one term. He 
 is one of the well-known pioneers of Arizona, 
 and has for years been a leading and representa- 
 tive Republican. Of the children born to Cap- 
 tain and Mrs. Noon three arc living: Mary, 
 who is the wife of Frank Lowden, of Walla 
 Walla, Wash.; John, who is successfully plying 
 a steamboat on the Yukon river in the K Ion- 
 dyke; and Dr. Nicholas K. Noon, of Nogales. 
 George Noon died in Colorado. Mrs. Noon 
 died in 1870. 
 
 A. J. PICKRELL. 
 
 Undoubtedly one of the best-posted men in 
 Yavapai county on the subject of minerals and 
 liroductive ore is Mr. Pickrell, superintendent 
 of the Chicago Gold Mining & Milling Com- 
 pany. He is a practical geologist and miner- 
 alogist, besides being a business man of con- 
 spicuous executive ability, and his company 
 could have found no one better suited to pro- 
 mote its interests. 
 
 Thirty-nine years ago A. J. Pickrell was born 
 in the town of Deep Cut, Ohio, and when eight 
 years of age he was taken to the south, where 
 he grew to maturity, living in Alabama, Missis- 
 sippi and Texas. For some time he attended 
 school at luka, Miss., and when seventeen years 
 of age he started out to make his own way in 
 the world. Going to Leadville, Colo., he de- 
 voted three years to prospecting and mining in 
 that region, and thence went to Aspen, same 
 state. There he became the owner of stock in 
 the Delia S. mine and several others, besides 
 being one of the directors and stockholders in 
 the Grand Union Mining & Milling Company. 
 
 At the time that the value of silver had so 
 deteriorated, Mr. Pickrell came to .Arizona and 
 in the year of his arrival here (1894) took a lease 
 and bond on the old Silver Trail mine on the 
 Hassayampa river. After taking out consider- 
 
 able ore and more thoroughly developing it, he 
 sold out to the Sundance Gold Mining Com- 
 pany. In 1896 he became interested in the Sur- 
 prise group of mines, and was influential in 
 getting organized the Chicago Gold Mining & 
 Milling Company, of which he is a director and 
 manager. A ten-stamp mill was erected and a 
 large amount of ore has been taken out. It 
 comprises gold, silver and lead, though chiefly 
 gold, and about $40 to the ton, on an average, 
 is realized. 
 
 Personally, Mr. Pickrell is connected with sev- 
 eral mining enterprises, more or less valuable. 
 He owns and is operating a group of mines on 
 Groom creek, now under bond and being well 
 developed, these being known as the Midnight 
 Test. They are producing a high-grade gold- 
 bearing ore, of the free-milling quality. Another 
 cluster of mines on Slate creek, which are in 
 active force and which are owned by Mr. Pick- 
 rell, are the Little Kid mines, in which gold, 
 silver and copper are found in paying quantities. 
 The Little Kid group of mines has been trans- 
 ferred to the Gold & Copper Consolidated Min- 
 ing & Milling Company, from which large quan- 
 tities of rich ore are now being shipped and 
 milled. Mr. Pickrell is manager of this com- 
 pany, and one of the largest stockholders. The 
 veins containing the desired minerals vary from 
 twelve inches to four feet in thickness, and the 
 ore averages $100 per ton — a remarkable show- 
 ing. Three tinmels have been constructed, one 
 being one hundred and fifty feet, another one 
 hundred and seventy-five feet and the third three 
 hundred feet long. His long experience in min- 
 ing and the usual success which has attended his 
 undertakings have caused him to be looked ujjon 
 as an authority, and man\ limes he has been 
 employed to investigate and report upon mining 
 property, both in Colorado and .Arizona. Con- 
 centration of energy and purpose are among his 
 notable characteristics and therein is found the 
 secret of his success. Politically he is a Demo- 
 crat. 
 
 GEN. R. ALLYN LEWIS. 
 Prominent among the energetic, enterprising 
 and successful business men of Phoenix is Gen- 
 eral Lewis, the well-known territorial manager 
 of the New York Life Insurance Company. He
 
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 possesses untiring: energy, is quick of perception, 
 forms his plans readily and is determined in their 
 execution ; and his close application to business 
 and his excellent management have already 
 l)rought to him a high degree of prosperity. 
 
 The General was born in St. Louis, Mo., July 
 6. 1867, a son of Andrew M. and Louisa (Ames) 
 Lewis, the former a native of New York, the lat- 
 ter of Frederick, Md. On the paternal side he 
 is descended from a prominent old French 
 family, which, on account of political troubles, 
 left France in the sixteenth century and removed 
 to Ireland, locating in County Waterford, where 
 they owned large estates. There our subject's 
 great-grandfather was born. The grandfather, 
 James M. Lewis, was also a native of the 
 Emerald Isle, and was the founder of the family 
 in America, taking up his residence in New York 
 City. The Allyn family, to which our subject 
 also belongs, was from Scotland and Wales. His 
 maternal grandfather, Norman Ames, was a 
 planter of Maryland and a soldier of the war of 
 1812. The General's 'parents both died in New 
 York, where the father was engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law. In their family were three children, 
 our subject being the second in order of birth. 
 
 Reared in New York, General Lewis was edu- 
 cated in private schools. He left school in 1885 
 and in 1887 came to Arizona. He was appointed 
 assistant cashier in the banking house of Kales 
 & Lewis, of Phoenix, but in .August of the same 
 vear this firm was merged into the National 
 liank of Arizona, of which he was assistant cash- 
 ier for seven years. In 1894 he resigned that po- 
 sition to become manager of the New York Life 
 Insurance Company in connection with Howard 
 C. Boone, but has been alone since 1895 as man- 
 ager for Arizona with headquarters at Phoenix. 
 In business affairs he has been eminently suc- 
 cessful and now owns considerable property in 
 Phoenix. 
 
 ■ Here General Lewis married Miss Letitia Mc- 
 Dermott, a native of Frederick, Md., and a rep- 
 resentative of a family which was founded in that 
 state over two hundred and fifty years ago. By 
 this union have been born three children, 
 namely: Andrew M., Marie and Eleanor. In 
 1889 our subject assisted in organizing the Na- 
 tional Guard of Arizona, becoming a private of 
 Company B, First Regiment, but he was soon 
 
 made first lieutenant, and for five years served 
 as major of the Second Battalion of that regi- 
 ment, also acting inspector general a part of the 
 time. On the ist of August, 1897, he was made 
 adjutant-general of Arizona with the rank of 
 brigadier-general, and was serving in that office 
 when he retired from military affairs, August i, 
 1898. He has also taken an active and promi- 
 nent part in civic affairs, has represented the 
 second ward in the city council, serving also as 
 acting mayor. For three years he efficiently 
 served as territorial bank examiner, and has ex- 
 ercised considerable influence in public matters. 
 Politically he is a stanch supporter of the Re- 
 publican party and its principles, and in times 
 past has been a member of both the county and 
 territorial connnittees. Socially he is a charter 
 member of the Maricopa Club, director of Phoe- 
 nix Country Club, and also belongs to the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is 
 today one of the most prominent men of Phoe- 
 nix and well deserves his popularity. 
 
 GEN. R. H. G. MINTY. 
 Though at least four generations of Gen. 
 R. H. G. Minty's family have made honorable 
 records in military circles, and though a flatter- 
 ing military life opened before him, he resolutely 
 declined, seeking his career in railroading. 
 However, when his countrj- called him he loy- 
 ally responded and nobly stood at his post of 
 duty from the beginning until the end of the 
 Civil war, thus earning his title. At first he was 
 the conmiissioned major of the Second Michi- 
 gan Cavalry, then was promoted to the lieuten- 
 ant-colonelcy of tlie Tliird Michigan, and later 
 was made colonel of the Fourth Michigan. His 
 distinguished services led to his being made 
 brigadier-general and brevet major-general. As 
 such he was honorably discharged when his 
 country no longer required his presence on 
 southern battle-fields. The government had so 
 thoroughly tested his ability, however, and rec- 
 ognized his general merits to the extent that it 
 was desired to retain him among its officers, and 
 accordingly he was commissioned major of the 
 Eighth Regular Cavalry, and then it was that 
 he refused further military Hfe, preferring the 
 quiet pathway of a private citizen. 
 
 The father, paternal grandfather and great-
 
 PORTRAIT AND HIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 H3 
 
 grandfather of General Minty were all of them 
 officers in tlie British army. The father, Col. 
 Robert Minty, who was i)orn in Edinburgh, 
 Scotland, was a graduate oi Sandhurst .Military 
 College, of England, and won his title in the 
 British serv'ice. That he possessed marked abil- 
 ity is shown by the fact that he was appointed as 
 judge advocate-general of Jamaica, and besides, 
 he was a great traveler, visiting the chief places 
 of interest in all parts of the world. 
 
 iiorn in County Mayo, Ireland, December 4, 
 1831, tien. R. H. C. Minty had exceptionally 
 fine advantages in his youth and accompanied 
 his lather in some of his extended travels to 
 foreign pi/rts. When only seventeen, he was 
 conmiissioned as an ensign in the British army, 
 and served in the West Indies and in .Africa until 
 1853, when he resigned and came to America. 
 For two years he lived in Canada, and in Janu- 
 ary, 1854, became connected with the Great 
 Western Railway of that province. In 1856 he 
 went to Detroit and held the position of assist- 
 ant general freight agent of the Detroit & Mil- 
 waukee Railway until the outbreak of the Civil 
 war, when, as previously stated, he loyally went 
 to the defense of the land of his adoption. At 
 the close of the war he re-entered the employ of 
 the Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad, and subse- 
 quently was with the Michigan Central. Later 
 he was general superintendent of the Grand 
 River Valley Railroad, and was the superintend- 
 ent of construction on the Michigan Air Line. 
 .Afterward he was the general superintendent 
 of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago; 
 served in the same capacity with the Atlantic, 
 (iulf & West Indies Transit Company's rail- 
 ways, and with the St. Louis & Southeastern 
 Railway, afterward was general manager of the 
 Paducah & Elizabethtown Railroad of Kentucky. 
 Next he was made auditor, general freight and 
 l>assenger agent, cashier and paymaster of the 
 Montana Union Railroad. From 1897 to 1900 
 he was the auditor, general freight and passen- 
 ger agent of the United Verde & Pacific Rail- 
 road, at the end of which period he resigned and 
 became the fourth vice-president and secretary 
 of the American-Mexican Pacific Railroad, now 
 in process of construction. His home for three 
 years was in Jerome, but now his headquarters 
 and residence are in Tucson. 
 
 For years General Minty has been very active 
 in Grand .Vrinv circles, and is very popular with 
 his comrades. At present his membership is 
 with Negley Post, No. 1, G. .\. R., of Tucson, 
 and he has the honor of being the department 
 commander of .\rizona. He also belongs to the 
 California Commandery of the Loyal Legion, 
 and is identified with the Masonic order. Ever 
 since the organization of the Republican 
 party he has been a stanch adherent of 
 the same. Religiously he is an Episcopalian, 
 and in all of life's relations is thoroughly honor- 
 able, upright and worthy of respect. He is mar- 
 ried and has two children, Courteney A., who is 
 married and lives in Jerome; and Laura, wife of 
 Walter C. Miller, who is manager of the large 
 establishment of T. F. Miller & Co.. of Jerome. 
 
 HON. SAMUEL BROWN. 
 
 Unlike many of the early settlers of the Salt 
 River valley, Mr. Brown's life has always been 
 associated with the changing and developing 
 processes of the far west, and he is therefore 
 more familiar than are most with the peculiar 
 conditions existing in countries dependent upon 
 artificial irrigation. 
 
 The early life of this prosperous business man 
 and former member of the territorial assemblx 
 from Maricopa county, was an interesting one, 
 and represents the successful etiforts of a man 
 who had many obstacles to overcome. He was 
 born in San Francisco, Cal., May 23, 1852, and 
 is a son of Jeffrey and Bertha ( Braza) Brown, 
 the latter a native of Mexico. Jefifrey Brown 
 spent the greater part of his life as a captain 
 upon the seas, and was himself a vessel owner. 
 In 1848 he rounded the Horn and arrived in Cal- 
 ifornia in the days of gold, and thereafter made 
 his home in the land of almost perpetual sun- 
 shine, ill later life he removed from San Fran- 
 cisco to Los Angeles, where was eventually 
 terminated his eventful life. 
 
 Samuel Brown was five years of age when his 
 father removed to Los .\ngcles, and there he 
 received the education afforded at the public 
 schools. His boyhood days were saddened by 
 the death of his father when he was but fourteen 
 years of age, and, being the oldest child in the 
 family, which had previously been entirely de-
 
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 pendent upon the exertions of the father, he was 
 almost immediately introduced to the serious 
 and responsible side of life. With the courage 
 of untried youth he set to work to aid those 
 so dependent upon his efforts. When nineteen 
 years of age he decided to prepare for the future 
 by learning the trade of blacksmith, and in Los 
 Angeles, Cal., served an apprenticeship of five 
 years. After completing his knowledge of 
 blacksmithing he settled in Tempe, Ariz., in 
 1878, and was employed by C. T. Hayden in his 
 blacksmith shop for several years. In 1883 he 
 started an independent business, opening the 
 shop for repair and general blacksmithing work 
 which has since been successfully conducted. 
 
 Li 1878 Mr. Brown married Bertha Gallardo, 
 a native of Los Angeles, and of this union there 
 have been three children, of whom one only is 
 now living, Frances Brown. Mr. Brown has 
 various interests aside from the immediate con- 
 cern of his business, and has been prominently 
 identified with the most important enterprises 
 of his locality. He is a firm believer in the 
 benefits of education, and his purse and influence 
 have invariably been on the side of progress in 
 this as in other matters. A Republican of the 
 true blue kind, he yet has liberal views regard- 
 ing the politics of office holders, and believes in 
 voting for the best man regardless of the color of 
 his politics. He was honored by the community 
 by election as an assemblyman to the twentieth 
 territorial legislature from Maricopa county, and 
 served in a highly creditable manner for two 
 years. During that time he introduced a bill 
 which secured an e.xtra appropriation for the 
 territorial normal school, amounting to $9,500. 
 He is now serving his second term as a member 
 of the city council of Tempe. For a number of 
 years he has served as a member of the 
 Tempe public-school board, and is now president 
 of the board of trustees. Fraternally Mr. Brown 
 is associated with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, the United Moderns, and is now 
 president of the Spanish-American Alliance, a 
 fraternal organization which has its headquarters 
 at Tucson. 
 
 He is foremost among the citizens of this 
 wonderfully prosperous town of Tempe, and 
 his broad and liberal views, and unchanging 
 interest in the general welfare, have won for him 
 
 the appreciation and good will of those who 
 know of his great value as a worker for progress. 
 
 FRANK COX. 
 
 Prominent for more than two decades in the 
 political and professional world of Phoenix, 
 1" rank Cox is known and honored, not only here, 
 but throughout Arizona generally. Politically 
 he has always been a Democrat, and his labors 
 on behalf of the platform and party of his choice, 
 and his zeal in the cause of the right and just, 
 speak eloquently of the principles which actuate 
 him in all of his relations with the public. 
 
 Mr. Cox is a great-grandson of one of the 
 veterans of the Revolution, a Virginian of high 
 standing. Ivy H. Cox, a grandson of this gen- 
 tleman, and father of the subject of this sketch, 
 was born aind educated in Virginia. He entered 
 the ministry, and was for eighteen years presid- 
 ing elder in the Methodist Episcopal confer- 
 ence of Western Texas, to which state he had 
 removed in 1850. He also served as chaplain of 
 a Texas regiment during the Civil war. He 
 moved to California in 1868, living for several 
 years in San Diego. Thence he came to Ari- 
 zona, settling in the town of Florence, and 
 turning his attention to the practice of law. He 
 was a resident of Phoenix during the last twenty 
 years of his life, where he took a very active 
 part in political campaigns. His canvass of the 
 territory in the interests of King Woolsey is 
 still remembered. His wife was Miss Mary J. 
 Cook, of Alabama. There were eight children 
 as the result of this marriage, Frank Cox being 
 the second son. He was bom in Belmont, Tex., 
 December 5, 1856. He attended Soule Univer- 
 sity, in Chapel Hill, Tex., and later continued 
 his education in San Diego. 
 
 In 1873, when still a mere boy, he went into 
 partnership with J. S. Harbison, and for two 
 years conducted an apiary near San Diego. 
 l'>eing ambitious, he took up the study of law, 
 and in 1879 located in Phoenix. Shortly after 
 his arrival here, he was elected secretary and 
 treasurer of the Democratic central committee 
 of Maricopa county, and in 1881 was elected 
 clerk of the board of county supervisors. The 
 same year witnessed his admission to the legal 
 fraternity, and in 1884 he was elected district
 
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 attorney. That he won the confidence of the 
 people in Iliis cajwicity is evidenced by the fact 
 that he was re-elected three successive terms, 
 thus serving- from the besjinning of 1884 to the 
 close of i8(j2. Three times he was nominated 
 for this ])osition by acclamation, but his duties 
 had been so arduous, and in many respects so 
 distasteful, that he declined to allow his name to 
 be used as a candidate for the fifth term, and 
 has since devoted his attention to the general 
 practice of law. He has been the general attor- 
 ney for the Southern Pacific Company in Ari- 
 zona for seven years, and is also the legal ad- 
 viser of the Western Union Telegraph and the 
 Wells-Fargo Express Companies, as well as of 
 the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley 
 Railway Company. He was for some time a 
 member of the law firm of Cox, Street & Wil- 
 liams, which later became Cox & Street. Mr. 
 Cox was also associated in business with J. F. 
 Wilson, now delegate to congress from Arizona, 
 for about a year. On two occasions he was urged 
 to become a candidate for delegate to congress 
 from Arizona, but declined to do so, preferring 
 to devote his attention to his large and growing 
 practice. As a lawyer, he ranks among the 
 strong men of the territory, and is, at this writ- 
 ing, president of the Territorial Bar Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Cox is identified with the Maricopa Club 
 and is also a Mason of high standing, being a 
 member of .Arizona Lodge No. 2, F. & A. M.; 
 Arizona Chapter No. 1. R. A. M.: Phoenix 
 Commandery No. 3, K. T., and El Zaribah Tem- 
 ple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He was married, Sep- 
 tember 16, 1883, to Mrs Annie Boyd, a daugh- 
 ter of S. C. Reed, who was one of the early set- 
 tlers on the Pacific coast. 
 
 JOHN J. RATH. 
 The town of Cochise, justly regarded as in- 
 fantile when compared with the larger and older 
 towns in Arizona, is representative of the local- 
 ity in which its future is centered, in that it is 
 in the first stages of a promising development 
 but recently recognized by the world at large. 
 Hither have come some substantial and far- 
 sighted miners and connnercial men, among 
 them being Mr. Rath, who is not only hopeful 
 nf the mining possibilities in the Dragoon moun- 
 
 tains, but has backed his faith and gootl will by 
 investing heavily in mining and other pro])erlv, 
 and acting in the capacity of chief im])rover of 
 the settlement. In fact, it is difficult to under- 
 stantl Iiow soon the various enterprises so suc- 
 cessfully carried on by this enthusiastic pioneer 
 would have developed had a man of like energy 
 and enterprise not been at the helm. 
 
 Of German parentage, Mr. Rath was born at 
 Queens, Queens county, Long Island, N. Y., 
 ^larch 25, 1870, and is a son of J. J., Sr., and 
 Susie (.'Vntz) Rath, who were born in Germany. 
 Until his thirteenth year he remained at home 
 and attended the public schools, and at this early 
 age started out on his own responsibility to 
 make an independent livelihood. For two years 
 he found employment in Colorado, and then 
 lived in California until 1893, when he settled 
 in .Arizona. At Rowie Station his perseverance 
 was rewarded with the position of chief clerk for 
 the Southern Pacific Railroad, which he held for 
 four years, and was then transferred to Cochise, 
 as station agent, remaining as such from 1897 to 
 1899. Upon being made postmaster and Wells- 
 Fargo express agent he resigned his position 
 with the railroad in 1899, and, while still retain- 
 ing the latter-named positions, built up a large 
 mercantile business, whicli he recently sold. 
 
 For the carrying on of his enterprises Mr. 
 Rath built a fine large building, which is used as 
 an hotel, postoffice and express office, and is 
 fitted with all of the requirements of a first- 
 class and extensive trade. The traveling public 
 are glad to avail themselves of the fair treatment 
 accorded them by the genial and obliging pro- 
 prietor, whose integrity and sound commercial 
 honesty are never questioned. As further evi- 
 dence of his devotion to the public cause may 
 be mentioned Mr. Rath's successful attempt to 
 supply the town w^ith water from a small works 
 instigated by himself. He is now able to branch 
 out somewhat in this line and is preparing 
 to supply the railroad with water. 
 
 To Mr. Rath is due the distinction of having 
 located the town of Cochise, for. long before a 
 town was thought possible, he honiesteaded the 
 farm which is the present site, and gave to the 
 Golden Queen Mining Company the ground 
 upon which they erected their ten-stamp quartz. 
 mill. This was the beginning of the industries
 
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 here represented, since which time Mr. Rath has 
 held out every possiljle inducement to the out- 
 side world to come here witli their capital and 
 brains, and help in the development of a section 
 of wonderful promise. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Rath married Lulu H. < )lne>-. a 
 daughter of Joseph and Agnes I. ( )lney, of Sol- 
 omonville. Of this union there is one child, 
 Edith, who is two Acars of age. .\lthough a 
 strict party man, and a Republican of indelible 
 dye, Mr. Rath is not an aspirant for political 
 honors. Rather he prefers to devote his entire 
 time to his business and mining pursuits, and to 
 a general supervision of the upbuilding of the 
 town. He is regarded as one of the most enthu- 
 siastic of the advocates of the resources of Ari- 
 zona, and his name will be inseparably associ- 
 ated with the rise, prosperity, and future history 
 of Cochise and the Dragoon mountains. 
 
 HON. WILEY E. JONES. 
 
 Distinction fell to the lot of the subject of this 
 memoir when he was just at the threshold of 
 early manhood, for in 1886 he was honored by 
 election to the legislature of his native state, 
 Illinois, representing the Springfield district, and 
 upon the expiration of his term was tri- 
 umphantly returned by his political friends. In 
 the session of 1889 he was the Democratic nom- 
 inee for temporary speaker of the house, the 
 youngest member ever thus honored in that 
 state. 
 
 But now, turning backward a few pages in his 
 history, it is ascertained that W. E. Jones is a 
 son of J. W. and Polly A. (Wills) Jones, natives 
 of Kentucky. The father was three years old 
 when taken to Sangamon county, 111., and there 
 grew to maturity, becoming a well-to-do and 
 respected farmer. The birth of his son, W. E.. 
 occurred near Springfield. ( )ctober 19. 1856, and 
 his boyhood was chielly s]K'nt u])on a farm. Sup- 
 plementing his district school education by a 
 course in the Springfield high school, and train- 
 ing for business in the commercial college there, 
 he then determined to enter the legal profes- 
 sion, and studied under the direction of Hon. 
 John M. Palmer. That distinguished states- 
 man's name was jilaced before the house of 
 re])resenta1ives of the Illinois legislature for 
 
 the LTnited States senatorship by W. E. Jones 
 in 1889, the latter afterward being a delegate to 
 the Democratic national convention of 1896. at 
 Chicago. The young man was admitted to the 
 bar of his state in 1884. and, as previously stated, 
 was a member of the legislature from 1886 to 
 1890, making an excellent record. 
 
 Having a strong desire to behold the great 
 west, W. E. Jones went to the state of Wash- 
 ington, and after practicing his profession mere 
 for a short time came to Arizona. This was in 
 1892, and with good judgment he decided upon 
 Graham county as the place of his abode. The 
 same year he was elected district attorney, and 
 so thoroughly pleased the public in his adminis- 
 tration that he was elected again in 1894, in 1896 
 and in 1898. The last time he was absent, serv- 
 ing in the Ignited States army, for he had en- 
 listed in Company B, First Territorial \'olunteer 
 Infantry, and, indeed, had been influential in 
 organizing the company, then being chosen as 
 its first lieutenant. After serving for seven and 
 a half months, he was mustered out at .\lbany, 
 (ia.. and returned home to resume his duties as 
 district attorney, at Solomonville.* 
 
 .\11 local enterprises and industries find an 
 earnest friend in Mr. Jones, who has invested 
 from time to time in many of them. He owns 
 some mining property, and. in partnership with 
 his sister-in-law. Mrs. Phebe (Bozarth) Jones. 
 a native of Sangamon county. 111., owns the 
 Jones House, a fine brick hotel building, erected 
 in 1900, and well equipped in every particular. 
 It is now considered the leading hostelry of 
 Graham county, and one of the very best in the 
 territory, and connuands a large patronage from 
 the traveling puldic. as well as local trade. 
 
 It certainly is totally unnecessary to state that 
 .Mr, Jones is an enthusiastic advocate of the plat- 
 form of the Democratic party. Having formed 
 the acquaintance of W. J. Bryan in Washing- 
 ton. D. C. early in the '90s, he was one of his 
 strongest admirers and adherents thereafter. 
 One of the delegates to the Chicago convention 
 in 1896, where Mr. jiryan was nominated, he 
 worked for him heartily in the succeeding elec- 
 tion. Fraternally Mr. Jones is a charter mein- 
 ber of the Solomonville Lodge of the Knights 
 of Pythias, and the same can be said of his 
 connection with the lodge of Red Men at Tuc-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1^1 
 
 son, Aiiz. We feel that he has deeply at heart 
 the welfare of the great majority, and by his 
 straightforwardness he has won the gennine 
 regard of all who know him, here and wherever 
 he has dwelt. 
 
 HON. STEPHEN R( )E.\1ER. 
 
 The enterprising town of IJenson, with its 
 unrivaled location and many business chances, 
 numbers among its most faitliful and substantial 
 citizens Air. Roemer, agent for the Wells-h^argo 
 Express Company, and for numerous building 
 and loan associations. 
 
 Of German parentage. Mr. Roemer is pos- 
 sessed of the shrewd and thrifty habits which are 
 engendered in the average German youth, and 
 which invariably insure at least a com])etcnce in 
 return for continued application to business, lie 
 was born in Bowling Green, Ky., February iS, 
 1869, and is a son of Gus and Alary (Dicas) 
 Roemer, who were natives of (iermany. and 
 were farmers b\- occtipation. They settled in 
 Bowling Green after their marriage, and subse- 
 quently died in that place. Their son received 
 a common-school education, supplemented b\' 
 attendance at Ogden College. When quite 
 young he entered the employ of a large jewelry 
 firm, and was then engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness with his brother, Charlie Roemer, for four 
 years. Upon emigrating to the west he lived 
 in southern California for several months, and 
 in 1895 came to Phoeni.x in the capacity of a 
 messenger for the Wells-Fargo E.xpress Com- 
 pany, between .Ash h'ork and I'hoenix. In i8<)7 
 he became agent for the same comjiany, with 
 headquarters at Benson, which ])osition he still 
 holds. 
 
 As an evidence of his faith in the future of 
 Benson and vicinity Mr. Roemer has taken uj) a 
 homestead of one hundred and sixt_\' acres, and 
 the same amount of desert land, and anticipates 
 good results when the valley shall have been 
 irrigated from the proposed artesian wells. .At 
 the present time he is not only agent for the 
 Wells-Fargo Express Company, but for the 
 .Arizona & Southeastern Express Company as 
 well. He is also local treasurer for si.x Iniilding 
 and loan companies, three of which are in Den- 
 ver : The Fidelity Savings .Association, the In 
 
 dustrial Building & Loan .Association, and the 
 Columbia Savings & Loan Association : one is in 
 Los Angeles, the Providence Mutual & Loan 
 .Association; one in Tucson, the .Arizona Savings 
 and Insurance Company ; and one in San Fran- 
 cisco, the Pacific Coast Savings Association. 
 
 The political career of Mr. Roemer has been 
 a prominent one, and has reflected great credit 
 upon party and representative. He is an nn- 
 swerving adherent of the Democratic party, and 
 in 1898 was secretary of the Democratic county 
 committee. In 1900 he was regularlv nominated 
 and elected to the twenty-first legislature, which 
 was the most important in the history of 
 the territory. He was chairman of the com- 
 mittee on public expenditures and accounts, 
 also member of conmiittce on corporations, and 
 the committee on county and countv botmdaries. 
 He introduced the bill for the establishment of 
 the Reform School at Benson, and it is said that 
 without his strenuous efiforts the institution 
 would not have been secured for this place. 
 l-"raternally he is a Knight Templar Mason and 
 a member of El Zaribah Temple, N. M. S., at 
 Phoenix; the Elks at Phoeni.x. No. 335, and 
 the Knights of Pvthias at Benson. 
 
 HON. GUSTAV HOFF. 
 
 During the period of his residence in Tucson, 
 .Mr. Hofif, former mayor of this city and ex- 
 representative of the .Arizona legislature, has 
 witnessed the greater part of its upbuilding. His 
 business ability and patriotism received early 
 recognition, and after serving one term in the 
 city council of Tucson, his name was brought 
 forward by his Democratic friends, with the re- 
 sult that he was nominated and elected to the 
 sixteenth general assembly of the territory. 
 There he made a fine record, as was confidently 
 exi)ected, and introduced more bills than any 
 other member of the house. .As chairnian of the 
 ways and means conmiittee, and as chairman of 
 the special committee having in charge the 
 funding act and also as one, of the judiciary com- 
 mittee he rendered the people effective service, 
 and met with wide-spread commendation. 
 .\mong the numerous bills which he piloted 
 through was that of the .Australian ballot system, 
 which became a law. Early in 1899 he was
 
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 elected mayor of Tucson, and perhaps the most 
 momentous enterprise carried out in his term 
 was the purchase of the plant now known as the 
 city water-works. Many improvements were 
 inaugurated, such as a new sewer system, the 
 hiving of cement sidewalks and the grading of 
 streets. 
 
 After this hrief resume of what he has ac- 
 complished for the people, an outline of the 
 personal career of (iustav Hofif doubtless will 
 prove of general interest. He is a native of 
 Prussia, Germany, his birth having taken place 
 near the city of Driesen, December 7, 1852. The 
 Hoff family is an old one in that locality, and 
 his father, Charles F., was the only one of his 
 parental household who came to America. His 
 wife, who bore the maiden name of Ernestine 
 Korth, was born in the same vicinity — near 
 Driesen, the daughter of a farmer. In his early 
 manhood Charles F. Hofif was a miller, and after 
 his arrival in this country he built a large Dutch 
 wind-mill, for the grinding of corn, at Yorktown, 
 Tex., and operated it during the Civil war. In 
 1855 he brought his family to the United States, 
 and as stated, made his home in Yorktown for 
 a number of years. In 1865 they returned to 
 Germany, where they remained about two years, 
 the father speculating in cotton and cofifee, 
 meantime. Then, once more, the family turned 
 toward the setting sun, and as formerly, made 
 the long voyage in a sailing-vessel, this time the 
 trip consuming thirteen weeks. The father now 
 devoted his attention chiefly to the cattle busi- 
 ness, and in 1871 started with his herd along the 
 Chisholm trail towards .Abilene. Kans. Reach- 
 ing Newton, which had been laid out, and 
 promised to become a thriving town, he decided 
 to locate there, and, having built a store (the 
 third one erected in the place) commenced 
 transacting a general merchandising business, 
 and yet retained his interest in his cattle imtil 
 1874, Then, accompanied by his son Gnstav, he 
 went to Utah, and for one season engaged in 
 freighting ore with mule teams from the Flag- 
 staff mine and others in the Little Cottonwood 
 cafion in lUah. In 1875 they went to San 
 Bernandino, Cal.. and then the father returned 
 with Mr. Adams to this territory on a mining 
 expedition. He died at the age of fifty-eight 
 years, in Tucson, after having spent some time 
 
 in the mming regions of New Mexico and 
 southern ^Arizona. His wife had died in Texas, 
 and three of their children are still living in that 
 state, namel}-: Julius W. (a merchant), Mrs. 
 Emma Earl and Mrs. Lena Metz. Charles F. 
 is the superintendent of the Sunset Telephone 
 Company of Arizona. 
 
 As he was but three years old when the family 
 first sailed to these shores, bound for Galveston, 
 Tex., Hon. Gustav Hofif would have had only a 
 very slight acquaintance with the German 
 language had he not returned to his native land 
 at the close of the Civil war here. While in 
 Germany, however, he attended the gymnasnuii, 
 or national school about two years, and the re- 
 mainder of his education was obtained in private 
 schools in Yorktown, Tex. As stated above, he 
 had considerable experience on the western 
 frontiers, crossing plains and mountains, and be- 
 coming familiar with life in many phases. From 
 1874 to 1877 he continued in the freighting busi- 
 ness in San Bernandino and vicinity, and for the 
 three years which followed was a clerk in the 
 \vholesale house of Hellman, Haas & Co. In 
 i88t he came to Tucson for the German Fruit 
 Company, and at the end of nine months entered 
 the employ of C. Seligmann & Co., remaining 
 with their successors, A. Goldschmidt, until the 
 business was closed up. Tlien as a member of 
 the firm of Hofif Brothers, he carried on a mer- 
 chant brokerage business for a year, after which 
 he became a traveling salesman for the grocery 
 department of L. Zeckendorf & Co. In 1892 he 
 entered into partnership with A. V. Grossetta 
 and L. ( i. Radulovich and established the Tuc- 
 son Grocery Company, dealing in wholesale and 
 retail lots. They have built up an extensive 
 trade, and in 1897 entered into another enter- 
 prise, the Tucson Hardware Company, Incor- 
 porated. 
 
 Mr. Hofif also has mining investments and 
 froiu the time of the organizing of the Citizens' 
 Building and Loan Association has been its 
 secretary. A member of the Board of Trade, he 
 has acted as treasurer of the same since it was 
 organized. Fraternally he is connected with the 
 .-\ncient Order of United Workmen, being past 
 master workman of Tucson Lodge No. i, and 
 now is the grand receiver of the grand lodge of 
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 over, he belongs to the lodge aiid club of the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, is associ- 
 ated with the Knights of Pythias and with the 
 Uniform Rank of that order; is a member of 
 the Woodmen of the World, the Spanish- 
 American Alliance, and the National Union. 
 For years he has been a member of the county 
 central Democratic connnittee, and is an ex- 
 chairman of that body. One of those most 
 active in the forming of the A. O. U. W. Hall 
 Association, he was chosen as its secretary at 
 the start, and is yet serving in that capacity. 
 
 In Los Angeles the marriage of Mr. Hoff and 
 Miss .Mice A. Ford, who was born in St. Louis, 
 Mo., was solemnized September 11. 1880. Thev 
 are the parents of four daughters and one son, 
 namely: Mamie, Pearl, Clara, Florence and 
 Louis. The eldest daughter, Miss Mamie, has 
 made an excellent record as a student, and is a 
 graduate of the University of Arizona. The 
 family stands high in social circles of Tucson, 
 and the children are being given good 
 advantages. 
 
 JUDGE JAMES REILLY. 
 
 Of all the interesting lives and personalities 
 which have matured in the midst of the west, 
 and eventually found their way to the erstwhile 
 glittering possibilities of Tombstone, the silver 
 dream of a departed multitude, none has em- 
 bodied in his wanderings and occupations more 
 of adventure, romance and courage than has 
 characterized the upward struggles of Judge 
 Reilly. 
 
 A native of the north of Ireland. Judge 
 Reilly was born in county Caven in 1830. His 
 father, who was ambitious for larger fields of 
 activity, left home when his son was four years 
 of age, and came to the United States in search 
 of a desirable location for the family. His patri- 
 otism for his adopted country was the means to 
 his end, for he was killed in Texas while partici- 
 pating in the revolution, in the battle of San 
 Patricio, in 1836. The mother and three chil- 
 dren left Ireland in 1849 and settled in New 
 York City. The eldest son in the family, Luke, 
 had gone to California in 1847 and afterward 
 died in Australia. In the summer of 1849 the 
 next to the youngest of the children, James, who 
 was then nineteen, entered the United States 
 
 army and served for ten years. He was sent U< 
 Texas and won distinction through fighting the 
 Indians in Texas and New Mexico under Gen- 
 erals Harney and Twiggs, and was raised 
 through all the non-commissioned offices to the 
 rank of sergeant-major. After his discharge at 
 Fort Hudson, Tex., in August of 1859, '1^ ^i" 
 gaged in the freighting business in Texas, and 
 bought an outfit of mules and wagons for the 
 purpose. In September of i860 the Indians ap- 
 propriated his mules at Beaver Lake, Tex., and, 
 somewhat disillusionized regarding the pros- 
 pects of life in the great wilderness of a state, 
 he decided to go west. In company with Messrs. 
 McCoombs. Walker, Chalmers, and Rooney, he 
 included his freighting outfit in the eighteen 
 teams and wagons belonging to the party, and 
 which were loaded for the sutler at Fort 
 Buchanan. .\riz., and crossed the plains to their 
 destination. Mr. Reilly had previously visited 
 .\rizona in 1857 as a soldier, as escort of Cap- 
 tain Pope, United States army topographical 
 engineers, in charge of an expedition for boring 
 for artesian water, on the Staked Plains and in 
 New Mexico. 
 
 On arriving at Fort Buchanan Mr. Reilly was 
 left entirely alone, as his companions across the 
 plains returned to Te.xas to join the Confederate 
 army in the Civil war, which had just been de- 
 clared. He remained at the fort and continued 
 his former occupation of freighting, his course 
 being between the fort and Magdalena. Here, 
 as in Te.xas. he suffered from depredations on 
 the part of the Indians, who seemed to entertain 
 a fondness for mules, at which second loss he 
 disposed of the remaining wagons and went out 
 of the freighting business. From a major of the 
 Sonora army in Mexico he rented lands and a 
 mill in Santa Cruz, and there raised wheat and 
 corn and operated the mill for a year. Owing 
 to an encounter with a citizen of the place in 
 which Mr. Reilly was obliged to terminate the 
 citizen's career, he was put in jail, tried, and 
 sentenced to four years' banishment to Lower 
 California. Although an exile, he was permitted 
 to engage in any desired occupation, which hap- 
 pened to be mining, and to which he turned his 
 attention until 1866. In the meantime he was 
 obliged to keep the governor informed as to his 
 whereabouts.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Upon arriving in Arizona in the latter part of 
 1866, having made the journey up the gulf and 
 by way of the Colorado river by steamer to 
 Yuma, he went to work in the Wickenburg 
 mines. In the spring of 1867 he drove a team 
 for Louis St. James, freighting between La Pass 
 and Prescott. He also worked in the mines at 
 Wickenburg for a short time, and in 1868 went 
 to Bradshaw, Ariz., prospecting and working 
 for wages in the mines. In the fall of the same 
 year he went to La Pass, and cut wood on con- 
 tract for six months, and then went to Yuma in 
 the fall of 1868. While there he engaged in the 
 hotel business with a Mr. Bradley, but .soon dis- 
 continued it, and engaged in the mercantile 
 business and contracting for the supply of wood 
 at Fort Yuma and Yuma Depot. .Vs a contractor 
 for the provisions of the troops at Fort Yuma 
 he was fairly successful for about three years 
 and in the mean time had been studying law. 
 In 1876 he was elected district attorney of Yuma 
 county and admitted to the bar. 
 
 The journalistic career of Judge Reill\ was 
 commenced in 1878 when he published the 
 Yuma "Expositor," a periodical removed to 
 Phoenix about a year later, and there continued 
 for a year, when it passed into other hands. In 
 the mean time he had been accumulating a li- 
 l)rarv of over three hundred law volumes, which 
 he took with him upon removing to Tombstone 
 in 1880. Here, from a comparatively small be- 
 ginning, he was eventually rewarded for having 
 chosen this as his permanent abiding place, the 
 goal having of course been intercepted at times 
 by downs as well as ups. In 1880 he was ap- 
 pointed justice of the peace, and he is also a 
 notary pubhc. In 1863, in Phoenix, he married 
 Miss Nicolasa Ruiz, who is a native of California 
 and of Mexican parentage. Covering a period 
 of twenty-six years of law practice, twenty-one 
 of which have been passed in Tombstone, he has 
 gathered together a splendid library of one 
 thousand and five hundred volumes, which is a 
 special matter of pride with this earnest student 
 of afTairs and legal science. In his practice a 
 s])ccialty is made of the laws governing mining, 
 in the expounding of which he is one of the 
 authorities in the territory. In other ways an 
 admirable citizen and friend, he is an integral 
 part of the jiresent solidity of Tombstone, ;i m.ni 
 
 of strong character and distinct individuality, 
 whom to know is to respect. 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM M. LOVELL. 
 
 The life of Judge Lovell has been an interest- 
 ing one, and furnishes many evidences of the 
 power of mind and determination over adverse 
 and even discouraging circumstances. As a 
 member of the Tucson bar he has proved his 
 worthiness to be numbered among the most 
 capable and enterprising of the exponents of 
 legal science in the territory. 
 
 A native of Muhlenberg county, Ky., Judge 
 Lovell was born November 5, 1836, and is a 
 son of Ira J. Lovell, who was born in Logan 
 county, Ky. The paternal grandfather, Michael, 
 was a native of Maryland, on the Chesapeake, 
 and early settled in Kentucky, where he eventu- 
 ally died. His son, Ira. followed his example, 
 and was a farmer during the years of his ac- 
 tivity. In 1852 he undertook the journey across 
 the plains, and settled near San Jose, Cal., 
 where he died in 1897, at the age of eighty-six 
 years. 
 
 The mother of Judge Lovell was formerly 
 Ann Laurette Campbell, and was born in Muh- 
 lenberg county, Ky. The ancestry of the Camp- 
 bell family is Scotch, and the great-great-grand- 
 father, Alexander, was born in Scotland, and 
 upon emigrating to America settled in what is 
 now Kentucky, where he engaged in farming. 
 The great-grandfather was born on his father's 
 farm, and was also a farmer, as was the next 
 in succession, William C, the paternal grand- 
 father. William C. Campbell served with dis- 
 tinction in the war of 181 2, as an officer in the 
 Kentucky Line. The Campbells were all mem- 
 bers of the Methodist Church, and were people 
 of high moral and mtellectual character. Mrs. 
 Lovell was a niece of Col. Hugh McNary, who 
 formerly lived in Columbia, S. C. In 1824, when 
 Lafayette last visited the United States, Colonel 
 McNary, as colonel of the South Carolina 
 troops, escorted him from the line of North Car- 
 olina to Columbia, S. C, and, after the celebra- 
 tion, across the Georgia line. .\t that time 
 Mrs. Lovell was on a visit to Georgia, and was 
 one of the party of fifty little girls that walked 
 licfore the gener.il, sti owing flowers in his path-
 
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 way. Mrs. Lovell died in California in iSgo. 
 Slie was the mother of ten children, six sons 
 and four daughters, of whom three sons and 
 three daughters are now living. Judge Lovell 
 being the oldest in the family. 
 
 1'he first event of importance in the life of W'il- 
 liani M. Lovell was when he went, in 1850, to 
 Saline county. Mo., where, with his parents and 
 seven of the children, he assisted in the prep- 
 arations for crossmg the plains to California. 
 At the end of eighteen months was enacted a 
 scene so familiar in the early days, and which 
 from the distant present is viewed with so much 
 of the romantic enviroinnent. In the large train 
 that wound its way through the sparsely settled 
 country were many ox-teams and wagons, and 
 thecaravanwas enlarged by the presence of cattle 
 which were driven the whole distance. After five 
 months and fifteen days they arrived in San 
 Jose, Cal., on October i, 1852, and during the 
 following years William assisted his father in 
 the improvement of his farm of several hundred 
 acres in the Santa Clara valley. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Lovell started out on a prospect- 
 ing tour up. the Frazier river to British Colum- 
 bia, and upon his return, in the fall of the same 
 year, entered the University of the Pacific, at 
 Santa Clara, from which he was graduated in the 
 class of 1862, with the degree of Bachelor of 
 Science. He then began the study of law with 
 Judge Archer, at San Jose, and was admitted to 
 the bar of California in 1863. Subsequently for 
 eighteen years he engaged in the practice of 
 his profession with. Judge Archer, at San Jose, 
 and also served for three terms as district attor- 
 ney of Santa Clara county, Cal. In 1878 Mr. 
 Lovell became interested in mining in Yavapai 
 county, Ariz., and in 1882 located in Tucson, 
 where he engaged in the general practice of 
 law, and also continued his mining enterprises. 
 For two terms he served as district attorney of 
 Pima county, and had previously served as dep- 
 uty district attorney for the same length of time. 
 In 1892 he was elected on the Democratic ticket 
 to the seventeenth council of the legislature, and 
 during the time of service introduced measures 
 of importance to the territory. 
 
 .\t San Jose. Cal., Judge Lovell was united 
 in marriage with Mildred L. Welch, who was 
 horn in Holt conntv. Mo. Of this union there 
 
 are four children, viz: Gussie, who is now the 
 wife of Gen. L. H. Manning, of Tucson; Lau- 
 retta, Mrs. W. E. Francis, of Tucson, who is an 
 artist of prominence in the territory, and who, 
 during the World's Fair at Chicago, was hon- 
 ored by being appointed lady commissioner; 
 Lawrence Archer, who is superintendent of the 
 L. H. Manning Company, of Los Angeles, Cal.; 
 and Ira Welch, who is a graduate of the Tucson 
 high school. Mr. Lovell is variously interested 
 in the afifairs of his adopted city, and is one of 
 the most enterprising and enthusiastic advocates 
 of thebenefits to be derived from association with 
 this wonderful territory of prominence. He is 
 a member of the Territorial Bar Association and 
 is recognized as among the stanch Democrats 
 of .\rizona. 
 
 GEN. HERBERT F. ROBINSON. 
 
 .Much of the time for the past eleven years 
 Gen. H. F. Robinson, of Phoenix, has taken a 
 prominent part in the Arizona National Guard, 
 and with just pride in this grand body of mili- 
 tary men, often has participated in reviews and 
 maneuvers. In March, 1890, this patriotic 
 descendant oi a worthy hero of the Revolution- 
 ary war enlisted as a private in Company B, 
 First Arizona Infantry, and .\pril 27, 1891. was 
 made second lieutenant of that company. A 
 year later, April 15, 1892, he was appointed to 
 serve on the staff of Governor Irwin, as in- 
 spector of small-arms practice, his rank being 
 that of captain. However, by an amendment 
 to the code in 1893, the rank was changed to that 
 of a major. After five years of service in that 
 capacity at his own request, in August, 1897, he 
 was placed upon the retired list. August 5, 
 1898, he was commissioned by Governor Mur- 
 phy as adjutant-general, with the rank of 
 brigadier-general, and for the past two years he 
 has maintained an office for the transaction of 
 his military affairs, at his own expense. 
 
 The great-grandfather of this popular young 
 officer was Isiaah Robinson, who enlisted in a 
 Connecticut regiment and served in the war for 
 independence. He was of English descent, a 
 native of the Nutmeg state, and a pioneer farmer 
 of Vermont. In that state occurred the birth of 
 his son. Dr. Daniel Robinson, grandfather of
 
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 tlie general. He was a student of that celebrated 
 pioneer physician, Dr. Benjamin Rush, and after 
 practicing his profession in Bennington, \"t., for 
 some years, removed to Wisconsin. This event 
 took place in 1846, when the state was but lit- 
 tle improved, but long prior to his death he was 
 in the possession of a good practice in Manito- 
 woc county, Wis. 
 
 The parents of our subject are Henry M. and 
 Anna A. (Fulwiler) Robinson, natives of New 
 York and Pennsylvania, respectively. The 
 father, whose birthplace was in the town of 
 Me.xico, resided in Wisconsin from 1846 until 
 after the close of the Civil war and now lives in 
 Indianapolis, Ind. He has been a coninicrcial 
 traveler most of his mature life, and now is re- 
 tired from business. During the Civil war he 
 served in the First United States Mechanics 
 Fusileers until the regiment was nuistered out. 
 His wife, who was a native of Shippensburg, Pa., 
 died in the Centennial year, in Illinois. Her 
 family is a very old one in the Keystone state, 
 as it was founded there in 1740 by a German, 
 John Fulwiler. His son Abraham, and grand- 
 son John Fulwiler, father of Mrs. Robinson, 
 were born in Pennsylvania, the latter in Perry 
 county. He was an iron foundryman and after 
 removing to Lexington, 111., as he did in his 
 prime, he was a merchant, until his death. Of 
 the three surviving children of Henry M. and 
 Anna A. Robinson, W. H. is manager of the 
 Phoenix Trust Company and Mrs. J. C. Sartelle 
 lives in Chicago, 111. 
 
 Gen. H. F. Robinson was born June 7, 1865, 
 in Lexington, McLean county. 111., and was 
 reared in that state and in Wisconsin. Having 
 completed his studies in the Milwaukee high 
 school, at the age of fourteen he became a book- 
 keeper, and later turned his attention to the 
 manufacturing of maps. In 1895 he joined the 
 surveying corps of the St. Paul Railroad, and 
 was employed in western Iowa and northern 
 Wisconsin until 1887. Since the year mentioned 
 he has resided in Phoenix, for some time licini; 
 employed by companies engaged in the laying 
 out of canals fMi the northern side of the Salt 
 river. After being an assistant for a period, he 
 became chief civil engineer of the work, and is 
 still holding that position. All of the canals in 
 which he was interested have been consolidated 
 
 under the management of the Arizona Water 
 Company. For eighteen months he superin- 
 tended the construction of the city water-works 
 of Phoenix, and has executed many other con- 
 tracts along the line of civil engineering. 
 
 Politically General Robinson is a stanch Re- 
 publican. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Sons of \'eterans, the Society of the War of 
 1812 of Ohio, and the Sons of the American 
 Revolution. In fact, he organized the local so- 
 ciety of the last-named order, and was its presi- 
 dent for three terms, or until he resigned. That 
 he stands high in his profession is indicated by 
 his having been called to the secretaryship of 
 the Arizona Society of Civil Engineers, which 
 office he now holds. He built a pleasant modern 
 residence at No. 522 North First avenue, and 
 the lady who presides over its hospitalities pos- 
 sesses an excellent education and is as popular 
 in society as is her husband. Prior to their 
 marriage, which took place in this city, she bore 
 the name of Lida Parce. She was born in 
 Michigan, and finished her literary education at 
 .Klbion College. 
 
 WALTER J. N. McCURDY. 
 
 The flourishing town of Nogales, with its pos- 
 sibilities of growth, and varied commercial and 
 other interests, would seem to hold special in- 
 ducements for young professional men who look 
 forward to the future with enthusiastic expecta- 
 tions. As a member of the legal profession, Mr. 
 McCurdy has so far found his surroundings of 
 a particularly pleasing and remunerative nature, 
 and his special aptitude for, and sound under- 
 standing of, the law have won for him a large 
 patronage and a host of friends. In January, 
 1901, he formed a law partnership with William 
 J. Ekey, under the firm title of McCurdy & 
 Ekey. 
 
 Until seven years of age Mr. McCurdy lived at 
 Osceola, Mich., where he was born January 8, 
 1875. His parents. James and Helen (Prescott) 
 McCurdy, took their young son to the far west, 
 where, in Sacramento, Cal., he received a sul)- 
 stantial home training, and an excellent educa- 
 tion in the public and other schools. Follow- 
 ing a long and earnestly cherished inclination, he 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 exander, Miller & Gardner, and was admitted to 
 practice at San Francisco, Cal., in 1897. For a 
 year he practiced law in that city, and then came 
 to Nogales, opened an office, and started in a 
 general law practice. In addition to the outside 
 work which commands his attention, he is the 
 attorney for P. Sandoval & Co., bankers. 
 
 In politics a Republican, Mr. McCurdy is ac- 
 tively interested in local matters, and was secre- 
 tary for the Republican county central commit- 
 tee for one year. He is a member of the Mc- 
 Kinley and Roosevelt League, and is secretary 
 of the same. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge 
 No. 95, at San Francisco. Like all who live in 
 the mining districts of Arizona, he is interested 
 in the prolific outpouring of valuable ore, and 
 has prospected to a considerable extent. He 
 has the pluck and determination to overcome 
 any reasonable obstacle that may come his way, 
 and the pleasing personal traits of character 
 which so greatly aid in the accomplishment of 
 all purposes. 
 
 JUDGE EBENEZER WILLIAMS. 
 
 A criminal lawyer of recognized erudition and 
 profound legal research. Judge Ebenezer Will- 
 iams, a member of the bench and bar of Nogales, 
 has a reputation extending beyond the confines 
 of his resourceful little town, and may be said to 
 belong to the territory in general as well as to 
 the bi-national city. 
 
 A native of Pittsburg, Pa., Judge Williams 
 was born October 3, 1830, and is a son of Eben- 
 ezer and Margaret (Jones) Williams. His youth 
 was fortunately surrounded with excellent edu- 
 cational advantages, and culminated with the 
 training received at Allegheny College. While 
 still a youth he had decided upon the profession 
 which should engage his mature years, and as a 
 preliminary entered the office of George P. 
 Hamilton, attorney, and in due time was ad- 
 mitted to practice in the supreme court of Penn- 
 sylvania, and in the United States court. For a 
 time he practiced in his native city, and in i860 
 went to the present site of Minneapolis, Minn., 
 which was then but a sorry prediction of its pres- 
 ent prominence among the cities of the country. 
 With the breaking out of the war he returned to 
 
 Pennsylvania, and enlisted in the One Hundred 
 and First Volunteer Infantry as first lieutenant, 
 under command of the old war governor of 
 Pennsylvania, Andrew Curtin. After the battles 
 of Fair Oaks and Seven Pines he was breveted 
 major, and as a member of the army of the Po- 
 tomac, particii>ated in all of the important bat- 
 tles, as aid to General Wessels. 
 
 With the restoration of peace Mr. Williams 
 returned to Pittsburg, and continued the prac- 
 tice of law until 1880. at which time he removed 
 to the far west and practiced for two years in 
 San Diego, Cal. His first association with the 
 territory of Arizona began in 1884, when he 
 settled in Mohave county, and practiced law in 
 Mineral Park. His ability received early recog- 
 nition, for he was soon elected district attorney 
 for Mohave county, and held the position for 
 two years. After a subsequent short residence 
 in San Diego, he came to Nogales, in 1891, and 
 opened a law office. His various duties included 
 that of city attorney, and attorney for the 
 Nogales Building & Loan Association. In the 
 fall of 1897 he was elected superintendent of the 
 public schools of Pima county, but relinquished 
 his position when the separation of Pima and 
 Santa Cruz counties occurred in March of 1898, 
 preferring to remain in his own county. At the 
 time Governor Murphy appointed him probate 
 judge and first superintendent of schools for the 
 new county of Santa Cruz. 
 
 Judge Williams is one of the most substantial 
 of the citizens of Nogales, who have demon- 
 strated an abiding faith in its ultimate rank 
 among the largest and most enterprising cities 
 of the territory. His career is a matter of pride 
 to all who are associated with him in whatsoever 
 capacity, and his numerous claims for recogni- 
 tion are based upon the possession of those 
 attributes which insure lasting good to the com- 
 munity of which he is a member. He has a per- 
 fect command of the Spanish language, and is 
 one of the most delightful as well as forceful ex- 
 temporaneous speakers in the territory. The 
 readiness with which he can comply with a re- 
 quest for a speech, upon a multitude of subjects, 
 has aroused the wonder and admiration of the 
 public men with whom he is associated in dif- 
 ferent parts of the territory. An instance is cited 
 when he was called upon to reply to the word
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Rebekah, at the reception of the Grand Lodge in 
 Tucson of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, at which time he went upon the platform 
 without any previous preparation, and delivered 
 an eulogy that was afterwards widely printed, and 
 mentioned with many expressions of apprecia- 
 tion and wonder. Judge Williams has at his 
 command an extensive vocabulary, a ready and 
 fine wit, and an elegance of expression, which is 
 convincing, pleasing, and altogether acceptable. 
 Fraternally Judge Williams is associated with 
 Masonic Lodge No. 240, at Sonora, Mexico, 
 also is a member of the Odd Fellows, and noble 
 grand of Lodge No. 9, at Nogales ; past grand 
 secretary of the Territorial Grand Lodge, and 
 past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias in 
 Nogales. Politically he has always been a stanch 
 Republican. While a resident of Pittsburg he mar- 
 ried Miss Jane Gallaher, of that city. They have 
 had three children, viz., Ross, deceased ; Bertha, 
 deceased, and Brady, at home. Judge and Mrs. 
 Williams are attendants of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal church. 
 
 COL. CHARLES S. CLARK. 
 
 The many and ofttimes complicated legal af- 
 fairs of Tombstone have a capable and erudite 
 adjuster in Charles S. CJark, who has resided 
 within the boundaries of this interesting town 
 since 1879. To no one are the early successes 
 which made the founding of the city possible, 
 and the later vicissitudes which robbed it of its 
 prestige among the great mining centers of the 
 country, more familiar than to Mr. Clark. Nor 
 have any clung more persistently and faithfully 
 to their belief in a city of substantial growth, 
 which should replace the magic building of the 
 rapid seekers after wealth. At first a speculative 
 and experimental miner, Mr. Clark grew in 
 rapid favor in the midst of his new surroundings, 
 and in 1884 was appointed postmaster of the 
 town of his adoption. After five years he turned 
 his attention almost entirely to the practice of 
 his profession, and has been amply rewarded for 
 his conscientious and painstaking work by the 
 ]>atronage and appreciation of his fellow citizens. 
 
 The greater part of his life Mr. Clark has spent 
 in rugged and unconventional parts of the world, 
 and many interesting adventures have been 
 added to the list of his remembrances. Like 
 
 several of his townsmen, he came originally from 
 New York state, where he was born at Oswego 
 in 1833. His parents, Eli and Christina (Van 
 C)linda) Clark, were also born in New York, 
 where they spent the greater part of their lives. 
 Fortunate in educational advantages, their son 
 received his training at Falley Seminary, Ful- 
 ton, N. Y., from which he was graduated in 1849, 
 subsequently entering Union College, in the 
 regular course. The adventure which has been 
 of frequent occurrence in later years began in 
 1852, at which time he started on an expedition 
 to Central America, with Colonel Blanco, and 
 remained there in the midst of many exciting 
 details until the capture and execution of Colo- 
 nel Walker in 1856. While on the Pacific coast 
 he made many trips to Panama, New Orleans, 
 and other points in filibustering expeditions and 
 had many hairbreadth escapes. 
 
 In 1853 Mr. Clark undertook a trip to the 
 northwest Hudson bay and Yukon region, and 
 lived in the frozen arctic north for thirteen 
 months. Upon returning, he studied law with 
 an uncle, Chauncy Clark, at Sodus, N. Y., but 
 went to Wyandotte, Kans., in 1857, remaining 
 there a few months. While in Kansas he at- 
 tained to political prominence, and was elected 
 to the territorial legislature from Allen county. 
 In April of 1861 he was delegated by the citi- 
 zens of Allen county to raise a regiment of cav- 
 alry of the First Kansas Volunteers, known as 
 Clark's Battalion, of which he was put in com- 
 mand, and during a part of the service was with 
 Canby's forces in New Mexico. He later served 
 on the court-martial at Leavenworth for eight 
 months, and for six months was under Gen. 
 Tom Ewing in Misso'uri. Upon being ordered 
 south he participated in the capture of Little 
 Rock, Ark., by General Steele, and at the time 
 commanded a brigade under General Davidson. 
 He later joined the expedition to Mexico, and 
 as a member of the Red River expedition met 
 General Price at Panola. He also commanded 
 a regiment of cavalry at Devall Blufif, Ark. 
 
 After his discharge from the service, in March 
 of 1865, Colonel Clark located in Franklin 
 county, Kans., and engaged in the interesting 
 occupation of milling flour, and also ran a saw- 
 mill. He was also general manager of the rail- 
 road from Paola to Leroy, in Kansas, and
 
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 through this transaction became the loser of 
 $50,000. Somewhat disillusionized as to fur- 
 ther residence in Kansas, he located at Long- 
 view, Tex., on the Texas Pacific and the Inter- 
 national and Great Northern Railroads, and was 
 variously interested in the milling and lumber 
 business and in the practice of law. For a time 
 he was attorney for the Great Northern Railroad. 
 In 1878 he sought the possibilities of Arizona, 
 and in 1879 located in Tombstone. In addition to 
 the responsibilities incurred through his legal 
 practice, he has ever been vitally interested in the 
 undertakings of the Democratic party, and in 
 1 891 was elected to the legislature and was 
 speaker of the house. 
 
 Mrs. Clark was formerly Henrietta Bertrand, 
 daughter of Joseph H. Bertrand, of Kansas. She 
 is the mother of two daughters: Lorrie, the wife 
 of T. W. Brown, of Tombstone, and Nellie, mar- 
 ried to Thomas Edson Tarbell, also of Tomb- 
 stone. Colonel Clark is fraternally associated 
 with the Masons in Kansas, and with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen at 
 Tombstone. In 1900 he was elected to the 
 Grand Lodge and has been financier of the 
 local lodge for thirteen years. He was for 
 some time commander of the Burnside 
 Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. He 
 is one of the substantial and reliable men of 
 Tombstone, and stands in the front ranks among 
 the members of his profession. 
 
 JUDGE JAMES M. SANFORD. 
 The settings which necessarily go hand in 
 hand with the narrative of the life of Judge 
 James Monroe Sanford are prolific of historical 
 and romantic suggestions, which range in their 
 extent and variety from the very early settlers 
 along the New England coast, through the once 
 peaceful shades of Arcadia, immortalized by 
 Longfellow, into the realms of the horror-laden 
 days of witchcraft. More modern but yet more 
 interesting are the journeys of the present-day 
 Sanfords, their associations with the awakening 
 of the difTerent parts of America from the 
 primeval sleep, that had only been lightly dis- 
 turbed by the tread of the fleet-footed Indian 
 and the tramp of the buffalo herds. Of the dar- 
 ing men who penetrated the wilds of Arizona 
 in the beginning of the '60s, few remain to tell 
 
 the tale of their conflict with the dangerous and 
 law-ignoring element, and their subsequent con- 
 quering of the same. 
 
 Arriving here in the winter of 1861-62 from 
 Sacramento, Cal., Judge Sanford is the oldest 
 resident of Arizona north of the Gila river and 
 east of Fort Mohave. The family is of English 
 descent and was first represented in America by 
 three brothers, one of whom settled in South 
 •Stonington, Conn., another in Virginia, and the 
 third settled in Illinois while it was yet a ter- 
 ritory. The original name was Sandford, but 
 as the brothers sailed for this country the purser 
 of the vessel inadvertently changed the name 
 to Sanford, and as such it has since continued. 
 Judge Sanford is descended from the Stoning- 
 ton branch, the members of which were prom- 
 inent in the early history of Connecticut, and 
 from which also comes William Sanford of Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 ( )n the maternal side there is the old Puritan 
 stock of Salem. Mass., with their strange and 
 unyielding austerity, and their cherished belief 
 in witchcraft. In fact, up to the time of Judge 
 Sanford"s mother, who bore the maiden name 
 of Sarah Wooliver and was a daughter of Caleb 
 Wooliver, there still remained a lurking belief 
 in the horrible prevalence of human witches. 
 The Wooliver family originated in Germany. 
 Caleb Wooliver was born in the Dutch colony 
 of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was reared in the 
 Dutch colony of .'\lbany, N. Y., and enlisted in 
 the Revolutionary war. hut before the close of 
 hostilities was taken back to Halifax as a pris- 
 oner of war. Subsequently he settled in Nova 
 Scotia and married a Miss Hunt. Judge San- 
 ford's father, James Sanford, was born in New 
 Brunswick, and spent his life in the regions 
 around the bay of Fundy. 
 
 James Monroe Sanford was born in Nova 
 Scotia November 21, 1821, and was educated 
 in the town of Douglas. From a long line of 
 ancestors similarly gifted he inherited a genius 
 for the mechanical side of things, which was 
 earlv develoju^d and turned to practical account. 
 In 1844. at the age of twenty-three, he was 
 seriously handicapped by uncertain health, and, 
 having expended several hundred dollars on 
 doctors without any help, he was finally fortu- 
 nate in falling under the successful treatment
 
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 of Dr. Shutliff, of Brooklyn. In accordance 
 with the doctor's suggestion he traveled exten- 
 sively through Canada and the northeast states, 
 and was greatly benefited. In 1847 he went to 
 St. Louis, and was employed on a contract for 
 the construction of the ofTicers' quarters at Fort 
 Jefiferson. In 1849, with a large train of emi- 
 grants bound for California and the gold fields, 
 he started overland from Cooper's Ferry. Upon 
 locating in Sacramento he engaged in building 
 and contracting, and in placer mining at 
 Weaverville. He was identified with the early 
 history of Sacramento and got out some of the 
 timber for the first buildings in the town. In 
 1850 he went to Yuba and located some claims 
 at Long Bar, from which he took out $1,200 in 
 a few weeks. After six months of successful 
 work there, he went to Doneville, on the Yuba, 
 at Little Rich Bar, where he located claims that 
 enabled him to leave the district with a fair 
 supply of gold dust, of which he had enough to 
 make him quite weary before he reached his 
 journey's end. He made the trip on horseback. 
 A Mr. Zumwalt, who made the same trip, had 
 his mule loaded exclusively with gold dust. In 
 search of a desirable location Judge Sanford 
 purchased teams at Marysville, and traveled 
 over the Sacramento bottom, settHng in 1851 
 upon a farm in what is called the Sutter Pocket. 
 Three hundred and sixty acres were entered, on 
 which he began to farm and raise fruit, remain- 
 ing there for eleven years, when the property 
 was disposed of for $5,500. 
 
 A change of location was effected in 1861, 
 when, during the latter part of the winter, Judge 
 Sanford settled in Needles, on the Arizona side, 
 and, in partnership with John Brown, of San 
 Bernardino, built the first ferry-boat on the 
 Colorado river, at Fort Mohave. A subsequent 
 undertaking was the management of a farm on 
 Cottonwood Island in the Colorado river, but 
 he objected to the Pinte Indians gathering his 
 crops, and removed down on the Verde in 
 Yavapai county. There he helped to establish 
 a settlement near the famous Camp Verde mili- 
 tary post. He had zealously petitioned General 
 Wright, of San Francisco, to send troops for the 
 protection of tlie settlers in the Colorado val- 
 ley, but they did not arrive until he had located 
 on the \'erde. In this district he again took up 
 
 farming, but again the Indians molested to such 
 an extent that the settlement was broken up. 
 After the Indians had ruined his prospects there, 
 he settled in Prescott, then but little more than 
 a town site. Here he started the first saw mill 
 and turned out lumber for the erection of the 
 buildings. Incidentally he had a little ranch on 
 the Granite creek and engaged in horticulture, 
 but the frost proved a formidable rival, and 
 destroyed the fruit. For twenty-four years he 
 remained in Prescott, and during that time han- 
 dled immense quantities of lumber, and for ten 
 years had the monopoly of making chimneys, 
 his mechanical skill contriving many excellent 
 devices for improving draft and disposing of 
 smoke. In Prescott also he attained consider- 
 able popularity as a nurse, for which he was 
 well prepared by reason of his extended expe- 
 rience in nursing the soldiers returned from the 
 Mexican war. Many times in the west he was 
 called upon to officiate in severe cases, especially 
 where amputation of a limb was necessary and 
 good treatment essential. In 1881, when the 
 Santa Fe Railroad was being constructed from 
 Albuquerque to Needles, he was engaged at dif- 
 ferent camps along the route in furnishing lum- 
 ber for the camps. 
 
 In the fall of 1862 Judge Sanford left Fort 
 Mohave in company with twelve others on a 
 mining expedition, the Indians having told them 
 of a rich find. On the fourth day out the Indians 
 began to surround them and act in a menacing 
 manner, and Judge Sanford, with one other 
 comrade, thought discretion the better part of 
 valor, and hastily beat a retreat. Of the ten who 
 continued to chase the gold phantom of the 
 Indians' brains only" two returned, the others 
 having fallen victims of the savages. In 1884 
 Judge Sanford located a ranch near Williams 
 and invested $2,000 in cattle, also bought a good 
 brood of mares, and proceeded to raise cattle 
 and horses. For eight years he was success- 
 fully engaged in this enterprise, and then, con- 
 cluding that advancing years were a hindrance 
 to life in the saddle, he sold out his business. 
 In 1882 he was appointed justice of the peace 
 and was afterward re-elected or appointed six 
 different times, serving in all fourteen years. 
 This position has afforded an excellent oppor- 
 tunity for ridding the locality of undesirable
 
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 persc'iiages, especially horse thieves and marau- 
 ders. Under the regime of Judge Sanford they 
 liave been induced either to give up their unlaw- 
 ful methods of doing business, or transfer them 
 to other and less (|uict districts. 
 
 Judge Sanford owes his election to the inde- 
 pendence of the people, for he claims allegiance 
 to no particular party. He is a socialist in the 
 broadest sense of the word, and believes in the 
 right of every individual to hold all that he earns 
 in this world. \\ liile pursuing a busy and tire- 
 less career he has accunudatcd a large i^rojierty, 
 owning in all twenty-eight and one-half lots in 
 Williams, besides inan\- buildings, and formerly 
 had ninety-three lots and many buildings in 
 Prescott. Strange to say, this earnest pioneer 
 has had no sharer of his fortunes, for he has 
 never married. 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM G. BLAKELY. 
 
 The active life of this highly respected citizen 
 of Kingman has been mainly passed in the west. 
 It may be truly said that wherever he has dwelt 
 the community has been made better, for he 
 has ever sought to benefit his fellowmen, and has 
 not been actuated alone by a desire for material 
 prosperity. In the record of his long and useful 
 life there are many lessons to be gleaned and an 
 example is presented well worthy of the emula- 
 tion of the young. 
 
 Born in Delaware county, N. Y., in 1829, Wil- 
 liam G. Blakely was reared on a farm and at- 
 tended the district school at Kortright, the vil- 
 lage academy at Delhi, and later was graduated 
 from the State Normal "School at Delhi, after 
 which he taught school two years. With the 
 high principles of honor inherited from his 
 Scotch ancestors he desired to assist in the edu- 
 cation of his brothers and sisters and to aid his 
 parents financially, and was therefore in a mood 
 to seek the gold fields of California when the 
 excitement of 1849 prevailed throughout the 
 country. His commendable ambitions were 
 happily realized, as, after passing four years in 
 California, he returned home and paid oflf the 
 mortgage on his father's fami. He then began 
 the study of law in the office of Amasa and 
 Amasa J. Parker at Delhi. On completing his 
 studies he returned to the Pacific slope, where 
 
 he followed his profession and also devoted 
 nntch attention to mining. 
 
 While residing near Sonora, Cal., in 1858, he 
 discovered the luireka mine, where he built and 
 for two years operated a quartz mill. In 1861 he 
 removed to Carson City, Ncv.. and having previ- 
 ously pursued a thorough theological course and 
 been licensed as a local preacher by the Cali- 
 fornia Methodist E])iscopal conference he pro- 
 ceeded to labor in the Nevada field, visiting all 
 parts of the territory and arousing great intere.st 
 and religious activity in many localities. In i86t 
 Governor Nye appointed him superintendent of 
 public instruction for Nevada, and during his 
 term he accomplished a great deal for the cause 
 of education, .\fter establishing his home in 
 .Austin, Nev., he erected one of the handsomest 
 Methodist Episcopal churches in the territory 
 and for a long time officiated as its pastor. Be- 
 sides his work as pastor he continued to mine 
 extensively and also built a large quartz mill in 
 Smoky valley for the purpose of treating ore 
 derived from the Mother Vein mine. In 1868 he 
 settled in Pioche, Nev., where he continued in 
 mining and ministerial work. 
 
 In 1872 he came to Arizona and until the 
 county seat was changed to Kingman lived at 
 Cerbat and Mineral Park, and there located and 
 developed a number of mines, also practiced law. 
 Elected judge of the county court, he held that 
 important office until it was abolished by act of 
 legislature. Then Governor Zulick appointed 
 him probate judge and ex-officio superintendent 
 of schools. In 1886 he was elected district at- 
 torney for Mohave county and soon afterward 
 was appointed United States commissioner, 
 which position he occupied about fourteen years. 
 ( )n the Republican ticket, in a .strongly Demo- 
 cratic county, he was twice elected district at- 
 torney, filling the office from November, 1886, 
 until 1901. His private practice is extensive and 
 representative, as he is the attorney for the 
 Santa Fe at this point, also legal adviser for the 
 White Hills Mining and Milling Company, and 
 resident agent and attorney for a large share 
 of the leading mining and business ciimpanies 
 and corporations in Mohave county. 
 
 .\s in the past. Judge Blakely is an important 
 factor in the advancement of the cause of Chris- 
 tianity in his community. At Kingman he built
 
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 the only Methodist Episcopal church that has 
 been erected in the county and most of the time 
 since he has occupied its pulpit. As a local 
 preacher in the Arizona Mission conference, and 
 a great worker in the Kingman circuit, in which 
 are situated Chloride and numerous thriving 
 mining towns, lie certainly is a power for good. 
 He is a member of the Good Templars and a 
 stanch temperance worker. Fraternally he is 
 connected with the Odd Fellows, Masons and 
 Knights of Pythias, besides various social organ- 
 izations. 
 
 At Kortright, N. Y., September 5, 1853, Judge 
 Blakely married Susan Elizabeth Wilson, 
 youngest daughter of Rev. Samuel Wilson of 
 that town, and who, during his entire active life, 
 was a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian 
 Church. Mrs. Blakely's death occurred in King- 
 man August 20, 1899. Of her marriage were 
 born four sons and two daughters, of whom 
 three sons survive, all being interested with their 
 father in mining. They are named as follows : 
 Ross H., clerk of the district court for the 
 fourth judicial district ; Lew, editor of the Ari- 
 zona Arrow, published at Kingman, and John 
 E., who is engaged in mining in the Aubrey and 
 Owens districts. The sons are regarded as 
 among the representative younger men of Mo- 
 have county. 
 
 HON. HUGH H. PRICE. 
 
 In past ages the history of a country was a 
 record of wars and conquests ; today it is the 
 record of commercial activity, and those whose 
 names are foremost in its annals are the leaders 
 in business circles. A man of keen perception, 
 of great sagacity and unbounded enterprise, Mr. 
 Price has become one of the most prominent and 
 influential men in the different communities 
 where he has resided. He now makes his home 
 in Phoenix, and has become prominently identi- 
 fied with her business interests. 
 
 He was born at Black River Falls, Wis., 
 December 2, 1859, and is a son of Hon. William 
 T. Price, a native of Hollidaysburg, Pa., to 
 which state his family removed from Virginia. 
 When a lad of fourteen the father went to Mount 
 Pleasant, Iowa, where he spent two years, and 
 then to Black River Falls, Wis., where he was 
 
 extensively engaged in the manufacture of 
 lumber. He was also interested in mills at 
 Davenport and other places on the Mississippi, 
 and was very successful in his business affairs. 
 His worth and ability were widely recognized 
 and he was honored with several very important 
 official positions. He was a member of the 
 lower house of the Wisconsin legislature in 1851 
 and 1882, and the state senate in 1857, 1870, 
 1871, 1878. 1879, 1880 and 1881. In 1883 he was 
 elected to congress, and was a member of the 
 fortv-eighth and forty-ninth session. He was 
 also elected for the fiftieth, but died in 1886, 
 before the close of the forty-ninth congress. 
 Politically he was a very strong Republican, and 
 several times was a state elector. In early life 
 he married Julia Campbell, a native of Ontario, 
 Canada. She now resides at Black River Falls, 
 Wis. By this union were born four children. 
 Those living are: Hugh H., and Margaret. 
 Those deceased are May and William. 
 
 Hugh H. Price was graduated from the Black 
 River Falls high school in 1876, and the follow- 
 ing year entered the University of Wisconsin 
 but left that institution in 1880, during his senior 
 year, to enter upon his business career. For 
 some years he was connected with his father in 
 the manufacture of lumber, and like that gentle- 
 man took quite an active and prominent part in 
 public affairs. He was a member of the Black 
 River Falls city council and supervisor of Jack- 
 son coimty, Wis. At a special election held in 
 1886 he was elected a member of congress to 
 fill the vacancy caused by his father's death, re- 
 ceiving the largest majority of any candidate on 
 the ticket. His district comprised fifteen 
 counties. He served for a short time during the 
 forty-ninth congress, but refused a renomina- 
 tion. He was a member of the Wisconsin state 
 senate during the sessions of 1889 and 1891, and 
 helped pass the Bennett law and re-elect John 
 C. Spooner as United States senator. He was 
 vice-president of the Wisconsin World's Fair 
 board in 1893, and spent most of the summer in 
 Chicago. As president of the Price Manu- 
 facturing Company he continued to engage in 
 business at Black River Falls until coming west. 
 He also controlled the water power at that 
 place, and the first electric light plant estab- 
 lished there, and had flouring mills at Hickson
 
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 and Taylor, Wis. In 1887 he established the 
 First National Hank at lUack River I'alls, and 
 was its president. 
 
 In i8y4 Air. I'rice removed to (iraham, N. M., 
 and organized the Helen .Mining Company, 
 which opened mines and built a mill seventy-five 
 miles northwest of Silver City in the Cooney 
 mining district of Socorro count} , .\'. M., when 
 there was not a building there, .\fter putting 
 the business on a good paying basis, Mr. Price 
 resigned in the spring of 1899, and came to 
 Phoenix, though he still owns an interest in the 
 Helen Mining Company and is a director of the 
 same. C)n coming to Phoenix he assisted in 
 incorporatmg tlie Home Savings Hank & Trust 
 Company, with a capital of $100,000, and has 
 since served as its cashier and treasurer, while 
 Gen. C. F. .Ainsworth is president and S. M. 
 McCowan vice-president. Otrr subject is also 
 receiver for the Highland Canal Company. 
 
 At Chester, Pa., Mr. Price was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Lydie B. Graham, a native of 
 that place and a daughter of John T. Graham, 
 who was also born m the Keystone state. Her 
 fatlier w as one of the pioneers of Pike's Peak and 
 is now a resident of Denver. He has been 
 prominently connected with the mining inter- 
 ests of both Colorado and New Mexico, and is 
 now treasurer of the Helen Mining Company. 
 Mrs. Price was educated at Mountain Seminary 
 near Tyrone in Pennsylvania, and the Woman's 
 College at Baltimore, Md. She is now a prom- 
 inent member of the Colonial Dames and the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, and is 
 serving as regent for Arizona in the latter order. 
 She is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. Our subject and his wife have one 
 child, Thompson. 
 
 Mr. Price was made a Mason in Colby, Wis., 
 and now holds membership in Phoenix Lodge 
 -\o. 3, F. & A. M.; Black River Falls Chapter, 
 R. .A. M.; Chippewa Commandery No. 8, K. T.. 
 at Eau Claire, Wis.; Milwaukee Consistory and 
 Tripolite Temple, X. M. S., at Milwaukee. He 
 is a member of the Board of Trade of Phoenix 
 and belongs to Maricopa Cluli. In his political 
 views he is a stanch Republican. He is genial, 
 courteous, enterprising and progressive, of com- 
 mendable public spirit and the highest integrity, 
 and is a man of whom any community might be 
 
 justly proud. .Although his residence in Phoenix 
 is of short duration, he has already become 
 thoroughly identified with its interests, and is 
 held in high esteem by all who know him. 
 
 HON. JOHN T. ALSAP. 
 His name forever linked with Arizona, as one 
 of its founders, legislators and pioneer judges, 
 the late Hon. John T. Alsap holds an honored 
 place in the hearts of our people. Time, with 
 relentless hand, crumbles monuments erected to 
 the memory of the good and great, but on the 
 l)rinted page of enduring records the chronicles 
 of lives are preserved for future generations and 
 thus, in compiling the annals of Arizona the sub- 
 ject of this memoir deserves a prominent place. 
 A native of Frankfort, Ky., born in 1832, he 
 was a son of Rev. John and Keziah (Randall) 
 .Alsap, of England and Maine, respectively. The 
 father came to the United States in early man- 
 hood, and was an active worker in the United 
 Ilrethren denomination in Indiana, Ohio and 
 Iowa. His wife died in Indiana and he was sub- 
 sequently called to his reward from his home in 
 Iowa. 
 
 Having been graduated with the degrees of 
 Bachelor of Law and Doctor of Medicine in the 
 Xevv York College, John T. Alsap devoted his 
 attention to medical practice until 1854, when he 
 crossed the western plains and for ten years con- 
 tinued professional labors to some extent in 
 California, in conjunction with mining and pro- 
 specting, as physicians and surgeons were in 
 great demand in certain localities there at that 
 time. In 1864 he came to .Arizona, and com- 
 menced mining and prospecting in the vicinity 
 of Prescott. The Apache Indians being trouble- 
 some, the following winter he accompanied 
 King G. Woolsey and his command on their 
 expedition against the tribe, as his services as a 
 surgeon were desired. The first territorial 
 treasurer of Arizona, he served during the ad- 
 ministration of Gov. R. C. McCorinick, and in 
 1868 was elected to the legislature as a repre- 
 sentative of Yavapai county. In 1869 he and 
 iiis wife's brother, W. L. Osborne, settled in the 
 .Salt River valley, about a mile northeast of 
 Phoenix, and thenceforward he was intimately 
 associated with the development of this section.
 
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 Elected to the legislature in 1870, he aided in the 
 organization of Maricopa county, and the same 
 year was elected judge of the probate court. His 
 term in the general assembly expired in 1872, 
 but after serving as chief clerk in the territorial 
 council and as district attorney, he was again 
 honored by re-election to the legislature. In 
 1886 he received the nomination for the county 
 treasurership of Maricopa county, but was sum- 
 moned to his heavenly reward in September, 
 prior to the election, of whose issue no one was 
 in doubt, owing to his marked popularity and 
 efficiency in all public affairs. In the intervals 
 of his public duties he was actively engaged in 
 the practice of law and won an enviable reputa- 
 tion at the bar and on the bench. In the Odd 
 Fellows order, in the Knights of Pythias and 
 among the Masons, he was prominent, in the 
 last named being a past officer in the com- 
 mandery and its representative in the grand 
 lodge of the territory. In religious belief he was 
 a Methodist, while in political creed he adhered 
 to the Democratic platform. 
 
 While a resident of Prescott, Mr. Alsap mar- 
 ried Louisa A., daughter of John Preston 
 Osborne, a pioneer of that locality who dated 
 his residence in Prescott from July 6, 1864. For 
 several years he was an extensive raiser and 
 dealer in cattle, taking contracts from the gov- 
 ernment, and operating farms on the Verde and 
 the Lower Agua Fria until 1870, when he be- 
 came a permanent settler of the Salt River valley. 
 He it was who built the first hotel in Prescott, 
 the Osborne House, and after coming to the 
 vicinity of Phoenix he assisted in laying out the 
 city. His ranch was well adapted for general 
 farming and for live stock, and there he con- 
 tinued to dwell until his death, January 20, 1900, 
 when he was eighty-five years old. A native of 
 Tennessee, though reared in Virginia, he was 
 a merchant in Kentucky until 1850, when he 
 went to Adams county, Iowa, and in 1863 went 
 to Colorado, where he owned the site of the 
 present city of Colorado Springs until the 
 following vear, when, as formerly stated, he 
 became a resident of Arizona. His father. John 
 Osborne, also a native of Tennessee, was a 
 soldier in the war of 1812, and died in Kentucky. 
 The mother of Mrs. Louisa A. Alsap, like her- 
 self, born in the Blue Grass state, is still living, 
 
 her home being in Phoenix. She bore the 
 maiden name of Paulina E. Swetman, and her 
 father, Neri F. Swetman, was a prosperous 
 ])lanter in Kentucky. 
 
 Of the ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 ( )sborne six are yet living, namely: W. L., a 
 farmer of the Salt River valley; Mrs. J. T. 
 liarnuni of Phoenix; John W., who is interested 
 in mining operations and lives in this city; Neri 
 I'., ex-county recorder of Maricopa county, and 
 a citizen of Phoenix; Mrs. Paulina R. Cramer 
 and Mrs. Rose G. Copeland, also of this city. 
 
 In 1876 Mr. Alsap married' Miss Anna D. 
 Murray, who was born in Lexington, Tex., 
 where her father, William P. Murray, of North 
 Carolina, was an early settler. In December, 
 1870, he brought his family to Phoenix and 
 located upon a tract of unimproved land not far 
 distant, but died in the following year, ere he 
 had executed many of his ambitious plans. He 
 had been twice married, and of his first union 
 four children were born, only one of whom is 
 deceased, while of the eight children born to his 
 second marriage, five are yet living. The mother 
 of Mrs. Alsap was Margaret, daughter of Isaac 
 White, a native of Ireland, and for years an 
 .\labama planter, though his death occurred in 
 Mississippi. Her birthplace was the old planta- 
 tion in Alabama and her death took place in 
 Texas. Mrs. Alsap has lived in Phoenix or 
 locality for more than three decades, and is held 
 in high esteem. She received her education in 
 the schools of Texas and this county and has 
 long been identified with the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church South and the Order of the Eastern 
 Star. Five of the promising sons and daughters 
 horn to Mr. and Mrs. Alsap are yet living, 
 namely: Florence A. and Margaret B., graduates 
 of the Phoenix high school: John W.; Genevieve 
 M. and Guy. Alton P. died at the age of eleven 
 months. 
 
 HON. JERRY MILLAY. 
 
 Hon. Jerry Millay, who was judge advocate- 
 general of Arizona on the staff of Governor Ir- 
 win, with the rank of colonel, and occupied the 
 same position during the first administration of 
 Governor Murphy, has filled numerous public 
 positions with marked ability and to the entire
 
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 satisfaction of the people, with whom he is 
 justly popular. In the counsels of the Repub- 
 lican party he stands very high, as was unques- 
 tionably shown when, during his absence, he 
 was nominated for the territorial council. He 
 has been a leader in the .Maricopa count\ and 
 the territorial Republican central committees, 
 and to his strenuous efforts is due much of the 
 local success of his party. 
 
 A worthy representative of an old Alainc fam- 
 ily, our subject was born in the town of IJow- 
 doinham. Sagadahoc county, where his father 
 and grandfather also were born. His great- 
 grandfather Milla\ was a native of Ireland, and 
 about a century ago settled upon a farm in 
 Maine. The grandfather, Gen. Jeremiah Millay, 
 was in the war of 1812, serving with the rank of 
 brigadier-general. Besides carrying on a farm 
 in Maine, he was a ship-builder, having ship- 
 yards on the Kennebec river, and for some years 
 was engaged in the coasting trade. Capt. James 
 K., father of our subject, married Eimice Ridley, 
 daughter of George Ridley, and was interested 
 in the merchant marine traffic, owning ships ply- 
 ing between the West Indies and South Amer- 
 ican ports, and sometimes making trans-Atlantic 
 voyages. In later years he retired from the sea 
 and resided on his farm in Maine, which had 
 been his place of residence for fifty years. 
 There he died when approaching the ripe age of 
 four-score. His elder child, James H., still op- 
 erates the old homestead. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born half a 
 century ago, and was reared at his birthplace in 
 Maine. Completing his literary studies at Bow- 
 doin College, which he left in his sophomore 
 year, he then went to Minneapolis, where he 
 engaged in the hiinber business. Later, return- 
 ing home, he taught in the vicinity, in the mean- 
 time stufl\ing law under the guidance of Col. 
 J. W. Spaulding. Admitted to the bar in the 
 Centennial year, he established himself in prac- 
 tice in Bath, and at the end of four years located 
 in Richmond. There he was connected with an 
 ice business for two years. 
 
 Having learned considerable in regard to the 
 natural resources and future of .Arizona, he canu' 
 to Phoenix in 1882, when only one brick building 
 was standing. With characteristic energy, he em- 
 barked in the law, and has conducted a flourish- 
 
 ing practice here for many years. While C. A. 
 .\rthur was president, he served as assistant 
 Cnited States district attorney, and from Janu- 
 ary. 1895, to January, 1897, was the district at- 
 torney of Maricopa county. Numerous busi- 
 ness enterprises have been fostered by his means 
 and influence, and everything relating to the pub- 
 lic good is of deep interest to him. He is a mem- 
 l)er of the Stockmen's Association of the Pa- 
 cific Coast, and has served on its committee. 
 Appointed a delegate, he attended the Interna- 
 tional Irrigation Congress held at Los Angeles, 
 the first convention of the kind. He was chosen 
 to act as chairman of that body, ofificiating with 
 credit, and for two years was on the executive 
 committee. He belongs to the Maricopa Club 
 and to the Arizona Bar Association. 
 
 In the town of Bath, Me., occurred the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Millay and Miss Margarette E. 
 Hine, a native of Connecticut. Her mother was 
 a member of the Adams family, directly de- 
 scended from Samuel Adams, of colonial New 
 England fame. Mr. and Mrs. Millay occupy a 
 modern residence, located upon a desirable 
 piece of property adjoining the city. 
 
 JUDGE HEZEKIAH BROOKS. 
 
 This worthy poincer of Yavapai county, hon- 
 ored by his wide circle of acquaintances, prob- 
 ablv has resided here uninterruptedly longer 
 than anv other citizen of the county. Upon him 
 rests the honor of having been the first judge of 
 the probate court of this county, wliicii then 
 coni])risedYavapai, Coconino, .\pache, Navajo, 
 Maricopa and other counties, indeed, o\ct half 
 of the territory. L'nder the administrations of 
 several governors — seven years altogether — 
 fudge Brooks jiresided nver the affairs of the 
 l)robate court, leaving that important office just 
 a score of \ears ago, \\ith an unimpeachable 
 record. 
 
 Coming to llic neighborlinod of the present 
 city of rrescoll in ( )ctol)er. i8fi_^, the judge and 
 his i)artv cami>ed on the bank of Granite creek 
 .-nid there erected the first ca])in put up along 
 that stream, on the site of the then future Pres- 
 cott. By virtue of authority conferred upon him 
 bv an assemblage of citizens he was appointed 
 and served as one of three commissioners who
 
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 laid out and had charge of the sale of lots in 
 Prescott. The other commissioners were Van 
 C. Smith and Roljert W. Groom, the latter a 
 surveyor. During all of the intervening years 
 the judge's interest in this now thriving place 
 lias never wavered and he is certainly entitled, 
 for more than '_ine reason, to a place of honor 
 in its chronicles. 
 
 The ancestors of our subject in America have 
 been true pioneers in each generation. His pa- 
 ternal grandfather, James Brooks, was born in 
 Connecticut and served in the colonial war for 
 independence. He was one of Washington's 
 aides and seven times was captured by the Brit- 
 ish, but managed to effect his escape every time. 
 Both he and the judge's maternal grandfather, 
 Phineas Johnson, also of Connecticut, were early 
 settlers in ( )hio. ( )n the old homestead near 
 Berlin, Conn., the birth of Hezekiah Brooks, Sr., 
 occurred, and from the tmie of the family's re- 
 moval to the vicinity of Elyria, Ohio, until his 
 death, he was numbered with the agricultural 
 class of the communitw He served as a justice 
 of the peace and was held in high esteem. The 
 mother of the subject of this sketch bore the 
 maiden name of Hannah Johnson. She also 
 was born in the Nutmeg state, and spent most of 
 her life in Ohio, dying in Cleveland. Of her 
 thirteen children ten lived to maturity. 
 
 Judge Brooks was born September 7, 1825, 
 near Elyria, Ohio, and completed his education 
 in the high school of that place. He continued 
 to give his energy to farming until 1850, when 
 the gold excitement in California called him to 
 the west. Having made the long trip bv way of 
 the Isthmus of Panama and San Francisco he 
 became one of the miners on the South Fork 
 of the American river, later going to Coloma 
 and Greenwood vallew From 1851 to 1854 he 
 conducted a merchandising business at Coloma, 
 also being assistant jiostmaster of that place. 
 Then he had charge of a store at Georgetown, 
 Cal., and in 1854 went to Yreka, Cal.. where he 
 was in the employ of the local canal coni|)anv for 
 a period. Then he returned to merchandising 
 and was deputy and then postmaster of Yreka. 
 In 1861 he became a citizen of San h^ancisco, 
 where he engaged in contracting fi>r two or 
 more vears. 
 
 In Ihe fall of iSf).? Judge Brooks came to 
 
 Arizona overland from Los Angeles, and for 
 several years engaged in prospecting and 
 mining, also improving a ranch adjoining Pres- 
 cott and r.nising some cattle. In addition to 
 these enterprises he conducted stores for some 
 time and made investments in various industries, 
 aiding all local undertakings within his power, 
 and ever striving to advance the welfare of this, 
 his chosen community. In ]:)olitics he was first 
 a Whig and subsequent!) a Republican. In 
 "^'reka, Cal., he was initiated into the Masonic 
 order and is a charter member and the oldest 
 living menil)er of .Aztlan Lodge, No. I, F. & 
 A. M., of Prescott, also being past master of 
 the same. 
 
 The marriage of Judge Brooks and Mrs. Mary 
 C. (Smith) Leib took place in I'rescott. She 
 was a native of Lancaster, Pa., and her first 
 husband. Dr. Leib, was surgeon under Major 
 Willis of the first military detachment stationed 
 at F"ort Whipple. Mrs. Brooks came of an old 
 and prominent Moravian family in the Keystone 
 state. She died November t8, 1891. 
 
 HON. A. A. DUTTON. 
 
 The great lumber resources of Coconino 
 conntv, than which there is no more favorable 
 locality in the United States, has furnished an 
 outlet for the brains and ability of many who 
 have come from the east in search of homes, 
 competence, and ofttimes lost health. Mr. Dut- 
 ton belongs to the latter-named class, and it is 
 needless to sav that while pursuing the agree- 
 able occupation of lumbering in this ideal cli- 
 mate, he has found all and more than he looked 
 for, and is today one of the reliable and sub- 
 stantial citizens of Flagstafif. 
 
 When three years of age Mr. Dutton, who 
 was born in Waupun, Wis., in 1856, removed 
 with his parents to New York state, where he 
 was educated and grew to manhood at Sher- 
 man, Chautauqua county, .\fter graduating 
 from the high school at Sherman he engaged in 
 educational work for a time, and continued the 
 same occupation after removing to Harvard, 111. 
 In 1883, on account of failing health, he sought 
 an all-around change in Flagstaff, and entered 
 the employ of the .Vyer Lumber Company as a 
 l(ig scaler. .Step l)y step, as his health im-
 
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 ]M-oved, hf mastered every detail of the lumber 
 business, and now has charge of all the shipping 
 of the mills. This is an extremely responsible 
 position, and he discharges it with credit to him- 
 self and the hrm which he represents. 
 
 While prominent in lumber circles, JMr. Dut- 
 ton is perhaps as well-known as an able and con- 
 scientious politician. In 1892 his merit was 
 recognized by his fellow townsmen, he being 
 elected chairman of the board of supervisors of 
 Coconino county, which energetic and progres- 
 sive body of men secured the erection of the 
 present court-house and jail. In i8y6 he was 
 elected a member of the territorial council, and 
 has since taken an active part in local and terri- 
 torial undertakings of the Republican party. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen and the Independent 
 Order of Foresters, and is past master in the 
 former body and grand trustee of the Territorial 
 Grand Lodge of New Mexico and Arizona. He 
 is also a member of the board of trustees of the 
 northern Arizona X'ormal School at Flagstaiif, 
 and is interested in promoting educational mat- 
 ters in Coconino county. 
 
 In 1881, at Harvard, 111., Mr. Dutton mar- 
 ried Mrs. Elida M. (Dunham) Dutton, and of 
 this union there is one son, Charles A. 
 
 JUDGE BEX'JAMIX F. JACKSON. 
 
 Though the nominee of the Democratic party 
 in Navajo county for the judgeship of the pro- 
 bate court and superintendency of county 
 schools, the personal merits of Judge B. F. 
 Jackson received such a general support from 
 voters of all political creeds, in the fall of 1900, 
 that his friends were triumphant, as over two- 
 thirds of the ballots cast were in his favor. More 
 and more, the public is recognizing the import- 
 ance of trustworthy officials regardless of party, 
 in the affairs of a city or county — knowing that 
 [lolitical bias should not enter into the ques- 
 tion. Since i8g6 the subject of this article has 
 administered the afifairs of the probate court of 
 this county, in connection with which he has 
 paid special attention to our county school sys- 
 tem, making marked changes for the better in 
 the same. At the expiration of his first term, in 
 1898, he was re-elected to these ])ositions, and 
 
 again, in 1900, as above stated, was made his 
 own successor. 
 
 Unquestionably judge Jackson is one of the 
 ablest young men in .\rizona. and by nature and 
 training is eminently well qualified for the 
 responsibilities now resting upon him. His 
 birth occurred at \'ersailles, Ind., February 23, 
 1867, and after completing the high school 
 course of that place he became a student at the 
 Bloomington (Ind.) University. During the 
 following seventeen years he devoted his entire 
 attention to teaching, and met with special suc- 
 cess in the management of normal schools, both 
 in Indiana and in Kentucky. , 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Jackson came to Navajo county, 
 .\riz., and became the superintendent of the 
 .\pache Indian school, at Fort Apache, remain- 
 ing in the government service for eighteen 
 months, during the administration of Cleveland. 
 He then taught a school at the village of Shum- 
 way for about one year. Returning to his native 
 state, he was admitted to the bar of Indiana in 
 December, 1899, since which time he has con- 
 ducted the practice of law in connection with his 
 public duties. The elevation of our schools has 
 been a matter of deep concern to him, and three 
 county institutes, attended by the twenty-six 
 teachers employed in this county at present, 
 have been conducted by him since he was placed 
 in his ofifice as superintendent of schools. He 
 lielongs to the Territorial Teachers" Associa- 
 tion, and under his judicious management the 
 schools of Navajo county have been advanced 
 to first rank among those of the other counties 
 uf Arizona. Practically self-made and self- 
 educated, he is entitled to great credit, for 
 indomitable will and concentration of purpose 
 have been the secrets of his success. In Indiana 
 he became affiliated with the Masonic order, and 
 at Winslow he joined the Benevolent Protective 
 ( )rder of Elks. 
 
 LINDLEV H. ORME. 
 
 The Orme family trace their descent from dis- 
 tinguished Itnglish ancestry, and were first rep- 
 resented in America by one Rev. John Orme, a 
 Presbyterian clergyman, who came from Eng- 
 l.;uid to the United States in practically the dawn 
 III ihe eighteculh cenlurv. and settled in Prince
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 George county, Md. His descendants served 
 their adopted country with courage and dis- 
 tinction during the Revolutionary war, and the 
 latter-day members have since been identified 
 with the best interests of the localities in which 
 they resided. 
 
 The grandparents of Lindley ?>. were Henry 
 C. and Deborah (Pleasants) Orme, natives re- 
 spectively of Maryland and Mrginia. He was 
 born in Springfield. Mo., October i8, 1872, and 
 is a son of Henry C. and Elizabeth (Bell) Orme, 
 who were born, respectively, in Montgomery 
 county, Md., and in Kentucky. Henry C. Orme 
 tvas born December 15,, 1846. From earliest 
 youth he evinced the sterling and substantial 
 traits of character inherited from his forefathers, 
 and which are everywhere recognized as the 
 foundation of good citizenship. The early train- 
 ing of the district schools was but the prelude 
 to a life of continued study and research, and 
 to a keen observation of men and events. As a 
 result, Mr. ( irme is today a remarkably well- 
 informed man upon general and current topics, 
 and has received many practical marks of ap- 
 preciation wherever he has elected to reside. 
 After the breaking out of the Civil war, he en- 
 listed, in September of 1862, in White's Virginia 
 Battalion of the Confederate army, and became a 
 part of Stuart's Cavalry. Later, under Gen. 
 Wade Hampton, he fought at .Antietam, Brandy 
 Station, Winchester, and the Wilderness, and 
 finally surrendered at .\ppomattox. During the 
 three years of his service as a private in the 
 cause of the Confederacy, he was twice cap- 
 tured, and twice slightly wounded. 
 
 With the restoration of peace Mr. Orme re- 
 turned to his former home in Maryland, and 
 after several years removed to Missouri, where 
 for five years he engaged in general and rail- 
 road surveying, and became a proficient civil 
 engineer. He subsequently went to Dallas, 
 Tex., and became interested in educational 
 work, to which he devoted himself for the 
 greater part of five years. In 1870 he sought 
 the larger possibilities of the far west, and took 
 up his permanent residence one and one-half 
 miles from Phoenix, Ariz. Upon three hundred 
 and twenty acres of government land which his 
 untiring industry reclaimed from a sterile and 
 desert condition he lived for many vears, and is 
 
 at present residing on the eighty acres retained 
 from the original claim. In the '90s he served 
 two terms, or four years, as county assessor of 
 Maricopa tountw and for eight years was under- 
 sheriff of the same county, when his breather, 
 L. H. ( )rme, was sheriff. For four years also 
 he was deputy sheriiif under N. M. Broadway, 
 and .A. J. Halbert, serving two years under each. 
 With the different enterprises for the upbuilding 
 of his count}' Mr. ( )rme has been closely identi- 
 fied, and has ever lent his influence on the side 
 of progress and enterprise. Fraternally he is 
 associated with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. Through his marriage with Eliza- 
 beth I '.ell. of Kentucky, there have been born ten 
 children, of whom the following survive: Lindley 
 I!., John S., Norman L., William W., Ethel M., 
 Ada Lee and Ruth M. Norman L. (born in 
 1876) was a volunteer soldier in the Spanish- 
 .•\merican war, and a member of Troop B, 
 Rough Riders, under Major McClintock. At the 
 battle of Los Ouasimos he received severe inju- 
 ries from which he has only partially recovered. 
 .\t the present time he is employed in the post 
 ofiice at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. 
 
 As a boy, Lindley B. Orme followed the for- 
 tunes of his parents, and with them went to 
 Texas, and finally to Arizona. In this far west- 
 ern territory he was reared to maturity, 
 surrounded by the refining home influences 
 which tended to develop the best traits of his 
 character. In the public schools of Phoenix 
 was laid the foundation for a life time devotion 
 to all-around study, and he was graduated from 
 the Phoenix high school. This was supple- 
 mented by a course at the Lamson Business 
 (College. .\s a congenial means of livelihood he 
 turned his attention to stock-raising in Maricopa 
 county, and in 1896 settled upon the ranch ten 
 miles west of Phoenix, which has since been his 
 home. At the present time he has about three 
 hundred head of cattle, of which he makes a 
 specialty, although other kinds of stock are 
 raised on the farm. 
 
 Mr. Orme represents the most advanced 
 element among the young agriculturists and 
 stock-raisers of Salt River valley, and his 
 friends and associates predict a prosperous fu- 
 ture for him, judged from the standpoint of his 
 present success. He is especially interested in
 
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 the subject of the development of water in his 
 locality, and is a director in the Maricopa Salt 
 River and Grand Canal Company. A Democrat 
 in national politics, he has been a trustee of the 
 Cartwright school district, and was for a time 
 stock-inspector of the Phoenix shipping district. 
 He has also been a county central committee- 
 man. Fraternally he is associated with the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen. 
 
 October 7, 1897, Mr. Orme married Ida M. 
 Ricketts, who was born in Evansville, Ind. Of 
 this union there has been one child, Lindley H., 
 Jr. Mrs. Orme is a daughter of William A. and 
 Sarah (Gentry) Ricketts, the former of whom 
 served in the Federal army during the Civil war 
 and died when his daughter, Ida, was five years 
 old. In 1891 Mrs. Ricketts came to Phoenix, 
 accompanied by three of her children. 
 
 JUDGE P. C. ROBERTSON. 
 
 For the greater part of his life Judge Robert- 
 son has been identified with the conditions of 
 the far west. A native of Pike county. 111., he 
 was born in 1839, and when but eight years of 
 age removed with his parents to Andrew county. 
 Mo., where they lived on a farm for four years. 
 One of the most vivid remembrances of his 
 youth is the trip across the plains which the 
 family undertook in 1853, ^^ which time, in addi- 
 tion to their own household paraphernalia, they 
 took with them a herd of cattle. The memor- 
 able journey came to an end in California, the 
 travelers settling in the vicinity of Cacheville. 
 Here and at Woodland, Cal., Judge Robertson 
 lived on and i)ff until 1872, in the meantime hav- 
 ing spent about four years in Virginia City, Nev. 
 In 1872 he changed his location to Modoc 
 county, Cal., and in 1880 removed to Globe. 
 
 While living in \'irgin!a City, in 1864, Judge 
 Robertson married Elizabeth A. Tebbs, of Cali- 
 fornia. C)f this union there were born four chil- 
 dren, of whom two are living: Henry O., who 
 is a school teacher in the northern part of Gila 
 county, and Peter T.. who is an attorney at 
 Vuma, .\riz. Upon arriving in Globe Mr. Rob- 
 ertson opened a livery and feed stable which had 
 an era of prosperity for three years, and he 
 then moved up on the upper Salt River valley 
 and was engaged in farming and stock-raising, 
 1 
 
 besides conducting a general merchandise busi- 
 ness. These interests occupied his time and 
 attention until two years ago, when he returned 
 to Globe with the intention of remaining here 
 permanently. 
 
 As a stanch and unswerving member of the 
 Democratic party, Mr. Robertson has been 
 prominent in local and territorial afifairs. He 
 became initiated into office while living in Cali- 
 fornia, as assessor of the town of Woodland. 
 In 1877 he was elected to the California assem- 
 bly, and served in this capacity for two years. 
 In Arizona he was elected chairman of the board 
 of supervisors of Gila county in 1883, and in 
 1886 was elected to the territorial council from 
 Gila county. He was further honored by his 
 fellow Democrats by being elected to the pro- 
 bate judgeship of Gila county November 6, 
 1900. One of the reliable and substantial men 
 of this locality, he is esteemed by all who know 
 of his ability and excellent traits of citizenship. 
 
 GEN. CHARLES F. AINSWORTH, 
 
 It is generally conceded by those who are 
 familiar with the present substantial conditions 
 existing in Arizona that there have been at- 
 tracted to her boundless possibilities men of 
 great achievements and comprehensive intelli- 
 gence. In this as in other countries, the rise and 
 progress of a region may well be gauged by the 
 character of its bar, as from its ranks more than 
 from those of any other profession are selected 
 the men who fill the highest public stations. Its 
 members spring from no privileged class, but 
 from the people whose aims they represent. In 
 Arizona, as elsewhere, wisely conservative and 
 erudite minds are attracted toward the profes- 
 sion which embodies in its principles the only 
 exact and unchanging science, and there is no 
 more notable example of this truth than may be 
 found in the acknowledged ability of Gen. 
 Charles Franklin Ainsworth. In 1888 he be- 
 came associated with Arizona, prior to which he 
 had made a splendid record as district attorney 
 of Jackson county, Wis. 
 
 As an attorney in Phoenix, he at once stepped 
 into the prominence to which he is entitled by 
 virtue of his broad knowledge of the law, firm- 
 ness of decision and business promptitude.
 
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 Scarcely any enterprise of dimensions has arisen 
 within Phoenix with which he has not been 
 associated in some capacity, either as part 
 owner or legal adviser, nor are his interests con- 
 fined to this city, for they extend in various 
 directions in the Salt River valley. No one has 
 been more enthusiastic than he in the develop- 
 ment of this part of the country, and no one 
 has given his advice more constantly on the side 
 of progress. During the course of events of 
 late years undertakings have been formulated 
 in which he is especially interested. He is presi- 
 dent of the Home Savings Bank and Trust 
 Company of Phoenix, president of the Phoenix 
 Building and Loan Association, president of the 
 Phoenix Water Company, and is interested in 
 the street railway system, in addition to which 
 he was formerly owner of a half interest in the 
 Phoenix Electric Light and Gas Company. .\s 
 a stanch member of the Republican party he 
 has filled many positions of trust, including the 
 office of district attorney of Jackson county, 
 which he held for ten years. August 12, 1898, 
 he was honored by appointment to the office of 
 attorney-general of Arizona. 
 
 Of interest always are the early struggles 
 which precede the fulfilment of promising ex- 
 pectations. Mr. A.insworth was born at Lisbon, 
 N. Y., January 3, 1853, and is a representative 
 of a family nvunerously scattered throughout 
 New England. The ancestry of the family is 
 English, and a record has been kept for several 
 generations back. The first of the name whose 
 ambition extended beyond the boundaries of his 
 native land was Edward Ainsworth, who came 
 from England to America in 1652. In the course 
 of time he settled at Roxbury, Mass., and from 
 his large family came many descendants who 
 were prominently identified with the intellectual 
 and commercial interests of their respective lo- 
 calities. Charles Franklin Ainsworth is de- 
 scended from a branch of the family that claimed 
 Woodstock, Conn., as their home. The influ- 
 ences that surrounded his boyhood were not 
 unlike those which mould the future of the aver- 
 age farmer boy, and his education was such as 
 is ])n)curable from the public schools. Like 
 inan\- others who have eventually reached 
 lironiinence, he was largely dependent upon his 
 own exertions. In the fall of T870 he entered 
 
 St. Lawrence University at Canton, and his sub- 
 sequent graduation with the rest of his class 
 was the well-earned result of teaching school 
 during the winter while attending the univer- 
 sity, and working on a farm during the sunuuer 
 months. For a time he later engaged in educa- 
 tional work and was principal of the Ogdens- 
 burg Institute in New York. 
 
 The first aspirations of Mr. Ainsworth in the 
 direction of a future livelihood were toward the 
 medical profession, but he soon decided in favor 
 of the law, which decision he has never re- 
 gretted. After having been admitted to the bar 
 of Wisconsin, he commenced to practice at 
 lllack River Falls, Wis., in 1876, and soon 
 ranked among the most promising members of 
 his profession in Jackson county, where he re- 
 mained until his removal to Arizona. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Ainsworth united him 
 with Minnie A. Southworth, who at the time 
 was living in Canton, N. Y. She was born in 
 Hartford, Conn., and came from a New England 
 family whose ancestors were among the pil- 
 grims on the Mayflower. Her parents, Egbert 
 H. and Sylvia (Tracy) Southworth, were resi- 
 dents of Canton, N. Y., for many years. To 
 General and Mrs. Ainsworth have been born 
 four children, namely: Frank, who was educated 
 in St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., and 
 is now assistant cashier of the Home Savings 
 Bank and Trust Company, of Phoenix; Sylvia, 
 who was educated in Marlborough Seminary at 
 Los Angeles, Cal. ; Arthur, and Ruth, who are 
 students in the Phoenix schools. 
 
 COL. WINFRED WYLIE, M. D., LL. B. 
 
 Scotland is the ancestral home of the Wylie 
 family, and the first members whose ambitious 
 inclination reached beyond the borders of their 
 sturdy historic land to the crude conditions and 
 latent possibilities of the future great republic 
 across the seas, immigrated hence and settled in 
 Tioga county. Pa., where they became industri- 
 ous tillers of the soil, and enterprising promot- 
 ers of progress. In the changing course 
 of events there developed in their midst 
 unusual talent in various directions, the 
 predominating trend however being analyti- 
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 185 
 
 in a mastery of the science of medi- 
 cine. The arts also are not without their rep- 
 resentative, for from the latter-day family has 
 sprung one whose mastery of the violin is des- 
 tined to win renown, and the appreciation of 
 all true lovers of this most wonderful of all 
 instruments. 
 
 Reared in an atmosphere which, from his 
 earliest remembrance, was impregnated with an 
 intimate knowledge of human ills and a sincere 
 striving for their alleviation. Dr. Wylie is, by 
 virtue of inheritance and years of profound re- 
 search, a master healer of men. A native of 
 Marathon county, Wis., he was born August 8. 
 1855. His father, Daniel B. Wylie, M. D-, who 
 was born in Great Bend, Pa., was graduated 
 from Long Island College Hospital, at 
 Brooklyn. For many years he was a prominent 
 practicing physician in Tioga county. Pa., and 
 then removed to Grand Rapids, Wis., and 
 eventually to \\'ausau, of the same state, where 
 for forty years he ministered to the physical 
 woes of the community, and where he died in 
 1891. Mrs. Wylie, who is now living with her 
 son in Phoenix, was, before her marriage, Har- 
 riett Amsbry, born in Tioga county. Pa., and a 
 daughter of Truman Amsbry. Her medical edu- 
 cation was acquired at the Woman's Medical 
 College, in Philadelphia, from which she was 
 graduated in the class of 1866. She practiced 
 medicine with abundant success for a period of 
 twenty-five years, principally at Wausau and 
 Merrill, Wis' 
 
 Of the children in the family besides Winfred, 
 D. Baldwin is a graduate of the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, and is an 
 eye and ear specialist at Milwaukee ; Myrtle is 
 the wife of George C. Bent, of Ogden, Utah, and 
 is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of 
 ?^lusic; Genevieve is living in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 and Ralph is now in Berlin, Germany. Ralph 
 Wylie is the especial pride of his family and 
 friends, for as a violinist he has already won 
 many laurels. A graduate of the Chicago Con- 
 servatory of Music, he had qualified at the earl\- 
 age of twenty to assume charge of the nuisical 
 department of the University of Illinois at 
 Champaign. In Merlin, Germany, he is availing 
 himself of the instruction of the best masters, 
 who predict a great future for him. 
 
 The education of Dr. Wyli'e was acquired at 
 the public schools of Wausau, and at the Law- 
 rence University at Appleton, Wis. Under his 
 father's able instruction he became sufficiently 
 advanced in medicine to enter the Rush Medi- 
 cal College at Chicago, from which he was 
 graduated in 1877. Further instruction was re- 
 ceived in Long Island College Hospital at 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., which terminated with his 
 graduation in 1878. As the result of a com- 
 petitive examination he was appointed house 
 surgeon of Long Island Hospital, and served in 
 that capacity for a year. At Wausau, Wis., he 
 entered upon the practice of his profession, and 
 soon attained to a prominent place in medical 
 circles. While located there he was surgeon for 
 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Mil- 
 waukee, Lake -Shore & Western Railroads. 
 ^^'hile practicing at West Superior he served in 
 a similar capacity for the St. Paul & Duluth, the 
 Duluth & Winnipeg, the Lake Superior Ter- 
 minal & Transfer, Great Northern, Northern 
 Pacific, The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, 
 and the Omaha Railroads. He was also presi- 
 dent of the Northwestern Wisconsin Medical 
 .\ssociation. After removing to West Superior 
 he devoted his time almost exclusively to surg- 
 ery, and as health officer of the city introduced 
 many sanitary measures which were readily 
 approved and adopted. Among the other re- 
 sponsibilities incurred in this northern city was 
 the position of president of the Douglas County 
 Medical Association, and a membership in the 
 Inter-State Medical Association. 
 
 While living in Wisconsin Dr. Wylie married 
 Cora J. Alban, who was born in Plover, Portage 
 county. Wis., and of this union there have been 
 two children : Elta, who is studying music in 
 Los Angeles, Cal., and Edith. The better to 
 cope with the various legal questions that are 
 wont to arise in the experience of a physician 
 and surgeon with such a multiplicity of interests. 
 Dr. Wylie undertook the slrndy of law. and was 
 graduated from the Atlanta (Ga.) Law School 
 June 25. 1895, with the degree of LL. B. The 
 advantages of such a course can only be appre- 
 ciated by other railroad surgeons who have had 
 to deal with the lawyers employed by the large 
 railroad companies. 
 
 In 1896 Dr. Wylie chose the far west as his
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 future field of effort and located in Phoenix, 
 which has since been his home. From the first, 
 his ability was the magnet which drew to him 
 the patronage and appreciation not only of 
 private citizens, but of the high territorial 
 officers. In 1897 he was appointed surgeon- 
 general of Arizona by Governor McCord, and in 
 i8y8 was re-appointed by Governor Murphy, 
 with the rank of colonel. In 1897 he was also 
 appointed a member of the Territorial Board of 
 Medical Examiners, and is at this writing presi- 
 dent of the board. In this capacity he has taken 
 an active part in introducing and passing the 
 present medical laws of the territory, which have 
 placed it upon the high plane of excellence occu- 
 pied by the most advanced of the eastern states. 
 Dr. Wylie is also president of the Territorial 
 Medical Association, a fellow of the Arizona 
 -\cademy of Medicine, a member of the .Ameri- 
 can Medical Association, the Southwestern 
 Aledical Association, and the Association of 
 Military Surgeons of the United States. He is 
 Hkewise ex-president of the pension board of 
 Phoenix. In national politics he is affiliated 
 with the Republican party. Fraternally he is as- 
 sociated with the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the 
 Masons. Of the latter organization he was made 
 a member in Brooklyn, N. Y., and was made 
 a Royal Arch Mason in W'ausau, Wis., and also 
 joined the Conimandery in Wisconsin. He is 
 also a member of the Mystic Shrine, affiliating 
 with El Zaribah Temple of Phoenix. 
 
 Dr. Wylie is not only one of the most promi- 
 nent and capable surgeons in the west, but is 
 also one of the most popular, his genial and 
 optimistic temperament winning for him hosts 
 of friends, and his tact, good-fellowship, and 
 great kindness of heart, retaining them indefi- 
 nitely. 
 
 HON. ROBERT L. LONG. 
 One of the pioneer educators of Arizona, Hon. 
 R. L. Long, the present superintendent of in- 
 struction, undoubtedly has done more for the 
 public schools of this territory than any other 
 one man, and that his wisdom in meeting and 
 conquering the special difficulties confronting us 
 is relied upon, is shown by the fact that he was 
 callerl to his important position. This con- 
 
 fidence reposed in him is well founded, not only 
 by his long and useful career in his chosen field 
 of effort, but especially by what he accomplished 
 in 1885-86, during his term of office in the same 
 position he now holds. Then, having made a 
 serious study of the matter, he compiled the laws 
 which have since governed departments of pub- 
 lic instruction in Arizona, for, with little or no 
 alteration, the rules and regulations drawn up by 
 him were adopted and constituted part of the 
 laws of the territory. 
 
 Several generations ago the Longs lived in 
 the northern part of Ireland, but as early as 1718 
 the family represented here by our subject was 
 founded in the valley of the Susquehanna river. 
 His great-grandfather, James Long, who died 
 in 1783, was a soldier of the French and Indian 
 war and the Revolution. Grandfather James 
 Long was born in Lancaster county. Pa., whence 
 he moved to Frederick county, Md., and en- 
 gaged in farming. There his son, James B., 
 father of R. L. Long, was born, and at the age 
 of seventy-three years he passed to his reward 
 at his old homestead in Lancaster county, Pa., 
 for he had long before returned to that ancestral 
 place of habitation. He was not only a success- 
 ful agriculturist, but a civil engineer as well. 
 His wife, Mrs. Catherine (Jefferson) Long, was 
 born in Sussex county, Del., coming of an old 
 family in that section. Of their nine children 
 who lived to maturity, only three are now living. 
 ( )ne son, George, served as a volunteer in the 
 .Second Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Civil 
 ^ar. 
 
 The birth of Robert L. Long, the youngest of 
 his family, occurred November 30, 1852, in Lan- 
 caster county, Pa., and his boyhood was passed 
 on the homestead. From an early age it became 
 evident that he was destined to be a scholar, for 
 he made rapid progress in his studies. He 
 attended the Millersville (Pa.) Normal and pur- 
 sued his higher studies in Dickinson College at 
 Carlisle, Pa., until he reached his junior year. In 
 the meantime he had taught school at intervals, 
 and in 1872, coming to the west, he continued to 
 teach and for a short time was principal of a 
 school in Boulder, Colo. At the same time he 
 also became interested in the abstract business 
 and for a period prospected and sought fur 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 189 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Long returned to Pennsylvania 
 and thence went to southern Africa, where he 
 proceeded to try his fortune in the diamond 
 mining region. After spending eighteen months 
 there he crossed the country to Delagoa Bay 
 and embarl<ed on a homeward-bound vessel. 
 Landing safely in New York City, he soon 
 traversed the continent and found himself at the 
 Pacific. After acting in the capacity of princi- 
 pal of the San Luis Obispo (Cal.) school for 
 some time, he accepted a similar position tend- 
 ered him in Phoenix, and thus, May, 1879, wit- 
 nessed his arrival in the city which he was des- 
 tined to look upon as his permanent home. 
 When a resident here little more than a year 
 he was made clerk of the district court of Gila 
 county, and for two years resided in Globe. 
 From 1882 to 1884 he was judge of the probate 
 court, and during the next two years, as previ- 
 ously stated, was superintendent of public in- 
 struction, having been elected on the Republican 
 ticket. After an interval, when he devoted his 
 attention to the abstract business in Phoenix, he 
 became principal of the Arizona Normal at 
 Tempe, and continued there until 1890, when he 
 accepted the position of superintendent of the 
 public schools of Phoenix. At the end of a year 
 he was appointed clerk of the court of private 
 land claims, in which all of the old Spanish land 
 claim cases are tried. In the mean time he con- 
 ducted an abstract business, and March i, 1899, 
 Governor Murphy appointed him superintend- 
 ent of public instruction, which position he now 
 holds. The resolution providing for a uniform 
 course of study, which he proposed and advo- 
 cated for the public schools of Arizona, was 
 adopted by the territorial board of education, 
 and many other progressive measures are being 
 put into force. Formerly a member and now a 
 trustee of the board of directors of the Arizona 
 Normal, at present he is identified with the terri- 
 torial board of educati(?n, being the secretary of 
 that body, is the chairman of the territorial board 
 of examiners, and a member of the board of 
 regents of the University of Arizona. He also 
 is an honored member of the National Educa- 
 tional Association. Actively connected with the 
 Republican party of Arizona during the more 
 than two decades of his residence here, he was 
 fittingly chosen to serve as secretary of the ter- 
 
 ritorial convention in 1894. He is a prominent 
 Mason, having attained to the thirty-second de- 
 gree in the order. 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM A. HANCOCK. 
 
 The "father" and founder of Phoenix, Judge 
 William A. Hancock, is entitled to the first place 
 in the hearts of the people of this prosperous 
 city, which has been developed during his resi- 
 dence here, and which has looked to him, and 
 never in vain, for the influence and capital need- 
 ful to its progress. Today, as for decades past, 
 he is actively connected with innumerable en- 
 terprises of magnitude and growing importance 
 in this region and by his rare genius and' heart- 
 felt sympathy in all public improvements is in- 
 citing his felllow-citizens to yet greater triumphs 
 of "mind over matter." 
 
 Believing that the oft-told tale of our popular 
 citizen's life is nevertheless of deep interest to 
 the people of this territory and the great west in 
 general the following facts in regard to him have 
 been compiled. Though from choice a west- 
 erner for nearly half a century, he is of New 
 England birth and ancestry. Born May 17, 1831, 
 in Barre, Mass., of which town his father, 
 Nathan, and grandfather, Nathan S., also were 
 natives, he is of English descent on both the 
 paternal and maternal lines, his ancestors being 
 foremost m the early settlement of the Bay state. 
 His mother, Catherine W. (Lee) Hancock, a 
 daughter of Henry Lee and niece of Gen. Sam- 
 uel Lee of war of 1812 fame, was a grand- 
 daughter of a hero of the Revolution. The old 
 homes of the Hancocks and Lees were in the 
 same neighborhood and many generations of 
 the two families played their little parts on the 
 world's stage in that immediate locality. Nathan 
 Hancock and wife, who were numbered with 
 the agriculturists of Barre, Mass., passed their 
 entire lives there. Ten of their twelve children 
 lived to maturity. One son. Dr. John Hancock, 
 was a surgeon of a Massachusetts regiment dur- 
 ing the CSvil war and another son, George, died 
 in Sacramento, Cal. 
 
 Judge Hancock was educated in the public 
 school of his native place and in Leicester Acad- 
 emy, and when sixteen years of age assumed 
 the management of his father's farm, continuing
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to act in that capacity until 1853, when the desire 
 to see something of the great west opened the 
 way to his future success. With his brothers 
 John and Henry he went to Iowa in the spring 
 of 1853. there bought live stock and outfitted 
 for the long trip across the plains. After the 
 journey, by way of Council Bluffs, the Platte 
 and North Platte rivers, the Sweetwater, South 
 Pass and Humboldt River valley, they arrived 
 at Sacramento and located upon a ranch situ- 
 ated about nine miles north of that place. They 
 had succeeded in bringing safely through some 
 two hundred and seventy-five head of live stock 
 and for the ensuing eight years carried on a 
 thriving business raising cattle and horses for 
 the markets. In 1856 Judge Hancock returned 
 on a visit to the dear old home in the east, 
 going by the Isthmus of Panama route. His 
 father died in 1857 and the young man remained 
 until he had settled up his estate. In the fol- 
 lowing year he might have been seen voyaging 
 back to the Pacific coast via Panama, and taking 
 with him some fine horses for his ranch and a 
 thoroughbred stallion of the Black Hawk and 
 Morgan stock. 
 
 In November, 1864, the future judge volun- 
 teered in the Seventh California Infantry, being 
 assigned to Company K, and mustered into the 
 service at Presidio, Cal. In February, 1865, he 
 was sent to Fort Yuma and in the following Sep- 
 tember was transferred to the Arizona troops — 
 an event which changed his whole life. Mus- 
 tered into Company C, First Arizona Volunteers, 
 September i, 1865, as second lieutenant, his 
 rank as such dating from the 7th of the August 
 preceding, he was stationed at Fort McDowell, 
 Ariz. Promoted to the rank of first lieutenant 
 June 20, 1866, he was mustered out of the 
 service September 13, 1866. 
 
 From that time until 1868 Mr. Hancock was 
 the superintendent of the government farm at 
 Fort McDowell and in the following year be- 
 came post trader at Camp Reno, remaining there 
 until the end of May, 1870. Possessing that 
 rare genius of foresight and executive ability 
 that have been the mainsprings of nearly all 
 truly great achievements in the history of the 
 world, he decided, in his own mind, that a city 
 should and probably would some day stand on 
 or very near the site of the present capital of 
 
 Arizona. Having learned something of survey- 
 ing he commenced laying out the future city of 
 Phoenix in the fall of 1870, having previously 
 with other settlers organized a townsite com- 
 pany and located half a section of land for the 
 purpose. The patent to the same was obtained 
 when Judge Alsap was presiding on the bench 
 of the probate court, to which ofifice Mr. Han- 
 cock later succeeded. The survey of the city 
 was completed in about a year, or, in the autumn 
 of 1871, and in the meantime our subject had 
 built an adobe house, beginning that task in 
 December, 1870, and this, the first building 
 erected in Phoenix, he afterwards rented, while 
 he pursued his work as a surveyor and civil 
 engineer in different parts of Maricopa county. 
 After laying out the routes of several canals 
 and ditches for irrigation of the land he quietly 
 located upon a ranch, for he had taken up from 
 the government one section of the despised 
 desert land. Meeting the unaccustomed require- 
 ments of this "arid" region he greatly improved 
 his farm, but the public duties, which more and 
 more rapidly came in to occupy his attention, 
 led him into other channels of activity. In 1870 
 he was made postmaster of Phoenix and at the 
 end of an eight-years' service resigned, recom- 
 mending Mr. Mowery to the office. His influ- 
 ence won recognition, for that citizen was duly 
 appointed and for eight years occupied the posi- 
 tion. In 1871 Mr. Hancock was appointed dis- 
 trict attorney and, being elected, held that im- 
 portant office until 1875, when he entered upon 
 his duties as judge of the probate court. Here 
 it should be said that as early as October, 1872, 
 when he had been admitted to the bar of Mari- 
 copa county, he had been engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law in the intervals of his other public 
 duties, and to this day he devotes the major por- 
 tion of his attention to his profession. From 
 1875 to 1878 inclusive he was judge of the pro- 
 bate court, having submitted to him many of the 
 grave and hotly-contested cases incident to the 
 pioneer days of any locality. Nevertheless, he 
 was equal to all this and more, and by his ster- 
 ling fidelitv to duty won the lasting esteem of 
 the public. Upon the organization of Maricopa 
 county he had been appointed sheriff by the 
 governor, and thus enjoys the added distinction 
 of having been the first sheriff of the county.
 
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 He also served for one term of two years as 
 assistant district attorney of the United States 
 district court. For some time he was county 
 superintendent of schools, the three districts 
 being increased to fourteen during > his incum- 
 bency. 
 
 The people of Arizona realize pretty fully 
 what has been accomplished by thorough and 
 systematic irrigation, and no one has been more 
 energetic in promoting the system than Judge 
 Hancock. It is well known that he took the 
 lead in many of these enterprises, chief among 
 them the Grand canal, of which he made the 
 first survey. Now one of the principal canals 
 on the northern side of the Salt river, the won- 
 derful undertaking owes a great deal to him, 
 for, besides laying out its course he put more 
 money into its construction than did any other 
 one man, and long ago witnessed the marvel- 
 ous benefit which it has been to its neighboring 
 territory. In addition to this, he surveyed the 
 Utah, Mesa and Arizona canals, and has been 
 one ot the promoters of the Agua Fria Water 
 & Land Company, now being secretary of the 
 same. This gigantic undertaking, which will 
 eclipse everything hitherto projected here, is 
 thoroughly practical and of untold value, as 
 thereby seventy-five thousand acres of land will 
 be rendered productive. The great dam, essen- 
 tial to the water storage part of the problem, 
 necessitates a large outlay of capital, but the 
 work will be carried out, sooner or later, by men 
 of enterprise and means. Already our citizens 
 are bestirring themselves on the general subject 
 of water storage, and the judge is one of the 
 three appointed to "investigate the Colorado 
 river proposition," and also, in himself, consti- 
 tutes the committee on the water storage of the 
 San Francisco canal. 
 
 It is quite needless to say that Judge Hancock 
 is one of the most honored members of the 
 Pioneer Association of Arizona, of the Terri- 
 torial Bar Association, of the Odd Fellows, of 
 Capt. Owen Post, G. A. R., in which he is past 
 senior vice-commander. From the organization 
 of the Republican party he has been thoroughly 
 devoted to its principles and loyally aided in the 
 establishment of the party in Maricopa county, 
 at one time serving as a member of the county 
 central committee. 
 
 In this city his marriage occurred February 
 5, 1873, the lady of his choice being Lilly B., 
 daughter of Benjamin Kellogg, a pioneer of this 
 locality, as in 1872 he settled upon a farm in 
 the Salt River valley. Mrs. Hancock was born 
 in Indiana. Henry L., the first white child born 
 in Phoenix, and the elder child of the judge and 
 wife, is a graduate of the high school of this 
 place and now is in charge of the Wormser 
 estate. Mabel, who received her preparation for 
 teaching in the Los Angeles (Cal.) Normal, now 
 is employed in our city schools. 
 
 JUDGE CHARLES P. HICKS. 
 
 The people of Prescott and Yavapai county 
 thoroug^hly appreciate the good work and able 
 administration of the subject of this article, 
 judge of the probate court of the county named, 
 since January, 1895. Now in the prime of life, 
 he was born near Fayette, Howard county, Mo., 
 June 15, 1858, and was reared to manhood in 
 his native place. He is of English descent. His 
 father, James M. Hicks, who was a planter's 
 son, was born at the old Virginia homestead 
 and thence removed to Tennessee, later becom- 
 ing a pioneer of Fayette, Mo., where he 
 improved a large farm. During the latter part 
 of his life he conducted a livery, sale and com- 
 mission business in Fayette. Fraternally he 
 was connected with the Masonic order. At all 
 times he was loyal to the Union. His wife, 
 Penelope (Payne) Hicks, was born in Alabama, 
 and accompanied her parents to Roanoke, How- 
 ard county, Mo., where her father became a well- 
 to-do and highly respected citizen. Mrs. Hicks 
 was a relative of the celebrated Bishop Doggett 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church South ; she 
 was a lady of culture and refinement. Her death 
 occurred in Missouri many years ago, and of her 
 two sons and two daughters who lived to matur- 
 ity only two survive. 
 
 Judge Hicks completed his literary education 
 in Central College, at Fayette, Mo., leaving 
 there when in his junior year. In March, 1879, 
 he went to Colorado, and six months later to 
 New Mexico, where he was engaged in pros- 
 pecting and mining. He was in southern New 
 Mexico during the time of the troubles with 
 the Apaches and when Chief Victoria was carry-
 
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 ing on his warfare. Meantime lie experienced 
 many adventures and danger's incident to the 
 conditions then existing. In July, 1880, he 
 came to Prescott, and for six months was 
 employed on the cattle ranch of Judge Edward 
 W. Wells. On his return to the city he entered 
 the employ of J. W. Dougherty, of the O. K. 
 store, and six years later became a partner in 
 the business. However, at the end of two years, 
 he sold out, and during the ensuing five years 
 was a clerk and bookkeeper in the clothing 
 house of J. W. Wilson & Co. In the meantime 
 he served as city assessor and collector for a 
 year, after which he was bookkeeper at the 
 Hotel Burke. 
 
 In the fall of 1894 he was elected probate 
 judge by a majority of two hundred and nine 
 votes. Two years later he was re-elected by 
 a majority of eight hundred and twenty-four. 
 In 1898 he was re-elected, receiving a plurality 
 vote of twelve hundred and thirty-two, and in 
 1900 he had a majority of ten hundred and 
 twenty-four. During the latter year the general 
 vote of the county was not so large on account 
 of the law requiring a receipt showing the pay- 
 ment of poll tax before registration. His pres- 
 ent term will expire in 1902. When first assum- 
 ing the responsible duties of this office he found 
 its afifairs in a chaotic state, and with charac- 
 teristic energy he at once set about to secure 
 material reforms. School funds had been mis- 
 appropriated, the records w-ere in a muddled 
 condition, and everything pertaining to the 
 office was in a tangle. This did not last long, 
 for Judge Hicks is thoroughly systematic, con- 
 scientious and possesses excellent judgment and 
 ability. Rapidly he reduced things to a clear 
 and safe basis, straightened out the records and 
 introduced new methods. At that time the office 
 of school superintendent was included with the 
 probate judgeship, and this absurdity was 
 strongly fought by Judge Hicks, who threw all 
 of his influence upon the side of the progressive, 
 who advocated the separation of the two offices. 
 In January, 1899, when this measure was car- 
 ried into efifect, the books and records of the 
 superintendent were in a fine condition. 
 
 As is generally known, the judge is an ardent 
 worker in the Democratic party, and at present 
 is secretary of the county central committee, 
 
 besides which he has served as secretary of ter- 
 ritorial conventions of the party. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Order of Elks and is 
 a past officer in the lodge of Knights of Pythias, 
 also a member of the Uniform Rank. For many 
 years he has had investments in mines, and at 
 the time of the sale of the Great Congress group 
 owned one of its claims. 
 
 The marriage of Judge Hicks, in Prescott, in 
 1886, united him with Miss Allie St. Clair. Mrs. 
 Hicks came of one of the best families of Ten- 
 nessee, in which state she was born and reared. 
 She was educated at Ripley Seminary, in Ripley, 
 Miss. She was a model wife and neighbor and 
 noted for many unostentatious acts of charity. 
 She departed this life in February, 1901, at the 
 family residence in Prescott, Ariz., leaving her 
 husband, the subject of this sketch, Violet 
 Alice, the only child and daughter, and a large 
 circle of friends who deeply mourned her loss. 
 Judge Hicks is devoted in his friendships, firm 
 in his convictions, and strong in his attachments, 
 which C|ualities, combined with his long resi- 
 dence in northern Arizona, have won for him 
 a host of friends and acquaintances among all 
 classes of the citizens of Arizona. 
 
 JUDGE N. G. LAYTON. 
 
 For seventeen years Judge Layton has identi- 
 fied his expectations and successes with the for- 
 tunes of the quaintly interesting town of Flag- 
 staff, and during that time no one has more 
 enthusiastically advocated her resources, or 
 more courageously shared her vicissitudes. A 
 native of the Hoosier state, he was born in La- 
 fayette, Ind., in 1852, and here received his 
 early training and education. He early dis- 
 played a desire to help himself, and became self- 
 supporting as a clerk in a shoe house, where 
 he remained until 1880. In an efifort to better 
 his condition in the west he remained for two 
 years at Salida, Colo., where he engaged in the 
 mercantile business with a brother, James A. 
 Layton, who is now registrar in the United 
 States land office, at Montrose, Colo. 
 
 In 1882 Judge Layton came to .A.rizona, and 
 the following year, when he took up his resi- 
 dence in Flagstaff, that settlement contained but 
 a few courageous comers who wisely foresaw ex-
 
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 celleiit prospects. For a time he was associated 
 with the Arizona Lumber Company, and in 1893 
 joined the forces of the Saginaw Lumber Com- 
 pany, with whicii he remained for two years. In 
 1895 he was elected on the Republican ticket to 
 the combined positions of probate judge and 
 superintendent of county schools, and re-elected 
 in 1896, 1898 and 1900. He is now serving his 
 fourth term, which began in January of 1901. 
 Under his wise and capable administration the 
 educational facilities of the county have materi- 
 ally increased, and the methods of instruction 
 have been placed on a par with those adopted 
 in older and more settled communities. Affairs 
 in the department are personally superintended 
 by Judge Lavton, who is ever foremost in fur- 
 thering any cause which tends to the general 
 advancement. 
 
 Judge Layton was actively identified with the 
 separation of Coconino from Yavapai county, 
 and was one of the chief organizers of the new 
 county, being appointed deputy vmder the first 
 county recorder. During 1891-92 he served as 
 justice of the peace for Flagstaff. He is vari- 
 ously interested fraternally, being a member of 
 the Masons and Odd Fellows at Flagstaff, and 
 a past noble grand of the Grand Lodge of Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 JAMES C. NORTON, D. V. M. 
 
 Well known throughout Arizona as the ter- 
 ritorial veterinary surgeon. Dr. James C. Norton 
 has occupied this important public office for 
 eight years, having been appointed by Governor 
 Hughes and reappointed by Governors Frank- 
 lin, McCord and Murphy. His pre-eminent 
 position in his chosen profession is shown by 
 the fact that he has been chosen resident secre- 
 tary for Arizona and New Mexico of the Amer- 
 ican \''eterinary Medical .Association. Born in 
 Muscatine county, Iowa, August 16, 1867, Dr. 
 Norton is in the prime of manhood. His father, 
 Charles W. Norton, was born in Medina county, 
 Ohio, September 9, 1836, and is a son of Birdsey 
 B. Norton, a native of Litchfield, Conn., and a 
 pioneer farmer of Medina county, Ohio. He 
 was a schoolmate of Henry Ward Beecher at 
 Litchfield, Conn. His father, Capt. Miles Nor- 
 ton, was an officer in the war of 1812. The 
 
 family was founded in America by three broth- 
 ers, who emigrated from the north of Ireland 
 and at first settled in Connecticut. The records 
 of the family as far back as 1642 are still in 
 ■existence. 
 
 Charles W. Norton was educated principally 
 at Baldwin University in Berea. Ohio, and a 
 commercial college in Cleveland, from which he 
 was graduated. After leaving college he rode 
 horseback from Medina county, Ohio, to 
 Omaha, Neb., and return, and in western Iowa 
 entered a tract of government land. For two 
 years thereafter he was engaged in clerking in 
 a store conducted by his uncle at Phelps, N. Y. 
 Subsequently he returned to Iowa and for $1,000 
 sold the tract of one hundred and twenty acres 
 he had entered, using the money toward the pay- 
 ment for two hundred and sixty acres of land 
 in Muscatine county, where he located and 
 where fCJr thirty-five years he has resided. His 
 property there now aggregates nearly a thou- 
 sand acres of finely improved farming land, on 
 which he has bred fine stock for many years. 
 .After taking up his abode in Iowa, he was one 
 of the first to introduce the breeding of Short- 
 horn cattle there, and his fine herds have made 
 him famous throughout that portion of the west. 
 Considered a high authority on that and kindred 
 subjects, he was made president of the Iowa 
 State Stock Breeders' Association, and in the 
 Iowa Shorthorn Breeders' Association has occu- 
 pied the office of secretary for ten years. All 
 public affairs of his community have received 
 his liberal support, and he was one of the most 
 active promoters of the Norton Normal and 
 Scientific Academy at Wilton, Iowa, which was 
 named for him. He has been president of three 
 different insurance companies and is now presi- 
 dent of the Mutual Fire and Tornado Insurance 
 Association of Iowa. In politics he is a stanch 
 Republican, and is now serving for the second 
 time as mayor of Wilton. In religion he is an 
 active member of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 For a life companion C. A\'. Norton chose 
 Mary Collier, a native of Medina county, Ohio, 
 and a daugliter of George Collier, who removed 
 from Hartford, Conn., to Ohio about 1810, and 
 became one of the most influential and public- 
 spirited pioneers of the Buckeye state. Her 
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 years as chaplain of President McKinley's regi- 
 ment. He was once captured, tried as a spy 
 and sentenced to death, but was subsequently 
 released through the intercession of the Free 
 Masons, who proved his innocence of the charge. 
 However, he was for some time confined in 
 Andersonville prison. Mrs. Norton is still liv- 
 ing, as are four of the six children born to this 
 worthy couple. Their eldest child, Oakley G., 
 a young man of great promise, was graduated 
 from the Iowa State Agricultural College in 
 1885, but died two years later. Birdsey Norton, 
 the third son, is assisting in the management of 
 the old homestead ; and Carl W. is attending the 
 Iowa State Agricultural College. Florence was 
 graduated from the University of Iowa in 1900. 
 Dr. Norton was reared at his birthplace near 
 Wilton, Iowa, and received excellent educational 
 advantages. At Norton Normal and Scientific 
 College he was graduated in 1888 with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Science. Afterward he 
 completed the normal and commercial courses 
 in the same school. In the meantime he had 
 taught school during the winter terms, thus 
 earning the amount necessary to pay his way 
 through the agricultural college. Later he con- 
 tinued his studies in the University of Iowa for 
 a year, and then entered the veterinary depart- 
 ment of the Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa, 
 where he completed a three years" course. In 
 1890 he was graduated, carrying of? the first 
 honors of his class, and was called to the post 
 of assistant professor in the veterinary depart- 
 ment, where he remained for a year. In Janu- 
 ary, 1892, he came to Phoenix, where he 
 embarked upon a career in which he has attained 
 more than a local reputation. Politically he fol- 
 lows in the footsteps of his father. In the Pres- 
 Interian Church of Phoenix he serves as a ruling 
 elder, and for eight years has been choirmaster. 
 He has bent his efforts toward the development 
 of the musical spirit of the community, and many 
 benevolences are aided by him. In his native 
 town he was married, October 11, 1892, to Miss 
 Clara Tufts, daughter of Benjamin Tufts, an 
 early settler of Wilton. Mrs. Norton was born 
 there and is a graduate of the Norton Normal 
 and Scientific Academy, class of 1888. They 
 have three children, Etta, Oakley T. and Vic- 
 tor C. 
 
 As Dr. Norton's office is one of the most 
 important in the territory, it is but fitting to 
 record briefly an estimate of the high esteem in 
 which he is held by reason of his professional 
 and scientific attainments. Colin Cameron, who 
 for years was chairman of the Live Stock San- 
 itary Board of Arizona, in a letter to Governor 
 McCord, said : "From my personal knowledge 
 and association with Dr. Norton for over five 
 years, I know him to be the best qualified and 
 best equipped man m this territory, without any 
 exception whatever, for the position of terri- 
 torial veterinarian. Not only is he educated in 
 his profession, not only is he a student, not only 
 has he the confidence of his neighbors and of 
 every cattleman who knows him personally and 
 by reputation, but it is doubly important that 
 he be retained at the present time (July, 1897) 
 because he has the confidence of the present 
 secretary of agriculture and of the chief of the 
 bureau of animal industry of the United States. 
 No territorial or state veterinarian in the United 
 States stands higher, in either of these depart- 
 ments, than does Dr. Norton. I know this direct 
 from the department, through my correspon- 
 dence with them." 
 
 Referring to the disease among cattle near 
 Tempe, then prevalent, the letter continues : "A 
 condition now exists in Arizona that would put 
 a large extent of the territory south of the quar- 
 antine line, only for the fact that the bureau of 
 animal industry places implicit confidence in the 
 integrity of the sanitary board and of the ter- 
 ritorial veterinarian. . . . Dr. Norton vis- 
 ited Washington city, was present and assisted 
 in many of the experiments in the laboratory 
 and in the field ; he also visited St. Louis and 
 the University at Columbia, Mo., where much 
 work is being done in re southern cattle 
 fever. I have letters from the chief of the 
 bureau of animal industry and from the secre- 
 tary of agriculture since Dr. Norton's return, 
 speaking very highly of him and expressing 
 great satisfaction for the better understanding 
 that they have of the conditions here as a result 
 of his going there." 
 
 PROF. SAMUEL M. McCOWAN. 
 To those who believe that the passing of the 
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 199 
 
 henceforward his picturesqueness will live only 
 upon the canvas of the artist, in the tale of Hia- 
 watha, the stories of Cooper, and the romance 
 of Ramona, and that the warmth and color and 
 action which have characterized his wanderings 
 upon the western plains are fast receding into 
 the shadows of the happy hunting ground, a 
 merciful retreat from the world of intellectuality 
 and accomplishment in which he is supposed to 
 be unable to take a part, to such, the scope and 
 humanitarianisni of the work accomplished by 
 Professor McCowan, superintendent of the In- 
 dian school at Phoenix, will come as a revela- 
 tion. For out of the years of striving of him- 
 self and those who think with him. toward the 
 development of those attributes in the Indian 
 which constitute good citizenship and broad life, 
 has come a rejuvenated red man, who looks out 
 upon the world with the heart, and brain, and 
 attainment, in many ways the equal of the sup- 
 planting pale brotherhood. 
 
 Of Scotch-English descent, Professor AIc- 
 Cowan was born in Ontario. Canada, February 
 8, 1863, and is a son of Robert O. and Hannah 
 (Blake) McCowan. When two years of age he 
 was taken by his parents to New York state, 
 and, after the expiration of two years, to Peoria 
 county, 111., where he grew to man's estate. At 
 the early age of nine years he was introduced, 
 through the death of his father, to the serious 
 and responsible side of life, and was forced to 
 face the problem of self-support, .\fter being 
 employed for a time as a chore boy on a farm, 
 he began when eleven years of age to work in 
 the coal mines of Peoria comity. 111. This 
 gloomy and uninspiring occupation was con- 
 tiiuied until his eighteenth year, and, in the 
 mean time, the sturdy and persevering traits of 
 character which have since spanned the distance 
 from the coal mines to a position in the front 
 ranks of the country's educators, began to peer 
 through the dismal surroundings, and to reach 
 out in an overwhelming desire for knowledge. 
 After leaving the mines Mr. McCowan studied 
 at the Elmwood high school in Peoria county, 
 and in 1886 was graduated from the Indiana 
 Normal school, at Valparaiso, Ind. Subse- 
 quently, he served for two years as principal of 
 the academy at Princeville, 111., and for the 
 same length of time was principal of the Lincoln 
 
 high school, at Peoria. Later, as a journalistic 
 venture, he assumed the editorship of the Satur- 
 day Evening Call, a weekly periodical published 
 in Peoria, and which has since been discon- 
 tinued. 
 
 Mr. McCowan's association with the Indians 
 began in 1889, when, for a year, he was superin- 
 tendent of the day schools on the Rosebud reser- 
 vation in South Dakota. In 1890 he was ofYered 
 the choice of the superintendency of three dif- 
 ferent Indian schools, but availed himself of the 
 request of the commissioner of Indian afifairs 
 that he open a new Indian school at Mohave, 
 Ariz. During the six years of his devotion to 
 the interests of the school at Mohave, his salary 
 was twice raised, and at the expiration of the 
 time of service he was promoted to the super- 
 intendency of the Indian school at Albuquerque, 
 N. M. At the end of six months he received 
 a still further mark of appreciation, being ap- 
 pointed supervisor of all the Indian schools in 
 the United States. This responsible position he 
 later resigned in order to take charge of the 
 Indian Industrial School at Phoenix, with whicli 
 he has been associated since 1897. In the in- 
 terval of his residence in Plioenix he has been 
 oiTered the inspectorship of the Indian schools 
 of the United States, but has given the matter 
 little consideration, believing that his wisest and 
 best opportunity lay in connection with the in- 
 stitution of whch he is the ruling power. 
 
 During his student life, and later in connec- 
 tion with his educational work in Illinois and 
 Indiana, Mr. McCowan devoted all possible 
 available time to a mastery of the science of law, 
 and in 1894 he was admitted to practice at the 
 bar of Arizona. In July, 1S85, he married Emma 
 Beecher, a daughter of A. H, Beecher. of Hanna 
 City. 111., and of this union there is one son, 
 Leroy M. Mrs. McCowan is a relative of the 
 famous Henry Ward Beecher of Plymouth 
 Church, Brooklyn, and she is also related to 
 General Rosecrans. As a member of the Re- 
 publican party Mr. McCowan has been identified 
 with many political undertakings, and while liv- 
 ing in Mohave county, Ariz., was elected a dele- 
 gate to the territorial constitutional convention. 
 At present he is serving on the governor's stafT 
 with the rank of colonel. He is variously asso- 
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 organizations which abound in Phoenix and vi- 
 cinity, and is one of the organizers, and the 
 present vice-president of the Home Savings 
 Bank & Trust Company of Phoenix. He is a 
 Knight of Pythias, a member of the board of 
 trade, and president of the IlHnois Association 
 of the Salt River valley. November i6, 1900, 
 he became managing editor of the Arizona Re- 
 publican. 
 
 The Phoenix Indian school with which Mr. 
 McCowan is connected is the second in size 
 in the United States. During the year 1899 
 nearly seven hundred students attended the 
 school, representing more than fifty different 
 tribes, and coming from all over the Pacific 
 coast. The building is a model of its kind, and 
 in addition to the other modern improvements 
 is lighted throughout with electricity. The liter- 
 ary course at the school extends from the kin- 
 dergarten to the high school course, and each 
 child is obliged, during his residence at the 
 school, to adopt and complete a trade. The kind 
 of occupation may be of his own selecting, and 
 he has the choice of cabinet-work, carpentry, 
 blacksmithing, wagon-making, painting, brick- 
 making and laying, plastering, harness ami 
 shoe-making, gardening, horticulture, agricul- 
 ture, dairying, cooking, dressmaking, and house- 
 keeping. It is doubtful if anyone now living, 
 or in the past, has brought to bear upon Indian 
 development the profound study which has en- 
 abled Professor McCowan so readily to under- 
 stand and minister to the special requirements 
 of the redskins. He believes in the old saying 
 that the "Indian nature is human nature bound 
 in red," and to quote his own words, the Indian 
 is "likable and teachable, docile and obedient, 
 apt and easily led." His impression of a few of 
 the tribes is summed up in the words "The 
 Hopis are the nicest, most docile and most 
 obedient Indians, and the smallest ; while the 
 Apache, Mojave and Papago are splendidl\' 
 equipped physically, but inclined toward way- 
 wardness and obstinacy, and uneasy under con- 
 trol." Professor McCowan believes that there 
 is no height to which the Indian may not attain, 
 and under his own observation they have be- 
 come scientific farmers, representatives in con- 
 gress, soldiers in the army, and have excelled 
 in the professions of law and medicine. They 
 
 have also made names for themselves as artists 
 and musicians. The girls develop into excellent 
 trained nurses and cooks, and some are success- 
 ful as teachers. From the standpoint of this 
 noble student of Indian characteristics the fu- 
 ture of the red man holds alluring possibilities 
 and far from being the victims of a surviving 
 fitness, they may, under favorable circumstances, 
 compete with the peoples who have enjoyed 
 centuries of civilization. 
 
 COL. JOHN H. MARTIN. 
 
 The world instinctively pays homage to the 
 man whose success has been worthily achieved, 
 and by common consent Col. John H. Martin, 
 of Tucson, is deemed a leading member of the 
 legal profession of Arizona. In military circles 
 of this territory he is no less popular than in 
 business and social circles, and his fine execu- 
 tive ability and patriotic interest in everything 
 relating to our progress redound greatly to his 
 credit. 
 
 On both the paternal and maternal lines. Colo- 
 nel Martin is of Scotch-Irish descent. His par- 
 ents, James and Sarah J. (Gray) Martin, were 
 natives of the northern part of Ireland, whence 
 they came to the United States early in life. The 
 father resided first in Newburgh, N. Y., and 
 then, removing to St. Louis, Mo., passed the 
 rest of his years there, his death occurring at 
 his old home in 1899. For more than thirty-five 
 years he served as city weigher, and made a 
 good record for fidelity and general efficiency. 
 During the Civil war he served in a Mis- 
 souri regiment, with the rank of second 
 lieutenant, and as a federal ofificer rendered good 
 service. 
 
 Col. J. H. Martin is the eldest of five children, 
 his birth liaving occurred December 28, 1861, in 
 St. Louis, Mo. His education was obtained in 
 the public and high schools of that city, from 
 which he was graduated in 1880. In order to 
 further equip himself for his commercial ca- 
 reer, he pursued a course of study in the local 
 business college, after which he became a dep- 
 uty in the office of the city assessor of St. Louis. 
 In 1885 he came to Tucson, and for about four 
 years served as clerk of the United States dis- 
 trict court, his duties as such terminating in
 
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 November, 1889. In the meantime, in 1887, he 
 had been admitted to the bar, and since the 
 opening of 1890 has devoted liis attention al- 
 most exchisively to the practice of liis profes- 
 sion. Associated with Judge William H. 
 Barnes, his wife's father, he is a member of the 
 firm of Barnes & Martin, in whose charge the 
 legal interests of numerous local enterprises and 
 mining companies are reposed. He is a member 
 of the Territorial Bar Association. 
 
 In 1889 Colonel Martin organized Company 
 D, First Regiment of the Arizona National 
 Guard, and was commissioned as its captain. 
 Two years later he was further honored by being 
 commissioned major of the Third Battalion, and 
 in June, 1892, was elected to the colonelcy of 
 the regiment, in which important position he 
 has served ever since. The people of the north 
 and east, enjoying a much older established 
 civilization, and who labor under many absurd 
 ideas in regard to this and adjoining territory, 
 doubtless would be truly surprised did they 
 know how little demand has been made upon 
 these guardians of the home and nation, dur- 
 ing the past decade, in the actual labors of pre- 
 serving the peace and rights of our citizens. 
 The colonel is justly popular with his com- 
 mand, and has succeeded in inaugurating a thor- 
 ough and systematic method into our military 
 affairs. Initiated into Masonry in Tucson 
 Lodge, No. 4, F. & A. M., he retains his mem- 
 bership there, and, in addition to this, is con- 
 nected with the Benevolent Protective Order of 
 Elks, of this city. Politically he is recognized as 
 one of the leading Democrats of Arizona. 
 
 The marriage of Colonel Martin and Miss Jo- 
 sephine Barnes, daughter of Judge William H. 
 Barnes (see his sketch, which appears elsewhere 
 in this work), was solenuiized at the home of the 
 latter, in Jacksonville, 111., in 1882. Two daugh- 
 ters and a son bless this union, namely: Wil- 
 lie, Madge and James. 
 
 ALBERT W. COTTRELL. M. D. 
 
 Dr. Cottrcll is a skilled physician and sur- 
 geon whose knowledge of the science of medi- 
 cine is broad and comprehensive, and whose 
 ability in applying its principles to the needs of 
 Inmianit)- has gained for him an enviable pres- 
 
 tige in the professional circles of Phoenix. He 
 was born at Almond, Allegany county, N. Y., 
 March 19, 1853, and is the third among six 
 children, all but one. of whom are still living. 
 His brother. Dr. W. Elverton Cottrell, is a prac- 
 ticing dentist of Harrison valley in Pennsyl- 
 vania. The family was founded in America by 
 his grandfather. Dr. Pardon Cottrell, a native of 
 Scotland, who on coming to America located at 
 Troy, N. Y., but spent his last days at Almond. 
 
 Dr. W. S. Cottrell. the father of Albert W., 
 was born near Troy, and on reaching manhood 
 took up the medical profession, which he fol- 
 lowed throughout the remainder of his life, be- 
 ing engaged in practice at Whitesville, Alle- 
 gany county, N. Y. He served as a captain 
 in the New York state militia. He married 
 Manercy Slingerland. whose father was born in 
 Germany, and at one time owned the site of 
 the present city of Syracuse, N. Y., but sold that 
 land and removed to Almond, there becoming 
 an extensive farmer and large land owner. Mrs. 
 Cottrell is now a resident of Westfield, Pa. She 
 is a member of the First Day Baptist church, 
 but all the ancestors of our subject on both sides 
 have belonged to the Seventh Day Baptist 
 church. 
 
 When the family removed to Whitesville, N. 
 Y., Albert W. Cottrell was three years of age. 
 To the public schools of that town he is in- 
 debted for his early educational advantages. 
 Later he attended the Alfred University, and for 
 seven years he successfully engaged in teaching 
 school. For some years he studied medicine 
 with his father, and by aiding him in his work 
 gained a good practical knowledge of the pro- 
 fession which he had chosen as his life work. 
 He was prepared to enter medical college at the 
 age of seventeen, but on account of lack of means 
 turned his attention to school teaching. In 1881 
 he became a student in the University of Buffalo, 
 where he completed a three years' course in two 
 years, graduating in 1883 with the degree of 
 M. D. March 1 i of that year he began prac- 
 tice with his father at Whitesville. and after the 
 latter's death in 1885 he continued alone. It 
 was a strange coincidence that, at the end of 
 his second year of practice he found himself the 
 onlv physician left in a town where formerly 
 five doctors had been practicing. In 1885 he
 
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 was .appointed single medical examiner for the 
 United States pension department in the district 
 of southwestern New York, and held that posi- 
 tion until ill health resulting from overwork- 
 compelled him to leave Whitesville. He was 
 next engaged in ])ractice at Myerstown, Leb- 
 anon county. Pa., and also for six and one-half 
 years conducted a private sanitarium for nervous 
 diseases there. Coming to Phoenix, Ariz., in 
 1894, in connection with his general practice 
 here, he has given special attention to diseases 
 of the heart, lung trouble and nervous diseases. 
 In the treatment of heart trouble he has met 
 with remarkable success. In March, 1897. 
 during an epidemic of grippe in Phoenix, he dis- 
 covered the true germ of the disease, and the 
 result of his research and discovery was pub- 
 lished in the "American Medicine." The imme- 
 diate effect has been a decrease ot over fifty per 
 cent in the mortality rate in his practice, purely 
 fr(.)m the knowledge derived by observation of 
 that germ. As far as is known, he is the original 
 discoverer of the true grippe germ. 
 
 \'arions professional organizations nmnber 
 Dr. Cottrell among their members, including the 
 New York State Medical Association, the Alle- 
 gany County MecHcal Society and the Arizona 
 Medical Association. He is a member of the 
 Baptist church. Socially he belongs to the Mar- 
 icopa and Athletic clubs, being a director in the 
 latter. At Whitesville. X. Y., he married Miss 
 Minnie Teter, who was born there and received 
 her education at Alfred Cniversitv. Three chil- 
 dren bless this union, Ray, Leonard and Robert. 
 The family have a pleasant residence on North 
 Center street and hold an enviable position in 
 social circles. 
 
 The Doctor .and his son Ray have recently lo- 
 cated a very valuable mining property, consisting 
 of a group of six claims, the ore from which as- 
 says 75 per cent lead, $16 gold .and $13.44 in sil- 
 ver per ton. 
 
 CHARLES L. RAWLINS. 
 
 The popular fallacy that only elderly men are 
 competent to handle the afifairs of business and 
 the different professions is constantly being put 
 to rout by the accomplishments of the young 
 men of the period. In fact, it is .getting to be a 
 
 recognized fact that this is the era of the young 
 man, for in every line of human activity he is 
 in great demand, and in many instances it is al- 
 most pathetic to see an elderly man thrust aside 
 for one of perhaps half his age. Among the 
 com])aratively new comers to Solomonville, 
 Charles L. Rawlins is numbered, yet he has 
 made rapid progress here in his chosen profes- 
 sion, and has won a host of friends in business 
 and social circles. 
 
 Born at New Franklin, Howard county. Mo., 
 September 13, 1875, a son of Nicholas and 
 Emma (Gibson) Rawlins, Charles L. grew to 
 manhood in his native locality. His father, who 
 was a pioneer of Missouri, was a native of Mis- 
 sissippi, and died in 1876. The mother is yet liv- 
 ing, but of her three children one daughter is 
 deceased, Ella, who died in 1889. Lessie, now 
 the wife of William ( ). Cox, resides in New 
 Franklin, Mo. 
 
 Having completed his high school course, 
 Cliarles L. Rawlins matriculated in Webb 
 Brothers' Training School at 15ell Buckle, Tenn., 
 a celebrated southern college, and was gradu- 
 ated there in 1892. He then went to St. Charles 
 (Mo.) College, and later graduated in the class 
 of 1895 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 
 Tenn. Desiring further to qualify himself, he 
 next entered Cumberland University, at Leb- 
 anon, Tenn., where he completed a special 
 course in law in 1897. Returning to Missouri, 
 the young man was admitted to the bar July 
 28, 1898, before Judge John A. Hockaday, ex- 
 attorney-general of the state, now on the circuit 
 bench. 
 
 August 5, 1898, C. L. Rawlins bade adieu to 
 the friends and scenes of his youth, coming to 
 Arizona to make a place for himself. Proceed- 
 ing direct to Tucson, he remained there only 
 a short time and arrived in Solomonville Sep- 
 tember 2, 1898. Here he at once established an 
 office, and only three months later was honored 
 bv appointment to the post of district attorney 
 of Graham county. Subsequently he resigned 
 from that office, in order to do more justice to 
 his rapidly increasing practice. Though one of 
 the voungest members of tlie county bar, and 
 though he was without much means when he 
 landed in this city, he has made a gratifying suc- 
 cess of his enterprises, and the future is full
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 207 
 
 of promise for him. He has served as attorney 
 for the city and is a notary public. His fran- 
 chise is nsed on behalf of the nominees of the 
 Democratic party. Fraternally he is a member 
 of Montezuma Lodge, No. 16, K. of P., which 
 order he joined in Missouri. The Maraville Cop- 
 per Company, incorporated under the laws of 
 West \'irginia, employs Mr. Rawlins as legal 
 adviser and attorney. He also serves in a simi- 
 lar capacity for the Arizona & Boston Copper 
 Company and the Marenci Southern Railway 
 Company. 
 
 The marriage of the subject of this article and 
 Miss Jennie V. Kelley took place in this city 
 February 7, 1899. They are the parents of one 
 son, George Herndon, born March 4, 1901. Mr. 
 Rawlins, aided by the suggestions and counsel 
 of his young wife, is building an attractive resi- 
 dence, and with true hospitality they look for- 
 ward to the time when they can throw open 
 their pretty home to the entertainment of their 
 numerous friends. 
 
 HON. WILLIAM MORGAN. 
 
 One of the most conspicuous instances of the 
 self-made man in Arizona is to be found in Hon. 
 William Morgan, of Showlow, member of the 
 territorial legislature from Navajo county, and 
 one of the successful sheep-raisers of the terri- 
 tory. A native of Chicago, 111., Mr. Morgan 
 was born in 1857 and is a son of Daniel and 
 Esther (McGrath) Morgan. At the age of eight 
 years, death deprived him of a father's care, and 
 he almost immediately was obliged to set about 
 earning his livelihood. He started out in life 
 as a messenger boy for the Atlantic & Pacific 
 Telegraph Company, I-'rom the age of fourteen 
 until he was eighteen he was employed in the 
 Chicago stock yards. 
 
 Three years before attaining his majority Mr. 
 Morgan went to Texas and for two years was 
 engaged in herding sheep on a ranch near San 
 Antonio. In 1879 he removed to Yavapai 
 county, Ariz., settling in that portion which is 
 now included in Navajo county. His first 
 employment was that of sheep-herder at $25 per 
 month. Four years later he and Joseph Spon- 
 seller bought a herd of thirty-five hundred 
 sheep at $1.50 per head, paying twelve per cent 
 
 interest on the debt incurred by the transaction. 
 Establishing a ranch at Showlow, Mr. Morgan 
 has since made this place his home. His part- 
 nership with Mr. Sponseller continued for four 
 years, but since 1887 he has engaged in the same 
 business by himself, and meantime has attained 
 unusual success. During the earlier days of his 
 life in Arizona he was a witness of many of the 
 Indian trouliles. including the warfare between 
 the federal government and Geronimo and Vic- 
 toria with their bands of Apaches. 
 
 Although Mr. Morgan has devoted practically 
 his entire life to the sheep industry, he has 
 recently identified hmiself actively with terri- 
 torial politics. As the candidate of the Demo- 
 cratic ])artv, he served two terms as justice of 
 the peace, then held the office of supervisor one 
 \ ear and a half by appointment, and subse- 
 <|uently was elected to the latter office for a full 
 term of four vears. In 1900 he was a candidate 
 for member of the legislature, defeating Burton 
 C. Mossman, the Republican nominee, though 
 he made no canvass whatever for the office. In 
 the present legislature he serves as chairman of 
 the committee on federal relations, and as a 
 member of the committees on claims, appropria- 
 tions, live stock, and county and county boun- 
 daries. Personally, he is a large-hearted, gen- 
 erous, hospitable man, a valued member of 
 society, a liberal contributor to public benefi- 
 ciaries, and the possessor of many warm per- 
 sonal friends. 
 
 GEN. GEORGE J. ROSKRUGE. 
 
 The life record of General Roskruge is indis- 
 solubly associated with the history of Masonry 
 in Arizona. He was born in Roskruge, near 
 Helston, Cornwall, England, April 10, 1845. ■'^* 
 the age of fifteen he secured employment as 
 messenger boy in the law office of Messrs. 
 Grylls, Hill & Hill, of Helston. August 12, 
 i860, he entered the Seventh Company of the 
 Duke of Cornwall's Rifle \'olunteers. in which 
 he served ten years, meantime gaining consider- 
 able note as a rifle shot, being the winner of 
 many company and regimental prizes. August 
 y, 1868, he was selected as one of the Cornish 
 Twentv to compete with the Devon Twenty in 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 For the two years prior to his resignation from 
 the Vohinteers, he wore the Three Stars, for be- 
 ing tlie crack shot of his company. 
 
 The date of General Roskruge's arrival in the 
 United States is October, 1870. Going direct 
 to Denver, Colo., he was given employment by 
 Lawrence X. Greenleaf and Gardner G. Brewer. 
 After two years in Denver, he, in company with 
 twenty other adventnrous spirits, determined to 
 visit Arizona, .\fter having experienced perils 
 of floods, dronghts, famine and the hostility of 
 the Apaches, they reached Prescott in Jnne. 
 1872. Dnring November of the same year he 
 engaged as .cook and packer with Omar H. 
 Case, depnty United States snrveyor, who at the 
 time was running the fifth standard parallel 
 north from Patridge creek to the Colorado 
 river. As chainman, he assisted Mr. Case in 
 the spring of 1873. Dnring 1874 he was for 
 several months in the field with United States 
 Deputy Surveyor. C. B. Foster. On returning 
 from the field, he prepared the maps and field 
 notes for transmission to the surveyor-general. 
 The neat and correct manner in which these 
 maps were made caused the then surveyor-gen- 
 eral of .'\rizona. Hon. John Wasson, to tender 
 him the position of chief draughtsman in his 
 office. Accepting the position, he filled it with 
 credit. In June, 1880, he resigned in order to 
 devote his attention to surveying, having re- 
 ceived an appointment as United States deputy 
 land and mineral surveyor. He has served four 
 terms as county surveyor of Pima county, three 
 terms as city engineer of Tucson, one term as a 
 member of the board of regents of the Uni- 
 versity of Arizona, and in 1888 was elected vice- 
 president of the Tucson Building & Loan As- 
 sociation, of which he was made president in 
 1889. July I, 1893, he was appointed chief clerk 
 in the United States surveyor-general's office. 
 Upon the resignation of the surveyor-general, 
 in 1896, he was appointed to the office by Presi- 
 dent Cleveland, and continued in that capacity 
 until August, 1897: when, on account of a 
 change in the national administration, his suc- 
 cessor was appointed. The tender of the office 
 to him was an honor fittingly bestowed and 
 wortliily worn. 
 
 At the formation of the ."Xssociation of Civil 
 Engineers of Arizona in 1807, he was unani- 
 
 mously elected president, though at the time he 
 was not present at the meeting. He is also .1 
 member of the .\nierican Society of Irrigation 
 Engineers. Under President Cleveland's first 
 administration he was appointed special in- 
 spector of public surveys. During President 
 .Arthur's administration he was appointed super- 
 intendent of irrigating ditches for the Papago 
 Indian Reservation at San Xavier, near Tucson. 
 The connection of General Roskruge with 
 Masonry forms an important era in his life. 
 June 10, 1870. he was made a Master Mason in 
 True and Faithful Lodge No. 318, at Helston, 
 Cornwall. November 30, 1882, he was exalted 
 to the Sublime Royal Arch Degree in Tucson 
 Chapter No. 3. .August zj, 1884, he was ad- 
 mitted and passed as a Royal and Select Master 
 in California Council No. 2, at San Francisco, 
 Cal. May i, 1883, he was created a Knight 
 Templar in Arizona Commandery No. i. .Au- 
 gust 24, 1884, he was elected an honorary mem- 
 ber of Tucson Lodge No. 4; .April 11, 1883, in 
 recognition of services rendered the craft, he was 
 elected an honorary member of the Masonic 
 \'eterans" .Association of the Pacific coast. 
 October 21, 1893. he was created an active life 
 member and corresponding secretary for .Ari- 
 zona. His admission into Islam Temple. .A. A. 
 O. N. M. S.. took place in September. 1884. 
 During the month of December, 1882, he re- 
 ceived the degrees of Ancient and .Accepted 
 Scottish Rite from the fourth to the thirty- 
 second, inclusive. The Supreme Council for the 
 Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, in 
 October, 1890, elected him a Grand Commander 
 of the Court of Honor. January 24, 1894, he 
 was crowned Sovereign Inspector General, 
 Honorary. The Grand Master of Knights 
 Templar of the United States of .America. Sir 
 LaRue Thomas, November 28, 1895, appointed 
 him inspector of grand and subordinate com- 
 manderies for the Fifteenth Templar District of 
 the United States, embracing Nevada, Utah, 
 New Mexico and .Arizona. At the formation of 
 the Grand Lodge of .Arizona, March 23, 1882, he 
 was elected grand secretary, and has served con- 
 tinuously as such up to the present time, with 
 the exception of the year 1890, when he was 
 elected grand master. As proxy for David F. 
 Day, general grand high priest of the United
 
 rORTRAlT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 213 
 
 States, November 12, 1890, he instituted the 
 Grand Chapter, R. A. M., of Arizona, and in- 
 stalled the grand officers, he himself being 
 chosen grand secretary, which position he has 
 lieUl up to the present, with the exception of 
 the year 1893, when he served as grand high 
 priest. Also, as proxy for Sir Hugh ]\IcCurdy, 
 grand master of Knights Templar of the L'nited 
 States of America, November 6. 1893. he in- 
 stituted the tirand Commandery of Arizona ant! 
 installed its grand officers, being at that time 
 elected grand commander. He was the only 
 Mason who was present at and assisted in the 
 formation of all three grand bodies in Arizona, 
 and is appropriately called the "father" of 
 Masonry in Arizona. He is the grand secretary 
 of the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter and 
 grand recorder of the Grand Commandery, cor- 
 responding secretary of the Masonic Veterans" 
 Association of the Pacific coast, and treasurer 
 of the M. E. Order of High Priesthood. 
 
 From this sketch of the General's Masonic 
 career it will be seen that he holds high rank 
 in one of the noblest fraternities the world has 
 ever known. His life has been an exemplifica- 
 tion of the truths for which Masonr\- stands. 
 Those in need have ever received his sympathy 
 and aid. Having himself experienced many 
 vicissitudes, he is able to appreciate and sym- 
 pathize with the reverses of others, and hence 
 can enter more fully into their feelings than one 
 whose life has been all sunshine. More than 
 once he himself has known what it is to be out 
 of reach of provisions, and suffering the pangs of 
 hunger. More than once he has known what 
 it is to be without money, and among strangers. 
 Yet in those days, now long past, he never 
 allowed liimself to become discouraged, just as 
 he has never permitted success to unduly exalt 
 him. His varied experiences have served to 
 round out his life into symmetrv. and have given 
 him the breadth of information nowhere else 
 tjbtainable. ( )ne of his early experiences in Ari- 
 zona, which dwells in his memory with unfad- 
 ing clearness, is that of a camping expedition 
 at \'olunteer Si>rings (now Belmont) on the At- 
 lantic and F^acific Division of the Santa Fe Rail- 
 road, where he anrl three coni])anions partook of 
 a breakfast consisting of twelve early rose po- 
 tatoes. They then started to walk to Prescott. 
 8 
 
 Three and one-half days later they reached the 
 lianghart ranch in the Little Chino valley, where 
 they were given an abundance of food, this be- 
 ing the first they had eaten in eighty-four hours. 
 
 There are few citizens of Tucson who are 
 more widely known throughout Arizona than 
 General Roskruge. Nor is his prominence 
 limited to circles of Masonry. Among people of 
 all classes and ranks in life, he is known as a 
 pioneer of the territory and a man whose aim 
 for years has been to promote its welfare and 
 develop its resources. As such, his name is 
 worthy of perpetuation in the annals of local 
 history. 
 
 In May, 1896, he married Lena, daughter of 
 Judge John S. Wood, of Tucson. Mrs. Rosk- 
 ruge was born in California and there received 
 her education. 
 
 For facts referring to the General's Masonic 
 career, the writer acknowledges indebtedness to 
 McFarland & Poole's work of Arizona. 
 
 P. SANDOA'AL & CO. 
 
 1 his firm, and the energetic, progressive 
 young men who constitute it, need no introduc- 
 tion to the people of Northern Mexico, South- 
 ern Arizona and Lower California, as their 
 merits and widely extended business enterprises 
 throughoin this region have made them well 
 known, and wherever known, highly respected. 
 Nogales is to be congratulated that so reliable 
 and accommodating a firm has established a 
 bank within its borders, and, beyond a doubt, 
 the growth and importance of the place dates 
 from 1888, in which year the brothers first were 
 associated under the present firm name. 
 
 The genius and native business ability of P. 
 Sandoval, the senior partner, was manifested, 
 when, December 5, 1884. he came to Nogales to 
 open a custom-house agency, for though the 
 place then was a mere hamlet, with a scanty 
 population, lie had the .sagacity to know that the 
 future had something greater in store for the 
 boundary town, between the two great regions 
 of Arizona and Sonora, so richly endowed by 
 nature. Prior to the date mentioned, Mr. 
 Sandoval had been a jjartner of the firm: of J. V. 
 Sandoval & Hijos, of Guaymas. Mexico, (both 
 brothers being members of the firm) and though
 
 214 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a young man, had already amply demonstrated 
 his executive ability. 
 
 After spending three and a half years in 
 Nogales, the brothers found that their business 
 interests had grown to such proportions that it 
 became expedient to establish a bank, so they 
 founded the banking house of P. Sandoval & 
 Co., the "company" comprising the brother 
 Aurelio. The firm transacts a vast amount of 
 business, representing European and American 
 land and mining investors, and capitalists of 
 Mexico and all parts of the world. Rich and 
 valuable ranches and agricultural lands, mining 
 property and mining concessions in Mexico, 
 town and city real estate, cattle and many other 
 sources of wealth are dealt in extensively. In 
 addition to this, the firm does a large custom- 
 house brokerage business, being local agents of 
 Cie du Boleo, La Dura Mining & Milling Co., 
 and, in brief, of the principal mining companies 
 and commercial establishments of Sonora, 
 Sinaloa and Lower California. The firm has 
 recently been appointed agent of the Banco 
 Nacional de Mexico, the largest banking insti- 
 tution of the Republic. 
 
 Owing to the magnitude of their transactions, 
 it became almost a necessity to the Sandoval 
 brothers to have a banking institution of their 
 own in Nogales, Ariz., and October i, 1899, the 
 bank operated under the jurisdiction of P. San- 
 doval & Co., opened its doors to the business 
 public, and from that time forward has met with 
 a liberal patronage. Under the management of 
 the cashier, I. Macmanus, who possesses ripe 
 financial ability, the affairs of the bank are pros- 
 pering, reflecting great credit upon all con- 
 nected with the enterprise. (See personal sketch 
 of Mr. Macmanus, printed elsewhere in this 
 volume.) 
 
 In 1897 P. Sandoval & Co., with the co-opera- 
 tion of ex-Governor Don Ramon Corral and 
 Don Luis A. Martinez, of Guaymas, carried to a 
 successful issue the establishment of the Banco 
 de Sonora, located at Hermosillo, with a capital 
 of $1,000,000, of which P. Sandoval & Co. are 
 the third heaviest stockholders and which has 
 become a rich and highly flourishing banking in- 
 stitution. The bank of P. Sandoval & Co., of 
 Nogales, is the local agent of the Sonora bank, 
 the senior member of the firm being one of the 
 
 board of directors of the last-named bank. The 
 success which he has achieved is truly remark- 
 able, and his uniform courtesy and genuine de- 
 sire to accommodate the public in all business 
 afifairs accounts, in a measure at least, for his 
 personal popularity. 
 
 HON. JAMES BUCHANAN FINLEY. 
 
 Unlike the majority whose greatest prosperity 
 has been found within the borders of this re- 
 cently awakened territory, Hon. J. B. Finley was 
 born in the adjoining state of California, and 
 has been associated for the greater part of his 
 life with the rapid progressiveness of the far 
 west. A native of Santa Rosa, Cal., born No- 
 vember 22, 1856, he is a son of Samuel Joseph 
 and Prudence (Brians) Finley, natives respec- 
 tively of Decatur, 111., and of Jackson, Mo. The 
 paternal grandfather was a farmer and in early 
 life removed from Kentucky to Illinois, where he 
 died. 
 
 Samuel Joseph Finley led a varied and inter- 
 esting life, and was among the throng whose 
 ambitious dreams were centered upon California 
 in the days of gold. The journey thence was by 
 way of Panama, and upon arriving at his destina- 
 tion in 1849 he engaged for a time in mining, 
 and subsequently became interested in farming 
 and stock raising in Santa Rosa, Cal. In 1851 
 he returned for his family, who accompanied 
 him on the return trip across the plains, with 
 o.x-teams and wagons, by way of the Platte and 
 Caiion City. In Santa Rosa he attained to a 
 deserved prominence in public affairs, and in the 
 early fifties held the responsible and even dan- 
 gerous position of sheriff of Sonoma county. 
 This office was rendered anything but an envi- 
 able one by the state of affairs which engendered 
 the well-remembered vigilance committees that 
 held sway before the state or town organization. 
 The wife of S. J. Finley was formerly a daughter 
 of Jackson Brians, a native of Missouri, who 
 died while defending the northern cause during 
 the Civil war. Mrs. Finley, who died in Santa 
 Rosa, was the mother of ten children, seven of 
 whom are living. Those besides James B. are: 
 Alvira, who is now Mrs. C. F. Richardson, of 
 Tucson; Sanuiel W., who is engaged in freight- 
 ing at Naco, .Ariz.; George T., who is living
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 215 
 
 at Lordsburg, N. M.; Alice, who is married to 
 Arthur Oman, of Palestine, Tex.; John L., who 
 is a mining engineer in Sonora, Mexico; and 
 Martha, who is now the wife of James F. Oliver, 
 of Helena, Mont. 
 
 Until his sixteenth year J. B. Finley lived on 
 his father's farm in California, and received in 
 the mean time a fair education in the public 
 schools As an independent venture he engaged 
 in the saw mill business until his twenty-first 
 year, and in 1877 removed to Winnenuicca, 
 Nev., and became interested in mining and cattle 
 raising. In October of 1882 the mining and cat- 
 tle interests were satisfactorily disposed of, and 
 Mr. Finley located in Deming, Grant county, 
 N. M., where he engaged in contracting and 
 building until 1885. The same year he entered 
 the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad 
 Company at Deming, as manager of the Pull- 
 man repair shop. In December, 1886, he was 
 sent to Tucson as foreman of the company's 
 shops at that place, and in July of 1887 was pro- 
 moted to the position of master car repairer of 
 the Tucson division, between El Paso and 
 Yuma. To the duties of this responsible posi- 
 tion he has since devoted his energies. 
 
 Mr. Finley is generally conceded to be one 
 of the best legislators in the territory, and the 
 measures and reforms brought about through 
 his wise suggestion have universally been recog- 
 nized as of paramount utility. In 1896 he was 
 nominated on the Democratic ticket to the nine- 
 teenth legislative assembly by the largest vote 
 on the ticket, and was chairman of the commit- 
 tee on corporations, and a member of many 
 other committees. His bill for the reinstating 
 of the salaries of the county officials was vetoed 
 by the governor, and subsequently proved to be 
 the onlv bill passed over the governor's veto. In 
 1898 Mr. Finley was nominated by acclamation 
 to the territorial council, and elected by a large 
 majority to the twentieth legislative council. 
 During the sessions he was chairman of the en- 
 rolling and engrossing conniiittees, and served 
 on several other important conuuittees, his op- 
 position being largely responsible for the de- 
 feat of the woman's sulTrage bill. He secured 
 the passage of the poll tax law. which rendered 
 e-ompulsory the payment of a poll tax at the time 
 of registration. In igoo he was again nominated 
 
 by acclamation, this time to be joint councilman 
 for Pima and Santa Cruz counties, over George 
 Pusch, whom he defeated by a majority of five 
 hundred votes. Aside from his legislative re- 
 sponsibilities he has served as a member of ter- 
 ritorial and county Democratic central commit- 
 tees. 
 
 In Tucson, Ariz., Mr. Finley was united in 
 marriage with Clara Letts, who was born in 
 Burlington, Iowa. Mr. Finley is a member of 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and is 
 a director of the club which is run by that or- 
 ganization. He is also associated with the 
 Knights of Pythias, and the Ancient Order of 
 LTnitcd Workmen, and is a member of the Pa- 
 cific Coast Railway Club. 
 
 HON. SAMUEL Y. BARKLEY. 
 
 LTndoubtedly one of the most popular citizens 
 of Tucson is Hon. Samuel Y. Barkley, who, 
 with little special efTort upon his part, might 
 easily rise to a foremost place among the states- 
 men to .\rizona, and to still greater honors than 
 he has yet enjoyed. However, he is not ambi- 
 tious of public distinction, although every move- 
 ment calculated to advance the welfare of Ari- 
 zona receives his support, and his name always 
 stands for progress. 
 
 A direct descendant of a Revolutionary hero, 
 Mr. Barkley is of Scotch-Irish extraction. His 
 great-grandfather Barkley located in Virginia 
 upon coming from the northern part of Ireland, 
 and later he went to Tennessee, in the meantime 
 serving in the war for independence. Three or 
 four generations of his descendants have since 
 resided in Tennessee. Thomas C, father of 
 Saiiuiel Y. Barkley, was born in Rutherford 
 county, Tenn., and during the Civil war served 
 in a regiment of that state. In 1882 he re- 
 moved w'ith his family to Johnson county, Tex., 
 and seven years afterwards came to Arizona, 
 where he now owns a farm near Glendale, Mari- 
 copa county. His wife, fortuerly Nancy J. Wil- 
 son, was of Scotch descent. She was born in 
 Wilson county, Tenn., and died on the old home- 
 stead in Johnson county, Tex., when fifty-six 
 years of age. Their eldest son. Rev. William T. 
 Barkley. is the pastor of the Cumberland 
 Presbyterian Church at Glendale. Charles H.,
 
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 the second son, is a farmer near Glendale, and 
 D. Frank is a farmer near Mesa. John A. is in 
 partnership with our subject, and J. Burke died 
 in i8<)8 at Mesa. Mrs. .Vnnie C. Bone and Mrs. 
 Nannie H. Green reside near Phoenix, while 
 Mrs. Jennie M. Fuller lives at Glendale, and 
 Mrs. Mary C. \'incent is a resident of Tucson. 
 
 The birth of Hon. Samuel Y. Barkley oc- 
 curred .\pril 26, 1866, at the old family home in 
 Rutherford county, Tenn., but he was reared in 
 Dyer county, that state. In 1882 he came to the 
 west, and for some time pursued his studies at 
 Barrows high school, in Cleburne, Tex., then 
 encraging in teaching for about a year. In 1887 
 he came to Arizona and took up some land, well 
 situated on the Salt River canal, some nine miles 
 west of Phoenix. This place he improved and 
 cultivated for four years, also managing a tarm 
 near Mesa. The homestead he disposed of in 
 1891, but still owns the one near Mesa. 
 
 Ten years ago Mr. Barkley commenced study- 
 ing law under the direction of Frank Cox and 
 Judge Webster Street, of Phoenix, with whom 
 he"remained a student during three winters, but 
 at the end of this period the attractions of the 
 commercial world gained the mastery over the 
 young man. Since 1895 he has lived in Tucson, 
 where he bought a half interest in the livery 
 business with which he is yet connected. At 
 the end of three years he bought out his part- 
 ner, W. S. Neff, and since December, 1898, has 
 been a member of the firm of Barkley Brothers. 
 The Tucson Stables, as the establishment is 
 known, was situated on Scott, near Camp street, 
 and is now at the corner of Congress and Sixth 
 avenue. .\ substantial brick structure, 102x185 
 feet in dimensions, it is the largest stable in the 
 city, and has few, if any, superiors in Arizona. 
 A stage line between Tucson and Helvetia 
 (thirty-odd miles away) is maintained by Bark- 
 ley Brothers, one trip each way loeing made 
 every day. 
 
 .An active worker in the Democratic party, 
 Samuel Y. Barkley has been valued as a mem- 
 ber I if the county central committee. In 1898 
 he was nominated by acclamation, and without 
 his solicitation, as representative of this district 
 in the .\rizona legislature, but owing to pressing 
 business affairs was obliged to decline the honor. 
 His friends, however, were so determined to 
 
 send him to the legislative assembly that in the 
 fall of 1900 he was again their nominee, without 
 any expressed desire upon his part, and in the 
 ensuing election he was elected by the largest 
 majority on the legislative ticket. In the 
 Twenty-first legislature he stood for all meas- 
 ures calculated to advance our public prosper- 
 ity. He introduced and secured the passage of 
 acts securing a bond issue ol $25,000 for addi- 
 tional buildings for the Territorial University at 
 Tucson and increasing the maintenance fund of 
 that institution, and a law appropriating $2,500 
 for the maintenance of the Arizona Pioneers' 
 Historical Society. 
 
 He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the 
 Foresters of America, the Woodmen of the 
 World, and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, and religiously is an elder in the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Barkley and Miss Nannie 
 A. Howard took place in Tenipe, Ariz., October 
 22. 1892. She IS a native of Cooke county, 
 Tex., daughter of Jonathan Howard (de- 
 ceased), and possesses many charms of mind 
 and heart. Two little daughters, Bessie J. and 
 \ elma E., bless the home of this sterling couple. 
 
 HON. W. T. SMITH. 
 
 The prosperity of any community depends 
 upon its business activity, and the enterprise 
 manifest in commercial circles is the foundation 
 upon which is builded the material welfare of 
 town, state and nation. The most important 
 factors in public life at the present day are there- 
 fore the men who are in control of successful 
 business interests and such a one is Mr. Smith 
 of Phoenix, who is president of the Arizona 
 Land & Stock Company, and also of the 
 Ochard Grove Investment Company. 
 
 He was born in Sonoma county, Cal., May 6, 
 1853, and is the seventh in order of birth in a 
 family of six sons and two daughters, of whom 
 five sons and one daughter are still living, but 
 he is the only one in .\rizona. He comes of good 
 .old Revolutionary stock, and his paternal grand- 
 father, Henry Smith, was among the defenders 
 of the country in the war of 1812. He was a 
 native of Little Rock, Va., and a pioneer of 
 Tennessee. W. A. Smith, our subject's father.
 
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 was born in the latter state, and in 1852 crossed 
 the plains with ox teams, settling in Sonoma 
 county, Cal., where he followed farming for 
 some years. In 1876 he removed to Santa Ana, 
 that state, where his death occurred. His wife, 
 who bore the maiden name of Rebecca Clark 
 and was a native of Sandusky, Ohio, is still liv- 
 ing in California at the age of eighty years. Her 
 father, John Clark, died in that state. 
 
 W. T. Smith was educated in the district 
 schools of his native state, and in 1876 engaged 
 in teaming in Southern California. In December 
 of that year he started for Arizona, and arrived 
 in Phoenix on the 28th of January, 1877, at 
 which time the town contained a population of 
 only four hundred. For a year he was engaged 
 in mining at the Silver King Mine in Pinal 
 county, and the following year carried on a 
 butchering business in Phoenix. He was pro- 
 prietor of the Capital Hotel ten years, and for 
 two years was engaged in general merchandis- 
 ing. In 1891 he organized the Sunset Telephone 
 Company; built all the lines in Phoenix and 
 throughout the Salt River valley; and was 
 manager of the same until 1900, when he sold 
 the business. During all these years he has been 
 interested in mining, and now as a member of 
 the firm of Smith & Marlow owns the Cayanide 
 plant near Morristown, Maricopa county. As 
 previously stated he is also president of the 
 Orchard Grove Investment Company and the 
 Arizona Land & Stock Company, both of which 
 own some very valuable property. At different 
 times he has been interested in farming in the 
 Salt River valley, and has also been connected 
 with other business enterprises. Tlioroughness 
 and persistency have characterized his entire 
 business career, and have been supplemented by 
 careful attention to details and by honorable, 
 straightforward effort, that have gained him a 
 most excellent and enviable reputation. 
 
 In Maricopa county Mr. Smith married Miss 
 Sarah A. McElrath, a native of California, by 
 whom he has two children, William Walter and 
 Thomas Jefferson. As a Democrat Mr. Smith 
 has taken a very prominent and influential part 
 in local politics; has served as chairman of the 
 county conmiittee several times, and as a mem- 
 ber of the territorial committee. For four years 
 he represented the fourth ward in the city 
 
 council; was a member of the county board of 
 supervisors the same length of time; and in 
 March, 1892, was elected to the territorial 
 council, becoming a member of the seventeenth 
 general assembly. He secured an appropriation 
 for the Normal School at Tempe, and was also 
 instrumental in securing the passage of the bill 
 for ta.xing the national hanks. His public service 
 has been most exemplary, and he has left office 
 as he entered it with the entire confidence of the 
 public. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and several 
 other societies. 
 
 JOHN BRYAN McNALLY, M. D. 
 
 Dr. McNally, surgeon for the Santa Fe, Pres- 
 cott & Phoeni.x Railroad, and now serving his 
 fourth term as county physician of Yavapai 
 county, is one of the ablest young practitioners 
 of this portion of Arizona. From his boyhood 
 he has been noted for his ambitious, determined 
 way of overcoming obstacles which he has 
 encountered, and to himself alone he owes his 
 signal success. 
 
 The doctor is a native of County Carlow, Ire- 
 land, his birth having taken place in the town 
 of Old Leighlin thirty-five years ago. His 
 father, John McNally, who is of an old family in 
 the county mentioned, and is still living on the 
 old homestead he has cultivated for many 
 decades past, is a hero of the Civil war of the 
 United States, for he served in a New England 
 regiment throughout that strife, then returning 
 to the Emerald Isle. His wife, the doctor's 
 mother, Mrs. Mary (Lynch) McNally, was born 
 and spent her entire life in Ireland. One of 
 their sons. Bernard, died in San Francisco in 
 1897, and the only survivor is the doctor, who 
 is the youngest of the family. A brother of Dr. 
 McNally, Rev. J. B. McNally, is pastor of a 
 Roman Catholic Church in Oakland, Cal., and is 
 a lecturer of considerable celebrity. 
 
 The elementary education of our subject was 
 obtained in the national schools of Ireland and 
 in Christian Brothers' College, at Bagnalstown. 
 In 1883 he crossed the Atlantic to seek his live- 
 lihood in the United States, and proceeding 
 direct to San Francisco soon secured some 
 employment. Desiring further business qualifi- 
 cations, he attended the Lincoln night school
 
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 for some time, and for a period worked for the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Then he 
 determined to prepare himself for the medical 
 profession and commenced his studies along this 
 line under the direction of Dr. E. R. Bryant, of 
 San Francisco. In 1892 he entered Hahnemann 
 Hospital College, of that city, and after com- 
 pleting the systematic four years' course 
 required was graduated in the class of 1896, with 
 the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master 
 of Surgery. He had taken special work in 
 clinical surgery and during the last year of his 
 college career was demonstrator of anatomy. 
 Re-elected to that responsible position for 
 another year, he nevertheless declined to serve, 
 as he desired to establish himself in independent 
 practice immediately. From that time to the 
 present he has been particularly fortunate in his 
 surgical work, his reputation for skill being 
 widespread. 
 
 The year which witnessed his graduation saw 
 his arrival in Prescott. In the same year he 
 took a special course in diseases of the ear and 
 throat. For the past four years he has been the 
 local surgeon for the railroad passing through 
 this place, as was previously mentioned, and in 
 addition to this is the medical examiner for the 
 lodges of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men and the Woodmen of the World. He also 
 belongs to the Red Men and the Good Tem- 
 plars, and to the Arizona Homeopathic Medical 
 Association. In politics a stalwart Republican, 
 he is now acting as a member of the county 
 central committee and is an effective worker in 
 the party. 
 
 In San Francisco Dr. McNally was united in 
 marriage with Miss Annie Sweeney, a lady of 
 liberal education and at the time numbered 
 among the teachers of the city of the Golden 
 (jate. She is a native of County Kildare, Ire- 
 land. Two children bless the hearts and home 
 of this sterling couple, named respectively, 
 Genevieve and John Bryan, Jr. 
 
 FRANK H. PARKER. 
 Among the hosts of public-spirited, broad- 
 minded men who are steadily and surely guiding 
 Arizona toward statehood Frank H. Parker, of 
 Phoenix, stands in the front ranks. The high 
 
 estimation in which he is held by the general 
 public here may be deduced from even a very 
 brief review of his career — in fact, by the mere 
 recapitulation of the important offices to which 
 he has been called, and the efficient and painstak- 
 ing manner in which he has discharged his 
 duties. 
 
 A son of J. T. and Roxana (Woodruff) 
 Parker, our subject is a descendant of Revolu- 
 tionary heroes, both families having been well 
 represented in that war. Possessing the same 
 patriotic spirit, J. T. Parker and four of his 
 brothers, and three of the brothers of his wife, 
 fought for the Union when it was threatened 
 by the Civil war. Some of the Parkers were 
 officers in Ohio regiments, and though two re- 
 ceived wounds, all survived the terrible conflict. 
 J. T. Parker served as a private of the Sixty- 
 fifty Ohio Infantry for three years and four 
 months, and two of the three sons of Abraham 
 Woodruff (father of Mrs. Parker) were killed in 
 the war. 
 
 The Parker family was founded in Massachu- 
 setts at an early period by three English broth- 
 ers. E. C. Parker, father of J. T., and grand- 
 father of F. H. Parker, was born in Oswego 
 county, N. Y., at the beginning of the nineteenth 
 century, and at the age of nineteen went to the 
 Western Reserve in Ohio. In Huron county, 
 that state, he improved a farm and reared eight 
 sons. Abraham Woodruff, likewise a native of 
 the Empire state, was a pioneer of western New 
 York and later of Ohio. J. T. Parker's birth- 
 place was on the old homestead near Peru, 
 Huron county, Ohio, "and in his early manhood 
 he followed the trades of cooper and carpenter. 
 His home was in North Fairfield, Ohio, until 
 1883, when he went to Vanderbilt, Mich., and 
 there was the proprietor of a hotel for four years. 
 The last year of his life was spent in Saginaw, 
 Mich., where he died in 1888, being survived by 
 his widow, and their eight children. He was 
 identified with the Grand Army of the Republic 
 and with the Christian Church. 
 
 F. H. Parker, the only member of the family 
 not living in Michigan, was born in Huron 
 county, Ohio, September 17, 1859, and received 
 a common and high school education. With 
 his father he mastered the cooper's trade but 
 never devoted much time to that calling. From
 
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 1880 to 1884 he taught school in Otsego county, 
 Mich., after which he was similarly employed in 
 Dundee and Ridgeway, Mich. In the last- 
 named place he was principal of schools for 
 three years, and in the meantime attended the 
 JNIichigan State Normal at Ypsilanti. In his 
 senior year he left there in order to come to 
 Arizona, and for a year was assistant principal 
 of the Phoenix high school, and then served as 
 principal in the Osborne school. 
 
 Having purchased a ranch near Phoenix, Mr. 
 Parker commenced farming, making a specialty 
 of raising cattle and conducting a dairy. His 
 herd contains many high grade and full-blooded 
 Shorthorn cattle. The two hundred and forty- 
 acre ranch which he owns is finely improved, 
 having irrigation facilities and good farm build- 
 ings which he has erected. A portion of the 
 land adjoins the city limits, and accordingly is 
 very valuable. In addition to this, he leases an- 
 other tract of eighty acres. 
 
 For a period of four years Mr. Parker was a 
 member of the county board of school examin- 
 ers, and his interest in the education of the 
 young is unabated. In August, 1898, he was 
 appointed as a member of the Capitol Grounds & 
 Building Commission, and upon the organiza- 
 tion of the board was honored by election to the 
 secretaryship. Thus constituted one of the most 
 active and influential members, he faithfully met 
 the varied requirements of his position, and wit- 
 nessed a gratifying termination of the enter- 
 prise. Since he reached his majority he has 
 been an active worker in the Republican party. 
 Realizing the all-important matter of water stor- 
 age and supply to Arizona, he has joined the 
 organization of our representative citizens who 
 have banded themselves together for the consid- 
 eration of the grave problems presented. A 
 member of the special committee on the water 
 storage of the Salt River canal, he also is the 
 secretary of the general organization. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with the Woodmen of the 
 World, with the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men and with Phoenix Lodge No. 2, F. & A. M. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Parker and Miss Edna 
 Warren was solemnized in Phoenix. She was 
 born in Michigan and is a daughter of D. C. 
 Warren, now a citizen of this place. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Parker have one son, Warren H. 
 
 GEORGE WEBSTER. 
 
 One of the most enterprising business men 
 of Clifton is the subject of this review. He is 
 a native of Salt Lake City, and is in the prime 
 of early manhood — now in his thirty-third year. 
 Having received a liberal high school education 
 he left home at the age of sixteen, coming direct 
 to Graham county, which he has since looked 
 upon as his permanent place of abode. 
 
 Settling near Safiford, the young man was 
 actively engaged in farming for about twelve 
 years, also raising and dealing quite extensively 
 in cattle. In those lines of pursuit he met with 
 gratifying success, and certainly few as young 
 in years and experience as he then was often 
 are so fortunate, financially. Though he came 
 to Clifton six years ago and in the meantime 
 has been engaged in business here, he still re- 
 tains the ownership of his farm below Thatcher, 
 which is a finely irrigated place of sixty acres, 
 and this he leases to responsible tenants. For 
 some four years after locating in this place he 
 was in the employ of a liveryman and at length 
 bought the business, which he still conducts. 
 With characteristic enterprise he has extended 
 his undertakings and now does all of the 
 freighting for the Arizona Copper Company, 
 carries on a large freighting traffic between 
 Clifton and Morenci, and transports the United 
 States mail, as well. Thus he has become 
 known, far and near, and it may here be said 
 that no one in this section of the county is 
 more thoroughly relied upon or held in higher 
 regard. 
 
 From the time that he arrived at his majority 
 until the present, Mr. Webster has been a strict 
 Democratic partisan. However, he is not a poli- 
 tician in the sense that he is desirous of public 
 office or emolument — his extensive business pre- 
 cluding such interests. Though tendered place 
 among candidates, he has declined the honor, 
 and it was merely as a good citizen that he served 
 as a road overseer for a period when appointed 
 by the supervisors of the county. Five years 
 ago the marriage of Mr. Webster and Miss Net- 
 tie Price, daughter of Samuel W. and Alice 
 Price, of Safford, took place in Clifton. The 
 young couple have an attractive home and their 
 chief treasure is their little son, Reece, now 
 three years of age. _
 
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 HON. ALEXANDER McKAY. 
 Few men have done more in the developing 
 of mines in southern Arizona tlian has Hon. 
 Alexander McKay, who has devoted most of 
 his time for two decades or more to enterprises 
 along this line. He has borne his due part in 
 all public affairs, and in 1886 was honored by 
 election to the Fourteenth general assembly of 
 Arizona. In that session he served on different 
 committees and abundantly demonstrated the 
 wisdom of his Republican party friends in choos- 
 ing him as their representative. 
 
 HON. EMIL GANZ. 
 
 The achievements of Mr. Ganz, mayor of 
 Phoenix, and president of the National Bank of 
 Arizona, constitute the record of one rarely 
 gifted with the ability to take advantage of sur- 
 rounding opportunities, and to turn them to the 
 best possible account. Coming to the territory 
 in 1874, long before the dawn of the recognized 
 possibilities of Salt River valley, he has watched 
 the awakening of the soil from the stagnant 
 sleep of centuries, and the substitution of latter- 
 day brawn and ability for a civilization older 
 than the memory or records of man. 
 
 Many of the sons of Germany have brought 
 their reliable and substantial traits of character 
 to this country of overwhelming promise ,and 
 attained to positions of responsibility and trust. 
 Mr. Ganz was born m Germany .'\ugust 18, 1838, 
 and during his early years received the excellent 
 home training accorded the average German 
 j'outh. He was educated at the public schools in 
 his native land until his fourteenth year, when, 
 according to the custom in German middle life, 
 he was apprenticed out to learn a trade, his 
 choice being that of a tailor. At tlie end of 
 the three years of service, he became a journey- 
 man tailor, and utilized his calling in the various 
 small towns scattered over the country. Of an 
 ambitious nature, his desires extended beyond 
 the borders of his native land, and in 1858 he 
 immigrated to America. For a short time he 
 served as journeyman tailor in New York City, 
 and continued the same occupation after going 
 to Philadelphia. He subsequently carried on a 
 tailoring business by himself in Cedartown, Ga., 
 and while there attained to some prominence in 
 
 the community, .and for a time was postmaster 
 of the place. 
 
 During the Civil war Mr. Ganz served with 
 distinction in the Confederate army for three 
 years and four months. His company par- 
 ticipated in the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, 
 Fredericksburg, and at the defense of Rich- 
 mond, where there was seven days of fighting. 
 Later at the battle of Chantilly, and the second 
 battle of Bull Run, besides many minor engage- 
 ments. For seven months he was a prisoner in 
 the federal prisons at Washington and Elmira. 
 When peace was declared, and the cause of the 
 Confederacy but a gloomy memory, Mr. Ganz 
 went to Ouincy, 111., and after a short time re- 
 moved to Kansas City, where he engaged in a 
 tailoring and gents' furnishing goods busmess 
 for several years. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Ganz located at Las Animas, 
 Colo., and contmued his former occupation, and 
 in 1874 began his since uninterrupted residence 
 in Arizona. Upon first locating in the territory 
 he conducted an hotel business at Prescott, and 
 successfully managed the Capitol hotel until 
 1878. In the latter part of the same year he 
 came to Phoenix and for several years was pro- 
 prietor of the well known hotel Bank Exchange. 
 This hostelry came to grief, in 1885, when it 
 was the victim of a devastating fire. A later 
 venture of Mr. Ganz' was the wholesale liquor 
 business, in which he engaged until 1894, when 
 he sold his interests to Melzer Bros. In 1895 
 he became interested in the National Bank of 
 Arizona, at Phoenix, and in the same year was 
 elected president of the bank, a position which 
 he has since continued to fill. Another avenue 
 of interest which is still engaging the attention 
 of Mr. Ganz is the insurance business, in which 
 he became 'interested in 1894. At the time he 
 represented various fire insurance companies. 
 
 As a stanch member of the Democratic party, 
 Mr. Ganz has received many evidences of the 
 regard in which he is held by the best political 
 element of his locality. He is now serving his 
 third term as mayor of Phoenix, and has also 
 served for two years in the Phoenix city council. 
 While conducting the nnmicipal affairs of the 
 city, he has shown a truly commendable 
 knowledge of the affairs of his office, and a 
 tactful way of adjusting differences and compli-
 
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 cations, which has won for him the confidence 
 and admiration of his fellow townsmen. Added 
 to a general wide knowledge of men and affairs, 
 he has a keen knowledge of iunnan nature, and 
 of its workings under favorable and unfavorable 
 circumstances. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Masonic order at Phoenix, and is prominent 
 in Masonic circles, having attained the thirtv- 
 second degree. 
 
 Mr. Ganz was united in marriage w ith Bertha 
 Angelman, a native of New York City, and of 
 this union are four children, viz: Sylvan C, who 
 is a student at the Kentucky Military Institute, 
 at Lyndon, K\. : Julian; Aileen; and Helen, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 LORENZO BOIDO, -M. D. 
 
 In Tucson, where the science of medicine and 
 surgery is so numerously and ably represented, 
 Dr. Boido holds a conspicuous place in the esti- 
 mation of his fellow-townsmen. As a consci- 
 entious and painstaking physician, and a suc- 
 cessful alleviator of the ills to which human 
 nature is heir, he has won the appreciation and 
 patronage of a large following. 
 
 A native of Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, Dr. 
 Boido was born June 6, 1871, and is a son of 
 Lorenzo and Ruperta (Bazozabal) Boido, born 
 respectively in Piedmont, Italy, and in Guaymas, 
 Alexico. The paternal grandfather, Lorenzo, 
 was born in Italy, where he spent the greater 
 part of his life, and where he eventually died. 
 His son, Lorenzo, came to Mexico from Italy 
 at an early day, and while carrying on an ex- 
 tensive mercantile business, became in time a 
 capitalist and a prominent man in Sonora. He 
 eventually located in San Francisco and died 
 there in 1893. His wife, who is of French de- 
 scent, is still living in Guaymas, and is the 
 mother of five children, of whom Dr. Boido is 
 the oldest. 
 
 The educational advantages which fell to the 
 lot of Dr. Boido were of the best, and after 
 studying at the public schools he was graduated 
 from the Santa Clara College, near San Jose, in 
 1890, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. 
 Following a long thottght-out inclination he then 
 undertook the study of medicine at the Cooper 
 Medical College at San Francisco and was grad- 
 
 uated in the class of 1893. Foi" ^ time following 
 he served as special assistant to Dr. Lane, the 
 president of Cooper College, in his private hos- 
 pital, and the three years' association with one 
 of the best surgeons on the Pacific coast proved 
 of incalculable benefit to so conscientious a 
 student as Dr. Boido. 
 
 The practice of Dr. Boido took him into sev- 
 eral countries and he had the advantages of 
 travel and its broadening influence. In 1893 he 
 journeyed to Guatemala and Central America, 
 and during his five years' practice was also sur- 
 geon at the government hospital. In 1898 he 
 went to New York in search of further medical 
 and surgical knowledge and was graduated from 
 the Polyclinic hospital in the following year. In 
 the spring of 1899 he located in Benson, Ariz., 
 where he was local surgeon for the Southern 
 Pacific and the New Mexico & Arizona Railroad 
 companies, and in the fall of the same year took 
 up his permanent residence in Tucson. 
 
 In Santa Rosa, Cal., Dr. Boido married Rosa 
 Goodrich of Navasota, Tex., and a graduate 
 of the Methodist Feinale Seminary at Santa 
 Rosa, Cal. Mrs. Boido is also a physician, hav- 
 ing graduated from the Cooper Medical College 
 in 1895. She is the only registered female 
 physician in the territory, and makes a specialty 
 of the diseases of women and children. To Dr. 
 and Mrs. Boido have been born two children, 
 Lorenzo, Jr., and Rosalind. Dr. Boido is a 
 member of the Democratic party, but holds lib- 
 eral views regarding the politics of the adminis- 
 tration. He is a member of the Territorial 
 Medical Association. 
 
 PETER B. ZIEGLER. 
 
 A varied assortment of enterprises in the city 
 of Tucson have been made to prosper and yield 
 abundantly under the capable and resistless 
 energy and push of Mr. Ziegler. That he is an 
 enthusiast when enumerating the many ad- 
 vantages of a residence in this territory is not to 
 be wondered at, for he has seen through his own 
 indomitable perserverance its possibilities, and 
 reaped the best here ofTered by fortune. 
 
 The first eighteen years of his life were spent 
 in Ohio, where he was born in Perry county. 
 March 17, 185 1. His paternal grandfather was
 
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 also a native of Ohio, and married a Miss 
 Snyder, of the same state. N. S. Ziegler, the 
 father of P. B., was an Ohio man, and is at 
 present living there at the age of eighty-five 
 years. During the years of his business life he 
 was engaged in the shoe business. His wife, 
 Elizabeth (Bugh) Ziegler, claimed Ohio as her 
 birthplace, and she was a daughter of Peter 
 Bugh, a representative of a very old family, 
 some of whom fought during the Revolutionary 
 war. They were among the first settlers of Ohio, 
 and the family homestead was occupied for over 
 a hundred and fifty years by those who bore the 
 name. Mrs. Ziegler, who died in 1899 at the age 
 of eighty-four years, was the mother of nine 
 children, five of whom are living, P. B. being the 
 fifth oldest, and the only one in Arizona. Two 
 sons, Albert and David, served in the Civil war, 
 the former in an Ohio regiment, and the latter 
 in the navy, and both have since died. 
 
 Mr. Ziegler was reared in Columbus, Ohio, 
 and was educated in the public schools and the 
 Ohio State University. When eighteen years of 
 age he ventured upon an independent existence, 
 and was a brakeman on the Hocking Valley and 
 Panhandle railroads. At the age of twenty-three 
 he was promoted to the position of engineer, 
 his run being between Columbus and Indian- 
 apolis. In 1880 he came to Tucson in the employ 
 of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and 
 was one of the first engineers here. During his 
 service with the company his record was the 
 finest on the whole system, and he was thus 
 employed until 1899, at which time he retired 
 permanently from railroad work. Among the 
 many interests which have since taken his time 
 and attention is the piano business and the sale 
 of musical supplies. He was the agent for the 
 Crown piano in Arizona, is himself a practical 
 tuner, and understands the construction of most 
 musical instruments. As the president of the 
 Tucson street railway he has done much to 
 facilitate city transportation. The Ziegler race 
 track, a half mile in length, is beyond doubt the 
 finest in the territory, and one of the fastest in 
 the west, and the owner thereof has at times 
 been the possessor of such valuable horse flesh 
 as Tommy Atkins, who has made a mile in 2:14, 
 at the time the fastest in the territory. This well 
 known horse, whose demise occurred in July of 
 
 1900, was sincerely missed by all true valuers of 
 fine stock and appreciators of speed. As a manu- 
 facturer of soda water, Mr. Ziegler has been re- 
 markably successful, and like all of his under- 
 takings, his plant is one of the largest in the 
 territory. The plant is located on First and 
 Xinth streets, and turns out a fine quality of 
 beverages which are heartily appreciated by the 
 residents of the town. In addition he has a large 
 candy and ice cream manufactory, which in the 
 summer time is run to its full capiacity. The 
 Ziegler cafe has no superior in the city. 
 
 In Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Ziegler married 
 Mary A. Bickel, a native of that place, and of 
 this union there are two children; Albert, who 
 has charge of the confectionery business, and 
 who is fraternally a member of the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks; and Andrew, who has 
 charge of the soda works, and who is a member 
 of the Knights Templar and the Knights of 
 Pythias. Mr. Ziegler is an ardent Republican, 
 and though not desirous of political recognition 
 has served as a member of the school board. 
 While living in Indianapolis he was made a 
 Mason, and he is also associated with the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and the 
 club sustained by that organization, and also 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 He was formerly connected with the .\ncient 
 Order of United Workmen and the Red Men. 
 He is a member of the Board of Trade. 
 
 JUDGE SYLVESTER W. PURCELL. 
 
 Both as a lawyer and member of the Arizona 
 bar, and as judge of probate of Pima county, 
 the subject of this article is well known to resi- 
 dents of Tucson and the entire territory as well. 
 He was born at Baxter Springs, Cherokee 
 county, Kans., on the 3d of May. 1870, a son of 
 Dr. P. B. and Mary Ann (Walden) Purcell, who 
 are now living in Tucson. The father was born 
 near Elizabethtown, Hardin county, Ky., and 
 is now sixty-two years of age. The Purcell 
 family, which is of French and Irish extraction, 
 was founded in .\merica in 1664 by seven broth- 
 ers who landed in Virginia. Their descendants 
 are now very numerous in Kentucky, of which 
 state our subject's grandfather, James Purcell, 
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 life he followed farming, but was living retired at 
 the time of his death, which occurred in Mis- 
 souri, when he was eighty-nine years of age. 
 The father, Dr. P. B. Purcell, is a graduate of 
 Pope's Medical College of St. Louis, and for a 
 number of years was engaged in the practice of 
 his profession in Missouri. During the Civil 
 war he served as assistant surgeon in General 
 Price's brigade, and being captured in western 
 Missouri he was held a prisoner of war at St. 
 Louis until the cessation of hostilities. In 1880 
 he removed to Denver, Colo., where he engaged 
 in practice. His wife is a native of Virginia, 
 and belongs to an old and honored family of that 
 state. Her parents were John A. and Eliza 
 (Clay) Walden. the latter an own cousin of 
 Henry Clay. Her father was born in Clay 
 county, \'a., and died in Saline county, Mo., at 
 the age of seventy-six years. Dr. and Mrs. Pur- 
 cell are the parents of ten children, six sons and 
 four daughters. Of the brothers of our suliject 
 J. W. is now a practicing physician of Denver; 
 Walter B. is a practicing physician of Tucson, 
 Ariz.; Louis A. is a lawyer residing in San Fran- 
 cisco, and P. B., Jr., resides at Tucson, Ariz. 
 
 Mr. Purcell, of this review, accompanied his 
 parents on their removal to Denver, where he 
 attended the public schools, and later engaged 
 in the study of law with John W. Helbig and 
 Willis B. Herr. With a few other law students 
 he organized a class, of which he was president, 
 and school was conducted in the University of 
 Denver hall. The following year the law depart- 
 ment of that university was established. In 
 1894 Dr. Purcell and family moved to El Paso, 
 Tex., and on the 21st of May, 1895, located in 
 Ysleta, EI Paso county. On the 19th of August, 
 that year, Sylvester W. was admitted to the bar 
 before the supreme court of Texas, and in the 
 spring of the following year he was appointed 
 justice of the peace in Ysleta. In March, 1896, 
 he came to Tucson, and has since successfully 
 engaged in general practice at this place. He 
 was appointed clerk of the probate court in 
 January, 1897, under Judge John S. Wood, and 
 at the Democratic convention the following year 
 was nominated for the office of probate judge. 
 He was elected by a good majority, and assumed 
 the duties of that position in January, 1899. So 
 acceptably did he fill the office that he was re- 
 
 nominated by acclamation in 1900. When he 
 was re-elected probate judge, E. B. Williams, of 
 Nogales, was elected on the Republican ticket as 
 county superintendent of schools and appointed 
 our subject as deputy in charge of the office, the 
 duties of which he filled in addition to his office 
 of probate judge until Santa Cruz was set aside 
 from Pima county, when a new superintendent 
 was appointed. Judge Purcell is now attorney 
 and financial agent for several large corporations 
 doing business in Arizona. He is also interested 
 in some fine gold, copper and lead mining prop- 
 erties in southern Arizona, and is attorney for 
 several mining companies operating in that por- 
 tion of the territory. As an attorney he ranks 
 among the foremost of Arizona; is a good judge 
 of law ; and, what is of almost equal importance, 
 a good judge of men. He is not only an able 
 lawyer, but is a fine business man as well. Thor- 
 oughness characterizes all his efforts, and he 
 conducts all business with a strict regard to a 
 high standard of professional ethics. 
 
 The Judge belongs to several of the secret 
 and social societies of Tucson. As a Democrat 
 he takes a prominent and influential part in po- 
 litical affairs, and has been active in public life 
 since attaining his majority. A public-spirited 
 citizen, he gives his support to every enterprise 
 calculated to prove of public benefit, and is a 
 recognized leader in the community in which 
 he lives. 
 
 WALTER G. SCOTT. 
 
 The well known editor and proprietor of the 
 "Arizonian," published at Safford, Graham coun- 
 ty, is one of the heroes of the late Spanish- Amer- 
 ican war. Mustered into the First Territorial 
 Infantry at Flagstaff, Ariz., July 9, 1898, he was 
 made second lieutenant of Company C, of that 
 regiment, though he had previously been captain 
 of a company of the Arizona National Guard at 
 St. Johns, .Apache county, for some five years. 
 During his service in the late war he was placed 
 in command of Company K, First Territorial 
 Regiment, in accordance with the earnest re- 
 quest of the regular commander, Capt. Roy V. 
 Hoffman, who was absent on sick leave. Tliis 
 company, with whom Lieutenant Scott was a 
 general favorite, was organized at Shawnee,
 
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 Okla. He was honorably discharged and 
 mustered out February 15, 1899, at Albany, Ga. 
 
 A son of John P. and Catherine Scott, the 
 subject of this article was born in Washington, 
 Pa., in 1853. When young he went to Cadiz. 
 Ohio, and there passed much of his boyhood, 
 being graduated from the high school. His 
 father, 'who has been a journalist throughout his 
 active career, now lives in Joliet, 111., but the 
 mother died in 1880. 
 
 From his youth, Walter G. Scott has been 
 connected more or less with newspaper work, 
 and when barely twenty years of age, in 1873, 
 published his first paper at Newcomerstown. 
 Ohio. For several years thereafter he was as- 
 sociated with many of the leading journals of 
 the United States, his home being in Chicago, 
 Cincinnati, St. Paul, Detroit and San Francisco 
 and other cities during this period. Thus he 
 obtained an intimate and practical knowledge of 
 the workings of modern journalism and thus is 
 abundantly well qualified for his present place, 
 that of editor of the '"Arizonian." 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Scott came to ."Xrizona and for 
 some time lived in Flagstaff, where he was en- 
 gaged in newspaper work. During two years 
 he was in charge of a daily paper published in 
 Prescott, and in the meantime carried out an 
 ambitious plan which he had formed — that of 
 preparing himself for the legal profession. His 
 work along this line was done almost entirely in 
 the evenings and under the guidance of E. M. 
 Sanford. In 1888 he was admitted to the bar 
 before Judge Wright, and going to St. Johns, 
 Ariz., made his home there for ten years. In the 
 meantime he was honored by election to the 
 district attorneyship and to the responsible posi- 
 tion of court commissioner, and in the same 
 period ran a newspaper, the St. Johns Herald. 
 Leaving these many important enterprises, he 
 responded to the call of his country when war 
 with Spain was declared, and during his service 
 his acquaintanceship with Surgeon Lindley led to 
 his settlement in Safford. Mr. Scott is an ardent 
 Republican and was elected to the public offices 
 mentioned above by his party friends. First and 
 last, he is a patriotic citizen, seeking to promote 
 the welfare of his country and community by 
 every power of mind and talent with which 
 Heaven has endowed him. 
 
 On the 14th of June, 1888, the marriage of 
 Mr. Scott and Mrs. Mary C. McClelland, of St. 
 Paul, Minn., was solemnized at Prescott. She 
 has one daughter. Miss Jessie F. Scott, a young 
 ladv of good education and social attainments. 
 
 JCDGE FLETCHER M. DOAN. 
 
 Arizona contains no exponent of her laws 
 more profound and erudite than is Judge 
 I-'letcher M. Doan, associate justice of the 
 supreme court of Arizona, and judge of the 
 second judicial district. A native of that state 
 which has given our country so many men of 
 remarkable attainments, he was born in the 
 Scioto valley in Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1846, 
 and is a son of John and Maria (MacClellan) 
 Doan. On the maternal side he is related to 
 General MacClellan. while on the paternal, he 
 descends from good old Quaker stock who 
 helped to lay the foundation of the public and 
 furnished the material for national stability and 
 uprightness. His father was born on the 
 Schuylkill river in Pennsylvania and in the early 
 '20S removed to Ohio, where he lived until 1868. 
 His death took place in St. Louis, Mo., in 1886, 
 when he was seventy-six years of age. 
 
 Judge Doan received the educational ad- 
 vantages found in the high school of Circleville, 
 ( )hio, from which he was graduated in 1864. 
 Later he entered the Ohio Wesleyan LTniversity 
 at Delaware, C)liio, from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1867, and which institution conferred 
 upon him the degree of Master of Arts in 1872. 
 Having decided to devote his life to the profes- 
 sion which represents the only exact science 
 known to men, he entered the Albany Law 
 School, now the law department of the New 
 York State University, and received his diploma 
 in 1868. The same year he was granted admis- 
 sion to practice before the supreme court of 
 New York. Thus equipped for whatever the 
 future might have in store, he hastened west- 
 ward to Missouri, and the following year was 
 aihnittcd to practice in Pike county of that state. 
 
 During his ten years of practice in Pike 
 county, he was associated for the greater part 
 with Judge Fagg, an influential member of the 
 profession in Missouri. A subsequent field of 
 effort was St. Louis, Mo., where he remained for
 
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 23 > 
 
 ten years. He was then induced to come to the 
 territory of Arizona, of whose promise, possi- 
 bilities and superior climatic conditions he had 
 long heard. L'pon settling in Yuma county, he 
 became interested in the subject of water supply, 
 and as a result of his investigations and study 
 completed the construction of one water way. 
 In 1893 he came to Pinal county and opened up 
 a stock ranch near Arizola, and for one year 
 tested his ability as a pusher of the cattle in- 
 dustry. In 1894 he was elected district attorney 
 of Pinal county, and to facilitate the duties of 
 his office moved his residence to Florence. As 
 district attorney he served for one term and part 
 of an unexpired term, and subsequently reverted 
 to the safe harbor of a lucrative legal practice, 
 remote from somewhat uncertain investments 
 in water ways and arid lands. 
 
 In June of 1897 Judge Doan was appointed bv 
 President McKinley associate judge of the su- 
 preme court of Arizona, and judge of the second 
 judicial district. His district includes the 
 counties of Graham, Pmal, and Gila. His duties 
 include holding two terms of district court in 
 each county, and two terms of federal court for 
 the entire district annually, and also the supreme 
 court work in connection with the judges of the 
 other districts. 
 
 Judge Doan married .\nnie Murray in 1873, a 
 daughter of Judge S. F. Murray, of Pike county. 
 Mo. Of this union there are now living three 
 children: John, who is bookkeeper for the 
 Fortuna Mining Company, and who was a mem- 
 ber of the general assembly from Yuma county 
 in 1899: Frank W., w-ho is attending law school 
 at the Stanford ITniversity, and who is a gradu- 
 ate of the Arizona University: and Fletcher M., 
 Jr. On.e son, Leslie M., was accidentally killed 
 August 3, 1897, aged seventeen years. Judge 
 Doan is a member of the Territorial Bar As- 
 sociation, and is fraternally associated with the 
 Masonic Order at Florence, and with the Royal 
 Arch Chapter, of Pike county. Mo. He is a 
 member of the Commandery of Knights Templar 
 and of the Shrine in Phoenix, and is the Grand 
 Chief Templar for Arizona in the Independent 
 Order of Good Templars. The father of Judge 
 Doan was for forty years a deacon in the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal church, and the Judge himself is 
 actively interested in the same denomination. 
 
 having been a deacon for nearly thirty years. He 
 is especially energetic in Sunday-school work, 
 and was for years a member of the Sunday- 
 school Superintendents' Union, of St. Louis. He 
 assisted in organizing the Piasa Sunday-school 
 assembly, and purchased the property now used 
 by that assembly, holding the same for four 
 years, until the church was ready to purchase it. 
 In this territory he has been a splendid influence 
 for good, and represents the most excellent and 
 worthy citizenship. 
 
 J. W. COLEMAN, M. D. 
 
 Among the professional men located at 
 Jerome none has a more secure place in 
 the pidjlic estimation than that profound 
 student of medical and surgical science, 
 Dr. Coleman. Although not one of the early 
 residents (having arrived here in October of 
 1900), he has nevertheless demonstrated his en- 
 tire fitness for the calling which he so creditablv 
 follows, and which is augmented by graduation 
 from one of the first medical colleges in the 
 United States, and years of experience in dif- 
 ferent parts of the country. 
 
 Dr. Coleman was born in Clarion county, Pa., 
 June II, 1865, and received his education in the 
 home schools. His first independent venture 
 upon the sea of earning his own living was along 
 educational lines, in which he engaged until 
 1889. Having determined to adopt the profes- 
 sion of medicine, he entered the JefTerson Medi- 
 cal College, at Philadelphia, from which he was 
 graduated in the class of 1893, and thereafter 
 practiced in Philadelphia for a few months. In 
 Trinidad, Colo., where he subsequently located, 
 he engaged in practice for four years, and met 
 with a gratifying degree of success. Impelled 
 bv the prospects in mining in New JNIexico, he 
 for a time engaged in mining and prospecting 
 (in the Red river, and from there came to Pres- 
 cott in February of 1896. Xot ijeing favorably 
 impressed with the outlook from this point of the 
 territory, he journeyed to Crown King camp, 
 and after a short time was busily engaged as 
 phvsician and surgeon for several of the large 
 mining companies, among others being the 
 Tiger. I'.ig liell. P>ustcr. Gladiator and several 
 others. This numerous-sided responsibility was
 
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 maintained for three and a half years, and ter- 
 minated only when the mines closed down. 
 
 Injerome, Dr. Coleman is engaged in a general 
 medical and surgical practice, and in addition is 
 medical examiner for the New York Life, Mu- 
 tual Life of New York and Pacific Mutual Insur- 
 ance companies, as well as several local and 
 fraternal organizations. He is a member of the 
 Territorial Medical Association, the Yavapai 
 County ^Medical Society, the Las Animas County 
 Medical Society of Colorado, the JefTerson 
 County Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and 
 the Hare Medical Society of Philadelphia. Fra- 
 ternally he is a Alason. and a member of the 
 Brookville (Pa.) lodge. 
 
 Mrs. Coleman was formerly Alarie Truman, a 
 native of Brookville, Pa., and she is the mother 
 of one son, Harrv. 
 
 JUDGE C. W. GROUSE. 
 
 Well known as a prominent and inBuential cit- 
 izen of Phoenix. Judge Crouse was born in Owen 
 county, Ind., June 25, 1853, and is the oldest in 
 a family of eight children. His brother, M. A. 
 Crouse, is now principal of the schools at Ben- 
 son, Ariz. The Crouse family, which is of Hol- 
 land descent, has been well represented in the 
 wars of this country. Our subject's paternal 
 grandfather, Henry Crouse, who was a planter 
 of North Carolina, fought for American inde- 
 pendence in the Revolutionary war. The grand- 
 father, Winfield Crouse, w-as a soldier of the war 
 of 1812 and participated in the battle of the 
 Cowpens. He was born in North Carolina, 
 where he continued to make his home until the 
 father of our subject, William Crouse. was five 
 years old, at which time the family removed to 
 Owen county, Ind., locating on a farm near 
 Spencer. Indians still inhabited that locality, 
 and the land was all wild and unimproved. The 
 Judge's father grew to manhood in the Hoosier 
 state, and throughout his active business life 
 engaged in farming near Spencer, where he died, 
 in 1888. He was a member of the Fifty-seventh 
 Indiana Regiment during the Civil war; was an 
 ardent Republican in politics: and a deacon in 
 the Baptist Church. In early life he married 
 Miss Elizabeth Fiscus, a native of Owen county, 
 Ind., and a rei>resentative of an old Virginia 
 
 family. Her father. Rev. John Fiscus, a minis- 
 ter of the Church of Jesus Christ, was born in 
 North Carolina and at an early day removed to 
 Indiana, where he followed farming in connec- 
 tion with his pastoral duties. 
 
 Judge Crouse was reared on his father's farm 
 in Indiana and attended the public schools of the 
 neighborhood. At the age of seventeen he com- 
 menced teaching school, and successfully fol- 
 lowed that profession for nine years, at the end 
 of which time he entered the Indiana State 
 Normal at Terre Haute, where he was graduated 
 in 1883. Subsequently he was principal of the 
 schools at Harmony and Knightsville, Ind., un- 
 til 1889, when he resigned his position at the 
 latter place to accept the United States Indian 
 agency at Sacaton, Ariz., tendered him by Presi- 
 dent Harrison. In 1888 he had served as chair- 
 man of the first Harrison leagiie in Indiana, 
 organized two months before the St. Paul con- 
 vention. In September, 1889, he came to Saca- 
 ton to take charge of the Pima. Papago and 
 Maricopa Indians, numbering about eight thou- 
 sand, and remained in charge there until 1893, 
 during which time the main building of the Pima 
 agency at Sacaton was burned and rebuilt by the 
 Judge, who also established a school with one 
 hundred and fifty pupils. He planned the United 
 States Industrial Indian school at Phoenix, 
 selected the grounds and began the erection of 
 the building in 1890. At first he thought Fort 
 McDowell would be the best location, but 
 finally selected Phoenix as being more prefer- 
 able, and with Supe-rintendent Rich of Omaha, 
 Neb., selected the grounds. Everything w-as in 
 a flourishing condition when he resigned his 
 position at the agency in 1893. 
 
 Judge Crouse then became vice-president and 
 assistant cashier of the Alesa City Bank, which 
 positions he held until the fall of 1894, when he 
 was elected probate judge on the Republican 
 ticket. So acceptably did he fill the office that 
 he was re-elected in 1896 for another term of 
 two years. When he retired from office on the 
 1st of Januarv, 1899. he was made principal of 
 the Alma schools, and served as such until the 
 completion of the year. In 1900 he became 
 president of the Phoenix Title. Guaranty and 
 .\bstract Company, which has the most complete 
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 sets, being the largest in the territory. The 
 Judge has been very successful during his resi- 
 dence in Arizona, where he now owns several 
 ranches, besides two good farms in Owen 
 county, Ind. 
 
 In his native county Judge Crouse married 
 Miss Lizzie Burger, daughter of Samuel J. 
 Burger and who was born there on the same 
 day that his birth occurred. They have one son, 
 Roswell Emerson. The Judge was made a 
 Mason at Knightsville, Ind., also holds 
 membership in the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and at present is Grand Foreman for 
 Arizona and New Mexico. He is a member of 
 the Board of Trade; in politics an unswerving 
 Republican, he has served as a member of the 
 county central and executive committees, and 
 the territorial central committee. He is a man 
 of high intellectuality, broad human sympathies 
 and tolerance, and imbued with fine sensibilities 
 and clearly defined principles. Honor and in- 
 tegrity are synonymous with his name and he 
 enjoys the respect, confidence and high regard 
 of the people of Arizona. 
 
 ERWIN D. TREADWELL. 
 
 Not only have the practically exhaustless 
 resources of Yavapai county produced fortunes 
 for the seekers after wealth, but the mining and 
 other outlets have developed latent ability and 
 talent in many of the travelers to this part of 
 the country which otherwise would have 
 remained dormant and profitless. Though a 
 young man to assume so much responsibility. 
 Mr. Treadwell, who is deputy United States 
 mineral surveyor, and proprietor of the Jerome 
 Telephone and Telegraph Company, has found 
 in the opportunities afforded near Jerome an 
 unlimited field for his particular aptitude. 
 
 Emphatically a western man, having been 
 born in San Francisco in 1871, Mr. Treadwell 
 has all of the push and enterprise requisite for 
 starting and carrying through important and 
 growing enterprises. His education was 
 received in his native city and in different parts 
 of the state of California, and in 1890 he located 
 in Nevada county, where his father was super- 
 intendent of the Red Hill Mining Company. In 
 i.S<;2 he came to Prescott and mined and pros- 
 
 pected in the Bradshaw mountains, and at the 
 same time made a thorough study of surveying, 
 which resulted in 1899 in his appointment as 
 deputy United States mineral surv'eyor at 
 Jerome, whither he had removed in 1897. In 
 1898 Mr. Treadwell established the Telephone 
 and Telegraph Company, a private concern, of 
 which he has since been manager. The com- 
 pany have about a hundred miles of lines, and 
 connect with Wright's system at Prescott, and 
 with the different mining camps. One can 
 imagine the inestimable benefit and convenience 
 of this exceedingly modern and liberal proposi- 
 tion, and the widespread appreciation which has 
 met Mr. Treadwell's advanced and practical 
 views. Efforts are now being made by him to 
 effect a consolidation of all the independent tele- 
 phone companies in the territory. 
 
 While following his occupation as surveyor 
 Mr. Treadwell also acts as local manager of the 
 George A. Treadwell Mining Company and the 
 Brookshire Alining Company, besides being 
 numerously interested in the general affairs of 
 the town and county. He is a member of the 
 American Institute of Mining Engineers, and 
 is fraternally associated with the Prescott Lodge 
 No. 330, B. P. O. E. Mr. Treadwell was mar- 
 ried October 31, 1900, to Grace M. Lynch, of 
 San Francisco. 
 
 HON. SELIM M. FRANKLIN. 
 
 A worthy son of a sterling "forty-niner," Hon. 
 Selim M. Franklin was born in San Bernardino, 
 Cal., October 19, 1859. He is one of the pio- 
 neers of Arizona, his residence in Tucson hav- 
 ing extended over nearly a score of years. His 
 enterprise and public spirit received recognition 
 soon after his settlement liere. for in 1884 he 
 was elected to the territorial legislature. By 
 many he is termed the "father" of the University 
 of Arizona, as he introduced and succeeded in 
 getting passed the bill providing for this insti- 
 tution, which is now one of the notable educa- 
 tional factors of the great southwest. In the 
 sessions of the general assembly, in 1885, he 
 also took a very active part in the work of estab- 
 lishing the Arizona Normal School, at Tempe, 
 and his interest in both of these colleges has 
 never wavered. For eight vears he officiated as
 
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 a member of tl'.e Ijoard of regents of the uni- 
 versity, wliich he had been very instrumental in 
 getting located at Tucson. In addition to the 
 many other public services performed while a 
 member of the commission he assisted in select- 
 ing the location of the capitol building at Phoe- 
 nix. 
 
 Turning backward a few jjages in the history 
 of this honored citizen of Tucson, it may be 
 stated that he is one of the two sons of Maurice 
 A. and \ictoria (Jacobs) Franklin, his brother, 
 Abraham, being a member of the firm of Un- 
 derwood & Franklin, of Tucson. The latter was 
 named for his paternal grandfather, Abraham 
 Franklin, who was a native of England, and 
 was a prosperous merchant of that realm. Mau- 
 rice A. F'ranklin was born in Manchester, Eng- 
 land, and had just reached man's estate when 
 the news of the wonderful discoveries of gold in 
 far-away California aroused his ambition. That 
 year, 1849, he sailed for San Francisco, round- 
 ing Cape Horn, and after his arrival at the gold 
 fields he devoted several years to mining. In 
 1853 he went to San Diego, where he built the 
 Franklin House, and carried on the hotel for 
 some five years. The remainder of his life, six- 
 teen years, was passed in San Bernardino, Cal.. 
 where he was engaged in the drug business. 
 Fraternally he was affiliated with the Independ- 
 ent Order of ( )dd Fellows. The wife and 
 mother departed this life in the city last men- 
 tioned, in 1861. She was a native of Baltimore, 
 Md., and was a daughter of Mark I. Jacobs, an 
 Englishman, who was a merchant of Baltimore 
 for several years, and was similarly occupied 
 later in San Bernardino and San Francisco. 
 
 The early education of Selini M. Franklin 
 was gained in the public schools of his native 
 town, and after pursuing his studies in the San 
 Francisco high school he matriculated in the 
 University of California, where he was gradu- 
 ated in i88j, with the degree of liachelor of 
 Sciences. Then entering the law department of 
 the same institution, he remained there for a 
 year, and was admitted to the bar in ( )ctober, 
 1883. After some initial work in his profession 
 in San liernardino, he came to Tucson, and since 
 that time has been occupied in general prac- 
 tice here. For several years he was the citv 
 attorney of Tucson, and now is the legal adviser 
 
 of many prominent local firms, including the 
 Arizona National Bank, the Ray Copper Mines, 
 limited; the Manniioth Cyanide Company, and 
 L. Zeckendorf & Co. F'rom time to time he has 
 invested in real estate in this city, and is gen- 
 uinely interested in all industries calculated to 
 benefit the place. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Franklin and Miss Hen- 
 rietta Herring, one of the popular young ladies 
 of Tucson, was solemnized in 1898. She is a 
 native of New York state, and is a daughter of 
 Col. William Herring, of Tucson. Mr. and Mrs. 
 hVanklin have a beautiful home on North Main 
 street, and their chief treasure is their little 
 daughter, Marjorie. 
 
 In Tucson Lodge, No. 4. F. & A. M., Mr. 
 I'ranklin was initiated into Masonry, and yet 
 retains his membership therein. He also is con- 
 nected with the Benevolent Protective Order of 
 Elks, and is ex-president of the Territorial Bar 
 .Association. A popular worker in the Demo- 
 cratic party, he has served on the executive 
 board of the territorial central conmiittee of the 
 same. 
 
 GEORGE J. STONEMAN. 
 
 Tlie har of' Globe is ably represented by Mr. 
 Stoneman, who, as a general practitioner, and as 
 the present district attorney, has acquitted him- 
 self in a manner creditable to all concerned. To 
 a degree Mr. Stoneman inherits a special apti- 
 tude for the administration of public affairs, 
 some of those who. bear the name having been 
 representative politicians and prominently iden- 
 tified with positions of public confidence. His 
 father, (ien. tieorge Stoneman. was a man of 
 exceptional attainments and undisputed honor, 
 and of high standing in the army. He received 
 his military education at West Point, and during 
 the Civil war attained the rank of general, sub- 
 sequently being placed on the retired list. He is 
 in this connection remembered as one of the 
 most courageous and efficient of the heroes who 
 sustained the cause of the Union. In politics he 
 was no less distinguished, and was elected gov- 
 ernor of California in, 1883, his administration 
 being well received, and giving continued evi- 
 <lence of a superior and well-directed judgment, 
 lie died in New York in 1894, having returned
 
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 in liis declining vitality to the scene of his birth, 
 education and brilliant prophetic aspirations. 
 His wife, who is still living, Mary O. (Hardisty) 
 Stoneman, is the mother of two sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
 Though born in Petersburg, \'a.. May 4, 1868, 
 George J. Stoneman was reared in California, 
 and received his supplementary education at the 
 University of Michigan, from which he was 
 graduated in 1889. His first practice was con- 
 ducted in Seattle, Wash., and while a resident 
 of that city he served as city clerk for two 
 years. In 1894 he departed for the Sandwich 
 Islands, and practiced for a year in Honolulu. 
 The following year he became permanently 
 identified with the prosperity and promise of 
 , this great mining district, at once opening an 
 office for a general law practice. He is now the 
 legal representative of two prominent mining 
 companies. His practice has been successful 
 from the start, and in most of the important liti- 
 gation occurring in (lila county during his resi- 
 dence in Globe he has appeared as counsel. 
 Having previously filled an unexpired term as 
 district attorney, he was regularly elected to the 
 same office on the Democratic ticket November 
 6, 1900, for a term of two years. 
 
 In addition to his political and professional 
 duties, Mr. Stoneman is interested in mining in 
 the Globe district, and anticipates good returns 
 from his investments. Fraternally he is a mem- 
 ber of the Elks at Globe. 
 
 MRS. BEE L. McNAMARA. 
 
 Probablv one of the best informed of the com- 
 paratively few who have made a success of the 
 cattle business in the far west is Mrs. McNamara. 
 .■\t the present time a resident of Tucson, the 
 oldest city of European settlement in the west- 
 ern hemisphere, she superintends her large 
 stock-raising interests and derives therefrom a 
 most satisfactory revenue, .\ssociated with the 
 far west since 1881. she is familiar with the 
 various transitions which have accompanied the 
 steady growth of this hitherto supposedly worth- 
 less portion of country, and is one of its most 
 enthusiastic advocates and sincere supporters. 
 
 .\s a child Mrs. McNamara lived in Louisville, 
 Ky., where she was born in a family of eight 
 
 children. The parents, Edward and Bridget 
 (DufYy) Costella, were born in County Mayo, 
 Ireland, and brought their four children to 
 .\merica about 1836. Mrs. Costella died in 
 Kentucky in 1880, and her husband had died 
 when Mrs. McNamara was not quite a year old. 
 The last-named was reared and educated in the 
 vicinity of Louisville and in the Sisters of Provi- 
 dence Academy in Madison, Ind., after which 
 she came to Tucson in 1881. In this city, Janu- 
 ary I, 1882, she ^\•as united in marriage with 
 ( )wen Noon, who was born in County Mayo, 
 Ireland, and was brought by his parents to 
 .America when but six months of age. His 
 brother, Capt. John Noon, served in the Mex- 
 ican war. came to California in 1849, ^nd now 
 resides m Nogales, Ariz. Owen Noon went to 
 California via Panama in 1852 and engaged in 
 mining until 1878; after removing to Tucson, 
 he continued in the same occupation. He died 
 in Oro Blanco in i8(jo. He had one daughter, 
 Lilly May Noon, now a student in Cedar Grove 
 .\cademy of the Sisters of Loretto at Louisville, 
 Ky. She was born at Oro Blanco and is an 
 accomplished and popular young lady. 
 
 At Oro Blanco, in 1892, Mrs. Noon became 
 the wife of Martin McNamara. who was born 
 in Ireland and in boyhood went to Australia 
 with Jiis parents, \\nicn twenty years of age 
 he left home and crossed the seas to California. 
 After engaging for a time in mining, he 
 took up his residence in Arizona in the early 
 '70s, and there mined and engaged in raising 
 cattle. Among other interests he established 
 the ranch at Warsaw that is still owned by his 
 widow. He was also one of the owners of the 
 Tresamigo, and had interests in the Nil Des- 
 perando group. At his death, in May of 1898, 
 his widow succeeded to his many interests, in 
 addition to which she has taken up independent 
 enterprises, being an unusually successful man- 
 ager and financier, and the possessor of valuable 
 mining properties. In national politics she is 
 a Democrat, but is liberal-minded regarding the 
 politics of the administration. With her daugh- 
 ter. Lillv. she is connected with the Cathedral 
 in Tucson. 
 
 During the .\pachc war occurred the la.st 
 uprising and raid of the old chieftain. Geronimo. 
 April 29, 1886, he made a raid with his band
 
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 into Oro Blanco district and killed Mr. Shana- 
 
 han, a 
 
 neisflibor of Mrs. McNamara. 
 
 During 
 
 the funeral services, while the men stood around 
 them with their guns, ready for the enemy, the 
 women sang hymns and saw the body lowered 
 to its last resting place. Such a thrilling spec- 
 tacle will probably never again be witnessed in 
 Arizona. The ranchers for miles around came 
 into Oro Blanco and remained there until after 
 the Indians were driven out, it being considered 
 too hazardous for the whites to remain in 
 isolated localities. After the raid, a troop of 
 soldiers came and acted as a guard for a month 
 or more, until all danger of further molestation 
 was past. 
 
 JUDGE HARLEY H. CARTTER. 
 
 One of the honored pioneers of Arizona, the 
 subject of this record has passed his entire ma- 
 ture life within its borders. During the thirty- 
 four years of his residence here he has expe- 
 rienced man)- vicissitudes conuuon to the lot 
 of the frontiersman, and literally "grew up with 
 the country," his prosperity increasing as did 
 that of the territory. In public positions here, to 
 which he has been called frequently, he has been 
 dominated by a high regard for the welfare of 
 the people, and never has failed in the dis- 
 charging of his duties, even in minor affairs. 
 
 This sterling citizen of Prescott comes of a 
 familv which has distinguished itself in many 
 ways. His father, Judge Harley H. Cartter, was 
 appointed as associate justice of the supreme 
 court of Arizona, presiding over the second dis- 
 trict, and acting in that important position from 
 1867 to 1869. Meantime his home was in La 
 I'az, on the Colorado river in Arizona, where he 
 subsequently carried on the practice of law until 
 1870, when he located in Prescott. For one 
 term he was president of the territorial council, 
 and for many years was a leading member of 
 the Masonic fraternity. He came of an old east- 
 ern family, some of his ancestors being among 
 ihe early settlers of New England. His brother. 
 Judge David K. Cartter, acted as chief justice of 
 the District of Coluinhia under President Lin- 
 coln's administration. A great personal friend 
 of the great statesman, he was conspicuous in 
 the convention which called him to his exalted 
 
 place, for he was chairman of the Ohio delega- 
 tion in that notable body. A native of Roches- 
 ter, N. Y., Judge H. H. Cartter became a resi- 
 dent of Utica, Mich., at an early day, and there 
 was engaged in the practice of law, later being 
 similarly occupied at Mt. Qemens, same state. 
 From 1867 until his death, seven years later, 
 he was associated with Arizona. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Jane Louise Scranton, was 
 born in Michigan, and also was a representative 
 of an old New England family. She departed 
 this life in 1865, and is survived by four chil- 
 dren. 
 
 The only member of his family in this ter- 
 ritory is he of whom this sketch is penned. He 
 was born September 12, 1849, '" Utica, Mich., 
 and in his boyhood attended the common and 
 high schools of Mount Clemens, Mich. In 1867 
 he accompanied his father to Arizona, coming 
 bv the round-about way of New York, Nicara- 
 gua, San Francisco, San Pedro and thence 
 overland to La Paz. For a period the young 
 man was employed as a clerk on the Mohave 
 Indian Reservation for George W. Dent, who 
 was the superintendent of Indian afifairs in the 
 territory. About a year later Mr. Cartter be- 
 came a clerk of Gray & Co., of La Paz, and sub- 
 sequently entered the govermuent employ as 
 wagon-master and distributer of supplies from 
 freight trains in southern Arizona, his superior 
 officer being General Dandy. For another year 
 he played the part of a ferryman, operating the 
 old ferry at Ehrenberg. on the Colorado river. 
 In the meantime La Paz had been abandoned, 
 the former town having taken its place. 
 
 The year that witnessed the judge's arrival to 
 majority found him bent upon entering his 
 father's profession, and after studying with his 
 senior for a period he was admitted to the bar.. 
 This event occurred in 1873, and he then was 
 associated with his father in practice. In 1874 
 he was appointed district attorney, and served 
 as such for two years. Then, under Sheriff 
 Lowry, he was a deputy for four years, and in 
 i8(>7 was appointed to act on the board of county 
 suiier\isors. to fill a vacancy. Governor Safford 
 lionoreil liiiu by appointing him to the responsi- 
 ble office of judge of the probate court and ex- 
 officio superintendent of the public schools of 
 Yavapai county. For four years he ably dis-
 
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 charged his duties, and then for a similar period 
 was deputy county recorder. That term having 
 been finished, he "was nominated and elected 
 cuunty recorder, and occupied that post for one 
 term. In each and all of these important incum- 
 bencies he won the approbation of his constitu- 
 ents and added to the laurels with which he al- 
 ready had been honored. He has been active in 
 promoting the welfare of the Democratic party, 
 and has received consideration in the delibera- 
 tions of that body. 
 
 Though Judge Cartter has made his home in 
 Prescott for thirty-one years, he has long owned _ 
 and supervised a tine ranch in Yeager canyon, 
 in the Black Hills, twenty miles northeast of this 
 city. This property was purchased by him in 
 1885, but for some time previous to that he had 
 been engaged in the cattle business, his brand 
 being "H" and "C" joined together. He also 
 has made some investments in mining property. 
 Fraternally he is identified with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 The marriage of the Judge and Miss S.A.Mil- 
 ler, the daughter of Jacob L. Miller, took place 
 in this city in 1874. She is a native of Illinois, 
 received a liberal education, and today is a fa- 
 vorite in local society and is a great worker in 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she is 
 a member. 
 
 LOUIS H. CHALMERS. 
 
 In the profession of law, probably more than 
 any other, success depends upon individual 
 merit, upon a thorough understanding of the 
 principles of jurisprudence, a power of keen 
 analysis, and the ability to present clearly, con- 
 cisely and forcibly the strong points in his 
 cause. Possessing these necessary qualifica- 
 tions, i\'Ir. Chalmers is accorded a foremost place 
 in the ranks of the profession in Maricopa 
 county. He has attained distinction as one of 
 the able members of the Phoenix bar, and is now 
 practicing as a member of the firm of Chalmers 
 & Wilkinson. 
 
 He was born in Jamestown, Greene county, 
 Ohio, January 13, 1861, and is the only child 
 who reached years of maturity in the family of 
 Clark and Hattie (Jenkins) Chalmers. On the 
 paternal side his ancestors were of Scotch origin 
 
 and among the early settlers of Virginia and 
 South Carolina. His great-grandfather, who 
 was a planter, was born in the state of South 
 Carolina and there both our subject's father and 
 grandfather, James Chalmers, were born. The 
 latter became one of the pioneer merchants of 
 Xenia, Ohio, where he died in 1882. The father 
 also followed that occupation in Xenia until the 
 Civil war broke out, when he enlisted in 1861 as 
 lieutenant in the Seventy-fifth Ohio Volunteer 
 Infantry, and died in Camp Chase the same 
 \ear. His wife, who was a native of Jamestown, 
 ( )liio, passed away in Iowa. Her father, 
 Jonathan H. Jenkins, was born in Virginia of 
 English ancestry, and at an early day removed to 
 Jamestown, Ohio. He was a man of considera- 
 ble wealth, who in early life followed the legal 
 profession and later engaged in merchandising. 
 A strong abolitionist, he became a conductor on 
 the "underground railroad," while his home was 
 a station on the same, and for the active part 
 he took in such affairs he made enemies of the 
 southern sympathizers and was mobbed by a 
 band of them. His father was a soldier of the 
 Revolutionary war. 
 
 Our subject was four years old when his 
 mother removed to Albion, Iowa, and he was 
 reared at the Soldiers' Home in Cedar Falls, 
 that state, until sixteen years of age, when he 
 returned to Jamestown, Ohio, and completed 
 the course in the high school at that place. In 
 1 88 1 he purchased the Waverly, a Republican 
 newspaper, of Pike county, Ohio, which he ed- 
 ited for two years, and at the same time pur- 
 sued the study of law. In the fall of 1883 he 
 entered the Cincinnati Law School as a senior 
 and was graduated with the degree of LL. B. 
 in 1884. He then came west by way of the 
 L'nion Pacific Railroad and located in Phoenix, 
 .\riz., where he has since successfully engaged 
 in general practice. He is also attorney for the 
 Phoenix National Bank and the Cobre Grande 
 Copper Company, and is local attorney for the 
 Santa Fe, Phoenix & Prescott Railroad Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Mr. Chalmers was married in Phoenix to Miss 
 Laura E. Coates, a native of Iowa, and a gradu- 
 ate of the Ellis Female Academy of Los An- 
 geles, Cal. Her father, George F. Coates, who 
 was a member of an Iowa regiment in the Civil
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 war, came to Phoenix in 1878, and for some 
 lime was engaged in merchandising here, but is 
 now a resident of Los Angeles. Our subject and 
 his wife have one child, Raima. 
 
 Politicall}' AJr. Chahners is a stalwart Dem- 
 ocrat, and has served as secretary of the county 
 central committee. He filled the office of city 
 attorney two or three terms, and in 1890 was 
 elected to the territorial legislature, serving with 
 distinction in the sixteenth general assembly as 
 chairman of the judiciary committee, and as a 
 member of the corporation and other commit- 
 tees. He is .a member of the Board of Trade, 
 the Maricopa Club and the Territorial Bar As- 
 sociation. Socially he is deservedly popular, as 
 he is afifable and courteous in manner and pos- 
 sesses that essential cjualification to success in 
 public life, that of making friends readily and 
 of strengthening the ties of all friendships as 
 time advances. 
 
 R. T. BOLLEN. 
 
 Associated for the greater part of his life with 
 the wild and undeveloped conditions of the ex- 
 treme west, Air. Bollen, manager of the Casa 
 Cirande end of the Arizona Consolidated Stage 
 Line, is more familiar than most with the recent 
 and unprecedented growth of Arizona. The 
 stage line in which he is interested, and which 
 is conducted in connection with a general livery 
 business, conveys passengers and mail between 
 Florence and Casa Grande, a distance of twenty- 
 six miles. The road passes the famous ruins of 
 Casa Grande; and at this point the driver al- 
 ways stops for a short time to give the travelers 
 a chance to inspect the wonderful pile. 
 
 A native of Tex,as, Mr. Bollen left his home 
 state when a mere boy of nine years, and came 
 to the Pacific coast, where he lived with and 
 was educated by an uncle. During his early 
 days he showed a decided ])redilection for wan- 
 dering over the country, and in his tramps took 
 in California, Oregon, Montana, and various 
 parts of the west. In 1858 lie chanced to be in 
 liritish Columbia during the gold excitement on 
 the J''raser river, and engaged in freighting with 
 a pack train for some time. In all he spent from 
 1858 to 1864 in the northwest, after which he 
 settled in Virginia City, Nev., where he was in- 
 
 terested in driving and handling stock. In 1873 
 he first came to Arizona, and after taking an in- 
 ventory of Tucson, Phoenix, and Florence, re- 
 turned to the coast, where he remained until 
 1877. He then located on a ranch on the San 
 Pedro river in Arizona, and conducted a stock 
 ranch, and raised fine horses. In 1890 he re- 
 ceived the mail contract for the line between 
 Horence and Silver King, a distance of thirty- 
 five miles, which contract lasted for four years. 
 In 1895 he became interested in the stage line 
 running between Florence and Casa Grande, and 
 has since been gratifyingly successful in his stage 
 and livery business. In this connection he is 
 interested in the half-way house on the route 
 to I'lorence, and in all matters pertaining to the 
 well being of the locality in which he lives, he is 
 a factor for improvement and progress. 
 
 Mr. Bollen is still interested in his cattle ranch 
 on the San Pedro river, and from the excellent 
 management of the same derives a substantial 
 revenue. Like most of the residents living in 
 the mining districts, he is to some extent inter- 
 ested in mining, but devotes the greater part 
 of his time and attention to the stage and livery 
 business. During his residence in the territory 
 he has won the good will of those who have 
 been associated with him in a business or social 
 way, and embodies in his general make-up the 
 good cheer and hearty fellowship so character- 
 istic of those who are reared in the rugged 
 west. 
 
 HON. FRED L. BLUMER. 
 
 .\. citizen from other shores who has become 
 prominent in the growth of the great southwest, 
 and particularly of Phoenix, Mr. Blumer was 
 born in Canton Glarus, Switzerland, November 
 17, 1850. Of the seven children comprising the 
 family all are living, and two brothers and one 
 sister are in Iowa. The parents, Jacob and Bur- 
 gula (Zentner") Blumer, were born in Switzer- 
 land, and the mother died in 1882. Jacob IMumer 
 was a lieutenant on the side of the Reformed 
 party in the war of 1848. and served his country 
 w ith courage and distinction. The parents were 
 representatives of distinguished Swiss families. 
 
 In his native country Fred L. Blumer received 
 an excellent education, as do most of the youth
 
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 of that interesting country. He was educated 
 at the University of Wattwyl, in the Canton of 
 St. Gall, and as a preliminary toward attaining 
 to future financial independence, was employed 
 in a large silk factory at Zurich. Later, at Lau- 
 sanne, Switzerland, he completed his studies in 
 French, and was bookkeeper for a large tobacco 
 firm. A later venture was at SchafThausen, on 
 the Rhine, where he engaged as a commercial 
 traveller, until the breaking out of the Franco- 
 Prussian war, which paralyzed all lines of busi- 
 ness. In the hope of bettering his prospects, Mr. 
 Blumer crossed the seas to America in 1870, and 
 gradually drifted west, and became interested in 
 farming in Iowa. He later became a bookkeeper 
 for a large grocery firm in Vevay, Ind., and in 
 1874 removed to Madison county, Tex., and then 
 to Davis county, Iowa, where for seven years he 
 engaged in the dairy business with his brother. 
 At the same time he carried on large stock-rais- 
 ing enterprises. 
 
 Upon removing to Howard county. Neb., Mr. 
 Blumer farmed for a year, and then laid out the 
 town of Elba, on the Union Pacific Railroad, and 
 engaged in the business of loans, real-estate and 
 insurance. In Nebraska he attained to consid- 
 erable prominence, and was conspicuously iden- 
 tified with the affairs of his locality. He was 
 recorder of deeds for one term, and in 1886 was 
 elected from Howard county to the Nebraska 
 state legislature. The occupancy of this posi- 
 tion was necessarily interfered with owing to the 
 fact that in 1887 he removed to Omaha. Here he 
 engaged in the real-estate business, and was 
 gratifyingly successful. In 1888 he was elected 
 to the city council at large, and served for one 
 term. In 1890 he removed to Houston, Tex., 
 and bought and sold real estate and country 
 lands, and in 1899 located in Phoenix. Novem- 
 ber I, 1899, he organized the Arizona Mutual 
 Savings and Loan Association, of which he be- 
 came manager at the first. The enterprise has a 
 capital stock of $10,000,000, and has been on a 
 paying and successful basis from the start. It 
 is one of the important organizations of the city, 
 and has the confidence and approval of the com- 
 munity. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Blumer and Julia J. Wel- 
 ler occurred in Phoenix, in 1900. Mrs. Blumer 
 was born in Kansas City. Mr. Blumer is a Re- 
 
 publican in politics, with independent inclina- 
 tions. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 United Moderns. 
 
 L. E. WIGHTMAN, M. D. 
 
 The professional career of Dr. Wightman has 
 centered in Pima and throughout the entire Gila 
 valley, his practice naturally assuming, with the 
 lapse of time, large and constantly increasing 
 proportions. A most capable practitioner, and 
 one in touch with the best methods employed by 
 the followers of Aesculapius in the largest and 
 most advanced centers of the world, he is not 
 wanting in the appreciation which stimulates 
 the best endeavor, nor in that skill in treatment 
 and diagnosis which inspires the utmost confi- 
 dence in the community. 
 
 At Payson, Utah, where he was born May 7, 
 1869, Dr. Wightman received a portion of his 
 education, attending Iliff Academy and the L^ni- 
 versity of Utah in Salt Lake City, later graduat- 
 ing from the Northwestern University, Chicago, 
 in the class of 1894. His parents were W. C. 
 and Lucretia J. (Pepper) Wightman, the former 
 born in New York, and the latter in Quincy, 
 111. After graduation Dr. Wightman immedi- 
 ately availed himself of the promise and possibil- 
 ity of the Gila valley, and although having his 
 headquarters from the first in Pima, he for a 
 year had charge of the county hospital at Solo- 
 monville, and at the same time worked up a 
 practice through the valley. In 1896 he started, 
 in partnership with a brotlier, H. P., the pioneer 
 and only drug store in Pima, and which up to 
 the present time has been one of the sound com- 
 mercial enterprises of the town. In 1900 the 
 doctor withdrew his drug interests and the con- 
 cern has since been under control of the younger 
 Wightman, who the following year erected the 
 substantial brick store and completed a stock 
 which has no equal in the valley. 
 
 As an evidence of hisxibiding faith in the pros- 
 pects by which lie is surrounded Dr. Wightman 
 purchased an adobe house which, upon being 
 remodeled and covered with wood, is an ex- 
 ceedingly pretty and comfortable abode, and 
 where gracious hospitality is unstintingly dis- 
 pensed. The ofifice is located in the residence, 
 and is in every way suited to the practice of a
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 progressive and up-to-date ameliorator of phys- 
 ical woes. An X-ray machine and elctrical and 
 compressed-air appliances are among the mod- 
 ern and late devices of a scientific nature which 
 aid in the search for, and suppression of, ana- 
 tomical disorder, and which facilitate the arduous 
 duties incident to a practice which extends from 
 Safiford to Geronimo. He is now making a spe- 
 cialty of electro-therapeutics in his practice. 
 
 In 1895 Dr. Wightman married Janie Weech, 
 and of this vmion there are two children, William 
 Dewey and an infant daughter, Marval. Mrs. 
 Wightman is a daughttr of Hiram and Sarah 
 Weech, of Pima. Dr. Wightman has been prom- 
 inent in many ways not connected with his pro- 
 fession. In politics a Republican, he was elected 
 mayor of Pima in 1898, and has been in the 
 council for two years. In addition he is examin- 
 ing physician for the Mutual Life Insurance 
 Company, the Equitable Life, and the New York 
 Life, and surgeon for the Gila Valley, Globe 
 & Nortiiern Railroad, 
 
 R. T. MILLAR. 
 
 To Mr. Millar is due the credit of establishing 
 the pioneer and at the present time largest and 
 best conducted funeral directing establishment 
 in Tucson. To his special line of effort he brings 
 a wide knowledge of the most advanced methods 
 employed in different parts of the world. A spe- 
 cialty is made of the process of embalming, the 
 latter day application of which has taxed the 
 ability and resources of thousands, who have 
 sought to probe the mystery surrounding the art 
 as practiced by those master craftsmen, the 
 Egyptians. The show room of Mr. Millar con- 
 tains the best handiwork of the cabinet construc- 
 tors, and in sufficient variety of taste and material 
 to meet a general and varied demand. The busi- 
 ness is conducted at 18 South Church street, and 
 was first instituted in 1891, Mr. Millar having 
 previously managed a like concern for the Sam- 
 uel B.aird Company. 
 
 -A native of New Brunswick, Mr. Millar was 
 born in 1854, and is a son of James and Helen 
 (Creighton) Millar, who were born in Scotland, 
 and emigrated to New Brunswick at a compara- 
 tively early day. In .anticipation of future ne- 
 cessity he learned the carpenter and builder 
 
 trade, and in 1875 removed to Massachusetts, 
 and worked at his trade in Boston and Salem. 
 In 1879 he located for two years in Chicago, III., 
 and in 1881 settled in Tucson, and for ten years 
 was in the employ of the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road Company. 
 
 .\mong the other interests which claim the 
 attention of Mr. Millar is his position of vice- 
 president and treasurer of the Amole Soap and 
 Extract Company, the original manufacturer of 
 toilet articles from the Amole plant. A tooth 
 paste made from the plant, and a hair shampoo, 
 are said by those who have tested their effi- 
 ciency to be unrivalled accessories of the toilet. 
 As a stanch Republican Mr. Millar is interested 
 in all of the undertakings of his party, and has 
 served for two terms as secretary of the county 
 central committee, and for four years as coun- 
 cilman. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Knights of Pythias and with the Benevolent Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks. 
 
 In Tucson, February 4, 1885, Mr. Millar was 
 united in marriage with Maggie Reid, who was 
 born in Canada, and a daughter of Robert Reid, 
 a native of Scotland, who was for many years 
 superintendent of the Eagle flour mills in Tuc- 
 son. To Mr. and Mrs, Millar have been born 
 two sons, Leslie Creighton and Edward Burk- 
 halter. 
 
 BERNHARD MAIER, 
 
 The connnercial prosperity of Benson has been 
 materially augmented by the praiseworthy and 
 enterprising efforts of Mr, Maier. who has con- 
 ducted a large general merchandise store in this 
 
 place since 1899, Gifted with the sturdy perse- 
 verance and thrift which characterizes the un- 
 dertakings of most of the sons of Germany, he 
 has found an ample field irt this growing town, 
 and has made the most of the chances that came 
 his way, -^ native of Bavaria, he was born April 
 8, 1869. and is a son of Hirsch and Fannie 
 (Raiss) Maier, who are still living in Bavaria, 
 In the family was one other son and one daugh- 
 ter, Leopold and Jetta, who are both in America, 
 the former in Los .\ngeles, Cal„ and the latter in 
 15enson. 
 
 In his native land Mr. Maier received the sub- 
 stantial home training and common school edu-
 
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 251 
 
 cation which falls to the lot of the average Ger- 
 man youth, and was well fitted to battle with 
 the vicissitudes of life. When grown to man- 
 hood he longed for larger fields in which to fight 
 the battle of independence, and immigrated to 
 the United States in 1886, settling in Norwalk, 
 Los Angeles county, Cal. There he was em- 
 ployed for eight years as a clerk in a general 
 merchandise establishment, and later removed 
 to Riverside county, Cal., where he started a 
 like enterprise on his own responsibility. A 
 liberal amount of success attended his venture, 
 and in 1899 'he came to Benson in the hope of 
 still further encouragement. Mr. Maier keeps 
 an up-to-date and complete store, and his goods 
 are arranged with an eye to neatness and general 
 accommodation, and the genial manager and 
 proprietor presides at the head of aiTairs in a 
 truly tactful and pleasing manner. He keeps in 
 touch with the popular demand, and is possessed 
 of a sincere desire to please. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Maier married Frida Fichtelber- 
 ger, of Bavaria. Germany, and of this union 
 there is one son, Louis, who was born at Rincon, 
 Riverside county, Cal., and is now four years old. 
 In politics Mr. Maier is a Republican, but enter- 
 tains liberal views regarding the politics of the 
 administration, and believes in voting for the 
 man best qualified to fill the position. Frater- 
 nally he is associated with the Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows, in Riverside, Cal., with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and 
 with the K. O. D. M. of Norwalk, Cal. Both 
 Mr. and Mrs. Maier are of the Jewish faith. 
 
 ROBERT J. WILLIAMS. 
 
 Although, practically speaking, a young man, 
 having been born in Kansas City, Mo., March 
 24, 1872, Mr. Williams is gifted with the traits 
 of character and attainment which constitute 
 good citizenship, and as county recorder of Gila 
 county he has demonstrated his fitness for the 
 administration of public affairs. The father of 
 Air. Williams, John J., is a native of Ireland, 
 and was born in Dublin. His association with 
 Kansas City began after the war, and he later 
 removed to Minneapolis when his son was but 
 a youth. His wife, Dollie (Lucas) Williams, was 
 born in Texas. 
 
 In Minneapolis, Minn., R. J. Williams re- 
 ceived his education in the public schools, and 
 also acquired considerable knowledge of general 
 business methods. He came to Arizona in 1890. 
 settling first at Clifton, Graham county, and in 
 association with his father engaged in mining for 
 a year. A later venture was at Jerome, where 
 he mined and worked in a smelter. January 17, 
 
 1897, he located in Globe, and November 8, 
 
 1898, was elected county recorder. November 
 6, 1900, he was re-elected, leading his ticket in 
 this county, and having a majority of ten more 
 than any other man on the ticket. 
 
 Although a stanch Democrat, Mr. Williams is 
 liberal-minded as to principles and issues, and 
 is credited with giving the people an absolutel}' 
 impartial administration. He is fraternally asso- 
 ciated with the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, and 
 the United Moderns, at Globe, and is a member 
 of the Western Federation of Miners. 
 
 Ever since coming to the territory Air. Wil- 
 liams has been interested in mining and now 
 has some valuable copper properties in the 
 Globe district. In January, 1901, he was elected 
 a member of the executive committee for Ari- 
 zona of the Southwest-International Miners' 
 Association, of which Hon. Miguel Ahumada, 
 governor of Chihuahua, Mexico, is honorary 
 president. 
 
 BENJAMIN F. JOHNSON. 
 
 This farmer and dairyman, residing five miles 
 southeast of Tempe, came to the territory in 
 1882, and has since put forth his best efforts for 
 the improvement of his adopted locality. 
 
 Mr. Johnson is a native of Utah county, Utah, 
 and was born January 20, 1853. His parents, 
 Benjamin F. and Harriet N. (Holman) Johnson, 
 are now living in Maricopa county, and have 
 reached the advanced age of eighty and seventy 
 years, respectively. Their son was reared in his 
 native county, and was educated in the private 
 schools of his state. He subsequently acquired 
 considerable business experience, and has gained 
 much from practical observation and reading. 
 He was married in Utah, March 15, 1875, with 
 Rebecca Stevens, a native of Utah, and of this 
 union there have been nine children (eight of 
 whom are living): Benjamin F., Joseph A., Re-
 
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 becca E., Harriet E., Emma G., James W., Abbie 
 M., Walter E, and Rose L. 
 
 For several years after his marriage Mr. John- 
 son lived in Utah with his family, and in 1882 
 migrated from that state to Arizona, and settled 
 at Tempe. Here he lived until 1887, when he 
 settled on his ranch, which has since been the 
 object of his care. Under his wise and careful 
 management the crude land has been made to 
 produce in a paying manner, and, added to the 
 revenue derived from general farming and stock- 
 raising, a large dairying industry contributes a 
 large yearly allowance. In this connection Mr. 
 Johnson derives considerable prestige and as- 
 sistance from his association with Tempe-Mesa 
 Produce Company, of which he has been a direc- 
 tor from the time of its incorporation. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Johnson is independ- 
 ent, and believes in voting for the best man. At 
 the present time he is serving as councilor to 
 the bishop of the Nephi ward of the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Nephi. 
 He is an industrious and painstaking citizen, and 
 has done much towards the development of his 
 county. 
 
 ALEXANDER C. HUNT. 
 
 A native of Huntsville, Butler county, Ky., 
 born in 1872, the subject of this article is a son 
 of Dr. Alexander and Catherine (Clark) Hunt. 
 Both were likewise Kentuckians by birth, and 
 John Hunt, grandfather of A. C, was a native 
 of one of the Carolinas. .\ great-grandfather — 
 a Mr. Owsley — was a hero in the war of the 
 American Revolution, and Major Owsley, fourth 
 son of William Owsley, and a fourth cousin of 
 Mrs. Catherine Hunt, raised a company which 
 was with Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. 
 
 The first seventeen years in the life of Alex- 
 ander Hunt of this sketch were passed in the 
 Blue Grass state. In 1889 he came direct to 
 .Arizona and, being pleased with the Gila valley, 
 took up his abode here. For some time he was 
 employed as a clerk by President Layton and 
 also was similarly occupied at Willcox, with the 
 firm of John H. Norton & Co., and for a 
 period lived at Geronimo. 
 
 In November, 1899, the firm of Claridge & 
 Hunt was organized, and the lumber business 
 
 was engaged in at Thatcher. The partners also 
 conduct a general mercantile store, and in April, 
 1 901, moved into new quarters in a substantial 
 brick building, 30x65 feet in dimensions, and 
 two stories and basement in height. This struc- 
 ture was specially built for the large and growing 
 business of the firm, and their old location is 
 used for the storage of sash and doors and build- 
 ing material, for their lumber business also is 
 prospering. For several years Mr. Hunt was 
 interested in the running of a saw-mill and in 
 the meantime built a number of cottages and 
 residences in Thatcher, Pima and Fort Thomas. 
 Many of these he yet owns, leasing them to re- 
 sponsible tenants. His partner has been the 
 postmaster of Thatcher since August, 1898. In 
 his own political creed Mr. Hunt is a Repub- 
 lican, but he has not been an aspirant to public 
 positions, as his business afifairs require all of his 
 time. He stands high in the estimation of all 
 who know him, and has manifested unusual 
 connnercial ability in one of his years. 
 
 EUGENE T. HAWKINS. 
 
 The popular and widely known merchant and 
 deputy postmaster at Glendale is a native of 
 Shelby county. Mo., and was born December 22, 
 1861. His parents, Bowles and Lucinda S. 
 { Dawson) Hawkins, natives of Missouri, were in- 
 dustrious and enterprising agriculturists during 
 the years of their activity. On the paternal and 
 maternal sides the grandfathers came from Ken- 
 tucky, and both chanced to settle in Missouri. 
 They were prominent members of the county in 
 which they lived, and were liberal, broad-minded 
 men. 
 
 On his father's farm in Shelby county Eugene 
 T. was reared to a general knowledge of farming, 
 and received a fair education in the public 
 schools of his county. He was an ambitious 
 lad, and longed for broad fields in which to exer- 
 cise his ability, and for opportunities beyond 
 those afforded by a continued residence in Mis- 
 souri. He naturally turned his attention to the 
 far west, and in 1885 came to Arizona, and set- 
 tled in the Salt River valley. The choice of loca- 
 tion has proved to be a wise one, for success 
 has attended his efforts, and he is widely known 
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 cause. At first he settled on a farm fourteen 
 miles northwest of Phoenix, and engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising for a number of years. 
 .At the present time he is the possessor of a one 
 hundred and sixty acre ranch in the valley. In 
 the fall of 1897 he came to Glendale, and in Oc- 
 tober of the following year engaged in the gen- 
 eral merchandise business, in which he has since 
 l)een successfuHy interested. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Hawkins and Sophia E. 
 Lutgerding, daughter of Henry Lutgerding, of 
 the Salt River valley, occurred in Maricopa coun- 
 ty. Of this union there are five children, viz.: 
 Lena E., Errol T., Ruby L., Henry H., and Imo- 
 gene. Fraternally Mr. Hawkins is associated 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 He has contributed largely towards the growth 
 of this wonderful valley of promise, and is in 
 touch with the various enterprises for its up- 
 building and development. As a purveyor of 
 general merchandise he receives the patronage 
 and appreciation of a large part of the com- 
 munity, and is generally approved for his reliable 
 and conscientious business methods. He car- 
 ries an excellent stock of goods, and is possessed 
 of a kindly desire to please, and a tactful way of 
 handling whatever complications may arise. 
 
 CHARLES BENT. 
 
 Charles Bent, one of the well-known and suc- 
 cessful pioneer miners of Arizona, and the dis- 
 coverer of some of the most valuable and paying 
 properties in the territory, was born in Philadel- 
 phia, Pa., December 10, 1845. His father, John 
 Bent, was born in Scotland, and upon coming 
 to the L^nited States settled in Philadelphia, 
 where he subsequently died. His wife, who 
 was before her marriage Eliza Yeager, came of 
 .an old Pennsylvania family, and was born in 
 I'hiladelphia. She was the mother of seven 
 children, of whom Charles is the only one living. 
 
 The youth of Mr. Bent was spent in Phila- 
 delphia, where he received the education of the 
 public schools. In 1869 he went to Kansas, 
 afterward engaging in mining in New Mexico, 
 and was interested in the cattle business and 
 mining in Arizona. In 1872 he located in Tuc- 
 son, and for two years was employed as super- 
 intendent by Don Sanford, a large cattle man 
 
 of the locality. Subsecpicntly he became inter- 
 ested in mining in the Santa Ritas and Wau- 
 chukas, and for a time was engaged in the cat- 
 tle business on his ranch at Arivaca. While 
 there he helped to defeat the Arivaca land grant. 
 
 While prospecting in different parts of the 
 territory Mr. Bent located a number of impor- 
 tant claims, but perhaps his greatest undertak- 
 ing in this direction is the finding of the claims 
 now owned by Bent & Sampson in Pima 
 county, fifty-seven miles west of Tucson. This 
 contains the wolfram ore used for hardening 
 steel, armor plate and projectiles. 
 
 The discovery was made twenty-five years 
 ago, but the ore remained untested until 1895, 
 when it was found to contain iron, manganese 
 and tungsten or wolfram ore, to an extent which 
 constitutes the finest deposits in the world. 
 These mines are now being worked and promise 
 large returns for the fortunate owners. Mr. 
 Bent is also engaged in buying and selling mines, 
 and owns besides his other interests mining 
 jiroperties in southern Arizona, and he has also a 
 good iron and copper mine in the Tucson moun- 
 tains. 
 
 In Pima county Mr. Bent was united in mar- 
 riage with Margaret Crillo, who was born in So- 
 nora, Mexico, and a daughter of Ramone Crillo. 
 Of this union there are eight children — Charles 
 E., Mildred, Maggie, Mabel, Blanche, Katie, 
 Adalie and Annie. Mr. Bent is a Republican of 
 the most pronounced dye, and at different times 
 has served as county commissioner, and been 
 a delegate to county conventions. He is one of 
 the representative miners and prosperous citi- 
 zens of the territory, and is esteemed bv all who 
 know him. 
 
 JOHN J. HODNETT. 
 
 The early history of the postmaster and mer- 
 chant of Tempe is eventful only in its forceful 
 forging to the front, and in the evinced studied 
 determination to take advantage of all available 
 opportunities. The family of which Mr. Hod- 
 nett is a member is of original French extraction, 
 and one of the ancestors, Jerald by name, was 
 a scion of the house of Leinster. The latter-day 
 descendants emigrated to Ireland, and here the 
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 (McCarthy) Hodnett, were born. They event- 
 ually immigrated to the United States and set- 
 tled in Mansfield, Ohio, where their son, John 
 J., was born June 4, 1859. He received an ex- 
 cellent home training, and developed an early 
 ambition along the lines of educational work, 
 for which he was admirably fitted by close ap- 
 plication at the public schools and the high 
 school at Mansfield. Subsequent training was 
 received at Poydras College, Point Coupee Par- 
 ish, La., from which he was graduated in 1879. 
 After teaching school for a short time, an occu- 
 pation in which he had engaged somewhat dur- 
 ing his college life, he was for two years a 
 correspondent for the New Orleans Times- 
 Democrat, and during that time wrote a series 
 of articles on Mexico. For a time also he held 
 the responsible position of bookkeeper and pay- 
 master for the International Construction Com- 
 pany of Mexico. 
 
 With wise discernment Mr. Hodnett decided 
 in favor of a permanent residence in the far west, 
 and upon first locating in Arizona engaged in 
 real estate in Phoenix for a short time. A worth 
 while opportunity presented itself when he was 
 employed as conductor of the construction train 
 of the Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad, and the 
 honor was accorded him of bringing the first 
 train into Phoenix July 4, 1887. For the follow- 
 ing five years he continued in the employ of this 
 same railroad, his efforts extending in various 
 capacities with equally satisfactory results. In 
 1895 he removed to Tempe, and started the mer- 
 cantile business which has since commanded the 
 greater part of his time and attention. In addi- 
 tion to the various responsibilities which fall to 
 his lot that of postmaster of Tempe is by no 
 means the least important, the position having 
 been accorded him November i, 1897, by Presi- 
 dent McKinley. 
 
 Mrs. Hodnett was formerly Sophia Carr, a na- 
 tive of Louisiana, and daughter of John Carr of 
 that state, and her marriage with Mr. Hodnett 
 occurred January 9, 1893. Of this union there 
 are two children, Geraldine and Mary Erena. In 
 all of the issues and undertakings of the Repub- 
 lican party Mr. Hodnett has ever shown a vital 
 interest, and has held many local positions of 
 prominence in the localities in which he has 
 lived. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, the 
 Woodmen of the World and the United 
 Moderns, at Tempe. His many excellent traits 
 of citizenship have endeared him to a large part 
 of the community, and his fidelity to public trust 
 is absolute and unquestioned. In the changes 
 that have astonished the dwellers of surrounding 
 sister states and territories he has borne an im- 
 portant part, and is one of the most enthusiastic 
 of the many who have come out of the east and 
 substantiated a really great faith in their sur- 
 roundings. 
 
 C. T. REYNOLDS. 
 
 Safford numbers among its prized and enter- 
 prising citizens C. T. Reynolds, who, as a suc- 
 cessful merchant, has contributed not a little to 
 the general stability of the town. A native of 
 Meadville, Crawford county, Pa., he was born 
 December 7, 1864, and is a son of E. A. and 
 Catherine Reynolds, who were born in Pennsyl- 
 vania. During a youth spent in his native town 
 he acquired the education of the public schools, 
 and was graduated from the Meadville Commer- 
 cial College. He early displayed an indepen- 
 dence and youthful ambition which in 1885 found 
 vent in a trip to Kansas, where he spent a year 
 and a half in the western part of the state. In 
 1886 he came to Arizona, and for a year was 
 employed by the Eureka Springs Stock Com- 
 pany, after which he went into the stock business 
 in partnership with Mike Oht, at Fort Thomas, 
 and at the end of two years bought out his part- 
 ner and continued the business on his own re- 
 sponsibility. Three years ago he began gradu- 
 ally to dispose of his stock, although at the pres- 
 ent time he still owns the ranch on which he 
 conducted his stock business. 
 
 July 9, 1900, Mr. Reynolds purchased a half 
 interest in the firm of Jeter & Son, owning his 
 share of the lot, building and stock, and is now 
 interested in the successful outcome of their 
 large general mercantile enterprise, doing busi- 
 ness under the firm name of Jeter & Reynolds. 
 The firm carry a complete line of general sup- 
 plies, whicli thev aim to dispose of to customers 
 at the lowest possible figure consistent with the 
 success of their business. They have a merited 
 large trade, and are known for their correct and
 
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 257 
 
 reliable business methods. In addition to his 
 other possessions in and around Safford Mr. 
 Reynolds owns one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land five miles this side of Fort Thomas, which 
 is well improved, and fenced, and irrigated. This 
 land is rented out to good advantage, thus re- 
 lieving the owner of an extra and arduous re- 
 sponsibility. In politics Mr. Reynolds is a Dem- 
 ocrat, and is a strict party man when the candi- 
 dates are up to the standard and true to the best 
 lirinciples of their party. At Willcox he became 
 associated with the Masons, and belongs to the 
 Safiford Blue Lodge, recently organized, also to 
 the chapter and conmiandery at Tucson and El 
 Zaribah Temple at Phoenix. 
 
 T. E. PULLIAM. 
 
 Flagstaff, famous in the annals of mining and 
 adventure, is well supplied with modern commod- 
 ities, and readily keeps pace with some of its 
 larger and older sisters in the territory in the 
 matter of general advancement and progress. 
 .\mong the well-conducted and well-patronized 
 enterprises which have come into being at the 
 call of an ever-increasing population and conse- 
 cjuent demand is the gents' furnishing establish- 
 ment managed by the firm of Pulliam & Vail. 
 The junior member of the firm, Mr. Vail, has 
 other interests which engage the greater part of 
 his attention, but T. E. Pulliam, under whose 
 personal supervision the business is conducted, 
 gives his entire time to the same. He stands 
 high in the public regard, and has held, besides 
 his excellent commercial position, the political 
 offices of recorder and supervisor of Coconino 
 county. 
 
 The early training, education, and first busi- 
 ness experience of Mr. Pulliam were acquired at 
 Fort Smith, Ark., where he was born in 1861. 
 His departure from the home circle occurred in 
 1877, when he removed to Pueblo, Colo., remain- 
 ing for three years, and later settling at Eureka 
 Springs, Carroll county. Ark., where he resided 
 seven years. In 1887 he came further west and 
 after a short sojourn in Los Angeles, Cal., set- 
 tled permanently in Flagstaff in May of 1889. 
 For the following two years he was employed 
 with the Arizona Lumber & Timber Company, 
 and in lyoo became a member of the firm of 
 
 Pulliam & Vail, which enterprise has experi- 
 enced an era of uninterrupted success. 
 
 As a stanch member of the Democratic party 
 Mr. Pulliam became nuich interested in the local 
 and territorial affairs of his adopted locality, and 
 in 1895 was elected recorder of Coconino coun- 
 ty, and re-elected in 1897, holding the office for 
 four years. In November of 1900 he was elected 
 a member of the board of county supervisors, to 
 serve for two years, and has otherwise been iden- 
 tified with the offices within the gift of the peo- 
 ple. Fraternally he is a member and past master 
 of the Flagstaff Lodge No. 7, F. & A. M. 
 
 The firm of Pulliam & Vail carries a full line 
 of gents' furnishings, including boots, shoes and 
 hats, and everything is selected with an eye to 
 satisfying the tastes and requirements of its 
 numerous patrons. The store is modern, and 
 well adapted to the carrying on of the business, 
 the commercial integrity observetl being well 
 understood and unfailing in its application. 
 
 W. F. HAGAN. 
 
 The beautiful little town known as North Clif- 
 ton has no more energetic and public-spirited 
 citizen than he of whom the following lines are 
 penned. At the time of his location here, four- 
 teen years ago, much of this property was a wil- 
 derness of brushwood and swamps, and today 
 pretty cottages and more pretentious residences 
 are to be seen upon every side, embowered in the 
 grateful shade of fine trees and foliage, while 
 thriving gardens and orchards also attest to the 
 industry and good sense of the population. One 
 of the foremost movers in this redemption of 
 this once barren waste was our subject — a man 
 of sagacity and enterprise. 
 
 W. F. Hagan was born near Independence, 
 Mo., fifty-two years ago, and passed twelve years 
 of his life in Jackson and Bates counties. Then 
 with his parents he removed to Kansas, where 
 they dwelt during the troublous war period, and 
 later returned to his native state, where he spent 
 several years more. During the Civil war he 
 served a year and five months with the Eleventh 
 Kansas Cavalry in Kansas and Missouri. After 
 the war he went to Colorado and engaged in 
 mining and prospecting, and for twelve years 
 was thus occupied in the Centennial state. The
 
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 reputed mineral wealth of Mexico at last at- 
 tracted him within the borders of that republic, 
 but in a short time he came to Arizona in the 
 interests of the mining concern of McCutchin, 
 Payne & Co. During the next four years he paid 
 considerable attention to mining and also com- 
 menced dealing in cattle. About eight years ago 
 he had his parents come to this mild climate, 
 buying a snug little farm, and later building a 
 house in town for them. Here the father, Louis 
 Hagan, died, November 28, 1900, at the ad- 
 vanced age of seventy-eight years. The mother, 
 Mrs. Sarah Hagan, died six days later. 
 
 In July, 1891, W. F. Hagan opened his recent 
 place of business in North Clifton and carried a 
 large stock of general supplies up to the time of 
 his selling out, February 25, 190 1. He dealt in 
 goods both in wholesale and retail quantities, and 
 made a specialty of fitting out mining camps 
 and miners and ranchmen. He gave employ- 
 ment to four clerks in his store. From his ar- 
 rival in this territory he was engaged in the cat- 
 tle business, in connection with his other enter- 
 prises, and all of his undertakings have been 
 crowned with success, as he richly deserves. 
 
 One of the qualities for which Mr. Hagan is 
 noted, far and wide, is his liberality. Many an 
 industry and public improvement here has been 
 fostered and helped, financially and otherwise, 
 by him, and besides this, it is well known that 
 many a poor miner, "down on his luck" and al- 
 most disheartened, has been placed on his feet 
 and tided over the hours of despair by the timely 
 assistance and hearty sympathy extended to him 
 by Mr. Hagan. Many such an unfortunate, now 
 perhaps wealthy and happy, looks upon our sub- 
 ject as his benefactor, and certainly is a true and 
 life-long friend. Popular with all, he has been 
 nominated for public office more than once, but, 
 as the Republican party — his choice — is in a de- 
 cided minority in Graham county, of course has 
 not been elected. However, wlien in Colorado, 
 he occupied offices of responsibility and trust, 
 and never has relaxed in his effective work for 
 his party, toward whose success he has always 
 ])een a liberal contributor. Ever since coming 
 to this county he has served on the central com- 
 mittee and spares no effort in furthering the in- 
 terests of his friends. 
 
 Mr. Hagan was married to Jennie Battendorf, 
 
 a native of Iowa, December 25, 1878. They are 
 the parents of two children: Alvin, engaged in 
 business in El Paso, and Lee, at home. Mr. 
 Hagan is now about to sail for Honolulu for the 
 benefit of his health. 
 
 J. M. SEARS. 
 
 1 )uring the twenty-three years of his residence 
 in the Salt River valley, Mr. Sears has wrought 
 wonderful changes in the eighty acres of land 
 which he secured from the government in 1878. 
 From a desolate and unpromising desert, the 
 latent qualities of the soil have been induced to 
 respond to the solicitations and untiring efforts 
 of this enthusiastic pioneer, who is now one of 
 the most successful stock raisers in Maricopa 
 county. 
 
 In Jackson county. Mo., Mr. Sears was born, 
 October 26, 1843. His parents, Nathan and 
 Nancy (Mills) Sears, were natives of Kentucky, 
 and were capable and industrious tillers of the 
 soil. When he was but a child the family re- 
 moved from Jackson county to Bates county. 
 Mo., and there he was reared to years of discre- 
 tion, amid the usual influences that surround the 
 average farmer's son. In time he also became a 
 master of the details of farming, and at the dis- 
 trict schools acquired such limited education as 
 was procurable in the early days in Bates county. 
 In later life this education was supplemented by 
 the observations of an inquiring mind, and of re- 
 search in business and other directions. 
 
 The tranquillity of an uneventful youth was 
 interrupted after his removal to Texas in his 
 eighteenth year, when he was conscripted into 
 the Confederate service, and for three years 
 courageously fought for a practically lost cause. 
 .\s a member of Company K. Colonel Gordon's 
 regiment, and later under Generals Price and 
 Shelby, he took part in several of the importapt 
 battles of the war, and in many minor skir- 
 mishes, spending the majority of his time in the 
 middle south. 
 
 With the restoration of peace Mr. Sears re- 
 turned to Texas, whither his family had, in the 
 meantime, removed, and very shortly the various 
 members migrated to California. An eventful 
 journey confronted these searchers after im- 
 proved conditions, and many interesting inci-
 
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 <lcnts rclievetl the monotoii)' of a tramp across 
 the plains in a train of emigrants. Their goods 
 and chattels were mo\cd thither by means of ox- 
 teams and wagons, and I he journey consumed 
 the greater part of six months. Upon arriving at 
 the end of their travels, they found themselves 
 at El Monte, Los Angeles county, Cal., and after 
 remaining for a short time removed to Anaheim, 
 Orange county, of the same state. Here the 
 paths of J. M. Sears and his parents were for the 
 time divided, the latter, after a number of years, 
 removing to Arizona, where was terminated 
 their long and useful existence. The son drifted 
 into two different counties in California for sev- 
 eral years, and then returned to Texas for a short 
 time, subsequently again reaching California by 
 way of San Francisco. I'ntil 1878 he lived in 
 Los Angeles county, at which time he settled in 
 the Salt River valley, which has since been the 
 scene of most gratifying results of well applied 
 labor. 
 
 February 15. 1861, Mr. Sears was united in 
 marriage to Mary Smith, a native of Missouri, 
 and sister to George Smith, a resident of the 
 vicinity of Phoenix. Of this union there are three 
 children: Perry, George, and Ella, who is the 
 wife of Harry Kay. In national politics Mr. 
 Sears is a firm adherent of Democratic principles, 
 and has served for several years as a trustee of the 
 school district in which he resides. Mrs. Sears 
 is an ardent worker in the Methodist Episcopal 
 church, and an acquisition to the social and in- 
 tellectual life of Mariposa county. With her hus- 
 band she shares the honors of being one of the 
 very early and enthusiastic pioneers, and with 
 him has endured the trials and vicissitudes inci- 
 dent to life in all new and undeveloped locali- 
 ties. 
 
 JAMES NEWTON PORTER. 
 
 The Bank of Globe is a monument to the fine 
 spirit of commercialism possessed by its presi- 
 dent, J. N. Porter. .\ model institution in every 
 way, occupying one of the most prominent cor- 
 ners in the town, with a lot 50x135, the fine 
 !)uilding with its appropriate and tasteful fur- 
 nishings and its general prevailing air of finan- 
 cial success, was erected by Mr. Porter, who, 
 with W. F. Holt, now of Redlands, Cal, organ- 
 
 ized the bank in May of 1900, with a capital 
 stock of $25,000. Previous to this undertaking 
 he had organized the Bank of SafTord in April, 
 1899, and he still continues as president of that 
 institution. 
 
 Before becoming a banker, Mr. Porter led 
 an interesting and eventful life, principally in 
 the south and west. A native of Grayson 
 county, Tex., he was born December 20, 1853, 
 and his early education and training were 
 received in that great southern state. From 
 his nineteenth year he became self-supporting, 
 and at first engaged in the general merchandise 
 and cattle business at Kimball, Bosque county, 
 Tex., with which vicinity he was prominently 
 identified for nine years. Nor has his absence 
 from his native state materially lessened his 
 interests within its boundaries, for at the present 
 time he is the possessor of large holdings there, 
 and is a stockholder in the Citizens National 
 Bank of Hillsboro, Hill county, Tex., and the 
 First National Bank of Aleridian, Bosque 
 county, that state. 
 
 On leaving Hill county in 1884, Mr. Porter 
 took with him a herd of cattle which he had 
 accumulated, and these he drove west into 
 .\rizona, settling in Cochise county. Four years 
 later he drove the cattle, which were known as 
 the Flying X and the Pitchfork herds, into 
 (iraham county, where his efforts at buying, 
 selling and raising cattle met with gratifying 
 success. Before railroads were built in this sec- 
 tion of Arizona he owned and operated stage 
 lines and carried express and United States mail 
 for several years in this country. He also 
 became interested in the general merchandise 
 business, and for several years conducted stores 
 at Fort Thomas and Geronimo, which enter- 
 l)rises were succeeded by his banking business 
 in Safford and Globe. His real-estate holdings, 
 not only in Texas, i)Ut in Safford. Globe and 
 other parts of Arizona, make him one of the 
 largest property and land owners in his town. 
 
 For the past twelve or fifteen years Mr. Por- 
 ter has engaged in contracting with the United 
 States government for beef supplies for various 
 forts and Indian agencies, and this business he 
 conducts upon an extensive scale. He is still 
 engaged in the cattle business. In politics he 
 was born and bred a Democrat, but being a
 
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 stanch believer in the gold standard, he has of 
 recent years been more in touch with Repub- 
 lican principles than with those of his own party. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Blue Lodge 
 and Royal Arch Alasons at Hillsboro, Tex., and 
 is also connected with the Knights of Pythias 
 at Solomonville. .\riz. In 1S78 he was united 
 in marriage with Miss Mary Ella Caruthers, a 
 daughter of Capt. Srnnicl Caruthers, of Bosque 
 county, Tex. The\- arc the parents of three 
 children, of wlinni two are living: Stella, who 
 is fifteen, and Lilian, who is twelve years of age. 
 
 CLARENCE P.. NONNAMAKER. 
 
 In his responsible position as' manager of the 
 store of the Arizona Copper Company at Mo- 
 renci, Mr. Nonnamaker has evinced a sound 
 commercial ability and managerial aptitude quite 
 in keeping with the demands of the large busi- 
 ness. The establishment of which he is the mov- 
 ing spirit is well kept and neat appearing, and 
 in a sort of social mecca and meeting place for 
 all classes in the town. The volume of trade 
 necessitates the employment of fourteen men, 
 and the list of patrons covers about six hundred 
 families. It is the aim of the management to 
 supply a high class of goods of whatever descrip- 
 tion required at the lowest possible figure, and 
 to be able to meet every dem?nd found in the 
 well-regulated connnunity. Mr. Nonnamaker 
 has been in the employ of the Arizona Copper 
 Company since 1897. and has been manager of 
 the present store for the past two vears. 
 
 A native of Ohio, he was born March 30, 1868. 
 and is a son of J. A. and Jennie (Rogers), Non- 
 namaker, of Hancock county. Ohio. He re- 
 ceived an excellent home training, and a high 
 school education which culminated in gradua- 
 tion. He early displayed habits of thrift and in- 
 dustry, and an independence which separated 
 him in 1886 from the family circle and home, and 
 caused him to go to Nebraska, where for ten 
 years he was employed in the mercantile estab- 
 lishment of Penny & Son. Huring this time he 
 stored a large fund of conmiercial knowledge 
 \\ hich has been of such inestimable utilitv since, 
 and which paved the way for whatever responsi- 
 bilities the future might hold. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Nonnamaker w^as miitcd in mar- 
 
 riage with Stella Egington, a daughter of Asa 
 and Josephine (Carpenter) Egington, of Fuller- 
 ton, Neb. Mr. Nonnamaker is independent in 
 ])o]itics, and, especiall}' in local afifairs, supports 
 the best man for the office. He has no inclina- 
 tions for office liolding, but is perfectly willing to 
 aid those of his friends whom he deems fitted for 
 public trust. He is a memlier of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and contributes generously towards its 
 charities and maintenance. 
 
 P. B. SOTO. 
 
 The commercial soundness of the town of 
 W'illcox has been materially augmented by the 
 Hinirishing general merchandise business of P. B. 
 and AI. J, Soto. An idea of the extent of their 
 dealings with the public in a retail and whole- 
 sale wa}' ma\ be gained when it is known that 
 for the year igoo they cleared np a business of 
 $130,000. Nor are their efforts confined to the 
 flourishing little town which has profited by their 
 original store, for the same firm during 1900 did 
 a business of $ioo,coo at Pearce, a not remote 
 sister town. 
 
 The prime mover of these large interests, P. 
 11. .Soto, was born within easy reach of his pres- 
 ent home, and is a native of Contra Costa coun- 
 ty, Cal., where he was born June 29, 1857. ^'^ 
 ])ai ents, Y. and Rosa Soto, were farmers in Con- 
 tra Costa county, and reared their son to agricul- 
 tural pursuits. They were broad-minded people 
 and believed in the benefits to be derived from a 
 higher education, and their son was accordingly 
 educated at St. Mary's College at San Francisco, 
 from which he was graduated in 1877. Almost 
 immediately he started out in the world to face 
 its responsibilities and discouragements, and 
 ujHin settling in Tucson in 1878 was engaged in 
 educational work in the public schools for four 
 years. It became necessary for him to resign 
 this occupation at the time of his father's death in 
 :88i, at which time he was called to his former 
 home to settle the estate, and remained in Con- 
 tra Costa county for about a year. 
 
 Upon returning to .\rizona he secured a posi- 
 tion as salesman with Norton & Stewart (now 
 .Vnrton & Co.). with whom he remained for three 
 \cars. He then became identified with the mer- 
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 263 
 
 along tlie whole Pacific coast, and for six years 
 was bookkeeper for the firm. By 1888 he had 
 made such rapid strides in the confidence of his 
 employers that himself and brother. M. J. Soto, 
 were taken in as partners, which association was 
 amicably continued until the death of Mr. Fall 
 in 1895. P. B. Soto was then made administrator, 
 without bonds, of the estate, and Soto Brothers 
 purchased from the heirs the merchandise busi- 
 ness for $42,000. Mrs. Fall is a sister of Judge 
 Thornton, formerly of the Supreme Court of Cal- 
 ifornia. One of John C. Fall's daughters is the 
 wife of Admiral Rodgers, of the United States 
 Navy, and another daughter is the wife of ex- 
 Governor Kinkead, of Nevada. 
 
 Soto Brothers have since conducted the for- 
 mer business of Mr. Fall, and have been success- 
 ful beyond their expectations. The store at 
 Pearce, made famous by the noted gold mine, is 
 under the management of Mr. Renaud, who is a 
 partner in the Pearce business. The store in 
 Willcox is 75x150 feet in dimensions, and is a 
 well-kept establishment. P. B. Soto has erected 
 one of the best residences in the city, and is the 
 possessor of considerable other residence and 
 business property here and elsewhere. He is 
 one of the energetic and substantial men of the 
 town, and is interested in all that tends to the 
 well being of the community. Though not an 
 office-seeker in any sense of the word, he is a 
 stanch Republican, and has attended every con- 
 vention in the locality for ten years. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Soto was united in marriage w'ith 
 Amelia Appel, daughter of N. B. and Victoria 
 Appel, the former of whom has for the last 
 twelve years been a bailifT in the police court at 
 Los Angeles. To Mr. and Mrs. Soto have been 
 born five children: Emilia, Lydia, Lucretia, Er- 
 nest and Stella. Emilia and Lvdia are now at- 
 tending the Notre Dame College, and have been 
 at that institution five and two years respectively. 
 The other three children are being educated at 
 the schools in Willcox. 
 
 W. E. LINDLEY, M. D. 
 
 Tiiungh his residence in Safford dates back 
 only five years, as he cast in his fortunes with 
 this place in February, 1896, Dr. W. E. Lindley 
 has become one of its leading citizens, and now 
 
 enjoys a large practice in this locality. Undoubt- 
 cdlv the active part which he played in the 
 Spanish- American war was an important factor 
 in his popularity, and on that account he is 
 widely known. In company with Wiley Jones he 
 had the pleasure of mustering into the regiment 
 of Rough Riders sixteen young patriots of this 
 town; and then, in the pursuance of his duty 
 as examining surgeon, went to numerous points 
 throughout Arizona and assisted in the organi- 
 zation of the First Territorial Regiment United 
 States \'olunteer Infantry. Made one of its sur- 
 geons, W'ith the rank of first lieutenant, he served 
 as such from the time of his enlistment, July 10, 
 1898, to February 15, 1899, when he w^as hon- 
 oraijly discharged at Albany, Ga. The reunion 
 of the regiment occurred in Phoenix in Febru- 
 ai\', 1901. 
 
 When the dread war-clouds of the Civil war 
 were culminating, in 1861, the birth of Dr. W. E. 
 I^indley occurred in Clayton, Hendricks county, 
 Ind. His parents, Milton and Mary A. (Banta) 
 Lindley, were natives of North Carolina and 
 Kentucky, respectively, and his grandparents 
 were connected with the Society of Friends. 
 Milton Lindley was an early settler in Indiana, 
 no railroads then having been built to Chicago, 
 111. With his family he removed to Minneapolis, 
 Minn., in 1865, and ten years later located in 
 Los Angeles, Cal., where they lived in a beautiful 
 lujme for a number of years. The father departed 
 this life I\Iay 16, 1894, and his widow is still liv- 
 ing in her pleasant Los Angeles residence. 
 
 Dr. W. E. Lindley was but fourteen years of 
 age when he first saw Los Angeles, then a small 
 Mexican town, with little promise for the future. 
 \\ hen sufficiently advanced in his studies he en- 
 tered the University of Southern California, and 
 continued there until within four months i_)f his 
 graduation. Having formed the earnest desire 
 to become a disciple of the healing art he matric- 
 ulated in Cooper Medical College at San Fran- 
 cisco, where he was graduated in 1884. Return- 
 ing to Los Angeles, he soon commanded a large 
 and growing practice, and during the twelve 
 years of his professional labors there was hon- 
 ored in many ways. For some three years he 
 was professor of anatomy in the I'nivcrsity of 
 Southern California: for two years was police 
 surgeon, and at another lime served as coroner
 
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 of Los Angeles county. At length his fame ex- 
 teniled beyond southern California, and the posi- 
 tion of surgeon of the Arizona Copper Smelting 
 Com])any was proferred him. This office he still 
 holds, and in addition to this he is the local sur- 
 geon of the Gila Valley. Globe & Northern Rail- 
 road. His membership is retained in the Los 
 .\ngeles County Medical Society, the California 
 State Medical and the Southern California Med- 
 ical Societies, and besides, he is identified with 
 the Idaho State and the .\rizona Territorial Med- 
 ical Societies, (if the Odd Fellows Lodge at 
 Albion, Idaho, he is a charter mcml)er, and in 
 Los .\ngeles was a menilier of the Knights of 
 Pythias. The Republican party of .Arizona can 
 l:)oast of few workers more earnest than he, and 
 at the present time the secretaryship of the Gra- 
 ham county central connnittee rests upon his 
 shoulders, in addition to which he is acting on 
 the executive connnittee. 
 
 A wedding ceremony performed May 22, 1888. 
 united the destinies of Dr. Lindley and Miss El- 
 sie L. Strout. Her parents were Enoch X. and 
 Rebecca A. (Chipman) Strout, of Placerville. 
 Cal. Her father was the second sheriff of that 
 (El Dorado) county — his term commencing in 
 1850. Both he and his wife were born in Massa- 
 chusetts, and the latter joined him in 185 1, go- 
 ing by way of the isthmus of Panama. Mrs. 
 Strout's death occurred January 19, 1901, at Pla- 
 cerville. The Doctor and wife have one child, 
 Hervey Milton, now eight years old, and attend- 
 ing school. Mrs. Lindley is a member of the 
 Christian Cliurch, and, like her husband, has a 
 wide circle of sincere friends, here and else- 
 where. 
 
 VARNEY A. STEPHENS. 
 
 There is little danger of giving too much credit 
 to the brave pioneers of civilization and progress 
 when it is remembered what hardships and pri- 
 vation were endured by them and what a glori- 
 ous heritage their descendants and multitudes of 
 strangers enter into, "reaping where they have 
 not sown," yet, let us hope, possessing grateful 
 hearts. During the thirty-seven years of Varney 
 .\. Stephens' residence in Arizona he has been a 
 witness of marked changes and has contributed 
 not a little to the development of its resources. 
 
 Believing that a review of the career of this 
 highly esteemed citizen of Prescott will be read 
 with much interest by his hosts of friends the fol- 
 lowing has been prepared. The Stephens fam- 
 ily, to which he belongs, was founded in Virginia 
 by his grandfather, Peter Stephens, a native of 
 England. With two brothers he came to Amer- 
 ica in the British army during the colonial war 
 for independence, and ere long his sytnpathies 
 were so thoroughly given to the plucky band of 
 An.iericans that he joined their ranks. Sul:>se- 
 quently he lived in \'irginia until the wilderness 
 of Kentucky was being explored by a few daring 
 scouts anil hunters, when he went on an expedi- 
 tion into that future state and there settled upon 
 land in Aladison coimty. His son, John E., 
 father of A'arney A. Stephens, was born in \'ir- 
 ginia. and spent the greater part of his life in 
 the Blue Grass state. He- owned a farm near 
 Tompkinsville, Monroe county, and for many 
 years worked at his trade as a carriage manufac- 
 turer. He attained the ripe age of seventy-nine 
 years. His wife, Polly, was a daughter of Isham 
 (jeralds, who was a \irginian. while she was 
 born in Kentucky. 
 
 The only member of his family in .Vrizona. 
 \'arne\- A. Stephens is one of nine children, six 
 of whom were sons. He was born on the old 
 homestead near Tompkinsville. Ky.. May 16. 
 1820. His education was obtained in the primi- 
 tive subscription school of the period, and when 
 twenty rears of age he went to Missouri, and at 
 a point about twelve miles from St. Joseph com- 
 menced improving a farm. At the end of sixteen 
 years he went to Denton county, Tex., and, buy- 
 ing some land, engaged in farming and in stock- 
 raising, also doing some freighting. His father 
 was a Whig and throughout the war our subject 
 was a strong Union man. Needless to say, there- 
 fore, that the war caused the downfall of his for- 
 tunes for the time being. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Stephens started across the plains 
 with an ox-train and some cattle. The trip, 
 which was pursued to this county, consumed 
 eight months and five days, and when he first 
 saw the future city of Prescott, October 5, 1864. 
 only four families were living in the neighbor- 
 hood. No school had been built in this locality 
 and it was not until the following year that the 
 first one was constructed here. The Indians
 
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 captured the stock which lie had brought here 
 by such labor, and for over a year after his ar- 
 rival he engaged in the saw-mill business, then 
 from 1866 to 1875 was occupied in freighting. 
 The firm of Kelly & Stephens was then organ- 
 ized, and during all the intervening years, down 
 to the present time, a successful merchandising 
 business has been carried on by the enterprising 
 pioneer partners. They sustained a heavy loss 
 in the disastrous fire of July, 1900, but soon re- 
 sumed business and are again prospering. They 
 have built up a splendid reputation for integrity 
 and enjoy the patronage of many of the represen- 
 tative old citizens. In political affairs Mr. Ste- 
 phens is a Republican. 
 
 He was married in Missouri March i, 1846, to 
 Miss Nancy A. Ball, a native of Jacksonville, 111., 
 though reared in Missouri. This worthy couple 
 have reason to be proud of their four children, 
 namely: Mrs. Caroline Weaver and Mrs. Mar- 
 tina Kelly, of Prescott: Mrs. Josephine Potts, of 
 California, and John C, who is engaged in the 
 wholesale and retail butcher's business in this 
 city. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens have long been 
 members of the Christian church, and are be- 
 loved and revered bv a multitude of friends. 
 
 WILLIAM CAL\^IN ROBBINS, B. S., M. D. 
 
 Dr. Robbins, who is engaged in the practice 
 of medicine and surgery at Phoenix, has that 
 love for and devotion to his profession which 
 has brought him success and won him a place 
 among the alilest representatives of the medical 
 fraternity in Arizona. He was born near Sul- 
 livan. Ind., July 16, 1869, and was fourth among 
 eight children, six of whom are living. The 
 Robbins family was founded in America by five 
 brothers who came from Scotland about the time 
 the "]\Iayflower" brought her little band of Pil- 
 grims to these shores. Three of these settled 
 in New England and two in \'irginia. The 
 Doctor's paternal grandfather, John Robbins, 
 was a native of the Old Dominion and an early 
 settler of Knox county, Ind., where he owned 
 a large amount of land. He served as captain 
 in the war of 1812. Frank Robbins, the Doctor's 
 father, was born in Knox county, Ind., and is 
 still living near Sullivan, that state, at the age 
 of sixty-three years. He is a farmer by occupa- 
 10 
 
 tion and owns about seven hundred acres of 
 land. His wife, who bore the maiden name of 
 Letitia Creager, was born in Sullivan county. 
 Her father, Thomas Creager, who was a soldier 
 in the war of 181 2, was an extensive land owner 
 in Sullivan county and took a prominent part in 
 politics, first as an Abolitionist and later as a 
 Republican. 
 
 William C. Robbins remained on the home 
 farm until seventeen years of age and then 
 taught school, in which way he earned enough 
 money to pay his expenses at college. In 1894 
 he was graduated from Wabash College, with 
 the degree of B. S. During the freshman and 
 sophomore years he was vice-president of his 
 class, and served as president during the junior 
 and senior years. For six months he studied 
 medicine under the direction of Dr. W. B. 
 Chambers of Crawfordsville. Ind., and in the fall 
 of 1894 entered the Missouri Homeopathic 
 Medical College at St. Louis, where he was 
 graduated in 1897, w'ith the degree of M. D. In 
 the practice of his chosen profession he 
 remained at Sullivan, Ind., a few months, but 
 in the fall of 1897 came to Phoenix, and in the 
 spring of the following year began a general 
 practice of medicine and surgery, since which 
 time his skill has won for him a liberal patron- 
 age. 
 
 The Homeopathic Medical Association of 
 Arizona has Dr. Robbins among its prominent 
 members, and he is medical examiner for the 
 Knights of Pythias. United Moderns and Inde- 
 pendent Order of Foresters, to which he 
 belongs. Among the other orders with which 
 he is associated are the Foresters of America, 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and 
 the Uniform Rank. K. of P. In his political 
 affiliations he is a Republican. His office is 
 located at No. 16 North Second avenue. Socially 
 he is a popular, genial gentleman, who stands 
 high among his associates. 
 
 January 23, 1901, Dr. Robbins married Oona 
 Mae Davidson Byers. who was born at War- 
 rensburg. Mo., January 11, 1874, a daughter of 
 Peter L. and Alwilda (Davidson) Byers. Her 
 father, who w^as born near Pittsburg, Pa., 
 removed with his parents to Ohio when a youth 
 and later engaged in farming in Ohio. During 
 the Civil war he served in the Eighth Ohio
 
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 Cavalrv. At the close of the conflict he removed 
 to Johnson county, Mo., where he continued 
 farming until 1876, when he removed to Cali- 
 fornia, and there is now residing in practical 
 retirement. In politics he is a Democrat. For 
 many years he has been a member of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic. Mrs. Robbins was 
 educated principally in the high school at Santa 
 Paula, Cal. In October, 1898, she entered the 
 Denver (Colo.) Medical College and pursued 
 her studies one term. Since then she has been 
 a student in the Hahnemann Hospital Medical 
 College of San Francisco, from which she 
 expects to graduate in December, 1901, and to 
 become one of the pioneer women practitioners 
 of Arizona. 
 
 GEORGE A. OLNEY. 
 
 This energetic business man of Safford is a 
 native of Burnett, Tex., where his birth oc- 
 curred just two-score years ago. Residing there 
 until he was twenty, he obtained a liberal high 
 school education in his youth and after com- 
 pleting his studies embarked in the cattle busi- 
 ness, in which he was quite successful. 
 
 Twenty years ago our subject came to Ari- 
 zona, and after traveling in dififercnt parts of the 
 territory, with a view to making a permanent 
 settlement, decided to locate in Graham county. 
 In the following year he came to Saf¥ord, and 
 within his recollection nearly the whole of its 
 growth and prosperity has been acconiplished. 
 After devoting a few months to the freighting 
 business hereabouts, he went to Clifton, where, 
 at the time, a more flourishing business was be- 
 ing transacted, and there he held the position of 
 deputy under Sherifif George H. Stevens for two 
 years. Tlien he became connected with the cat- 
 tie business, still making his home in Clifton, and 
 in 1886 removed to Solomonville, the county 
 seat, though he continued to keep his interest in 
 cattle. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Olney was honored by being 
 elected as sheriff, and at the expiration of his 
 term, two years later, was re-elected. In 1898 
 he was elected to the legislature from this coun- 
 ty, and fully justified the expectations of his 
 Democratic constituents. For a number of years 
 he acted on the school board of Solomonville, 
 
 and in many material ways manifested his inter- 
 est in public affairs there. Since February, 1900, 
 he has made his home in Safford, where he con- 
 ducts a large hardware and implement business, 
 at the same time being the proprietor of a neat 
 and paying meat market. He is a charter mem- 
 ber of Solomonville Lodge No. 16, K. of P. 
 
 Unquestionably one of the handsomest mod- 
 ern residences of Safford is the brick house of 
 ten rooms and bath, situated on the border of 
 the town, and owned and occupied by Mr. Olney 
 and family. In 1888 he married Nellie, daughter 
 of G. W. Desler, formerly of Telford, Tenn. The 
 voung couple have three children, Beulah, Dan- 
 iel C. and Henrietta, aged respectively eight, 
 seven and four years. 
 
 HON. W. J. MULVENON. 
 
 Hon. W. J. Mulvenon is one of the substantial 
 business men of Prescott, and for many years he 
 has faithfully aided in the great work of preserv- 
 ing law and order here, thus placing the frontier 
 territory on a safe and sound basis. He bears 
 the reputation of having been one of the most 
 efficient sheriffs that Arizona ever had, and the 
 appreciation of the public was recently mani- 
 fested anew by its choice of him as representative 
 in the territorial legislature. Elected on the 
 Democratic ticket by good majority, he served 
 with credit in the nineteenth general assembly, 
 in 1897. but though urged to again become a 
 candidate for the same office in the next sessions, 
 he declined. He has been very active in the 
 counsels of his party, having served on the coun- 
 ty and territorial central committees. 
 
 Born in Belchcrtown, Mass., October 25, 
 185 1, our subject is one of the twelve children 
 of Hugh and Ann (King) Mulvenon, both like- 
 wise natives of the Bay State. While a resident 
 there, in his early manhood, tiie father was em- 
 ployed in paper mills, but in 1856 he removed 
 with his family to Dubuque, Iowa, and about 
 a year later located in Leavenworth. Kans., 
 where he engaged in the freighting business for 
 years. Both he and his wife are yet living at 
 their old home in that city, and only one of their 
 children has been called to the silent land, name- 
 ly: Hugh, who died in Arizona. Three sons, W. 
 J., Austin .iml Allen, are citizens of Prescott.
 
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 271 
 
 When he was sixteen years of age. W. J. Mul- 
 veiion entered the employ of the government as 
 wagon-master, and spent four years in that 
 capacity, first being located at Fort Riley, later 
 at Fort Lyon, and afterwards at points in Colo- 
 rado and the Indian Territory. Resigning in 
 1871, he proceeded to Silver City. X. M.. where 
 he engaged in mining and jirospecting. also in 
 the vicinity of Georgetown. N. M. In 1872 he 
 was made deputy by Sheriff Whitehead, and 
 served for three years at Silver City. X". M. 
 
 Coming to Prescott in 1875. Mr. Mulvenon 
 devoted his attention to mining in the Peck dis- 
 trict for several years, and in 1881 was appointed 
 deputy sherifif by Mr. Walker. At the end of two 
 vears he was again made deputy, and served 
 under Sherifif Henkle for two years as such. At 
 that time the county comprised the territory now 
 divided into Yavapai. Coconino and Xavajo 
 counties. In 1884 Mr. Mulvenon was nominated 
 on the Democratic ticket as sherifif, was duly 
 elected, and at the expiration of his term was 
 again elected, thus officiating from January i. 
 1885, to January 1. 1889. During that period 
 his ability was often taxed severely, especially 
 when the trouble arose in the Tonto Basin be- 
 tween the cattle and sheep raisers. The strife 
 was so fierce and the feeling ran so high there 
 between the opposing factions that it was neces- 
 sary for the sherifif to organize forty men. brave 
 and true, to assist him in quelling the w-arfare. 
 One of the deputies. Murphy by name, was shot 
 by Dilda, and Mr. Mulvenon rested not until he 
 had captured the outlaw, overtaking him at Ash 
 Fork. Then he sternly prosecutccl him and con- 
 viction and a death-sentence followed. Too late 
 for many, those who put to defiance law and 
 order found that the sheriff was unflinching in 
 the discharge of his duties, and his record as an 
 officer redounds to his credit. 
 
 Since resuming the private duties of a citizen, 
 Mr. Mulvenon has been interested in mines on 
 the Turkey creek. In 1894 he organized the 
 Crystal Ice Company, of which he is the present 
 manager. Lender his supervision the wcll- 
 e<|uipped ice-plant was built, and the business 
 has been extended until now an extensive whole- 
 sale and retail trade is carried on, supplies being 
 shipped to Congress, Jerome and other neigh- 
 boring towns. At the time of the organization 
 
 of the volunteer firemen's corps he jjecame con- 
 nected with the service, and for three years was 
 chief of the fire department. He was married in 
 this citv to Miss Ella Johnson, a native of Ore- 
 gon. Her parents were early settlers and re- 
 spected citizens on the Pacific coast. 
 
 PETER MOHN. 
 
 Xorwav has furnished to the United States 
 manv bright, enterprising young men who have 
 left their native land to enter the business circles 
 of this country with its more progressive meth- 
 ods, livelier competition and advancement more 
 quicklv secured. Among this number is Mr. 
 Mohn, of the firm of Mohn & Easterhng. promi- 
 nent funeral directors of Phoenix. 
 
 He was born near Kongsvinger, Norway, on 
 the 1st of November, 1868, his parents being 
 Torres and Hanna (Throngaarden) Mohn, who 
 are still residents of that country. Tlie father 
 is a farmer by occupation and owns the place 
 known as Mohn. Our subject's grandfathers. 
 Gundar Mohn and Hans Throngaarden, were 
 also agriculturists. In religious belief the family 
 are Lutherans. Peter is the fifth in order of 
 birth of six children who reached years of ma- 
 turity. Four are still living and three are resi- 
 dents of this country, but our subject is the only 
 one whose home is in Arizona. 
 
 Peter Mohn was reared on his father's farm 
 and after attending the public schools for some 
 time he entered an agricultural college, complet- 
 ing a dairy course. Determined to try his for- 
 tune in America, he crossed the Atlantic in 1890 
 and took up his residence in Portland, Ore., 
 where he was superintendent of creameries until 
 1892. He then went to San Francisco, and later 
 was superintendent of different creameries in 
 both California and Nevada. In 1895 he accepted 
 a similar position at Los Angeles, and subse- 
 c|uentlv was superintendent of a creamery at 
 Westminster until coming to Phoenix in No- 
 vember. 1896. Here he started the Maricopa 
 creamerv, of which he was superintendent for a 
 short time, but in June. 1899, resigned that posi- 
 tion, and has since devoted his entire attention to 
 his present business, which was established by 
 him in February, that year, when he bought out 
 W. H. Smith and formed a partner.ship with S.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 L. Easterling. Under the firm name of Mohn 
 & Easterling they have since conducted business 
 and have met with most excellent success. They 
 have a fine establishment at No. 118 North Cen- 
 ter street, which is 30x70 feet and divided into 
 eight rooms, such as cabinet, show and sample 
 rooms. They carry a large and well-selected 
 stock of goods, and in connection with their 
 regular undertaking establishment they have a 
 morgue. Mr. Mohn is a graduate of the Hennes- 
 sey School of Embalming at Chicago, and is a 
 business man of more than ordinary ability. He 
 is energetic, enterprising and thoroughly reliable, 
 and generally carries forward to successful com- 
 pletion whatever he undertakes. 
 
 Mr. Mohn is a member of the Odd Fellows' 
 Society and the Rebekah branch of that order; 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the 
 Fraternal Brotherhood. He also belongs to Vic- 
 tor Hose Company of the Volunteer Fire De- 
 partment, and is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church South. 
 
 HENRY ALFRED MORGAN. 
 
 The commercial prestige of the various stores 
 started in different parts of Arizona by John H. 
 Norton & Co. is admirably maintained by the 
 splendid financial ability and rigid commercial 
 integrity of the partner and general manager, H. 
 A. Morgan. As is well known, the name of John 
 H. Norton is inseparably associated with much 
 that is lasting and momentous in the history and 
 development of certain portions of the territory. 
 Out of his many plans for the immediate and 
 ultimate good of Cochise county there came the 
 cherished desire to bring within easy range and 
 reasonable prices the general necessities of life 
 to those who were wresting from the earth her 
 hidden treasures, or tilling the soil once deemeil 
 ])eyond the power of human redemption. These 
 general stores have reached the maximum of their 
 usefulness through the hearty co-operation and 
 untiring eiiforts of Mr. Morgan. 
 
 The greater part of the life of Mr. Morgan has 
 been spent in the far west. In fact, he is a typi- 
 cal southwesterner, and was born in Columbia, 
 Tuolumne county, Cal., in 1861. His parents, 
 George and Margaret Morgan, were natives re- 
 s])ectively of England an<l Ireland, and were 
 
 among the very early settlers and appreciators 
 of California. Their son received all the advan- 
 tages within their power to confer, and after a 
 thorough mastery of the studies of the public 
 schools was sent, when eighteen years of age, 
 to a business college in San Francisco. His first 
 practical business experience was gained in 1880, 
 when he secured a position as bookkeeper for 
 the firm of Norton & Stewart, at Fort Grant, 
 Ariz., and in this capacity he faithfully served 
 until 1890. Shortly before this time the retire- 
 ment of Mr. Stewart opened an opportunity for 
 him to secure a more responsible position, and 
 he was made general manager of all the stores 
 of the company. For some time previous he 
 had resided at Willcox, and continued to do so 
 under the weight of the added responsibility. 
 During the time intervening since 1890, there 
 have been stores started in the vicinity. Among 
 these is the store at Pearce, established in 1895, 
 which is conducted under the firm name of Nor- 
 ton & Alorgan, and was the first store opened 
 in that town. There is also a store at Cochise, 
 operated under the title of John H. Norton & 
 Co., and one at Johnson, under the name of 
 Fiege & Co. The estimated stock of the four 
 stores amounts to $75,000, and the trade is far- 
 reaching and the largest in the territory. 
 
 Nor are Mr. Morgan's efforts for the well-be- 
 ing of his adopted town confined to mercantile 
 lines. An ardent promoter of education, he 
 served as clerk of the school board which erected 
 the new school building, constructed of stone 
 and brick, and costing $8,000. Of this building 
 Whitehead & Sullivan of Tucson were the con- 
 tractors and H. C. Trost, of Tucson, the archi- 
 tect. A stanch member of the Republican party, 
 Mr. Morgan is president of the Republican Club, 
 an organization with a wide influence, to whose 
 efforts was due the fact that Willcox gave a Re- 
 publican majority of two to one during the last 
 campaign, all the camps in the neighborhood fol- 
 lowing suit and voting for the head of the ticket 
 by a large majority. In 1881 he attended the 
 first Republican convention held in (iraham 
 county. As a Mason, he was a delegate to the 
 meeting of the grand lodge in Phoenix in 1900, 
 and he is also a charter member and leading offi- 
 cer of the .\ncient Order of United Workmen 
 at Willco.x. In addition to his mercantile and
 
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 mining interests, he has invested heavily in real 
 estate in Willcox, among his other properties 
 owning a comfortable and homelike residence. 
 In 1886 Mr. Morgan married Miss Anna Belle 
 Dixon, daughter of J. E. Dixon, of Tucson. Of 
 this union there are five children, viz.: George 
 Philip, who is fourteen years of age and attends 
 the St. Matthew's Military Academy at San Ma- 
 teo, Cal.; Ethel R., nine years old: Florence, 
 five: Evelyn, three, .and Helen, eight months old. 
 Mrs. Morgan is a member of the Roman Cath- 
 olic Church. 
 
 AMASA B. SAMPSON. 
 
 Mr. Sampson comes from a genealogical line 
 that helped to lay the foundation of the Re- 
 public, that gallant old New England stock that 
 prayed one minute and fought the next, and 
 were particularly in evidence during the prog- 
 ress of the Revolution. The great-grandfather, 
 Durant, was paymaster under Washington, and 
 was a politician of note during the infancy of the 
 new government. The grandfather was born in 
 Massachusetts, and the next in succession, Ira 
 B. Sampson, the father of A. B., was also born 
 in the Bay state. Ira B. Sampson was a large 
 woolen manufacturer in Springiield, Mass., and 
 received considerable political recognition dur- 
 ing his years of activity. He died in Massa- 
 chusetts. The mother of Mr. Sampson, formerly 
 Julia Ann Blush, was born in, and came from 
 one of the old Massachusetts families, a 
 daughter of Aniasa Blush, who married Nancy 
 Durant, a daughter of Capt. Thomas Durant, 
 who served his country in the Revolutionary 
 war. The Blush family trace their ancestry back 
 to the French Huguenots, and were first repre- 
 sented in America by one George, a son of Ed- 
 ward, and grandson of another Edward, and 
 who came to America from Esse.x county, Eng- 
 land, in 1663, settling in Middletown, Conn. 
 Mrs. Sampson was the mother of three sons and 
 three daughters, of whom Henry F. is the super- 
 intendent of the Connecticut River Railroad ; 
 A. B. is living in Tucson; Ira B. while captain 
 of the Second Massachusetts Artillery, was 
 captured at Newberne, N. C, imprisoned for 
 nine months in a southern prison, and event- 
 ually died at Tempe, Ariz.; Julia A. is now Mrs. 
 
 J. S. Hurlbut, of Springfield, Mass.; Martha is 
 the wife of Frank M. Hurlbut, of Morristown, 
 N. J.; and Henrietta is married to John Murphy, 
 of Springffield, Mass. 
 
 A native of Worthington, Mass.. Amasa B. 
 Sampson was born June 11, 1837, and when 
 young moved with his parents to Springfield of 
 the same state. His education was acquired in 
 the public schools and he graduated from the 
 high school at Springfield. In 1855 he joined 
 a colony of Alassachusetts people, who settled in 
 Kansas on the Neosho river, and started the 
 town of Hampden. There he engaged in the 
 real-estate and loans business, and in 1856 was 
 with General Lane, and in John Brown's com- 
 pany during the free state war. In 1859 he 
 started with a large party from Springfield, 
 Mass. (where at the time he was visiting) for 
 the Pike's Peak gold mines as guide and wagon- 
 master, but upon reaching the Arkansas river 
 the party disbanded and Mr. Sampson returned 
 to his home in Kansas. He reached the gold 
 fields the following year by way of wagon and 
 ox-team, and was elected sherifif of the Iowa 
 mining district before any regular government 
 organization had been effected. 
 
 With the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. Samp- 
 son enlisted in Company F, First Colorado 
 Cavalry, in August of 1861, and during the 
 service proceeded against the Texas rangers, the 
 Indians on the plains, and participated in the 
 battles of Pigeon's Ranch, Peralta, and many of 
 the more important battles of the war. Enlist- 
 ing as a private, he was mustered out of 
 service in February of 1865, by an order which 
 resvdted from the consolidation of two regi- 
 ments, and which gave the three oldest 
 sergeants the privilege of being mustered out or 
 of serving as privates. In April of 1865 Mr. 
 Sampson left Denver for the gold mines of 
 Montana, starting with a pair of horses and a 
 load of goods. The horses were later traded 
 for oxen, and he proceeded on his lonely and 
 desolate journey, for the greater part the sole 
 sharer of his thoughts, through a country in- 
 fested with hostile and resentful Indians, and 
 continually arising difficulties. Arriving in 
 Montana he settled in Helena, and engaged in 
 speculating, general merchandise business, and 
 building, but in the spring of 1868 returned to
 
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 the east, and spent two years in Xew York City, 
 in search of renewed health. From 1869 until 
 1879 he lived in San Francisco, and established 
 during that time the New York fancy goods 
 store, and was remarkably successful until his 
 removal to Tucson in February of 1879. Here 
 also he was successful in a mercantile venture, 
 and at the end of three years sold out his in- 
 terests, and enjoyed for a time a season of 
 travel. 
 
 Mr. Sampson has been much interested in 
 mining in Arizona, and in 1895 was the fortunate 
 discoverer, with Cliarles Bent, of the wolfram 
 ore. This ore is a valuable property for harden- 
 ing steel, and an important and valuable dis- 
 covery. While Mr. Sampson and Mr. Bent still 
 own eleven claims in the Guijas moimtains, 
 which contain the largest deposits of the ore in 
 the world, a part of some of the mines have been 
 sold to the American Wolfram Company. 
 
 Mr. Sampson has been prominent in the poli- 
 tics of the territory. He was elected county re- 
 corder for Pima county in 1885 and 1886, and 
 was re-elected in 1887 and 1888, after which he 
 positively refused any further political recogni- 
 tion. He is independent in politics, his standard 
 being principle rather than party. He is frater- 
 nally associated with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and with the Oriental Encamp- 
 ment of San Francisco; also with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, and the Red Men, 
 of Tucson. He was for one term department 
 commander of the Grand Army of the Republic 
 of Arizona, and is a member of Negley Post. In 
 Januarj' of 1878 he joined Lincoln Post No.i, of 
 San Francisco, and has always been an active 
 member of the order. August 10, 1865, he mar- 
 ried Annie Gallagher in Helena, Mont. She 
 died April 17, 1894, in Chicago. 
 
 ALBERT MILLER. 
 Of the many enterprising men to whom the 
 Salt River valley has offered a home and abund- 
 ance, none has more consistently availed them- 
 selves of the opportunities at hand than Mr. 
 Miller. Gifted with keen financial ability, and 
 the determination without which very little is 
 accomplished, he has attained to a position in 
 the community commensurate witii his public- 
 spiritedness and particular attainments. 
 
 While devoting his time in the main to the 
 occupation of farming and stock-raising, particu- 
 larly the latter, upon his finely improved farm of 
 two hundred and fifty-tvk'o acres almost adjoin- 
 ing the corporation of Tempe, he has been con- 
 spicuously identified with the various undertak- 
 ings which have developed in the wake of an 
 ever increasing population and consequent de- 
 mand. He is among other things president of 
 the Arizona Mercantile Company, a director in, 
 and at present secretary of, the Mesa-Tempe 
 Produce Company, and a stockholder in the 
 Tempe National Bank. Like most of the pio- 
 neers who have watched the gradual unfolding 
 of the plans formulated in the beginning of the 
 '70s, his time and attention have been directed 
 towards a solution of the problem of water sup- 
 ply, and his efforts have been largely instru- 
 mental in perfecting the present excellent sys- 
 tem. In this connection he is a director in the 
 Tempe Irrigating Canal Company. 
 
 Like many of the prosperous dwellers of the 
 valley, Mr. Miller was in his youth no pampered 
 child of fortune, nor was he directed by other 
 than his own common sense into the paths of 
 future success. A native of Wapello county, 
 Iowa, he was born February 15, 1859, and is a 
 son of Winchester and Melinda (Young) Miller, 
 the former a native of Ohio. Winchester Miller, 
 who died in Tempe in November of 1893, was 
 one of the pioneers of the locality, and came to 
 the territory in 1870. He also was much inter- 
 ested in the early development of water, and 
 assisted in the construction of the Tempe Irri- 
 gating Canal. While conducting his farm on 
 broad and scientific lines he was prominently 
 connected with the political affairs of his local- 
 ity, and was a stanch member of the Democratic 
 party. For the first few years of his residence 
 in the far west he served as deputy sheriff of 
 Maricopa county, and held several minor polit- 
 ical offices. For the valuable services which he 
 contributed towards the upbuilding of Tempe 
 and vicinity he is gratefully remembered, and 
 his life was such as to win for him the good-will 
 and respect of all who knew him. Mr. Miller 
 was twice married, and became the father of a 
 large family of children, of whom the following 
 are living: William Y., Albert, Mrs. J. F. Haig- 
 ler, who is living near Tempe; Clara, who is a
 
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 student at Stanford University, California; Man- 
 uella, who is a teacher at Flagstaff, Ariz.; Al- 
 bert J., Samuel, Sarah, Benjamin. Rosa, Lvdia 
 and Andrew J. The last seven are living at 
 Tempe. The first Mrs. Aliller died in Texas, 
 and the wife whom Mr. Miller married in Ari- 
 zona is living with the family in Tempe. 
 
 When an infant of less than a year Albert 
 Miller was taken by his parents to Texas, and 
 when but six years of age was deprived of the 
 care and affectionate interest of his mother. 
 Shortly after the death of the mother, the father, 
 with two of the children, moved back to Iowa, 
 and the youthful Albert was reared until his 
 fifteenth year in the family of his grandfather, 
 William Young, in \'an Buren county, Iowa. 
 He then started out in the world to face what- 
 ever the future might have in store, and in 1876 
 found his way to Arizona, where he was, for a 
 time, employed by his father, at Tempe. He then 
 engaged in farming for himself, which occupa- 
 tion has since enlisted his practical interest. Mr. 
 Miller has been identified with the Arizona Mer- 
 cantile Company since 1898, and the year pre- 
 vious with the Tempe-Mesa Produce Company. 
 September 29, 1886, Mr. Miller married Miss 
 Lydia .Antoinette, daughter of A. J. Halbert, an 
 old settler of Arizona. Mrs. Miller was born in 
 Arkansas and came with her father to Arizona 
 in 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have three chil- 
 dren, viz.: Halbert W.. Emma C. and Gussie 
 Clare. 
 
 Mr. Miller is a member of the Democratic 
 party, and in 1898 was a candidate for county 
 supervisor, but was defeated by a small majority. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows and the United Moderns 
 at Tempe. He is popular among the residents 
 of the valley, and one of the most successful 
 financiers in the county. 
 
 JAMES W. AKERS. 
 
 The administration of Mr. Akers as post- 
 master of Prescott, to which office he was 
 appointed bv PresideiU McKinley March 31, 
 1898, has been well received by the citizens of 
 Prescott, and the many advantageous reforms 
 which have developed and prospered under his 
 management, have met with their merited appre- 
 
 ciation. From within the circumscribed walls of 
 a small room, where the business of the depart- 
 ment was at first conducted, he has succeeded in 
 securing a new postoffice building, which is not 
 only a credit to the city, but is a means of facili- 
 tating the delivery of matter to different parts of 
 the town. An especially commended advance- 
 ment was the free delivery which was inaugu- 
 rated in March of 1900, thus placing the mail 
 service of Prescott on a footing with the larger 
 and older cities of the union. 
 
 Mr. .\kers is not alone in being prominent in 
 the affairs of the territory, his brother, C. H. 
 Akers, having served as secretary of Arizona. 
 Other and more distant members of the family 
 are known in professional and literary circles, 
 and are successful educators. The family his- 
 tory is an interesting one, and the first Amer- 
 ican subject to bear the name was one Peter 
 Akers, the paternal great-grandfather, who 
 emigrated from England about 1780, landing at 
 Newcastle, Del. His descendants were prom- 
 inently identified with the early history of 
 Harrison county, Ohio, and John H. Akers, the 
 father of James W., was born in Harrison county 
 in 1808. He was a prominent physician and 
 surgeon, having graduated from an eastern col- 
 lege, and he later practiced with marked success 
 in Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas, in which latter state 
 he arose to unusual prominence, not only in his 
 profession, but as a public speaker in the cause 
 of abolition, and in the doctrines of the Meth- 
 odist church. He was twice married, his second 
 wife, formerly Almarine Harbaugh, being the 
 mother of John B., Josephine, C. H. and J. 
 W. Akers. Mrs. Akers is now living in Pres- 
 cott. She and Mr. Akers had four children, 
 of whom John B., who served in the Civil 
 war. met a tragic death November 19, 1887, 
 while superintendent of a saw mill. A daugh- 
 ter, Josephine, is the wife of K. L. Mills, 
 of Kansas City. Mr. Akers by his first marriage 
 had three daughters : Elizabeth, wife of Captain 
 Williams, a resident of Kansas ; Nancy, wife of 
 H. C. Harding, of Denver, Colo., and Matilda, 
 wife of J. Sharp Walker, an attorney of Topeka, 
 Kans. 
 
 The youth of Mr. Akers was spent at Shaw- 
 nee, Johnson county, Kan?., where he was born 
 December 2^, 1859. His first ambitious expec-
 
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 tations were directed towards the west, and in 
 1880 he went to Leadville, Colo., and engaged 
 in prospecting and mining in Leadville, Virginia 
 City, and St. Elmo until 1883, when he came 
 to Arizona and located in Prescott. He here 
 continued to mine and prospect in the Walker 
 and Hassayampa districts, and on liroom creek, 
 and then for two years was interested in ranch- 
 ing in the Salt River valley. He then returned 
 to Prescott and for five years engaged as a 
 salesman for the B. B. Company, having charge 
 of their shoe and dry-goods department. This 
 position was relinquished in order to assume the 
 duties of postmaster in March of 1898. 
 
 Since living in Prescott Mr. Akers has mar- 
 ried Nellie H. Brown, who was born in St. 
 Louis, and who graciously presides over the 
 home erected by Mr. Akers at 135 South Mc- 
 Cormick street. Mr. Akers is a member of the 
 Knights of Pythias fraternity. His position as 
 postmaster is due to his allegiance to the Re- 
 publican party, from the advocacy of the prin- 
 ciples and issues of which he never swerves. 
 
 D. L. BOOKER. 
 
 This well-known business man of Walker and 
 the Lynx Creek district has been a resident of 
 Arizona for the past eight years, during which 
 period he has been deeply interested in mining 
 and prospecting, and in everything pertaining to 
 the upbuilding and development of the territory. 
 He is a self-made man financially, and com- 
 menced the battle of life empty-handed and with- 
 out influential friends or other assistance. By 
 his own industry and perseverance in afifairs 
 which he has undertaken, and to this alone, his 
 success must be attributed. 
 
 The birthplace of Mr. Booker is in Saline 
 county. Mo., the date of his nativity being June 
 26, 1857. His educational advantages were lim- 
 ited and when quite young he began to earn his 
 own livelihood. For several years he was num- 
 bered among the farmers and stock-raisers of his 
 native county, but at length a desire to try his 
 fortune in another field of enterprise led him to 
 come to the far west. 
 
 In t88o Mr. Booker went to .fXspen.Colo., and 
 for the following thirteen years was engaged ex- 
 clusively in mining and prospecting in that local- 
 
 ity. Coming to Arizona in 1893 he was offered a 
 position as bookkeeper for the firm of Babbitt & 
 Colvin, of Phoenix. Remaining with that house 
 for two years, he then went to Prescott and soon 
 came to the Lynx Creek district, where he has 
 made some discoveries and claims which give 
 every promise of being valuable. Finding an 
 opening for a general store in this neighborhood, 
 he opened one, and for two years has been its 
 proprietor, thus contributing materially to the 
 welfare and convenience of the various mining 
 camps within a radius of ten or fifteen miles. He 
 has a wide acquaintance liiere, and is universally 
 respected. In his political faith, he is a Demo- 
 crat of no uncertain stamp, and at all times and 
 under all circumstances he strives to discharge 
 the duties of a good citizen. 
 
 J. G. PETERSON. 
 
 The present mayor of Mesa is the subject of 
 this article, J. G. Peterson, who stands high in 
 the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens. 
 A young man in the prime of life, he is active 
 and enterprising, foremost in everything which 
 makes for the public good. In jxilitical affairs, 
 he casts his influence on the side of the Demo- 
 cratic party, and was elected by his co-workers 
 to the city council of Mesa in April, 1900, and 
 subsequently was chosen to occupy the im- 
 portant position of mayor, in which office, as 
 formerly, he is winning laurels. 
 
 Charles S. Peterson, the father of our subject, 
 came to Mesa in 1883 and departed this life sev- 
 eral years ago. He had served as a representa- 
 tive from his own district in the legislature of 
 LUah, and for nearly or quite a quarter of a cen- 
 tury was the bishop of Peterson Ward, Morgan 
 county, L'tah, and a leading light in the Church 
 of Jesus Clirist of the Latter-day Saints. His 
 widow, whose maiden name was Ann Patton, 
 and who is the mother of J. G. Peterson, is yet 
 living, her home being in Mesa. 
 
 The liirth of our subject occurred in Morgan 
 county, Li tab, September 6, 1868, and for fifteen 
 xears he dwelt in that locality, receiving a fair 
 education in the schools of the district. In 1883 
 he came to .Arizona, and continued to give his 
 attention to the tilling of the soil and to the rais- 
 ing of live stock. In 1892 he became connected
 
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 with the flourishing enterprise kncnvn as the 
 Farmers' Exchange, and when it was changed 
 into the People's Store, in 1900, an incorporated 
 organization, he was chosen to act as its presi- 
 dent, in wliich capacity he is leading it onward 
 to success. His executive business ability is be- 
 yond question and his integrity is established. 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the 
 World and the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 For a companion and helpmate along the jour- 
 ney of life Mr. Peterson chose Leah E. Mets, 
 daughter of Timothy Mets, of Mesa. The young 
 couple have three sons and a daughter, namely: 
 J. Earl, Philip, Edward and Maud. 
 
 WILLIAM H. BURBAGE. 
 
 A typical New Yorker, Mr. Burbage is also 
 a typical westerner, having applied the innate 
 adaptability of the eastern-born to the unfolding 
 possibilities of Arizona. He was born in New 
 York City in 1854, and his young life was sad- 
 dened by the loss of his parents when he was 
 only seven years of age. The greater part of 
 his education was acquired in a Catholic insti- 
 tution in Ohio, in which state he grew to man- 
 hood and laid the foundation for a successful 
 business career. During 1876 he journeyed to 
 the west, and s])ent some time prospecting in 
 Kansas add'other sections of the west. In 1878 
 he became identified with the company store of 
 the Colorado Trading company at Trinidad, 
 Colo. 
 
 With the hope of securing a permanent and 
 desirable location Mr. Burbage visited New 
 Mexico in 1882, and was there employed by a 
 mercantile house that had branches in Santa Fe 
 and in Albuquerque. A somewhat ambitious 
 undertaking was entered upon in 1884, when he 
 formed a partnership with J. O. Adamson and 
 Milton Chenowith, and opened a general mer- 
 cantile store at Holbrook, Navajo county, Ariz., 
 operating the business under the firm title of 
 Adamson & Burbage. For five years the firm 
 carried on a large and profitable trade, and at 
 the expiration of that time sold the business to 
 the Arizona Co-operative Mercantile Company. 
 The three men then went to Los Angeles, Cal., 
 and embarked in a wholesale meat business. 
 
 While living in Ohio Mr. Burbage had de- 
 cided to devote his life to the practice of the 
 law and for about two years studied in 
 furtherance of that intention. For two terms he 
 was a student in Hiram college, the alma mater 
 of President James Garfield. Otlier oppor- 
 tunities for making a livelihood temporarily in- 
 terfered with the carrying out of his original 
 plan, and it was not until he settled in Los 
 Angeles that he was able to give much time to 
 his law studies. While still in the meat busi- 
 ness he spent his leisure hours in study and in 
 April, 1893. was admitted to practice in the 
 supreme court of California. 
 
 During that same year of 1893 Mr. Burbage 
 opened an office in Winslow, Ariz., and the fol- 
 lowing year was elected district attorney for 
 Apache county. In 1896 he was elected to the 
 same position in Navajo county, which office he 
 still retains, having been re-elected in 1898 and 
 1900. In addition to his general practice he is 
 local attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad Com- 
 pany at Winslow. In 1895 he formed a partner- 
 ship with F. W. Nelson in the real estate and 
 fire insurance business, and the firm now repre- 
 sents twenty-one of the best British and Amer- 
 ican insurance companies. In July of 1900 he 
 became one of the organizers and was chosen 
 president of the Navajo County Bank, of which 
 F. W. Nelson is vice president and George Lane 
 cashier. In the fall of 1900 he aided in organ- 
 izing the Gallup < )il company, of which he was 
 chosen president. The company are operating 
 in the oil fields at Gallup, Bernalillo county, 
 N. M., and entertain justifiably bright expecta- 
 tions regarding the future output. Mr. Burbage 
 owns a large amount of real estate in the resi- 
 dence and business sections of Winslow, and 
 success has attended his varied ventures in the 
 fields of activity represented in the county. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Burbage is associated with 
 the Masons, being a Knight Templar and a 
 member of Albuquerque Temple, N. M. S. In 
 the local lodge of the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks he is the present exalted ruler. 
 He has always been firmly devoted to the princi- 
 ples of Democracy. In 1896 he represented 
 Arizona as a delegate to the national convention 
 in St. Louis, which nominated W. J. Bryan for 
 the j)residency. From 1896 to 1900 he also rep-
 
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 resented Arizona on the national Democratic 
 committee. 
 
 W. F. OVERTON. 
 
 Though comparatively speaking a new-comer 
 to Nogales, Mr. Overton, the present mayor 
 of the town, has so practically and substantially 
 become identified with the various and upbuild- 
 ing enterprises here represented as to seem an 
 integral part of the prevailing prosperity. Ar- 
 riving here in 1895 as the head of the Wells- 
 Fargo Express Company's interests, and with 
 an already acquired reputation as an astute and 
 far-sighted politician his claims for further rec- 
 ognition were soon substantiated by his election 
 in 1897 as mayor of the city. So satisfactory 
 were his services that his re-election followed in 
 1899, ^i^d he is now serving his second term as 
 chief executive. The position is merely hon- 
 orary, and a term covers two years. During his 
 service Mr. Overton has had ample opportunity 
 to justify his Democratic constituents in placing 
 him in office, and it was through his personal 
 efforts that the boundary question was so ami- 
 cably and satisfactorily adjusted. His adminis- 
 tration, though bitterly contested by his Repub- 
 lican opponents, is well received throughout, and 
 is admitted to be wisely and conscientiously 
 maintained. 
 
 Having been born in the far west, Mr. Over- 
 ton is thoroughly familiar with the conditions 
 existing here and in California, where he was 
 born in Nevada county, May 26, 1854. In 1873 
 he entered the employ of the Wells-Fargo Ex- 
 press Company at San Francisco, and served in 
 different towns along the coast until his transfer 
 to Tucson in 1885. In Tucson he attained to an 
 enviable degree of prominence, particularly 
 along political lines, and in 1890 was elected city 
 treasurer, serving in that capacity for one term. 
 In 1892 he was elected treasurer of Pima county, 
 and filled the position for one term. 
 
 Upon coming to Nogales Mr. Overton had 
 twelve men under him in the management of the 
 express company's interests, and the business 
 is still conducted under the same capable guid- 
 ance. Added to the many advantages which he 
 has gained from the town of his adoption may be 
 mentioned prominently the patent which he 
 
 helped to secure in 1898, to the town site of 
 Nogales, and his appointment as trustee, to issue 
 patents to lot owners within the city limits. His 
 prosperity, public-spiritedness, and faith in the 
 continued well being of Nogales was evinced 
 in 1897, when he erected one of the finest resi- 
 dences in the place, which for excellence of sit- 
 uation on the western heights of the city is un- 
 rivalled, and commands a fine view of Nogales, 
 .\riz., and Nogales, Mexico. This charming and 
 hospitable home is presided over by Mrs. Over- 
 ton, who was, before her marriage. Miss M. Soto, 
 of Tucson. In addition, Mr. Overton is the pos- 
 sessor of valuable mining interests in the Pata- 
 gonia mining district, and of real-estate in the 
 city which numbers him among her most liberal 
 minded, large hearted and enterpiising citizens. 
 
 WILLIAM D. JOHNSON. 
 
 The mayor of the enterprising town of 
 Thatcher, Mr. Johnson, also stands high in the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, 
 having been bishop of St. David ward for two 
 years, and for twelve years having been 
 first counselor to President Layton and for the 
 past four years to President Kimball, the well 
 known leader of ecclesiastical afifairs in this sec- 
 tion of Arizona. From his early manhood Mr. 
 Johnson has been a great worker in the interests 
 of his church, and is accordingly held in high re- 
 gard by those in authority as well as by the lay- 
 members. Approaching the age of three-score 
 and ten, his counsel is received with due rever- 
 ence, and the younger members of the flock 
 consult him in the multitude of matters engross- 
 ing their attention, and it may here be said that 
 when they adhere to his advice success usually 
 crowns their labors. 
 
 William D. Johnson was born in Haddam, 
 Middlesex county. Conn., in 1833, in the same 
 house in which his father and paternal grand- 
 father had been born. His parents, Lorenzo and 
 Mary (Lyman) Johnson, came of old New Eng- 
 land families, the mother being a native of Ver- 
 mont. When about a year old, William D. was 
 taken to Detroit, Mich., where he resided until 
 February, 1846, when the family joined the Mor- 
 mons. Thenceforth they shared the fortunes of 
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 voo. III., the Black Hawk war, the Walker war 
 in 1853 and the Tintic war in Utah in 1856. For 
 fifteen years the young man was an Indian scout, 
 and had many a thrilling experience with the red- 
 skins. L'ntil twenty-one years ago he dwelt in 
 Utah. 
 
 Since 1880 W. D. Johnson has been a citizen 
 of Arizona, and here, as formerly, plied his trade 
 as a carpenter for years. In addition to this, he 
 has devoted considerable time to farming, and 
 his homestead, a place of one hundred acres, is 
 a model country-seat. He also owns two other 
 farms, all located in the fertile Gila valley, and 
 all well irrigated, save a tract of forty acres. 
 His first settlement in this territory was in Pima 
 county, after which he dwelt in Cochise county 
 for two years, then coming to Graham county, 
 in whose future he has been confident since first 
 beholding it. 
 
 In numerous local enterprises Mr. Johnson 
 has contributed his full share. After the erection 
 of Graham county he held the office of justice 
 of the peace, being the first man elected to that 
 office, and in 1887-8 acted as county assessor of 
 this county. He uses his franchise in favor of 
 the nominees of the Democratic party. The af- 
 fairs of the church to which he belongs are pros- 
 pering in this locality, and the substantial brick 
 house of worship and the handsome academy 
 at Thatcher (erected at a cost of over $5,000) 
 speak in flattering terms of the enterprise and 
 devotion of the Latter-day Saints to denomina- 
 tional work hereabouts. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Johnson married Caroline L. 
 Wild, daughter of Horace Wild, and a native of 
 New York state, where her lairth occurred in 
 1838. Julia, eldest daughter of this worthy 
 couple, is the wife of John Daley, of Thatcher. 
 Ella is Mrs. John Birdno, of SafTord. Horace L., 
 an energetic farmer, now manages his father's 
 homestead, assisted by David C, the youngest 
 of the family. Sarah V. is the wife of M. H. 
 Merrill, of Thatcher. 
 
 JOHN KNIGHT. 
 
 While holding the highest municipal office 
 within the gift of the people of Tempe, Mr. 
 Knight has repeatedly demonstrated worthiness 
 to be chosen mayor of this busy and promising 
 
 town. Under his administration the affairs of 
 Tempe have undergone radical changes for the 
 better, and the confidence imposed in the chief 
 magistrate has greatly aided in the carrying out 
 of his progressive and enterprising ideas. Mr. 
 Knight is now serving his third term as mayor. 
 
 Many of the subjects of Great Britain have 
 brought their strong and substantial national 
 characteristics to bear upon the development of 
 the Salt River valley, and here, as elsewhere, 
 have been identified with the most advanced 
 efforts for improvement. A native of county 
 Cornwall, England, Mr. Knight was born Octo- 
 ber 5, 1852, and is a son of English parents, 
 Thomas and Mary A. (Bullock) Knight. On 
 his father's farm in Cornwall he received an ex- 
 cellent home training, and availed himself of the 
 advantages of the public schools. As time went 
 on he received considerable business experience, 
 and was thus well fitted for the responsibilities 
 of life. He was an ambitious lad, and thought 
 to better his prospects in life by emigrating to 
 the United States in 1878, at which time he came 
 directly to the west, and was for a time engaged 
 in mining in Amador county, Cal. He later 
 continued to mine in San Diego county, Ca!., 
 and in 1880 engaged in mining in Arizona at 
 the Silver King mine in Pinal county, where he 
 remained for about twelve years. While at Sil- 
 ver King he anticipated the requirements of the 
 settlement by starting a general merchandise 
 store, and became prominent in the affairs of 
 the locality. P'or a time also he served as post- 
 master of the place. 
 
 In the spring of 1893 Mr. Knight came to 
 Tempe, and has since been engaged in the mer- 
 cantile business with gratifying success. From 
 a comparatively small beginning the business 
 has grown in proportion to the increase in pop- 
 ulation and consequent demand, until it is now 
 conducted on a large scale. While living in 
 England, Mr. Knight married Emma Bray, and 
 of this union there are four children, William G., 
 Elfrida. Ethel, and Ermine. A second marriage 
 was contracted by Mr. Knight in Tempe, and of 
 the union with Nannie Brown there is one 
 daughter, Alice E. Mr. Knight is a Republican 
 in national politics, and is fraternally associated 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 the Woodmen of the World, and the .Vncient
 
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 Order of United Workmen. He is one of the 
 citizens who has been instrumental in bringing 
 about the present prosperity, and is appreciated 
 for his many excellent traits of mind, character, 
 and attainment. 
 
 CHARLES L. FLINN. 
 
 The chief executive of the prosperous little 
 town of Winslow is entitled to an unlimited 
 amount of credit for the success which he has 
 made of his life. From his twelfth year he has 
 faced the problem of self-support, the beginning 
 of many trials and discouragements being his 
 invasion of the fascinating possibilities of a run- 
 away life with Forepaugh's circus. He was born 
 in Knoxville, Ohio, in 1856, and during his 
 young boyhood saw considerable of the middle 
 west and south. Though industrious and ear- 
 nest people, his parents were unable to furnish 
 their son with the wherewithal to start in life, 
 and this, and the love of adventure, inspired an 
 early departure from the family hearthstone. 
 
 When arrived at years of discretion, and an 
 appreciation of the advantage of learning a 
 trade, Mr. Flinn became a machinist and engi- 
 neer at Columbus, Ohio, and in 1876 went to 
 New Orleans, where he was employed as ma- 
 chinist for the New Orleans & Jackson & 
 Great Northern Railroad. Four years later he 
 joined the forces of the Atlantic & Pacific Rail- 
 road Company at Albuquerque, N. M., and be- 
 came an engineer on that road, taking out one 
 of their first engines. His route lay between 
 Albuquerque and Gallup, a distance of one hun- 
 dred miles. In March of 1881 he embarked in 
 the mercantile business at Coolidge, N. M., and 
 continued the enterprise until 1886, when he 
 located in Winslow. Here he continued his 
 former occupation, but in 1895 met with una- 
 voidable reverses and wisely disposed of his 
 interests. 
 
 Including and between 1895 ^"d 1898 Mr. 
 Flinn acted as postmaster at Winslow, and then 
 started the gent's furnishing store which has 
 since been successfully conducted. The store 
 is the largest of its kind in the town, and is doing 
 a large business on Railroad avenue. The pros- 
 perous owner has come into the possession of 
 some real-estate in the place, and owns three 
 
 business houses and two dwellings. His pres- 
 ent responsible position as mayor of the city is 
 due to his stanch upholding of the principles of 
 the Democratic party. In local politics espe- 
 cially he lias been very active, and has invariably 
 worked for the best interests of his town and 
 county. He was elected to the sixteenth legis- 
 lature, and was chosen mayor of Winslow in 
 1900. He has served as a delegate to the terri- 
 torial conventions, and has been justice of the 
 peace and notary public for several years. Fra- 
 ternally he is associated with the local lodge of 
 Masons, and has been an Odd Fellow for twenty- 
 four years. 
 
 GEORGE R. PARKER. 
 
 Though now enjoying a well-earned respite 
 from active business affairs, Mr. Parker has in 
 the past represented the soundest commercial 
 and other undertakings of Prescott and vicinity. 
 A native of Lempster, Sullivan county, N. H., 
 he was born October 30, 1822, and is a son of 
 George Parker, who was born in Chester, Vt., 
 in 1796. The elder Parker was a cabinetmaker 
 by trade, which he followed in Lempster, N. H., 
 until 1826, when he located in Ware, Hampshire 
 county, Mass., where he was foreman in Wol- 
 cott's machine shop until 1828. He then settled 
 in Ohio, and at Burton, Geauga county, engaged 
 as a millwright until his death, January 30, 1863, 
 His wife, formerly Rockset Hendee, was born in 
 Westminster, Vt., March 7, 1795, and died in 
 Ohio March 29, 1848. She was the mother of 
 seven children, of whom George Riley is third 
 oldest. Cynthia died in Ohio ; Roxana is living 
 in Oregon ; Judith Ann died in Ohio ; an infant 
 died in Ware, Mass.; William Hendee died at 
 the age of twenty-one; and Charlotte A. died in 
 California. 
 
 The early life of George Riley Parker was spent 
 in r)hio, in Geauga, Columbia and Stark coun- 
 ties, where he received a good home training, 
 and was educated in the public schools at Bur- 
 ton. As a means to future independence he 
 learned the trade of miller at Rochester, Ohio, 
 and subsequently worked at the same in Stark 
 and Columbia counties for seventeen years. In 
 185 1 he removed to Pittsburg, Ind., and until 
 1854 engaged in the livery business, when he
 
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 289 
 
 started with teams and crossed Minnesota, Illi- 
 nois, and Wisconsin, and the Mississippi at La- 
 Crosse, where he bought one hundred and sixty 
 acres of oak lands at the openings and farmed 
 the same until 1861. 
 
 Having returned to Minerva, Stark county, 
 Ohio, Mr. Parker enlisted in May of 1864 in 
 Company A, One Hundred and Forty-tliird 
 Ohio ^ olunteer Infantry, and served until the 
 mustering out of the regiment in November of 
 1864. He was iji the front ranks at Peters- 
 burg, but was neither wounded, imprisoned, nor 
 ill during the service. In 1865 he settled in 
 Rushford, Minn., and after contracting and 
 building for four years becaiue superintendent 
 of the Rushford lumber yard. In 1873 he sought 
 the larger possibilities of the west, and after a 
 sojourn of a year in Denver, Colo., visited Los 
 Angeles and San Bernardino, Cal. Unwilling to 
 make any of these places a permanent place of 
 residence, he came to Arizona in 1876, locating 
 in Prescott, where he started a lumber yard in 
 partnership with his son, Frank. In connection 
 therewith he purchased a saw-mill nine miles 
 from the city, which was removed in 1881 to near 
 Belmont, on the newly surveyed line of the At- 
 lantic & Pacific Railroad. For two years he con- 
 tracted for the railroad, and was then obliged, 
 owing to an increase of business, to start another 
 mill, the two being then run until 1886, when 
 the milling interests were disposed of. 
 
 A later venture of Mr. Parker's was the cattle 
 business, in which he engaged in the People's 
 valley, Yavapai county, about thirty miles from 
 Prescott. His ranch comprised nine hundred 
 and twenty acres, and has recently been disposed 
 of, after several years of successful general farm- 
 ing and stock-raising. In the meantime Mr. 
 Parker has invested heavily in real-estate in 
 the residence and business districts of Prescott, 
 and has erected for himself and family one of 
 the fine residences in the town. 
 
 In Stark county, Ohio, Mr. Parker married 
 Emma Loos, who was born in France and died 
 in Prescott. Her children were named as fol- 
 lows: Permelia, the wife of J. F. Reppy, resid- 
 ing in Clinton, Iowa; Caroline, wife of B. C. 
 Knapp and .a resident of Murfrcesboro, Tenn.; 
 Emma, who died at the age of two vears; George, 
 who died when two years old; Frank, who was 
 
 a resident of Los Angeles, Cal., and died De- 
 cember 28, 1900; Henriette, who is the wife 
 of Coles A. Bashford, of Los Angeles, Cal.; and 
 Charles, who is married and resides in Prescott. 
 Mr. Parker contracted a second marriage in 
 California with Mrs. A. A. Furbish, who was born 
 in Lowell, Mass., and is a member of the Con- 
 gregational Church. Mr. Parker has always 
 been affiliated with the Republican party, and 
 is fraternally associated with the Rushford 
 Lodge of Masons, and was connected with the 
 Independent ( )rder of Ckld l'"ellows in Ohio. 
 
 BENJAMIN F. PASCOE. 
 
 During the period of his residence in Globe, 
 which extended over more than twenty years, 
 Mr. Pascoe was intimately identified with the 
 development of this great mining settlement, and 
 did much to bring it into a condition of law 
 and order. Few in this part of Arizona were 
 more familiar than he with the unruly, rough 
 and lawless element that mingled with the legiti- 
 mate miners during the early days of Globe's 
 history. Too much cannot be said in praise of 
 the work that he accomplished in enforcing 
 order. Sharing the hardships of frontier life and 
 days, it was also his privilege to live to enjoy 
 a well-deserved prosperity, which represented 
 the result of years of tireless industry on his 
 part. 
 
 Though l)orn in England in 1838, Mr. Pascoe 
 had but a dim remembrance of his native land, 
 having been brought to the United States by 
 his parents when he was very young. During 
 1878 he settled permanently in Globe. At the 
 time he was not unfamiliar w'ith Arizona, having 
 enlisted in the First California Cavalry, March 
 g, 1863, a:^ the company was about to leave San 
 Francisco, and for the following two years he 
 was stationed at Forts Goodwin and McDowell. 
 On coming to (ilobe he was for a short time 
 employed at driving ox-teams in the mountains 
 of this vicinity. Subsequently he managed a 
 hotel for a lime. Next he became a night 
 watchman for (ilobe, which position in those 
 days re(|uircd iron nerve and fearlessness. 
 LTnder his jurisdiction were some of the toughest 
 and most lawless scamps that ever invaded a 
 mining camp, and his work was therefore
 
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 extremely difficult and dangerous, but he so 
 managed things that at no time was he obliged 
 to terminate any one's life. His success in the 
 position was so great that he was made a United 
 States marshal in 1881, which position he held" 
 for four years, and in 1882 he was elected sheriff 
 of Gila county. In his dealings with Indians 
 he was particularly successful, his relations with 
 them being most friendly, and during his last 
 term as sheriff he had an Apache deputy under 
 him. 
 
 On leaving the office of sheriff. Mr. Pascoe 
 engaged in the lumber business, and continued 
 the same until 1898. when he bought a livery 
 business, liesides carrying on this enterprise, 
 he ran the transfer to the depot, and had a large 
 trade in hay and grain His corral covered an 
 area 100x150 feet, and included a house and 
 necessary equipments. March 20. 1901, Mr. 
 Pascoe sold out to Thompson & Barclay, and 
 afterward he devoted his time principally to the 
 management of his lumber business at Safford, 
 Graham county, until his death, which occurred 
 at Safford May 20. igoi. His body was brought 
 to Globe for interment. 
 
 In national jjolitics Mr. Pascoe was a Demo- 
 crat in later years, but in earlier life a Repub- 
 lican. When running for sheriff, the opposing 
 candidate for three successive elections was 
 William Lawlor, who once defeated Mr. Pascoe 
 by three votes, but the next time Mr. Pascoe 
 defeated him by eleven votes. ;ind the third time 
 by twenty-three votes. In 1896 he was elected 
 supervisor, but resigned the position. Frater- 
 nally he was a Mason, having joined that order 
 at Omega, Nevada county, Cal., and he was a 
 charter member of tlie blue lodge at Globe. 
 
 HIRAM S. PHELPS. 
 
 One of the leading pioneers of the Salt River 
 valley is the subject of this article, who for 
 twenty-two years has been actively engaged in 
 the great work of reclaiming this portion of the 
 "arid zone," once a veritable desert. 
 
 Morris Phelps, father of our subject, was 
 born in Xorth-implon. X. "S'., and was one of 
 the pioneers of Illinois, for he erected the third 
 Uig cabin on the site of the present great western 
 metropolis, Chicago, h'or a short time after- 
 
 wards he lived in Missouri, but was expelled 
 from Independence with the Mormon church 
 and went to Hancock county, 111., in the days 
 of its infancy. There Hiram S. Phelps was born 
 to himself and wife February 26, 1846. The mo- 
 ther was a native of New York state, and prior to 
 her marriage was Miss Sarah Thompson. When 
 the infant was a few months old he was taken 
 to Iowa, his family having been driven out of 
 Illinois, on account of the troubles occasioned 
 by the intoleration of religious belief of the 
 Phelps family and many of their neighbors. 
 When he was four years old tnir subject re- 
 moved to Utah county. L'tah. with his parents, 
 and from 1864 to 1878 lived in Montpelier. 
 Idaho. His father, who departed this life in 
 that state, was a prominent member of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, 
 and did a great deal of missionary work, being 
 looked up to and honored in his denomination. 
 
 Reared to the practical duties of life, Hiram 
 S. Phelps became a thorough agriculturist and 
 business man ere he attained his majority, and 
 has steadily forged ahead, gradually amassing 
 a competence. He now owns one hundred acres, 
 which are finely improvetl and very productive. 
 His success as a business man is well known, 
 and at present he is a director in the Tempe- 
 Mesa Produce Company, in the Mesa Milling 
 Company and in the Queen Creek Agricultural 
 Experiment Company, and hitherto has been a 
 director in the Mesa Cianal Company, and in the 
 Zenos Co-operative Mercantile and Manufac- 
 turing Institution at Mesa, all of which are flour- 
 ishing enterprises. In politics he is independent. 
 
 In tracing the ancestry of H. S. Phelps it is 
 learned that he is a descendant of one of the 
 first pioneer families of Connecticut. His an- 
 cestor, William Phelps, a native of England, 
 crossed the Atlantic on the ship "Mary John," 
 and was one of the colonists who settled at 
 Windsor, Conn., in 1630. Doubtless the pioneer 
 virtues — the ability to cope with primitive Na- 
 ture and to conquer the obstacles set in his path- 
 way were inherited by Hinm S. Phelps, who 
 stands well in his conununity and is a faithful 
 exponent of the Church of Jesus Christ of the 
 Latter-day Saints, being a member of the high 
 council of the Maricopa stake of Mesa. So 
 thoroughly devoted to his religious belief has
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 2gi 
 
 Mr. Phelps always been that he was one of 
 seven Mormons who, in 1885, were convicted 
 in the United States court at Phoenix on account 
 of his marriage relations, and was sentenced to 
 imprisonment in the penitentiary at Yuma, 
 where he served three months. Those who 
 served with him were A. P. Spillsbery, George 
 T. Wilson, Charles I. Robson, Oscar M. Stew- 
 art, James Wilson and Edmund Ellsworth, all 
 from Maricopa county. 
 
 CHARLES T. MARTIN. 
 
 The name of Charles T. Martin, clerk of the 
 district court, and a resident of Globe, is insep- 
 arably associated with the best efforts for the 
 continued prosperity and improvement of one 
 of the most interesting mining centers in the 
 silver and copper regions. A native of Mason 
 county, Tex., he was born in 1854, and his 
 youth up to fifteen years of age was spent amid 
 the surroundings of his southern home. Of 
 German descent, he is a son of Louis and Eliza- 
 beth Martin, who were born in Germany, and 
 who, upon emigrating to the L^nited States, set- 
 tled in the then wild and uncultivated wilderness 
 of Texas. In search of an independent livelihood 
 tlieir son started out in the world and lived for 
 four years in New York City, at the end of that 
 time associating his fortunes with the mining 
 section of New Mexico, settling in 1873 at Fort 
 Bayard, in the vicinity of Silver City, .\fter 
 clerking for four years in Silver City Mr. Martin 
 came to Arizona, and located at AIcMillen, Gila 
 county, where he engaged in the merchandise 
 business in partnership with John A. Miller, and 
 after two years took up his permanent residence 
 in Globe. 
 
 While Mr. Martin is appreciated for his many 
 excellent traits of citizenship, it is perhaps as a 
 politician of broad and comprehensive views 
 that he will be best remembered, for in this con- 
 nection his ability has found most congenial 
 scope. His popularity and hold upon the confi- 
 dence of the people is best evinced in connection 
 with the oiifice of county recorder, which, as a 
 Republican, he held in a Democratic community 
 for ten years. Two years after relinquishing the 
 office of recorder he was appointed district clerk 
 in 1897, by Judge Doan of Florence, to accept 
 
 which poi-iliun he resigned as a supervisor of 
 the county. 
 
 Like the majority in Globe. Mr. Martin is in- 
 terested in mining, and has several prospects and 
 claims in the Globe mining district. In the city 
 he has been identified with many forward move- 
 ments, not the least of which is his present un- 
 dertaking in connection with establishing a 
 water-works system for the town, in which 
 Thomas .\. Pascoe and R. C. Brown are also 
 interested. In this connection a well has been 
 sunk, and water was turned into the mains about 
 March i, 1901. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Martin was united in marriage 
 with Sarah Eaton, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and of 
 this union there is one child, Louis, Mr. Martin 
 is fraternally associated with the Masons, Lodge 
 No. 3, at Globe, and is a cliarter member of the 
 Ancient Order of L'nited Workmen and the 
 Woodmen of the World, in his adopted town. 
 
 AMOS H. WIEN. 
 
 Now a successful mine owner in the Dragoon 
 mountains, Amos H, Wien was born in Berks 
 county, Pa., May 27, 1850. He was reared to 
 agricultural pursuits in the state of William 
 Penn, and received the education of the public 
 schools. Upon enlisting as a musician in the 
 Sixth Cavalry of the United States army in 1872, 
 he accompanied his regiment to Fort Riley, 
 Kans.. where they remained about six months, 
 and then were stationed at Fort Hayes, Kans., 
 for two years, but in July, 1876, were transferred 
 to Fort Lowell, near Tucson, Ariz.; and after 
 a year were sent to Fort Grant, Ariz. He served 
 for five vcars, being discharged December 12, 
 1877. 
 
 After leaving the army Mr. Wien turned hi.s 
 attention to the management of a ranch in Pima 
 county, and had a government contract for hay, 
 wood, etc., subsequently engaging in freighting 
 in the southern part of the territory. At the 
 same time he dealt extensively in cattle and 
 horses, making, however, a specialty of horses. 
 About ten years ago he came to Russellvillc, 
 w hich is located four and one-half miles north 
 of Dragoon Station, on the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad, at the foot of the Little Dragoon 
 mountains. Ever since he has been interested
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 in copper and silver mining. .\t the present 
 time he owns the Bhie Bell group and Copper 
 Chief group, the two consisting of eleven claims, 
 besides two iron claims, and three copper claims. 
 He is also the possessor of five Wolframite 
 claims, which ore is practically a new discovery 
 in Arizona, and bids fair to be of great value 
 and utility. .-Vlthough still interested in stock 
 and horses, he owns at the present time but a 
 small ranch, devoting the greater part of his 
 time to mines and mining. 
 
 :\Iav 6. 1875, Mr. Wien married Charlotte 
 Reanor, of Kansas, and of this union there were 
 born eleven children, namely : Herbert, who, 
 November 6, 1900, was elected justice of the 
 peace of District No. 9 and is a prominent 
 Alason, having attained the degree of Knight 
 Templar; Mortimer, who is a mine owner; 
 Percy, who died when eight years of age ; 
 Charles .\., who is a mine owner; Jess, who is 
 managing a ranch ; Gertie, Parthene, Theresa, 
 Rena, Bertie and August. The children are liv- 
 ing at home with their parents. In politics Mr. 
 \Men is a Democrat, but has never sought 
 official recognition. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Alasonic lodge at Willco.x, and is also 
 a member of the Royal Arch Chapter at Tomb- 
 stone. 
 
 J.\ME.S J. MILLHvEN. 
 
 This pioneer mining operator and discoverer 
 of valuable mines in Arizona, now residing on 
 Lyn.x creek, about fourteen miles from Prescott, 
 is a native of Lewistown, Pa., where his birth oc- 
 curred January 25, 1839. His parents, Robert 
 and Rebecca (Johnson) Milliken, were of the 
 sterling old Scotch Presbyterian stock, and were 
 natives of the Keystone state. Daniel Milliken, 
 the paternal grandfather of our subject, and 
 Rev. James Johnson, his maternal grandsire. 
 were early settlers of central Pennsylvania. 
 
 Having obtained a common school education, 
 J. J. Milliken came to the west in 1861, proceed- 
 ing via the Isthmus of Panama, and thence to 
 San l-"rancisco and to Nevada county, Cal., 
 where he had his initial experience in mining. 
 In the spring of 1863 he went to \'irginia Citv, 
 Xev.. and during the next five years gave his 
 attention to the cattle business, also doing a lit- 
 
 tle mining and prospecting, in 1864 locating 
 the Carrico mine, near Austin, Nev. From 
 1866 to 1878 he carried on agricultural pursuits 
 in Sonoma county, Cal., making a fair success 
 of the enterprise. 
 
 Coming to Yavapai county twenty-three years 
 ago, our subject took up his residence about one 
 mile from the present town of Jerome, and soon 
 located the famous Walnut Spring, which now 
 furnishes an ample supply of water for the 
 smelter at Jerome. In 1879 he came to the Lynx 
 creek district and that year located the Ora 
 Platte mine, now owned by the Montgomery 
 Gold Mining Company. He also did some placer 
 mining, and in 1880 located the Kishacoquillas 
 mine, which he sold to New York capitalists, 
 and also discovered and laid claim to the fine 
 Miflfin group, which includes tour mines, the 
 MifiBin, the Selano. the Water Gulch and the 
 Borrow, which he still owns. These mines, 
 which produce a gold ore of a free milling na- 
 ture, yield about $10 to the ton. In 1894 he 
 discovered and since has developed the Home- 
 stead mine, the shaft of which is one hundred 
 and eight feet deep. In connection with it he 
 owns and operates a five-stamp mill, and has 
 taken out about $15,000 in gold, the ore aver- 
 aging nearly $30 per ton, there being a small 
 showing of silver also. In addition to these, Mr. 
 Milliken has owned the Golden Fleece mine 
 Xo. 2 and Xo. 3, extensions of the famous Mud- 
 Hole mine: that group he sold in 1898. For 
 twenty-two years he was constantly in the moun- 
 tains, suffering all of the vicissitudes common 
 to the miner, and during that period discovered 
 the above-mentioned mines. Strict attention to 
 business and an exceptionally fine power of dis- 
 crimination between ores of much or little value 
 have led to his financial prosperity. Politically 
 he has always been a Republican. 
 
 It was in the hopes of benefiting his wife's 
 health more than for any other reason that Mr. 
 .Milliken removed to Arizona. January i, 1872. 
 he married Mary .-\., daughter of .Mbert Foster. 
 He was born in Germany and was one of the 
 "forty-niners" in California. His death took 
 place in Santa Cruz county. Cal., where for 
 five years, or until 1854. he had lieen employed 
 at his trade — that of a shoemaker — and also 
 had carried on a ranch. In his native land he
 
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 had married Antonia Fuller, who continued to 
 live on the Santa Cruz ranch until she was sum- 
 moned to the better land, in 1871. Mrs. Milli- 
 ken, who was the youngest of ten brothers and 
 sisters, was the second white child born in Santa 
 Cruz county, Cal., her nativity occurring in 1852. 
 The only son of our subject and wife is J. A., 
 who married Miss Millie Subers, and lives near 
 his father. Rhoda, wife of A. H. Mitchell, and 
 Nellie, who is at home, complete the family. 
 The latter holds a diploma from St. Joseph's 
 Academy of Prescott and from Woodbury's 
 Business College of Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 HON. JAMES F. DUNCAN. 
 Through his service as clerk of the board of 
 supervisors of Cochise county, as well as his 
 activity as a Democratic politician, and an enter- 
 prising citizen of Tombstone, Mr. Duncan is 
 well known in his county. He was born in Phil- 
 adelphia, Pa., June 15. 1839. His father, John 
 Duncan, was a native of New York, and with his 
 brother, Tom, constructed in 1842 the Globe 
 mills of Philadelphia, where he died the follow- 
 ing year. Up to the age of twelve years James 
 F. Duncan remained in Philadelphia and at- 
 tended the public schools there. In 1854 he went 
 to Mount Union, where he learned the black- 
 smith's trade. In 1861 he was sent by his em- 
 ployer, Abram Lewis, to the oil regions near 
 the present site of Rouseville, in order to look 
 after the oil interests owned by Mr. Lewis there. 
 At the outbreak of the Civil war he returned to 
 Mount Union and there, August 10, 1861, he en- 
 listed in Company A, Forty-si.xth Pennsylvania 
 Infantry. For four years he served his country 
 at the front. Attached to General liianks' divi- 
 sion, he was for a time in the Shenandoah valley; 
 after the second battle of Bull Run he was with 
 the army of the Potomac. After the battle of 
 Gettysburg they were sent west to re-enforce 
 Rosecrans, and he was with Sherman in the At- 
 lanta campaign and the march to the sea. In 
 November of 1862 he was made commissary ser- 
 geant, after which he served in the commissary 
 (lci)artnient until March 5. 1864. He was then 
 commissioned regimental (|uartermastcr ser- 
 geant and remained in that capacity until the 
 close of the war. July 31. 1865, he was honur- 
 i.blv discharged at llarrishurg. Pa. 
 
 With the restoration of peace Mr. Duncan 
 returned to the pursuits of civic life. For the 
 following eighteen months he engaged in a mer- 
 cantile business at Atkinson Mills, Pa., after 
 which for twelve years he worked in the Penn- 
 sylvania oil regions, operating around Foster, 
 Emlenton, Parker City and St. Petersburg, 
 Clarion county, where he owned many good 
 wells, besides having interests in others. The 
 last well that came into his possession was on 
 the property of Marcus Huling, the father of 
 Gen. Willis Huling. In 1879 Mr. Duncan re- 
 moved to the west, intending to locate at Lead- 
 ville, Colo., but he was unable to stand the high 
 altitude, and so was obliged to seek a dififerent 
 location. 
 
 Lured by the prospects for mining in Arizona, 
 he came to Tombstone. Soon he went into the 
 Mule mountains to the location where Bisbee 
 now stands. Satisfied with the prospects of that 
 rich country, he finally made his home there, 
 and, with others of an equally courageous and 
 hopeful mind, passed his days and nights in the 
 rapidly growing, but orderly ana progressive, 
 camp. As the many admirable and substantial 
 traits of character to which he is heir became 
 known and appreciated, he was induced to take 
 a prominent part in the development of the town, 
 and in politics and municipal government be- 
 came a ruling influence. As the first justice of 
 the peace appointed in Bisbee he served during 
 1880, and so satisfactory was his official work 
 that he was re-elected, receiving seventy-nine 
 out of eighty votes cast, he himself voting for his 
 opponent. In November of 1882 he was elected 
 to the twelfth territorial legislature from Cochise 
 county, and in 1883 was appointed justice of the 
 peace, which office he has filled three terms alto- 
 gether. 
 
 The association of Mr. Duncan with Tomb- 
 stone as a permanent resident began in 1890, at 
 which time he did a little prospecting. In 1892 
 he again entered the arena of politics as justice 
 of the peace of Tombstone, serving until Janu- 
 arv. 1895, at which time he was made court com- 
 missioner for the first judicial district, and United 
 States court connnissioner. In 1896 he was again 
 elected justice of the i)eace. also councilman for 
 the first ward, and served as clerk of the council. 
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 acted as city treasurer. In 1898 he became clerk 
 of the county board of supervisors, and in Janu- 
 ary, 3901, was reappointed to the office, which 
 he now satisfactorily fills. A remarkable show- 
 ing is the fact that during the year 1898 he held 
 ten different positions in city and county at the 
 same time. Among the offices he has held are 
 the following: councilman of first ward. Tomb- 
 stone: city clerk: city treasurer: justice of the 
 peace; clerk of the board of supervisors of Co- 
 chise county; deputy clerk of the district court; 
 court commissioner of first judicial district; 
 United States commissioner; notary public, e.x- 
 officio city recorder, ex-officio coroner, and ex- 
 officio high sheriff of Cochise county. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Duncan is a member of King 
 Solomon Lodge Xo. 5, F. & A. M., and Cochise 
 Chapter Xo. 4, R. A. M. He is the owner of a 
 comfortable residence in Tombstone. In 1871 
 he was united in marriage with Mary E. Mini- 
 ger, who died at Westfield, X. Y., October 3. 
 1882, leaving one son, Lemuel D. Duncan, who 
 at this time is serving the government in the 
 Philippines. 
 
 HOX. EMERSOX O. STRATTOX. 
 
 Xearly half a century has been spent by E. O. 
 Stratton in the west, and his experiences on the 
 frontier of civilization were many and varied. 
 About half of that time was spent by him in 
 San Francisco, which has been developed from 
 a tiny hamlet to a proud and commanding city 
 within his recollection, and for the past quarter 
 of a century he has been actively identified with 
 Arizona. Widely and favoi ably known through- 
 out the west and southwest, he is justly entitled 
 to a permanent place of honor in its chronicles. 
 
 His parents, John Smith and Cornelia C. (Col- 
 vin) Stratton, were natives of Clyde, Wayne 
 county, X. Y., and both his grandfather Stratton 
 and the maternal grandfather Oliver Colvin 
 were farmers and soldiers in the war of 18 12. 
 The Stratton family was an old and respected 
 one in Xew England. In 1852 John S. Stratton 
 went to San Francisco by way of the Isthmus 
 of Panama, and for some time thereafter he was 
 engaged in mining near Sacramento, Cal. In 
 the year after his arrival he was joined by his 
 three brothers. James, Abram (who went to San 
 
 Francisco in 1849), ^^d Edwin, and later they 
 were prominently associated together in con- 
 tracting and building business in San Francisco. 
 They were the first to introduce hydraulic power 
 in the raising and moving of buildings in that 
 city, where they continued in business from 
 1849 until recent date. John S., another brother, 
 was similarly occupied in Sacramento. Thus 
 the Strattons took a very active part in the 
 upbuilding of the two great cities of the Pacific 
 slope, and when the wonderful task of linking 
 the east with the west, by means of the trans- 
 continental railroad, was completed by the driv- 
 ing of the golden spike the head of the family 
 was present at the imposing ceremony. 
 
 The oldest and only living child of John S. 
 and Cornelia Stratton is he of whom this sketch 
 is penned. Born Xovember i, 1846, at the home 
 of his forefathers, in Clyde. X. Y., he was a 
 lad of only seven years when, in 1853, he made 
 the eventful long journey to San Francisco, 
 crossing the Isthmus of Panama on the backs 
 of mules. His education was obtained in the 
 common and high schools of the city of the 
 Golden Gate, and his preparation for his com- 
 mercial career was gained in the Union and the 
 Pacific Business College. Having been grad- 
 uated in the last-named institution, he became a 
 bookkeeper for a firm in Bodega, Sonoma 
 county, and after spending five years with that 
 house was in business at Freestone, same coun- 
 ty, for about a year. In 1871 he went to South 
 America, where he had been offered a position 
 as bookkeeper, at a large salary, with the Callio, 
 Lima & Arroyo Railroad. Xot being favorably 
 impressed with Peru, he returned to San Fran- 
 cisco at the end of a year, and for a like period 
 conducted a general merchandise establishment 
 in Marin county, Cal. Then he was in part- 
 nership with his father in San Francisco until 
 the fall of 1875. 
 
 In September of that year Mr. Stratton lo- 
 cated at Maricopa Wells, Ariz., as bookkeeper 
 for the Overland Stage Company, operated by 
 Me.'srs. Kearns and Mitchell, and later by 
 Kearns & Griffith. Farly in 1876. when the min- 
 ing excitement in Pinal county was at its height. 
 he went to Florence, where he joined in the 
 work of prospecting and mining. Xot long 
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 county, and served in that office for two years. 
 In May. 1879, he located a ranch in Pima coun- 
 ty, on the eastern slope of the Santa Catalina 
 mountains, where an abundance of running wa- 
 ter renders the property valuable. From that 
 time to the present he has successfully carried 
 on the business of raising cattle, and his brand 
 (an "S" with a crescent placed above it) is well 
 known. In partnership with Royal .\. Johnson, 
 he purchased the herd of cattle owned by Daniel 
 Murphy — the first thoroughbred cattle intro- 
 duced in southern Arizona. Individually. Mr. 
 Stratton located another ranch on the San Pedro 
 river, in Pinal county, and there, jlso. raised 
 cattle. Much of his attention for a number of 
 years has been given to mining enterprises : the 
 old Apache Group were opened by him. and 
 at the present time he owns the Bornite Group 
 mines, where he has ten claims, a fine quality of 
 copper, with some gold and silver, being pro- 
 duced here. Since 1897 he has bought and 
 shipped cattle on the commission basis exten- 
 sively, and now gives most of his time to mining 
 operations. 
 
 While living in Pinal county, Mr. Stratton 
 was elected and served as county supen'isor 
 for two years, being chairman of the board, and 
 in the fall of 1894 was elected to the responsible 
 post of county treasurer, in which capacity he 
 acted two years. In the Republican party he 
 has been an effective worker, and in 1898, a few 
 months after his removal to Tucson, he was 
 made secretary of the Pima county central com- 
 mittee, in which position he officiated from 1898 
 to 1900. He also is an ex-member of the terri- 
 torial Republican committee. That he is con- 
 sidered an authority on matters relating to cattle 
 was shown when Governor McCord appointed 
 him to serve on the live stock sanitary board of 
 .\rizona, and of that body he was chosen chair- 
 man. In the course of his varied diUies he com- 
 piled and registered all of the marks used in 
 branding live stock in .\rizona. transferring the 
 records of the same from the different county 
 records to the general territorial book of brands, 
 duly indexing them. He also was the prime 
 mover in the establishment of the present effi- 
 cient system of placing tags oVi hides at ship- 
 ment for the adequate protection of cattlemen. 
 
 December 15, 1870, the marriage of Mr. .Strat- 
 
 ton and IMiss Carrie C. Ames, a native of Barn- 
 stable, Mass., was celebrated in Cotuit, Mass. 
 The first born child of this estimable couple is 
 Mabel, wife of Thomas F. Jones, of Helvetia, 
 -Ariz. She was bom in California, while the 
 two younger, Edith O. and Elmer W., are na- 
 tives of this territory. Miss Stratton. a graduate 
 of the Los Angeles (Cal.) Xormal. is a suc- 
 cessful teacher, and Elmer \V. is a student in 
 the University of Arizona. 
 
 The parents of Mrs. Stratton are Capt. Sim- 
 eon L. and Lucy (Crocker) Ames, like her- 
 self, natives of Barnstable, Mass. In fact, her 
 paternal ancestors, for several generations, lived 
 there, as the town records show. Her great- 
 great-grandfather, Thomas Ames, was born 
 there, December 30, 1746. His son, Enos, and 
 grandson Isaac (the latter her grandfather) also 
 were natives of the place. Capt. S. L. Ames, 
 who was engaged in a four years' whaling vov- 
 age in his early manhood, later was master of 
 vessels engaged in the coasting passenger serv- 
 ice between Boston and Philadelphia for many 
 years. In the spring of 1856 he weiU to San 
 Francisco, accompanied by his wife and two 
 children, crossing the Isthnuis of Panama on 
 the railroad. For the following five years he 
 carried on a general mercantile business at 
 Michigan Bar, Cal., but the strong ties of as- 
 sociation drew him back to the old home in 
 Barnstable, and since 1861 he has dwelt there, 
 long retired from active cares. His faithful 
 wife departed this life in 1892, and only two of 
 their children survive, Mrs. Stratton and Mrs. 
 Lapham. The wife and mother was a daughter 
 of Zenas and Rebecca (Sampson) Crocker, na- 
 tives of Barnstable and Kingston, Mass.. re- 
 spectively. He was a hero of the war of 1812, 
 and his wife's father. Col. Crocker Sampson, 
 won his title by service in the .Vmerican war 
 for independence. The founder of the Sampson 
 family in New England was one Henry Samp- 
 son, who, with a sister and Goodman Tilley. 
 crossed the ocean in the historic "^laytlower" 
 and were pioneers of the Bay state. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Stratton are Unitarian in reli- 
 gious faith. Both are highly esteemed by all 
 w ho know them, and now, after several decades 
 of pioneer life, with all which the term implies, 
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 undaunted courage. In 1900 Mr. Stratton built 
 the beautiful modern residence which they oc- 
 cupy, at the corner of Fifth avenue and Third 
 street, Tucson. Fraternally he was made a Ma- 
 son in Bodega (Cal.) Lotlge No. 214, F. & A. 
 M. He belongs to the Odd Fellows and to the 
 Encampment, also to the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, and was one of the origina- 
 tors of the Hall Association of the last-named. 
 
 HON. N. A. MORFORD. 
 
 Few men in Arizona are more prominent or 
 more widely known than N. A. Morford of 
 Phoenix. He has been an important factor in 
 both business circles and public affairs, and his 
 popularity is well deserved, "as in him are em- 
 braced the characteristics of an unbending in- 
 tegrity, unabated energy and industry that never 
 flags. He is public-spirited and thoroughly in- 
 terested in whatever tends to promote the moral, 
 intellectual and material welfare of either the 
 city or territory in which he resides. 
 
 The Judge was born near Greenville, Alercer 
 county, Pa., October 22, 1843, ^"^ '^ descended 
 from a good old Puritan family, which during 
 the religious persecutions fled from England 
 to Holland and later came to America. His 
 paternal great-grandfather was the progenitor 
 of the family in this country, and for a time 
 made his home in New Jersey, whence he re- 
 moved to Pennsylvania. The grandfather, Jo- 
 seph Morford, was born in eastern Pennsylvania, 
 and became a pioneer of Mercer county, where 
 he secured a tract of government land and in 
 the midst of the forest developed a farm. He 
 married Elizabeth Fell of that state, whose an- 
 cestors were also English (Quakers and early 
 settlers of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New- 
 Jersey. 
 
 Nathan Morford, the Judge's father, was born 
 un the same farm where our subject's birth oc- 
 curred, and there he spent his entire life engaged 
 in agricultural pursuits, dying at the age of sev- 
 enty years. He was a man of prominence in 
 his community, and was called upon to hold 
 various county offices, and he also served two 
 terms in the Pennsylvania legislature. He was 
 a strong abolitionist, and was a su])porter of the 
 \'\'liig and Rcjiiiblicm parties. Religiously he 
 
 was a Universalist, and socially was a prominent 
 Royal Arch Mason. His widow, who bore the 
 maiden name of Mary A. Smith, is still a resi- 
 dent of Pennsylvania. She was born on the 
 Juniata river in Dauphin county, that state, and 
 is a daughter of John and Sarah Stevens- 
 Smith, the latter a sister of Thaddeus Stevens. 
 Her father was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. 
 Judge Morford is the oldest in a family of three 
 children, the others being Ralph D.. a graduate 
 of the Cleveland Medical College, and now a 
 practicing physician of Crawford county. Pa.; 
 and Ellen, wife of Henry Ruhlman of Colum- 
 liiana county, Ohio. 
 
 Judge Morford was reared in his native coun- 
 ty and began his education in its district schools, 
 later attending Allegheny College for a time. 
 In 1868 he went to California on account of his 
 health, and while engaged in prospecting anil 
 mining in the mountains for two years he en- 
 tirely recovered. He then attended the California 
 N'ormal School at San Francisco for a time, and 
 later engaged in teaching. In January, 1873, he 
 entered the L^niversity of California at Berkeley, 
 where he was graduated in June, 1876, with the 
 degree of A. B., and for the following six years 
 he again engaged in teaching school in Napa 
 county, Cal., being jarincipal of the schools of 
 St. Helena, and chairman of the board of edu- 
 cation of that county for three years. 
 
 In 1870 Judge Morford first came to Arizona, 
 and purchased property in Phoenix, which he 
 still owns. The place at that time had only a 
 population of 1,200. He did not locate here, how- 
 ever, until 1882, when he, purchased a half inter- 
 est in the Phoenix "Daily Herald," which was 
 the first daily established here, it being started 
 in February, 1878. In 1883 he became sole 
 proprietor of the paper, and made it the leading 
 daily journal of Arizona. In 1898 the ""Herald" 
 Publishing Company was incorporated, and in 
 May of the following year the Judge sold his 
 interest in the business. Through his paper he 
 was the first to advocate the building of a rail- 
 road into Phoenix, -this being five years before 
 the Maricopa & Phoenix road was built from the 
 Southern Pacific in 1887. Me also advocated 
 the construction of the .\riz<ina canal long be- 
 fciro it was built, and was undoubtedly instru- 
 mental in securins.; this leading waterway for
 
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 301 
 
 the territory. He has championed every move- 
 ment whicli lie believed calculated to prove of 
 public benefit, and through his paper labored 
 untiringly for the removal of the capital to Phoe- 
 nix, his efforts being finally successful. He has 
 been identified with a number of business en- 
 terprises, and has aided in land and mining de- 
 velopment in different parts of the territory. 
 
 At St. Helena, Cal., June 7, 1802, Judge Mor- 
 ford married Miss Alice M. Jones, a native of 
 Knox county, Me., and a lineal descendant of 
 Governor Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts. 
 
 As a Republican he has taken an active part 
 in political affairs, and has served as alderman 
 from the second ward for several years, during 
 which time many additions were incorporated 
 in the city of Phoenix. He has also been a 
 member of the school board several years and 
 secretary of the same. In 1892 he was appointed 
 secretary of the territory by President Harrison, 
 and held that im])ortant position until there was 
 a change in the administration in 1894. I" Jiil)'- 
 1899, he was elected probate judge to fill a va- 
 cancy, and in the fall of 1900 was the Repub- 
 lican nominee for that office. 
 
 He is a prominent member of the Republican 
 Club of Phoenix ; has served as chairman of the 
 county committee: and was secretary of the 
 territorial Republican committee four years. 
 
 The Judge is a member of the Board of Trade, 
 of which he has been a director, and a charter 
 member of the Maricopa Club, of which he has 
 also been a director. In religious belief he is an 
 Episcopalian, and is a charter member of Trinity 
 Church at Phoenix. He was a member of its 
 building committee when the house of worship 
 was erected, and has ever since served as ves- 
 tryman. He is also secretary of the board of 
 trustees of the incorporated church of .Arizona, 
 and is treasurer of the diocese of Arizona. From 
 1892 until 1894 he was a regent of the University 
 of .\rizona, and is a member of the .\lumni As- 
 sociation of the University of California, and 
 of the Phi Delta Theta Society of that univer- 
 sity. In 1890 the Judge was one of the organ- 
 izers of the .'\rizona Press Association, and was 
 its first president. He was made a Mason at 
 St. Helena, Cal., and is now a member of 
 Arizona Lodge, No. i, at Phoenix, of the chap- 
 ter at Napa, Cal., and Arizona Conmiandery, 
 
 Xo. 3, of Phoenix, in which he is now serving 
 as generalissimo, and is a member of El Zaribali 
 Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is 
 one of the most prominent Odd Fellows of the 
 territory, belonging to the subordinate lodge, 
 the encampment, the Rebekah branch and Can- 
 ton Arizona, No. i, of that order in Phoenix, 
 and has filled all the offices in the same. For 
 five years he represented his lodge in the sover- 
 eign grand lodge, and the last time at Detroit, 
 Mich., received the grand decoration of chivalry. 
 He is now serving as deputy grand sire of the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Arizona. 
 His career has ever been such as to warrant the 
 trust and confidence reposed in him, and his 
 devotion to the public good is unquestioned, 
 arising from a sincere interest in the welfare of 
 his fellowmen. 
 
 CHARLES W. HAYS. 
 
 This well-known mining man of Nogales was 
 born in Marion ccjunty, \'a., July 25, 1849, and is 
 a son of William F. and Elizabeth (Meming) 
 Hays. They were descendants of pioneer families 
 of the Old Dominion west of the lilue Ridge, 
 who came from England to the colony of Virginia 
 long prior to the Revolutionary war. A genea- 
 logy of the Hays family has been compiled, 
 extending back more than four hundred vears 
 and showing that they were prominent both in 
 Scotland and England. The grandfather of our 
 subject. Henry, came with his father, John Hays, 
 to Virginia, and crossing the Blue or .\lleglicny 
 mountains settled on a wild tract of land. Dur- 
 ing the first war with England Henry Hays was 
 a captain in the regiment conmianded by 
 Colonel Morgan, and participated in many of 
 the sanguinary contests of that memorable 
 struggle. During the Mexican war, when at 
 a verv advanced age, he was an officer under 
 General Scott. Politically he was an old-line 
 Whig and a warm adnrrer of Henry Clay. He 
 also took part in Indian wars and, as captain of 
 a company, captured a band of Indians at San- 
 dusky Plains, Ohio, in conjunction with Col. 
 Levi Morgan, and on the subsequent signing 
 of the treaty of peace delivered the Indians to 
 Gen. Anthony Wayne. At the time of his death 
 he was one hundred and four years of age, and
 
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 liis wife lived to be one hundred and two. They 
 reared a family of thirteen children. 
 
 At the opening of the Civil war William F. 
 Havs left his plantation and enlisted in the com- 
 mand of Stonewall Jackson, with whom he 
 served until he was killed at the second battle 
 of Bull Run. He was the father of four chil- 
 dren. Charles W. Hays was educated in public 
 and private schools in Marion county, \'a. At 
 the age of twelve years he became attached to 
 the command of Stonewall Jackson, who was a 
 distant relative of the family. He witnessed 
 many of the most important battles in wdiich 
 Jackson bore a part, and was in that illustrious 
 general's tent when his dead body was brought 
 in from the field of battle. 
 
 Returning home at the close of the war, soon 
 after (1865) Mr. Hays went to Texas, where he 
 was employed on a cattle ranch. Later he 
 returned to Virginia. Imt 1878 found him again 
 in Te.\-as, where he continued in the cattle busi- 
 ness. During 1876 he went to the Black Hills, 
 where he prospected and mined, and he has 
 since followed the same occupation in Montana, 
 Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Mexico. 
 For eight years he mined at Cripple Creek, 
 Colo., where he still owns much valuable prop- 
 erty. As a mining operator he has been suc- 
 cessful and now owns some of the finest property 
 of this kind in Sonora, Mexico. Among miners 
 throughout the west he is a recognized authority 
 on the subject of mining. 
 
 Since boyhood Mr. Hays has been on the 
 frontiers of civilization. As a scout he took 
 part in Indian warfare with General Custer, and 
 his escape in the massacre was due to the fact 
 that he was suffering from a wound and unable 
 to take part in the battle. His first Indian fights 
 were along Red river in Texas, where he was 
 leader of a company of cowljoys. The Indians 
 were stealing stock whenever opportunity 
 afTorded, and .VI r. Hays with his men, after a 
 running fight, rounded up the Indians and 
 recovered their stock, driving the red men 
 across the river. Among the cowboys Mr. Hays 
 was long known as "Wild Jack" Hays. He had 
 many hairbreadth escapes and received several 
 wounds. An unerring shot, and possessing 
 great bravery, he was exactly the kind of man 
 needed in the Ijordcr troubles with the savages. 
 
 Among his most important battles were Beaver 
 Creek, near the Colorado line, at Medicine 
 Lodge, Kans., and engagements down the Lit- 
 tle Missouri river. In early days he scouted 
 with the celelirated Kit Carson. During the 
 trouble with Sitting Bull he was on scout duty 
 with a party of cowljoys, before and after the 
 battle of Wounded Knee, principally working 
 for the protection of the scattered settlers and 
 ranchmen. At the time of the trouble with the 
 Apaches, through New Mexico, Arizona, and 
 Sonora, Mexico, in the spring and suimner of 
 1886, he was pros])ecting through the country. 
 W'hen General Miles came with his command, 
 Mr. Hays was with General Lawton, who was 
 then making heroic efforts to subdue the 
 Indians. In a great many instances Mr. Hays 
 acted as scout, for the protection of prospectors 
 ;.nd ranchmen. He was present at the "round- 
 up" of the noted war chief, Geronimo. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Hays is connected with the 
 Elks. At this writing he and his family reside 
 at Nogales, Ariz. His wife, whose family name 
 was Jackson, is a direct descendant of the family 
 of Andrew Jackson and a great-niece of the 
 celebrated divine, T. DeWitt Talmage. She is 
 a woman of culture and refinement, broadly read, 
 possessing business ability and social tact, and 
 in her home dispenses a graceful hospitality. 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM A. McKINNON. 
 The town of Jerome, located in the midst of 
 the vast mining resources of Yavapai county, 
 has no more substantial citizen or more earnest 
 worker for her upbuilding than is found in Judge 
 William A. McKinnon, Justice of the peace and 
 coroner. He comes from a state which has pro- 
 duced many successful men, and was born in 
 Burlington, Iowa, in 1859. His father, Hon. 
 T. D. McKinnon, was one of the famous men 
 of the town, and served as circuit judge in Iowa 
 for eighteen years. He was also the first to 
 establish a mercantile business in Burlington 
 and Clarinda, Iowa. After receiving the edu- 
 cation of the public schools our subject's first 
 aspirations were directed towards educational 
 work, in which he engaged for some time. He 
 was then impressed with the large possibilities 
 of the far west, and located in California in 
 1877.
 
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 Judge McKinnon became interested in Cali- 
 fornia in mining around Copper City, on the 
 Pitt river, and at the end of two years came to 
 Arizona, locating at Contention City, near where 
 Tombstone now stands. He was here with the 
 Toughnut Company lor a year, and had charge 
 of the stamp mill. In 1880 he went back to 
 California, and in Plumas county engaged in 
 milling with the Green Mountain Mining Com- 
 pany until 1883, when he removed to Butte, 
 Mont., and was there employed by Senator W. 
 A. Clark in the forty-stamp silver mill until 
 1895. He then turned his attention to another 
 branch of industry, and, while spending a few 
 months in Oregon, purchased one thousand 
 head of horses, which he shipped to Memphis 
 and disposed of. 
 
 In 1897, the year after locating in Jerome, 
 Judge McKinnon was appointed police judge for 
 the city, but the appointment was later declared 
 by the legislature to be illegal, the body holding 
 that the town council had no right to make the 
 selection. However, in 1898 he was appointed 
 justice of the peace by the supervisors, to fill 
 the vacancy caused by the death of J. B. Harvey, 
 and in 1900 was elected to the office on the 
 Democratic ticket, by a majority of two to one. 
 In this capacity the Judge tries all civil and crim- 
 inal matters, and also serves as coroner of the 
 city or county. Nor are his efforts confined to 
 the duties of his official office, for he has a wide 
 interest in the general affairs of Jerome, and 
 may be counted on to lend his time, money 
 and liberal assistance to the furthering of any 
 wise and progressive scheme for improvement 
 instituted by his fellow-tow'nsmen. He owns 
 some valuable mining properties in Butte, 
 Mont., and in other parts of the country, and 
 has several real-estate holdings in Jerome. In 
 connection with his regular work he deals in 
 loans, collections and real-estate. Fraternally 
 he is associated with the United Moderns of 
 Jerome. 
 
 FRANKLIN PIERCE SECRIST. 
 
 The life of the sheriff of Xavajo county has 
 been filled with incidents of a nature so thrill- 
 ing that they seem better adapted to a novel 
 of western life than to a personal biography. 
 
 Few men who have passed through such experi- 
 ences live to tell the tale. A volume could be 
 filled with incidents pertaining to his career, but 
 in a sketch of this character it is impossible to 
 relate anv but the most important events of his 
 life. 
 
 Air. Secrist was born in Franklin county. Pa., 
 December 7, 1852, a son of Jacob C. and Mar- 
 garet (Nicodenuis) Secrist. In 1865 he removed 
 witli his parents to I-'ranklin Grove, Lee county, 
 111., where his father engaged in the produce 
 business. In 1869 the young man returned to 
 Penns\lvania and for two years was employed 
 by a gas company in Allegheny City. August 
 14, 1871, he enlisted in the United States regu- 
 lar army at Pittsburg, Pa., and was sent to the 
 St. Louis depot, where he received assignment 
 to duty at Camp McDowell, Ariz., and the 
 journey to that point was made via Denver, San 
 Francisco, Pacific ocean. Gulf of California, 
 Colorado river, and overland to the camp, tw'o 
 hundred and forty-five miles. He remained 
 there six weeks, attached to the Third Cavalry, 
 and was then ordered with that command to 
 Nebraska to relieve the Fifth Cavalry. 
 
 Returning to Fort McPherson, Neb., the 
 troop departed for Fort Steele, Wyo., and thence 
 for Spotted Tail Agency, in Dakota, where Mr. 
 Secrist was detailed as a dispatch carrier for 
 fourteen months. While thus employed he 
 made the ride from Spotted Tail to Red Cloud, 
 forty-five miles, on one horse, in four hours and 
 twenty-five minutes, and from Red Cloud to 
 Fort Laramie, seventy-five miles, on another 
 horse, from sundown to sunrise. While at Fort 
 Laramie he was subpoenaed to Omaha to 
 appear as a witness in the famous case of Cap- 
 tain Gordon. Rejoining his regiment at Chey- 
 enne, he participated in the Crook expedition 
 of 1876, serving through the Sioux campaign 
 of that year. ( )n the expiration of his time he 
 was discharged, August 14, 1876, and for the 
 next fourteen months he hunted game for a 
 lumber company in Wisconsin. 
 
 February 10, 1878,. Mr. Secrist re-enlisted in 
 the army in Chicago and rejoined his old com- 
 pany at Big Bend in Dakota. Three months 
 later, at the time of the Cheyenne outbreak, he 
 was in Wyoming and served through that 
 memorable campaign. Going thence to Fort
 
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 Steele, he w as made past quartermaster-sergeant 
 and sergeant-major, in that capacity accom- 
 panying the Thornberg expedition, and partici- 
 pating in the engagement known in history as 
 the White river massacre. For gallant conduct 
 on that occasion he was ordered to Washington 
 for examination for promotion: but two days 
 before he was intending to depart President 
 Garfield was assassinated, and nothing further 
 was done in his case. Soon afterward, however, 
 he was made first sergeant, and held that ofifice 
 until February 8, 1883, when he was mustered 
 out at Fort Grant, Ariz. 
 
 After leaving the regular army Mr. Secrist 
 entered the service of the Atlantic & Pacific 
 Railroad Company as freight brakeman. Five 
 months later he became freight conductor, sub- 
 sequently was promoted to be passenger con- 
 ductor, and served in that capacity until March, 
 1900. During his engagement with the railroad 
 company he resided at Winslow, and after his 
 retirement from railroad work served as city 
 marshal for eight months. In November, 1900, 
 he was nominated by the Democrats for the 
 post of sherifif of Navajo county, and was 
 elected. The ofifice also carries with it the duties 
 of assessor, personal property tax collector and 
 license collector, and Mr. Secrist is also school 
 trustee of his precinct. He has been grand 
 chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and for 
 seven years was identified with the Order of 
 Railway Conductors. September 10, 1885, he 
 was united in marriage with Belle Nichols, 
 daughter of Edwin Nichols, for some time 
 superintendent of bridges on the Santa Fe sys- 
 tem. They have two sons, Charles and Harry. 
 
 HON. EDWARD T. IJAMS. 
 
 Elected in November, 1900, to the twenty- 
 first territorial legislature of Arizona, as the rep- 
 resentative of the Graham county district, it 
 may be inferred that Hon. E. T. Ijams stands 
 in the front ranks of our citizens. Indeed, he 
 is very popular in the Democratic party, and 
 has been an active worker in the same. For a 
 number of years he has been a member of the 
 grand jury and also has held the position of 
 justice of the peace. 
 
 William and Cath (Stevens) Ijams, his par- 
 ents, are natives respectively of Maryland and 
 
 Virginia. The son was born in Ohio fifty-two 
 vears ago and spent eighteen years of his life 
 in that state. Leaving college at Athens, Ohio, 
 in 1867, he commenced teaching and devoted 
 ten vears to that calling, in the meantime hav- 
 ing charge of schools in Missouri, Iowa and 
 California. Coming to SafTord in 1881, he 
 taught the first public school here, but soon 
 turned his attention to other fields of enterprise. 
 
 For a number of years, and until 1889, Mr. 
 Ijams was the proprietor of a general store — 
 the first mercantile venture of the kind in Saf- 
 ford. During this period he held the position 
 of postmaster for five years, and became widely 
 and favorably known. Then he invested in cat- 
 tle, having a ranch near Bowie, and it was not 
 until 1893 that he gave up this industry. The 
 first drugstore in Graham county was opened 
 by him at SafFord, and for five years he managed 
 that enterprise, then selling his stock of goods, 
 though he still owns the substantial brick store 
 building in which he had been the pioneer drug- 
 gist. He has been financially interested in nu- 
 merous undertakings of benefit to the people, 
 and among these is the Gila Valley Telephone, 
 making connections between Globe, Clifton, 
 Morenci, Safford, Solomonville and Tucson, — 
 two hundred and fifty miles in extent. Of this 
 company he is general manager and treasurer. 
 Foremost among the promoters of this company, 
 he retains a one-third interest in the "concern, 
 which is an enterprise of the greatest public 
 utility. The first exclusive hardware store in 
 the Gila valley was opened by him in 1896, the 
 firm which managed the business being known 
 as Ijams «& Co., until -the senior partner sold 
 out to George A. Olney. In addition to owning 
 some mining property, Mr. Ijams is the pos- 
 sessor of some valuable real estate and several 
 houses. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Ijams and Miss Eliza 
 Gallaspy of Lampasas, Tex., took place at San 
 Diego in 1879. They have two sons of whom 
 they have reason to be proud, namely: Sheldon, 
 now in his eighteenth year and a student in the 
 Arizona University at Tucson; and Clyde, a 
 promising little lad of eight years. The elder 
 son is preparing to take a course in electrical 
 engineering, to which line of enterprise he in- 
 tends to devote his life.
 
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 309 
 
 JOSEPH H. COX. 
 
 The large proportion of young men among 
 the employes of the Arizona Copper Company 
 is worthy of note, and certainly to this fact much 
 of the wonderful success which that concern en- 
 joys must be attributed, with justice. Unques- 
 tionably this is the age for the young man. for 
 his zeal and energy are in great demand in every 
 field of human usefulness, and, moreover, to-day 
 he is early fitted to assume responsibilities, train- 
 ing in school and elsewhere being along strictly 
 practical lines. 
 
 A native of Angleton, Brazoria county, Tex., 
 the subject of this article was born October 23, 
 1872, a son of John R. and Angeline O. (Fores- 
 tier) Cox, natives respectively of Scotland and 
 England. The mother is of French descent. 
 Reared at his birthplace, J. H. Cox received a 
 high-school education and when he had com- 
 pleted his literary course prepared himself for 
 his life's career by going to Georgetown, Tex., 
 where he became thoroughly versed in electrical 
 work. Having obtained a diploma certifying to 
 his efficiency as an electrical engineer he had no 
 difficulty in procuring a position. For eight 
 months he was on the pay-roll of the Brush 
 Electric Light plant at Galveston, Tex., and 
 thence went to Velasco, same state, where he had 
 entire diargfe of an electric light plant, steam 
 laundry and water-works for three years. As he 
 had abundantly proved his general business abil- 
 ity, as well as his eminently practical knowledge 
 of electrical engineering, the Arizona Copper 
 Company was glad to employ him as head of the 
 electric light and power plant at Clifton, in which 
 capacity he has acted for four years. Needless 
 to say the equipment of this important depart- 
 ment of the company's mammoth enterprises is 
 unsurpassed in mining regions, and today Mr. 
 Cox has about twenty men under his super- 
 vision, all occupied in electrical work. There 
 are fourteen generators and twenty-six motors, 
 exclusive of the forty-six small fan motors. 
 
 In the great (]uestions affecting the country, 
 Mr. Cox takes unaffected interest, aiming to 
 keep well posted along all lines. He is a believer 
 in free trade and is strongly opposed to trusts. 
 Fraternally, he is a charter member and past 
 council commander of Cleora Camp No. 14. 
 
 Woodmen of the World. He also is a Knight ol 
 Pythias, belonging to Clifton Lodge No. 17. 
 
 June 28, 1899, Mr. Cox married Miss Mary B. 
 Holt, of Memphis. Tenn. She is a daughter of 
 John A. and Isabella (Kedford) Holt, is a lady 
 of liberal education, and in religion adheres to 
 the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 CHARLES W. HUNTER. 
 
 \ large number of the prominent buildings 
 and residences in Phoeni.x are due to the con- 
 structive ability of Mr. Hunter. To the prosecu- 
 tion of his occupation he brings wide knowledge 
 of the best methods employed in different parts 
 of the world, and keeps in constant touch with 
 all improvements as thought out and applied 
 by men engaged in the same line of work. It 
 would be difficult to find a better field for effort 
 in construction than is furnished by the grow- 
 ing cities and towns of .Arizona, as they rise 
 above a soil wherein is stored the latent rich- 
 ness of dormant centuries. In the city of Phoe- 
 nix the buildings credited to Mr. Hunter include 
 the Sherman block. Arcade block, several build- 
 ings at the United States Industrial School, and 
 innumerable residences. 
 
 As far back as the memory of the present 
 generation extends, the Hunter family have ren- 
 dered to Nova Scotia the allegiance due the 
 country of their birth. The paternal grandfather 
 was born there, of Scotch descent, and there he 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits. In religion 
 he was an active member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. Charles W. Hunter was born in Nova 
 Scotia, January 27, 1854. and is a son of Lodo- 
 wick Hunter, a builder and stone contractor, 
 who came to the States in 1866 and settled in 
 DeKalb county. 111. Throughout the remainder 
 of his active life he devoted himself to farming. 
 He died in that county in April of 1900, at the 
 age of seventy-five years. His wife, Louisa 
 (Hunter) Hunter, was a member of a family 
 in no way related to her husband's family. She 
 was born in Nova Scotia, as was also her father, 
 George, and her mother, who in maidenhood 
 was a Miss Fish. Mrs. Hunter resides in Illi- 
 nois. 
 
 In a family of seven children, five of whom 
 are livin", Charles W. Hunter was second in
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 order of birth. He was educated in the pubHc 
 schools. In 1867 he became an apprentice to the 
 stone-mason and bricklayer's trade under his 
 father, and at the expiration of his time began 
 journeyman work. In 1878 he removed to Col- 
 orado Springs. Colo., in which city and at Man- 
 itou he worked at his trade. In 1883 he removed 
 to Huron, S. D., and for a little less than a 
 year was superintendent of masonry for the 
 Union Pacific Railroad. In 1887 he went to the 
 far west and in Pasadena, Cal., engaged in con- 
 tracting and building until 1890, and continued 
 the same occupation after removing to Olympia, 
 Wash. 
 
 Taking up his permanent residence in Phoe- 
 nix in 1892, Mr. Hunter has since met with a 
 high degree of appreciation as the character of 
 his work became known. He has received an ex- 
 tended patronage, which has come to him as 
 the result of his acknowledged skill and faith- 
 fulness to every contract. Not only is he a 
 representative of his trade, but in every other 
 respect he is an enterprising citizen of his town. 
 In national politics a Republican, he is not a 
 seeker after official recognition, but prefers to 
 devote all of his time to the immediate demands 
 of his business. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 THOMAS SHIELDS COLLINS, M. D. 
 
 As an exponent of medical science Dr. Col- 
 lins occupies a prominent position among the 
 professional men of southern Arizona. A con- 
 scientious and painstaking practitioner, he has 
 not only established a desirable general practice 
 at Globe, but has at different times been com- 
 pany physician for some of the largest mining 
 concerns in the territory. Tlie youth of Dr. 
 Collins was uneventfully passed in Pittsburg, 
 Pa., where he was born September 13, 1866. 
 His parents, William A. and Eliza (Lee) Collins, 
 were natives respectively of Kentucky and Ohio. 
 William A. Collins was an attorney and jour- 
 nalist, and editor of the Pittsburg Chronicle- 
 Telegraph. 
 
 Dr. Collins received his education in Florida 
 and Virginia, and subsequently studied medi- 
 cine at the Hospital College of Medicine in 
 Louisville, Ky., from which he was graduated in 
 
 1886. After fifteen months spent in practical 
 demonstration in the Louisville hospitals, and 
 six months in the Southern Pacific railroad hos- 
 pital at Oakland, Cal., he came to Silver King 
 Camp in Arizona, in 1888, and was company phy- 
 sician for two years. For the following few 
 months he derived a great deal of interest- 
 ing information from extensive traveling, and 
 materially broadened his scope, horizon, and 
 knowledge of human nature. He visited Central 
 and South America, later going to Cuba, Flor- 
 ida, and other southern points, his wanderings 
 terminating in Globe in 1891. Here he was 
 company doctor for the mines of Globe until 
 1897, when he followed the tide of fortune seek- 
 ers north, and spent a year in the Klondike. 
 Upon returning to Globe he entered upon a 
 general medical and surgical practice, in which 
 he has since been successfully engaged. Like 
 the majority who live in a region where the 
 speculative enterprise of mining is possible, the 
 doctor is also interested, and owns several 
 claims in the Globe district. He is the pos- 
 sessor of town property, and owns his residence 
 and office, which is located just off from the 
 main street near the center of the town. 
 
 Mrs. Collins was, before her marriage in 189 1, 
 Nellie Atkinson, and her parents are Capt. 
 George and Maria Atkinson, the former of 
 whom was a captain in a Minnesota Regiment 
 during the Civil war. In politics a Democrat, 
 Dr. Collins is actively interested in local politi- 
 cal affairs, has served on several committees, 
 and has been chairman of the Gila county cen- 
 tral committee. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Odd Fellows at Globe and is a mem- 
 ber of Lodge No. 12, which is the largest lodge 
 in the territory. He is also a Woodman and 
 Workman, a charter member of both lodges in 
 Globe, and of the Benevolent Protective Order 
 of Elks. 
 
 FREDERICK L. BRILL. 
 
 Few of the dwellers of Salt River valley have 
 been for so long a time identified with the 
 territory of Arizona as has Mr. Brill, who came 
 here in 1865, and has since made it the scene of 
 the various enterprises in which he has been 
 engaged. As may well be imagined, the coun-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 try at that time was in a wild and unprom- 
 ising condition, and they were indeed stout of 
 heart who had faith in its possibilities. The 
 red men still regarded the rivers, and woods, 
 and plains, as their rightful and undisputed herit- 
 age, and to the early miners who sought to 
 wrest from the earth its hidden treasures, they 
 were a constant menace and danger. It is 
 therefore true that to these miners of courage 
 and unflagging zeal is largely due the present 
 state of improvement and civilization of this pro- 
 lific corner of the earth. 
 
 For several years Mr. Brill was engaged in 
 mining in different parts of the territory, and 
 was part owner of the famous \^ulture mine, 
 located about fiften miles west of where Phoenix 
 now stands. Later he settled on a ranch fifty- 
 six miles west of the site of Phoenix, and 
 took up land for mining purposes, subsequently 
 drifting into general farming and stock-raising. 
 Of the original land purchased in the early days, 
 he still owns nine hundred and sixty acres, part 
 of which is ' under a high state of cultivation, 
 and unusually well watered. Here he lived and 
 prospered for many years, and finally removed 
 to where he now lives, in the near vicinity of 
 Phoenix. To Mr. Brill belongs the distinction 
 of having planted the first orchard in the ter- 
 ritory of Arizona, on Brill's ranch, near Wick- 
 enburg, which he still owns. While a resident 
 of that place he attained to considerable promi- 
 nence in the affairs of the locality, and for sev- 
 eral years served as justice of the peace. 
 
 A native of other shores, Mr. Brill was born 
 in Prussia, April 4, 1833, and is a son of Henry 
 Brill, also born in Prussia. In his native land 
 he received the substantial training accorded 
 the average German youth, and was well 
 equipped for the future responsibilities of life by 
 receiving a good education. To this has been 
 added the research of many years, and constant 
 reading and application, and todav Mr. Brill is 
 an unusually well informed man, and in touch 
 with the general topics of interest. When about 
 seventeen years of age his ambition reached be- 
 yond the land of his birth, and in search of 
 broader opportunities, he immigrated to Amer- 
 ica, the journey being accomplished in a sailing 
 vessel. Upon arriving in the United States he 
 settled in Louisiana, and for a short time en- 
 
 gaged in the tobacco business in New Orleans. 
 A later venture was a mercantile business con- 
 ducted in San Antonio, Tex., and also the manu- 
 facture of cigars. Still unsettled as to location, 
 Mr. Brill tried his fortunes in Nicaragua, and 
 after a short time went to California, via San 
 Francisco, and for a time engaged in mining in 
 southern California. In San Diego county he 
 began to raise cattle, and was thus employed 
 until 1865, when he came to Arizona. 
 
 Mrs. Brill was formerly Laura Copeland, a na- 
 tive of San Francisco. The first wife of Mr. 
 Brill was Isabella Rourke. He has three chil- 
 dren: Cora, Frederick and Louise. In religion 
 he is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 MRS. MARY H. BAXTER. 
 
 Mrs. Ba.xter was born in Madison, (ja., and 
 is a daughter of Patterson and Mary (Johnson) 
 Taylor, born respectively in North Carolina and 
 in Morgan county, Ga. Patterson Taylor was 
 a farmer during the greater part of his life, and 
 moved from North Carolina to Georgia when a 
 young man. He served with distinction in the 
 Florida or Seminole war, and died in Georgia in 
 1845. His wife, who was a daughter of John 
 Johnson, a native of Georgia and a planter by 
 occupation, married a second time, and subse- 
 quently died in Phoenix. She became the mother 
 of seven children, six of whom attained maturity, 
 three sons and three daughters, Mrs. Baxter 
 being the second youngest child of the second 
 marriage. Of the other children, James D. Jack- 
 son was killed during the Civil war, while serv- 
 ing in a Georgia regiment at the battle of Mal- 
 vern Hill; Christopher C. Taylor was in a Geor- 
 gia regiment, and was killed at the battle of 
 Malvern Hill; Mrs. Reeves, a full sister of Mrs. 
 P>axter, is living in Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Miss Mary Taylor was reared in Georgia, and 
 received an excellent education. In 1861 she 
 removed to Fanning county, Tex., and in 1869 
 crossed the western plains with a train of four 
 hundred people, and terminated the journey at 
 (lila licnd. At Agua Caliente Miss Taylor was 
 united in marriage with King Woolsey, who was 
 born in Georgia, and educated in Louisiana and 
 .\rkansas. His father was a large land owner, 
 and had property on both sides of the state line
 
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 In 1850 the son went to Calaveras county, Cal.. 
 and engaged in mining, and in i860 located in 
 Arizona. The following year began his associa- 
 tion with the Indians, wherein he so distin- 
 guished himself in the face of extreme peril and 
 almost certain death. He led several expedi- 
 tions against the Apaches in 1863-4, and after 
 several battles in different fxarts of the territory 
 succeeded in rounding them up, thus averting 
 much disaster and loss of life. 
 
 On the Gila river Mr. Woolsey bought the 
 Agua Caliente ranch and hot springs, and settled 
 down to the life of a prosperous rancher. In 
 the Prescott district he had large mining inter- 
 ests, and built three quartz mills which were 
 operated in partnership with ex-Governors Rich- 
 ard C. McCorniick and John N. Goodwin. His 
 interests further extended to the purchase of im- 
 proved farms in the Salt River valley, and to the 
 acquisition of considerable business and other 
 property in Phoenix. He was a miller also on 
 a large scale, and conducted his enterprise in 
 partnership with John Y. T. Smith. Mr. Wool- 
 sey died in Phoenix in 1879, and is remembered 
 as a man of sterling character and high principle, 
 with wisely directed generous impulses, and a 
 personal courage which never quailed in the face 
 of danger. In the political affairs of the com- 
 munity in which he lived he exerted a wide in- 
 fluence, and served in the first, second, third, 
 fifth, seventh and ninth territorial councils, hav- 
 ing been presi<lent of the same during the seventh 
 and ninth terms. He was also on the staffs of 
 Governors Goodwin, McCormick and Safford. 
 
 Mrs. Woolsey subsequently became the wife 
 of Mr. Baxter, an attorney of Phoenix. She is 
 a woman of great executive ability, and an ex- 
 cellent business manager, and owns large real- 
 estate interests in Phoenix and elsewhere. Her 
 property is all well improved and on a paying 
 basis, and includes the Plaza building. The 
 Agua Caliente ranch, which is the especial pride 
 of Mrs. Baxter, is ten hundred and forty acres 
 in extent, and one of the finest pieces of prop- 
 erty in the county. The irrigation facilities are 
 admirable, the water being inexhaustible, and 
 derived from the Agua Caliente spring. This 
 spring is possessed of medicinal qualities which 
 liave gained for it a wide renown, and which is 
 purported to have accomplished some really 
 
 wonderful cures. The water gushes forth with 
 the rapidity and power of a mountain torrent, 
 and contains iron, magnesia and sulphur. The 
 inducement offered by the healing power of the 
 water has justified the erection of an hotel in 
 process of construction, which is to cost $60,000. 
 
 JULIAN VEST. 
 
 The great army of railroad conductors having 
 their respective routes in the far west are ably 
 represented by that enterprising citizen of Tuc- 
 son, and excellent railroad man, Mr. Vest. A 
 native of Richmond, \'a., he was the youngest 
 in a family of nine children, seven of whom are 
 living. His father, James M. Vest, was born in 
 Louisa county, Va., and was a planter on a 
 large scale, owning Corduroy, a beautiful and 
 richly developed home of one thousand and six 
 hundred acres. He was one of the ideal south- 
 ern planters, and lived to be over eighty years 
 old. The paternal grandfather, John Vest, also 
 a native of Virginia, was a planter and promi- 
 nent man, and served his country in the war of 
 1812. On the maternal side, the ancestry is 
 English. Mrs. Vest, who died in 1876, before 
 her marriage was Martha Sneed Burnley, who 
 was born at Rock Creek, Louisa county, Va. 
 
 On his father's plantation of Corduroy Julian 
 Vest received the early training that fitted him 
 for the future responsibilities of life, and was 
 educated by a private tutor, at the Culpeper 
 .•\cademy, and at the Blacksburg Military Acad- 
 emy. In 1873 he started out in the world to 
 earn his own living and became identified as 
 brakeman with the railroad owned by Collis P. 
 Huntington, called the Chesapeake & Ohio. 
 Eighteen months later he was promoted to the 
 position of conductor, and in 1883 filled a similar 
 position with the Kentucky Central Railroad. 
 In 1894 he became yardmaster at Memphis, 
 Tenn., for the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwest- 
 ern Railroad, and was transferred in 1896 to the 
 Tucson division of the Southern Pacific, as con- 
 ductor on the division. 
 
 In Cynthiana, Ky., September 19, 1888, Mr. 
 Vest married a native of the place, Nancy I. 
 Craig, a daughter of F. G. Craig, a prominent 
 distiller and race horse man, and who served as
 
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 quartermaster in a Kentucky regiment during 
 the Civil war. Her mother was Kate Sparks, a 
 member of an old Kentucky family. To Mr. and 
 Mrs. Vest have been born two children. Charles 
 Frank and James W. In Paris. Ky., Mr. \est 
 became associated with the Masons, and is now a 
 member of the Tucson Lodge, No. 4, and is still 
 connected with the Royal .\rch Masons at Paris, 
 Ky. As a member of the Order of Railroad Con- 
 ductors, he belongs with San Xavier Division, 
 No. 313. In national politics a Democrat, he is 
 liberal-minded regarding the prevailing adminis- 
 tration. In religion he is connected with the 
 Baptist Church. 
 
 THOMAS GRINDELL. 
 
 The greatest gift of life, a mind stored with 
 the best knowledge of the world, belongs to Mr. 
 Grindell. A profound student always, by study 
 and by travel in many lands he has acquired the 
 breadth of mind which is the rightful heritage of 
 the intelligent observer. He was born in Platte- 
 ville. Wis., June 29, 1871, and is a son of Wil- 
 liam and Margaret (McMurray) Grindell, natives 
 respectively of Ireland and Illinois. When a 
 young man, William Grindell settled in Canada, 
 but soon removed to the States and became one 
 of the earUest settlers of Platteville, Wis. His 
 industrious efTorts were attended by a cor- 
 responding prosperity, and he was one of the 
 best in his line in the manufacture of furniture. 
 In Masonic circles he wielded an extended influ- 
 ence and was identified with other important in- 
 terests of his town. He lived to be seventy-si.x 
 years of age. His wife, who is now living in 
 Platteville, Wis., was a niece of Peter Cart- 
 wright, her mother having been a sister of that 
 eminent evangelist. 
 
 The home training received by Thomas Grin- 
 dell was calculated to develop the best traits of 
 his character. In his native town of Platteville 
 he was educated in the public schools and in 
 1890 was graduated from the normal school. 
 Subsequent training was received in the Uni- 
 versity of Wisconsin, which he entered as a 
 junior and left in March of the senior year. 
 Following a westward inclination he sought the 
 glowing possibilities of California and engaged 
 in the educational work in Los Angeles in 1892. 
 
 In 1893 he entered upon extended journeymgs 
 and visited the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, 
 .\ustralia, the Philippines, China and Japan, and 
 was away from this country about thirteen 
 months, .\ftcr returning to San Francisco he 
 started upon another trip of adventure and vis- 
 ited .Alaska. Juneau and Sitka being his especial 
 objective points. On his return to the United 
 States he spent a short time in Los Angeles, 
 after which he visited old Mexico and Central 
 America, where he purchaseil placer gold from 
 the Indians and natives. Interspersed with the 
 overland travels were many interesting e.xperi- 
 ences which threatened disastrous terminations 
 and included the adventures of being twice 
 robbed. On one occasion he was waylaid and 
 nearlv killed, in addition to being relieved of his 
 possessions. A siege of yellow fever somewhat 
 dampened the delight and enthusiasm of travel 
 in Central .\merica, but fortunately was viewed 
 from a philosophical standpoint by Mr. Grindell 
 as a part of the hardships to be endured by those 
 who wander far from their native heaths. 
 
 During 1895 Mr. Grindell was commissioned 
 captain in the Guatemalan army while touring 
 through that country. .\t that time Guatemala 
 was about to go to war with the republic of 
 Mexico over the disputed mahogany lands on 
 the border, but a settlement being effected he 
 withdrew from the service. In the fall of the 
 same year he settled in Tucson, Ariz., and be- 
 came interested in mining and educational work, 
 and was later principal of the Nogales public 
 schools. At the same time he attained to con- 
 siderable political prominence and was secretary 
 of the territorial meeting that appointed the Mc- 
 Kinley delegates to the St. Louis national con- 
 vention in 1896, In 1900 he was a delegate to 
 the convention at Philadelphia that nominated 
 William McKinley for a second term as presi- 
 dent. In i8()7 he was appointed to the chair of 
 English literature in the .Arizona Normal school 
 at Tempe, but resigned the position to enli.st as a 
 private in troop C. First United States Volun- 
 teer Cavalrv, more familiarly known as Roose- 
 velt's Rough Riders. With this famous troop 
 he served in the Spanish-American war until 
 nmstered out in the fall of 1898. Upon his re- 
 turn to Arizona he was nominated for superin- 
 tendent of schools of Maricopa county, but suf-
 
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 fered defeat with the rest of the Rough Riders 
 in tlie territory that year. In January of 1899 
 he was appointed deputy to United States Mar- 
 shal Griffith and served in the ofifice at Tucson 
 for a year, since which time he has been clerk 
 of the supreme court of Arizona. 
 
 In addition to the responsiliility incident to 
 the supreme court clerkship Mr. Grindell is in- 
 terested in ranching near Tucson and owns, in 
 partnership with his brother, Edward P. of Tuc- 
 son, the site of old Fort Lowell in Arizona. He 
 also laid out an addition to Nogales, known as 
 the Grindell tract, consisting of one hundred 
 and seventeen lots. In Los Angeles, Cal., he 
 was made a Mason and is now connected with 
 Chapter No. 2, R. A. M., Commandery No. 3, 
 K. T., and El Zaribah Temple, N. M. S., of 
 Phoenix. The .Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men includes him in its list of members, also 
 the Maricopa club. 
 
 JOHN L. SEAMANDS. 
 
 John L. Seamands comes of a family of rail- 
 roaders, as his father and three brothers have 
 given their mature lives to this line of occupa- 
 tion. He is justly popular among the railroad 
 men with whom he is acciuainted, and for a quar- 
 ter of a century has devoted his life to railroad- 
 ing. I'.elonging to the Order of Railroad Con- 
 ductors, he is ex-chief of Xavier Division, No. 
 313, and in 1893 represented Lexington Divi- 
 sion, No. 239, in the grand division at Toledo, 
 Ohio. In 1888, 1889 and 1890 he attended the 
 general conventions of the order, at Toronto, 
 Denver and Rochester, N. Y., respectively. 
 
 The Seamands family is of English origin, and 
 the great-grandfather of our subject, William 
 Seamands, was born in \'irginia, as also was the 
 grandfather. William R. Seamands. The former 
 was a man of liberal education for his day and 
 localitv, and his death occurred in West \'ir- 
 giiiia. William R. Seamands was a successful 
 stock dealer and farmer, and spent his last years 
 in West Mrginia. Andrew Jackson Seamands, 
 father of John L.. was born in Cabell county, W. 
 \'p., and ])rior to nnd after the Civil war was 
 employed in the construction of the Chesapeake 
 (Jv ( )hio Railroad. When the line had been fin- 
 ished lu' bi-caiiH- n)admastei'. ami when in his 
 
 fiftieth year and living in Milton, W. Va., was 
 in charge of a supply train and on one occasion 
 was on his way from the camp to the railroad 
 station, where he was to take a train for home, 
 when he was accidentally killed by falling 
 through a bridge. His widow, Mrs. Mary (Mann) 
 Seamands, is yet living, her home now being in 
 Tucson. She was born in Jackson county, Ohio, 
 where her people were early settlers. Henrietta, 
 her only daughter, died in West \ irginia, and 
 Frank P., the youngest, died when three years 
 old. .\lbert G., Cliprles W. and James D. are 
 conductors, with their homes and headquarters 
 in San Antonio, Tex. 
 
 J. L. Seamands was born and reared in Cabell 
 county, W. Va., and received a public-school 
 education. In 1875, when fifteen years of age, 
 he commenced working on the Chesapeake & 
 Ohio Railroad with his father and was promoted 
 from errand boy and "jack-of-all-trades" to 
 brakeman. After a year and a half or so he was 
 given a position as conductor on the same line, 
 and it was not until January, 1884, that he re- 
 signed and went to Texas. There he was em- 
 ployed for ten months as a conductor on the 
 International & Great Northern Railroad, and 
 from November, 1884, to March, 1886, was again 
 with the Chesapeake & Ohio, in the same capac- 
 ity. During the following seven years he ran 
 between Cincinnati and Lexington, Ky., on the 
 Kentucky Central Railroad, after which he was 
 with another railroad until March, 1896. Re- 
 signing, he came to Tucson, and from May of 
 that year until September, 1899, was conductor 
 on a train running in the Tucson division of the 
 Southern Pacific. For fifteen months he was 
 traveling conductor between Tucson and El 
 Paso and on the branch road from Benson to 
 Xogalcs. -\riz.. his territory comprising about 
 four hundred miles of railroad. At the present 
 he is conductor between Tucson and Nogales. 
 
 In I'ebruary. 1883, Mr, .Seamands was married 
 in .St. .\lbans, W. Va., to Miss Jennie Capehart, 
 a native of that town, as were her father, Stephen 
 P., and grandfather, John Capehart. The family 
 is of German ancestry. John Capehart was the 
 owner of a plantation, and Stephen P. Capehart 
 followed agricultural pursuits in early manhood, 
 later becoming a merchant of St. Albans. He is 
 a first cousin of Hon. James Capehart, wlio repre-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 sented the third district of West \'irginia in 
 congress several terms. For a wife S. P. Cape- 
 hart chose Susan, the only child of Andrew 
 Woods (and granddaughter of a hero of the 
 American war for independence). The latter 
 was a native of Scotland and was of the old 
 Presbyterian faith, being a minister of that de- 
 nomination. Andrew Woods was born near 
 Winchester, Va., and was a furniture manufac- 
 turer at Charlestown, W. \'a., for several years. 
 Of the five children born to S. P. Capehart and 
 wife two are deceased. William C. is a con- 
 tractor, living at St. Albans, and John C. is a 
 traveling salesman of Morgantown. The mar- 
 riage of Mr. and Mrs. Seamands is blessed by 
 three sons, namely: Roy Capehart, Earl Arnett 
 and Lawrence Capehart. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Seamands is an Odd Fellow 
 and a Knight of Pythias, and in his political faith 
 is a Democrat. Mrs. Seamands was educated in 
 Sheldon College, at St. Albans, and possesses at- 
 tractive social qualities. She belongs to the 
 Ladies' Au.xuiary of the Order of Railroad Con- 
 ductors and is secretary and treasurer of the Tuc- 
 son branch, Xavier Division, No. 118. In re- 
 ligion she is a Presbyterian, while her husband 
 favors the Methodist Episcopal creed. 
 
 WILLIAM H. CLARK. 
 
 A native of Cheshire, Berkshire county, Mass., 
 born August 22, 1859, and reared and educated 
 in that state, Mr. Clark has been a sincere ad- 
 mirer and friend of Arizona since he first 
 came here, twenty-three years ago. Though 
 he returned to New England in the mean- 
 time, and thought he would settle there 
 permanently, the charms of Arizona were 
 never absent from his mind, and eventually 
 he came back, thenceforward to be unwavering 
 in his allegiance to this future state. 
 
 Mr. Clark possesses a liberal education and is 
 a well-informed man on all the current issues 
 of the day. In the Centennial year he was con- 
 nected with the Newtown (Conn.) "Bee," a well- 
 known newspaper of that state, and about that 
 time his interest in the far west was awakened. 
 In 1878 he started for the west, and made an 
 extended tour through Colorado. New Mexico 
 and Arizona, continually becoming more im- 
 
 pressed with the gigantic enterprises engaging 
 the attention of the comparatively few inhabi- 
 tants and the yet greater future before them. 
 
 In the spring of 1880 Mr. Clark returned to 
 Massachusetts and then dwelt in New York City 
 for a few months. Much to the surprise oi' many 
 of his friends he yielded to the attractions of a 
 military life, and in December, 1880. enlisted in 
 the United States regulars for five years. As- 
 signed to service with the Fourth Cavalry, under 
 Colonel McKenzie, he first was stationed at Fort 
 Riley, Kans., and thence was sent into Colorado, 
 also aiding in the transferring of the Ute Indians 
 from that state to Utah. In August, 1881, the 
 Fourth Cavalry was sent to Fort Apache, owing 
 to the outbreak among the Cibecu Apache In- 
 dians of that vicinity and of the San Carlos dis- 
 trict. Later in the fall they were ordered to Fort 
 Wingate, N. M., and remained there until the 
 spring of 1884, chiefly doing duty on detached 
 service. The remainder of Mr. Clark's term of 
 enlistment was at Fort Apache, where he was 
 granted an honorable discharge December 18, 
 1895. Several times during his service he acted 
 as a non-commissioned officer, mainly in the 
 quartermaster's department, and throughout his 
 army career made a most creditable record. Dur- 
 ing the last year he took part in the campaign 
 against Geronimo and his braves, whose massa- 
 cres and devastations struck terror to the hearts 
 of even old settlers and Indian-fighters. 
 
 Once more returning to New England, Mr. 
 Clark became associated with the American 
 Zylonite Company, of Adams. Mass., and .spent 
 a year or two there. It often has been said that 
 he who passes a year or even less in the south- 
 west can never be satisfied to live elsewhere 
 again, and so it proved in the case of our subject., 
 In 1888 he came to Holbrook, and opening the 
 well-known Holbrook House conducted it for 
 four years. In 1893 he became general agent 
 for several eastern firms, and in the following 
 tliree years connnenced dealing in general mer- 
 chandise. .After two years had rolled away he 
 sold out to Mr. \\'oostcr and embarked in a 
 brokerage business, buying and selling every- 
 thing, including real estate, .\long the Santa Fe 
 and throughout northern .Arizona he has built 
 u]) a large trade with local merchants, as he 
 iiandles all kinds of merchandise.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In no wise is Mr. Clark a politician, in the 
 usual .sense of the term. However, he keeps well 
 posted in the great and giave affairs of the times 
 and uses his influence in favor of the Republican 
 party. A special point is made by him in attend- 
 ing conventions, county and territorial, and fre- 
 quently he has been sent as .a delegate. In June, 
 1900, he had the honor of being a delegate to 
 the national Republican convention at Philadel- 
 phia. He is a charter member of Winslow Lodge 
 No. 536, B. P. O. E., and was one of its first 
 officials. His marriage to Miss Augusta Schulz 
 took place in New Mexico in 1894. 
 
 THOMAS McGRATH. 
 
 Among the prominent railroad men residing 
 in Phoenix is the gentleman whose name intro- 
 duces this sketch. Throughout his business 
 career he has been actively identified with rail- 
 road work, and is now one of the popular con- 
 ductors on the Santa Fe, Phoenix & Prescott 
 line. A native of Vermont, he was born in St. 
 Albans, on the ist of January, 1867, and is a 
 son of Kennedy and Mary (Maloney) McGrath. 
 The father was born in Ireland and when six 
 years old came to this country with his parents, 
 the family locating in Waterbury, Vt., where the 
 grandfather, Thomas McGrath, followed farming 
 until his death. h"or the long period of thirty- 
 two yeais the father served as yardmaster for the 
 Central \'crmont Railroad, but is now living a 
 retired life on his farm near St. Albans. His 
 wife is a native of that place .and a daughter of 
 Simon Maloney, who was connected with the 
 Central \'ermont Railroad throughout his active 
 business life. Our subject is one of a family of 
 eleven children, all of whom are living. His 
 brothers, Edward and John, are now engineers 
 on the Mexican Central Railroad. 
 
 Mr. McCirath, of this review, grew to man- 
 hood at his birthplace, and at the age of four- 
 teen years began work in the passenger yard of 
 the Central Vermont Railroad. Two years later 
 he was given charge of the same and held that 
 position three and a half years. In 1886 he went 
 to El Paso del Norte, Mexico, and after brak- 
 ing on the Mexican Central Railroad for three 
 months was piomntcd to conductor, having 
 charge of a train nnniing between El I'aso ;uid 
 
 Jiminiez. Not being pleased with that section 
 he went to Colorado in May, 1887, and entered 
 the seivice of the Colorado Midland as brake- 
 man on a train running between Colorado 
 Springs and Buena \'ista, but was soon made 
 conductor. In 1888 he secured a position as 
 brakeman on the .\tlantic & Pacific Railroad, 
 and a month later was made conductor of a 
 freight train running between Williams and 
 Peach Springs, holding that position three 
 months, after which he was brakeman on a train 
 running between Needles and Peach Spring. His 
 train was wrecked by a broken wheel, but for- 
 tunately he escaped uninjured. Although he 
 was in no wise to blame for the accident he was 
 laid off, and then went to Trinidad, Colo., and 
 secured a position as brakeman on the Denver, 
 Te.xas & Fort Worth Railroad between Trini- 
 dad and Texline. Subsequently he was conduc- 
 tor on a train running between Pueblo and 
 Trinidad, and then returned to Needles to be- 
 come conductor on the construction train that 
 built the Colorado & California Railroad. Later 
 he accepted a similar position on a construction 
 train of the Santa Fe, Phoenix & Prescott Rail- 
 road, with which he has since been connected. 
 He was freight conductor for a time, but for four 
 years has now been passenger conductor on a 
 train running between Ash Fork and Phoenix. 
 His has been a successful railroad career and he 
 has the entire confidence of the company, as 
 well as the high regard of his associates and 
 many friends. He is a member of the Aztec 
 Division No. 85, O. R. C, at Winslow, and is a 
 stanch supporter of the Republican party. 
 
 At Williams, Ariz-., Mr. McGrath was united 
 in marriage with JNiiss Jennie York, and to them 
 have been born two interesting children, Arlie 
 and Murrav. 
 
 S. M. HARRIS. 
 
 This honored veteran of the Civil war, and 
 now a well-known conductor on the Phoenix 
 Short Line, residing in Phoenix, wis born in 
 St. Louis, Mo., in September, 1847, and is a son 
 of Joseph and Providence (Frazer) Harris, also 
 natives of that state, the former born in St. 
 Louis countv. the latter in Franklin county. His 
 paternal gi andfather. Samuel Harris, who was a
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 farmer and miller by occupation, was born in 
 Warren county, Ky., and at an early day re- 
 moved to St. Louis, Mo. The maternal grand- 
 father, Charles Frazer, was of Scotch-Irish de- 
 scent, and was also a pioneer of St. Louis. Later 
 in life he followed farming in Franklin county, 
 Mo. He was steward of the Lewis and Clark 
 expedition, which explored the northwest, fol- 
 lowing the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers to 
 their source, and Frazer river was named in his 
 honor. The father of our subject followed farm- 
 ing in Missouri throughout life. He was killed 
 in November, 1S55. while on his way to attend a 
 celebration in Jefferson City by the excursion 
 train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad going 
 through the bridge at Gasconade. His wife died 
 in Kansas City in 1887. 
 
 Of the six children of this worthy couple S. 
 M. Harris is third in order of birth and the only 
 one living in Arizona. He was reared and edu- 
 cated in St. Louis. He engaged in farming until 
 fourteen years of age, when he began his rail- 
 road career as a newsboy on the train, but a year 
 later became brakeman on the Missouri Pacific 
 Railroad. In 1864 he laid aside all personal in- 
 terests and enlisted in Company K, Fortieth 
 Missouri Volunteer Infantry, being mustered 
 into the United States service at Benton Bar- 
 racks, St. Louis. He was on duty in Louisiana, 
 Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee, 
 and participated in the engagements at Frank- 
 lin, Spring Hill and Nashville, and the siege of 
 Mobile, Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, after 
 which he went to Montgomery, Ala. He was 
 mustered out at Benton Barracks, in August, 
 1865, and returned to his home in Missouri. 
 
 After the war Mr. Harris again entered the 
 service of the Missouri Pacific Railroad as 
 brakeman, and was promoted to conductor in 
 October, 1868. Subsequently he was with the 
 Iron Mountain, Northern Missouri and other 
 roads, and for eight years was a conductor on 
 the Kansas City. Fort Scott & Memphis Rail- 
 road between Kansas City and Memphis, his 
 home being in the former place. In 1889 he' 
 went to Stockton, Cal., and was with the South- 
 ern Pacific Railroad one year, at the end of 
 which time he removed to Los .\ngclos and be- 
 canu' a conductor on the Southern California 
 Railroad. In 18(74 he enlcrcd the service of the 
 12 
 
 Stockton Railroad, with which he was connected 
 until coming to Phoenix in February, i8y6. He 
 has since been in the employ of the Maricopa, 
 Phoenix & Salt River Valley Railroad Company. 
 as brakeman three months and since then as con- 
 ductor in charge of a passenger train. He is one 
 of the most popular conductors of the line, being 
 painstaking and obliging, and easily makes 
 friends of all with whom he comes in contact. 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen at Fort Scott, Kans., and 
 the Masonic order at Lodi, Cal. 
 
 In Kans.as City, Mo., Mr. Harris married Miss 
 Huldah Fitzgerald, a native of San Joaquin 
 county, Cal. She is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church and a most estimable lady. 
 She is a daughter of Joseph W. and Sarah Fitz- 
 gerald, of Lodi, Cal. Her father, who is de- 
 ceased, was reared in St. Louis county. Mo., 
 went to California in 1849 and engaged in min- 
 ing for many years. Subsequently he turned his 
 attention to ranching. 
 
 CAPT. J. DeWITT BURGESS. 
 
 The life record of this sterling citizen of Tuc- 
 son presents many points of unusual interest, 
 and his twenty-three years of identification with 
 the interests of Arizona entitles him to an hon- 
 ored place in its annals. He possesses broad 
 and liberal views of life and human achieve- 
 ments, is a patriot in the best and highest sense 
 and is entirelv worthy of the praise and emula- 
 tion of his associates and contemporaries. 
 
 Born in Devonshire, England, May 2, 1847, 
 he is the eldest child of Cyrus Angus and 
 Leonora F. N. (DeWitt) Burgess, natives re- 
 spectively of Dublin, Ireland, and Devonshire. 
 The mother was the only child of John DeWitt, 
 whose brother was Sir Henry DeWitt of Devon. 
 The family originated in Holland, and at the 
 close of the "thirty years' war" went to England, 
 later to Scotland and finally located in the south- 
 ern part of England. John DeWitt was a capi- 
 talist, owning valuable estates in Scotland and 
 England. Cvrus A. Burgess was born in Dub- 
 lin, and for seventeen years was professor of 
 mathematics in Trinity college of that city. He 
 was a man of exceptional ability, and for years 
 was engaged in civil and nn'ning engineering 
 operations in Cornwall and Wales. In 1841) he
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 brought his family to the United States and for 
 the next five years was employed in the con- 
 struction of the Pennsylvania railroad at Phila- 
 delphia. Later he represented a large English 
 corporation in the New York & Erie Railroad, 
 controlling a good block of stock. He died in 
 the midst of his extensive enterprises, in New 
 Jersey, in 1868, and his widow departed this 
 life in Dublin, Ireland. All of their children, 
 three sons and two daughters, survive. 
 
 The boyhood of Capt. J. DeWitt Burgess was 
 exceptionally replete with interest and educa- 
 tional factors, though his literary schooling was 
 limited, his father being his chief instructor. An 
 infant when brought to .\merica, he was made 
 a companion of by his father, and accompanied 
 him on trips to Arkansas, Tennessee, North 
 Carolina, \'irginia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, 
 and also to Cuba and South America. He be- 
 came well versed in mathematics under the tute- 
 lage of his gifted father and in 1861 entered 
 Wabash college at Crawfordsville, Ind. 
 
 In August, 1862, the young man, then only 
 fifteen years of age, enlisted in Company F, 
 Sixth Indiana Cavalry, and within a few days, 
 on August 30, took part in the battle of Rich- 
 mond, Ky. In the following December he took 
 part in the engagements of Elizabethtown and 
 Muldrough'sHill and then assisted in the capture 
 of Knoxville under the leadership of General 
 Bumside, remaining with him until March, 1864. 
 Among the maneuvers in which he was con- 
 cerned were Strawberry Plains, Blaine's Cross 
 Roads, Loudon, Campbell Station and the three 
 weeks' siege of Kno.xville. In March, 1864, the 
 regiment returned by railroad to Lexington, 
 Ky., and then, having obtained fresh horses, 
 joined Sherman at Rocky Face Ridge May 4, 
 1864, and continued with him until August 2 in 
 Stoneman's brigade. While near Macon on a 
 raid Captain Burgess and his comrades were 
 captured August 9 at Sunshine Church, and were 
 kept in prisons at Andersonville, Charleston, 
 S. C, and Florence, S. C, until the ensuing 
 December, when, he was released on special 
 parole. Sent to Savannah, thence to Annapolis 
 and then to Camp Chase, Ohio, he was there in 
 command of paroled prisoners until May, 1865, 
 when he returned to his regiment and was mus- 
 tered out at Pulaski, Tenn., July 28, 1865. He 
 
 had enlisted as a private and by meritorious con- 
 duct had been promoted, becoming second lieu- 
 tenant September i, 1862; first lieutenant July 
 18, 1864; captain May 2, 186=;, and was honor- 
 ably discharged Ju'y 28, 1865. On two occa- 
 sions he was wounded, a bullet passing through 
 his body under the left arm, but fortunately 
 missing the vital organs. .\t Resaca he was 
 knocked down and run over by a caisson and 
 at the siege of .\tlanta. July 22, his horse was 
 killed under him and in falling almost crushed 
 the rider's leg. 
 
 In 1866, by a competitive examination. Cap- 
 tain Burgess was appointed from Terre Haute, 
 Ind., as a cadet to West Point, and belonged to 
 the class of '70. However, in June, 1868, he 
 resigned, but in the following August was ap- 
 pointed as second lieutenant of the Seventh 
 United States Cavalry, and joined the regiment 
 at Fort Hays. That fall he participated in the 
 campaign against Black Kettle's band of Chey- 
 enne Indians and took part in the battle at Wich- 
 ita, and after they were quelled, November 28, 
 1868, he tendered his resignation. Coming to 
 Santa Fe he enlisted and outfitted twenty-one 
 men with arms and ammunition, and the party, 
 with considerable luggage conveyed by pack 
 animals, made the hazardous trip through New 
 Mexico and Arizona to Los Angeles. Prospect- 
 ing for some time in California, Captain Burgess 
 then went on horseback to San Francisco, and 
 in May, 1869, returned to the east on the newly- 
 completed Union Pacific. 
 
 In 1870 the captain was married in South 
 Bend., Ind., and went to England, where four 
 or five months were pleasantly spent, but the 
 wife soon died and in 1871 he left Liverpool for 
 a cruise around the world, by way of the Cape 
 of Good Hope, thence to India and to San Fran- 
 cisco and back to Indiana. Locating in Terre 
 Haute, he operated a machine shop and foundry 
 until March, 1873, when he sold out and came 
 to Arizona. Here he was associated with Gen. 
 .\. \'. Kautz and Col. James Biddle, and they 
 partially developed some Silver Creek property, 
 now known as the Equator mine, near Verde. 
 In 1875 the captain was appointed storekeeper 
 at the A'erdc Indian reservation, and later aided 
 in the removal of the Tonto Apaches and the 
 .\pache Mohaves to the San Carlos reservation.
 
 PORTRAIT AXn BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 323 
 
 For eijjht years, and until 1882, he was in the 
 employ of the government as chief of scouts at 
 San Carlos and in the field. He was also 
 agency clerk at San Carlos until May, 1876, and 
 helped to move the Chiricahur Apaches from 
 Bowie to San Carlos. 
 
 Since 1882 Captain Burgess has been engaged 
 in general mining enterprises, and is a member 
 of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 
 For two years he was general manager of the 
 Table Mountain copper mines, for several years 
 held a similar position with the Saginaw mines, 
 situated about nine miles from Tucson, and was 
 superintendent of the liolivia Placer Mining 
 Company. At the present time he is the presi- 
 dent of the old Pueblo Copper Company, whose 
 mines are about twenty miles north of Red 
 Rock. He also is the superintendent of the 
 Golden Rule Copper mines, located some fifty 
 miles north of Tucson. 
 
 From his early manhood the captain has been 
 a stanch Republican. He held membership with 
 John A. Logan Post No. 3, G. A. R., of Terre 
 Haute, Ind., was an official of the Indiana com- 
 mandery of the Loyal Legion, and was identi- 
 fied with the Knights of Pythias. In religious 
 belief he is an Episcopalian and the kindly prin- 
 ciples which animate him have been of vmtold 
 assistance to the poor and unfortunate who have 
 appealed to him for aid. 
 
 WILLIAM F. BRANEN. 
 
 The popular passenger conductor on the Santa 
 Fe, Phoenix & Prescott Railroad, who now 
 makes his home in Phoenix, is a native of Iowa, 
 his birth having occurred in Polk, January 25, 
 1863. His parents, James and Minerva (Drellin- 
 ger) Branen, were born natives of Indiana, and 
 early settlers of Polk, Iowa. The maternal grand- 
 father, .\Ifred Drellinger. was born in the east 
 and belonged to an old eastern family. He was 
 one of the pioneers of the Hoosier state and a 
 farmer by occupation. From Polk the father of 
 our subject removed to Dcs Moines, Iowa, 
 where he first engaged in merchandising and 
 later in the hotel business. In 1869 he went to 
 Colorado and engaged in mining at Idaho 
 Springs for a time. Later he resided in George- 
 town and Silver I'lunie. and from the latter iilace 
 
 removed to Floyd Hill, Clear Creek cutrntv. 
 where he conducted a hotel seven ^r eight \ ears. 
 Subsequently he was engaged in the same busi- 
 ness at Golden and Gunnison, and at the latter 
 place his death occurred. He served as an offi- 
 cer in an Iowa regiment during the Civil war, 
 and was a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
 His widow now resides in Denver, Colo. In the 
 family of this worthy couple were four sons and 
 three daughters, namely: Joseph, who was also 
 a member of an Iowa regiment during the war 
 of the Rebellion, and is now a resident of Phoe- 
 nix, .\riz.; John, of El Paso, Tex.; Mrs. Jennie 
 Paul, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Mrs. Mattie 
 Stewart, of Idaho; Charles, an engineer on the 
 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, living in Du- 
 rango, Colo.; William L., our subject, and Mrs. 
 Minerva O'Brien, of Victor, Colo. 
 
 Reared in Colorado, William F. Branen was 
 educated in the public schools of Idaho Springs, 
 Georgetown and Golden. In 1875 he began his 
 railroad career as watchman of engines at Floyd 
 Hill, then the terminus of the Colorado Central, 
 and was soon m.ade fireman, his route being be- 
 tween Black Hawk and Denver. Subsequently 
 he served as brakeman, and in 1880 was pro- 
 moted to be conductor on the same line. Later, 
 however, he returned to firing, and in 1882 was 
 made engineer on the Denver & South Park 
 Railroad, between Denver and Como: In 1884 
 he was transferred to Butte City. Mont., and 
 continued with the Union Pacific Railroad until 
 1889, when he entered the service of the Colo- 
 rado Midland as engineer between Colorado 
 Springs and New Castle for four years. He then 
 returned to the South Park line as engineer, and 
 remained with that company until late in the 
 fall of 1893, when he came to Arizona as engi- 
 neer on the construction train of the Santa Fe, 
 Phoenix & Prescott Railroad. On the comple- 
 tion of the road he was made engineer of a pas- 
 senger train, and his was the first train of that 
 kind run into Phoenix. In 1897 he became pas- 
 senger conductor, and is regarded as one of the 
 most poi)ular and obliging men in the service 
 of the company. Those who know him best are 
 numbered among his warmest friends, and he 
 has the confidence and respect of all with whom 
 he comes in contact either in business or social 
 life. Ho is a member of the Winslow branch
 
 324 
 
 PORTKAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of the Order of Railway Conductors, and is iden- 
 tified with the RepubHcan party. Mr. Branen 
 was married in Phoenix, the lady of his choice 
 being Miss Helen Colby, a native of Wisconsin. 
 
 JAMES E. GUTHRIE. 
 
 Almost throughout the existence of the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad, or for the past quar- 
 ter of a century, James E. Guthrie, of Tucson, 
 has been on its pay-roll, and one of its most 
 faithful and trusted employes. In the Centen- 
 nial year he ran as fireman on an engine plying 
 Ijetween Los Angeles and San Pedro and in the 
 following year used to make the trip to Yuma. 
 He celebrated the Fourth-of-July, 1880, by tak- 
 ing his place for the first time at the lever, and 
 has nearly completed twenty years in that 
 capacity. To him fell the honor of piloting the 
 first train into El Paso, Tex., in 1881, S. S. Gil- 
 lespie being the conductor. His present run is 
 between Tucson and Yuma, Ariz., a passenger 
 train he has been the engineer of since May, 
 1884. During these seventeen years he has be- 
 come so well known along the line that the pass- 
 ing of "Whistling Jim," as he is popularly 
 termed, is looked for as an incident of the daily 
 life of many a resident on the Southern Pacific. 
 Many experiences have fallen to his share, and 
 on one occasion his engine was ditched and 
 the train held up by robbers. He belongs to 
 Division No. 28, Brotherhood of Locomotive 
 Engineers. He also holds membership in the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and uses 
 his ballot in favor of Democratic nominees and 
 principles. 
 
 Turning to the early history of this valued 
 railroad man, it is learned that he is a native of 
 Denton county, Tex., in which state his parents 
 were early settlers and prosperous farmers. His 
 paternal grandfather. Rev. Mr. Guthrie, also a 
 pioneer in the Lone Star state, and a minister 
 in the Presbyterian denomination, was a native 
 of Alabama and was of Scotch descent. R. B. 
 Guthrie, father of the subject of this article, was 
 born in Alabama, and his wife. Mary (Killen) 
 Guthrie, was a native of Mississippi and thence 
 accompanied her parents in their removal to 
 Texas. In 1868 the Guthrie family started on 
 the long overland journey to Los Angeles, Cal., 
 
 crossing Pecos river and passing through Tuc- 
 son and thence westward across the Colorado 
 river. The father devoted his attention to the 
 raising of oranges and to the cultivation of a 
 ranch, and now is living near Santa Ana, Cal. 
 
 The third in order of birth of nine children, 
 three of whom are deceased, James E. Guthrie 
 was born October i, 1855. Thus he was in his 
 fourteenth year when he made the memorable 
 western journey across the plains which have 
 since been spanned by the useful railroad. In 
 California he pursued his studies in the public 
 schools and was reared in the quiet pursuits of 
 the farm. Agriculture, however, was not to his 
 taste, and as soon as he had arrived at his ma- 
 joiity he embarked tipon a railroad career, in 
 which he has met with success, as noted above. 
 
 The attractive home of James E. Guthrie, at 
 Xo. 344 South Third avenue, Tucson, was built 
 under his supervision. His marriage to Mrs. 
 Sallie (Wood) Leslie, daughter of Judge John S. 
 Wood, a pioneer citizen of Tucson, took place 
 here. By her former union she has one daugh- 
 ter, Beppie Leslie, and a daughter, Dorothy, 
 blesses her marriage with Mr. Guthrie. Judge 
 Wood was a native of Virginia, and his wife, a 
 Miss Marshall, though born in Missouri, came 
 of the old Virginia family of Marshalls. In the 
 early days of California the Judge removed to 
 the state, and since that time has been identified 
 with California and Arizona. 
 
 FRANK DIETZ. 
 
 The ancestry of the Dietz family is German, 
 and they were first represented in America by 
 Jacob, the paternal grandfather of Frank Dietz, 
 who, upon emigrating from his native land, set- 
 tled in C)hio, in the vicinity of Cincinnati. Dur- 
 ing his long and active life he was engaged in 
 stock-raising, and was also a butcher by occupa- 
 tion. Frank Dietz was born in Hillsboro, Ohio, 
 Se]5tember g, 1838, and is a son of John Dietz, 
 who was born in Germany and came to America 
 with his father. He was a shoe merchant at 
 Hillsboro. and died in 1864 at the early age of 
 thirty-three years. His wife, formerly Emily 
 Henry, was born in Germany, and came to 
 America with her parents. She was the mother 
 of four children, and died in 1897. Of the chil-
 
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 3-2/ 
 
 (Iren, William died in Denver; George is living 
 in Gainesville, Tex., and is a conductor on the 
 Santa Fe, and Henry is a. resident of Irondale, 
 about twelve miles from Denver. Colo. 
 
 The education of Mr. Dietz was acquired in 
 the public schools, and at an early age he started 
 out in the world to earn his own living. His 
 first venture was as a salesman in a large whole- 
 sale grocery establishment, and in 1878 he re- 
 moved to Lx)S Angeles, Cal., where he entered 
 the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad 
 Company as fireman. In 1880 he removed to 
 Tucson; in 1883 he was promoted to the posi- 
 tion of engineer, which he has since held, his 
 line being then between El Paso and Tucson. 
 Since 1895 he has had the passenger run be- 
 tween Tucson and Lordsburg. One of the evi- 
 dences of the prosperity that has rewarded the 
 industry of Mr. Dietz is the well constructed 
 residence on the corner of Fourteenth street and 
 South Fourth avenue. 
 
 Since living in Tucson Mr. Dietz married, 
 October 6, 1884, Emma Pierce, a native of 
 Windmill Point, on Lake Champlain, in Ver- 
 mont, and a daughter of Joseph and Mary 
 Pierce. For thirty years Mr. Pierce was master 
 mechanic of the Vermont Central Railroad at 
 White River Junction. In 1884 he came to Tuc- 
 son, Ariz., where he is living at the present time 
 at the age of eighty-two years. His wife, who, 
 before her marriage was Mary B. Cummings, 
 was born in Chelmsford, Mass., and died in Tuc- 
 son. She was the mother of six children, of 
 whom Mrs. Dietz is second youngest. Lizzie, 
 a sister, is now Mrs. E. J. Bowers, of Los An- 
 geles, Cal.; Washington died in New York; 
 Charles died in Vermont in 1890; Frank is in 
 Bowie, Ariz., and is engaged in the cattle busi- 
 ness; Walter is a stationary engineer at Bowie, 
 Ariz., and is in the employ of the Southern Pa- 
 cific road. Mrs. Dietz was educated in Vermont, 
 and came in 1883 with her parents to Tucson. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Dietz have been born five chil- 
 dren. Those living are: Hazel Irene, Anna M., 
 Lizzie M. and Charles E. George, the third 
 child, died at the age of three years. 
 
 Mr. Dietz is a member of the Brotherhood of 
 Locomotive Engineers, Division No. 28, and has 
 served three terms as chief of the division. He 
 is now insurance secretary. Mrs. Dietz is a 
 
 cliarter member of the Grand International .^u.x- 
 iliary of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 
 and is insurance secretary of the same. In re- 
 ligious connections she is identified with the 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 BERNABE C. BRICHTA. 
 
 W^ithin a few years the subject of this article 
 has risen in the business world to a place of in- 
 fluence and wealth. Possessing -just the qual- 
 ities which insure success, he has spared no ef- 
 fort and by indefatigable labor and attention to 
 the wishes of the trade has won the esteem and 
 patronage of the public. Patriotism is one of his 
 foremost qualities, and Arizona is indebted to 
 him for the eight years of his life which he gave 
 to the National Guard service. Enlisting in June, 
 1886, in the troops which were organized into 
 the First Regiment of Arizona National Guard, 
 he served as first lieutenant of Company F, be- 
 ing commissioned by Governor Wolfley and 
 later by Governor L. C. Hughes. Remaining 
 with the regiment until 1892, he then resigned 
 and retired to the private walks of life. 
 
 Bernabe C. Brichta, son of the well-known 
 pioneer, Augustus Brichta (See his sketch else- 
 where in this volume) was born June 11, i860, 
 in Sonora, Mexico. His boyhood was passed 
 chiefly in Tucson, where he attended the gram- 
 mar and high schools. .\t the age of fifteen he 
 commenced serving an apprenticeship to the 
 printer's trade, and for seven years was em- 
 ployed in the office of the "Star" of Tucson. 
 Thus he assisted in the task of publishing the 
 first daily paper printed in this city. Later he 
 was with the "Citizen" and with the ''Arizona 
 Journal" for some five years, and then spent a 
 twelvemonth in the service of the Southern Pa- 
 cific railroad. The journalistic life, however, 
 held more attractions for him and he returned 
 to it in 1887, for a few months being connected 
 with the Tombstone "Prospector." When in 
 the office of the Tucson "Journal" one of his 
 associates and great friends was the well-known 
 "Buckie" O'Neill, whose sketch is printed upon 
 another page of this volume. That undaunted 
 and popular young officer of the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican war who found his untimely death in Cuba 
 with the famous "Rough Riders," was a com-
 
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 positor on the "Journal" in 1883, and was re- 
 nowned for his speed as a typesetter, it being 
 said of him that he had no equal, not only in 
 Arizona, but on the entire Pacific coast. He 
 was treasurer of the Tucson Typographical 
 Union at that time, Mr. Brichta being a member 
 of the same. 
 
 In 1888 our subject embarked in business in 
 a limited way — how limited may be judged from 
 the fact that his capital amounted to only $125. 
 Busing a small stock of goods, he gradually 
 built up a trade and year by year has enlarged 
 his quarters and supply of goods. He now con- 
 ducts a general mercantile establishment, sit- 
 uated at the corner of Toole and Sixth avenue, 
 which substantial building he erected in 1894. 
 He also has built a warehouse, stable and resi- 
 dence, and is prospering in all of his under- 
 takings. Like most Tucson people, he has mine 
 investments, three different claims being in the 
 Cooper mining district. Fraternally he belongs 
 to the Lodge and Hall association of the An- 
 cient Order of L'nited Workmen. In the Demo- 
 cratic party he is an active worker, and is a 
 member of the county central committee. 
 
 For a companion along the journey of life 
 Mr. Brichta chose Miss Maria Antonia Cruz, 
 who is a native of Santa Cruz, Mexico, but was 
 reared and educated in Tucson. They are the 
 parents of six children, named in order of birth 
 as follows: Bernabe C, Jr.; Louis, Albert, Jo- 
 sephine, Amelia and Maria Antonia. 
 
 JOHN S. DETWEILER. 
 
 Prescott numbers among its reliable and en- 
 terprising citizens an unusual number of railroad 
 men, and none is more successful and popular 
 than Mr. Detweiler. He was born in Catawissa, 
 Franklin county. Mo., September 26, 1866, and 
 is a son of Dr. E. S. Detweiler, a practicing 
 physician of Catawissa, Mo., who was born near 
 Harrisburg, in Dauphin county. Pa. During 
 the Civil war Dr. Detweiler was surgeon of the 
 Seventeenth Missouri Federal Volunteers. His 
 wife, Addie M. (Fulkerson) Detweiler, was born 
 in Cape Girardeau, Mo., and comes of an old and 
 distinguished southern family. She is now re- 
 siding in Kansas City, Mo., and is the mother of 
 ten children, of whom six daughters and two 
 
 sons are now living. One of the sons, B. S., is 
 with the Santa Fe, Phoenix & Prescott Rail- 
 road, with headquarters at Prescott. 
 
 Until seventeen years of age John S. Det- 
 weiler lived at home and studied in the public 
 schools. An outlet presented itself in 1883, 
 when he joined a surveying corps under E. J. 
 Beard, who had in charge the surveying for 
 the Eureka Canal Company in Kansas. In this 
 capacity he continued until 1885, when he re- 
 turned to Kansas City and as machinist entered 
 the employ of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & 
 Memphis Railroad, and in 1887 accepted a simi- 
 lar position with the Chicago, Santa Fe & Cali- 
 fornia Railroad at Streator, 111. His next efTort 
 was with the Washington Park Company at 
 Kansas City, whose steamboat he ran on Wash- 
 ington Park lake for a couple of seasons, and he 
 was then with the Terminal Railroad Associa- 
 tion at St. Louis as machinist in their shops for 
 a short time. 
 
 After serving as engineer for the New Or- 
 leans & North Western Railroad at Natchez, 
 Miss., for eighteen months he resigned to be- 
 come an engineer on the Santa Fe, Phoenix & 
 Prescott Railroad, with headquarters at t'res- 
 cott. In April of 1893 he began to work on the 
 construction of the road between Prescott and 
 Wickenburg. and has since continuously been 
 with this enterprising railroad corporation. For 
 several years he has run a passenger train, and 
 has been proverbially fortunate in all ways per- 
 taining to his work. As proof of his success, he 
 has erected a pleasant and comfortable home in 
 the city, which is presided over by Mrs. Detwei- 
 ler, formerly Anna Ebel, of Oconomowoc, Wis. 
 Mrs. Detweiler is the mother of one child, Hal- 
 lie Mae. Mr. Detweiler is a Republican in poli- 
 tics, is a member of the Brotherhood of Loco- 
 motive Engineers, and fraternally is associated 
 with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 
 JOHN C. CLANCY. 
 
 In the prime of life and general usefulness, J. 
 C. Clancy is one of the highly respected em- 
 ployes of the Southern Pacific Railroad, his ser- 
 vice with this corporation dating from 1884. 
 He is a native of New York City, his birth hav-
 
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 ing occurred in March, 186 1, just before Fort 
 Sumter was fired upon and Civil war com- 
 menced. His father, Thomas Clancy, was en- 
 gaged in farming on Long Island, not far from 
 the great metropolis, and in 1869 he decided to 
 take up his abode in a sunnier clime, on the 
 other side of the continent. Accordingly, ac- 
 companied by his family, he went by boat to 
 Panama, and thence to Los Angeles, Cal. There 
 he spent the remainder of his life, and his widow, 
 Mrs. Mary (Kervick) Clancy, now resides in 
 Santa Cruz, Cal. Of their nine children, only 
 two survive, namely: J. C. and Thomas Clancy, 
 the latter now engaged in the lumber business at 
 Santa Cruz, Cal. 
 
 John C. Clancy received his education chiefly 
 in the schools of Los Angeles, and pursued his 
 higher studies in St. Vincent's College. Subse- 
 quently he embarked in the business world by 
 obtaining a clerkship in a mercantile establish- 
 ment of Los Angeles, and was thus employed 
 until 1 08 1. Then, coming to Arizona, he clerked 
 at Globe for six months, and in 1882 came to 
 Tucson, where he was a clerk at the Cosmo- 
 politan Hotel for two years or more. Then, as 
 above stated, he entered the service of the South- 
 ern Pacific, and, after acting in the capacity of 
 fireman for some five years received a desen'ed 
 promotion. His run had been between Tuc- 
 son and El Paso, and now, as engineer, he pilots 
 the Sunset Limited, running from Tucson to 
 Lordsburg, N. M. Good fortune has attended 
 him thus far, and he has become popular all 
 along the line. 
 
 The pleasant home of Mr. Qancy, at No. 243 
 Eleventh street, is owned by him, and in addi- 
 tion to this, he owns another residence on 
 Eleventh street. The lady who presides over 
 the hospitalities of his home bore the maiden 
 name of Florence Havvkins. She was born in 
 Ohio and at the time of her marriage to Mr. 
 Clancy was a resident of Pomona, Cal. They 
 are the parents of a daughter, Katherine. 
 
 For a period of four years Mr. Clancy was the 
 secretary of Division No. 28, Brotherhood of 
 Locomotive Engineers. One of the foremost 
 workers in the founding of the Southern Pacific 
 Library Association, he served as a member of 
 its first board of directors. In his political affil- 
 iations he is a Democrat. 
 
 DAVID A. RICHARDSON. 
 
 This attorney-at-law of Nogales was born at 
 Crockett, Houston county, Tex., September 21. 
 1865, and is a son of Joel D. and Cora C. (Haz- 
 lett) Richardson. His paternal grandfather, 
 Lloyd Richardson, a native of England, came to 
 America in boyhood in company with his parents 
 and settled in the vicinity of Lynchburg, Va., 
 where he grew to manhood upon a plantation. 
 After the close of the Revolutionary war he 
 moved to White Sulphur Springs, about nine 
 miles from Jackson, Tenn., and settled on a 
 plantation, where, with the aid of his large num- 
 ber of slaves, he conducted extensive planting 
 operations. The remainder of his life was passed 
 on that homestead. 
 
 The youngest son in a large family of chil- 
 dren, Joel D. Richardson was born near Jack- 
 son, Tenn., on the plantation, and there his 
 youth was pas.^ed, his education being received 
 principally in the Jackson schools. When young 
 he learned the trade of a wagon manufacturer. 
 In company with three older brothers, in 1835, 
 he went to the then republic of Texas, and set- 
 tled with some slaves he had brought with him 
 on a large plantation near Crockett, Houston 
 county. During the war with Mexico he served 
 under General Taylor. His marriage took place 
 at Crockett in i860 and united him with Cora 
 C, daughter of Ezekiel Hazlett, who was the 
 largest slaveholder and planter in Houston 
 county. The year following, at the outbreak 
 of the Civil war, he enlisted as a private under 
 General Beauregard, and served until the expira- 
 tion of the struggle, his wife accompanying him 
 in all of his marches and remaining constantly 
 at the front. On his return to Crockett he 
 engaged in the mercantile business. His death 
 occurred in his home town on the 4th of July. 
 1872. He and his lirothers were among the 
 wealthiest land and slave owners in Houston 
 county and were prominent Democrats, adher- 
 ing to the political belief that has been the 
 family watchword for generations. 
 
 The three sons of Joel D. Richardson were 
 David A.; James W., a planter and stock-raiser 
 in Houston county, and Joel D., Jr.. who is in 
 partnership with his brother James. The sub- 
 ject of this article is largely a self-made man,
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 as he attended school only eight months, but by 
 indefatigable effort and study he has become a 
 broadly-informed man. In 1885 he began the 
 study of law under Azia A. Willie, then chief 
 justice of the supreme court of Texas. He was 
 admitted to the bar in Texas at Galveston, in 
 June. 1889. after which he practiced at Galves- 
 ton and El Paso until coming to Arizona. Dur- 
 ing his professional career in the Lone Star state 
 he defended more criminals than any other law- 
 yer in Texas. On account of his health, he 
 removed to El Paso in February, 1897, ^"d in 
 August. 190D, he became a resident of Nogales. 
 In criminal practice he is especially strong. 
 Well grounded in the science of the law, he pos- 
 sesses the peculiar ability to apply the law and 
 evidence to the cause at trial. Forceful in 
 delivery, possessing oratorical ability, and 
 fluency of speech, his standing in the profession 
 is exceptionally high. He participated in many 
 of the important cases that have shed luster on 
 the bar of Texas. Admitted to practice in 
 Mexico, he defended the famous Rich case at 
 Juarez, it being the first case under the new 
 treaty and the first instance in which a woman 
 was given up by extradition from one country 
 to another. At this writing Mr. Richardson is 
 in partnership with F. J. Dufify, prosecuting 
 attorney of Santa Cruz county. His thorough 
 knowledge of the Spanish language aids him 
 materially in his practice, and he is also con- 
 versant with French. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Richardson is connected with 
 the Knights of Pythias and the Red Men. In 
 politics he has always been a Democrat. In 
 December, 1893, he married Angele C. Lisbony, 
 daughter of Charles P. and Aline R. (Bertram) 
 Lisbony, of New Orleans, La., her father a 
 native of France, and her mother a daughter 
 of Col. Andrew Bertram, of the English army. 
 
 LOUIS C. MASTEN. 
 
 The duties of the responsible position as gen- 
 eral auditor of the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt 
 River Valley Railroad are being discharged by 
 Louis C. Masten in a manner which reflects 
 great credit upon him. Doubtless he inherited 
 much of his ability to cope with the problems of 
 the financier from his father, N. K. Masten, a 
 
 "forty-niner" who was associated with Mark 
 Hopkins and Stillman, Thayer, Mackey and 
 Flood, and scores of the pioneers and founders 
 of San Francisco and California. The complete 
 history of the life of N. K. Masten, replete with 
 incident and adventure and great accomplish- 
 ments, could not be given within the limits of 
 this work, but an outline of his career doubt- 
 less will prove of interest to those who are more 
 or less acquainted with him by fame, and to the 
 numerous friends and well-wishers of the imme- 
 diate subject of this sketch. 
 
 Of an old New York State family, N. K. Mas- 
 ten was born in the city of Troy, N. Y., May 5, 
 1821. His financial ability early manifested 
 itself, and for some years prior to his removal 
 to the west he was engaged in the banking 
 business in New York City. Among the first to 
 journey to California after the discovery of gold 
 there, he rounded Cape Horn, and for about 
 six months was upon the high seas. Reaching 
 San Francisco, he proceeded to the mines, where 
 his success was varying, and after a period he 
 returned to the city and engaged in business as 
 a merchant and broker. For a number of years 
 he was a member of the well-known firm of 
 Mattoon, Masten & Co., wholesale dealers in 
 merchandise. His business relations with 
 Messrs. Thayer, Mackey, Flood and others 
 prominent in local history are matters of record. 
 Later he devoted himself more exclusively to 
 banking and brokerage; was the auditor of the 
 Hibernia Bank, and afterwards cashier of the 
 First National Gold Bank, and then held a like 
 position in the Nevada Bank of San Francisco. 
 Since 1884 he has been occupied in railroading, 
 at first as financial agent for the Southern Pa- 
 cific Company ; now is the president of the Mari- 
 copa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley Railroad 
 Company, and vice-president of the Lake Tahoe 
 Railway & Transportation Company, both of 
 which railroads he was active in building. His 
 residence has been in San Francisco for half a 
 century, and in innumerable ways he has con- 
 tributed materially to the prosperity of that city 
 and to the Pacific slope, as well as to the entire 
 west, directly or indirectly. His wife, who de- 
 parted this life in San Francisco in 1891, bore 
 the maiden name of Emelia A. Von Falkenberg. 
 Of German extraction, she was born in Callao,
 
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 335 
 
 Peru, South America, and by her marriage be- 
 came the mother of twelve children, only one of 
 whom is deceased. 
 
 Louis C. Masten was born in San Francisco in 
 1872, and completed his literary education in 
 the high school of Oakland. His introduction 
 into the world of commerce was effected when 
 he became an employe of the San Francisco 
 Savings Union, where he soon was promoted 
 from the humble position of messenger to that 
 of assistant teller. Naturally studious, he de- 
 voted considerable time to astronomy, and when 
 the expedition from Lick Observatory visited 
 Japan in 1896 in order to witness the solar 
 eclipse of August 9, he accompanied them and 
 spent six months very pleasantly and profitably 
 in that interesting land. Upon his return home 
 he came to Arizona, and for more than a year 
 was engaged in mining in the Fortuna mines. 
 At length deciding that no surer road to suc- 
 cess than railroading can be found, he entered 
 the auditing department of the Maricopa & 
 Phoenix & Salt River Valley Railroad, and 
 having mastered the details of that department, 
 was appointed auditor of the road in February, 
 1900, where he is amply justifying the faith re- 
 posed in him by his superior officials. A pop- 
 ular member of the Board of Trade, of the Mar- 
 icopa Club, and of the Kinsley Lodge, A. O. U. 
 W., of which he is the master workman, he 
 seeks to promote the business and social activ- 
 ities of this community. 
 
 JOHN P. ORME. 
 
 Few of the courageous and far-sighted 
 pioneers of Maricopa county have wielded a 
 wider influence along the lines of progress in 
 their adopted territory than has Mr. Orme. 
 Gifted with the substantial traits of mind and 
 character which are conducive to excellent and 
 broaded-minded citizenship, he has closely fol- 
 lowed the fortunes of this land, and achieved 
 a success as complete as it is representative. 
 From a comparatively desert condition in 1877, 
 Mr. Orme has developed his ranch of eight 
 hundred acres, entered from the government, 
 into a profitable possession, and he is to-day 
 one of the most enterprising cattle-raisers of his 
 county. 
 
 A native of Montgomery county, Md., Mr. 
 Orme was born November 28, 1852, and is a 
 son of Charles and Del^orah (Pleasants) Orme, 
 the latter a granddaughter of former Governor 
 Pleasants of Virginia. The boyhood of Mr. 
 Orme was clouded by the death of his father, 
 which occurred in 1863. He received an excel- 
 lent home training and in 1866 went to Colum- 
 bia, Mo., where he became a student in the 
 Missouri State University. There he prepared 
 for the future by taking a full course in civil 
 engineering, in the application of which he was 
 engaged for several years. After a time he 
 removed to southeastern Texas, and while there 
 lost his health, which necessitated a return to 
 Maryland, where he resided in Baltimore for 
 several months. Returning to Texas, after a 
 short time in the northern part of that state, he 
 went to Colorado, and from there to Los 
 Angeles, Cal., hoping that the change of climate 
 might benefit his health. In March of 1877 he 
 came to Arizona and has since made this terri- 
 tory his home. 
 
 Among the many undertakings of Mr. Orme 
 worthy of mention is the part taken by him as 
 one of the three constructors of the Maricopa 
 canal, which has proved of incalculable benefit, 
 and which is eighteen miles long. In connec- 
 tion with this enterprise he has acted as super- 
 intendent and director, and has rendered able 
 and conspicuous service. With the Democratic 
 party he has for many years been actively con- 
 nected, but although often solicited to accept 
 positions of trust within the gift of the people, 
 he has invariably declined such honors. Frater- 
 nallv he is associated with the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen in Phoenix, and the Indepen- 
 dent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 In 1879 occurred the marriage of Mr. Orme 
 and Ella Thompkins, a native of Texas. Her 
 father, John, was a son of William Thompkins, 
 a soldier in the Revolutionary war ; the former 
 was a native of the state of New York and when 
 a young man moved to Texas. Four children 
 were born to the union' of Mr. and Mrs. Orme, 
 namelv : Clara E., who was educated in the 
 schools of her native county and the Girls' Col- 
 legiate School of Los Angeles, Cal.: Ora D., a 
 student in the Phoenix high school; Winnifred 
 Dorris, who is attending the College of the
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Immaculate Heart in Los Angeles; and Charles 
 H. Mrs. Onne died at the family home Decem- 
 ber 28, 1898. In religion she was an Episco- 
 palian, and Mr. Orme is also connected with 
 that church. He is greatly interested in the 
 cause of education and has been a member of 
 the board of trustees of school district No. 16, 
 in Maricopa county. 
 
 GEORGE GANN. 
 
 George Gann, the well-known freight agent of 
 the Phoenix Short Line at Phoenix, was born on 
 the 29th of August, 1866, in Stockton, Cal.. and 
 is a son of Thomas and Catherine (Tell) Gann, 
 the former a native of Georgia, the latter of 
 Nashville, 111. The paternal grandfather, who 
 was a planter, died in Georgia. In 185 1 the 
 father went to California, where he was first en- 
 gaged in mining and later in the stock business, 
 owning and operating a ranch near Stockton, 
 where his death occurred. The mother is now a 
 resident of Phoenix, Ariz. In the family were 
 two children: George, of this review, and Mrs. 
 Dora Ruiz, of Fresno, Cal. 
 
 George Gann passed his boyhood and youth 
 at Stockton, Cal. He attended the public and 
 high schools of that city, and graduated from 
 the Stockton Business College. In early life 
 he assisted his father on the ranch, and on leav- 
 ing home entered the employ of General Bost of 
 Sacramento, who had previously served as sur- 
 veyor-general of California. As a civil engineer 
 he remained with him for a period of three 
 years, surveying the west side canal and county 
 lines, and became a levelman. In 1889 he be- 
 gan his railroad career, as clerk in the freight 
 ofifice of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Mer- 
 ced, Cal., and later worked up and down the 
 line as relief agent until coming to Maricopa, 
 Ariz., in 1892, serving as chief clerk in the 
 freight department of the Maricopa & Phoenix 
 Railroad for four years. In 1896, on the com- 
 pletion of the branch to Mesa, he opened the 
 first freight ofifice at that place, and conducted 
 the same in a box car for three months. He 
 remained at Mesa until 1898, when he was trans- 
 ferred to Phoenix as freight agent, and is still 
 filling that position. He has always been found 
 true and faithful to every trust reposed in him. 
 
 and well merits the high regard in which he is 
 uniformly held. 
 
 At Fresno, Cal., Mr. Gann was united in 
 marriage with Mrs. Lizzie (McCubbin) Holder, 
 a native of Marysville, that state, of which place 
 her father was a pioneer. Fraternally Mr. Gann 
 is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the 
 Woodmen of the World. In national politics 
 he supports the Democratic party, but at local 
 elections where no issue is involved he votes for 
 the men whom he believes best qualified to fill 
 the offices, regardless of party lines. He takes 
 a commendable interest in public affairs, and is 
 one of the most progressive citizens of the com- 
 munity in which he lives. 
 
 RODERICK McDOUGALL. 
 
 Roderick McDougall, the master mechanic 
 of the Detroit Copper Company at Morenci, was 
 born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1871. During 
 his boyhood days he studied diligently at the 
 public schools, and in time graduated from the 
 high school. He wisely decided upon a future 
 means of occupation for which there is an ever 
 present demand, and which brings in fair re- 
 turns for the labor expended. Like his brother, 
 John, also connected with this mine, he early 
 displayed mechanical ingenuity, and upon the 
 principle that congenial work means success, 
 he began and completed an apprenticeship as a 
 machinist. 
 
 When nineteen years of age Mr. McDougall 
 located in New York City, and for six years 
 worked in several of the large shops of the 
 city, subsequently becoming foreman for R. 
 Hoe & Comjjany, in whose service he remained 
 for three years. This varied experience was 
 of incalculable benefit to the master mechanic, 
 and fitted him for any responsibility that might 
 come his way. In the west his first position 
 was with the company of which he is still a 
 valued employe, and with whom he started as 
 machinist in March, 1899. After six months 
 he was promoted to the position of foreman, 
 and at the end of a year was given the position 
 of master mechanic, which he still holds. Un- 
 der him are about seventy men, and the smelter 
 runs about eight hundred tons per month. The 
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 337 
 
 gear of the mines are under his personal super- 
 vision, a truly great responsibility, when it is 
 known that Mr. McDougall is but twenty-nine 
 years of age. That he has made a splendid use 
 of the opportunities that have come his way is 
 a matter of pride to all who are interested in 
 his masterful handling of his life chances. 
 
 October 20, 1899, Mr. McDougall was mar- 
 ried to Jennie Eraser, a daughter of J. Fraser, 
 of Nova'Scotia. One child, Walter, has blessed 
 this union. Fraternally Mr. McDougall is a 
 member of the Odd Fellows. With his wife he 
 belongs to the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 HENRY P. ANEWALT. 
 
 Henry P. Anewalt, general freight and pas- 
 senger agent of the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoe- 
 nix Railroad at Prescott, is a native of Allen- 
 town, Pa., and was bom January 3. 1868. His 
 paternal grandfather, Peter Anewalt, owned 
 and carried on a farm near Allentown. He was 
 a sterling Lutheran, and possessed the genuine 
 esteem of his neighbors and acquaintances. The 
 parents of our subject were J. C. and Henrietta 
 (Getz) Anewalt, natives of Northampton county, 
 Pa. The latter's father, Henn,- Anewalt, was 
 born in Germany and came to the United States 
 when a young man. He was a farmer and also 
 owned and operated mines in Northampton 
 county. Born in 1801, he lived to the advanced 
 age of eighty-four years, dying in 1885. J. C. 
 Anewalt was a wholesale and retail hatter and 
 furrier in Allentown for many years, and was 
 prominent in all local affairs, holding several 
 public offices of trust and honor. Fraternally 
 he was a Mason and was buried with the beau-' 
 tiful rites of the order. His wife also has passed 
 to her reward, and two of their five children are 
 deceased. The eldest son, Lewis Anewalt, suc- 
 ceeded to his father's business and is still man- 
 aging the same. 
 
 Henry P. Anewalt was given the advantages 
 of a liberal education, and pursued his studies in 
 the common and high school of Allentown. 
 After his graduation from the high school he 
 entered the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad at 
 Kansas City, and for the ensuing nine years 
 was a clerk in the local freight office and in 
 other departments. In 1895 he resigned the 
 
 position which he had held for some time, 
 that of chief clerk in the office of the commercial 
 agent, for he had been tendered a better place, 
 namely, that of chief clerk in the general freight 
 and passenger department at Prescott, with the 
 Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railroad. He 
 continued to discharge the duties there devolv- 
 ing upon him until June i, 1899, when he was 
 appointed general freight and passenger agent 
 for the same road to succeed George M. Sargent 
 The road is two hundred and twenty-four miles 
 long, extending from Ash Fork to Phoenix, 
 and though comparatively young, has built up 
 a large and constantly increasing traffic, as it 
 passes through the heart of the rich mining re- 
 gions of central Arizona, and connects with the 
 two great railroads which have been the making 
 of this territory, giving it an outlet into the other 
 states of the Union. Mr. Anewalt is a young 
 man of ability and marj<ed executive talent. He 
 is a valued employe of his company, and is pop- 
 ular with the public, whose interests he strives 
 to protect and advance. 
 
 In Kansas City the marriage of Mr. Anewalt 
 and Miss Evelyn Barnett was celebrated in 
 1896. She is one of the native-born daughters 
 of that city, and her father, John Barnett, was 
 one of the pioneer settlers of the place and one 
 prominent in its upbuilding. Our subject and 
 wife have one child, named Henry P., Jr. Mrs. 
 Anewalt is a member of the Episcopal Church. 
 In the fraternities he is connected with the 
 Woodmen of the World and with the Masonic 
 order, belonging to Gate City Lodge No. 522, 
 F. & A. M., of Kansas City, of which he is past 
 master. Besides, he was raised to the Royal 
 Arch degree in Oriental Chapter, of the same 
 city. In his political creed he is a Republican. 
 
 J. F. GEIMER. 
 
 For some time Mr. Geimer was master me- 
 chanic of the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River 
 Valley Railroad at Phoenix, and he is now en- 
 gineer for the Crystal Ice Company of Pres- 
 cott. Born at Sedalia, Mo., March 11, 1867. he 
 is a son of Joseph and Caroline (Keifer) Geimer. 
 The father was a native of Germany and on his 
 immigration to America first located in New 
 York City, where he engaged in mercantile pur-
 
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 suits for a time. He subsequently made liis 
 home in Sedalia, Mo., where he died March 22, 
 1867, at the age of fifty-eiglit years, our subject 
 being only eleven days old at the time of his 
 death. The mother is a native of Philadelphia, 
 Pa., and a daughter of Charles Keifer, who re- 
 moved from that city to Sedalia. Mo., where he 
 conducted a hotel. He died at that place. Mrs. 
 Geimer is now a resident of Pilot Knob, Mo. 
 
 J. F. Geimer is the only child of the family, 
 and after his father's death was taken by his 
 mother to St. Louis, where he attended the pub- 
 lic and high schools. On his return to Sedalia, 
 in 1884, he entered the Missouri Pacific Railroad 
 shops, where he served a three years' apprentice- 
 ship to the machinist's trade. In 1887 he went 
 to Coolidge,Kans.,as machinist and round house 
 foreman for the La Junta division of the Santa 
 Fe Railroad, and the following year was trans- 
 ferred to Las Vegas, N. M., where he served in 
 the same capacity for eighteen months. Subse- 
 quently he was employed by the Southern Pa- 
 cific Railroad at El Paso, Tex., until 1894, when 
 he was made general foreman of the Santa Fe, 
 Prescott & Phoeni.x Railroad at Prescott, Ariz., 
 which position he resigned in 1898, and was 
 then appointed master mechanic of the short 
 line of the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River 
 Valley Railroad at Phoenix. He was also gen- 
 eral superintendent of rolling stock. February 
 18, 1901, he resigned to become engineer for the 
 Crystal Ice Company of Prescott. 
 
 In Las Vegas, N. M., Mr. Geimer married 
 Miss Cora Robinson, who was born in Chari- 
 ton, Iowa, in 1883, and removed with her parents 
 to Las Vegas. They have one child, Robert E. 
 In his fraternal relations Mr. Geimer is con- 
 nected with the Knights of Pythias, and in na- 
 tional politics is a Republican, but at local elec- 
 tions votes independent of party lines, endeavor- 
 ing to support the men best qualified for the 
 office. He is an expert machinist and engineer, 
 and as a man is well liked by all who know him. 
 
 LEWIS W. COLLINS. 
 
 This well-known resident of Phoenix and 
 proprietor of the stage line between this city 
 and Mesa, is a native of the far-off state of 
 Maine, his birth having occurred in Union, 
 
 Knox county, on the i8th of May, 1865. His 
 parents, George U. and Mary E. (Fenderson) 
 Collins, were also natives of the Pine Tree 
 state, while the former was of Scotch-Irish 
 and the latter of Scotch descent. Our subject's 
 paternal great-grandfather was a soldier of the 
 Revolutionary war. The grandfather, Thomas 
 Collins, was a farmer by occupation and a life- 
 long resident of Knox county. Me. 
 
 In early life the father followed farming and 
 ship carpentering in that state. In 1861 he 
 went to California by way of the Nicaragua 
 route, and while there built the first mill in 
 Santa Cruz county. Returning to Maine in 
 1865, he engaged in farming there until 1869, 
 when he again went to Santa Cruz county, Cal., 
 this time by way of the Union Pacific and Cen- 
 tral Pacific Railroads. He carried on the lum- 
 ber business in that county until coming to the 
 Salt River valley, Ariz., in 1879, when he lo- 
 cated on a ranch six miles west of Phoenix and 
 has since devoted his energies to agricultural 
 pursuits, in which he has met with most ex- 
 cellent success. He has one of the largest and 
 finest ranches in the territory, on which he has 
 sunk a large well, 100x45 feet, containing 
 twenty-five feet of water. From this he obtains 
 an abundant supply of water for his cattle, and 
 also for irrigation purposes, having two pumps 
 operated by an engine in constant use. His 
 water system cost him about $12,000. He is a 
 Knight Templar Mason and a member of the 
 Mystic Shrine, and is a man highly respected 
 and esteemed by all who know him. His wife 
 died in this territory. She was a daughter ot 
 Josiah Fenderson, a farmer of Maine. Her 
 paternal grandfather was a native of Scotland. 
 Our subject has two brothers, William E. and 
 Rolla A., both engaged in farming near Phoe- 
 nix. 
 
 When four years old Lewis W. Collins was 
 taken by his parents to California, and in the 
 public schools of that state and this territory he 
 acquired his education, having removed with 
 the family to Arizona in 1879. He remained 
 under the parental roof until nineteen years of 
 age, and then started out in life for himself. 
 He was first engaged in buying and baling hay, 
 and carried on that business quite successfully 
 for seven years. He became interested in the
 
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 stage business by taking the place of a friend 
 who was ill, and continued with him eight 
 months. In December, 1893, he bought out 
 the line, and has since conducted this enterprise 
 with marked success. lie makes the round trip 
 Iietween Phoenix and Mesa, taking in Tenipc, 
 in one day, the distance being thirty-five miles, 
 and has built up a good business. Besides his 
 own pleasant residence on Indiana street, he 
 owns other property in Phoenix. 
 
 In that city he was united in marriage with 
 Miss Lillian J. I^ry, a native of Chicago, 111., 
 and to them have been born three children: 
 Flossie and Frank, both of whom died at the age 
 of two years and nine months, and Herbert, still 
 living. In religious belief Mr. Collins is a Pres- 
 byterian, and in politics is a stanch Republican. 
 He served as United States deputy marshal for 
 the Second Arizona District under President 
 Harrison. Socially he is quite popular, and 
 holds membership in the Iron Springs Outing 
 Club, the Foresters and the Woodmen of the 
 World. He is a man who stands high in the 
 community where he is so well known, and 
 those who know him best are numbered among 
 his warmest friends. 
 
 WILLIAM W. BROOKNER. 
 
 The well-conducted mercantile establishment at 
 Globe over which Mr. Brookner presides, and 
 which, under his capable and well-directed energy, 
 has developed into one of the best of its kind in 
 the county, vvas organized in the fall of iSyo, and 
 has since experienced a continually increasing 
 prosperity. The firm of W. W. Brookner & Co., 
 of which S. C. Sayler is the "Company," occupy 
 a store 30x70 feet in dimensions. Their stock 
 is most complete as to detail and selection, and 
 is able at all times to meet the varied demands of 
 the enterprising residents of this thrifty little 
 mining center. Mr. Brookner's interests are not 
 confined to the store in his adopted town, but 
 extend to Payson, where he is a member of the 
 mercantile firm of J, W. Boardman & Co. Pre- 
 vious to incorporating the Globe store he had 
 participated in the organization, in 1890, of the 
 Old Dominion Commercial Company, of which 
 he was the manager about half of the time until 
 1898. 
 
 Until his twentieth year Mr. Brookner lived in 
 his native town of Dixon, 111., where he was born 
 in i860. He received an excellent home train- 
 ing, and was educated in the public schools, sub- 
 sccjuently receiving a good connnercial educa- 
 tion. He early displayed habits of thrift and in- 
 dustry, and his discerning mind saw in the far 
 west opportunities which did not exist in Illinois. 
 Prompted by the rumors of prosperity which 
 emanated from the silver district of Globe he 
 came here in 1881, and for several years worked 
 at whatever fortune threw in his way. Consider- 
 ing that he was at first possessed of nothing save 
 a natural determination to succeed, Mr. lirook- 
 ner is entitled to the credit and appreciation 
 which his townsmen readily accord him. A 
 staunch Democrat, he served as treasurer of Gila 
 county one term of two years. Fraternally he 
 is identified with the Benevolent Protective Or- 
 der of Elks. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Brookner and Sarah 
 Glenn, daughter of David Glenn. Sr., occurred 
 in (ilobe in 1884. Mrs. Brookner was born in 
 Canada, and is the mother of two children, Laura 
 and Bessie. 
 
 MRS. MARY (BERNARD) AGUIRRE. 
 
 The life record of this highly honored pioneer 
 of Tucson and the great southwest reads like a, 
 romance, and certainly few women have expe- 
 rienced such marked vicissitudes. Coming of 
 distinguished and honorable ancestry, she is her- 
 self a remarkable woman, possessing a liberal 
 education, and for the past cjuarter of a century 
 has occupied a leading place in the educational 
 circles of Tucson. In 1895 she took the chair 
 of Spanish language and English history in 
 the University of Arizona, a position which she 
 yet occupies and for which she is specially 
 adapted. 
 
 The r>ernard family is traced back to the mid- 
 dle ages, and several of the name took part in 
 three diflferent crusades. Some ol them were 
 knighted and had coats-of-arms, and from such 
 a line Mrs. Aguirre is a descendant, her ances- 
 tors being nobles of Gascony, France. On the 
 maternal side she is no less distinguished, as her 
 grandfather. John Cunningham, was the last 
 Earl of ( llencairn, in Scotland. The Bernard
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 family in the United States was founded here in 
 1652 by Peter Bernard, who settled in Virginia. 
 His descendants went to eastern Kentucky, 
 where they were pioneers, and Thomas Bernard, 
 grandfather of Mrs. Aguirre, was born in that 
 state, and owned a plantation there, and later, 
 in Missouri, where he died. Joab Bernard, 
 father of our subject, was born in Richmond, 
 \'a., and as a young man went to St. Louis, Mo., 
 where he was in partnership with John J. Roe 
 in a mercantile enterprise. In 1856 he removed 
 to W'estport, Mo., and soon embarked in the 
 trade with Santa Fe. For many years he 
 freighted supplies from Westport to Santa Fe 
 and vicinity and to different government forts. 
 Retiring, he passed his last years at his West- 
 port home, dying in 1880, aged eighty years. 
 
 For a wife Joab Bernard chose Arabella, 
 daughter of George and Jane (Cunningham) 
 Bier, natives of Maryland. The father, whose 
 birth took place in Frederick, Md., was an ofifi- 
 cer in the war of 1812, and was a grandson of 
 Peter Bier, who was a native of Germany and 
 was a pioneer of Frederick, Md. It may be 
 mentioned, in passing, that the mother of Mrs. 
 -Aguirre and Admiral Schley of the United 
 States navy, were second cousins. Mrs. Ara- 
 bella (Bier) Bernard, who died at the home of 
 her son, N. W. Bernard, in Tucson, in 1899, at 
 the age of eighty-four, was a native of Baltimore, 
 as was her mother, Mrs. Jane (Cunningham) 
 Bier. The latter's father. Earl John Cunning- 
 ham, was born in Edinburgh, .Scotland, in 1762, 
 and after becoming a citizen of Baltimore, Md., 
 took part in our second war with Great Britain, 
 on the .side of his adopted country. He was the 
 master and owner of the vessel in which he 
 crossed the -Atlantic to his future home, and 
 until he retired from active life was engaged in 
 the merchant marine trade. He was buried in 
 Green Street cemetery. lialtimore, and four 
 generations succeeding him have placed their 
 dead in the s?me cemetery. For a wife the 
 F.arl chose Miss Margaret Mather of Baltimore, 
 a near relative of Margaret Wilson, the cove- 
 ninUir. who was a martyr of religious persecu- 
 tion. 
 
 The third of the eight children l)n;n to Joal) 
 rnid \r;dx'lla Bernard. Mrs. Aguirre is a native 
 of St. Louis, Mo., where her birth took place 
 
 June 23, 1844. Her eldest sister. Mrs. Mar- 
 garet Johnson, resides in Westport, Mo. Mrs. 
 Catherine Worthington, the second sister, died 
 in Baltimore. Md., and Arabella died in West- 
 port, Mo. Mrs. -Annie Rice is a resident of 
 Grand Junction, Colo., and Mrs. Jessie Byrne, 
 a widow, lives in Tucson. N. W. Bernard is in 
 the cattle business in Pima county, -Ariz., and is 
 also supervisor of the county, and Hon. -A. C. 
 Bernard is a representative in the Arizona leg- 
 islature and is the manager of the Tucson Cold 
 Storage Company. 
 
 When she was an infant, in 1844, Mrs. -Aguirre 
 was taken to Baltimore, and spent the next 
 twelve years of her life at Locust Grove, on the 
 Reisterstown road, in Baltimore county, which 
 property her father owned. In 1856 they re- 
 moved to Westport, Mo., but the education of 
 our subject was completed at the Baltimore Fe- 
 male Academy. 
 
 -August 21, 1862, the marriage of Epifanio 
 -Aguirre and Miss Mary Bernard was solemnized 
 in Westport. He was born in 1834 near Chi- 
 huahua, Mexico, the son of Pedro Aguirre, a 
 native of the same state. His ancestors had 
 come from Spain at the time of Cortez, and were 
 given large grants of land in the vicinity of Chi- 
 huahua, and much of this property is yet re- 
 tained in the family name. In 1852 Pedro 
 -Agiurre removed with his family and a large 
 colony to Las Cruces, N. M.. where he became 
 the owner of extensive tracts of land and was 
 prominently connected with many enterprises 
 until his death. He was a naturalized citizen of 
 the United States and was in high standing in 
 the Masonic fraternity.. When sixteen years of 
 age Epifanio -Aguirre became a resident of Las 
 Cruces, N. M., and at the age of nineteen started 
 out in the Inisiness world, in which he achieved 
 fame and wealth. By 1864 he had the bulk of 
 the contracts for freighting for the government 
 between Colorado and the Missouri river and 
 along the Santa Fe trail. In fact, he made and 
 lost several good-sized fortunes, for the Indians, 
 especially, seem to have -held his destiny in 
 the balance. He had nnile trains and ox trains, 
 and several times the redskins stampeded his 
 animals. Once an entire train was captured by 
 ilu' Indians at a point between Socorro and San 
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 343 
 
 on the plains, owing to the carelessness of an 
 officer, who threw a hghted match in the prairie 
 grass. Mr. and Mrs. .\guirre were following 
 one of their trains at a little distance in a car- 
 riage, when the Intlians attacked the van and 
 made off with all of the live stock. It becoming 
 necessary to make a business trip to Altar, 
 Sonora, Mr. Aguirre left his wife there while, 
 with four comrades, he proceeded towards Tuc- 
 son, where he had some interests demanding 
 his attention. January t6, 1870, when near 
 Sasabi, they were attacked by the Apaches and 
 all were killed save a brother, Conrado Aguirre, 
 whose escape appears nothing short of marvel- 
 ous. 
 
 The terrible news of her husband's death 
 soon reached Mrs. .Aguirre at Altar, and for six 
 months she remained there. Then the desire 
 to join her kindred in Missouri became over- 
 whelming, and though she had bravely faced 
 the dangers and untold hardships of crossing 
 the western plains no less than five times, al- 
 ways in company of her husband, she now felt 
 that it would be impossible for her to travel that 
 way. Accordingly she took the necessarily 
 round-about trip to San Francisco and thence 
 east over the newly-completed Union Pacific. 
 Until 1874 she remained in Westport, and then 
 came to Tucson across the plains with her 
 brothers. In the following year she commenced 
 teaching in the public schools of the town, and 
 for many years was the principal of the Girls' 
 School. That she is recognized as a successful 
 teacher was shown by the honor which was con- 
 ferred upon her five years ago, when she was 
 called to the chair of Spanish and English his- 
 tory in the University of .\rizona. She is iden- 
 tified with the Woman's Library Club and at- 
 tends the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her 
 second son, named in honor of his father, died 
 at the age of thirteen years. The other sons, 
 Pedro J. and Stephen, arc fine young men, well 
 educated and taking prominent places in the 
 business world. The elder, Pedro J., a graduate 
 of the University of Kansas, is an expert as- 
 sayer, and is now employed in that capacity in 
 the Cananea mining district at the Democrata 
 mine, in Sonora, Mexico. Stephen, a graduate 
 of the Tucson high school and of the business 
 college of Lawrence, Kans., is in ^•lK^rgc of W. C. 
 
 Green's company stores in the Cananea district, 
 at Naco. 
 
 JUDGE CHARLES T. CONNELL. 
 .\mong the most prominent and substantial 
 citizens of Tucson is Judge Connell, who was 
 born in Mount \ ernon, Linn county, Iowa, Jan- 
 uary 21, 1859. His father, Peter D. Connell, was 
 born at Steubenville, Jefiferson county, Ohio, 
 and was a farmer in Linn county, Iowa, dur- 
 ing the years of his activity. With the breaking 
 out of the Civil war he enlisted in the First 
 Missouri Volunteer Federal regiment, and be- 
 came a lieutenant of the engineering corps. 
 He was killed in a battle in Tennessee. His 
 wife, who was formerly Mary Mitchell Safely, 
 was born in Waterford, K. Y., and was a daugh- 
 ter of Thomas Safely, a native of Edinburgh, 
 Scotland. He eventually settled in Waterford, 
 N. Y., where he was the pioneer blacksmith 
 of the place, later removing to Mount Vernon, 
 Iowa. Mrs. Connell died in Troy, N. Y. The 
 paternal grandfather, Peter D. Connell, was born 
 in Ohio, where he was a farmer, and later con- 
 tinued the same occupation after removing to 
 the then newlv settled Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 
 
 1839- 
 
 As the only child in his father's family 
 
 Charles T. Connell was reared and educated in 
 Troy N. Y., and at Mount Pleasant Military 
 .Academy, Sing Sing, X. Y., but in the changing 
 course of events abandoned his original inten- 
 tion of entering West Point. Of an ambitious 
 temperament, he became interested in the re- 
 ports of mining from the west, and in 1879 ^O' 
 cated in Globe, Gila county, Ariz. The follow- 
 ing year he was appointed by Major Powell 
 enumerator of census for the Apaches, and was 
 engaged in this work for some time. In 1881 he 
 received the appcjintment of Indian trader at the 
 San Carlos agency, and was thus employed until 
 1883, when he engaged in mining in the vicinity 
 of Globe, lie still has an interest in the Santa 
 Rita and the Helvetia claims, and owns the Cop- 
 per Mountain group in partnership with Alex- 
 ander McKay. In fact, at the present time the 
 greater part of the time of Mr. Connell is de- 
 voted to pros])ectiug and developing, and he is 
 (luc of the Ijest infoinicd men in the locality on 
 the subject of mines and mining.
 
 344 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Among the many interests that have at times 
 engrossed the attention of Mr. Connell was that 
 of superintendent for three years of tlie Eagle 
 Golden Willing Company (connnonly known as 
 the Saginaw camp), nine miles southwest of 
 Tucson. He was one of those who compiled the 
 city charter, and he issued the first, second and 
 third edition of the Tucson City directory. He 
 is also secretary of the city volunteer fire de- 
 partment. In local politics Mr. Connell has 
 played a prominent part, and adheres strictly 
 to the principles and issues of the Repub- 
 lican party. During 1884-5 ''"-' served as dep- 
 uty United States marshal under Z. L. Tidball, 
 and is ex-chairman of the Republican county 
 central committee, having served in that ca- 
 pacity two different times. When City Recorder 
 Judd died in 1893, Mr. Connell was appointed 
 to take his place, and was elected city recorder 
 the following year, and re-elected in 1896 and 
 1898. In March, 1901, he was appointed by 
 Governor Murphy member of the board of 
 trustees of the Arizona Reform School, located 
 at Benson. He is secretary of the board, his 
 headquarters being at Tucson. 
 
 May 2, 1882, Mr. Connell married Susan A. 
 Moore, of Globe, Ariz., who died February 20, 
 1895. Of this union there are three children, 
 namely: Frances S., who was the first white 
 child born on the San Carlos Indian reservation : 
 Henrietta F., and Robert Moo;e. Mr. Connell is 
 fraternally associated with the Benevolent Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks, the Red Men and the 
 Knights of Pythias. He was formerlv secretary 
 of tlie company of Sons of Veterans. 
 
 CHARLES BAUER. 
 Now in the prime of early manhood, Charles 
 Bauer of Mesa was born three decades ago, 
 March 20, 1871, in Alsace. His parents, George 
 and Caroline (Schwartz) Bauer, were natives of 
 Alsace and Lorraine, respectively, both now 
 provinces under the jurisdiction of the German 
 crown. The father, after a long and useful life, 
 passed to the better land, .and the mother is still 
 living in .\lsace. Their son George, much 
 older than the subject of this article, came to 
 the L'nitod States and lived in .\rizona tor nearly 
 a (|uarter of a ccntur\ . He was a man of great 
 ambition and energx, and experienced the vi- 
 
 cissitudes of a pioneer life here. Early in the 
 '90s he settled on the homestead now- owned 
 by Charles Bauer, and, after making many val- 
 uable improvements here, he was sunnnoned to 
 the silent land, his death occurring on New 
 Year's Day, 1898. The love and genuine regard 
 of this entire conmnmity was his to a marked 
 degree, and his memory is cherished by his in- 
 numerable friends. 
 
 The boyhood and youth of Charles Bauer 
 was passed in his native land, and, having served 
 an apprenticeship of three years as a cook in 
 the city of Strasburg, Germany, he decided to 
 come to America. In May, 1888, he landed in 
 the L'uited States, and at once continued his 
 journey toward the setting sun. For a short 
 time after reaching his destination — San Fran- 
 cisco — he was employed at his trade, but soon 
 obtaining a better position in a large establish- 
 ment where confectionery was manufactured, he 
 continued in that line of business for two vears 
 and a half. In January, 1898, he came to Mesa, 
 and since that time has lived at his present home, 
 formerly the property owned by his brother, 
 George Bauer. The place comprises one hun- 
 dred and six and two-thirds acres, all under ex- 
 cellent cultivation and very productive. The 
 town of Mesa is situated at a convenient dis- 
 tance, supplies thus being readily obtained. In 
 his political faith Mr. Bauer is a Republican, 
 while in religious belief he is a Lutheran. 
 
 January 27, 1 89 1, the marriage of Charles 
 Bauer and Augusta Mardberg, a native of Swe- 
 den, was celebrated in this locality. A son and 
 a daughter bless their home, namely, Carrie A. 
 and Charles G. By their sterling qualities Mr. 
 and Mrs. Bauer have become well liked in their 
 neighborhood, and they have every reason to 
 look forward to a future of prosperity and hap- 
 
 WILLIAM C. BASHFORD. 
 
 \V. C. Bashford, son of Hon. Coles Bashford, 
 at one time governor of Wisconsin and later 
 attorney-general, congressman, and secretary of 
 .\rizona for two terms, in fact, for several dec- 
 ades occupying public positions exalted and 
 highly responsible, is one of the most influential 
 l)usiness men of Prescott, having resided here for
 
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 twenty-seven years. A sketch of the remark- 
 able career of his father appears elsewhere in this 
 volume, and will be perused with interest by 
 everyone interested in Arizona, of which he truly 
 was one of the most influential founders and pio- 
 neers. 
 
 Born at Oshkosh, Wis.. April 5. 1853, at the 
 time that his father, the future governor of that 
 state, was representing the people in the Wiscon- 
 sin senate, W. C. Bashford was reared to a lofty 
 ideal of duty and principle. His education was 
 pursued in the connnon and high schools of his 
 native place. In November. 1873, he went to 
 San Diego, Cal., where he spent the winter, ami 
 in the spring of 1874 located permanently in 
 Prescott. Here he soon embarked in the mer- 
 cantile career which has made his name well 
 known, not only throughout the territory, but 
 indeed, throughout the southwest, as his deal- 
 ings with surrounding states and territories have 
 been extensive. He, with his partner, R. H. 
 Burmister, associated himself with Levi Bash- 
 ford in 1874, under the firm name of L. Bash- 
 ford & Co. In 1886 the firm of W. C. Bashford 
 & Co. was formed, and later it transacted busi- 
 ness under the name of Bashford & Burmister. 
 In 1892 the Bashford & Burmister Company 
 was incorporated, with our subject as secretary 
 and treasurer. Largely owing to his enterprise 
 and well-directed energy the business prospered, 
 and after having been associated with the great 
 mercantile firm for twenty-one years, he resigned 
 in 1895 from the management, preferring to de- 
 vote his entire attention to his numerous mining 
 and other investments. 
 
 It is safe to make the assertion that no citizen 
 of Prescott has been more deeply concerned in 
 its improvement and prosperity than has been 
 W. C. Bashford. Active in organizing the Pres- 
 cott National Bank, he served on its board of di- 
 rectors for several years. Following in the po- 
 litical footsteps of his illustrious father, one of 
 the first champions of the Republican party, he 
 has accomplished much fur it in this territory, 
 having acted on the .Arizona territorial connnit- 
 tee almost continut)usly since he arrived at ma- 
 turity, and from 1892-4 being chairman of the 
 same influential body. For one term he was a 
 member of the .\rizona territorial l)oard of ec|ual- 
 izatinii. anil in tlic f;ill of 1886 was honored l)y 
 IS 
 
 election to the important position of county 
 treasurer of Yavapai county, in which capacity 
 he acted efficiently and to the entire satisfaction 
 of the public from January, 1887, to January-, 
 1889. In addition to this, he held the office of 
 city treasurer of Prescott for three terms and 
 long ago fully demonstrated his superior finan- 
 cial ability and absolute integrity. 
 
 In the Centennial yearW. C. Bashford married 
 Miss Mary Louise Evans, a native of Ohio, the 
 ceremony which united their destinies being sol- 
 emnized in Prescott. They have ever been wel- 
 comed in the best and most cultured society 
 circles, here and elsewhere, and enjoy the ac- 
 fjuaintance of a host of friends. 
 
 A. H. EMANUEL. 
 
 From the earliest history of Tombstone to the 
 present day, the life and efforts of Mr. Emanuel 
 have been inalienably associated with whatever 
 r>f merit has been instituted for the well being of 
 the community. As he himself expresses it, he 
 has seen "the rise and fall of the empire," and he 
 IS one of those who have tarried in the wake of 
 the departed silver prestige, firm in the belief 
 that from the plans of the cool-headed residents 
 of today will emerge a city with all of the enter- 
 prise, but less of the feverish uncertainty of the 
 past. And to every effort for advancement he 
 has lent the influence of his name, whether it be 
 educational, commercial or social, for in this re- 
 mote mining city of the west there is no truer- 
 hearted man, or one more in touch with the re- 
 finements and better things of life, than is the 
 present chief executive of the city of Tombstone. 
 
 For the greater part of his life Mr. Emanuel 
 has been interested in the mining and other ven- 
 tures of the west. Born in the city of Philadel- 
 phia, Pa., at a very early age he left his native 
 place and was educated at Burlington. N. J. In 
 1850 he came to California by way of the isth- 
 nnis. and upon locating in San Francisco, be- 
 gan at the bottom of the commission business as 
 a clerk for Bryant 8c Paxton. He subsequently 
 engaged in the same line of work on his own re- 
 stKinsibility, living in all in San Franci.sco for ten 
 years. In Virginia City, Nev.. to which he later 
 moved, he became interested in the milling busi- 
 ness with Cidlden Curry Mining Comjiany, and
 
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 acted as their foreman for two years. The fol- 
 lowing nine months were spent with the Yellow 
 Jacket Company. In 1864 he started a livery 
 business in X'irgin.'a City, in partnership with the 
 late C. H. Light, and speculated and mined 
 somewhat. In 1870 he removed to Pioche, Nev., 
 and entered upon a long career of freighting for 
 different mining companies, including the 
 IMeadow \'alley Mining Company and the Ray- 
 mond and Ely companies. For the hauling of 
 the miners' ore Mr. Emanuel and his partner em- 
 ployed mule teams, and possessed in all a herd 
 of about two hundred .and ten of these animals. 
 In 1878 they took their teams over to Cande- 
 laria, in Nevada, which was then a new mining 
 camp, and later went to the McCraken mine, 
 near Wickenburg, Ariz. During this time he 
 still lived in Nevada, and his partner took the 
 teams around the country. In January of 1880 
 he located in Tombstone, bringing the teams 
 with him, and hauled the ore for the Contention 
 and Grand Central companies until 1882 when 
 they sold their teams and went out of the freight- 
 ing business. 
 
 In the fall of 1880 Mr. Emanuel assumed 
 charge of the Vizina mine, and superintended its 
 operations until it was eventually closed down. 
 He then filled a like capacity with the Santa 
 Rosa Mining Company in Sonora, Mexico, until 
 that visionary expectation also terminated. At 
 the present time he owns nine mining claims, all 
 patented, in the Tombstone district, and former- 
 ly owned one in the Turquoise district, the latter 
 being copper and the others silver. 
 
 In politics a Republican, Mr. Emanuel voted 
 in 1856 for his personal friend, J. C. Fremont, 
 for president. His political career was practical- 
 ly initiated in December of 1889, when he was 
 appointed clerk of the district court, which posi- 
 tion he still holds. In 1892 he was appointed 
 railroad commissioner, and in i8<j7 district court 
 and United States court connnissioner. In 1896 
 he was elected to the highest municipal ofifice 
 within the gift of the people, re-elected mayor in 
 1898, and again in 1900, with no opposition. The 
 administration of this capable executive has met 
 with universal approval, and his tact, discretion 
 and ready adjustment of com])licated affairs have 
 more than justified the long standing confidence 
 ])laced in him. 
 
 Mr. Emanuel is variously interested fraternal- 
 ly, and among his affiliations may be mentioned 
 the Odd Fellows, of which he has been a member 
 since 1870, and of which he is past noble grand 
 and past grand representative of the Sovereign 
 Grand Lodge; the local lodge of Knights of 
 Pythias, of which he is past chancellor, having 
 filled the chair for six years and being the pres- 
 ent incumbent. He is also a member of the Uni- 
 form Rank, K. of P., and of the Bisbee Encamp- 
 ment, I. O. O. F. Among the many outside in- 
 terests which command the attention of Mr. 
 Emanuel is a large blacksmith and wagon shop, 
 in fact, the only one in the town, which he owns 
 and operates. He is the possessor of a beautiful 
 home in the city of his adoption, which is ideally 
 surrounded with a well-kept lawn wherein are 
 grown one hundred and twenty-six varieties of 
 the rose. In his various journeyings the owner 
 thereof has amassed a large store of general in- 
 formation, and a well-selected library is indica- 
 tive of his excellent literary tastes, and his fine 
 knowledge of current literature. He owns con- 
 siderable other Tombstone property, and a ranch 
 on the San Pedro river. 
 
 C. W. BARNETT. 
 
 C. W. Barnett, assessor of Maricopa count) 
 and one of the leading citizens of Phoenix, has 
 been actively identified with the business inter- 
 ests of this territory for twenty years, and occu- 
 pies a position of no little importance in connec- 
 tion with its political afTairs. His entire life has 
 been spent on the Pacific slope, being born in 
 San Bernardino county, Cal., sixty miles south of 
 Los Angeles, September 29, 1858. 
 
 William Barnett, the father of our subject, 
 was a native of New York state and a son of 
 Samuel Barnett, a soldier of the war of 1812 and 
 a farmer by occupation. At an early day the 
 latter removed to Illinois, and subsequently be- 
 came a resident of California, his last days be- 
 ing spent in \'entura. He was of English de- 
 scent, and belonged to :n old New England fam- 
 il\'. William Barnett was a young man when he 
 accompanied his father on his removal from Illi- 
 nois to California in 1847. They crossed the 
 jilains with ox teams via the Plattt' river route, 
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 Pass, and settling in what is now San Bernar- 
 dino ccnuitv. Later William Barnett was inter- 
 ested in the develiipnient of coal lands in San 
 Diego county, and in 1862 went to \cntura 
 county, where he was engaged in farming for two 
 vcars. Suhse(iuent]y he conducted a hotel in the 
 cit\' of X'entura luitil coming to Arizona in 1881. 
 He located on a ranch at Mesa, and to its man- 
 agement devoted his energies until called to his 
 final rest in 1898. He participated in the early 
 Indian wars in California, and experienced all 
 the hardships and privations of pioneer life. 
 Fraternally he was a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. He married Helen M. 
 Sirrine, a native of New York City, who died at 
 the home in Mesa prior to the death of her hus- 
 band. Her father. Rev. T. Sirrine, was also born 
 in New York City of Scotch ancestry, and died 
 at the age of thirty-three years. Our subject is 
 the second in order of birth in a family of five 
 children, the others being J. H., a druggist of 
 Mesa; George S., an employe of the Globe Short 
 Line Railroad; Warren W., a merchant of Mesa, 
 and Sanuiel T.. a dairyman living near Mesa. 
 
 C. W'. Barnett grew to manhood in Southern 
 California, and received a good common school 
 education, graduating from the high school of 
 \'entura. At an early age he became interested 
 in photography, and wa.s engaged in that busi- 
 ness in Bodie, Cal., in 1879, and later in the 
 mining camps of Nevada. Coming to .\rizona 
 in 1881, he conducted a gallery at Mesa for one 
 year, and then built a studio at Phoenix, on the 
 present site of the Yalley Bank. There he en- 
 gaged in photography as a member of the firm 
 of Rothrock & Barnett until 1894, and took first 
 premiums for both portraits and views at the 
 first territorial fair. During all this time Mr. 
 Barnett was also successfully conducting a ranch 
 of three hundred acres near Mesa, which is one 
 of the finest places in the valley. For four 
 years the filled the contract to furnish Fort Mc- 
 Dowell with two hundred acres of alfalfa, it be- 
 ing the largest contract given to any one party. 
 Mr. Barnett resided upon his ranch from 1894 
 until 1897, but in January of the latter year re- 
 turned to Phoenix, having been appointed dep- 
 uty county recorder under F. W. Sheridan. In 
 i8c)8 he was the Republican candidate for couiUy 
 assessor, and in 1900 his name was placed on 
 
 the party ticket as candidate for county collector. 
 He has always taken a very active and ]iromi- 
 ncnt part in political affairs, and at different 
 times has been a member of the county central 
 committee and the territorial committee. 
 
 .\t Phoenix occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 liarnett and Miss Hattie E. Barnum, a native of 
 Prescott. .'\riz., and a daughter of Thomas Bar- 
 num. He was born in Potsdam, N. Y., and at 
 an early day came to Prescott as a government 
 contractor and freighter. She was educated in 
 the Phoenix schools, and later was a student in 
 Chicago. By her marriage to our subject she 
 has become the mother of two children, Clarence 
 C. and Ethel May. Fraternally Mr. Barnett is 
 a niemlier of the Ancient Order of LInited Work- 
 men, the Artisans and the Knights of Pythias. 
 In business afTairs he lias met with well deserved 
 success, and is still the owner of a fine ranch of 
 one hundred and sixty acres on the Consolidated 
 canal, south of Mesa. He is widely and favor- 
 ably known throughout Maricopa county, and 
 those who know him best are numbered among 
 his warmest friends. 
 
 HON. ALLAN C. BERNARD. 
 
 Elected to represent this district in the twenty- 
 first session of the .\rizona legislature, Hon. 
 A. C. Bernard of Tucson stands high in the 
 councils of the Democratic party. He also 
 served in the Nineteenth legislative assembly, 
 acting as chairman of the committee on claims, 
 as well as the judiciary conuuittee, and mean 
 time winning the regard of his associates and 
 the public. Prior to his election to that office 
 he had been deputy clerk of the United States 
 district court for the first district of Arizona, 
 holding that position until he was called to the 
 higher one. Both in public office and in jirivate 
 life his course has been marked by uprightness, 
 independence and a genuine consideration for 
 the rights of tlic people, which accounts for his 
 l)0|)ularity. In the twenty-first legislative as- 
 semhlv he secured the passage of an act en- 
 abling the city of Tucson to perfect title to all 
 prnpertv sold by the city, and in both the twen- 
 tieth and twenty-first sessions was recognized 
 as the Democratic leader of the house. 
 
 The father of our subject, Joab Bernard, was 
 born in \^'rginia in 1800. .\t an early period he
 
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 removed to Westport, Mo., and became one of 
 the pioneer freighters of the west. For many 
 vears he was engaged in mercantile dealings with 
 the people of Santa Fe and Las Cruces region, 
 experiencing the great dangers and hardships in- 
 cident to life on the frontier of civilization. He 
 married Arabella Bier, who was born in Mary- 
 land and died in Tucson, Ariz., in November, 
 1899. at the age of eighty-four years. Of their 
 two sons and six daughters, six are yet living. 
 One of the sons, N. W. Bernard, is a supervisor 
 of Pima county. A daughter, Mrs. Mary 
 Aguirre, resides in Arizona, and the family his- 
 tory appears more fully in her sketch. 
 
 At Westport, Mo., A. C. Bernard was born 
 February 11, 1859. After completing his ele- 
 mentary studies he attended the high school in 
 Kansas City, Mo., for some time. Then he went 
 to La Junta, Colo., and from there came to Tuc- 
 son in 1876. For a year he was connected with 
 the surveying corps in charge of Theodore F. 
 White. Later he became a clerk for the mercan^ 
 tile house of Tally, Ochoa & Co., which firm was 
 financially ruined by the advent of the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad. At the age of twenty-four Mr. 
 Bernard went to Fort Bowie, Ariz., and for about 
 a year was proprietor of a general trading store. 
 Then, returning to Tucson, he obtained a posi- 
 tion as a clerk. At the same time he embarked 
 in the cattle business at Arivaca. Gradually he 
 extended his possessions and bought and sold 
 cattle and lands on a commission basis in dif- 
 ferent sections of the territories and Sonora, 
 Mexico. 
 
 Since 1898 Mr. Bernard has given his entire 
 attention to the Tucson Ice and Cold Storage 
 Company, which manufactures ice for the whole- 
 sale and retail trade, and owns machinery hav- 
 ing a capacity of twenty tons jier day. The com- 
 pany has the local agency for the Anheuser- 
 Busch Brewing Comjiany's products, and has a 
 large bottling plant, besides dealing extensively 
 in coal. L'nder the able management of Mr. 
 Bernard much has been accomplished within the 
 past three years, and the trade has been greatly 
 extended. He is a member of the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks and is exalted ruler in 
 the local lodge, besides being connected with 
 the Elks Club, and is actively interested in the 
 \\'n()dnicn of the World. 
 
 At Westport, Mo., occurred the marriage of 
 Mr. Bernard to Miss Minnie Chouteau, grand- 
 daughter of Pierre Chouteau, founder of St. 
 Louis. She was born in Shawnee, Kans., and re- 
 ceived a liberal education. The two sons of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bernard. .Mian C, Jr., and Fred- 
 erick H., are students in the University of Ari- 
 zona. 
 
 JOHN P. FEENY. 
 
 Since entering upon his service as county re- 
 corder of Mohave county, Mr. Feeny has won 
 the high esteem of the public by his able and 
 conscientious service in official positions. He 
 was first elected to this responsible place in 
 1898, and discharged his duties so well that he 
 was a popular candidate at the expiration of his 
 term, and at the polls received a majority vote 
 of two hundred and nine, over John C. Potts, a 
 pioneer and favorite citizen of this county. Since 
 becoming a permanent settler of this territory 
 Mr. Feeny has been one of its most useful citi- 
 zens. 
 
 Though a native of Boston, Mass., born in 
 1858, our subject was reared in the west, as his 
 parents removed to Virginia City, Nev., when 
 he was about a year old, and continued to make 
 their home in that place for eighteen years. His 
 education was completed in San Francisco, and 
 in 1874 he received the first prize in a competi- 
 tive test in penmanship. In 1878, during the 
 mining excitement at Bodie, Cal., he went to 
 that point, but soon returned to \'irginia City, 
 where he had been interested in mining enter- 
 prises for some time.- For seven years he was 
 connected with the Nevada National Guard, of 
 which he was a lieutenant two years. Later he 
 mined in San Bernardino county, Cal., and in 
 the vicinity of Providence in the same county. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Feeny came to Arizona and pros- 
 pected in the very locality near Jerome, in which 
 the Ignited \'erde mine has since been developed. 
 He remained there for two years and superin- 
 tended the construction of luany of the liuildings 
 put up I)V the C(Mniiany which owns the mine just 
 mentioned. In 1884 he went to the southern 
 l^art of .\rizona and with Judge Walker engaged 
 in I i|)(.'rating the Nekol mine. .Subsequently he 
 made a trii) through .Snn Bernardino countv.
 
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 Cal., and through Death valley to Eureka, Nev., 
 where he leased and managed the lianuer mines 
 for eight months. Then for six months he lived 
 in San Francisco, and in 1887 went to Bisbee and 
 Tombstone. Ariz.; then accepting a position as 
 mine carpenter at Georgetown, Cal.. where he 
 was located six months. During the ensuing 
 two years he was associated with mining com- 
 panies of Forest Hill, Placer county, same state, 
 and in 1892 became superintendent of the G. A. 
 R. group in the White Hills district of Mohave 
 county, Ariz. Since that time he has personally 
 mined and prospected near Chloride and Mineral 
 Park, meeting with quite gratifying success. 
 
 Mr. Feeny has a wide acquaintance in mining 
 circles and is considered a practical, progressive 
 business man. In political ranks he is an ardent 
 Democrat and makes a point of attending con- 
 ventions of the party. He was a delegate to the 
 territorial convention which assembled at Phoe- 
 nix in 1900, and at the present time is secretary 
 of the county central committee of Mohave 
 county. Besides belonging to the Miners' 
 Union he is affiliated with Kingman Lodge No. 
 468, Order of Elks, and is a member of the 
 Kingman Comedy Club, for which his native 
 talents have peculiarly fitted him. In connec- 
 tion with his public position of county recorder, 
 he is ex-ofificio clerk of the board of supervisors 
 of Mohave county. 
 
 In his domestic relations Mr. Feeny is espe- 
 cially fortunate. His marriage to Miss Mary 
 Hackett, of San Diego, Cal., took place in 1896, 
 and they are the parents of a promising little 
 son, John P., Jr. 
 
 JOHN J. GARDINER. 
 
 The phenomenal prosperity of Phoenix is just- 
 ly attributed to her exceptionally enterprising- 
 business men, for whom no project, seemingly, 
 is too difficult, and who possess a public spirit 
 which is rarely ecjualed. To one well acquainted 
 with the characteristics of our citizens it appears 
 that Phoenix is a cornucopia of wealth and prog- 
 ress, ever pressing forward to greater achieve- 
 nients, and foremost in the ranks is J. J. Gardi- 
 ner, whom all honor and hokl in genuine esteem. 
 
 A grandson of John anil son oi (ieorge Gardi- 
 ner, he was born June 21, 1841, in Gloucester- 
 
 shire, England, of which locality his ancestors 
 were residents for generations, their occupation 
 being farming and stock-raising. The father 
 lived to the ripe age of eighty-five, and his wife 
 Mary, mother of our subject, departed this life 
 in Phoenix in her eightieth year. She, too, w'as 
 born and reared in Gloucestershire, the daughter 
 of Isaac Thompson. Of her eight children three 
 have passed to the better lanil, three are in Eng- 
 land, and two in Arizona: J. J. and his sister, 
 Mrs. Thomas, who resides near Phoenix 
 
 Though his youth was spent upon the old 
 farm, J. J. Gardiner learned the business of a 
 millwright and machinist, being employed in a 
 flour-mill at the age of eighteen. In 1862 he de- 
 termined to seek his fortune in the New World, 
 and after a four weeks' voyage in the sailing ves- 
 sel "John J. Boyd," arrived in the United States 
 and located in Omaha, Neb. In partnership with 
 Henry Clifford he bought some teams and for 
 several years was engaged in freighting across 
 the plains. His first trip was to Salt Lake City, 
 whence he went to Montana and Nebraska. Tlie 
 Indians being very troublesome and a constant 
 menace to travelers, they only went in large 
 com])anies, and though some were not so fortu- 
 nate, Mr. Gardiner never was seriously molested, 
 and was financially prospered. In 1869 he went 
 to Los Angeles, and in the following year came 
 to Arizona, since which time, three momentous 
 decades of territorial history, has been closely 
 associated with its development. For twelve 
 years he engaged in hauling supplies from Yuma 
 to Tucson, Camp Grant and Prescott, as well as 
 to diflterent mining camps in the mountains. In 
 this service he had five wagons, each provided 
 with ten mules, and frequently as much as six 
 tons w-ere transported in a trip. 
 
 Prior to 1882 Mr. Gardiner had invested a 
 large amount in Phoenix property, among them 
 tlic machine and blacksmith shop at the corner 
 of .Adams and Second streets. This was carried 
 on under his supervision and in 1886 the fine 
 city water-works plant was inaugurated, he being 
 made the i)rosident of the company. Large wells 
 were made and a well-equipped plant w'as placed 
 in running order. A stand-pipe one hundred 
 feet high was built, a pressure of forty pounds 
 was maintained, and perhaps no one improve- 
 ment has done so great a service to the city as
 
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 PORTRAIT AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 this great undertaking, with which ]Mr. Gardi- 
 ner was connected until 1890. About 1888 he 
 organized the Phoenix Electric Light Company, 
 of which he was the president until he sold out 
 to the present management. Tlie fine modern 
 works were built under his direction on block 
 19. The first planing-mill in this place was built 
 and operated by him for some time, and he also 
 carried on the contract for the building known 
 as the city hall, the Valley Bank building, and 
 many other well known structures. In 1894 the 
 largest flour-mill in this territory was built by 
 him, and for six years he was at the head of 
 the enterprise, then leasing it to the present 
 manager. These mills, situated at the corner of 
 Second and Adams streets, are 300x300 feet in 
 dimensions (including warehouse): the latest 
 roller-process is employed, and the mill has a 
 capacity of one hundred and twenty barrels a 
 day. Space is lacking in which to chronicle his 
 many business enterprises, but a fair idea of his 
 multifarious interests can be gained from the 
 above. A finely improved farm which he owns, 
 of one hundred and sixty acres, situated three 
 miles from Phoenix, amply testifies to his genius 
 as an agriculturist. In no wise a politician, and 
 not an aspirant to public office, yet well posted 
 on the issues of the day, he uses his ballot in 
 favor of the Republican party. 
 
 In this city the marriage of Mr. Gardiner and 
 Miss Laura B. Franklin occurred, and their two 
 children are Charles and Mary. Mrs. Gardiner 
 was bom in Los Angeles and was educated in 
 Mills College, Oakland, Cal. Her father, Samuel 
 Franklin, was a pioneer farmer of California and 
 now is engaged in mining near Prescott, Ariz. 
 
 GEORGE B. GAMBLE. 
 On New Year's day, 1901, George B. Gamble 
 entered upon the duties of the office of treasurer 
 of Graham county, to which he had been elected 
 on the regular Democratic ticket in November, 
 1900. That he is well qualified to occupy this 
 responsible position is shown by the fact of his 
 own success in the business world and by the 
 strict fidelity with which he always has met every 
 obligation placed upon his shoulders. He has 
 given his allegiance to the Democratic party 
 since becoming a voter and is a valued worker in 
 the ranks. 
 
 Our subject comes of a family noted for pa- 
 triotism, and his father. Gen. James Gamble, was 
 a hero of the war of 1812. He was one of the 
 first white settlers in Polk countv, Tenn., and 
 w'as appointed military drill-master in his local- 
 ity, being commissioned as a general after the 
 war of 1812. Both he and his wife, Susan Bee- 
 ler, died in Tennessee, and it is worthy of men- 
 tion that Mrs. Gamble was one of the last wid- 
 ows of veterans of our second war with Great 
 Britain who drew a pension therefor. 
 
 George B. Gamble was born in Benton, Polk 
 county, Tenn., October i, i860, and in his youth 
 had slight educational advantages. Neverthe- 
 less, being of a practical nature, he thoroughly 
 learned the business of a machinist and at the 
 age of seventeen came to the west. For six 
 years he was employed in the Georgetown (N. 
 M.) district, and set up the first engine in that 
 locality. In 1883 he came to Graham county 
 and was with the Arizona Copper Company for 
 a period, then was in the employ of the Detroit 
 Copper Company four years as engineer, later 
 running a locomotive on their short line of rail- 
 road for eight years. At one time he had cliarge 
 of the four and a half ton engine which was con- 
 veyed over mountains and plains eight hun- 
 dred miles, drawn by oxen. 
 
 In 1889 Mr. Gamble visited the valley of the 
 Gila and was so favorably impressed by it that 
 he invested in one hundred and twenty acres of 
 land, situated about half-way between Solomon- 
 ville and Saflford, on the main road. It was not 
 until November. 1899, that he located upon this 
 place, however, but since that date he has been 
 actively engaged in its improvement, and today 
 the farm is a very desirable piece of property. A 
 handsome modem brick dwelling was built by 
 the owner recently, and fences, shade trees and 
 numerous other features contribute to the thrifty 
 appearance of the place. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Gamble married Miss Jesusita 
 Cordoba, of New Mexico. They are the parents 
 of three daughters and five sons. James A. and 
 William E. are employed in the store at Clifton. 
 Josie, Lena, George, Thomas, .\nna and Ed- 
 ward, the younger ones, are at home. 
 
 In the Masonic order Mr. Gamble is a charter 
 member of the blue lodge at Safford. He also 
 is connected with the Spanish-American AUi-
 
 
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 357 
 
 aiice, his mcrnbtTship beinj:;^ with the Clifton 
 lodge. A patriotic citizen, he favors good schools 
 and all institutions calculated to benefit the com- 
 munity and the country in general. He is de- 
 serving of great credit for the excellent personal 
 record he has made in the journey of life, for he 
 started out empty-handed and has been the arch- 
 itect of his own fortunes. 
 
 knowledge of all sides of the mining business 
 than has Mr. Gray. 
 
 HENRY J. GRAY. 
 
 Henry J. Gray, who is eminently fitted by edu- 
 cation and training for the responsible position 
 of superintendent of the Tombstone Mill & Min- 
 ing Company, was born in Harrisonburg, Rock- 
 ingham county, Va., and is a son of Henry J. 
 and Annie Gray. 
 
 Mr. Gray was reared to habits of industry and 
 thrift in his native state of Virginia, and after 
 finishing his studies in the public schools of his 
 locality attended the Norwood College, at Nor- 
 wood, Va. Upon starting out in the world for 
 himself he sought the larger possibilities of the 
 west, and in Colorado engaged in surveying on 
 the Durango branch of the Denver & Rio 
 Grande Railroad. Upon taking up his residence 
 in the crude but rapidly developing town of 
 Tombstone in 1882, he was soon after employed 
 as assayer by the Tombstone Mill & Mining 
 Company, and remained in the position until 
 1894, at which time his former acceptable serv- 
 ices resulted in his appointment to the position 
 of manager of the company. At the time of the 
 company's change of ownership he retained his 
 responsible place, and is still connected with the 
 concern as superintendent. 
 
 Independently Mr. Gray is interested in pros- 
 pecting and mining in the Tombstone mountains. 
 The Tough Mountain group, which are under 
 the jurisdiction of the Tombstone Mill & Mining 
 Company, consists of eighteen claims in the 
 Tombstone mountains, which are wonderfully 
 rich in gold and silver ore. Mr. Gray is particular- 
 ly familiar with the enormous boom and subse- 
 quent decline in the fortunes of the city which 
 rose as if by magic in the midst of one of the 
 greatest mining localities in the world. He is 
 fortunately beyond the misfortune of individual 
 investors who have staked all and lost, and it is 
 doubtful if any in the locality has a keener 
 
 GEORGE P. BULLARD. 
 
 The science of law in Phoenix has an able ex- 
 ponent in Mr. Bullard, who has lived in Arizona 
 since 1886, and therefore claims a long standing- 
 familiarity with the conditions existing in this 
 territory of wonderful promise and resource. 
 
 A native of Portland, Ore., Mr. Bullard was 
 born April 14, 1868, and is a son of Lowell J. 
 IjuUard, who was born in Framingham, Mass. 
 The paternal grandfather was a farmer in Mas- 
 sachusetts, and came from an old New England 
 family. The Bullards were first represented in 
 America by one of their number who emigrated 
 from England in 1620, from whom sprang de- 
 scendants who distinguished themselves in their 
 various localities, and fought for their country's 
 cause when duty or inclination called. Some of 
 them served in the Revolutionary war. Lowell 
 I'luUard is a man of forceful character and distin- 
 guished attainments, who, in the early days, 
 crossed the plains and lived for several years in 
 San Francisco. Following a later inclination he 
 removed to Panama, and is now a resident of 
 Old Mexico. He is filling the position of direc- 
 tor-general of the Aiuerican Travelers' Insur- 
 ance Company, and is president of the American 
 Club of Mexico City. 
 
 On the maternal side also the connections are 
 distinguished, the Purdy family being promi- 
 nently identified with the early history of Cali- 
 fornia, while later members were connected with 
 historical and scientific research at home and in 
 Egypt. Mrs. Bullard was formerly Virginia 
 Purdy, a native of White Plains, N. Y. The 
 paternal grandfather, ex-Governor Samuel 
 Purdy of California, was born in New York, and 
 went to California in 1849. His occupation at 
 the lime was that of a general merchant, and 
 his afTairs were conducted first in Sacramento, 
 and later in San Francisco. He was elected 
 lieutenant-governor for one term under Gov- 
 ernor Bigler, and died in San Francisco in 1884, 
 while serving as chairman of the city hall com- 
 mission. Governor Purdy had an incorruptible 
 nature, and made a courageous stand for right in 
 the management of the affairs that came to him 
 for approval. A water bill was introduced
 
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 which was a veiled attempt to appropriate the 
 water front of San Francisco, and when the mat- 
 ter became a tie and was up to Governor Purdy, 
 he refused a bribe of $50,000 and voted it down. 
 His son, Sparrow Purdy, went with Mr. Stone 
 to Egypt, where he was called Purdy Pasha, and 
 where he eventually died. He was a member of 
 the Royal Geographical Society of Europe. 
 Mrs. Bullard died in Baltimore, Md., in 1889. 
 She was the mother of two children, one son 
 and one daughter, of whom George P. is the 
 oldest. 
 
 Until his fourth year George P. Bullard lived 
 in California, and after that lived in Massachu- 
 setts until twelve years of age. He subsequently 
 spent some time in Chicago, Baltimore, Md., 
 and New York, in all of which places he at- 
 tended the public schools, and graduated from 
 the high school at Framingham, Mass. In 1886 
 he sought the possibilities of the far west, and 
 came to Yuma, Ariz., where his desire for legal 
 training was fortunately obtainable under the 
 able instruction of his uncle, Samuel Purdy, Jr. 
 In 1889 he was admitted to the California bar, 
 and at once began the establishment of a suc- 
 cessful practice in San Francisco. In the mean- 
 time his mother had married C. D. Ralyea, and 
 Mr. Bullard conducted his business afifairs under 
 his stepfather's name, and in partnership with 
 C. H. King. In 1894 he located in Yuma for 
 four months, and while there received an order 
 from the courts to assume his father's name, 
 and from then to the present time has lived un- 
 der the name of Bullard. Upon removing to 
 Phoenix. Mr. Bullard began to engage in a gen- 
 eral practice of law, and has been most success- 
 ful in his undertakings. Under District At- 
 torney Williams he served as deputy for one 
 year, and is the present city attorney of Phoe- 
 nix, to which office he was elected in 1900. 
 
 In June of 1899 Mr. Bullard was united in 
 marriage with Kate C. Fisk, born in Coloma, 
 Eldorado county, Cal., and a daughter of Henry 
 Brockway Fisk, a native of New York state. 
 Henry Fisk went to California in 1849, and en- 
 gaged in a general merchandise business in Et 
 Dorado county, where he eventually died. His 
 wife, formerly Ellen E. Comer, is living in Ak- 
 ron, Ohio. Mr. Bullard is a Democrat, and in 
 the fall of 1900 was nominated for district at- 
 
 torney. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and with 
 the Woodmen of the World. He is variously 
 interested in the most substantial enterprises of 
 the town, and numbers among the responsibili- 
 ties outside of the practice of his profession that 
 of president of the .\rizona Copper Gold Mining 
 Company; secretary of the Arizona Lime Com- 
 pany, and a stockholder in the Elks' Building 
 Association. Mr. Bullard has the fine and sub- 
 stantial traits of mind and character which so 
 materially aid in the stability of growth in the 
 city of his adoption, and which are supplemented 
 by a genial temperament, the forerunner of pop- 
 ularity and success. 
 
 EDWARD M. DOE. 
 
 A large proportion of the work in Coconino 
 county involving grave complications falls for 
 legal adjustment into the capable hands of Mr. 
 Doe. A member of the bar at Flagstaff, his 
 reputation as a profound and erudite student of 
 the law is by no means confined to the limits of 
 his ambitious little town, but extends through- 
 out and beyond the county, representing a large 
 general practice, as well as arduous accomplish- 
 ment along special lines. 
 
 The education and character-foundation of 
 Mr. Doe were acquired in Iowa, whither his 
 parents removed from Vermont in the early '50s. 
 He was born in Cabot, Washington county, Vt., 
 in 1850, studied in the public schools of Iowa 
 City, and was graduated from the collegiate de- 
 partment of the Iowa State University in 1870, 
 and from the law department of the same insti- 
 tution the following year. For several years 
 afterward he engaged in a general practice in 
 Iowa, removing thence to Fort Worth, Tex., 
 where he remained a few years. In the spring 
 of 1887 he came to Flagstaff, and conducted a 
 law practice in partnership with W. G. Stewart, 
 the firm name being Stewart & Doe. Of great 
 benefit to Mr. Doe was this association with Mr. 
 Stewart, who, for several years before his death 
 was a prominent politician, and active in the 
 separation of Coconino county from Yavapai 
 county. As a result of this separation, Mr Doe 
 was appointed by Governor Irwin the first dis- 
 trict attorney of the new county, and has since
 
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 taken an active interest in local and territorial 
 political matters, never departing from his alle- 
 giance to the best tenets of the Republican party. 
 The services of Mr. Doe are retained by the 
 Saginaw Southern Railroad Company, the Sagi- 
 naw Lumber Company, the Arizona Cattle Com- 
 pany, the J. M. Dennis Company and the Ari- 
 zona Central Bank. Besides these, he attends to 
 the work of numerous local firms, the whole 
 constituting about all of the important legal 
 business of the county. For many years he has 
 acted as attorney for the Santa Fe Pacific Rail- 
 road Company. His practice carries him into 
 all of the courts of the territory, and his close 
 attention to his profession, and the universal 
 satisfaction which has attended his efforts has 
 resulted in a wide popularity and confidence, as 
 well as large pecuniary returns. Fraternally he 
 is associated with the Elks. 
 
 EDWARD D. TUTTLE. 
 
 At the age of sixty-six years still an active 
 business man of Safford. E. D. Tuttle is espe- 
 cially desen'ing of mention in a territorial rec- 
 ord. Like his ancestors, he has ever been a 
 patriotic citizen of this republic, and here it may 
 be stated that his grandfathers, Tuttle and Tay- 
 lor, were heroes of the Revolutionary war, that 
 his father was a soldier of the war of 1812, 
 while he himself served in the Civil war, and his 
 son, Arthur L., enlisted in the Spanish-American 
 war and served throughout that conflict, going 
 to Cuba with Buckie O'Neill's Troop A, First 
 United States Volunteer Cavalry, a regiment 
 commonly known as Roosevelt's Rough Riders, 
 and commanded by Colonel Wood, now General 
 Wood, governor-general of Cuba. Although 
 he was only eighteen years old (being probably 
 the youngest soldier in the regiment) he per- 
 formed his duties as efficiently as any of his com- 
 rades. Captain O'Neill was killed while leading 
 his men at the battle of San Juan Hill. 
 
 Born in Leroy, N. Y., November 19, 1834, 
 Edward D. Tuttle is a son of Harvey and Lucy 
 (Taylor) Tuttle, natives of Connecticut, and 
 among the early settlers of western New York, 
 where they took up their abode in 1816, pur- 
 chasing their land from the proprietors of the 
 Holland land purchase. Our subject spent the 
 
 first fifteen years of his life in New York aiul 
 then went to Milwaukee, Wis., where he re- 
 mained until February, 1852. That year wit- 
 nessed his trip overland from St. Joseph, Mo., 
 to the placer mines of California, and until the 
 Civil war broke out he pursued his quest for 
 mineral wealth. Enlisting as a private in the 
 I'ourth California Infantry, in August, 1861, he 
 served until the close of the war, being mustered 
 out at the Presidio, November 30, 1865. At 
 Camp Sumner, September 21, 1861, he was pro- 
 moted to the second lieutenancy, and in No- 
 vember, 1862, at Benecia barracks, California, 
 was made first lieutenant. While stationed at 
 Fort Mohave, in 1864, he secured a leave of ab- 
 sence and served as a member of the first terri- 
 torial legislature from the second district, having 
 been elected at the first election called by procla- 
 mation of the first governor, John N. Goodwin, 
 the legislature consisting of six members of the 
 council and twelve members of the house. 
 
 After the close of the war Mr. Tuttle was em- 
 ployed as military storekeeper and quartermas- 
 ter's agent in the regular army, being located at 
 Yuma Depot, serving from 1866 to 1868. He 
 then received the appointment of sutler at a 
 cavalry post in northern Arizona, doing business 
 there until February, 1869. 
 
 For two years he was freight agent for the 
 Colorado Steam Navigation Company at Yuma. 
 Next he removed to California and devoted his 
 time and means to farming until 1875. He then 
 worked as bookkeeper for a San Francisco firm 
 until March. 1877, when he located a farm near 
 the site of the present town of SafTord. At that 
 time there were not more than a half-dozen 
 white families in the whole valley. For two years 
 he conducted a mercantile business, but his en- 
 ergies have been chiefly given to the develop- 
 ment of his farm. He now resides on his well- 
 tilled and well-irrigated homestead of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres, just adjoining SafTord on 
 the north. 
 
 September 30, 1869, Mr. Tuttle and Marietta 
 L. Robinson, of Summit, Wis., were married at 
 Oakland, Cal. Their eldest daughter, Kate, was 
 appointed postmaster at SafTord August 21, 
 1897, and reappointed March 14, 1901 ; the ofTice 
 has been of the third class since January i, 1901. 
 The youngest daughter, Frances E., is a student
 
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 in the high school at San Jose, Cal., where the 
 mother has kept house during the school year, 
 the family owning a comfortable residence there. 
 Lucy M. is a graduate of the San Jose graded 
 schools. Mary R., a graduate of the California 
 State Normal School, is now teaching in the pub- 
 lic school of Safford. Edward W., who followed 
 a two years' classical course at Stanford Univer- 
 sity, is now a student in the law school of Michi- 
 gan State University. Arthur L., the boy-soldier 
 of 1898, who was attending Arizona University 
 at the time of his enlistment, is now employed 
 as engineer in charge of the gas engines in the 
 reduction works of the Phelps-Dodge Copper 
 Company at Nacosari, Mexico. 
 
 Ever since the organization of the Republican 
 party Mr. Tuttle has been one of its most loyal 
 adherents. For four years after the formation 
 of this county from Pima county he was clerk 
 of the board of supervisors. For tvifo years he 
 also served as clerk of the district court, being 
 the first to fill that office. As deputy county 
 treasurer, in which capacity he served three 
 years, he opened the first set of books for that 
 department. As a justice of the peace for two 
 terms, he assisted in preserving law and order. 
 He is an active member and trustee of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church at Safiford, to which he 
 donated the ground for the house of worship 
 and assisted financially in the building. 
 
 COL. J. B. BREATHITT. 
 
 From the pioneer days of Kentucky to the 
 present time the distinguished family to which 
 Colonel Breathitt belongs has been prominently 
 identified with its history and progress. Among 
 the first settlers of Maryland, from England were 
 the Breathitts, who later located in Virginia, 
 and in that state Edward, the great-grandfather 
 of Colonel Breathitt, was born. With his family 
 he went to Kentucky, settling in Logan county. 
 
 His son. Gov. John Breathitt, was born in 
 Prince Edward county, Va., and went with his 
 father to Kentucky, becoming one of the lead- 
 ing members of the bar in his adopted state. 
 His successes, particularly in land litigation 
 cases, won for him the genuine admiration of 
 the public, and from early manhood the promi- 
 nent part which he took in political matters 
 
 brought him honors at the hands of his partisan 
 friends. That he was personally popular is 
 shown by the fact that he was elected lieutenant- 
 governor of Kentucky at a time when the Whigs 
 were in the ascendency, he being the only Dem- 
 ocrat elected on the ticket. At the expiration of 
 his four years' term as lieutenant-governor his 
 name was proposed for the gubernatorial chair, 
 and though the Whig majority in the state was 
 about sixteen thousand, he was elected. After 
 a service of nearly two years his death occurred, 
 he being at that time in his forty-eighth year. 
 
 During President Jackson's administration 
 the responsible position of United States minis- 
 ter at the court of St. James was proffered Gov- 
 ernor Breathitt by the President, but he declined. 
 The first legislature that convened after his elec- 
 tion as governor was to choose a United States 
 senator, and the joint ballot resulted in a Whig 
 majority of sixteen. Each day for ninety days 
 the assembly balloted on the question, but the 
 dead-lock continued up to the time of the 
 governor's death. He was held in high esteem, 
 even by those of other political affiliations, wher- 
 ever he was personally known. He belonged 
 to no secret organization except the Masonic. 
 
 Cardwell Breathitt, father of the Colonel, was 
 a native of the Blue Grass state, and upon ar- 
 riving at man's estate he entered the legal pro- 
 fession. He was a resident and practitioner of 
 Russellville, Logan county, Ky., until 1852, 
 when he removed with his family to Arrow 
 Rock, Mo. There he has made his home for 
 nearly half a century, and is held in genuine re- 
 gard by his large circle of acquaintances in that 
 locality. His wife, Mary E., was a daughter of 
 Philip Slaughter, a veteran of the war of 1812. 
 A native of Kentucky, his daughter, Mrs. Breath- 
 itt, was born in Russellville. The Slaugh- 
 ters came from Culpeper county, Va., to Ken- 
 tucky. While three of the sons and two of the 
 daughters born to Cardwell Breathitt and wife 
 are living, two have passed to the silent land, 
 and the mother died some years ago in Missouri. 
 
 Col. J. B. Breathitt was born in Russell- 
 ville, Ky., and was reared chiefly in Missouri. 
 In 1862, while quite a boy, he enlisted in Com- 
 pany G, Second Missouri Cavalry, C. S. A., be- 
 ing the youngest boy in his regiment. He was 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 363 
 
 McCiillough, and after serving in Missouri for 
 a short time was ordered to the thickest of the 
 fray, taking part in the severe battles of Pea 
 Ridge, Corinth, luka. Holly Springs and all of 
 the engagements in which his regiment bore a 
 part in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and 
 Florida, surrendering to the Federal forces at 
 Columbus, Miss., in 1865, at the close of the 
 war. 
 
 Returning home, the young man gave his at- 
 tention to farming for several years, in the 
 mean time devoting considerable leisure to the 
 study of law under his father's instruction. Ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1873, he commenced the 
 practice in Arrow Rock, Mo., and in the follow- 
 ing year was elected prosecuting attorney of Sa- 
 line county, and for that reason settled at Mar- 
 shall, the county-seat, where he remained. After 
 the expiration of the time for which he was 
 elected he resumed the regular practice of law at 
 Marshall. He continued to rise in his profes- 
 sion, and also became a recognized factor in 
 politics. In 1886 he was elected railroad com- 
 missioner of Missouri, in which capacity he 
 served for six years, being chairman of the board 
 during the last two years, and several times at- 
 tending national conventions of railway commis- 
 sions at Washington, D. C. 
 
 In January, 1893, Colonel Breathitt located in 
 Kansas City, where he believed that a wider 
 field of usefulness awaited him. In 1895 he 
 was appointed by President Cleveland as special 
 agent of the land department of the interior, 
 and was located in Arizona. Though his head- 
 quarters were in Tucson, his duties called him 
 to all parts of the territory, and he continued in 
 the office until June, 1897, when a change of ad- 
 ministration led him to seek another line of en- 
 terprise. That autumn he organized the Pima 
 Investment & Trading Company, of which he 
 is the president and general manager. He deals 
 in real estate, mines and cattle, and by his sagac- 
 ity and good business judgment has won an en- 
 viable name in commercial circles. 
 
 Like his forefathers, the Colonel is a firm and 
 enthusiastic Democrat, and has taken a leading 
 part in local and general conventions of the 
 party. In Missouri it was a common saying 
 that he had a wider acquaintance than any other 
 man in the state, and for a quarter of a century 
 
 he attended all of the state and national conven- 
 tions of his party. In 1900 at the territorial con- 
 vention at Phoenix he was unanimously elected 
 national committeeman from .Arizona and as- 
 sisted the national committee in the campaign 
 of that year. Fraternally he is a charter member 
 of Lodge No. 385 of the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks. 
 
 HON. JOHN G. CAMPBELL. 
 
 One of the honored pioneers of Prescott and 
 one of the longest established in business in this 
 city, Mr. Campbell is known far and wide in 
 .\rizona. Time and again has he been called to 
 ]niblic positions of trust and honor. His Dem- 
 ocratic friends elected him to represent Arizona 
 as a delegate to Congress in 1878, and besides 
 taking part in the deliberations of that assem- 
 blage in the winters of 1879-80 and 1880-81, he 
 served in the extra sessions of 1879. Though 
 there were three other candidates in the field, 
 he was elected by a plurality of five hundred and 
 eighty votes, which was a good majority for that 
 period and under the existing conditions. He 
 won the sincere approbation of his constituents. 
 Twice he was elected from Yavapai county to 
 the territorial council of Arizona, and then de- 
 clined further nomination, though certain of 
 subsequent election. For several years he held 
 the office of county supervisor and was chairman 
 of the board three years. In each and all of 
 these varied positions he worked in behalf of 
 the people of his community and territory. 
 
 On both sides of his family Mr. Campbell is 
 of old Scottish stock. His paternal grandfather, 
 Archibald Campbell, was a native of Campbell- 
 ton, Argyle, Scotland, and his maternal grand- 
 father was James Hunter, a farmer near Stirling, 
 Scotland. The parents of our subject were Rob- 
 ert and Agnes (Hunter) Campbell, natives re- 
 spectively of Glasgow and Stirling, Scotland, 
 and both, like their ancestors, were stanch Pres- 
 byterians. The father, who was a cabinet-maker 
 by trade, carried on that business in Glasgow 
 until 1841, when he came to the United States. 
 For sOme time he dwelt in New York City and 
 Jersev City, but died in the greater metropolis, 
 where he had been long employed at his usual 
 avocation. Only two of his ten children are now
 
 364 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 living, and three of his sons, James, Archibald 
 and William, were heroes of the Civil war, be- 
 longing to a New York regiment. 
 
 The birth of J. G. Campbell took place in 
 Glasgow, Scotland, June 27, 1827. He accom- 
 panied his father to America in 1841, the rest of 
 the family coming three years later, after a home 
 had been made ready for them. The ship 
 "Washington," on which the youth sailed across 
 the Atlantic was sixty-one days upon the briny 
 deep. He proceeded to Detroit, Mich., where 
 he was apprenticed to the baker's and confec- 
 tioner's trade, and evenings were passed by him 
 in schools, for he felt the need of a better edu- 
 cation. At the end of three years he returned 
 to New York City, where he was employed at 
 his trade for a similar period. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Campbell started for the gold 
 fields of California, going to Vera Cruz, Mexico, 
 and crossing that country in a northwesterly di- 
 rection. He arrived at the Colorado river in 
 July, crossing it near the present town of Yuma, 
 and thence proceeding to San Francisco. For 
 two years he engaged in mining on the Yuba 
 river, and then carried on a ranch and cattle 
 business in the Shasta valley, Siskiyou county, 
 Cal., until 1854. The next three years were 
 spent in Deadwood, Cal., where he was occupied 
 in merchandising. In 1857 he went to Chili, 
 South America, and for two years operated a 
 general store, but the revolution of 1859 led to 
 his return to San Francisco. The same year 
 witnessed his arrival in Los Angeles, where he 
 kept the old Lafayette hotel until 1861. He 
 next went to San Francisco, and in the spring 
 of 1863 came overland to the El Dorado caiion. 
 Making a raft, he made his way down the Colo- 
 rado river to La Paz, Ariz., where he embarked 
 in general merchandising, obtaining supplies 
 from Los Angeles. 
 
 In the autumn of 1864 Mr. Campbell came to 
 Prescott, and during the thirty-one years which 
 followed conducted a general store, which he 
 sold in 1895. I" the meantime he also was in- 
 terested in the cattle business, embarking in 
 that line in 1868 and keeping large herds, his 
 ranch being in the Chino valley. In this 'enter- 
 prise he was associated with two men, the firm 
 name being Campbell, BufTun & Baker at first, 
 and later, Ciampbell & Baker. Their brand was 
 
 composed of the figures seven and six con- 
 nected, the first stroke of the six being joined 
 to the last downward line of the seven. This 
 was the largest cattle firm in the territory for a 
 great many years, as, indeed, the partners owned 
 twice as many cattle as did any other firm. The 
 dry seasons and adverse circumstances, however, 
 played havoc with their immense herds, and it 
 is estimated that they lost not less than ten thou- 
 sand animals in four years. After struggling 
 against the tide in vain, decade after decade, Mr. 
 Campbell left the business. Of late years he has 
 been the proprietor of the Depot House, a well- 
 managed and prosperous hotel. He built the 
 structure and has given his personal attention to 
 every detail of the business, thus insuring com- 
 fort and satisfaction to his guests. 
 
 While in Washington, D. C, Mr. Campbell 
 made the acquaintance of and married Miss 
 Marguerite Malezieux, who is a native of Paris, 
 France, and whose father held an office in the 
 United States treasury department in Washing- 
 ton. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Campbell, three of whom are living, viz.: Louise, 
 Frank Robert and Lillie Belle. 
 
 JOSEPH FISH. 
 
 Joseph Fish, of Holbrook, was born at Twelve 
 Mile Grove, Will county, 111., June 27, 1840, be- 
 ing a son of Horace and Hannah (Lea'vitt) Fish, 
 natives of Clanada. The grandfather, Joseph 
 Fish, was a native of New Hampshire and a son 
 of Nathan Fish, whose birth occurred in Massa- 
 chusetts. The Fish family descends from En- 
 glish ancestry, but has long been identified with 
 American history, and one of the name served 
 under Churchill in King Philip's war. Several 
 members of his grandmother's family served in 
 the colonial army during the Revolution and 
 fought under Morgan as sharpshooters, assisting 
 in the capture of General Burgoyne at Saratoga. 
 
 The boyhood days of Horace Fish were spent 
 in Canada, where his father resided from early 
 manhood until death. However, he himself 
 sought a more favorable location, and about 
 1837 came to the states, settling in Will county, 
 111., with his family. In 1846 he left Illinois and 
 the next year settled in Council Blufifs, Iowa, 
 but in 1850 went to Utah, having previously be-
 
 WILLIAM M. MUNDS.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 367 
 
 come a member of the Mormon Church. He 
 died in southern Utah in 1870, and his wife 
 passed away six years later. They were the 
 parents of si.x children, all of whom survive, the 
 youngest being fifty-three years of age at this 
 writing. 
 
 In the village of Parowan. Iron county, I'tah. 
 the subject of this sketch received a limited edu- 
 cation. March 22, 1859, he married Mary Camp- 
 bell Steele, daughter of John and Catharine 
 (Campbell) Steele, of southern Utah. From 
 Scotland, their native land, Mr. and Mrs. Steele 
 came to America about 1843. At that time their 
 daughter, Mary C, who was born in P)elfast, Ire- 
 land, was five years old. She died in December, 
 1874, leaving four daughters and two sons, all 
 of whom survive. The second marriage of Mr. 
 Fish took place May 1, 1876, and united him 
 with Adelaide, daughter of Jesse N. Smith, who 
 is president of the .\rizona Co-operative Mer-. 
 cantile Institution and in the Mormon Church 
 acts as president of the Snowflake Stake. By 
 his second marriage Mr. Fish has three sons. 
 
 During his residence in Utah Mr. Fish was 
 engaged in farming and the mercantile business. 
 From 1865 to 1871, during the Indian cam- 
 paigns, he was a member of the Utah Militia, 
 Tenth Iron County Regiment, coriimanded by 
 Ool. W. H. Dame, and at first held commission 
 as lieutenant, later being promoted to the rank 
 of major and aide-de-camp to the colonel. While 
 in the service he took part in several Indian 
 campaigns and engaged in a few skirmishes. He 
 was admitted to the bar in Utah. For a few 
 years he served as justice of the peace, for 
 one term was treasurer of Iron county and for 
 two terms served as county clerk of the same 
 county. Politically he is a Republican. 
 
 In January, 1879, Mr. Fish settled at Snow- 
 flake, Ariz. During the greater part of the year 
 1880 he had charge of the commissary depart- 
 ment for the contractor in building the Atlantic 
 & Pacific Railroad through the western part of 
 New Mexico and eastern Arizona. In 1881 ho 
 became connected with the Arizona Mercantile 
 Institution, which has claimed most of his time 
 since, with the exception of three years spent on 
 the Gila at SafFord, in Graham countv. where 
 he engaged in the mercantile liusiness and for 
 a time had charge of a grist mill. During his 
 
 residence in Safford he was elected, on the Re- 
 publican ticket, a member of the house of the 
 eighteenth legislature, and while in that body 
 served as chairman of the conmiittee on irriga- 
 tion and a member of the judiciary and ways and 
 means committees. 
 
 It is saitl of Mr. I''ish l)y those who know him 
 well that he has qualities which adapt him 
 Ijeculiarly for the work of a historian. He occu- 
 pied the position of stake recorder or historian 
 for the Eastern Arizona Stake for several years. 
 In 1896 he began the collection of data for an 
 historical work on .Arizona, and has now about 
 completed liis researches. When ])uhlished, the 
 work will be one of standaril merit and a recog- 
 nized authority in its line, and especially con- 
 cerning the early colonization of the county and 
 Indian wars. He has what is probably the only 
 collection of photographs of all the governors 
 of Arizona and the compilers of this work are 
 indebted to him for the use of the same, for 
 which they desire to express appreciation. 
 
 WILLIAM M. MUNDS. 
 
 .■\ typical, hardy dweller of the western jikiins. 
 a successful miner, large cattle raiser, one of the 
 early and forceful pioneers and developers of 
 Jerome, and a breezy, large-hearted product of 
 the crude and resourceful west, Mr. Munds has 
 been associated with Arizona and Yavapai coun- 
 ty since 1876. Of southern birth, he was born in 
 Kentucky in 1836, his parents being James and 
 Mary (Williams) Munds. When but a baby in 
 arms his industrious parents moved their family 
 to Missouri, on the Iowa line, where William M. 
 was trained to the life of a farmer and educated 
 in the jiublic schools of his county. When four- 
 teen years of age an opportunity to see the coun- 
 try lying to the west presented itself, and he 
 accomijanied ; n expedition of emigrants to Cali- 
 fornia, going thence by way of wagons and ox- 
 teams, the journey consuming several weeks. 
 
 .Arriving on the Pacific coast, Mr. Munds en- 
 gaged in placer mining in Eldorado county for 
 six years, spending in all seven years in different 
 parts of the state. In 1857 he ventured upon 
 another means of livelihood afforded by the pe- 
 culiar adaptability of the state of Oregon, and 
 began the raising of stock in connection with
 
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 mining and prospecting. Still more extensive 
 stock-raising was undertaken after removing to 
 Arizona in 1876, and two years later he settled 
 in the Verde valley, where, in time, he became 
 the possessor of three large ranches and of sev- 
 eral thousand head of cattle. In the meantime, 
 in 1892, he had moved into Jerome, and in con- 
 nection witli his ranches carried on a meat mar- 
 ket with decided success for about six years. 
 From the first his interest in Jerome was pro- 
 nounced, and his faith in the future of the city 
 was emphatically and practically demonstrated. 
 When the incorporation of the city was contem- 
 plated he lent the weight of his influence and 
 gave a helping hand, and insisted upon the incor- 
 poration, in spite of opposing factions and bitter 
 hindrances. As a consequence the charter was 
 secured, and the disinterested efforts of Mr. 
 Munds were rewarded hy his appointment as 
 first mayor of the town. His administration was 
 well received, and his sincerity and loyalty to the 
 common good was never doubted for an instant. 
 
 At present enjoying a well-earned respite from 
 active business life, Mr. Munds devotes his time 
 to the management of his real estate and to 
 numerous personal afifairs. Out of the various 
 real estate holdings which he has at times owned 
 he still retains the Tovrea building and several 
 building lots. He also owns interests in mining 
 near Jerome, and in the Verde and Cherry dis- 
 tricts. In local politics he has been prominent, 
 and invariably supports the Democratic party. 
 Fraternally he is a Mason, and is a member of 
 the Verde Lodge No. 14, also of the Flagstaff 
 chapter of Royal Arch Masons. 
 
 Mr. Munds has been twice married. The first 
 Mrs. Munds, who was formerly Sarah Jane Cox, 
 left five children, of whom two survive: Mel- 
 vina, the wife of Dr. Carrier; and J. L. Munds, 
 sheriff of Yavapai county. The present Mrs. 
 Munds was Ann La Tourette, a daughter of 
 John La Tourette, now a resident of Phoenix. 
 There are no children of this union. Mrs. Munds 
 came to .Arizona with her parents in 1876. 
 
 VERNON L. CLARK. 
 
 Since establishing his home in Phoenix Mr. 
 Clark has become one of the leaders of the 
 Democratic party in Maricopa countv. and is 
 
 now serving as chairman of the county central 
 committee. His large acquaintance and un- 
 bounded popularity gives him an influential fol- 
 lowing, while his shrewd judgment of men and 
 affairs make his counsel of value in all important 
 movements. In business circles he also takes a 
 foremost rank, and his success is all the more 
 notable from the fact that it has been secured 
 by his own judicious management. 
 
 Mr. Clark was born near Stanton. Ky., Sep- 
 tember 20), 1861, and is the second in order of 
 birth in a family of four children, three sons and 
 one daughter, but is the only one living in Ari- 
 zona. His great-grandfather, James Clark, came 
 to this country from Ireland and settled in Mary- 
 land, where his death occurred. The grand- 
 father, William Clark, was born in that state, 
 and at an early day removed to Clark county, 
 Ky., becoming one of its pioneer farmers. Dr. 
 John T. Clark, our subject's father, was a native 
 of Clark county, Ky., where he engaged in the 
 practice of medicine throughout life, being a 
 graduate of the Starling Medical College of Col- 
 umbus, Ohio. At the age of nineteen years he 
 enlisted in an independent company of volun- 
 teers raised for the Mexican war, and served 
 under Gen. John S. Williams. He was a mem- 
 ber of the state legislature of Kentucky in 1864- 
 5, and was one of the most prominent and in- 
 fluential men of liis community. In religious 
 belief he was a Cumberland Presbyterian. He 
 died in 1888, but his wife is still a resident of 
 Kentucky. Both were of Scotch-Irish descent. 
 She bore the maiden name of Jincy Stewart, and 
 was born in Powell county, Ky., as was also her 
 father, Madison Stewart, who was a farmer by 
 occupation. He married a Miss Daniel, whose 
 mother was Annie Scholl, of Virginia, a niece 
 of Daniel Boone. His father had removed to 
 Kentucky with that pioneer and Indian fighter. 
 
 At the age of two years Vernon L. Clark ac- 
 companied his parents on their removal to Pilot 
 Mew, Clark county, Ky., where he grew to man- 
 hood, his education being obtained in the dis- 
 trict schools. In 1882 he entered the employ 
 of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad as clerk, 
 and two years later became bookkeeper for Ma- 
 son & Hoge, rtilroad contractors, at work in 
 Kentucky. Later he was at their headquarters 
 in f-'iankfort. that state, and served as auditor
 
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 of the Kentucky Midland Railroad, which they 
 built. From 1891 until 1896 he was secretary 
 and treasurer of the Kentucky Investment & 
 Building Association of Frankfort. 
 
 Resigning in the latter year Mr. Clark came 
 to Phoenix, Ariz., as a railroad contractor, grad- 
 ing sidings and raising the grades on the South- 
 ern Pacific Railroad for one year. He then 
 assisted in organizing the Lawrence & Clark 
 Vehicle Company, of which Mr. Lawrence is 
 president and our subject secretary and treas- 
 urer. They represent the Columbus Buggy 
 Company; Durant & Dart, of Flint, Mich.; and 
 Babcock, of Watertown, N. Y.; and carry on 
 business at Nos. 26 to 32 West Adams street, 
 where they have the largest carriage repository 
 in Arizona, it being 50x138 feet in dimensions. 
 Mr. Clark was also one of the organizers of the 
 Alhambra Brick Company, which has a capital 
 stock of $50,000, and of which he is president. 
 They manufacture building brick and have a fine 
 modern plant three miles northwest of Phoenix, 
 which is operated by steam power and has a 
 capacity of thirty-six thousand five hundred 
 brick per day. 
 
 In Clark county, Ky., Mr. Clark married Miss 
 Kate Strode, who was born there and died in 
 that state. In religious belief he is a Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian, but there being no church of 
 that denomination in Phoenix he attends the 
 Episcopal Church, in which he is serving as ves- 
 tryman. He was made a Mason in W. H. Cun- 
 ningham Lodge No. 572, in Kentucky, with 
 which he still holds membership, and was later 
 raised to the degrees of Royal Arch Mason and 
 Knight Templar at Frankfort, but is now a 
 member of the chapter and commandery at 
 Phoenix, and also belongs to El Zaribah Tem- 
 ple, N. M. S. He is a member of Maricopa 
 Club, is also a member and director of the Board 
 of Trade, and a director of the Phoenix Library 
 Association. While a resident of Frankfort, 
 Ky., he served as city treasurer one term, and 
 since coming to Phoenix has taken a prominent 
 part in political affairs, serving as chairman of 
 the county Democratic central committee and 
 of the county executive committee, and also as 
 a member of the territorial committees. He is 
 a man whose gonial tciii]H'ranieiit, sound juflg- 
 ment and well-proved integrity have brought 
 
 him the esteem and "friendship of a host of ac- 
 quaintances far and near. 
 
 HON. O. L. GEER. 
 
 The little town of Martinez owes much of its 
 growth and present standing to the untiring 
 efforts of one of its most prominent citizens, 
 O. L. Geer. While ostensibly a mining man, 
 and devoting the greater part of his time to 
 wresting from mother earth her stores of treas- 
 ure, he is practically interestetl in most of the 
 paying enterprises of the town, although he has 
 been here only about two years. As manager 
 of the Martinez Mercantile Company, in which 
 organization he owns most of the stock, he has 
 built an extensive trade with the surrounding 
 camps, and receives a large patronage from the 
 residents of the village. In addition, he con- 
 ducts a hotel and livery and has a large-sized 
 corral. The hostelry is conducted along the 
 most approved lines, and the guests who patron- 
 ize it are sure of fair treatment, clean rooms and 
 a well-set table. 
 
 Mr. Geer was born in Lafayette county, Ky., 
 in 1847, and his boyhood days were passed in 
 Kentucky and Texas. When twenty-two years 
 of age, in 1869, he started for the west and 
 located in Arizona, which he has since regarded 
 as his permanent home. However, much of his 
 time for ten years was spent in New York, but, 
 owing to failing health, he eventually returned 
 to his old haunts in Arizona, having that fond- 
 ness for the territory which comes to almost all 
 who once linger within its bounds. From the 
 first he was interested in mining and prospect- 
 ing, and at the present time has claims in Mari- 
 copa and Yuma counties, which promise large 
 returns from development. It is needless to say 
 that in this healthful climate, and under the ex- 
 hilarating intluence of business success, his tem- 
 porarily shattered health has regained its normal 
 condition, .\dded to the many other responsi- 
 bilities of his life, is the position of general man- 
 ager of the .\rizona Development Company of 
 Philadelphia, a corporation capitalized at $1,000,- 
 000. 
 
 The principles of the Democratic party have 
 a stanch supporter in Mr. Geer. In November, 
 1900, he was elected to the legislature from
 
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 Yavapai county, and is now filling the office with 
 the same credit to himself characteristic of all 
 his work. At New Orleans he was made a Ma- 
 son and now stands high in that fraternity. In 
 1887 he married Miss .\nnabella M. Marsalles, 
 who was born in New Orleans, and they now 
 have a pleasant home in ^Martinez, where the 
 numerous friends of the family delight to con- 
 gregate. 
 
 BENJAMIN F. McFALL. 
 
 Benjamin F. McFall, horticulturist, and pres- 
 ent recorder of Maricopa county, was born No- 
 vember 20, 1858. in Gentry county, Mo., and is a 
 son of John and Martha (Sylvia) McFall. natives 
 respectively of Kentucky and Missouri. The an- 
 cestry of the McFall family is Scotch-Irish. 
 John McFall was a prominent man in the locali- 
 ties in which he resided, and while living in Mis- 
 souri exerted a w'ide influence in the affairs of 
 the community. The town of McFall, Mo., was 
 named after him, in recognition of his services 
 as a citizen, and of his character as a man. He 
 died in Maricopa county, Ariz., in 1892, having 
 removed to the far west in 1886. His wife is at 
 present residing near Phoenix, and is in her 
 seventy-fifth year. 
 
 Until his eighteenth year B. F. McFall was 
 surrounded by the influences that mold the 
 character of the average farm-reared boy. Aside 
 from the advantages of the public schools, he 
 attended the Missouri State University, at Col- 
 umbia, Mo., for two years, and at times during 
 the early years had opportunity to acquire con- 
 siderable business experience. Upon starting 
 out to earn his own livelihood, Mr. McFall was 
 for two years .a clerk in the Albany Bank, at .Al- 
 bany, Mo., and subsequently engaged in a mer- 
 cantile business at McFall, Mo., for about three 
 years. In the hope of regaining his somewhat 
 impaired health he went to Arizona in 1885, and, 
 having derived satisfactory results from the 
 change, decided to make the fertile Salt River 
 valley a permanent abiding place. 
 
 ]'"or a time, in Phoenix, Mr. McFall was in- 
 terested in clerical work, but later settled upon 
 his ranch in Maricopa county, six miles north- 
 east of Phoi'iii.x. The ])r()pert\' is largely de- 
 voted to llie culture of (irangcs, tn the stud\ of 
 
 which the successful owner has given much time 
 and attention, and close scientific investigation. 
 Aside from the affairs of his farm Mr. McFall 
 is variously interested in the general happen- 
 ings of his adopted locality, and has received 
 substantial recognition of his ability to serve 
 the public. In November of 1900 he was elected 
 recorder of Maricopa county, as the candidate 
 of the Democratic party, for a term of two years, 
 and he has also served on the school board of 
 his district as a trustee. He has always been 
 a stanch Democrat. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Masonic order. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. McFall and Nannie Her- 
 man, who was a native of Iowa, occurred at 
 Albany, Mo., in 1881, where her father, William 
 Herman, was residing. Of this union there are 
 three children, Nellie, Herman, and Rick. Mr. 
 and Mrs. McFall are members and active work- 
 ers in the Baptist Church at Phoenix, of which 
 he was formerly a deacon. 
 
 JUDGE L. C. HERR. 
 
 Judge L. C. Herr has been identified with the 
 changeful fortunes of Arizona since 1888. At 
 first ir.fluenced hither by the widespread belief 
 in the opportunities for mining, he became inter- 
 ested in prospecting in the Big Cottonwood 
 mountains, and in time so far realized his ex- 
 pectations as to become the owner of such valu- 
 able properties as the Mohawk mines and the 
 Dewey. After locating in Florence his general 
 ability received ready recognition, and in addi- 
 tion to the various responsibilities assumed by 
 him was the probate judgeship, to which he was 
 elected in 1896. So satisfactory were his ser- 
 vices in this connection, and so aptly and tactful- 
 ly were the issues brought before him adjusted, 
 that his re-election followed in 1898, and again 
 in 1900. As a stanch and uncompromising 
 member of the Democratic party which placed 
 him in office, he is a force in a communitx which 
 recognizes a correct interpretation of the laws, 
 and which values and needs such citizenshi]) as 
 is furnished l)y the life and efforts of the probate 
 judge of Pinal county. Undoubtedly a large 
 share of his success is due to the kinship which 
 exists between the localits and himself, for his 
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 all times apparent, and substantiated by his own- 
 ersliip i)f a luinic here and other property as 
 well. 
 
 A native of Dauphin county, Pa., Judge Herr 
 was born in 1848, and was educated in Illinois 
 and Ohio. His first indepcntlent venture was 
 as a salesman for .an eastern firm, his route com- 
 prising Illinois, Ohio, and Kansas, from which 
 occupation he came to the broader possibilities 
 of Arizona. In Florence he has been conspicu- 
 ous for his long maintainetl and practical interest 
 in education, and has done much to bring about 
 the present excellent system of instruction. He 
 is now superintendent of public instruction. Fra- 
 ternally he is associated with the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen. He was married in 1872 
 to Nancy Stanfield, of Spring \'alley, Ohio. 
 They are the parents of two children, Guy and 
 Beulah. 
 
 HENRY ARP.UCKLE. 
 
 This veteran railroad man of Clifton is and 
 has been for many years one of the most trusted 
 and highly respected employes of the celebrated 
 .\rizona Copper Company. He has just reason 
 to be proud of the admirable record which he 
 has made, and we are pleased to present to his 
 numerous friends in Graham county and else- 
 where the following facts in regard to himself 
 and his chosen field of usefulness. 
 
 The fine souvenir edition of the ".\rizona P>ul- 
 letin," published at Solomonville, the county 
 seat of Graham county, in January, igoo, con- 
 tained a concise account of the mining enter- 
 prises of the Arizona Copper Company, .\fter 
 relating the great difficulties under which the 
 pioneer company labored here, when "cop])er 
 was shipped by bull teams to La Junta, 600 
 miles away, the nearest railroad station," the 
 journal further said: "In those days the 
 Apaches were very bold, occasionally dashing 
 into the outskirts of the town and capturing 
 freightingoutfits. Like wise generals, the Leszyn- 
 skys" (then owners of the celebrated Longfellow 
 mine and other mining property here) '"rec- 
 ognized the supreme importance of a safe line 
 of communication between the mines and the 
 works. They accordingly hauled in steel rails 
 and a small locomotive and l)uilt .Xrizona's first 
 
 H 
 
 mining, railroad (a 20-inch gauge), the rails being 
 laid from Clifton to Longfellow, a distance of 
 over four miles. Henry Arbuckle set up this 
 little locomotive, the first one in .-Xrizona, and 
 was its engineer and has been with the 'Raby 
 Gauge' ever since." 
 
 The small engine mentioned weighed only 
 four ,and a half tons, and was the first one ever 
 made for a twenty-inch track. Small as it was, 
 it was no slight undertaking to transport it by 
 ox teams 600 miles. When it arrived here Mr. 
 .\rbuckle was placed in charge of it and for more 
 than two years was engineer of the s.ame, then 
 being transferred to larger ones, and to-day, 
 running on the same narrow-gauge track en- 
 gines of nineteen and one-half tons are being 
 used. For twenty-one years he has traversed 
 the eight-mile track between Clifton and the 
 mines, and during the early period of his ex- 
 perience always had his rifle at hand, as the In- 
 dians frequently attacked him on the engine. 
 On one occasion the speed of his engine and his 
 own cool and daring character saved his life, 
 and on the day following it was his sad task to 
 bring into town the bodies of five white men 
 who had been killed by the bloodthirsty foe. 
 
 During the long and steady service of Mr. 
 .'\rbuckle he has never had any serious misfor- 
 tune or casualty laid to his charge, and he is 
 noted for his great care and fidelity to his du- 
 ties. The distance of his present run, four 
 miles and two hundred feet, is from Clifton to the 
 "Longfellow incline" — a remarkable piece of 
 railroading. Several curves have a 42-degTee 
 reversion on a 40-degree slant, and for the quar- 
 ter of a mile before reaching the "incline" the 
 grade is 303 feet to the mile. To those ac- 
 quainted with the difficulties of this railroad up 
 the caiion, the fact that our subject has so many 
 thousands of times with his engine climbed and 
 descended the slopes without accident is a mat- 
 ter of wonder as well as of admiration. 
 
 From boyhood Mr. .\rbuckle has devoted his 
 entire attention to railroading, and like most 
 successful men, knows the one business thor- 
 oughly, and that one alone. He is a native of 
 Pittsburg, Pa., born in 1836, and spent the first 
 fourteen years of his life in the "Smoky City." 
 receiving a public school education. Until 1830 
 he resided in the east, and then went to Call-
 
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 fornia, but Arizona has long had greater charms 
 for him, he having been a resident of this ter- 
 ritory since 1876. As a citizen he upholds all 
 measures which make for the good of his com- 
 munity, .and in national elections votes the Re- 
 publican ticket. 
 
 J. H. THOMPSON. 
 
 The record of Mr. Thompson as sheriff of Gila 
 county is not excelled by any one in the terri- 
 tory who has held a similar position. At first 
 initiated into the responsibility by filling the un- 
 expired term of Sheriff Glen Reynolds, who was 
 killed by Indian Kid, he was, at the end of the 
 seven months, regularly elected to the ofiflce, 
 serving for three successive terius, during 1890- 
 2-4, and was again elected November 6, 1900. 
 His discharge of the duties of the office has 
 met with general approval, and he is commended 
 for the tact, discretion and impartiality which 
 have characterized his disposition of difficult 
 and aggravating situations. 
 
 Mr. Thompson's early remembrances are asso- 
 ciated with his boyhood days in Texas, where 
 he was born December 19, 1861, a son of W. 
 G. and Ellen (Williams) Thompson, natives of 
 Tennessee. The father was prominent in the 
 earl}' history of Texas, having settled there in 
 1836, and he was a veteran of the Mexican war. 
 His useful and industrious life terminated in 
 November, 1870. His wife is still living, and has 
 for some time made her home in Globe. When 
 nineteen years of age J. H. Thompson started 
 out to face the serious and responsible side of 
 life, and settled in the north end of Gila county 
 in the Tonto basin, where he became interested 
 in the cattle business. In search of more con- 
 genial and remunerative occupation he settled 
 in Globe in 1889, having sold his stock and land 
 in the Gila valley, and for six or seven months 
 worked in the mines in the vicinity of Globe. 
 The following June he assumed control of the 
 office of sheriff, antl has since been prominently 
 before the eyes of the public. Exception may 
 be made of his trip to the Klondike, which was 
 undertaken in the interval of his respite from the 
 cares of office between 1894 and 1900. At the 
 present time he is still extensively engaged in 
 niinins/ and stock raising, and owns a herd of 
 
 cattle on Canon creek. He owns large interests 
 in prospects, and has thirty-five claims in one 
 bunch in the Pioneer mining district. In Globe 
 he has built a comfoi table residence, and has two 
 houses on the half block of ground which he 
 owns. 
 
 January i, 1887, Mr. Thompson married Car- 
 rie L. Nash, who was born near Cincinnati, 
 Greene county, Ind. Of this union there are 
 two living children, Louis and Ellen. Three 
 sons are deceased. In politics Mr. Thompson is 
 affiliated with the Democratic party, and is em- 
 phatically in favor of the principles and issues of 
 that organization. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen, the United Moderns, and the 
 Elks, in Globe. He is a charter member of the 
 Odd Fellows Lodge. 
 
 JOHN B. JONES. 
 
 As a stranger among unaccustomed surround- 
 ings, and with little to depend on save his own 
 perseverance and determination to succeed, Mr. 
 Jones came to Arizona in 1892, and has, step by 
 step, forged his way to the front in the face of 
 discouragements and obstacles, and is now one 
 of the successful citizens of Williams. He was 
 born in Orange county, N. C, in 1862, and was 
 reared and educated in Chatham county, whither 
 his parents had in the mean time removed. It 
 was not until 1892 that he left the surroundings 
 of his youth and came to Coconino county, Ariz., 
 a contrast indeed from the peaceful agricultural 
 life of an old and settled country. 
 
 In Arizona Mr. Jones started a mercantile 
 business at Challartder, Coconino county, and 
 after four years went to Flagstaff, where he re- 
 mained for a year. He later had a store at En- 
 terprise, and a saw-mill, which he successfully 
 conducted until 1897, when he located in Wil- 
 liams. Here he has a well-managed general 
 merchandise store, stocked with the things most 
 in demand in a town located in the midst of a 
 splendid timber and grazing country, and shel- 
 tering inhabitants from all parts of the United 
 States and Europe. Added to a keen financial 
 ability, the enterprising storekeeper is affable in 
 manner and sincerely desirous of pleasing, all 
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 tomers. He is extensively interested in mining 
 in the Grand canon, and has some good ])ros- 
 pects, and also owns eighteen lots in the city of 
 Williams. He has done much to further the 
 interests of the city, and spares neither time nor 
 expense when the well-being of the citizens is 
 the question for consideration. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Jones is an uncom- 
 promising Democrat. Besides several other lo- 
 cal offices held in the j>ast. he was elected a 
 member of the board of supervisors of Coconino 
 county in November of 1898, serving for two 
 years. In 1900 he was appointed assessor of 
 Coconino county, and is now serving in that 
 office. In fraternal circles he is very prominent, 
 and is affiliated with the Masons and Elks at 
 Flagstaff, and with the Woodmen and Red Men 
 at Williams, of which latter organization he is 
 treasurer. Mr. Jones was married in Boston, 
 Mass., August 20, 1896, to Maud M. Jordan, a 
 native of Maine. They have one child, H. Leon, 
 aged four years. 
 
 FRANK E. MURPHY. 
 
 Few of the residents of Tucson are as familiar 
 with the vast mining interests scattered through- 
 out the territory of Arizona as is Mr. Murphy, 
 sheriff of Pima county, nor have any watched 
 and assisted in the development of the mining 
 resources with a greater amount of enthusiasm 
 or keener interest in the ultimate results. While 
 acquiring a general and far-reaching knowledge 
 of the various treasures which enterprise has 
 brought to the surface in enormous quantities, 
 he Ixas made a special study of conditions as they 
 exist in Pima and Pinal counties. 
 
 The Murphy family have made lluir home in 
 America for many years. The paternal grand- 
 father was born in Ireland, and when a young 
 boy migrated with his parents to Kentucky, 
 subsequently settling in Lewis county. Mo. The 
 maternal grandfather was born in Virginia. 
 Frank E. Murphy was born in Lewis county, 
 Mo., April 9, 1861, and is a son of James L. and 
 Harriett (Hardin) Murphy, natives of Kentucky. 
 James Mur|)]iy was a farmer and stock man, and 
 died when his s. m ("rank was hut thirteen years 
 of age. Mrs. Murphy, who is now living in Sac- 
 ramento, Cal., is a daughter of Thomas Hardin, 
 
 of Kentucky, and is a relative uf the noted law- 
 yer Benjamin Hardin, of Kentucky, who died 
 in Lewis county, of which he was one of the 
 earliest settlers. 
 
 Frank E. Murphy is the oldest living son in 
 a family of six children, of whom one son is 
 deceased. Until his thirteenth year he lived in 
 Lewis county, at which time the family removed 
 to Sacramento, Cal.. where they engaged in 
 farming and stock-raising. Here he continued 
 his studies in the public schools, and in 1882 
 started out in the world to seek his fortune. Ar- 
 riving in Tucson he engaged for a time in the 
 cattle business, and in 1S84 became interested in 
 mining, principally in Pima and Maricojja coun- 
 ties. Under pressure of all the duties and re- 
 sponsibilities which have since come his way 
 Mr. Murphy has still retained an interest in min- 
 ing, and is an ardent advocate of the manifold 
 advantages to be derived from a residence in this 
 promising country. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Murphy was nominated for sher- 
 iff of Pima county on the Democratic ticket, and 
 was elected by a majority of two hundred and 
 fifty votes. His term of office as sheriff extends 
 from January i, 1901, until January i, 1903. He 
 has ever been interested in the political under- 
 takings of his party and is one of the representa- 
 tive citizens of Tucson, being enterprising, pro- 
 gressive, and public-spirited. 
 
 PHILEMON C. MERRILL. 
 
 The county assessor of Graham county was 
 born in Bear Lake county, Idaho, and is a son of 
 P. C. and Lucinda (Brown) Merrill, who have, 
 during a large part of their lives, been engaged 
 in farming. .\t the age of ten years he came to 
 Arizona with his parents, settling at St. David, 
 Cochise county, where they lived for about ten 
 years, and then came to the Gila valley and 
 Pima. 
 
 lentil about three years ago Mr. Merrill was 
 engaged in farming, and was a successful tiller 
 of the soil, and an enterprising citizen of his 
 locality. In 1897 and 1898 he served as deputy 
 countv assessor under Sheriff Birchfield. Janu- 
 ary I. 1900. he was appointed county assessor 
 by the board of supervisors, and in November 
 of 1900 was regularly elected to that office on
 
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 the Democratic ticket for a term of two years. 
 During his residence here he has been inter- 
 ested in all of the leading political undertakings, 
 and was justice of the peace for two terms. In 
 connection with his ofificial responsibility he is 
 variously interested in the enterprises which are 
 rendered possible by the large resources of the 
 locality, and, situated in the heart of a great 
 agricultural and wheat district, he has availed 
 himself of this opportunity and has a farm of 
 fifty acres one mile from Pima. The property 
 serves as a relaxation to its owner from the 
 cares of city life, although it is leased by ten- 
 ants. Mr. Merrill also owns a house and lot in 
 town, and several paying and promising mining 
 claims in the Montezuma district. He also owns 
 interests in the Bryce Irrigation & Canal Com- 
 pany, and is interested in the best way of over- 
 coming the greatest shortcoming of the county, 
 that of water limitations. 
 
 The union of Mr. Merrill and Pearl Weech, a 
 daughter of Hiram and Sarah Weech, occurred 
 October i6, 1898, and of this union there is one 
 child, Paul, born November 16, 1899. Mr. Mer- 
 rill and wife are members of the Mormon 
 Church, and Mr. Merrill has held office in the 
 Mutual Aid Association. 
 
 GEORGE W. COOL, D. D. S. 
 
 It is an undisputed fact that of all the pro- 
 fessions which spring into being at the call of 
 civilization in different parts of the world, that 
 of dental surgery, one of the most necessary and 
 important, is really the least understood and 
 appreciated. Nor is this deficiency of under- 
 standing confined to comparatively new coun- 
 tries, for China, of almost forgotten antiquity, 
 regards the care and treatment of the teeth as 
 secondary in importance. Physicians have 
 abounded from time immemorial, and have been 
 an integral and sometimes predominating force 
 in the social, religious, political and materia! 
 world of even conditions of savagery. The great 
 mass of people require and know of doctors, but 
 it is invariably the educatetl, orderly, and refined 
 element who recognize the part which dentists 
 play in the maintaining of health and general 
 well-being. It has therefore been the happy 
 fate of many dentists of ability to be recognized 
 
 as valuable adjuncts at foreign courts, where 
 they have held undisputed sway in the line of 
 their own choosing, and with necessarily limited 
 competition. Numerous instances may be cited 
 of Americans, than whom there are no more 
 skilled dentists in the world, who have been 
 royally received by the dignitaries of other gov- 
 ernments, and have held their own because of 
 their mastery of molar afflictions but vaguely 
 understood, and heretofore unvanquished. Dr. 
 Cool has been thus favored for a considerable 
 part of his professional career, and in this con- 
 nection has been within the shadow of the gov- 
 erning powers of Central America, and an inter- 
 ested witness of the internal strife which is the 
 unhappy and inevitable portion of that people. 
 Armed with a diploma of dentistry from the 
 Cniversity of California in 1884, and with a 
 postgraduate diploma from Haskell's College 
 of Dentistry in Chicago, he further studied at the 
 national university at Costa Rica, Central Amer- 
 ica, and was subsequently for five years state 
 dentist for the five republics. During this time 
 he was special dentist for the presidents of the 
 five republics, the ill-fated Rufino Barrios be- 
 ing then in power, who afterward was treacher- 
 ousl\' assassinated. During the presidency of 
 Emanuel Barillas, the doctor was president of 
 the board of dental examiners of Costa Rica. 
 During the revolution, when Barillas went out 
 of power. Dr. Cool was obliged to leave the 
 country, and take up his residence in San Fran- 
 cisco. For most of the positions which he 
 creditably sustained in Central America he was 
 indebted to the friendly interests of Barillas, 
 president of Guatemala., and during whose reign 
 he accumulated a Irrge fortune in a compara- 
 tively short time. The exjjerience gained was 
 by no means secondaix, the knowledge of the 
 language alone, which is a high grade of Span- 
 ish, and which himself and f;imily mastered per- 
 fectly, more than com]iensated for many of the 
 inconveniences which they were obliged to un- 
 dergo. 
 
 The childhood of Dr. Cool was spent in Vic- 
 toria, British Columbia, where he was born in 
 1865, a son of G. W. and \'irginia (Pleasants) 
 Cool, natives respectively of Ohio rnd Ken- 
 tucky. The elder Cool was among the wealth 
 seekers who went to California in the davs of
 
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 gold in 1849, and there his son was reared to 
 manhood and received the education which so 
 ahly fitted him for the responsibilities of after 
 life. After his return from Central America Dr. 
 Cool associated himself in 1892 with his brother. 
 Dr. Russell H. Cool, of San Francisco, with 
 whom he remained for fifteen months. He then 
 came to Arizona, and lived at Tombstone and 
 Bisbee for a couple of years, locating perma- 
 nently in Safiford in 1900. Here he has a fine 
 practice, and is enthusiastic over the town, its 
 people, and the general prospects. 
 
 In 1885 Dr. Cool married Mabel SchuUer, a 
 daughter of Andrew Schuller. Of this union 
 there are three children: Bessie, who is fifteen 
 years of age; Barillas, who is ten; and Ivah, nine 
 years old. Dr. Cool is fraternally identified 
 with the Masons at (Guatemala, and belongs to 
 the Central America blue lodge. Professionally 
 he is associated with the California State Dental 
 Society, with the Pacific Coast Dental Congress, 
 and is ex-president of the Oakland Dental Club, 
 of Oakland, Cal. In 1901 Governor Murphy ap- 
 point.ed him a member of the Territorial Board 
 of Registration in Dentistry. 
 
 WILLIAM MILTON BREAKENRIDGE. 
 
 Since the Centennial year the subject of this 
 article has been prominent in Arizona, and as 
 under-sheriff and deputy United States marshal 
 has been an inijiortant factor in the maintenance 
 of law and order. ISrave and fearless and un- 
 compromising iti the performiuice of his duties, 
 he justly earned the high respect in which he 
 is held by the general public, and his name will 
 go down in the history of this territory as one 
 of its truest friends and founders. 
 
 Of English ancestry, our subject's grandfa- 
 ther, Dr. George Ijreakenridge, was born in 
 Ontario, Canada, ancl after graduating from a 
 medical college went to Wisconsin, where he 
 was an early settler anil jiractitioner. His son, 
 George Dudley, father of William M. Breaken- 
 ridge, was born in Canada, and was married 
 there to Miss Eliza A. Ross, a native of the 
 same locality, and of Scotch descent. Tlie young 
 couple were pioneer citizens of Watertovvn, 
 Wis., and though he had formerly been engaged 
 in the lumber business, he now turned his at- 
 
 tention to railroading, and for a number of 
 years was a conductor on the Milwaukee & 
 Western Railroad. Both he and his wife de- 
 parted this life in Wisconsin. Of their four 
 children George E. is interested in mining oper- 
 ations, while his home is in British Columbia. 
 Airs. James Tremaine resides in Milwaukee, 
 Wis., arid Mrs. Celeste C. Carr lives in Qeve- 
 land, Ohio. 
 
 The birth of William M. Breakenridge took 
 place on Christmas day, 1846, in Watertown, 
 Wis., and his education was gained in the pub- 
 lic schools of that place. In 1861 the youth set 
 out to make his own way in the world, Pike's 
 Peak being his immediate goal. Starting over- 
 land from St. Joseph, Mo., he proceeded with 
 the mule train to Denver, the trip taking about 
 si.xty days. For a couple of years he was em- 
 ployed in the construction of the first telegraph 
 line ever made from Denver to Central City, 
 Colo., and upon its completion he w-as installed 
 as messenger hoy in the last-named town, re- 
 maining there until the spring of 1864. The In- 
 dians had been so threatening for some time 
 that the young man enlisted in Company B, 
 Third Colorado Cavalry, and participated in the 
 battle of Sand Creek and other skirmishes, be- 
 ing mustered out at the end of six months when 
 the redskins had been reduced to order. 
 
 Then followed a period in the life of our sub- 
 ject when he was occupied in the difficult and 
 ofttimes dangerous business of freighting. At 
 first he traversed the distance between Denver 
 and the Missouri river, and in icS67 the Indians 
 attacked his party and succeeded in driving off 
 all of their cattle. Later he teamed from Denver 
 to the North J'latte, then the terminal of the 
 Ihiion Pacific, and in the fall of 1867 accepted a 
 ]iosition as brakeman on that railroad. After a 
 year and a half. perha])s, of this life, he returned 
 to freighting, being associated with his brother, 
 and making trijjs to Bannock, Mont., Cheyenne 
 and Kit Carson. In conjunction with his 
 brother he tiien took the contract for building 
 that part of tlie Kansas Pacific between Kit Car- 
 son and Denver, and in 1870 joined the engi- 
 neering corps of the Denver & Rio Grande, help- 
 ing to drive the first stake of that wonderful 
 railroad, and continuing with its surveyors until 
 1876.
 
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 Having obtained a three montlis' leave of 
 absence from his late post of duty, Mr. Break- 
 enridge assumed the place of wagon-master and 
 guide for the Boston Colony which proposed to 
 locate on the Little Colorado. Crossing Ari- 
 zona to Sunset it was found that the country 
 desired had been taken up, and so they pursued 
 their way to Prescott. There our subject pur- 
 chased the teams of the party and engaged in 
 freighting and farming in the Salt River valley 
 in the vicinity of Phocn;x. In 1877 he was 
 made county surveyor of Maricopa county and 
 in the following year became deputy imder 
 Sheriff Thomas, in which capacity he served un- 
 til January, 1880. For several months he then 
 engaged in prospecting near Tombstone, Ariz., 
 but in the fall of 1880 was appointed deputy 
 sherifif under John H. Behan — a position he re- 
 tained for two years. After another interval of 
 two years and a half he was again called to an 
 official ijlace, this time being appointed deputy 
 United States marshal under W. K. Mead, with 
 Phoenix as his headquarters. In 1891 he was 
 made special officer for the Southern Pacific, 
 taking the place of Vic Wilson, who had just 
 been killed by Evans and Sontag, near Visalia, 
 Cal. About 1893 a train was held up twelve 
 miles west of Los Angeles, Cal., by "Kid" 
 Thompson and Johnson, and owing to the skill 
 and clever management of Mr. Breakenridge 
 and two of his associate deputies, the outlaws 
 were located in Maricopa county, arrested and 
 taken to Los Angeles, where Thompson was 
 convicted and received a life sentence. Septem- 
 ber 30, 1894, Oscar Rogers, Frank Armour and 
 John Donovan robbed a train near Maricopa, 
 Ariz., and the next morning Armour was ar- 
 rested near Phoenix and Rogers three days later 
 near Yuma, both receiving sentence to forty 
 years in the penitentiary. In 1895 Grant Wheeler 
 and Joe George blew open a safe near Willcox 
 and escaped to the mountains, but our subject 
 followed them. They separated and he contin- 
 ued in pursuit of Wheeler across Arizona and 
 into San Juan county, Colo. At last he cor- 
 nered the desperado, who, upon being ordered 
 to surrender, blew out his own brains. Scores 
 of other instances of our subject's fidelity and 
 efficiency in the pathway of his duty might be 
 cited, but it is unnecessary, as his worth is well 
 
 known throughout the southwest. During the 
 nine years when he was deputy United States 
 marshal he had numerous unpleasant and highly 
 exciting adventures, but never flinched from 
 duty. Since 1891 he has lived in Tucson, where 
 he has been stock claim agent and special offi- 
 cer of the Southern Pacific. In political prefer- 
 ence he is a Democrat, while fraternally he is a 
 charter member of the lodge and club of the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 GEORGE M. BROCKWAY, M. D. 
 
 Dr. Brockway is one of the most promising 
 and capable members of the medical profession 
 who have settled within the borders of Arizona. 
 A resident of Florence since 1894, he has not 
 only met v^'ith a deserved success as physician 
 and surgeon, but has as well been substantially 
 identified with the social, intellectual and mate- 
 rial growth of the city, and with the concerted 
 attempt on the part of the residents to restore 
 the old time prestige and enterprise. 
 
 The youth of Dr. Brockway was spent in 
 Lyme, New London county. Conn., where he 
 was born in 1864. After a three years' course in 
 Amherst College he entered the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Buffalo, completing 
 the course with the class of 1890. For the fol- 
 lowing year he filled the post of house physician 
 and surgeon at the Buffalo general hospital, and 
 subsequently conducted an independent prac- 
 tice for three years in what is now a part of 
 Greater New York. With glowing expectations 
 regarding the great west, he resided for a time 
 in Southern California, .but being dissatisfied 
 with the climate came to Arizona the following 
 January, and in Florence, which has since been 
 his home, assumed charge of the county hospi- 
 tal. In addition to being the contract physician 
 and surgeon of the hospital, he owns the drug 
 store in connection therewith, and fills the post 
 of county physician. The greater part of his 
 time is devoted to his profession, and there is no 
 more progressive and wide-awake exponent of 
 medical science in the county. 
 
 Dr. Brockway is interested to a limited extent 
 in fanning, and owns a farm on the Florence 
 canal, but owing to an insufficient amount of 
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 as one might wish. He is great!)- interested in 
 the matter of water supply, as are most who are 
 dependent upon artificial irrigation. He is a 
 member, and has twice been vice-president of 
 the Territorial Medical Association, and is a 
 member of the American Medical Association. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. He is medical ex- 
 aminer for the New York Life Insurance Com- 
 pany, the Mutual Life of New York, the Penn- 
 sylvania Mutual, the Equitable and other com- 
 panies. He was married November 8, 1892. to 
 Esther A. Kelley, of Providence, R. I. They 
 have one son, Marsliall F. 
 
 JOHN T. DENNIS. 
 
 Nearly forty years have passed since John T. 
 Dennis, of Phoenix, became a permanent settler 
 of .Arizona, and probably no one is better known 
 in the southwest, nor more universally respected. 
 His history possesses many points of special in- 
 terest to the public, and the annals of .Vrizona 
 could not be properly compiled without giving 
 to this honored pioneer a prominent place. 
 
 More than a century ago the paternal grand- 
 father of our subject removed from Canada to 
 New Jersey, and in Sussex county his son, John 
 Dennis, was born in 1792. The latter, who was 
 the father of John T., removed to Hocking coun- 
 ty, Ohio, in 1825, and later lived in Muskingum 
 county, same state, where he was the proprietor 
 of a hotel for a period and also engaged in farm- 
 ing for some time. In 1841 he went to Guernsey 
 county, Ohio, six years subsequently became a 
 resident of Iowa, and from 1853 to 1858 lived at 
 his old home in Guernsey county, where he died 
 in the year last mentioned. He was a hero of 
 the war of 1812, having enlisted in a New Jersey 
 regiment. His wife, mother of our subject, bore 
 the name of Sarah Lewis in her girlhood. She 
 was born in New York state and came of an old 
 eastern family. Two of her sons, Peter and Jo- 
 seph, now deceased, served in an Ohio regiment 
 during the Civil war. Lewis, who died in Ore- 
 gon, went to that state in 1850, and another son, 
 James, who became a citizen of California the 
 same year, died in Tempe, .Ariz., in 1888. Three 
 others of the children besides John T. grew to 
 maturity and three died when young. 
 
 The birth of John T. Dennis took place near 
 Norwich, Ohio, January 8, 1840, and when he 
 was about six weeks old death deprived him of 
 his mother's love and care. When seven years 
 of age he accompanied his father to Iowa, re- 
 sided in Fairfield, Jefferson county, for some 
 time, and in 1853 returned to Ohio. After the 
 death of his father, the young man joined a party 
 and crossed the plains with ox teams to Cali- 
 fornia, by way of Omaha, the North Platte and 
 the Humboldt river. At the end of four months 
 he reached his destination, went to Lynch's 
 ranch, thence to the mines in Pine Grove, Surry 
 county, and other mining points. After pros- 
 pecting and mining for several years, with more 
 or less success, Mr. Dennis came to Arizona, 
 leaving San Francisco July 5, 1862. and riding 
 a horse all of the way, bringing supplies on pack- 
 mules. For about three years he worked in the 
 vicinity of La Paz, a mining camp, which sprang 
 into existence in 1862, had fifteen hundred in- 
 habitants at one time, but for a quarter of a cen- 
 tury has been a "deserted village." The rude 
 shanties and huts of brush-w'ood were sup- 
 planted by a block of good buildings, some of 
 which cost from $10,000 to $12,000, but all now 
 are in ruins. In 1863 the Vulture mine, which 
 has produced fully $15,000,000, of precious 
 metal, was discovered fourteen miles from Wick- 
 enburg, and Mr. Dennis engaged in freighting 
 and similar enterprises in that locality from 1865 
 to the close of 1868. 
 
 December 8, 1868, our subject settled in the 
 Salt River valley, locating a claim, a portion of 
 which now lies within the corporation limits of 
 Phoenix. In 1871-2 he assisted in surveying the 
 city, erected the first store, in which was estab- 
 lished the pioneer postofficc, with William A. 
 Hancock as the first postmaster of the future 
 thriving place. I'ntil 1887 Mr. Dennis continued 
 to carry on agriculture, and in 1869 he was 
 among the first to raise a crop of barley in this 
 region. He also freighted supplies, usually from 
 Yuma, and engaged in lumbering and other en- 
 terprises which materially aided in the upbuild- 
 ing of this city and section. A great worker, 
 interested and active in all of the early improve- 
 ments, ever ready to lend his means and in- 
 fluence towards industries and worthy institu- 
 tions, his name is indelibly engraved upon the
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 hearts of hi-s associates and acquaintances. In 
 1884 he made his first visit to his old home and 
 the east, and the same year he laid out his entire 
 quarter-section farm, as Dennis' Addition to 
 Phoenix. Much of the property has been sold 
 and built upon, and for some years he also has 
 been connected with tl>e upbuilding of Tempe. 
 Ariz. In former years he dealt to some extent 
 in ranches, and for many years was engaged in 
 the cattle and live stock business. In short, he 
 may be termed an "all around" business man, 
 for he has not been limited to any special line of 
 undertaking, and usually has met with success. 
 The Dennis block, 50x138 feet in dimensions, 
 two stories and basement in height, and situated 
 at the corner of Washington and Second streets, 
 is a monument to his enterprise. 
 
 The 4th of July, 1887, was a memorable day 
 in the history of Phoenix, as the Maricopa & 
 Phoenix Railroad, so long needed, was com- 
 pleted at that time. One of the most active pro- 
 moters of this valued improvement was Mr. Den- 
 nis, as the public here is well aware. For seven 
 years he was one of the board of directors and its 
 first vice-president, but the road was finally sold. 
 For one term he represented the first ward in the 
 city council, and since early manhood his fran- 
 chise has been used in behalf of the Republican 
 party. He also was a member of the commis- 
 sion having in charge the asylum of this county, 
 for one term, and is an honored member of the 
 Pioneers' Association of Arizona. ■• 
 
 March 27, 1888, the marriage of Mr. Dennis 
 and Mrs. Ada Bowers took place in Phoenix. 
 She was born in Tennessee, a daughter of Gran- 
 ville and Narcissa Hogan, of Irish and Scotch 
 extraction. By her marriage to F. W. Bowers 
 she had one son, Ulvah Bowers. Mrs. Dennis 
 and her son are members of the Episcopal 
 church. In 1877, after the death of her first hus- 
 band, she removed to Sherman, Tex., but in 1882 
 located in Tucson, subsequently went to Globe 
 and was postmaster at Payson during the first 
 administration of President Cleveland. In Octo- 
 ber, 1887, she became a resident of Phoe- 
 nix. 
 
 N. B. COLE, M. D. 
 The city of Phoenix knows no more courtly, 
 gracious, capable, and conscientious follower of 
 
 the seer ^sculapius than is found in that widely 
 known and experienced practitioner. Dr. Cole. 
 Covering a period of forty-odd years he has 
 wisely and efficiently ministered to the necessi- 
 ties of suffering hum.Tuity in different parts of 
 the country, and has all the while kept pace 
 with the advancement along the lines of his pro- 
 fession, as developed in the principal centers of 
 activity. 
 
 The Cole family claims Scotch and Dutch 
 descent, an excellent combination of reliable 
 characteristics, than which there could be no 
 better. The paternal great-grandfather served 
 with courage and distinction in the Revolution- 
 ary war, and his son, Thomas, who w-as born in 
 Huntingdon county. Pa., served in the war of 
 1812. Thomas Cole was a pioneer farmer of 
 Ohio, in which state he settled in about 1800. 
 His grandson, N. B. Cole, was born in Fairfield 
 county, C)hio, December 28, 1837, and is a son of 
 B. Cole, who was born in the same county in 
 1802. During the years of his activity B. Cole 
 was a farmer in Fairfield county, and there his 
 useful and industrious life was terminated at the 
 age of eighty-two years. On the maternal side 
 Dr. Cole is related to the Peters family, of 
 Maryland, his mother having been, previous to 
 her marriage, Leah Peters, a native of Balti- 
 more, Md. She was a daughter of Henry Peters, 
 and died at the age of eighty-seven years. She 
 was the mother of ten children, of whom Thomas 
 is living in Fairfield county, Ohio; Mary, who 
 married Mr. West, died in Illinois; David is liv- 
 ing in Indiana; N. B. is in Phoenix; Jonathan 
 R. is in North Dakota; Rufus died in Illinois; 
 Joseph, who is now S publisher in New York 
 City, served in an Ohio regiment during the 
 Civil war; Benjamin died in Fairfield county, 
 Ohio; Lewis lives in Columbus, Ohio; and 
 Henry is a resident of Lancaster, Ohio. 
 
 The early education of Dr. Cole was derived 
 in the public schools, and at the age of nineteen 
 he began the study of medicine imder the able 
 instruction of Dr. Lynch, of Lancaster. Supple- 
 mentary training was received at the Long Isl- 
 and Hospital Medical College, from which he 
 was graduated in the class of i860, the first 
 class to be graduated from that institution. LTn- 
 til the beginning of the Civil war Dr. Cole prac- 
 ticed his profession in Etna, Ohio, and to aid
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 387 
 
 the cr.iise of his country he became, in 1862, as- 
 sistant surgeon of the Fiftieth Ohio Regiment, 
 in which capacity he served for two years and 
 nine months, or until April of 1865. During 
 three months prior to this time he was in the 
 volunteer service, in the Nineteenth Ohio, and 
 at the general field hospitals in Tennessee, Wil- 
 mington, N. C, and elsewhere, in whose charge 
 he was placed. He then resigned from the 
 service at Raleigh, N. C, and at the time had 
 charge of the division hospital. 
 
 After the restoration of peace Dr. Cole settled 
 in Bloomington, 111., and for thirty years con- 
 ducted a large and successful practice. During 
 that time he was for twelve years on the United 
 States pension board, and for six years was sur- 
 geon of the Soldiers Orphans' Home. In 1895 
 he severed his long and amicable relations with 
 the people of Bloomington, and took up his 
 permanent residence on his ranch, eleven miles 
 northeast of Phoenix. At the same time he is 
 prosecuting a large general practice in the city 
 of Phoenix, and has met with the patronage and 
 appreciation due his ability and erudition. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Cole and Matilda C. 
 Evans, of Granville, Ohio, occurred in Gran- 
 ville September 7, 1865. Of this union there 
 have been three children, viz.: Carrie L., who is 
 now Mrs. C. P. Hart, of Bisbee; Leah M., who 
 is attending the University of Arizona ; and Nel- 
 son Evans, who is at home. In national politics 
 Dr. Cole is a Republican. He is ex-president 
 of the McLean county (111.) Medical Association. 
 Mrs. Cole is a member of and ardent worker in 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 FRANCIS M. MOGNETT. 
 
 Prominent among the citizens of Arizona who 
 have witnessed the marvelous development of 
 the west in the past half century, and who have, 
 by honest toil and industry, succeeded in acquir- 
 ing a competence, is the gentleman whose name 
 introduces this sketch. This honored pioneer 
 now makes his home in Phoenix, and is justly 
 numbered among the representative and promi- 
 nent citizens of the place. In 1852 he came to 
 the Pacific coast, and since 1877 has been a resi- 
 dent of Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Mognett was born near Kingston, Cald- 
 
 well county, Mo.. April 27, 1842, and is a son of 
 George and Frances (Farley) Mognett. The 
 father was born in Greenbrier county, Va., in 
 1799, and was of German descent. Some of his 
 ancestors were among those who fought for the 
 independence of the colonies in the Revolution- 
 ary war, and he had a brother in the war of 
 1 812. At an early day he removed to Caldwell 
 county. Mo., after stopping for a year or so in 
 Indiana, and in 1852 he crossed the plains to 
 Oregon, taking with him his family. His wife 
 died en route, but the father and children finall\- 
 reached their destination in safety. The journey 
 was made with ox-teams, and they took with 
 them some full-blooded shorthorn cattle. They 
 passed through St. Joseph, Mo., and crossed the 
 Platte river at North Platte. They traveled 
 through Wyoming to the head of the Snake 
 river, and then proceeded down that stream to 
 the city of Dalls, and on to Oregon, being from 
 April until November in making the trip. 
 
 After spending about a year at the present 
 site of Portland, they located in Clackamas 
 county, among the foothills of the Cascade 
 mountains, where they lived in constant dread 
 of the Indians for some time. A log palisade 
 was built near the house, and several times dur- 
 ing Indian outbreaks were forced to seek shelter 
 in the forts of that locality. Our subject can 
 relate many interesting incidents of those pio- 
 neer days. The father, who was by occupation 
 a farmer, died in Oregon, in 1881, at the age of 
 eighty-one years. His wife, who was born in 
 \'irginia, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, died of chol- 
 era at Ash Hollow, near Snake River, while 
 crossing the plains in 1852, as previously stated. 
 Of their eight children Francis M. is the young- 
 est, the others being Mrs. Jane Cameron, who 
 died in Missouri; Mrs. Sarah Smith, who lives 
 near Vancouver, Wash.; Mrs. Rachel Jones, who 
 died in Oregon in 1888; Mrs. Wilmotte Martin, 
 who also died in Oregon ; Julia, wlio died in 
 Portland, that state; Mrs. Eliza Cutting, who 
 died in Oregon; and Jackson, a resident of 
 Phoenix, his home being just a block west of his 
 brother's. Jackson was born in Indiana, August 
 29. 1835, and for many years has been engaged 
 in ranching and the cattle business with our sub- 
 ject. They also own a few buildings in partner- 
 ship. With the exception of Jane and Rachel,
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 all of the children accompanied the father on his 
 removal to Oregon. 
 
 Francis M. Mognett spent the first ten years of 
 his life in the state of his nativity, and then 
 crossed the plains with the family. For a few 
 years there were no schools near their new home, 
 but later subscription schools were started. The 
 homes of the early settlers were all log houses, 
 and the families lived in true pioneer style. As 
 soon as old enough to be of any assistance Mr. 
 Mognett began to aid in the improvement and 
 cultivation of the home farm. Later he built a 
 sawmill on Cedar creek, Clackamas county, Ore., 
 where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber 
 and shingles for many years, and on disposing 
 of his property there he removed to eastern Ore- 
 gon, being engaged in the cattle business in 
 Umatilla county for eight years. In 1876 he 
 started overland for Arizona, and crossed the 
 Colorado river with three hundred and seventy- 
 four head of high-grade cattle, his brand being 
 III. He was accompanied by his brother, and 
 they located forty miles south of Prescott in 
 Yavapai county, where they continued in busi- 
 ness until the partnership was dissolved in 1881, 
 when they bought sixty-two acres of land north 
 of Phoenix. This property was divided the fol- 
 lowing year. Tliey sold to Mr. Chalmers. Short- 
 ly after he sold to Mr. Churchill, but as he failed 
 to make final payment the land reverted to F. 
 M. Mognett, who has since sold the most of the 
 property, and it is now adorned with comfort- 
 able homes. 
 
 The brothers continued in the cattle business 
 together until 1897, having at one time about 
 seven thousand head. During the year 1897 
 they sold their herd and ranch property. Our 
 subject is now a resident of Phoenix, his home 
 being at No. 504 North Second street. He owns 
 considerable real estate in that city, including 
 fine business property on Washuigton, Adams 
 and Jefiferson streets, besides many dwelling 
 houses and the Portland hotel. He also has 
 an improved farm of one hundred and sixty acres 
 four and a half miles northwest of Phoenix. He 
 has probably done more to improve the city 
 than any other man within its borders, and while 
 promoting his own interests has materially ad- 
 vanced the welfare of the community in which 
 he lives. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Mognett was married in Oregon 
 to Miss Sarah E. Wilson, a native of Multnomah 
 county, that state. Her father, John P. Wilson, 
 who was born in Illinois, and crossed the plains 
 with his family in 1853, located in Multnomah 
 covmty, where he engaged in farming for many 
 years, but is now living in East Portland, at the 
 age of seventy-eight years; he is a consistent 
 and faithful member of the Methodist Church. 
 His father, John P. Wilson, Sr., died in Illinois. 
 Mrs. Mognett's mother, whose maiden name 
 was Mary Ann Grigsby, was born in North Car- 
 olina, and died in Oregon at the age of seventy- 
 five years. Our subject and his wife have ten 
 children, namely: Minnie A., wife of C. W. Stev- 
 ens, the well-known liveryman of Phoenix; Fan- 
 nie, wife of W. A. Milton, a wholesale grocer, of 
 the same city; George W., who is engaged in 
 mining and also resides in Phoenix; Ida M. 
 and Rosa L., both graduates of the Lamson 
 Business College; Elmer F., Martin J., Annie 
 E., Jesse I. and Francis M., Jr., who are at home. 
 The family is a very bright and interesting one, 
 and some of the daughters are artists of rare 
 ability, which is evidenced by several fine paint- 
 ings which adorn their home. 
 
 In his political views Mr. Mognett is a Dem- 
 ocrat. He has traveled extensively over the 
 west, is an entertaining conversationalist, and is 
 a man of much more than ordinary information 
 and attainments. His upright coiirse in life 
 commands the respect and commendation of all 
 with whom he comes in contact, either in busi- 
 ness or social life, and his labors as one of the 
 founders of this territory justly entitle him to 
 prominent mention in its annals. 
 
 LEWIS A. W. BURTCH, M. D. 
 
 Probably no realm of human thought wit- 
 nesses greater changes within each succeeding 
 decade than does that of medicine, and thus the 
 student of this period certainly is "heir of all the 
 ages" and especially of the last few years of 
 scientific research and experiment. While the 
 physician of long standing possesses the experi- 
 ence gathered in many years of treatment of dis- 
 ease, the young practitioner, on the other hand, 
 has so recently reaped the benefits of improved 
 modern methods of imparting knowledge, and
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 389 
 
 has learned from numbers of noted specialists 
 their systems of dealing with the ills to which 
 flesh is heir that he is also well able to minister 
 to the needs of the people. 
 
 The subject of this article, Dr. L. A. W. 
 Burtch, is a young physician and surgeon, but a 
 very successful one, and his future is full of 
 promise. A son of J. M. and Phoebe F. (Wood) 
 Burtch. natives of New York state, who settled 
 in Illinois thirty years ago, the Doctor was born 
 in the town of Morrison, 111., June 16, 1875. In 
 his boyhood he evinced strong love for scientific 
 studies and received an excellent general edu- 
 cation. After leaving the high school he further 
 qualified himself for the serious duties of life by 
 pursuing a course in the business college at 
 Clinton, Iowa. Subsequently he entered Rush 
 Medical College, of Chicago, 111., where he was 
 graduated in 1897. He then took a special 
 course in the dispensary and clinics, where, in 
 dealing with a varied class of poor people of a 
 great city, he gained practical experience. 
 
 In October, 1897, Dr. Burtch came to Clifton 
 and established an office. Here he has pros- 
 pered from the start and today enjoys a large 
 and remunerative practice. Liking this locality, 
 he has decided to remain, and recently purchased 
 a pretty home in the Riverside Park addition. 
 The lady who presides over its hospitalities for- 
 merly was Miss Margaret E. Stark, of Benton 
 Harbor, Mich., and her marriage to the Doctor 
 occurred four years ago. They are the parents 
 of an infant son, James D. by name. 
 
 In his political faith. Dr. Burtch favors the 
 Democratic party. He was initiated into Ma- 
 sonry and became a master mason in the blue 
 lodge of Morrison, 111. He also is associated 
 with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
 being one of the official members of the Clifton 
 lodge at present, is a member of the Knights 
 of Pythias, and in addition to this, is connected 
 with the Spanish-.\nierican .\lliance. Social bv 
 nature, he has made many firm friends since be- 
 coming a citizen of Clifton. Upon his arrival 
 here he passed an examination by the territorial 
 board of medical examiners, with a creditable 
 record, and by no means has he ceased his dili- 
 gent studies and research in his chosen field of 
 usefulness, as it is his commendable ambition to 
 keep fully abreast of the times. 
 
 LOGAN D. DAMERON, M. D. 
 
 .'\mong the popular representatives of the 
 medical profession in Phoenix is Dr. Dameron. 
 who, in addition to a general practice, makes a 
 specialty of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose 
 and throat, his office being in the Ellingson 
 building. He was born in Lewis county. Mo., 
 March 15, 1867, and is a son of W. M. and 
 Anna (Fisher) Dameron. On the maternal side 
 he traces his ancestry back to Baron von 
 Fischer of Germany, whose son Ludwig when 
 a boy killed a deer in the king's forest or park, 
 and to avo^d punishment came to Virginia, 
 where he assumed the name of Louis Fisher. 
 He died in Culpeper county, that state, in 1773. 
 His son, Barnett Fisher, spent his entire life 
 in the Old Dominion and married Eve Wil- 
 hoit, of that state. In their family was Joseph 
 Fisher, the great-grandfather of the Doctor. 
 The grandfather, James Lewis Fisher, was born 
 in Culpeper county, \^a., in 1804, and became 
 one of the pioneer settlers of Ralls county, Mo., 
 where he died November 24, 1865. The Doc- 
 tor's mother was a native of Ralls county. The 
 father, W. M. Dameron, was born and reared 
 on his father's plantation in North Carolina, and 
 when a young man went to Lewis county. Mo., 
 and was engaged in farming and stock raising 
 near Labelle until his retirement from active 
 labor. He is now living with our subject in 
 Phoenix. During the Civil war he served as 
 lieutenant in a Missouri regiment. In his fam- 
 ily are only two children, the younger being 
 R. M., superintendent of iron works in St. Louis, 
 Mo. 
 
 Dr. Dameron grew to manhood upon his 
 father's farm, and acquired his literary educa- 
 tion in the public schools of the neighborhood 
 and Labelle Academy. At the age of eighteen 
 he commenced teaching school, and successfully 
 followed that occupation through the winter 
 months for five years, in this way earning the 
 money to pay his expenses at college. In 1889 
 he entered the Hospital Medical College at 
 Louisville, Ky., where he was graduated with 
 the degree of M. D., June 17. 1891, and the 
 following January took up his residence in 
 Phoenix, .Ariz., and embarked in general prac- 
 tice. Since 1896, however, he has given special
 
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 attention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and 
 throat, having taken a special course of study 
 along that line at the Chicago Polyclinic College 
 in 1896. He has been surgeon at the United 
 States Indian Industrial Training School at 
 Phoenix since 1894, and since 1898 has served 
 as city physician. 
 
 Dr. Dameron was married in Phoenix to Miss 
 Bettie A. Hughes, a native of Texas, and a grad- 
 uate of the Northern Texas Female College. By 
 this union have been born two children, Erile 
 Adel and Logan D., Jr. In his political affilia- 
 tions the Doctor is a stanch Democrat, and is 
 now an influential member of the territorial 
 Democratic central committee, having previ- 
 ously been a member of the county central com- 
 mittee. Religiously he is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church South, and frater- 
 nally is connected with the Masonic Order and 
 the Woodmen of the World. He represented 
 Arizona in the Sovereign Camp of the Wood- 
 men of the World at St. Louis in 1897 'i"'^ ^t 
 Memphis in 1899. He was a member of the 
 pension board one term under President Oeve- 
 land's administration; is a prominent member 
 of the Arizona Territorial Medical Society, of 
 which he was secretary five years, and is also 
 ex-president of the Maricopa County Medical 
 Society. He stands high among his professional 
 brethren, and his skill and ability have won for 
 him a large and lucrative practice. 
 
 WILLIAM DUFFIELD, M. D. 
 
 It has been given to Dr. Dufifield to materially 
 aid in the best development of medical science 
 not only in his adopted town of Phoenix, but 
 throughout the length and breadth of the ter- 
 ritory of .Arizona. In assisting to frame the 
 laws governing the practice of medicine in this 
 far western part of the country, he has brought 
 to bear an erudition, and clearness and breadth 
 of understancHng, compatible with the best in- 
 terests of patients, physicians, and institutions. 
 In his private practice he is following the trend 
 of the world towards specialties, and is devoting 
 his greatest research to diseases of the chest and 
 throat, in the treatment of which he has met with 
 marked success. 
 
 To a degree Dr. Duffield inherits his special 
 
 liking and aptitude for his chosen line of work, 
 his ancestors on both the paternal and maternal 
 side having been more or less interested in the 
 study of medicine. A native of Bloomfield, 
 Iowa, he was born September 30, 1866, and is a 
 son of John M. Duffield, who was bom in 
 Steubenville, Ohio. John Duffield was reared in 
 Iowa, and for the greater part of his life was 
 engaged in the drug business. Many of his 
 ancestors had been clergymen, and were men of 
 extended moral and intellectual influence. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war he served his country as cap- 
 tain of Company G, Second Iowa Infantry, and 
 after three years of participation in the strife 
 betwen the north and south was discharged for 
 disability, the result of a sunstroke received at 
 the battle of Shiloh. His brother, George Duf- 
 field, was colonel of the Third Iowa Cavalry, 
 the regiment in which Col. James Baker; Cyrus 
 Bussy, the late secretary of the interior; John 
 A. Noble, H. H. Trimbly, attorney-general of 
 Ohio; and Col. H. H. Jones, of Phoenix, were 
 prominent officers. 
 
 Many of the Duffield family were early set- 
 tlers in Iowa, among them being the paternal 
 grandfather, William by name, who was born in 
 Philadelphia, and married a Miss Stauffer. He 
 was a farmer during the greater part of his life, 
 and removed from Ohio to Iowa in 1844. where 
 he was among the first to undertake the develop- 
 ment of Bloomfield, Davis county. The mother 
 of William Dufifield was, before her marriage, 
 Anna M. Findley, and was born in Mt. Pleasant, 
 Iowa. Her father. Dr. William McKinley Find- 
 ley, was born in Piqua, Ohio, and was a graduate 
 of the Jefiferson Medical College at Philadelphia. 
 For several years he practiced medicine in Indi- 
 ana, going thence to Burlington, Iowa, and 
 later to Bloomfield, of the same state, where he 
 eventually died. He was one of the most prom- 
 inent surgeons of southern Iowa, and was, dur- 
 ing the Civil war, surgeon of the Fourth Iowa 
 Cavalry. The Findley family are devoted mem- 
 bers of the Methodist Episcopal church, to 
 which many of the earlier members also be- 
 longed. The paternal great-grandfather, Sam- 
 uel, was president of an old college in Kentucky, 
 and one of his brothers was a well-known min- 
 ister in the Methodist Episcopial Church in 
 Ohio, and was also a writer of ability.
 
 MR. AND MRS. P. C. MERRILL.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 3P3 
 
 Dr. Duffield is one of two children in his 
 father's family, his brother, Findley, being at 
 the present time prominently identified with the 
 affairs of North English, Iowa, wheie he is editor 
 of the "Record" and also postmaster. William 
 Dufifield received his early training in Bloom- 
 field, and when sixteen years of age entered the 
 University of Iowa at Iowa City, and was gradu- 
 ated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. 
 Previous to graduating from the medical depart- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1891, 
 he had for a time engaged in educational work, 
 and had also tried his hand at journalism, as 
 editor of the ''Davis County Republican." Subse- 
 quent medical training was received in the Poly- 
 clinic Hospital in Philadelphia, of which he was 
 resident physician for eighteen months, and then 
 assumed charge for one year of a sanitarium 
 for nervous diseases. .\s assistant surgeon of 
 the Mexico Central Railroad, Dr. Duffield spent 
 two years in Mexico, and in 1895 took up his 
 permanent residence in Phoenix. 
 
 May 3, 1899, in Phoenix, Dr. Dufifield mar- 
 ried Mrs. Margaret J. (Russell) Weber, who 
 was born in Chicago. Dr. Duffield is variously 
 associated with the different organizations, med- 
 ical and otherwise, in his adopted town, and his 
 services and good fellowship are eagerly sought 
 in many directions from which he is debarred 
 by the responsibilities incident to a large and 
 ever increasing practice. He is a member of 
 the American Medical .\ssociation, and a fellow 
 of the .Arizona Academy of Medicine. In na- 
 tional politics he is affiliated with the Republican 
 party, and is a stanch advocate of the principles 
 therein embodied. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Foresters, the United Moderns,, the 
 Fraternal Brotherhood. Knights of Pythias, Red 
 Men, .\ncient Order of United Workmen, and 
 the Masons, of Phoenix, and is connected with 
 the Sons of \'eterans in Iowa. He is a member 
 and former organizer of the Board of Trade. 
 
 phili:mon c. merrill. 
 
 I )nc of the venerable antl highly honored 
 pioneers of the southeastern part of Arizona is 
 this veteran of the Mexican war, who passed 
 through Cochise county on his way to the 
 Pacific coast fully fifty-five years ago with the 
 
 first expedition which ever proceeded by wagons 
 on this long and hazardous journey over moun- 
 tains and plains. His memories of the days 
 long gone by are full of interest to those fortu- 
 nate enough to hear his account of them ; and 
 in addition to these, his experiences in the west 
 of half a century and more ago were such that 
 all of his courage and strength of character were 
 called into requisition upon many an occasion. 
 
 .Mr. -Merrill conies of old New England stock, 
 his father, Samuel Merrill, being a native of 
 Massachusetts, while his mother, Phoebe Odel, 
 was born in Connecticut. He was born in 
 Byron, Genesee county, N. Y., November 12, 
 1820, and at the age of eleven he accompanied 
 the family to Michigan, thence going to Han- 
 cock county. 111., in 1837. With the Mormons 
 they were persecuted in 1846 and went to 
 Omaha, Neb. In that then frontier town the 
 young man enlisted in what was called the Mor- 
 mon Battalion of Iowa Volunteers, for the war 
 with Mexico, his captain being Jesse D. Hunter, 
 while he was a lieutenant and adjutant. From 
 Leavenworth they proceeded to Santa Fe, N. M., 
 down the Rio Grande and across Arizona, pass- 
 ing through Bisbee on the San Pedro, through 
 Benson and Tucson, and westward to San 
 Diego, Cal., where they arrived January 30, 
 1847. Later the regiment was sent to Los 
 Angeles, Cal., and there honorably discharged, 
 July 16, 1847. Some of the soldiers re-enlisted 
 in the army and Mr. Merrill went to San Fran- 
 cisco, where he joined a party of seven men 
 bound for the east. They reached Salt Lake City 
 October 8, 1847, and thence proceeded down the 
 Platte river route to Omaha, arriving there 
 December 11. Mr. Merrill crossed the plains 
 along the Platte river eleven times, going from 
 Omaha, Kearney, Leavenworth and other points 
 in Kansas. 
 
 In 1849, with his wife and two children, Mr. 
 Merrill accompanied the colony which settled 
 in Salt Lake City and vicinity and for twenty- 
 eight years dwelt in that region. In the mean- 
 time, in 1853, he was sent as a missionary to 
 Europe and spent four years in England and 
 Wales. From his early manhood he has been 
 an earnest worker in the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter-day Saints, in which he has been an 
 elder for sixtv years. When the ecclesiastical
 
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 authorities decided to establish a colony in the 
 desert of southeastern Arizona and called for 
 volunteers, he responded and left the homestead 
 to which he had devoted so many years of his 
 life and accompanied six other families to the 
 San Pedro valley, where once more the struggles 
 with nature and privations had to be endured 
 and conquered. One of the very first white 
 settlers in St. David, he dwelt there from 1877 
 to 1887. and then came to the Cila valley, where 
 he is highly respected. He holds the ofifice of 
 elder in the church, in which he was ordained 
 to a Seventy, then to the high priesthood, and 
 now holds the office of evangelist patriarch, 
 standing next to the Twelve Apostles. 
 
 Since the formation of the Republican party, 
 Mr. Merrill has given it his allegiance. He was 
 for two terms a member of the territorial leg- 
 islature of Utah. In 1892 and 1893 he served as 
 treasurer of this county, and the fact that he was 
 chosen for so responsible a position demon- 
 strates the confidence placed in his financial 
 ability and strict integrity. For about three- 
 score years he has been identified with the 
 Masonic order, having united with it in Nauvoo, 
 111. September 20, 1840, Mr. Merrill married 
 Cyrene Dustin, a native of Ohio. Five of the 
 seventeen children of Mr. Merrill survive, 
 namely : Thomas S., who is a prosperous 
 farmer of this valley: John S.. who lives at St. 
 David; Seth A. D. and Henry M.. who are resi- 
 dents of this valley ; and Jedediah, who is in 
 Idaho. 
 
 A. E. EALY, M. D. 
 
 A. E. Ealy, M. D., local surgeon of the Santa 
 Fe Railroad at Kingman, and for several years 
 superintendent of the Mohave County Hospital 
 of this city, is a very successful physician, stand- 
 ing high in his profession. He is identified with 
 the International .\ssociation of Railway Sur- 
 geons and is a member of the .Vrizona Terri- 
 torial Medical .Association, being its third vice- 
 president at the i)resent time. 
 
 The birth of the Doctor took place in Bedford 
 county. Pa., in 1846. .■•nd there he was reared and 
 educated. Upon completing his common school 
 course he became a student in Washington and 
 JelTerson College, and subsequently ])rei)ared 
 
 himself for his future career by systematic study 
 under the supervision of his father, Dr. J. C. 
 Ealy, who was a successful practitioner of Bed- 
 ford for half a century or more. Matriculating 
 in the medical college of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania he continued there until his graduation, 
 in 1870. During the ensuing five years he was 
 associated with his father in practice at Schell- 
 burg, Pa., and then located in Dayton, Ohio, 
 where he remained for about a year. 
 
 Coming to the southwest in 1880. Dr. Ealy 
 took up his residence at .Albuquerque, X. M., 
 where he steadily rose in his profession, being 
 physician to the Indian School for six years, 
 officiating as city physician for a number of years 
 and also serving in the capacity of county cor- 
 oner. At the end of thirteen years speiu in that 
 thriving little city he decided to remove to a 
 place of lower altitude, owing to poor health 
 experienced by some of his household. King- 
 man proved to ol?er the chief requisites, and 
 since 1891 he has dwelt here. He is well known 
 and is popular with the railroad men between 
 Albuquerque and Kingman, his acquaintance- 
 ship with them being quite extensive. In all 
 local afTairs he has manifested his patriotic in- 
 terest, and, like the majority of our enterprising 
 citizens, has made investments in mining prop- 
 erty, his claims being situated in the Colorado 
 River district. In addition to this he owns sev- 
 eral buildings here, and uses his influence in the 
 promotion of all public interests. In his political 
 creed he is a stalwart Republican. He is the 
 chief medical examiner for the New York Life, 
 the Mutual Life, the Equitable, the Pennsyl- 
 vania Mutual, the Hartford Life Associations, 
 and many others. In the fraternities he is a pop- 
 ular member of the Odd Fellows and Knights 
 of Pvthias lodges of this citv. 
 
 THOMAS B. D.WTS. M. D. 
 
 Could the history of Dr. T. B. Davis, of Pres- 
 cott, be written in full it would constitute a 
 large book, and certainly wovdd prove of intense 
 interest to the general jnihlic. IJriefly sum- 
 ming up his career, up to i8S<), it may be said 
 that for a score of years previously he had been 
 in the L'nited States service in the capacity of 
 army surgeon, participated in a number of the
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 395 
 
 serious campaigtis against the Indians in the 
 west, and possesses a fund of information on the 
 subject. Indeed, his reminiscences are extreme- 
 ly entertaining and the deductions of his experi- 
 ences are of the most practical nature. 
 
 Dr. Davis comes of stanch patriotic stock, 
 and many of his relatives were associated with 
 the defense of our country from its early years. 
 His grandfather, John Davis, served in the War 
 of 1812 as captain of a company of mounted 
 infantry. He was born in \'irginia and was an 
 early settler in Kentucky, where he owned large 
 landed possessions and where he spent his last 
 years. The parents of the Doctor were William 
 and Mary (Drummond) Davis, both of whom 
 died in Indiana. The father was born in Jefifer- 
 son county, Ky., in 1800, and when about eigh- 
 teen years of age went to Clark county, Ind., 
 where he thenceforth was occupied in agri- 
 cultural pursuits. His death occurred in 1882. 
 The mother was born in the old Jennings block- 
 house in Clark county, which building became 
 the property of Governor Jennings, the first gov- 
 ernor of Indiana, and was subsequently owned 
 by Mr. Drummond. Her father, James Drum- 
 mond, was of Scotch ancestry, and at an early 
 period removed from his native Pennsylvania 
 to the wilds of Indiana. His brother, John 
 Drummond, was wounded in the battle of Tip- 
 pecanoe, and died three days subsequently. 
 
 Dr. Davis is the youngest of eight children, 
 and was born in Charlestown, Clark county, 
 August 22, 1844. His only sister, Anna M., 
 died in California. Jefiferson C., the eldest 
 brother, was a private and non-comniissionctl 
 ofificer throughout the Mexican war, under Gen- 
 eral Taylor, being in the Third Indiana Volun- 
 teers, commanded by Col. James H. Lane. 
 After the war he was made a lieutenant in the 
 First Uniteid States Artillery. At Fort 
 Sumter he was in command of a battery and 
 then was made captain of a company. Later 
 he was transferred to the command of the 
 Twenty-second Indiana Infantry, being its col- 
 onel, and after a period was promoted for meri- 
 torious service, becoming brigadier-general and 
 afterward inajor-general. He then was in the 
 .\rmy of the Cumberland, in the Fourteenth 
 .\rmy Corps, Sherman being his superior officer. 
 At Jonesboro he was in command of the Federal 
 
 forces and at Chickamauga his troops formed 
 the rear guard. Going on the march to the sea 
 with Sherman, he acted in the capacity of corps 
 commander, and when the war had ended took 
 ])art in the grand review at Washington. For 
 his signal services he then was offered a com- 
 mission as colonel of the Twenty-third United 
 States Infantry, and continued in 'that position 
 until his death, which event occurred in Chicago 
 in 1879. James W., the second brother, is an 
 architect, now located in San Antonio, Tex., and 
 John, the third, w'ho was a merchant, died in 
 Indiana. Joseph L. also was a hero of the Civil 
 war and departed this life just after it had been 
 terminated, at Savannah, Ga. His first enlist- 
 ment was in the First Iowa Infantry, and at the 
 end of his three months' teim he volunteered in 
 the Second Iowa Infantry. He was promoted to 
 a captaincy, and then I^ecame lieutenant-colonel 
 of an Iowa regiment, serving throughout the 
 war, and marching with Sherman to the sea. 
 George W.. a farmer in the vicinity of Charles- 
 town, Ind., was assistant to the regimental quar- 
 termaster in the army of the Cumberland. He 
 died on his farm in Clark county, Ind., in the 
 spring of 1901. William was first lieutenant of 
 the First Missouri Cavalry during the war of 
 the Rebellion and then was made lieutenant of 
 the Tenth I'nited States Cavalry in 1867, later 
 being promoted to a captaincy, antl after thirty 
 years of army life retired, now making his home 
 in Jacksonville, 111. At present he is on duty as 
 l)rofessor of military science and tactics of the 
 college at .\rkadelphia. Ark. 
 
 The boyhood of Dr. Davis passed on a farm, 
 and the patriotic ardor of his brothers, all 
 older than himself, found a response in his 
 youthful heart in the dark days of the war. 
 Though too young for the regular service, he 
 served under General Thomas and his brother, 
 General Davis, as an orderly. His studies were 
 pursued in the University of Indiana until he 
 reached his junior year, and in 1866 he was ap- 
 pointed medical cadet to Crittenden Hospital, at 
 Louisville, Ky. There he had valuable practical 
 experience for three years, and in the mean time 
 entered the medical department of the Univer- 
 sity of Louisville, being graduated there in 1869. 
 
 Having been tendered a position as acting as- 
 sistant surgeon of the United States army. Dr.
 
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 Davis accepted the place, and thus entered upon 
 his long army service. He was first stationed 
 at the military post at Austin, Tex., General 
 Canby being in command. During 1869-70 the 
 troops were engaged in reconstruction duty in 
 Texas and in May, 1870, were ordered to the 
 frontier. He participated in numerous cam- 
 paigns against hostile Indians during the years 
 1870-71 and in 1872 was with General Mc- 
 Kenzie's campaign on the staked plains of 
 Texas, which completely subdued hostile Co- 
 nianches. In 1876 Dr. Davis was assigned to the 
 Eleventh L'nited States Infantry, which took 
 part in the warfare with the Sioux Indians in 
 Dakota. After witnessing the submission and 
 dis-armament of the red men there, he returned 
 to Texas in 1878 and was stationed on the bor- 
 der. In 1881 he was sent to Fort Davis, and 
 in the following year the San Carlos Indian 
 outbreak occurred. It was not until 1883 that 
 they surrendered and from Februar\- of that 
 year until 1889 he was post surgeon. In 1885-6 
 the second uprising of the Apaches, this time 
 with Geronimo as their leader, kept the soldiers 
 in active service, and an expedition into old 
 Mexico in pursuit of the red men being neces- 
 sary. Dr. Davis was with Captain Crawford in 
 what was known as the Second Battalion of 
 Indian Scouts. In 1889 he was transferred to 
 Fort Grant rnd then to Fort Mohave and the 
 same year to Fort Whipple. 
 
 At last resigning, the Doctor went to New 
 York City and having taken a post-graduate 
 course located in Prescott, where he has con- 
 ducted a general medical and surgical practice 
 since 1891. He is a health officer of this place 
 at the present time, and is president of the 
 Yavapai County Medical Society, is president 
 of the .\rizona Territorial Medical Association 
 and is a member of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation, having twice been sent as a delegate to 
 the national convention of the same. He is past 
 exalted ruler of the Prescott lodge of the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, which of- 
 fice he held twice, rnd it is a matter of ])ride 
 with him that he is one of the charter members. 
 In July, 1900, he was appointed iiy (iovernor 
 Murpiiy a commissioner to represent .\rizona at 
 the Pan-.\meiican Ex|)osition at Buffalo. Po- 
 liticallv he is devoted to the interests of the 
 
 Democratic party, and not only is an active 
 worker and member of the county central com- 
 mittee, but also is chairman of its executive 
 committee. In military, professional and po- 
 litical circles he has been a man of marked in- 
 fluence for three decades and more, and is de- 
 servedly popular with the general public. 
 
 CHARLES L. EDMUNDSON, M. D. 
 
 The medical and surgical profession in Bis- 
 bee is ably represented by Dr. Edmundson, who 
 has been a resident of this enterprising mining 
 town since 1896. .A. native of Keokuk county, 
 Iowa, he was born February 22. 1864, and is 
 a son of John and Ruth (Heald) Edmundson. 
 After attending the public schools he was grad- 
 uated from the high school, subsequently grad- 
 uating from the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of Colorado in the class of 1891. 
 
 Upon locating in Kingston. N. M., Dr. Ed- 
 mundson practiced his profession with gratifying 
 success for five years, and in October of 1896 
 settled in Bisbee, which has since been his home. 
 Since November of 1900, Dr. Edmundson has 
 conducted his affairs in partnership with Dr. 
 C. L. Caven, under the firm name of Edmund- 
 son & Caven. Dr. Caven is a native of Pitts- 
 burgh, Pa., and was educated in the public 
 schools in New Orleans, La., graduating from 
 the high school. In 1889 he removed to Los 
 Angeles, Cal., and entered the University of 
 Southern California in 1893, graduating in 1896. 
 
 The firm of Edmundson & Caven are doing a 
 large business in Bisbee, and are surgeons for 
 the Lowell & Arizona^ Mining Company, and 
 for the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company. 
 The various responsibilities of Dr. Edmund- 
 son include his position as medical examiner for 
 the .\ncient Order of United Workmen, the 
 Woodmen of the World, the Circle, the Forest- 
 ers, the Fraternal Brotherhood and the Home 
 Forum. He is also examiner for the Mutual 
 Life Insurance Com])any. and the Equitable Life 
 Insurance Compan\' of New York. He is a 
 member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows. He devotes all of his time to the practice 
 of his profession, and in every possible way 
 kee])s in touch with the progress in medical and 
 surgical science as developed in the different
 
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 large centers of the world. He is one of the 
 town's most painstaking and conscientious cit- 
 izens, and is appreciated for his professional and 
 social excellencies. 
 
 Dr. Edniundson was married October i, 1893, 
 to Miss Catherine L. Hutchins, daughter of 
 William Hutchins, of Kingston, N. M. One 
 son was born of this union, Charles S. 
 
 MRS. ERNEST M. MILLS. 
 
 One of the most comfortable and inviting 
 hotels of Phoenix is presided over by Mrs. E. 
 M. Mills, than whom the city has no manager 
 more genial and enterprising. Among the mid- 
 dle-priced hotels the New Mills house has no 
 superior, and its clean, well-ventilated and well- 
 furnished rooms are rarely without an occupant. 
 For the moderate price of $1.50 per day one 
 may be housed and furnished with every con- 
 venience, while the cuisine, for variety and excel- 
 lence, leaves little to be desired. The hotel is 
 three stories high, and 50x80 feet in dimensions. 
 
 A native of Chillicothe, Ohio, Mrs. Mills is 
 a daughter of James Rezzer, born in Philadel- 
 phia, Pa., and one of the early settlers of Knox 
 county. 111. During the Civil war Mr. Rezzer 
 fought with courage in an Illinois regiment, 
 after which he returned to his farm in Knox 
 county. In 1870 he removed to Sedgwick 
 county, Kans., which was then in a very wild 
 and crude state, and he was one of the active 
 pioneers to whom the present residents are 
 indebted for their prosperity. His useful life 
 terminated in McPherson county, Kans., when 
 he was sixty-six years of age. He had married 
 Susan Shepherd, who was born in Philadelphia, 
 Pa., and died in Knoxville, 111. They were the 
 parents of five children, viz. : Anna, who mar- 
 ried C. H. Knapp and died in Phoenix; Shep- 
 herd A., who died in Fort Scott, Kans. ; Mrs. 
 Mary Worley, of ^IcPherson, Kans. ; G. W., a 
 farmer near Salina, Kans. ; and Susie Rae, Mrs. 
 Mills. The last-named received excellent edu- 
 cational advantages and claims the distinction 
 of having been one of the first girls admitted to 
 the now famous Knox College at Galesburg, 111. 
 At this institution she studied until the senior 
 year, when she accompanied her parents to Kan- 
 sas, and engaged in educational work in what 
 was then Sedgwick (now Harvey) county. 
 
 In 1875 Susie R. Rezzer became the wife of 
 Ernest M. Mills, who was born at St. Thomas, 
 Ontario, August 19, 1847, ^i^d was reared in his 
 native country of Canada. He was ambitious 
 and venturesome and looked beyond the restric- 
 tions of his northern home. The breaking out 
 of the Civil war offered the opportunity for 
 which he had longed and furnished an outlet 
 for his enthusiastic spirit. In the absence of 
 parental permission he ran away to the states. 
 At the age of seventeen years he enlisted in an 
 Ohio regiment, in which he served until the 
 close of the war, mean time being advanced to 
 the rank of sergeant. Once he was wounded 
 in battle. After the cessation of hostilities he 
 took up land in McPherson county, Kans., and 
 became an enterprising tiller of the soil. Soon 
 he was made deputy United States marshal, and 
 for several years he served as county coroner 
 and justice of the peace. After his marriage he 
 settled in McPherson, where he conducted a 
 livery business and served as United States mar- 
 shal. At one time he captured a gang of coun- 
 terfeiters and their outfit, and had the satisfac- 
 tion of seeing them later sentenced to the 
 penitentiary for life. In 1881 he settled in 
 Phoenix, Ariz., where he engaged in contract- 
 ing and building. Here, as in Kansas, he was 
 United States marshal. In 1883 he captured 
 four desperate stage robbers in Arizona, and 
 they were sentenced for life to the penitentiary 
 at Detroit. During his term of office he also 
 assisted in the prosecution of polygamous Mor- 
 mons. For eight years he served in the city 
 council, representing three different wards; for 
 some time served on the territorial board of 
 equalization, and up to the time of his death he 
 served as secretary of the Republican central 
 committee of the territory. As a delegate, he 
 frequently represented the Republican party in 
 conventions. He was associated with the Grand 
 Army of the Republic and was a member of the 
 Maricopa Club. In many respects he resembled 
 his father. Hon. Stephen B. Mills, who was a 
 member of the Canadian parliament for more 
 than twenty years and was a man of ability and 
 influence. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Mills purchased the Lemon 
 iiolel. which he improved and refitted, chang- 
 ing its name to the Mills house. The manage-
 
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 meiit of this hotel occupied his time until he 
 died, June 26, 1893. The New Mills house was 
 formerly the Farley house and was purchased 
 in 1895. It is on West Washington street and 
 has undergone great improvement since the 
 occupancy of the present owner. Interesting to 
 note is the fact that the first American' flag 
 raised on Cuban soil was made at the New Mills 
 house. This emblem of a great republic was 
 afterward presented by Miss Flora Mills to an 
 Arizona troop of Rough Riders, and used by 
 them as their regimental flag. During all the 
 time that Colonel Roosevelt maintained head- 
 quarters in Cuba, the flag hung there. Upon the 
 return of the regiment from the war the now 
 historic flag, riddled by bullets and faded by 
 storms, was received by the fair donor, and is 
 now preserved in a glass case in the new capitol. 
 Mrs. Mills is a member of the Rebekahs. For 
 three years she has been president of the 
 Woman's Relief Corps. A member of the Pres- 
 byterian Church, she has been a generous con- 
 tributor to its support. In national politics she 
 is a believer in Republican principles. 
 
 HIRAM W, FENNER, M. D. 
 
 Of all the exponents of medical science who 
 have sought the growing possibilities of Arizona 
 as a field for the exercise of their ability, none 
 is more favorably known than Dr. Fenner, who, 
 though a resident of Tucson, is nevertheless 
 widely known beyond the confines of his pros- 
 perous town. From a comparatively small be- 
 ginning in 1883, at which time he located in 
 Tucson, his practice has assumed gratifying pro- 
 portions, and readily reflects the appreciation 
 which the public at large entertain for his skill 
 of diagnosis and treatment. Besides carrying 
 on a general medical and surgical practice he 
 is variously interested in the afifairs that have 
 to do with the. general welfare, .and among his 
 other responsibilities may be mentioned his posi- 
 tion of division surgeon for the Southern Pacific 
 Railroad Company, to which he was appointed 
 in 1895. In 1898 he was made a regent of the 
 University of Arizona, and he is .a member of 
 the board of library commissioners, which board 
 is attending to the erection of the new Carnegie 
 librarv. Tliis building, like all those of a sim- 
 
 ilar nature erected by the philanthropist whose 
 name it bears, is to be a model of its kind, and 
 will have accommodation for twenty-five thou- 
 sand books. 
 
 Dr. Fenner was Ijoin in Bucyrus, Ohio, Feb- 
 ruary 3, 1859. The ancestry of the family is 
 German, and the first members to come to Amer- 
 ica settled in Pennsylvania. Hiram Fenner, the 
 father of Dr. Fenner, who was born in Fenners- 
 ville, Pa., the original settlement of the family, 
 was engaged, during the course of his active life, 
 in the clothing and general merchandise busi- 
 ness. He died in Bucyrus at an advanced age. 
 His wife, formerly Elizabeth Myers, was born 
 in Pennsylvania, and was a daughter of Samuel 
 Alyers, one of the founders of Bucyrus. Sam- 
 uel ]\Iyers came from an old Pennsylvania fam- 
 ily, and previously lived in Crawford county. 
 Mrs. Fenner also died in Bucyrus. She was the 
 mother of four children, two sons and two 
 daughters, who are all living. Dr. Fenner being 
 the youngest. The other son, Samuel, is in the 
 hardware business at Terre Haute, Ind. 
 
 In the public schools of Bucyrus, H. W. Fen- 
 ner received an excellent education, and was 
 graduated from the high school in 1876. His 
 earliest aspirations were centered on medical 
 science, and when quite a young boy he decided 
 to qualify for this noblest and most interesting 
 of professions. In 1876 he began the study of 
 medicine under Dr. George Crapo, of Terre 
 Haute, Ind., and subsequently entered the Med- 
 ical College of Ohio at Cincinnati (now the Uni- 
 versity of Cincinnati), from which he was gradu- 
 ated in 1 88 1. Soon after he was appointed phy- 
 sician of the Copper Queen Mining Company, 
 at Bisbee, Ariz., and continued to practice there 
 until 1883, when he located in Tucson. 
 
 Dr. Fenner was married in California near 
 San Francisco to Ida Hemme, born in California, 
 and a daughter of August Hemme, who in the 
 early days crossed the plains with ox teams and 
 wagons, and mined in California in the days of 
 gold. In national politics Dr. Fenner is a Re- 
 puljlican, and has held various offices within the 
 gift of the people. .-\t times he has been county 
 and territorial commissioner, and chairman of 
 the Republican county central committee. A 
 nunilKT of the Territorial Medical Society, lie 
 has ])vvn associated with this organization for
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 401 
 
 many years. The Doctor lias one of the finest 
 residences in the town, and commodious, well 
 fitted offices. His grasp of the best tenets of 
 his profession, no less than his genial, tactful 
 manner, and optimistic temperament, have won 
 for him a warm place in the hearts and esteem 
 of friends and patrons. 
 
 JOSEPH HARDY. D. D. S. 
 
 This well-known and popular dentist of 
 Phoenix, was born near Petersburg, Va.. on 
 the 3d of June, 1862, his parents being Elisha 
 and Nancy (Hall) Hardy, who as farming people 
 spent" their entire lives in the Old Dominion. 
 The Hardy family came originally from Hardy, 
 Ireland, and Vvere among the early settlers of 
 Virginia. Our subject's paternal grandfather 
 was a lifelong resident of that state, and a planter 
 by occupation. His maternal grandfather, Rob- 
 ert Lawrence Hall, was born in Scotland, and 
 on his emigration to the new world located in 
 \'irginia, becoming one of its largest and most 
 prosperous planters. He owned over ten thou- 
 sand acres of land in that state, where he con- 
 tinued to make his home throughout life. Dr. 
 Hardy is one of a family of four children, of 
 whom three reached years of maturity and two 
 are still living. 
 
 Dr. Hardy grew to manhood in his native 
 state and was educated at the Pine Grove Acad- 
 emy. In 1881 he went to Missouri and spent 
 three years on a cattle ranch in that state, after 
 which he returned to llaltimore, Md., and took 
 up the study of dentisty under Dr. Winder, 
 who was dean of the oldest dental college in 
 the world. Our subject was graduated at the 
 llaltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1889, 
 with the degree of D. D. S., and engaged in prac- 
 tice in Virginia until the fall of that vear. On 
 the 28th of October, 1889, he arrived in Phoenix, 
 and has since prosecuted his chosen profession 
 at this place. He is thoroughly up-to-date, 
 keeping well posted on the latest discoveries and 
 theories in the science of dentistry, and has a 
 well-equipped laboratory and operating room in 
 the Ellingson l)uilding. He enjoys a liberal 
 share of the ptdjlic patronage, and is meeting 
 with well deserved success. P>esides his pleas- 
 ant residence on North Fifth avenue, he owns 
 
 a good bearing orange grove of twenty acres 
 seven miles northeast of the city, being the third 
 person to engage in orange culture in the Salt 
 River valley. 
 
 At Des Moines, Iowa, occurred the luarriage 
 of Dr. Hardy and Miss Jennie B. Phillips, a 
 native of that city and a daughter of William 
 Phillips, who settled there in 1845 a"d became 
 one of its prominent attorneys. They have two 
 children, Phillips and Joseph. The Doctor is 
 a member of the National LTnion and the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church South, and is a supporter 
 of the Democratic party. He has been active in 
 securing legislation beneficial to the dental pro- 
 fession: was appointed a member of the first 
 board of territorial examiners and filled that 
 position about four years. He was also one of 
 the organizers of the Territorial Dental Society. 
 He has become thoroughly identified with the 
 interests of his adopted city, and is well known 
 as an enterprising, reliable business man, who 
 commands the confidence and respect of all 
 with whom he comes in contact. 
 
 HENRY J. JESSOP, D. D. S. 
 
 One of the oldest and most prominent dentists 
 of Arizona, Dr. Jessop, of Phoenix, is now a 
 mendjer of the Territorial Board of Dental Ex- 
 aminers. A native of England, he was born 
 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, March 22, 1863, 
 and is a son of Dr. H. E. and Susan (Hughes) 
 Jessop. His paternal grandfather was Walter 
 Jessop, an attorney of Cheltenham and a life- 
 long resident of England. The father was a 
 graduate surgeon of the London Royal College 
 of Surgeons and a graduate physician of the 
 College of Physicians, of Edinburgh, Scotland, 
 and for many years was house surgeon of Char- 
 ing Cross Hospital, London. Later he engaged 
 in the practice of his profession at Cheltenham, 
 where he died at the age of fifty years. He was 
 very prominent in professional circles and was 
 a man highly respected and esteemed by all who 
 knew him. His wife, who belongs to an old 
 W'orcestershire family, is still a resident of Eng- 
 land. Of their thirteen children eleven reached 
 years of maturity, while our subject, w'ho is third 
 in order of birth, is the only representative of 
 the faniilv in .\mcrica.
 
 402 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Reared at Cheltenham, Dr. H. J. Jessop was 
 educated in the pubHc schools of that place and 
 Cheltenham College. Coming to the United 
 States in 1882. he located at El Paso, Woodford 
 county. 111., where he studied dentistry under 
 Dr. J. E. Fishburn for three years, and then 
 opened an office of his own at Minden, Neb., 
 where he was engaged in practice for three 
 years. In February, 1889, he came to Phoenix, 
 Ariz., and is today the oldest dentist of the 
 place in years of practice, his office being located 
 in the Porter building. It is well equipped with 
 all modern appliances known to the profession. 
 His skill and ability are attested by the liberal 
 patronage he enjoys, and he ranks as one of the 
 leading dentists of the territory. In i8gi he 
 was appointed a member of the Territorial 
 Board of Dental Examiners, and has since filled 
 that position with the exception of one year. 
 
 Dr. Jessop was married in El Paso, 111., to 
 Miss Lillie Waite, and to them has been born 
 one child, Ruth. He uses his right of franchise 
 in support of the Republican party and its prin- 
 ciples, and takes a commendable interest in pub- 
 lic affairs. He is a member of the Board of 
 Trade of Phoenix, the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, the Athletic Club, and the Maricopa 
 Club. He is now serving as director and vice- 
 president of the latter club and is very popular 
 in social circles, being a man of pleasing address 
 and genial manners. 
 
 OSCAR L. MAHONEY, M. D. 
 
 During the long years of devotion to the best 
 tenets of his profession, the science of medicine 
 knew no more worthy and conscientious ex- 
 ponent than Dr. Mahoney. From the first of 
 his practice he received the patronage and appre- 
 ciation of the communities in which he lived, 
 and has to his credit a long record of promi- 
 nent recognition due his particular aptitude for 
 the work of his unbounded faith. 
 
 .\ native of JefTerson county, Tenn., he was 
 born March 7, 1839, .and is a son of Dr. James 
 W. and Amanda M. (Turnley) Mahoney, who 
 were born in Tennessee. On both sides the 
 family are of Irish extraction, rnd many of them 
 have been prDininently cdnnected with the most 
 ini])ortant events in .American history. The ma- 
 
 ternal grandfather fought with General Jackson 
 at New Orleans, and the great-grandfather was 
 a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Dr. James 
 W. Mahoney was for many years a practicing 
 physician and surgeon in Tennessee and Arkan- 
 sas, and a prominent man in the localities which 
 profited by his wisely directed experience. 
 When a boy of eight, Oscar L. removed with 
 his parents from Jefiferson county, Tenn., to 
 Crittenden county, Ky., and located at a place 
 now called Weston, and where the father prac- 
 ticed medicine until his son's twelfth year. They 
 then settled twenty-three miles west of Pine 
 BlufT, Ark., on the Saline river, where the elder 
 Mahoney died. There the son attained his ma- 
 jority, and received a fair education in the dis- 
 trict schools. In the wake of .an early resolve 
 to follow the profession of his father he began 
 the study of medicine, but his studies were inter- 
 rupted by the breaking out of the war, and the 
 patriotism which impelled him to offer his serv- 
 ices to the country. 
 
 The war record of Dr. Mahoney was prolific 
 of many interesting events, and he participated 
 in many of the important battles of the war. 
 As a member of the Ninth Arkansas Infantry 
 he fought at Shiloh, Corinth, St. Charles, Ark., 
 Cotton Plant, Pine Blufif, Arkansas Post, and 
 many minor skirmishes. As a private in the 
 Confederate .army he served all through the war, 
 and at Shiloh received a wound in the left hand 
 from a spent ball which necessitated the amputa- 
 tion of the middle finger. 
 
 When peace was restored he continued to 
 qualify for the profession of medicine, and at- 
 tended a course of lectures at Ann Arbor. In 
 1867 he was graduated from the Medical Col- 
 lege of Ohio, at Cincinnati, and at once came to 
 Arizona, where for two years he engaged in 
 practice at Wickenburg. He then returned to 
 Illinois and began practice at Murphysboro, 
 where he attained to considerable prominence, 
 during sixteen years being the foremost physi- 
 cian of the ]ilace. For two years he served as a 
 member of the city council, and was also en- 
 gaged in the drug business for many years. In 
 1883 he again sought the possibilities of the 
 southwest, and settled in Phoenix, Ariz., where 
 he was a valued acquisition to the profession of 
 medicine until Jnntiary 1, l8(>S. .\t the present
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 405 
 
 time he is enjoying a well-earned respite from 
 the responsibilities incident to professional life, 
 still residing in Phoenix. While conducting a 
 large and lucrative practice in Phoenix he was 
 for ten years superintendent of the Maricopa 
 county hospital. 
 
 In 1870 occurred the marriage of Dr. Ma- 
 honey and Virginia Rosson, a native of Tennes- 
 see, and a daughter of Osborn and Rebecca 
 (Patton) Rosson, natives of Tennessee. Mrs. 
 Mahoney is a graduate of the Women's Hos- 
 pital Medical College, now affiliated with the 
 medical department of the Northwestern Uni- 
 versity of Chicago. For years she has been a 
 successful practicing physician in Phoenix, and 
 with her husband has represented the best pro- 
 fessional element in the territory. In national 
 politics the Doctor is associated with the Demo- 
 cratic party, and has held various offices within 
 the gift of the people. During 1884 he served 
 as a member of the city coimcil, and was for a 
 time coroner of Maricopa county. Fraternally 
 he is a member of the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, at Murphysboro, 111., and of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, at Phoenix. 
 
 THOMAS J. HESSER. 
 
 Few inhabitants of northern Arizona are per- 
 sonally known by more men than is Thomas 
 Jefferson Hesser, proprietor of Hotel Navajo, 
 at Winslow ; and few men have a larger circle of 
 devoted friends. He is a descendant of good 
 old Pennsylvania-Dutch stock, and is a son of 
 John Wesley and Susan (Merkle) Hesser. At 
 Llewellyn, Schuylkill county. Pa., where he was 
 born October 19, 1858, he passed the years of 
 youth, mean time receiving a common-school 
 education. At the age of twenty years he left 
 home and went to Kansas, where for about one 
 year he was employed in Salina. Subsequently, 
 for two years, he worked as a moldcr in Burling- 
 ton, Iowa, having learned that trade before his 
 departure from Peimsylvania. In Burlington 
 he was also emjiloyed as a clerk for a hardware 
 concern. 
 
 Upon relinc|uishing his clerkship, Mr. Hesser 
 was for five months engaged in work for the 
 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; for five 
 months he was also employed in a restaurant at 
 
 Kansas City, Mo. ; while for six months he 
 acted as brakeman for the Santa Fe Railroad 
 Company in New Mexico, with headquarters at 
 Kingman, N. M. For four months he was 
 located at Durango, Colo., after which for 
 twenty months he was employed in the train 
 service of the Mexican Central Railroad Com- 
 pany. Finally, in 1884, he located in Winslow, 
 Ariz., where he has since resided. Until Febru- 
 ary, 1896, he was in the employ of the Santa 
 Fe Railroad Company, first as freight brakeman, 
 then as freight conductor, and finally as pas- 
 senger conductor. 
 
 After resigning his position with the Santa 
 Fe in 1896, Mr. Hesser constructed Hotel 
 Navajo, of which he has since remained the 
 genial and popular proprietor. In various other 
 ways he has identified himself with the best 
 interests of Winslow, his property holdings 
 including one-fourth interest in the W^inslow 
 opera house, erected In 1898. Politically he is 
 a stanch adherent to the principles of the Repub- 
 lican party, is a member of the territorial cen- 
 tral Republican committee, and also of the 
 Winslow city council. Fraternally he is iden- 
 tified w^ith the Elks and the Knights of Pythias. 
 April 3, 1887, he married Harriet A. Jones, a 
 native of Minersville, Pa., and a daughter of 
 Lemuel D. Jones. They are the parents of a 
 daughter, Ruth A. Hesser. 
 
 NARCISO HEREU MATAS, M. D. 
 
 This prominent physician and prosperous cit- 
 izen of Tucson, was born May 16, 1845, in 
 Gerona, Catalonia, Spain, and according to an 
 old Spanish custom took his mother's maiden 
 name, his parents being Emanuel and Paula 
 (Matas) Hereu. nlso natives of Gerona, where the 
 father followed the life of a planter. Both par- 
 ents died in .Spain. The Doctor's paternal 
 grandfather was Bernito liereu, also a planter, 
 while his maternal grandfather was Narciso Ma- 
 tas, an extensive planter and large manufacturer 
 of olive oil. The Doctor's mother died at the age 
 of thirtv-three years, when he was fifteen years 
 old. In the family were four sons and three 
 daughters, all of whom reached manhood and 
 womanho^id, while two sons and three daughters 
 are still living.
 
 4o6 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Dr. IMatas grew to manhood in his native 
 land, and began his business career as a clerk in 
 his uncle's drug store at Gerona, where he stud- 
 ied in the college for five years, beside one year 
 in college at Barcelona. On first coming to 
 America in 1857, he entered the New Orleans 
 School of Medicine, where he was graduated in 
 1859, with the degree of M. D., and then en- 
 gaged in the practice of his chosen profession 
 in the Crescent City until the Civil war broke 
 out. In 1861 he returned to Spain and studied 
 medicine for four years in the University of 
 Barcelona, where he was graduated in 1866. 
 He next attended clinics in Paris for a year, and 
 in 1867 returned to New Orleans. Soon after- 
 ward he removed to Brownsville, Tex., and 
 built up an extensive practice in the Spanish 
 colony at Matamoras and Brownsville, where 
 he remained until coming to Tucson in 1881. 
 The following year during the yellow fever epi- 
 demic at Brownsville, he returned to that place 
 and had charge of three hundred patients, re- 
 suming jjractice at Tucson in the fall. In 1883 
 he went to Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, during 
 an epidemic of yellow fever at that place. 
 
 .■\s a progressive physician Dr. Matas keeps 
 well posted on everything pertaining to his 
 chosen profession. In 1892 he was a member 
 of the International Medical Health Associa- 
 tion which met in Mexico City, and was a mem- 
 ber of the first Mexican Medical Congress of 
 that place, taking an active part in its work, 
 especially in the surgical and pathological sec- 
 tions. During his residence in Tucson he has 
 served as county physician and city health of- 
 ficer; has been medical examiner for nearly all 
 of the societies and life insurance companies 
 represented at this place, and was pension exam- 
 iner one term. The Doctor has a pleasant home 
 at No. 98 West Pennington street, and owns a 
 large amount of valuable property in the city, 
 including about half a block on Pennington 
 street and the Stewart Hotel. He is interested 
 in gold, silver and lead mining, and has been 
 very successful in his mining ventures. He sold 
 the Mammoth mine, but still has some valuable 
 mining property, including the Apollo mine, 
 and is a director of the Tucson Street Railway, 
 of which he was one of the organizers, and was 
 president for a time. 
 
 Dr. Matas married Theresa Jorda, who bore 
 him two children. Rudolph, the eldest, is a 
 graduate of the University of New Orleans, and 
 is now professor of surgery in the medical de- 
 partment of the University of Louisiana. He 
 has a national reputation as a surgeon and is 
 very prominent in professional circles. Elvira 
 is now in Spain. 
 
 In 1893 Dr. Matas married Miss Louisa M. 
 Mallet, who was born in Brownsville, Tex., of 
 French and German ancestry. They have one 
 daughter, Irene, who is attending school in Los 
 Angeles. 
 
 In politics Dr. Alatas is independent, and in 
 his social relations is a Mason and a member 
 of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and 
 the Ancient Order of LInited Workmen. He 
 also belongs to the Arizona Medical Society. 
 He has contributed to medical literature, in- 
 cluding some very able articles on the subjects 
 of yellow fever microbes, bacteriology, etc. He 
 is a close and thorough student, a man of deep 
 research, and his investigations into the science 
 of medicine and his skillful application of the 
 knowledge thereby obtained has won him a 
 place in the foremost ranks of the medical fra- 
 ternitv. 
 
 HON. A. H. NOON. 
 
 If, as an eminent writer has said, the cease- 
 less striving according to our best light for 
 the peace, prosperity, and happiness of those 
 who compose our environment constitutes suc- 
 cess in life, Dr. Noon may be said to have gone 
 a long way towards the goal for which many 
 aspire, but which comparatively few reach. Nor 
 has his association with the promising town of 
 Nogales been the greatest of his efiforts. To the 
 conduct of his affairs he brings a knowledge 
 of the world and human nature, as developed in 
 England, in the wilds of Africa, and in the re- 
 sourceful west. A native of England, he early 
 displayed an ambition which extended beyond 
 the borders of his Albion home, and when a 
 mere boy went to South .-Xfrica, where he served 
 in the British army for four years, and after- 
 wards raised a company of volunteers of which 
 he was elected lieutenant. In the mean time he 
 had been utilizing his leisure hours by studying
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 409 
 
 medicine under Dr. John Eglinton Seaman, an 
 ex-army surgeon from the East Indies, and in 
 1864 he emigrated to the United States and 
 completed liis medical course. 
 
 Dr. Noon's interesting association with Utah 
 began about 1865, at which time he went to the 
 Tintic mining district and founded the town of 
 Eureka, laid out the town, built the first house 
 of stone, was a])pointed the first postmaster, and 
 was elected the first justice of the peace and not- 
 ary. In fact, it may be said that Dr. Noon was 
 the town, around which grew up the various 
 small interests usually associated with mining 
 villages. So impressed were the other resi- 
 dents as to his prior and deserved right of pos- 
 session that they nick-named him "Old Tintic." 
 Besides his mining interests in Utah he practiced 
 his profession there and was associated in prac- 
 tice with Dr. D. C. Roberts, a well known south- 
 ern army surgeon. 
 
 In 1879 Dr. Noon came to Arizona, and be- 
 came interested in mining in Pima county in 
 the Ore Blanco district, and while there again 
 tried his hand at town-making. His efforts 
 were industriously exerted towards the growth 
 of an infant village called Oro Blanco, and there 
 he still owns large interests, but which is at 
 present experiencing a season of inactivity. At 
 the time of the severance of Santa Cruz from 
 Pima county. Dr. Noon was honored by being 
 appointed by the governor a member of the 
 board of supervisors, of which he was also chair- 
 man, and in November of 1900 he was elected, 
 on the Democratic ticket, the first representa- 
 tive from Santa Cruz to the flower house of the 
 legislature. Although much occupied with the 
 various enterprises, political and otherwise, 
 which have tended to the development of his 
 town and locality, he has uninterruptedly prac- 
 ticed medicine and surgery, and has a large 
 practice. He is resident manager of the Auster- 
 litz Mining Company, and owns a controlling 
 interest in the same. In addition to the com- 
 fortable residence which constitutes his home 
 property, he is the possessor of several building 
 lots in Nogales. 
 
 In 1864 Dr. Noon married Miss Emma C. E. 
 Slaughter, and of this union there are five sons, 
 viz.: Alonzo E., who is interested in ranching 
 and mining in the Oro Blanco region ; Adolphus 
 
 S., who is a master mechanic and owns a ma- 
 chine and blacksmith shop in Nogales; Arthur 
 H., who is a stockman and miner; Edward E., 
 who is an assayer, and a member of the Insti- 
 tute of Mining Engineers; and S. Frederick, who 
 is clerk and also commissioner of the district 
 court of Santa Cruz county. The daughter of 
 the family is named Sarah C. Dr. Noon is a 
 member of the Arizona Territorial Medical As- 
 sociation. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Masonic Lodge at Nogales. and is treasurer of 
 the same. He has been a member of Franklin 
 Lodge, A. O. U. W., in California for more than 
 twenty years. 
 
 ALBERT J. GRISWOLD. 
 
 Though not one of the earliest settlers of 
 Nogales, having arrived here in 1891, Mr. Gris- 
 wold is one of the most enthusiastic advocates 
 of the resources antl possibilities of the flourish- 
 ing little bi-national city. At present the post- 
 master of the town, to which position he was 
 appointed by President McKinley in 1897, he 
 is also variously interested in the enterprises 
 which have recently been made possible and 
 which have been materially aided by his counsel 
 and influence. 
 
 Until seventeen years of age Mr. Griswold 
 was reared to agricultural pursuits on his fath- 
 er's farm near Rose, Wayne county, N. Y., 
 where he was born February 11, 1852. His 
 parents, William and Sarah (Colburn) Griswold, 
 were also natives, of New York state, living 
 upon a farm in Wayne county for some years, 
 but subsequently settling in Linn county, Mo. 
 Their son received his education in the public 
 and high schools of Wayne county, N. Y., and 
 later engaged in educational work in Linn 
 county, AIo., for fourteen years. During parf 
 Cfi this time he also attended the Missouri State 
 Normal school at Kirksville, Mo., from which he 
 was graduated in 1879 and afterward he again 
 taught school for three years. While teaching 
 in Meadville, Mo., ]ire\-ious to his graduation, 
 he was for nine years principal of the public 
 school. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Griswold entered the employ of 
 the American and Wells- Fargo Express com- 
 jjanies at St. Joseph, ^^lo., and after a year was
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 transferred to Atchison, Kans., subsequently in 
 the same capacity spenthng two years in Trini- 
 dad, Colo., thence in 1887 going to Kansas City, 
 Mo. Owing to ill health after a time he secured 
 a transfer of work to La Junta, Colo., and later 
 to Santa Fe, N. M., and El Paso, Tex. In 
 1891 he came to Nogales, Ariz., as agent for 
 the Wells-Fargo Company. In 1895, resigning 
 that position, he bought out the insurance busi- 
 ness of D. J. Cummings, and now represents 
 fourteen of the best companies in the world, 
 among them being the Phoenix of London, the 
 Union Insurance Company of London, the 
 Scottish Union and National Insurance Com- 
 pany, the Fireman's Fund of California, the 
 Home of New York, the National, Atlas, Aetna 
 and Hartford. 
 
 A stanch Republican in politics, Mr. Gris- 
 wold has been active in local matters. For a 
 short time he served as city clerk of Nogales 
 and ill 1 897 he was commissioned a notary pub- 
 lic. For several years he was associated with 
 the Nogales Electric Light Company as auditor 
 and one of its directors. Fraternally he is a 
 member of Nogales Lodge No. 11, F. & A. M., 
 the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows at 
 Santa Fe, N. M., besides is a charter member of 
 the local tribe of Red Men and has served as 
 keeper of the wampum. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Griswold married Adella M. Cole 
 of Meadville, Mo., who died in 1876, leaving 
 one son. Earl L., now agent of the Wells-Fargo 
 Express Company at Clifton, Ariz. The second 
 marriage of Mr. Griswold took place at Kansas 
 City, Mo., in 1891, and united him with Mrs. 
 Retta A. Vogel, by whom he has two sons. Clay 
 A. and Claude. 
 
 ARTHUR W. OLCOTT, M. D. 
 
 The medical and surgical fraternity of Tuc- 
 son has a capable representative in Dr. Olcott, 
 who brought wath him to his field of efifort in 
 the territory the results of the best possible edu- 
 cational and professional training obtainable in 
 the country. A native of St. Louis county. Mo., 
 he \yas born .April 25, 1865, and is a son of C. H. 
 Olcott, a native of New York state, and for 
 many years a wholesale dry-goods merchant in 
 New York City. Subsequently he removed to 
 
 St. Louis, Mo., where he continued his former 
 occupation until his retirement from active par- 
 ticipation in business affairs. He lived to a good 
 old age, until February of 1900, at which time 
 he was eighty-six years old. He was a devoted 
 member of the Presbyterian Church, and in poli- 
 tics was a Democrat. In his younger years he 
 married Maria Austin, who was born in Utica, 
 N. Y., and who is living at the present time. She 
 is the mother of seven children, six of whom 
 are living, A. W. being the youngest. 
 
 The ancestry of the Olcott family is English, 
 and the first members to emigrate to America 
 settled in dififerent parts of the extreme east. 
 The paternal grandfather, C. H. Olcott, was 
 born in New York state, and died at a compara- 
 tively early age. Dr. Olcott lived, during his 
 younger days, at Webster Grove, a suburb of 
 St. Louis, and began his education in the public 
 schools. After preparing for Princeton College 
 at Smith .\cademy he entered the former insti- 
 tution m 1880 and was graduated in 1884 with 
 the degree of A. B. Having determined to de- 
 vote his life to the science of medicine, he en- 
 tered the same year the St. Louis Medical Col- 
 lege, and was graduated in the class of 1887. 
 Through competitive examination he secured 
 the additional experience accorded an interne at 
 the St. Louis City Hospital, and at the end of 
 the year was given the same privilege at the St. 
 Louis Female Hospital. He was then on the 
 staff of the St. Louis Mullanphy Hospital until 
 1896, and at the same time was continuing grad- 
 uate work, and was instructor in anatomy at the 
 St. Louis Medical College. 
 
 Dr. Olcott became associated with Tucson in 
 the fall of 1896, and at once entered upon a gen- 
 eral medical practice. His ability received ready 
 recognition, and in 1897 he was appointed city 
 health officer, and has since satisfactorily sus- 
 tained the position. The office is located at No. 
 176 West Pennington street. Dr. Olcott is heart- 
 ily in sympathy w'ith all that pertains to the de- 
 velojMncnt and u]>buil(ling of his adopted western 
 town, and is one of its most trustworthy and 
 enterprising citizens. He was made a Mason 
 while living in St. Louis, and was a member of 
 the West Gate Lodge No. 445. In politics a 
 Democrat, he is liberal-minded regarding the 
 politics of the administration, and believes in
 
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 voting for the man best qualified to fill the posi- 
 tion. He is a member of the Territorial Medical 
 Association. 
 
 The marriage of Dr. Olcott and Statia R. 
 Nead occurred in St. Louis in 1893, and of this 
 union there is one son, Arthur W., Jr. 
 
 FRANK J. DUFFY. 
 
 Well known as district attorney and former 
 assessor of Santa Cruz county, Mr. Duffy has 
 been a resident of Nogales since June of 1893. 
 A native of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., he is a 
 son of Michael and Mary (O'Brien) DufTy, who 
 were born in the same county as himself. Dur- 
 ing the early '50s his father went to California, 
 where he remained about eight years and then 
 returned to New York. The west, however, had 
 gained such a charm for him during his resi- 
 dence there that he soon returned to the Pacific 
 coast, where he spent three years. Again going 
 back to his home state he remained there until 
 his death in 1892. 
 
 Primarily educated in the public schools, 
 Frank J. Duffy afterward attended St. Lawrence 
 University, from which he was graduated in 
 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. 
 During the latter part of the same year he came 
 to Arizona and for the next five years was en- 
 gaged in educational work in Phoenix and 
 Globe. In the mean time he had decided to de- 
 vote his life efforts to the profession of law, and 
 had employed whatever of leisure presented 
 itself out of the school-room to the mastery of 
 the science as utilized in the courts of the ter- 
 ritory. In 1899 he was admitted to practice in 
 Santa Cruz county. 
 
 After coming to Nogales Mr. Duffy was for 
 three years in the employ of the United States 
 custom service. In 1896 he was elected justice 
 of the peace, to which office he was re-elected 
 two years later. At the time of the separation 
 of Pima and Santa Cruz counties he was offici- 
 ating as justice and rendered conspicuous service 
 as assistant enrolling and engrossing clerk, also 
 arranged the complicated and intricate matters 
 for the bill. In 1899 he resigned as justice in 
 order to accept the office of assessor. In the 
 November election of 1900 he was elected dis- 
 trict attorney on the Democratic ticket, and his 
 
 administration has been well received. As an 
 exponent of the law he is capable and erudite, 
 and is regarded as a representative lawyer of 
 the territory. Although he has been admitted to 
 the bar for but a short time he has shown him- 
 self to be a close student, and one who is en- 
 dowed with the faculty of distinguishing and 
 elucidating his legal propositions to a degree 
 equaling the skill shown by many lawyers of 
 wider e.xperience. 
 
 With the progress of movements for the up- 
 building of his adopted town Mr. Duffy is identi- 
 fied. Fraternally he is associated with the An- 
 cient Order of United Workmen, in which he is 
 past master workman. In February, 1894, he 
 married Miss Catherine C, daughter of J. A. 
 and Mary E. (Moss) Linder, descendants of 
 well-known families of the Mississippi valley. 
 Born of this union are two children, Francis R. 
 and Mary L. 
 
 DR. SAMUEL J. PETERS. 
 
 Dr. Samuel J. Peters, physician and agricul- 
 turist, came to the territory of Arizona in 1885, 
 and in 1897 settled on the ranch which has since 
 been the object of his care. His efforts are di- 
 rected almost wholly to the raising of cattle, 
 and the extent of his enterprises necessitates not 
 only the three hundred and twenty acres which 
 constitute his personal property, but consider- 
 able rented land as well. In 1885 Dr. Peters 
 located in the Tonto Basin, this territory, and not 
 only carried on a large cattle business, but was 
 interested in a successful mercantile venture. 
 He here attained to considerable prominence in 
 local affairs, and served as postmaster of Rye 
 postoffice for several years. A later place of 
 residence was at Sugar Loaf mountain, where 
 he was also engaged in raising cattle. He is 
 therefore familiar with conditions as they have 
 existed in this land of promise for sixteen years, 
 and has, like many others who have brought 
 about the present prosperity, witnessed many 
 gratifying changes. Dr. Peters was born near 
 St. Stephens, Me., November 7, 1845, and is 
 a son of James and Eliza Peters, also natives of 
 Maine. For many years the family has been 
 represented in Maine, the ancestors having set- 
 tled there upon first coming to America. Sam-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 uel J. received the home training calculated to 
 develop the best traits of his character, and he 
 lived in Maine, and was educated in the public 
 schools, until his twentieth year. His early am- 
 bitions were turned in the direction of dental 
 science, and in order to qualify for the practice 
 of that profession he went to Boston and studied 
 at the Harvard Dental School, from which he 
 was graduated. Among the superior advantages 
 which came his way was the opportunity to lis- 
 ten to lectures delivered by Oliver Wendell 
 Holmes. Dr. Peters successfully practiced in 
 Boston for nearly fifteen years, when, owing to 
 failing sight, he was obliged to seek a change 
 of occupation. It was then that he decided in 
 favor of the free and out-door occupation of 
 cattle-raising in Arizona, which subsequently 
 proved to have been a wise decision. 
 
 Dr. Peters is regarded as one of the most en- 
 terprising and substantial dwellers of the Salt 
 River valley, and his ranch near Tempe is con- 
 ducted on the broadest and most scientific prin- 
 ciples. He is essentially a self-made man, hav- 
 ing overcome the obstacles of ill health and ad- 
 verse fortune. In national politics he is inde- 
 pendent, and believes in voting for the man best 
 qualified to hold the position. He is fraternally 
 associated with the Masonic order at Tempe, 
 and is a charter member of the Tempe Lodge, 
 F. & A. M. 
 
 FRANCIS A. ODERMATT. 
 
 To Dr. F. A. Odermatt, of Tucson, attaches 
 the honor of being the longest established prac- 
 titicing dentist of Arizona. In his profession 
 and in the commercial, political and social cir- 
 cles of this city he is justly popular and promi- 
 nent, for he neglects no opportunity of promot- 
 ing the general welfare of the community in 
 which he has elected to make his permanent 
 home. 
 
 From his forefathers Dr. Odermatt doubtless 
 inherited a large share of the genius for which 
 he is locally celebrateH. His maternal grand- 
 father, Zumbuehl, a native of Canton Unter- 
 walden, Switzerland, was a noted sculptor, his 
 works being chiefly of alabaster. The doctor's 
 parents, Francis A. and Catherine (Zumbuehl) 
 Odermatt, were likewise natives of Canton Un- 
 
 terwalden, and both departed this life in San 
 Francisco, whither they had removed in 1863. 
 They had come to the United States in Febru- 
 ary, 1852. and had resided in St. Louis, New 
 Orleans, and Springfield, 111., prior to their re- 
 moval to the Pacific coast. Of their eight chil- 
 dren one is deceased, and the subject of this 
 article is the only one of the family in Arizona. 
 His brothers, following in the footsteps of their 
 father, who was an exceptionally skilled machin- 
 ist, are manufacturing machinery in California. 
 
 The birth of Dr. F. A. Odermatt occurred 
 June 17, 1848, in Buochs, Canton Unterwalden, 
 Switzerland, where many generations of his fam- 
 ily had lived and died. When he was less than 
 four years of age he was brought to America, 
 and until 1863 lived chiefly in St. Louis, where 
 his father was engaged in mercantile pursuits. 
 In San Francisco the youth pursued his educa- 
 tion in St. Ignatius College, devoting much of 
 his time to Latin and Greek, and in 1865 com- 
 menced to attend St. Thomas's Theological Sem- 
 inary at the Mission Dolores. Continuing there 
 until February, 1867, he then accompanied 
 Archbishop Alameny, of San Francisco, to Eu- 
 rope, and in May of the same year matricu- 
 lated in the famous old College of Einsiedlen, in 
 Switzerland. For almost two years he industri- 
 ously labored in the mines of knowledge there, 
 but at length his health became seriously im- 
 paired, and on that account he returned to San 
 Francisco in February, 1869. 
 
 After a few months spent in recuperating Dr. 
 Odermatt decided to enter the dental profes- 
 sion, and for ten years he was in practice un- 
 der the direction of the late Dr. C. C. Knowles, 
 a noted dental surgeon of the Pacific coast. 
 With this thorough and practical preparation for 
 his chosen work, the young man embarked in 
 business on his own account, his offices being 
 at the corner of Post and Kearney streets. In 
 October, 1882, the superior climate and other 
 attractions of Tucson had so appealed to him 
 that he concluded to cast his fortunes with our 
 people. Arriving in this place, then a strag- 
 gling town, he soon won his way into the front 
 ranks of his profession in the territory, and has 
 steadily risen in influence and usefulness. In 
 1897 he was sent as a delegate to the Pacific 
 Coast Dental Congress, and has been connected
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 415 
 
 with tin- California Dental Association and for- 
 merly was connected with the San Francisco 
 Dental Association. As early as 1887 he intro- 
 duced a bill in the Arizona legislature, hoping 
 thereby to protect the public from incompetent 
 dentists, and striving to establish a board of 
 examiners of practitioners in this line. It ap- 
 peared that the time was not yet ripe, for the 
 bill was not passed at that session, but subse- 
 quently, in 1891, a similar one became a law, 
 and Dr. Odermatt was appointed as a member of 
 the first board of dental examiners. For three 
 years, or until he tendered his resignation, he 
 served as secretary of that body. He also or- 
 ganized the Territorial Dental Association, 
 wrote its constitution and by-laws, and ever 
 since has been an active member of the organiz- 
 ation. 
 
 In the Ancient Order of United Workmen the 
 Doctor is a leading member in Arizona. He 
 has been deputy grand master workman for the 
 district of Arizona of the Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen and at present is chairman of 
 the finance committee of the grand lodge of 
 Arizona and New Mexico. Besides this, he 
 is a director of the Hall Association of the same 
 order, and was one of the most active members 
 of the building committee, which erected the 
 handsome structure in Tucson, 90x90 feet, two 
 stories in height. A charter member of the local 
 lodge of the Order of Elks, he was its first loyal 
 knight, and moreover was a charter member 
 and the first council conmiander of San Xavier 
 camp of the Woodmen of the World. In the 
 Spanish-.A.merican Alliance he was the first past 
 supreme president, and is a charter member of 
 the German Leiderkranz. From the time of the 
 organization of the Tucson Building and Loan 
 Association he has been identified with it. was 
 vice-president in 1900, and in 1901 was made 
 its president. For three years he was a school 
 trustee, and for part of that time was secretary 
 of the board. Always an ardent Republican, he 
 has been the secretary of the local political club. 
 
 The wife of Dr. Odermatt, formerly Miss 
 Carlotta Flores, is a representative of an honored 
 old family. Her maternal grandfather, the late 
 Don Carlos Yorba, of San Juan, once owned 
 great tracts of land, including almost the entire 
 Santa .'Kna valley, in southern California, and 
 
 his immense herds of cattle and live stock- 
 roamed these vast domains. A daughter of 
 Senor Justo Flores, Mrs. Odermatt is closely 
 related to the famous Godoy family of Santiago, 
 Chili, and her grandmother was the sister of 
 Scfior Miguel Godoy, once the ambassador of 
 Balmaceda to France. The Doctor and wife 
 have two children, namely: Theresa A. and 
 Frank J. 
 
 The few hours of leisure which Dr. Odermatt 
 enjoys have often been devoted to artistic work, 
 for he possesses marked ability as a sculptor, 
 and might easily have won world-wide fame had 
 he elected to give himself up entirely to the 
 noble craft. He is a wonderful wood carver, 
 and a beautiful model of the old San Xavier 
 Church which was placed on exhibition here a 
 few years ago elicited glowing praise from the 
 local press and public. The daily "Star" and the 
 "Arizona Enterprise," among others, commend- 
 ed his sculpture and carving in the highest 
 terms, echoing the sentiments of able judges — 
 many of whom are familiar with the noble ex- 
 amples of art, as produced by his talented fellow- 
 countrymen — the Swiss, who are unequaled in 
 these lines. 
 
 OTTO E. PLATH, M. D. 
 
 As a conscientious and able exponent of medi- 
 cal science. Dr. Plath represents the most stu- 
 diously advanced and wisely conservative ele- 
 ment among the practitioners of Phoenix. Of 
 German parentage, he was born in New Ulni, 
 Brown county, Minn., May 23, 1864, and is a 
 son of Herman and Louisa (Lang) Plath, natives 
 of Germany. Tlie paternal grandfather was 
 born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and, during his 
 long and active life, was a stockman on an ex- 
 tensive scale. The maternal grandfather, Lang, 
 emigrated to America in the early sixties, and 
 was among the very early settlers of Cleveland, 
 later removing to Minnesota. Herman Plath 
 was born in 1827, and crossed the seas to the 
 United States about 1849, locating in Brown 
 county, Minn., where he was among the first to 
 invade the hitherto undisputed possessions of 
 the red men. P'rom the wildness of primeval 
 condition he improved his land, and courage- 
 ously outlived the severe hardships to which
 
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 pioneer life is heir. At the time of the Sioux 
 Indian massacre in 1863, he joined the first local 
 company, and assisted in protecting the citizens 
 of New Ulm, until the arrival of the state troops. 
 Subsequently he removed to Albany, Minn., 
 and changed his occupation of farming to that 
 of manufacturing flour. He was formerly a Re- 
 publican, and latterly a Populist, and held sev- 
 eral important township offices, though defeated 
 when nominated for the legislature. Fraternally 
 he was a member of the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and in religion a Protestant. His 
 wife is still living, and is the mother of ten chil- 
 dren, six of whom are living, O. E. being the 
 oldest. 
 
 In New Ulm Dr. Plath received an excellent 
 education in the public schools, and at a prac- 
 tically early age began the study of pharmacy, 
 completing his apprenticeship at Cleveland, 
 Ohio. In 1884 he entered the College of Phar- 
 macy at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was 
 graduated in 1886. After a year spent at the 
 University of Cincinnati, in pursuit of a special 
 scientific course, in 1888 he started a pharmacy 
 in Cincinnati, and continued in business there 
 imtil 1892. Following a long thought-out in- 
 clination he began the study of medicine under 
 Dr. Lyle, and for one year attended the Ohio 
 Medical College during 1892, finally graduating 
 from the three years' course of the Miami Medi- 
 cal College in 1896. During the summer of 
 1896 he practiced his profession in Cincinnati, 
 and in the fall came to the far west, and located 
 in Phoenix. 
 
 While living in Cincinnati Dr. Plath married 
 Louise Weigt, a native of Cincinnati, and of 
 this union three children have been born. Theo- 
 dore F., Adeline and Helen, twins. Dr. Plath 
 is variously interested in medical matters in the 
 community in which he lives, and is medical ex- 
 aminer for the Manhattan Life Insurance Com- 
 pany of New York and the Mutual Life Insur- 
 ance Company of New York. From 1898 until 
 1900 he served as secretary of the Territorial 
 Medical Association, and he is a member of the 
 Maricopa Medical Association, and a fellow of 
 the Arizona Academy of Medicine. He is also 
 a member of the Alumni Association of Miami 
 College. In Cincinnati he was made a Mason, 
 and belonged to the Price Hill Lodge No. 524, 
 
 but is now a member of Phoenix Lodge No. 2. 
 He is associated also with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, Phoenix Lodge No. 2; 
 with the Foresters, of which he is examining 
 physician ; with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and the Fraternal Brotherhood. 
 
 MARK A. RODGERS, M. D. 
 
 This prominent and successful physician and 
 surgeon of Tucson was born in Brookville, Jef- 
 ferson county, Pa., on the 5th of February, 1868, 
 and is the youngest in a family of eleven chil- 
 dren, nine of whom are still living, though our 
 subject is the only one residing in the west. 
 His paternal grandfather, Hugh Rodgers, was 
 a native of Baltimore, Md., and an early settler 
 of Kittanning, Armstrong county. Pa., where 
 he acted as conveyancer and clerk of the court. 
 His death occurred in that state. Dr. Mark 
 Rodgers, our subject's father, was born in Kit- 
 tanning, and was graduated from the medical 
 department of the University of Pennsylvania 
 in 1853. He was first engaged in practice in 
 his native city and later in Brookville, but sub- 
 sequently turned his attention to mercantile 
 business, which he continued to follow until 
 called from this life at the age of sixty-six years. 
 He married Rebecca Armstrong Corbett, a na- 
 tive of Mifflin county, Pa., and a daughter of 
 Philip Corbett, who was born in the same state 
 and followed farming in Mifflin county through- 
 out his active business life. The Corbett family 
 was of French Huguenot extraction and of 
 Presbyterian faith. The first to come to Amer- 
 ica settled in New Jersey, but early in the seven- 
 teenth century the family was founded in Penn- 
 sylvania. Some of its representatives fought 
 bravely for American independence in the Rev- 
 olutionary war. Mrs. Rodgers also belongs to 
 the Armstrong family, which is of Scotch-Irish 
 origin. One of its representatives was Colonel 
 Armstrong, who served with distinction under 
 Washington and Braddock in the French and 
 Indian war, and during the Revolution was in 
 command of Pennsylvania troops in the Conti- 
 nental army. The mother of our subject is still 
 living and continues to reside in Brookville, Pa. 
 
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 from the high school of his native town in 1884, 
 and spent the following year in Dakota. On 
 his return home he entered the University of 
 Pennsylvania, and was graduated from the medi- 
 cal department of that noted institution in 1891, 
 with the degree of M. D. By competitive exam- 
 ination he then entered the Allegheny General 
 Hospital at Pittsburg, Pa., where he served as 
 resident physician thirteen months, after which 
 he engaged in private practice in that city until 
 coming to Tucson, Ariz., in the spring of 1895. 
 He has made a special study of abdominal sur- 
 gery and gynecology, and for a time was asso- 
 ciated with Dr. R. Stansbury Sutton, the great 
 gynecologist. During his residence in Tucson 
 he has engaged in general practice, but has also 
 given considerable attention to his specialty, be- 
 ing considered one of the best representatives of 
 that branch of the profession in the territory. In 
 Pennsylvania Dr. Rodgers was a. prominent 
 member of the State Medical Society, the Pitts- 
 burg Medical Society, a fellow of the Pittsburg 
 Academy of Medicine, and secretary of the Pitts- 
 burg Obstetrical Society, and already takes a 
 leading place among the foremost representa- 
 tives of the Territorial Medical Society of Ari- 
 zona. He is also a member of the American 
 Climatological Society, before which he has 
 read important papers, including one on "The 
 Climate of Arizona," read at Lakewood, \. J., 
 May 13, 1896. He affiliates with the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks, and politically is iden- 
 tified with the Democracy. 
 
 On the 26th of November, 1896, at El Paso, 
 Tex., the Doctor was united in marriage with 
 Miss Lucile G. Freeman, a native of Cleveland, 
 Ohio, and to them has been born a son, Mark. 
 Mrs. Rodgers is a member of the Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 SHIRLEY ADDISON CHRISTY. 
 
 This popular citizen of Phoenix, the son of 
 Col. William Christy, is the general manager 
 of the Arizona interests of the Mutual Life In- 
 surance Company of New York City. Though 
 comparatively young in years and in the 
 business world, he is meeting with success in his 
 enterprises and is fully justifying the abundant 
 faith which his numerous friends have reposed 
 
 in him, predicting a brilliant future for him at 
 the threshold of his commercial career. 
 
 As in the biographical sketch of Col. William 
 Christy a full record of the family of our sub- 
 ject is given, suffice it here to narrate his per- 
 sonal history. He was born in Des Moines, 
 Iowa, January 18, 1874, and was just nine years 
 of age when he accompanied his parents to 
 Phoenix. Here he pursued his education in the 
 public schools, later attending the University 
 of Southern California at Los Angeles. When 
 eighteen years of age he started upon his busi- 
 ness life by becoming an employe of the Valley 
 Bank of Phoenix, and, after serving in the 
 capacity of collector for a period, was promoted 
 to the position of paying teller. 
 
 When the Spanish-American war came on 
 Mr. Christy became chief clerk in the Paymas- 
 ter's Department, holding a commission with 
 the rank of second lieutenant. For some time 
 he was stationed m Washington, D. C, and 
 later was transferred to San Francisco, awaiting 
 developments in the far west. After peaceful 
 relations between Spain and the United States 
 had been declared our subject decided to resign 
 from his post and on December i, 1898, re- 
 turned to the usual walks of life. Resuming his 
 former place as paying teller in the bank he con- 
 tinued in that office until June i, 1899, when he 
 tendered his resignation in order to accept his 
 present responsible position. A member of the 
 board of trade and a director of the Maricopa 
 Club, and also actively identified with the Sons 
 of the American Revolution and with the Sons 
 of \'eterans, he bears his due share in the gen- 
 eral commercial and social circles of Phoenix, 
 never failing in patriotism and public spirit. As 
 the president of the Young Men's Republican 
 Club he has wielded no slight influence in local 
 politics and firmly believes in the policy of his 
 party. 
 
 An important event in the life of Mr. Christy 
 took place in Des Moines, Iowa, December 19, 
 1895, when he married Miss Abelina Creighton, 
 daughter of Col. James H, Creighton, now of 
 Phoenix. He is a native of Waynesburg, Ohio, 
 and son of a Presbyterfan minister, who removed 
 from his birthplace in county Antrim, Ireland, 
 to Ohio at an early period, and there spent the 
 rest of his life. Col. J. H. Creighton became a
 
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 resident of Des Moines, Iowa, prior to the civil 
 war and there attained prominence in the legal 
 profession. During the long struggle between 
 the North and South he served with the rank 
 of colonel in the Eighteenth Iowa volunteer in- 
 fantry and of late years has been an honored 
 member of the Grand Army of the Republic and 
 of the Loyal Legion. His wife, the mother of 
 Mrs. Christy, bore the maiden name of Laura C. 
 Hudson. She was born in Lebanon, Mo., and 
 her father, Alexander Hudson, a native of Dela- 
 ware, was a pioneer of Missouri and for years 
 a leading member of the Lebanon bar. One of 
 eight men in Wright county, Mo., who had the 
 courage to declare themselves on the side of the 
 Union just at the outbreak of the Civil war, he 
 served in a Missouri regiment. While at his 
 home, early in the morning, he was called out of 
 his house and assassinated by guerrillas. Mrs. 
 Christv was born in Indianola, Iowa, and is a 
 graduate of Simpson College, where she pursued 
 courses in classics and music. As a musician 
 she has won more than local renown, for her 
 talent is beyond question. Desiring to perfect 
 herself in her loved art she spent the greater 
 part of lyoo in Europe studying under fine mas- 
 ters. Professors DeValle and Brodge of Flor- 
 ence, Italy, and Professor Thome of Paris being 
 of the number. Sharing the popularity which 
 Mr. Christy enjoys she is an honored member 
 of local society and as a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal church performs her due share 
 in the religious work in Phoenix. 
 
 FRED O. RICHMOND, M. D, C. 
 
 Born upon a farm situated about twenty-four 
 miles northeast of Madison, Dane county. Wis., 
 December 12, 1854, Dr. Fred O. Richmond is a 
 son of P. B. Richmond, one of the earliest set- 
 tlers of that locality. He owned and brought 
 to a high state of cultivation a farm of four hun- 
 dred acres, and for almost half a centurv dwelt 
 there, his death occurring when he was in his 
 seventy-fourth year. Both himself and wife, as 
 well as his father, were natives of New York 
 state. She bore the family name of Warner, 
 and of her children one died when young, and 
 three sons and a daughter are now living. Ezra 
 W. is yet living on the old Wisconsin home- 
 
 stead; Lucy B. is a resident of Helena, Mont.; 
 and George B. and Dr. Fred O. are citizens of 
 Phoenix. Edward A., who was a successful 
 pharmacist of Sabetha, Kans., is deceased. 
 
 In his youth Dr. F. O. Richmond formed the 
 deep interest in fine cattle and horses which he 
 has today, for his father made a specialty of rais- 
 ing standard bred coach and draught horses, 
 Devonshire and Durham cattle and sheep. His 
 success and wide experience rendered him a 
 valuable member of the Wisconsin Stock Breed- 
 ers' Association, and most of his sons obtained 
 practical knowledge of farming in all of its de- 
 partments. Our subject completed his literary 
 education in Ripon (Wis.) College, which he 
 attended until the junior year. 
 
 In 1875 Dr. Richmond went to Grand Mead- 
 ow, Mower county, Minn., and for three years 
 engaged in farming, after which he operated a 
 farm of one hundred and sixty acres, in Brown 
 county, Kans., for eleven years. In the mean 
 time he transacted considerable business in 
 grain, for a period representing Gregg Brothers' 
 Grain Company, of St. Joseph, Mo. Possessing 
 natural mechanical ability, he assisted in the 
 building of a mill and was chief engineer there 
 for about two years. 
 
 In his leisure time Dr. Richmond took up the 
 study of veterinary medicine, and at length en- 
 tered the Chicago (111.) Veterinary College, 
 where he was graduated in 1893, with the degree 
 of Doctor of Comparative Medicine. For sev- 
 eral years, prior to and during his college course, 
 he was more or less engaged in the practice as 
 a veterinarian, and in 1893 took up his perma- 
 nent abode in Phoenix. For three years there- 
 after he owned an interest in the Golden Eagle 
 livery, and dealt in horses. Though he sold his 
 share in the livery, he still keeps several fine ani- 
 mals and devotes his time to the practice of 
 veterinary surgery and medicine. He owns the 
 handsome stallion King Pin, who trotted a mile 
 in 2:16. His sire. Electro, was a son of Elec- 
 tioneer, and his dam, Phoebe W., was a daughter 
 of Hesperian. 
 
 During the administration of Governor 
 Hughes, Dr. Richmond was the territorial veter- 
 inarian, and secretary of the live stock sanitary 
 commission of Arizona. He also is an honorary 
 memlicr of the Illinois Veterinary Medical As-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 421 
 
 sociation. One of those influential in the organ- 
 izing of the Phoenix National Bank, he became 
 a charter member and continued on the board 
 of directors until he tenderctl his resignation. 
 One of the incorporators and stockholders of 
 the Trask-Kessler Grocery Company, he served 
 on its board of directors tmtil he sold out. 
 While a resident of Kansas he was a director of 
 the Sabetha Bank, and to some extent he has 
 financial investments in Arizona ranch property. 
 He is a member of the Phoenix Board of Trade 
 and is alliliated with the Republican party. He 
 is identified with the Woodmen of the World 
 and with the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, and takes a very deep interest in the work- 
 ings of the former order. 
 
 Soon after coming to Phoenix, Dr. Richmond 
 built a residence at the corner of Sixth avenue 
 and Van Buren street. His wife, formerly Miss 
 Hattie I. Alillet, was born in Rock county. Wis., 
 and was united in marriage to the Doctor, Oc- 
 tober 22, 1876. They have two children, Madge 
 P. and Forrest L., both of whom received their 
 higher education in the Normal School of this 
 territory. 
 
 COL. HARRISON EDWARD STROUD, 
 M. D. 
 
 A son of John Thomas and Annie (Layton) 
 Stroud, the subject of this article represents in 
 Arizona two of the old and influential families 
 of England, the Strouds having crossed the 
 channel from Normandy with William the Con- 
 queror, and thenceforth were and yet are in- 
 fluential subjects of the British crown. The Col- 
 onel's grandfather, John Thomas Stroud, was 
 born in London, and was a capitalist and large 
 landed proprietor at Windsor, England. The 
 maternal grandfatlier, Thomas Layton, also the 
 owner of valuable estates in the same localitv, 
 was the mayor of Windsor, and his son Fred- 
 erick held the same office in 1894. John Thomas 
 and Annie Stroud were natives of Birming- 
 ham and Windsor, respectively. He was an ex- 
 tensive manufacturer in the city of his birth until 
 1880, when he came to America. After living 
 in Iowa for some time he went to California, in 
 which state both he ami his wife died. 
 
 Col. H. E. Stroud, the youngest of ten broth- 
 
 ers and sisters who lived to maturity, was born 
 in Birmingham, England, December 18, 1856. 
 One of his brothers, James, is a lieutenant in 
 the British army, another brother is in Con- 
 necticut and one in Colorado. In the elementary 
 and King Edward's grammar schools our sub- 
 ject received his early training for life's duties. 
 Prior to his removal to the United States, in 
 1880, he studied medicine with a preceptor. 
 Near Corning, Iowa, he engaged in farming for 
 about a year and in 1881 went to Colorado, 
 where he embarked in medical practice. Becom- 
 ing the surgeon for the railroad during the con- 
 struction of the Denver & Rio Grande, between 
 Cimarron and Gunnison, through the Black 
 canon, he next went to Grand Junction, where 
 he was the first regularly located physician, and 
 the drug store which he established was the 
 first one in the place. 
 
 Remaining there until December, 1887, and 
 in the mean time having been graduated from 
 the L^niversity of Colorado in 1885, with the 
 degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Stroud next 
 went to San Diego, where he carried on his 
 professional work for seven years. Then, mak- 
 ing his home in San Francisco for about a year, 
 he spent the summer of 1893 in Chicago, where 
 he attended special courses of lectures in the 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Rush 
 Medical College. Later, in 1896, he further 
 cjualified himself by additional study in the Post- 
 graduate College of Chicago, and in 1899 went 
 to Europe, where he devoted his attention espe- 
 cially to the grave subject of tuberculosis. He 
 made a study of various sanitary systems, as em- 
 ployed in the chief cities, and gained invaluable 
 information along all lines. In the autumn of 
 1893 he took up his abode in Phoenix, where 
 he has built up a large general practice, while 
 making a specialty of tuberculosis. In his finely 
 equipped laboratory he prosecutes his investiga- 
 tions, and is meeting with great success in the 
 treatment of diseases of the respiratory organs. 
 In a financial way. also, he is prospering, and 
 besides being the owner of the Stroud Building 
 on South Center, near Washington street, he 
 has other valuable property. 
 
 In 1896 Dr. Stroud was appointed by Gov- 
 ernor I'Vanklin to serve as surgeon-general of 
 .Arizona, with the rank of colonel, and in that
 
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 office he remained until the change of adminis- 
 tration. He is a member of the American, the 
 Arizona Territorial and the Maricopa County 
 Medical Associations, and belongs to the Mari- 
 copa Club, of Phoenix. In Corning, Iowa, he 
 was initiated into Masonry, and now is con- 
 nected with the Phoenix Lodge. He is an Odd 
 Fellow, a Knight of Pythias, .and belongs to the 
 Ancient Order of L^nited Workmen and the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In poli- 
 tical affiliation he is a Republican. In the Epis- 
 copal Church of this place he is an ex-warden. 
 While living in California Dr. Stroud married 
 Miss Alice Lawrence, a native of Toronto. Can- 
 ada. They are the parents of three children, 
 namely: William Harold, Grace Lawrence and 
 Frances Dorothy. 
 
 J. C. SCARBOROUGH, M. D. 
 
 In tracing the career of the successful physi- 
 cian it is usually found that he possesses certain 
 marked characteristics in addition to having a 
 thorough knowledge of the healing art and good 
 financial ability. There must be a readiness of 
 sympathy and the power of entering into the 
 feelings of others, united to a self-poise and 
 conscious strength, which naturally emanate 
 from a strong, self-reliant soul. In the subject 
 of this sketch is to be seen one who is fortunate 
 in being gifted with many of these qualities of 
 the successful physician, and his cheery, helpful 
 optimism is a source of hope and comfort in 
 many a home shadowed by sickness and suffer- 
 ing. 
 
 Born in Sjiringfield, Mo., in January, 1874, the 
 Doctor is a son of W. B. and Minerva (Denny) 
 Scarborough, the former a native of South Caro- 
 lina and the latter of Tennessee. Our subject's 
 paternal grandfather lived and died in South 
 Carolina, and W. B. Scarborough departed this 
 life in 1876, at his home in Springfield, Mo. He 
 had gone from his native state to Tennessee in 
 early manhood and there had met the lady who 
 became his wife and who is now living in Pres- 
 cott. 
 
 Three of the four brothers and sisters of Dr. 
 Scarborough are living. He was only two years 
 of age when death deprived him of the loving 
 care of a father, and liis earliest recollections 
 
 are of Ann Arbor, Mich., whither the family 
 went to live, and there he passed ten years. In 
 1885 he came to Arizona and attended the public 
 schools of Flagstaff for three years. Then re- 
 turning to Ann Arbor, he continued his studies 
 in the high school and in 189 1 entered the L'ni- 
 versity of Michigan, where he devoted his time 
 to the sciences and classics for two years. 
 
 Having determined to enter the medical pro- 
 fession. Dr. Scarborough entered the medical 
 department of the University of Michigan in 
 1894 and was graduated in 1898, having com- 
 pleted the full four years' course with credit. 
 That he stood foremost in his class is shown 
 by the fact that he was made interne in the hos- 
 pital connected with the college, and remained 
 there for a year, obtaining valuable experience 
 under the training of renowned physicians and 
 surgeons. In the spring of 1899 the young man 
 came to Prescott, where he established an office 
 in the Head building. Since that time he has 
 been employed in the county hospital and is 
 building up a large and remunerative practice. 
 
 Dr. Scarborough became a member of the 
 Masonic Order in Ann Arbor, and yet belongs 
 to the Golden Rule Lodge No. 159, F. & A. M., 
 of that place. He also holds membership in the 
 Phi Ro Sigma, a Greek letter medical fraternity, 
 of Ann Arbor. Since coming to Prescott he 
 has identified himself with the Knights of 
 Pythias and with the Benevolent Protective Or- 
 der of Elks. He is connected with the Arizona 
 Medical Association and with the Yavapai Coun- 
 ty Medical Association. In national politics he 
 uses his franchise in favor of the Democratic 
 party. 
 
 JOHN ROGERS WALLS, M. D. 
 
 A representative physician and surgeon of 
 Prescott is he of whom the following sketch is 
 penned. Though comparitively a new-comer, 
 he so thoroughly identified himself with local 
 interests upon his arrival that today he is highly 
 esteemed in professional, social and political cir- 
 cles here. 
 
 Born in Toronto, Canada, as were his parents, 
 Robert and Mary (Rogers) Walls, the Doctor is 
 their only sou, though they have three living 
 daughters. His grandfather, Edward Walls, was
 
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 born in Yorkshire, England, and at the time of 
 his death, in 1899, was over ninety years of age. 
 After coming to America he settled upon a farm 
 near Toronto, and his last years were spent at 
 Hamilton, Canada. Robert Walls, now about 
 three-score years old, is nevertheless very active. 
 Formerly a farmer near (^akville, Canada, he 
 long has been employed as an expert machinist 
 at Brantford, and for years has been connected 
 with the establishment whose present style is the 
 Massey-Harris Company. A member of the 
 Masonic order, he belongs to the lodge and 
 chapter. His wife is a daughter of John and 
 granddaughter of John Rogers, the htter a na- 
 tive of Philadelphia. Though he owned con- 
 siderable property in and near that city, he was 
 so strong a Tory that he removed to Canada. 
 His ancestor, Bishop John Rogers, of London, 
 England, was one of the martyrs during the 
 reign of Queen Mary. John Rogers, father of 
 Mrs. Robert Walls, was born on Yonge street, 
 Toronto, and was a wealthy farmer and trader 
 with the Indians, by whom he was called '"Big 
 Maskinonge." The mother of Mrs. Robert 
 Walls was Isabel MacAnderson in her girlhood. 
 Born in the northern part of Ireland, she was a 
 descendant of the Inverness, Scotland, family 
 of MacAndersons, which furnished to General 
 Wellington one of the brave officers who assist- 
 ed him in gaining a victory at Waterloo. He 
 was in charge of a detachment of the "Scotch 
 Grays," and was wounded in that historic battle. 
 During the remainder of his life he was a crip- 
 ple, and his last days were passed in Canada. 
 
 The birth of Dr. John Rogers Walls occurred 
 near Toronto, December 10, 1867, and his boy- 
 hood days passed happily on a farm. His edu- 
 cation was pursued in the common and high 
 schools and later he spent a year in Toronto 
 University. In 1886 he matriculated in Trinity 
 University of Toronto, and in the spring of 1891 
 was graduated with the degrees of Doctor of 
 Medicine and Master of Surgery. Then he made 
 a creditable showing in a competitive examina- 
 tion for entrance into the British navy, but did 
 not enter the service owing to the illness of his 
 brother-in-law, with whom he went to Denver 
 for a change of climate. 
 
 In 1891 Dr. J. R. Walls embarked in the 
 practice of his chosen profession, Denver being 
 
 the scene of his labors until the spring of 1897. 
 In the mean time he had married Miss Sophia 
 Foad, of Toronto, in 1892, and six weeks after- 
 ward she died of typhoid fever in Denver. In 
 1896 Dr. Walls also suffered from a severe at- 
 tack of the same dread disease, and becoming 
 convinced that a change of climate would prove 
 beneficial, decided to try the pure and bracing 
 mountain air of Prescott. Certainly he has not 
 regretted his decision, for today he is well and 
 strong, and actively occupied in professional 
 duties, paying special attention to gynecology, 
 obstetrics and surgery. He is United States 
 pension examiner, the station at Prescott hav- 
 ing been established by President McKinley. 
 That the Doctor stands well in his profession 
 may be deduced from the fact that he has the 
 honor of being the secretary and treasurer of 
 the Yavapai County Medical Association, and 
 he also belongs to the Arizona Territorial Medi- 
 cal Association. In the Masonic order he is 
 connected with Aztlan Lodge No. i, F. & A. 
 M., and besides he is a Knight of Pythias and is 
 identified with the Order of Elks. In religious 
 belief he is a Presbyterian. The Republican 
 party has no more efflcient worker in this sec- 
 tion, and besides being an ex-member of the 
 territorial central committee he is serving on the 
 executive committee of the county central com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Dr. Walls was married in Fort Logan, Colo., 
 to Miss Alza Dennis, a native of Brantford, Can- 
 ada. They are the parents of two daughters, 
 Helen Rogers Dennis and Mary Elizabeth Ger- 
 trude. 
 
 HON. THOMAS T. HUNTER. 
 This citizen of Safford, who represented 
 Cochise county in the thirteenth session of the 
 Arizona territorial legislature, is one of the pio- 
 neers of the southwest, as he has dwelt in this 
 portion of the Union since December, 1867. For 
 three years he served efficiently as postmaster of 
 SafTord, and Iniilt the first house here (a small 
 frame building), in which the postoffice was lo- 
 cated during his term. This building he still 
 owns and a part of it he utilizes as his office in 
 the capacity of justice of the peace, to which he 
 was elected in 1898 and again in T900, both times 
 on an independent ticket. 
 
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 426 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 A son of James and Alice (Lawson) Hunter, 
 the subject of this sketch was bom in Louisiana, 
 February 24, 1844. He was reared in South 
 Carolina, and, more fortunate than many of his 
 boy friends, he received an academic education. 
 When the Civil war came on he was prompt 
 to enlist in defense of his principles, and served 
 from the beginning to the end of the war. His 
 service was in a battery of General Longstreet's 
 corps, and his bravery and fidelity to duty won 
 for him the praise of his superiors. He was mus- 
 tered out of the army at Nachitoches, La., June 
 26, 1865. Desiring to try his fortunes in a new 
 locality, he then went to western Texas and 
 embarked in the cattle business. Having learned 
 of the natural advantages of Arizona, he drove 
 his herd across the plains and mountains and for 
 some years remained in the vicinity of what is 
 now Phoenix, where he arrived in 1868. His 
 next move was to California, where he remained 
 a few years, but in 1878 he returned to Arizona 
 with the intention of becoming a permanent resi- 
 dent, which resolution he has carried out, and 
 after spending a period in the Aravaipa caiion he 
 went to the Sulphur Springs valley, at Willcox, 
 Cochise county. 
 
 One of the first settlers of the infant town of 
 Phoenix, Judge Hunter vividly recalls his expe- 
 riences there. For twenty years, covering the 
 period from 1866 to 1886, a constant bitter war- 
 fare was waged by the diiiferent Apache tribes 
 upon the few pioneers who had dared to fill a 
 gap on the frontier. During these years Judge 
 Hunter and his neighbors lived "under march- 
 ing orders," as it were, always on duty, night 
 and day, sentinels upon the outposts of civiliza- 
 tion. Many encounters were had with the com- 
 mon enemy during those years. The hardshijis 
 and dangers encountered by the pioneers went 
 far in the make-up of a distinct class of men, 
 who are fast disappearing from the west. In an 
 interview with the writer. Judge Hunter said: 
 "I have one burning ambition and desire yet 
 unaccomplished, and that is, that I hope my life 
 will be spared to see Arizona, the loved land of 
 my adoption, admitted as a state into the 
 Union." 
 
 Judge Hunter was connected with the con- 
 struction of the old Swilling canal, the first ditch 
 built in the Salt River valley. Later he dwelt 
 
 in Wickenburg and Prescott, bemg a pioneer 
 of both places. In 1893 he came to Safford and 
 bought a ranch in the neighborhood. He still 
 owns a forty-acre farm under good cultivation 
 and another tract of eighty acres, besides prop- 
 erty in the town, including the attractive resi- 
 dence which he built for his family. For some 
 time he has been engaged in the real-estate 
 business, and is thoroughly posted in local prop- 
 erty values. 
 
 The marriage of T. T. Hunter and Miss OUie 
 E. Gallaspy, in 1868, was one of the first wed- 
 dings solemnized in Yavapai county. They be- 
 came the parents of four children, all of whom 
 possess liberal educations. Alice, wife of T. K. 
 Davis, is a teacher in the city high school. Mrs. 
 Mamie Castle and her husband have a stationery 
 and bicycle store in SafTord. Virginia Lee, a 
 graduate of the Los Angeles (Cal.) Normal 
 School, is a teacher in Chicago, 111. Katie, the 
 youngest, is attending the Louisiana State Nor- 
 mal School. The wife and mother departed this 
 life in Tucson in 1893. The lady who now bears 
 the name of our subject was Miss Qarrie Maurer, 
 born in Beaver Falls, Lewis county, N. Y. Their 
 marriage occurred in Graham county, October 
 II, 1894. 
 
 For a number of years Judge Hunter has 
 served on school boards in Graham and Cochise 
 counties. During his early manhood, and, in- 
 deed, until six years ago, he always voted the 
 Democratic ticket, but of late he has been inde- 
 pendent. In 1884 his Democratic friends elected 
 him to the territorial legislature, and his service 
 in that body met with the approval of his con- 
 stituents. Fraternally he' is a charter member 
 of Willcox Lodge No. 11, A. O. U. W.; captain 
 commander of Winnie Davis Camp No. 1244, 
 of L^nited Confederate Veterans' Local Camp of 
 Safford; and a charter member of Lodge No. 
 28, I. O. G. T., of SafTord. 
 
 DR. J. V. WILSON. 
 
 Though now returned to the field of medicine 
 towards which his early aspirations tended, and 
 which had been interrupted by the changing 
 course of mind and events. Dr. Wilson is known 
 as one of the most interesting and enthusiastic 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 427 
 
 zona. Covering a period of many years follow- 
 ing 1872, his experiences have held many suc- 
 cesses with an average amount of failures, and 
 have included various and adventurous associa- 
 tions with the Indians, and other indigenous 
 conditions of the extreme and early west. 
 
 Of French-German ancestry. Dr. Wilson was 
 born near New Orleans, La., February 3, 1827, 
 and was the second oldest in a family of four boys. 
 His father, De Stay Wilson, his grandfather, and 
 his mother, Nastacia (Bugres) Wilson, were also 
 born in the vicinity of New Orleans, and passed 
 the greater part of their lives in the southern 
 states. J. V. received his education at a private 
 school in New Orleans, and as a future means 
 of livelihood studied medicine with his uncle 
 Alexander. At the early age of twenty he had 
 qualified to practice the profession, wh'ch was 
 engaged in until the breaking out of the Civil 
 war. As a member of Company B, Fourth 
 Louisiana Tigers, he participated in many of the 
 important battles of the war. including Vicks- 
 burg. Lookout jMountain, and the Georgia cam- 
 paign. He suffered some of the vicissitudes of 
 war, and was wounded in the leg and side. 
 
 In the latter part of 1865 Dr. Wilson located 
 in Colorado and became interested in mining in 
 the Blackhawk and Central City mines, and was 
 later engaged in the saw-mill business in Utah. 
 After a short sojourn in California he came to 
 Arizona in 1872, mining in the Santa Rita moun- 
 tains, and later in the diamond fields of New 
 Mexico. At Sonora, Mexico, he was also en- 
 gaged in mining, and then at Silver King, Pinal 
 county, purchased the dump of the Silver King 
 mine. He here started a hotel, and was so suc- 
 cessful in conducting his affairs that he cleared 
 $1 10,000. Dr. Wilson attended the New Or- 
 leans Exposition, and upon leturning to Arizona 
 settled in Florence, and became interested in 
 mining and a mercantile venture. At this time 
 he began to have renewed interest in medical 
 science, and directed his research towards finding 
 a practical cure for leprosy. His expenses for 
 experimenting, which amounted to $7,000, were 
 met out of his own pocket and conducted in the 
 city of New Orleans, and were successfully ap- 
 plied in two different cases, one patient not hav- 
 ing been able to walk for ten ycais. At the 
 expiration of two years he returned to Arizona 
 
 and engaged in mining in Sonora with InU indif- 
 ferent success, which streak of ill luck settled his 
 determination to return to the safe harbor of a 
 successful and lucrative medical practice. 
 
 In 1892 Dr. Wilson located in Tucson, where 
 his efforts have met with a deserved appreciation 
 and patronage. In his practice he is greatlv 
 assisted by his knowledge of languages, which 
 embraces French, Spanish and English. His 
 office is located at Nos. 28-30 South Stone ave- 
 nue. In Florence, Pinal county. Dr. Wilson 
 married Rosa Alivico, a native of Sonora. 
 
 JOHN BECK. 
 
 John Beck, manager and vice-president of the 
 Pioneer Transfer Company, Incorporated, of 
 Tucson, is a native of Cambridge. England, and 
 was born December 4, 1864. He is a son of Wil- 
 liam Beck, who lived for the greater part of his 
 days in England, where he was born and died. 
 His son John came to America in 1872 and lo- 
 cated in Du Page county. 111., where he received 
 his education in the public schools, and was 
 fitted for the future responsibilities of life. Of 
 an ambitious turn of mind he started out in the 
 world to earn his own living when nine years 
 oi age, engaging in general farm work in north- 
 ern Illinois. In 1883 he came to Phoenix, where 
 he was employed in the H. W. Ryder lumber 
 yard for eleven years. In time he mastered 
 every detail of the business and became manager 
 of the Phoenix yard, which was greatly in- 
 creased during his capable directorship. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Beck resigned from the Ryder 
 Lumber Company and became identified with 
 the Pioneer Transfer Company, of Phoenix, un- 
 til the spring of 1899, when he came to Tucson 
 and organized the Pioneer Transfer Company, 
 Incorporated, with J. W. Reed as president and 
 himself as vice-president and manager. The 
 office of the concern is located at 10 South Stone 
 avenue, and they do a large business in bus and 
 baggage transfer and freight, and have also a 
 large capacity for fire-proof storage. They reap 
 a large remuneration from consignments and 
 ore distribution, and are agents for different 
 wholesale companies, an idea which originated 
 with Mr. Beck, and which has proved of great 
 benefit to all concerned.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In Phoenix, in 1887, occurred the marriage of 
 Mr. Beck and Barbara Harth, who was born in 
 Illinois, and died in Tucson, September 2, 1900. 
 Of this union there are two children, Charlotte 
 E. and Florence E. Mr. Beck is one of the en- 
 terprising citizens of Tucson, and has been vari- 
 ously identified with the interests here repre- 
 sented. For eleven years he was a member of 
 the volunteer fire department of Phoenix and 
 was connected with Company i, as foreman, 
 secretary, and assistant chief. Fraternally he is 
 a Knight of Pythias, and politically is a stanch 
 member of the Democratic party. 
 
 NELSON PAUL BEEBE. 
 
 Though retired from active participation in 
 business affairs in Saflord, Mr. Beebe is one of 
 the strong and influential men of the place, hav- 
 ing for many years been associated with its best 
 moral and material growth. A native of New 
 London, Conn., he received his early education 
 and training in this far eastern state, and as a 
 boy was filled with longings for the exciting ad- 
 ventures which are plentifully interspersed with 
 the roving life of the sailor. At the age of fif- 
 teen he put to sea, and in about five years was 
 a practically seasoned salt. In 1851 he started 
 for the west, crossed the Isthmus of Panama, 
 and arrived in San Francisco, Cal., in the spring 
 of 1852, where he remained for five years. 
 
 In 1857 Mr. Beebe went to Salt Lake City, 
 where he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter-day Saints. As a missionary he labored 
 among the people for a year in Arkansas, and 
 then brought a party of one hundred and twen- 
 ty-five from that state, wdiich he located at Sun- 
 set, Ariz., on the Little Colorado river. At the 
 present time the majority of these pioneers are 
 living in the Gila valley, and are prosperous, in- 
 dustrious citizens. After returning to Salt Lake 
 City Mr. Beebe came to Snow Flake, Navajo 
 county, Ariz., and there built a grist mill, which 
 he operated for a year, and then disposed of it 
 for a herd of cattle. With his cattle he settled 
 at St. David, Cochise county, and there lived 
 and prospered for a period covering four years. 
 He then came to Safiford and located a farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land adjoining 
 the town, upon which he has since lived. Sixtv- 
 
 five acres of this land has since been laid out in 
 what is known as Beebe's Addition, some of 
 which has been sold, and a large part of which 
 has been given by the generous owner to his 
 sons and sons-in-law. 
 
 In 1865 Mr. Beebe married Eliz.a Kemp, of 
 Salt Lake City, who died on the San Pedro 
 river. She was the mother of ten children, eight 
 of whom are living; William, Alice, Grace, 
 Etta, Paul, Samuel, David and Nellie. In 1892 
 Mr. Beebe married Mrs. Alice (Smithers) 
 Kemp, widow of Samuel Kemp, and the mother 
 of five children: Ray, Maud, Laura, Elmo and 
 Pearl. In politics Mr. Beebe is a Republican, 
 and was a justice of the peace at St. David for 
 two years. He is an ardent worker in the 
 church, as are also his wife and children. Mr. 
 Beebe lias had many interesting experiences 
 since settling in the west, and has crossed the 
 desert from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles 
 nine different times. For twenty years he was 
 engaged in freighting in Utah, and at one time 
 loaded a quartz mill on the Colorado, and landed 
 it at Deer Lodge, Mont. 
 
 ALMA H. BENNETT. 
 
 This well-known and popular farmer of Gra- 
 ham county was honored by election to the trust- 
 worthy post of county supervisor in 1892 and 
 served for four years in that capacity to the 
 entire satisfaction of all concerned. Then he 
 was elected as a justice of the peace and upon 
 the expiration of his two years' term was re- 
 turned to the office by the votes of his party 
 friends, his term to run until January i, 1902. 
 Deeply interested in the welfare of this county, 
 he spares no effort in the advancement of every 
 enterprise calculated to aid in the cause of 
 progress. 
 
 David and Joanna (Lovel) Bennett, parents 
 of our subject, were natives of New York state. 
 His birth took place in Huron county, Ohio, in 
 1831, and in childhood he left the Buckeye state 
 and went to Missouri, living in Clay county for 
 three years. Then the family settled in Han- 
 cock counts. 111., but at the end of eighteen 
 months went to Lee county, Iowa, wdiere the 
 following decade wps passed. Returning then 
 to Missouri, tliev dwelt in Holt county for some
 
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 three years and in 1850 went with the colony to 
 Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 After a residence in Vtab of about ten years, 
 Mr. Bennett went toCahfornia in 1852, but in Oc- 
 tober, 1856, returned to Utah, and in 1865 con- 
 ckided to try his fortunes in Arizona, and during 
 the five years of his residence in Piute county he 
 was elected and served as sheriff for two years. 
 Returning to Utah, he remained there until 
 1881, when he once more became an Arizonian. 
 Among the first settlers of the Gila valley, he 
 improved a farm and now owns one hundred 
 and thirty acres, of which fifty acres are well 
 irrigated and highly productive. In his early 
 manhood he thoroughly mastered the trade of 
 a carpenter and builder, and followed that calling 
 industriously for many years in connection with 
 agriculture. For ten years after settling in this 
 vicinity he devoted a large share of his time to 
 building, but of late has found his farm duties 
 sufficient to occupy his attention. 
 
 Mr. Bennett is one of the commissioners of 
 San Jose ditch, which furnishes this entire 
 neighborhood with water for irrigation. In his 
 political creed he is an ardent Democrat, and 
 though he has been called to public offices has 
 not sought for the honors. He is one of the 
 trustees of the local school and is a devoted 
 member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- 
 day Saints. He was married in 1856 to Miss 
 Polly Wilcox, of Illinois. Of their children a 
 son and a daughter survive, namely: William 
 A., a successful farmer of the Gila valley, and 
 Mrs. Anna Nelson, who lives in her father's 
 neighborhood. 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM A. MOODY. 
 
 The flourishing and cleanly little town of 
 Thatcher, a representative in Graham county of 
 progress and order, numbers among its most 
 enthusiastic and helpful citizens Judge Moody, 
 probate judge of the county and ex-officio school 
 superintendent. Thatcher is located ten miles 
 down the Gila river and three miles west of Saf- 
 ford, in tlie midst of a good agricultural, stock 
 and mining country, and well supplied with edu- 
 cational facilities and neat houses. It is the 
 center of some of the important undertakings 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day 
 
 Saints, and in fact the population contains a 
 large percentage of these persevering pioneers, 
 who have found no country too sterile or un- 
 promising to be within the redemption of hu- 
 man power and industry. 
 
 From his infancy Judge Moody has been as- 
 sociated with the conditions of the crude and 
 undeveloped west, interspersed with journevs to 
 remote sea-surrounded islands, engaged always 
 in some w'ork for the church. .-\. native of Lin- 
 coln county, Nev., he was bom June 28, 1870, 
 and is a son of W. C. Moody, who was born in 
 Alabama, March 23, 1819, removed to Texas in 
 1838, and to Utah in 1853. During his residence 
 in Texas he served with the American army in 
 the war with Mexico, participating in the most 
 important engagements of that conflict. In 1868 
 he removed to Nevada, believing himself still to 
 be in LUah. but subsequent surveys showed his 
 location to be in Nevada. Until 1881 he remained 
 there, but then returned to Utah, making his 
 home at Deseret. Since 1885 he has resided at 
 Thatcher, being numbered among the most use- 
 ful citizens of this place. His father, John Wy- 
 att Moody, a native of Virginia, was a pioneer 
 of Texas, and was elected the first auditor of 
 that state. 
 
 WHien the family returned to Utah William 
 A. Moody was eleven years of age. In 1885 he 
 came to Arizona and for, a year studied in the 
 Latter Day Saints' Academy at Thatcher, after 
 which he spent three years and nine months as a 
 missionary in the South Sea Islands. On this 
 commission he was accompanied by thirty-five 
 elders. During his sojourn in the tropical clime 
 of Samoa and adjacent islands he learned to read 
 and w'rite the language of the natives and taught 
 at his own expense for two years a free public 
 school. His stay was not unmixed with sadness 
 and lo.'is. for his wife, .\delia, daughter of David 
 D. and Rosina Williams, whom he had married 
 at Thatcher June 4, 1894, died May 24, 1895. 
 Her daughter. Hazel, who was born at Samoa, 
 May 3. 1895. is now living with her father and 
 stepmother at Tliatchcr. 
 
 After his return from the islands Mr. Moody 
 entered heartily into the work of the church in 
 Thatcher, and also became interested in a mer- 
 cantile venture which is still being successfully 
 conducted under the firm name of Moody, Dam-
 
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 ron & Co., which tirni also liavc a branch busi- 
 ness at Globe, the two houses carrying on a 
 large trade. The death of Judge W. W. Dam- 
 ron, October 2, 1898, resulted in a vacancy in the 
 office of probate judge, and two days later (the 
 4th) Mr. Moody was appointed to the position. 
 Before his death Judge Damron had been re- 
 nominated for the office on the Democratic 
 ticket and the central committee nominated Mr. 
 Moody in his place. At the following elec- 
 tion he received a majority of one hundred 
 and sixty votes, and November 6, igoo, he 
 was re-elected by a majority of two hundred 
 and seventy-six votes. As county superintend- 
 ent of public schools, which office is ex-officio 
 to that of probate judge. Judge Moody has 
 secured a marked progress in the schools of 
 Graham county, and his greatest energy has 
 been put forth in that direction. In August, 
 1900, on the summit of Mount Graham, at 
 an altitude of ten thousand feet, he conducted 
 the first summer school in the county and possi- 
 bly the first in the territory. It is his intention to 
 hold another during the present year (1901). 
 These schools are for the benefit of the teachers 
 of Graham county, in order that they may be 
 the better fitted for the great responsibilities of 
 their work. 
 
 In 1899 Judge Moody married Sarah E. Blake, 
 a daughter of William and Mary Blake, of Provo 
 City, Utah. Of this union there is a daughter, 
 Ruth, who was born February 25, 1900. Mrs. 
 Moody is an active worker in the church and 
 her husband is stake superintendent of the 
 Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. 
 While his educational advantages were limited, 
 yet he is well informed. For years he has sys- 
 tematically followed certain courses of study and 
 he is today still a student. Contact with the 
 world in his varied and unusual experiences has 
 given him a breadth of thought which qualifies 
 him for the higher responsibilities of life more 
 than any school training could have done. 
 
 M. O. BICKNELL. 
 
 A very successful young lailroad man of Phoe- 
 nix is M.O.Bicknell, general freight and passen- 
 ger agent here for the Maricopa & Phoenix & 
 Salt River \'alley Railroad. During the past 
 
 decade — the period of his residence in the south- 
 west — he has become thoroughly interested in 
 its development .and expects to make his home 
 here permanently. His personal worth and cour- 
 teous, kindly manner have made him a general 
 favorite with the public, and his duties bring him 
 into association with a large class of our popula- 
 tion. 
 
 The Bicknell family, which originated in Eng- 
 land many generations ago, was founded in 
 Massachusetts at an early date, whence one 
 branch went to Indiana about 1800. Our sub- 
 ject's paternal grandfather was born on the pio- 
 neer homestead near \'incennes, Ind., and there 
 he continued engaged in agricultural pursuits 
 until his death, which event occurred in early 
 manhood. 
 
 Born March 22, 1869, M. O. Bicknell is the 
 only child of William Stancil and SarahJ. (Keith) 
 Bicknell, both natives of Indiana. The father 
 was reared on a farm near Vincennes, and car- 
 ried on the cultivation of the soil until of late 
 years, when he turned his attention to the real- 
 estate business in Vincennes. Loyally respond- 
 ing to his country's call when the Union was 
 threatened, he served as a sergeant of Company 
 C, Eightieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, from 
 1862 until the close of the war, and was twice 
 wounded, once at the battle of Shiloh. Mrs. 
 Bicknell, who died in 1895, in her fifty-second 
 year, was a daughter of John Keith, a native of 
 Louisville, Ky., and a farmer of Indiana during 
 his last years. 
 
 The boyhood of M. O. Bicknell was passed 
 at his birthplace, in Vincennes, in the common 
 and high schools of whicli city he obtained a 
 liberal education. In 1887 he commenced his 
 railroading career, becoming a bill clerk in the 
 freight department of the Evansville & Terre 
 Haute Railroad, at ^'incennes. At the same 
 time he mastered telegraphy, and on New 
 Year's Day, 1889, was appointed agent at Pa- 
 toka, Ind., for the same corporation. Faithfully 
 discharging his duties there until October i, 
 1890, he then was appointed train dispatcher at 
 Evansville, where he remained until the fall of 
 the following year. 
 
 On account of failing health, Mr. Bicknell's 
 mother was living at Las Cruces, N. M., and 
 making a trip there, he concluded to remain for
 
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 a period. Within tliree weeks he had entered 
 the employ of the Santa Fe, as operator at Las 
 Cruces, and two weeks later he took a similar 
 position with the joint lines of the Santa Fe and 
 Southern Pacific, at Deming, N. M. November 
 I, 1892, he was appointed ticket .agent with the 
 last-named company, and in the spring of 1895 
 accepted the position of traveling freight and 
 passenger agent with the same corporation, be- 
 ing sent to different parts of Arizona, Texas and 
 old and New Mexico. Since January. 1898, he 
 has been occupying his present position, having 
 his headquarters in Phoenix. 
 
 In Vincennes, Ind., October i, 1894, Mr. 
 Bicknell married Agnes, daughter of W. F. 
 Huddleson, and a native of Patoka, Ind. Her 
 father, who served in an Indiana regiment dur- 
 ing the Civil war, was the postmaster and a jus- 
 tice of the peace at Patoka for many years. Two 
 winning little daughters bless the union of our 
 subject and wife, \'era, aged five, and Helen, 
 aged three years. Mrs. Bicknell is a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally Mr. Bick- 
 nell is a member of the Order of Elks and the 
 Knights of Pythias and a director in the Mari- 
 copa Club. In politics is a stanch Republican. 
 
 HIRAM C. MANN. 
 
 The life of Mr. Mann has been an eventful 
 and interesting one, and for the greater part has 
 been spent in out-of-the-way places. For nearly 
 thirty years he has e.xperienced the vicissitudes 
 and privations incident to the outposts of civili- 
 zation, and is well-informed on the conditions 
 existing in frontier life. The Mann family set- 
 tled in Massachusetts upon migrating to 
 America, and many of their descendants have 
 lived in that state. Hiram C. Mann was born 
 in Richland county, Ohio, September 14, 1848, 
 and is a son of Dr. Albert and Mary (Harvey) 
 Mann, natives of Massachusetts, and now 
 deceased. The great-grandfather of Hiram C, 
 Capt. Joseph Parker, was captain of the com- 
 pany that received the first fire from the British 
 at the battle of Lexington during the Revolu- 
 tionary war. 
 
 When ten years of age Mr. Mann was taken 
 by his parents to Knox county, 111., where he 
 lived until attaining his maturity. At the public 
 
 schools he diligently acquired the education 
 there obtainable, and was well prepared for the 
 future responsibilities of life. In the spring of 
 1870 he went to Wichita, Kans., and for several 
 years engaged in the hardware business. At that 
 time the country thereabouts was in process of 
 settlement, and he was among the pioneers of 
 the locality. Subsequently, for four years, he 
 served as head clerk in the Indian department 
 at the Cheyenne agency, Indian Territory, and 
 afiervi'ards came to Arizona, which has since 
 been his home. His farm is located three miles 
 northwest of Glendale, and is under a high state 
 of cultivation. 
 
 Upon first coming to Arizona in 1889, Mr. 
 Mann entered the employ of J. B. Greenhut, as 
 manager of his extensive ranch of six hundred 
 and forty acres, at Peoria, Ariz. This responsi- 
 bility was successfully discharged for eight 
 years, at which time Mr. Greenhut traded his 
 ranch to C. D. Clark, the present owner of the 
 large enterprise. Mr. Mann was united in mar- 
 riage in 1872 with Jennie E. Hunter, a native 
 of Knox county, 111., and daughter of the late 
 Judge J. M. Hunter, of Knox county. Of this 
 union there is one daughter, Mary Alice, who is 
 the wife of Rev. H. A. Thompson, a minister 
 of the Presbyterian Church, now having a 
 charge at Cmcinnati, Ohio, where they reside. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Mann is a Republican, 
 and, while not an office seeker, is greatly inter- 
 ested in all of the undertakings of his party. For 
 eight years he has served as a trustee of the 
 Peoria school district, and was mainly instru- 
 mental in securing the organization of the dis- 
 trict. He is interested in the waterways, and in 
 general enterprises for developing the locality in 
 which he lives, and is accounted one of the most 
 substantial and enterprising citizens of his dis- 
 trict. 
 
 E. A. TOVREA. 
 
 As mayor of the city of Jerome Mr. Tovrea 
 has met the expectations of the people who have 
 elected him to this responsible and important 
 office. Gifted with the true western spirit of 
 enteriirise and determination, he is admirably 
 (|ualified to cope with the various problems that 
 come to him for consideration and adjustment.
 
 436 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In these he has shown a wisdom and level-head- 
 edness entirely in keeping with the demands of 
 the occasion. Under his rule the prosperous 
 little town has in no way departed from its pre- 
 vious uniform and steady growth. 
 
 At his home near Sparta, 111., where he w-as 
 born in 1861, Mr. Tovrea was reared to the occu- 
 pation of a farmer. His work and education 
 were continued in the vicinity of Wichita, Kans., 
 whither his parents removed in 1874. Early in 
 life he displayed habits of thrift and industry, 
 and his expanding ambition resulted in his leav- 
 ing home in 1880 and migrating west to Colo- 
 rado. P^or a time he made his headquarters in 
 Pueblo, but later he visited other parts of the 
 state, and engaged in such work as presented a 
 means of livelihood, devoting considerable time 
 to teaming and kindred pursuits. In 1883 he 
 traveled to the south and after a short sojourn 
 in Gallup, N. M., he arrived in Arizona in the 
 fall of 1883. Here he engaged in stock-raising 
 in the Salt River valley, and while his cattle 
 roamed the range he conducted a well-managed 
 and remunerative farming business. In the 
 mean time he also conducted a meat market, in 
 Phoenix, the supplies for which were secured 
 from his own ranch. 
 
 Still continuing to raise cattle, Mr. Tovrea 
 came to Jerome in 1898 and purchased a meat 
 market, which he has since conducted. The 
 business is a large one, meat being sold through- 
 out the country for miles around. All of the 
 camps receive the benefit of his fine meats. To 
 supply the demand each month he is obliged to 
 use at least one hundred and fifty head of cattle 
 and a proportionate number of sheep and hogs. 
 The market is carried on under the firm name of 
 Tovrea & Clay. 
 
 As an indication of Mr. Tovrea's financial suc- 
 cess, it may be stated that he has accumulated 
 real estate in Jerome. As an indication of his 
 high standing, it may be mentioned that he has 
 won the confidence of all who know him. In 
 many ways he has been prominent in local mat- 
 ters and has assisted in forward movements for 
 the improvement of the town. \ stanch Demo- 
 crat, he has been a conspicuous figure in the 
 undertakings of his party, and in turn was elect- 
 ed on this ticket as mayor of Jerome in April, 
 1900. Under appointment from Governor 
 
 Franklin, he served as a member of the sanitary 
 commission. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen and with 
 the Elks at Prescott. 
 
 CHARLES PETERSON. 
 
 A prominent and influential legislator of the 
 territory, and an agriculturist and stock-raiser 
 on broad and advanced lines, Mr. Peterson has 
 been a resident of the vicinity of Mesa since 
 1879. At the time, a few tents in the desert were 
 the sole indications of anything approaching a 
 future state of prosperity, and the dormant, ster- 
 ile soil seemed scarcely to justify the enormous 
 expenditure of time and energy necessary for 
 the awakening to the demands of a latter day 
 civilization. The three hundred and eighty acres 
 of land (all but one hundred of which 
 are located on the Arlington canal) to the de- 
 velopment of which Mr. Peterson has diligently 
 applied himself, have proved a profitable and 
 remunerative venture, and comprise one of the 
 best farms in the county of Maricopa. Of this 
 land, one hundred acres of the original one hun- 
 dred and sixty homesteaded are still a part of his 
 possessions, and to this have been added pur- 
 chases of more recent date. For years large 
 general farming and stock-raising interests have 
 been conducted, and in 1899 a creamery busi- 
 ness was added, which has proved a most suc- 
 cessful departure. The creamery is carried on 
 under the firm name of Charles Peterson & 
 Sons, and butter is manufactured in large and 
 paying quantities. The Bermuda Creamery, 
 which is the recognized name of the concern, is 
 widely known for the excellence of the material 
 turned out, and for the reliability of the business 
 methods of the manager and proprietor. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Peterson was on the un- 
 eventful order, and was spent on his father's 
 farm in Utah, where he was born January 28, 
 1854. His parents, Charles S. and Ann (Patton) 
 Peterson, were natives respectively of New Jer- 
 sey and Pennsylvania. Charles S. Peterson died 
 in Maricopa county, Ariz., in 1886, and his wife 
 is still living in the town of Mesa, at the ad- 
 vanced age of more than three score and ten 
 years. When but a child, the youthful Charles 
 removed with his parents from Utah county to
 
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 439 
 
 Weber county, Utah, where he was reared until 
 his eighteenth year, and echicated in the pubhc 
 schools. Upon starting out in the world for 
 himself he located in Summit county, Utah, and 
 for a number of years was engaged in the service 
 of the Union Pacific Railroad in various capac- 
 ities. In 1879 he came to Maricopa county, and 
 has since lived in the vicinity of the promising 
 town of Mesa. 
 
 As a member of the Democratic party Mr. 
 Peterson has rendered signal service to the com- 
 nnmity in which he lives. He was elected to 
 the territorial legislature in 1898, and at the 
 time was the only member of his party elected to 
 the house. His re-election followed in Novem- 
 ber of 1900, and was but one of the many evi- 
 dences of appreciation which have been forth- 
 coming from the surrounding residents. In the 
 perfection of the artificial water supply he has 
 shown great interest, and has served as a direc- 
 tor in the Mesa Canal Company, having previ- 
 ously assisted in the erection of the canal. He 
 is also in favor of obtaining for the county the 
 best possible educational facilities, and has put 
 forth his best efforts towards tliat end. At the 
 present time he is serving as a trustee of school 
 district No. 4, Maricopa county, in Mesa City. 
 
 Mrs. Peterson was formerly Clara J. Lewis, 
 of Summit county, Utah, and is the mother of 
 nine children, eight of whom are living, viz.: 
 Charles W., who is living at Arlington, Mari- 
 copa county; Henry L., who resides near Mesa; 
 George W., who is a student at Brigham Young 
 Academy, Provo, Utah; Howard C, who is at 
 home; Erin H., also at home; Clara E., who is 
 the wife of Heber J. Stallings, of Salt Lake City, 
 Utah; Leola J., who is married to Thomas E. 
 Harris, of Pima county, Ariz.; and Eva M., who 
 is living at home. Joseph W. is deceased. Mr. 
 Peterson is a member of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is now serving 
 as a member of the High Council of Maricopa 
 Stake. 
 
 WALLACE A. MACDONALD. 
 As a member of the high council of Maricopa 
 Stake of Zion, of Mesa, and at present the 
 assistant state superintendent of Sunday-schools 
 at this point, Mr. Macdonald is a man of much 
 influence in his community and in the local 
 
 branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of the 
 Latter-day Saints. A review of his life will 
 possess interest to his friends and associates, 
 here and elsewhere, for he is widely known. His 
 father, Alexander F. Macdonald, was born in 
 the highlands of Scotland, and came to America 
 with his parents in 1856, settling in LTtah county, 
 Utah. There he made his home until Decem- 
 ber, 1879, when he started for Arizona, having 
 been called to this tcrritor\- to become president 
 of Maricopa Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of the Latter-day Saints. For some years he 
 resided at Mesa. In 1888 he was called to 
 Mexico to make locations for missionary work, 
 and finally settled in Chihuahua. For many 
 years he was in charge of the entire Mexican 
 mission. He is now president of the high 
 priests' quorum of the Juarez Stake and a 
 Patriarch. Mr. Macdonald is a practical sur- 
 veyor and has given his services to his church 
 for many years. His wife, whose maiden name 
 was Agnes Aird, was a native of Edinburgh, 
 Scotland, and now is deceased. When young 
 she was a successful teacher and for several 
 years was assistant superintendent of the Ladies' 
 Co-operative store at St. George, Utah. 
 
 Born in Provo City, Utah, September 4, 1865, 
 Wallace A. Macdonald spent fifteen years in that 
 state, living in St. George, Washington county, 
 from 1872 to December 15, 1879, when he 
 accompanied his parents to Alesa, Ariz. His 
 common-school education was supplemented by 
 a course of six months in Brigham Young's 
 Academy at Provo, where he pursued special 
 studies along the lines of Sunday-school work, 
 in which he has since taken great interest. In 
 1880 he turned his attention to the improvement 
 of Arizona, and his ranch, one hundred and 
 sixty acres in extent, is situated near Mesa, and 
 now is in a high state of cultivation. Among the 
 many enterprises in which he is taking an impor- 
 tant part a few may be mentioned. For several 
 years he has served on the board of directors 
 of the Mesa Canal Company, and he is also a 
 director in the Mesa Co-operative Milling Com- 
 pany. At one time he was president of the 
 Zenos Co-operative Mercantile & Manufactur- 
 ing Institution and at the present time is among 
 its directors. In political affiliations he is a 
 Democrat.
 
 440 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 For a wife Mr. Macdonald chose Miss Sarah 
 Brundage, who was born in the southern part 
 of Utah. They have seven Hving children, 
 namely: Wallace A., Jr., George F., Blanche, 
 Edwin L., Karl G., Agnes A. and Ralph A. All 
 are receiving good educational advantages and 
 are being fitted in practical things for the serious 
 duties of life. 
 
 HON. JAMES P. IVY. 
 
 For several years Mr. Ivy has conducted large 
 general farming and apiary interests near Phoe- 
 nix, in the Salt River valley. A native of La- 
 fayette county. Miss., he was born May 17, 1864, 
 and is a son of Silas M. and Sarah J. (Clark) 
 Ivy, who are now residents of Maricopa county, 
 and are living on the south side of the river. 
 Silas Ivy is prominently associated with the pio- 
 neer days of this locality, and has helped to de- 
 velop the stored fertility of the soil, latent for so 
 many centuries. After coming here in 1880 his 
 energies were devoted to farming for several 
 years in the Mesquite region, and in 1897 he 
 engaged in the merchandise business as a trader 
 with the Indians. 
 
 The boyhood days of James P. Ivy were spent 
 in Mississippi, and in 1872 he went to Cahfomia, 
 and lived in the vicinity of the site of Pasadeiia, 
 in Los Angeles county, for about four years. 
 The family then removed to Fulton Wells, Cal., 
 where they lived until they came to Arizona in 
 1880. James P. received his education in the 
 public schools, and subsequently attended the 
 Arizona Territorial Normal school at Tempe, 
 Ariz., for two years. His first independent ven- 
 ture was conducted upon the farm which has 
 since been the object of his care and improve- 
 ment. 
 
 Much of the efifort of Mr. Ivy has been 
 prompted by his interest in politics. He has 
 served as a trustee of the school district, and on 
 November 6, 1900, was elected one of four rep- 
 resentatives from Maricopa county to the terri- 
 torial legislature. The estimation in which Mr. 
 Ivy is held by the community at large is best 
 indicated by the results of this election. He was 
 nominated for the office by the straight Demo- 
 cratic party, and was indorsed by both the Pro- 
 hibitionists and Populists, and received every 
 
 one of the twenty-nine votes cast in the district 
 of Orme, where he formerly resided. No bet- 
 ter proof could be had of the confidence which 
 his residence has inspired, as to trustworthiness 
 and ability to manage public affairs, and look 
 out for the public welfare. 
 
 August 4, 1897, Mr. Ivy was united in mar- 
 riage with Vernette Oscar Greene, a daughter 
 of R. O. Greene, of the Salt River valley and a 
 former prominent citizen of Missouri. Frater- 
 nally he is associated with the Woodmen of the 
 World, and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, at Phoenix. 
 
 HARRY W. ELLIOTT. 
 
 To Mr. Elliott belongs the distinction of be- 
 ing the oldest locomotive engineer in Prescott. 
 He is also one of the most successful, and is 
 prominent and popular among the courageous 
 men who assume the responsibility of carrying 
 thousands of lives over the country every year. 
 The family of which he is a member came origi- 
 nally from Wales, and is first represented in 
 America by the paternal grandfather, Joseph, 
 who was born in Wales, and came to America 
 with his parents when a boy. The family settled 
 in Lancaster, Pa., and the grandfather during his 
 years of activity devoted his energies to con- 
 tracting and railroad bridge building. His son, 
 W. B., the father of Harry W., was born in Lan- 
 caster, and when a young man removed to Pay- 
 son, Adams county. 111., where he purcliased and 
 improved a farm, and lived for many years. He 
 is now a resident of Hannibal, Mo., and owns 
 large farms in Illinois, and Missouri. His 
 wife, Mary E. (Crocker) Elliott, is a daughter 
 of Thomas Crocker, a native of Connecticut and 
 an early settler in Illinois. There were four 
 children in the family, of whom Harry W., who 
 was born in Payson, Adams county, 111., April 
 II, 1861, is the youngest. 
 
 Mr. Elliott received his education in Illinois, 
 and in 1878 began the life and occupations of a 
 railroad man, at Hannibal, Mo., as a brakeman 
 on the St. Louis & Hannibal Railroad, of which 
 railroad his father was a director and one of the 
 builders. At the end of a year he was promoted 
 to be a fireman, and in 1881 became an engineer 
 on the same road. Until 1888 he ran the train
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 441 
 
 between St. Louis and Hannibal, and resigned 
 in May to come to Arizona, as an engineer on 
 the Prescott & Arizona Central Railroad, then 
 just completed. In January of 1893 he resigned 
 this position to accept a similar one with the 
 Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railroad, and he 
 ran the first engine started out by this company. 
 Since then he has experienced uninterrupted 
 success in connection with this road, and is re- 
 garded by the company as one of their most 
 efficient and reliable engineers. 
 
 In Bowling Green, Mo., Mr. Elliott married 
 Anna James, a native of Dubuque, Iowa. To 
 Mr. and Mrs. Elliott has been born one daugh- 
 ter, Fannie, who is attending the high school at 
 Hannibal, Mo., and will graduate with the class 
 of 1901. Mrs. Elliott is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church. Mr. Elliott affiliates 
 with the Republican party, but has liberal ideas 
 as to the politics of holders of office. 
 
 HENRY DIAL. 
 
 Among the thousands of valiant soldiers who 
 defended their country's honor during the Civil 
 war none fought more courageously or with 
 greater singleness of purpose than did the regi- 
 ment of which Mr. Dial was an honored mem- 
 ber. Nor did he escape the severe vicissitudes 
 of war, for he was wounded in the hip by a shell, 
 and in consequence was laid up in the hospital 
 at Little Rock. For one and a half years he 
 served under Sterling Price in the southern 
 army, but for the last two years was in the 
 Union army. 
 
 Born in Franklin county. Mo., in 1845, ^^r. 
 Dial was reared to the occupation of farming. 
 His parents, John and Margaret (Richardson) 
 Dial, were early settlers in Missouri, and the 
 former was born in Tennessee. At the age of 
 ten years Henry Dial accompanied his parents 
 to what is now Oklahoma, and here, in the midst 
 of the crude and even dangerous surroundings, 
 these courageous pioneers assisted in the devel- 
 opment of the land, and also for a time farmed in 
 the Indian Territory. In 1875 the son removed 
 to Texas, and lived in different parts of the state 
 until 1877. LTpon arriving in the Gila valley in 
 the latter year Mr. Dial rented a farm for a year, 
 anil in 1880 purchased his present place of resi- 
 
 dence. Up to eight years ago his land was de- 
 voted entirely to stock-raising, but is now given 
 over to general farming as well. The farm com- 
 prises five hundred acres of land, three hundred 
 and forty of which are under irrigation, and the 
 location is conveniently near to the town. The 
 house is comfortable and the orchard fruit-pro- 
 ducing and remunerative, its products including 
 apples, pears, peaches, plums, apricots, figs and 
 prunes, besides citrons. 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Dial was united in marriage with 
 Mary O'Neil, of the Indian Territory. Six chil- 
 dren have been born to this couple: Eunice, Mrs. 
 J. C. Pursley, of SafTord; Lois, now Mrs. W. J. 
 Parks, of Solomonville; Alice, the wife of Wil- 
 liam Richards, of Bisbee; Joe, living on one of 
 the ranches ; Henry, on the home farm ; and Wil- 
 \ie, at home. In politics Mr. Dial is a Repub- 
 lican, but has no time for the holding of office. 
 He is a member of the Good Templars. The 
 most industrious and successful farmers of the 
 valley have an able representative in Mr. Dial, 
 and none is more interested than he in the all- 
 around improvement of his locality, or more 
 willing to aid in every way in his power in the 
 general upbuilding. 
 
 CAPT. I. M. CHRISTY. 
 
 The successful manager of the Phoenix Hay 
 & Grain Company, located on First and Jeffer- 
 son streets, Phoenix, and by far the largest con- 
 cern of the kind in the city, as well as one of 
 the largest in the territory, was born in Trum- 
 bull county, Ohio, April 18, 1844. The ancestry 
 of the family is an interesting one, their home 
 across the seas having been the north of Ireland, 
 from whence came the paternal grandfather. An 
 extended mention of the ancestors and their un- 
 dertakings may be found in the sketch of Col. 
 William Christy, in another part of this work. 
 
 Captain Christy, who was one in a large fam- 
 ily of children, lived in Ohio until his tenth year. 
 In 1854 he accompanied his parents to Iowa, and 
 here, amid the wildest and most unimproved 
 conditions, the father, George L., who was born 
 in New Jersey, reared his family, with all the 
 disadvantages to which pioneer life is heir. In 
 1 861 his iion, I. M., became a member of the 
 home regiment state militia, and was sent to St.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Joe, Mo., returning in the fall of the same year. 
 He then enlisted as a private in Company I, Fif- 
 teenth Iowa Infantry, at Keokuk, and was a 
 splendid soldier, for he stood six feet three and 
 three-eighths inches high. During the progress 
 of the Civil war he participated in the battles of 
 Shiloh, the siege of Corinth, luka, the campaign 
 at Vicksburg, the Atlanta campaign, from Big 
 Shanty, and through to the sea. At the second 
 battle of Corinth he was slightly wounded, and 
 again on July 20, 1864, he was wounded in the 
 head bv a passing ball. This wound was. how- 
 ever, dressed, and was of such a slight nature 
 that he remained and took an active part in the 
 severe engagements before Atlanta on the 21st 
 and 22d of the same month. After the grand 
 review at Washington the remaining soldiers 
 were sent to Louisville, Ky., and were mus- 
 tered out of the service August 5, 1865, Mr. 
 Christy having in the mean time been commis- 
 sioned sergeant. Sad to relate, the Fifteenth 
 Iowa lost more men during the service than any 
 other company in the state. 
 
 With the restoration of peace Mr. Christy re- 
 turned to his former home in Iowa, where he 
 farmed for a time, and continued the education 
 interrupted by the war. For six months he at- 
 tended the Wesleyan University at Indianola, 
 Iowa, and eventually was graduated from the 
 Bryant & Stratton's Business College at Bur- 
 lington, Iowa. He then went to Afton, Iowa, 
 and was interested in the commission business, 
 and eventually became cashier of the A. C. Seig- 
 ler Bank, at Osceola, Iowa. In Burlington, 
 Iowa, Mr. Christy was for twenty years asso- 
 ciated with a hardware concern, which was at 
 first under the management of Nelson & Com- 
 pany, which firm was succeeded by Drake & 
 Dayton. With this house he was bookkeeper 
 and cashier from January of 1871 vmtil Januarv 
 of 1891, at which time he resigned to locate in 
 Phoenix, as secretary of the different canals on 
 the north side of the Salt river. In 1899 he be- 
 came manager of the Phoenix Hay & Grain 
 Company, in which capacity he has been pro- 
 nouncedly successful. 
 
 In Oswego, 111., Mr. Christy married Louise 
 A. Bennett, who was born in Chemung county, 
 N. Y., and died July 11, 1900. Mrs. Christy was 
 the mother of three children, of whom Charles 
 
 B. is bookkeeper in the Valley Bank at Phoenix, 
 and served during the Spanish-American war as 
 corporal in the Seventh California Infantry; 
 Catherine M. is engaged in educational work in 
 Phoenix ; and Fred C, a graduate of high 
 school, fought for his country in the Spanish- 
 American war from July, 1898, until February 
 15, 1900, in Company A, First Territorial Regi- 
 ment, with the rank of corporal. In national 
 politics Mr. Christy is affiliated with the Repub- 
 lican party, and has held various offices within 
 the gift of the people. For four different terms 
 he has been elected city treasurer, and at the 
 expiration of his service in 1899 had filled that 
 position longer than any other man in Phoenix. 
 He is fraternally associated with the Masons, 
 having joined that organization in Iowa. He is 
 now a member of the lodge at Burlington, Iowa. 
 Mr. Christy is actively interested in the work of 
 the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a 
 member of the post at Burlington. He is now 
 a member and past commander of the post at 
 Phoenix, and has served as assistant adjutant- 
 general with the rank of colonel. In the re- 
 ligious world Mr. Christy is widely and promi- 
 nently known, and is here, as in Burlington, a 
 member of and a generous contributor to the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 S. E. BRIGHT. 
 
 As the youngest in a family of eight children, 
 Mr. Bright was reared and educated at Green- 
 ville, Mercer county, Pa., where he was born 
 March 8, 1839. Of German descent, his people 
 have for many years lived in Pennsylvania, the 
 paternal grandfather having been born in the 
 eastern part of the state, subsequently settling 
 in Northampton county, where his death oc- 
 curred. The parents of Mr. Bright, Samuel and 
 Louisa (Becker) Bright, were born in Pennsyl- 
 vania, the former in Berks and the latter in Le- 
 high county. Samuel Bright was a cabinet- 
 maker by trade, and was engaged in this occu- 
 pation up to the time of his death. Mrs. Bright 
 died in Tennessee when eighty-four years of 
 age. Of the children born to this couple three 
 daughters and two sons are now living. 
 
 At the early age of sixteen S. E. Bright began 
 to earn an independent livelihood as a clerk, and
 
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 445 
 
 continued the same until i860, after he had cast 
 his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. 
 He then stated for the west by way of the 
 steamer "Northern Light" from New York to 
 Aspinwall, and by rail to Panama, thence taking 
 the steamer "Moses Taylor" to San Francisco. 
 As a preliminary undertaking in California he 
 went to the Red Dog mines in Nevada county, 
 and engaged in placer mining and the general 
 mercantile business until 1862. For the follow- 
 ing five years he was interested in mining and 
 merchandising in Sin Aloa, Old Mexico, and at 
 the outbreak of the Maximilian war returned to 
 the Red Dog mines in California, and also vis- 
 ited many other mines along the coast. In 1876 
 he tried his fortune at mining in Salt Lake val- 
 ley, L^tah, having at each stopping place added 
 a little to his worldly stores, and experienced 
 considerable success as a miner. In 1879 he 
 started on a prospecting tour from LUah through 
 the San Juan country, and in 1880 came to Ya- 
 vapai county, Ariz., where he mined for a time 
 and during the latter part of the year located 
 in Prescott. Here he became interested in lum- 
 ber, although his time was mostly occupied with 
 mining matters. Although he has met with 
 some reverses during the past two years, Mr. 
 Bright has great faith in the mining prospects 
 of the county and in the future of the city of 
 his adoption. As proof of this he has invested 
 heavily in business and residence property, and 
 entered heartily into all of the reliable schemes 
 for advancement. The territory has no wiser or 
 more enthusiastic advocate of its resources and 
 possibilities. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Bright is an uncom- 
 promising Republican. He is widely and favor- 
 ably known in fraternal circles, and as a Mason 
 is a member of .Xztlan Lodge No. i, F. & A. 
 M., of which he has twice been master; the 
 Royal .\rch Masons, Chapter No. 2, of which he 
 is past high priest; the Ivanhoe Commandcry 
 No. 2, past eminent commander; Olive Council 
 No. 2, and an enthusiastic member of Golden 
 Rule Chapter No. i, (). E. S., of which order he 
 was worthy patron for five terms; besides which 
 he is connected with W Malaikah Temple, N. 
 M. S., of Los Angeles. Cal.; and the Veteran 
 Association of the Pacific Coast Masons, of San 
 Francisco. In 1895 he attended the twenty- 
 
 sixth conclave of tlie Knights Templar, in Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 JOSIAH HARBERT. 
 
 The life of Mr. Ilarbert has been largely as- 
 sociated with the west, which has benefited, as 
 have the other localities in which he has resided, 
 by contact with his broad and progressive ideas 
 and unfailing devotion to the best good of the 
 community. Like many of the pioneers whose 
 faith and works have developed the latent re- 
 sources of the Salt River valley, he journeyed 
 hence from California, whither he had removed 
 in 1876. In the vicinity of Los Angeles he had 
 utilized the fertile soil for the raising of oranges 
 and other fruit for over ten years, and though 
 successful, had decided to permanently cast his 
 lot with the early settlers of .\rlzona. At one 
 time he owned at least four thousand acres of 
 land in the valley, and at the present time is the 
 possessor of about one thousand and four hun- 
 dred acres. Though residing in the city of 
 Phoenix, his time is devoted to caring for his 
 land, which includes, besides the farm property, 
 considerable city real estate. 
 
 A native of Champaign county, Ohio, Mr. 
 Harbert was born six miles from Urbana, April 
 7, 1828. His father, Thomas, was born in Vir- 
 ginia, and settled in Ohio, where he conducted 
 general farming and stock-raising enterprises. 
 After removing to Missouri he retired from 
 active life, and subsequently died in that state. 
 He served with courage and distinction in the 
 war of 1812. His wife, formerly Martha Hous- 
 ton, was born in Ohio and died in Missouri. She 
 was the mother of ten children, two of whom are 
 living. Two of the sons served in the Civil war. 
 
 On his father's farm in Ohio Josiah Harbert 
 was reared to a knowledge of farming, and was 
 educated at the early subscription schools. In 
 1 85 1 he removed to Putnam county. Mo., and 
 engaged in farming until 1859. He had long 
 cherished an impression that the west held great- 
 er inducements for the farmer than the east, and 
 in 1859 he started for Colorado, crossing the 
 plains with ox-teams and wagons, going by way 
 of Nebraska City and the Platte river to Denver. 
 In the vicinity of Denver he bought and im- 
 jiroved a farm on Plum creek, and for three years
 
 446 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 continued to farm his land. In 1863 he went 
 still further west, crossing the plains as before, 
 with ox-teams and wagons, and eventually arriv- 
 ing at Virginia City, Mont. In this wild and 
 crude city among the mountains lie engaged in 
 mining and in building residence and business 
 houses. At intervals also, during a la.xity in the 
 other occupations, he undertook freighting with 
 some measure of success, and remained in Mon- 
 tana until his departure for Los Angeles, Cal., 
 in 1876. 
 
 In Ohio Mr. Harbert married Martha J. 
 Gowel, who was born in Ohio and died in Ari- 
 zona. Of this union there were four children 
 who lived to maturity, three of whom are still 
 living: John Thomas, who is living on a ranch 
 in Arizona; Emma C, who is now Mrs. Hinton, 
 of Phoenix; and Mrs. Carrie L. Kaufman. 
 Martha E. died in San Diego, Cal. Mr. Har- 
 bert 's second marriage occurred in Phoenix, and 
 was with Gertrude A. (Lancaster) Webster, a 
 native of Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Harbert is entitled to the distinction of 
 having set out the first orange trees in Ari- 
 zona, while serving as a director of the Arizona 
 Improvement Company in 1888. These trees 
 were planted near the falls of the canal, and 
 proved to be a successful venture. He planted 
 sixteen acres in oranges the first year, buying 
 young trees in California, and now has probably 
 one thousand acres in the valley. Another enter- 
 prise which has assumed fairly large proportions 
 in the territory is due to his foresight, and was 
 first started when he introduced ostriches into 
 the valley, and had a farm for their raising and 
 accommodation. In 1900 he erected, at No. 45S 
 North Second avenue, the El Dorado, a hand- 
 some and commodious hotel. In national poli- 
 tics he is a Democrat, but entertains liberal views 
 regarding the politics of the administration. He 
 was formerly a Knight of Pythias, and is a mem- 
 ber and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and also one of the building committee. 
 
 B. L. WORTHEN. 
 
 Xunibercd among the representative business 
 men of Tucson for the past fifteen years, P>. L. 
 Worthen is entitled to a place of honor in local 
 history. Of English descent, he is one of the 
 
 native sons of California and has passed his 
 entire life amidst western environments. His 
 birth occurred July 2, 1863, in the town of Red 
 Blufif, but the major portion of his youth was 
 spent in Woodland, Cal., where he was gradu- 
 ated in the high school. His father, B. L. Wor- 
 then, Sr., was born in Ontario, Canada, and 
 throughout his mature life was an engineer and 
 millwright. In 185 1 he went to California, 
 where he constructed some of the first flour- 
 mills in the state, and later was superintendent 
 of stamp mills in northern California. At the 
 time of his death, in 1868, he was acting as 
 superintendent of stamp mills at Grass Valley, 
 Cal. The wife and mother, Mrs. Mary J. (Stod- 
 dard) Worthen, was born in Illinois and now 
 resides in Berkeley, Cial., and of their three chil- 
 dren, B. L. is the eldest and the only son. Mrs. 
 Worthen's father, John Stoddard, crossed the 
 plains to the Pacific slope with his family in 
 1849, and with good judgment entered land at 
 the forks of the Feather and Sacramento rivers 
 — the garden-spot of California. Later he mined 
 in the Shasta county region for a period, and 
 died in Woodland, Cal., when in his seventy- 
 seventh year. Two of his sons seized in the 
 Federal army during the Civil war. 
 
 When nineteen years of age B. L. Worthen 
 commenced an apprenticeship to the machinist's 
 calling in San Francisco, and for three years was 
 employed at the Dow Pump Works. Then go- 
 ing to Sacramento he entered the service of the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and at the 
 end of two weeks was transferred to the Tucson 
 shops. After working here for three years he 
 was promoted to the post of foreman of the ma- 
 chine shop, and retained that position until 1892, 
 when he resigned. Buying an interest in the 
 business which since has been known under the 
 firm name of Gardner, Worthen & Goss Co., he 
 has met with gratifying success. The machine 
 sho]) and foundry is one of the largest and best 
 et|uipped in the territory, and is run by steam 
 power. The firm deals in engines and heavy 
 machinery and carries a full line of mine sup- 
 ])lies. Many of the leading mines oi southern 
 .\rizona h.ave been equipped with machinery by 
 this establishment, and each year its business is 
 increasing. The first bicycles introduced into 
 Tucson were handled by this firm and a specialty
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 447 
 
 of repair work in this line has been made ever 
 since. In 1899 the company was incorporated, 
 with James Gardner as president, Mr. Goss sec- 
 retary and treasurer and Mr. Worthcn as man- 
 ager. The works now occupy over half a block, 
 and are situated on Toole aveinie, between 
 Fourth and Fifth. 
 
 In this city the marriage of Mr. Worthen and 
 Miss Kittie Fitzgerald, a lady of pleasing social 
 attainments, was solemnized June 5. 1889, and 
 they have a little son, Gerald B. Mrs. Worthen 
 was born in Idaho and received her education in 
 the schools of Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 In the fraternities Mr. Worthen is identified 
 with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
 belonging to the lodge and to the Hall Associa- 
 tion, in which he is a director, and also is con- 
 nected with the Knights of Pythias. In the Tuc- 
 son Board of Trade he is a prominent member 
 and in the councils of the Republican party is an 
 influential factor. 
 
 DAVID WILMOT WICKERSHAM. 
 
 The cause of education has few stancher 
 friends in Arizona than is found in Mr. Wicker- 
 sham. Perhaps the more because he is himself 
 a self-made man, he appreciates the value of 
 thorough and systematic training in the prac- 
 tical branches of knowledge, and his influence 
 has ever been used for the elevation of the stand- 
 ard of our public schools and educational institu- 
 tions. He taught in the first public school 
 opened in Safford, of which place he is now a 
 leading merchant and citizen. During the early 
 years of his work as a teacher he attended nor- 
 mals during the summer months, thus keeping 
 in touch with every phase of educational work. 
 
 In Chester county. Pa., D. W. Wickersham 
 was born July 10, 1850. When a mere lad his 
 diligence as a student was noticeable, and at an 
 early age he began to teach school, following 
 the occupation for five years in Pennsylvania. 
 From there he went to Missouri, where he 
 taught for a year. In .August, 1875, he came to 
 .Arizona. After spending one winter in Tucson 
 he taught in Safford for two winters, after wdiich 
 he clerked for I. E. Solomon, in Solomonville, 
 for three years. Next, going to Bowie Station, 
 he was associated with I. E. and Adolph Solo- 
 
 mon in a mercantile and freighting business un- 
 til 1894, when the railroad was built from Bowie 
 to Globe. P'rom 1894 to 1900 the concern was 
 devoted to vvht>lesale and retail trade at Bowie. 
 In the former year I. E. Solomon withdrew from 
 the firm. Since April, 1900, the wholesale de- 
 partment has been located in Safiford, the firm 
 transacting business under the title of Solomon 
 & Wickersham. Its trade extends from Globe 
 on the north to points along the Southern Pa- 
 cific Railroad in southern Arizona. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Wickersham married Miss M. M. 
 Maringer, a native of Ohio, and whose father, 
 a pioneer of Fort Bow'ie, .\riz., was killed there 
 by lightning. Si.x children were born of this 
 union. The five who are of school age are being 
 educated in the schools of Los Angeles, it being 
 the desire of the parents that they may be given 
 every opportunity for acquiring thorough edu- 
 cations. The children are named as follows: 
 Florence V., Ernest S., Mabel P., Newton W., 
 Maud A., and Harry P., the eldest of whom is 
 fifteen and the youngest three years of age. 
 
 In politics IMr. Wickersham is a Republican, 
 but occupies no public office except that of 
 school trustee. After having been a member of 
 the Masonic Lodge at Willcox five years, he 
 assisted in the organization of the SafTord Lodge 
 and is one of its charter members. Tucson 
 Chapter No. 3, R. A. M., numbers him among 
 its members. He is also a charter member of 
 Montezuma Lodge of Knights of Pythias, at 
 Solomonville. 
 
 HYRUM WEECH. 
 
 l'im.a, in the midst of a flourishing wheat sec- 
 tion of the Gila valley, with its law-abiding citi- 
 zens and general air of prosperity, owes much of 
 its reclaiming from the sterility of the desert to 
 the sturdy and indefatigable energy of the well- 
 known pioneer, Ilyrum Wcech. With a far- 
 sighted and wise belief in the abundance of pro- 
 duction from even the most barren spots of the 
 earth, he has given his* support to progressive 
 enterprises, including the building of canals and 
 the starting of jjlans for the general benefit of 
 the community. With the fifst exploring party 
 to this region, Mr. Wcech came here in 1879, 
 before anv settlement had as vet been made in
 
 448 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the Gila valley, and with his companions he 
 made seventeen locations on the present site of 
 Pima. Here he found no suggestion of the pres- 
 ent prevailing conditions, but rather a primitive 
 gathering of a few hopeful pioneers who were 
 ready to face any danger rnd endure any depri- 
 vation for the sake of a home and a future com- 
 petence. Few white settlers had arrived and 
 agricultural developments had scarcely been 
 commenced. He began to farm and was moder- 
 ately successful. In 1882 he enlarged his inter- 
 ests by embarking in the general mercantile 
 business, which was the pioneer of its kind in 
 Pima. To accommodate the increasing trade, in 
 1900 he erected the largest brick store in the 
 valley, which is 50x100 feet in dimensions, and 
 two stories high. The first floor is used for the 
 business, while the second story is utilized as an 
 opera house and hall. In the store are all kinds 
 of merchandise which the local needs demand, 
 including hardware, farm implements and gen- 
 eral necessities. 
 
 The youth of Mr. Weech was spent in Her- 
 fordshire, England, where he was born in 1845. 
 In 1847 his parents, Samuel and Elizabeth 
 (Gould) Weech, came to America, and settled 
 in Alton, 111., where the father died in 1850. 
 After his death the mother and six children (the 
 eldest son remaining in Nebraska) crossed the 
 plains with wagons and ox-teams to Utah, set- 
 tling on Mill creek, in the Salt Lake valley. 
 A year later they removed to L^tah county, 
 where Hyrum Weech was for twenty years an 
 industrious farmer and respected citizen. While 
 living there, in 1866, he married Sarah Dall, a 
 daughter of Henry D. and Rebecca Dall, of 
 Engknd. Of this union fifteen children were 
 born, of whom the following survive: Mrs. 
 Sarah Cluff; Elizabeth, wife of Charles Birdno, 
 of Thatcher; Rebecca F.,who is married to Jacob 
 A. Burns, of Pima: Emma, wife of Charles 
 Walsh, of I'ima; David H., who is in business 
 with his father; Eliza Jane, now the wife of Dr. 
 L. E. Wightman, of Pima; Pearl G., Mrs. P. 
 C. Men ill. of this place; Josejih H., William, 
 John, Robert W., and Clara, all at home. One 
 daughter. .Amanda, died December ly, i8y(j, 
 when eleven years of age. 
 
 The faith which Mr. Weech feels in the per- 
 manent prosperity of his adopted town is ap- 
 
 parent in many ways, not the least of which 
 is his numerous investments in town and other 
 properties. In addition to his store building, 
 he has built a substantial brick residence adjoin- 
 ing, and owns another brick house which he 
 rents. He is the possessor of three hundred and 
 forty acres of tine farm land, the cultivation of 
 which he personally superintends. One of his 
 sons is in partnership with him and the others 
 will be taken into the business as soon as they 
 become of age. Though not by nature or in- 
 clination a politician, Mr. Weech is a strong 
 Republican. For four years he served as super- 
 visor, and for the same length of time he was 
 a justice of the peace in Graham county, also 
 was notary public for eight years. In the first 
 year of President Harrison's administration he 
 was appointed postmaster and served as such 
 under his administration and is postmaster now, 
 having held the ofifice under two administrations. 
 With his family he is a member of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with which he 
 has been identified since eight years of age and 
 to which his parents belonged in England. He 
 is a member of the high council of St. Joseph 
 stake and the Church Board of Education, and 
 his oldest son is superintendent of the Sunday- 
 school. 
 
 HON. JOHN Y. T. SMITH. 
 
 With the history of Arizona for the past thirty- 
 tive years Mr. Smith has been intimately identi- 
 fied. He is a member of an old family of New 
 York state and was born near Buffalo Septem- 
 ber 16, 1 83 1. When ten years of age his life of 
 adventure commenced with his employment as 
 a cabin boy on a river steamboat, and during the 
 next three years he traveletl up and down the 
 Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers. In 1845 
 he secured work' on a farm near Carlinville, 
 Macoupin county. 111., and for the next eight 
 years he remained in Illinois; however, with the 
 restless spirit of youth, he longed for wider 
 fields of action. In the spring of 1S53 he started 
 for California with a company of young men, 
 who drove a herd of five hundred head of cattle 
 across the plains, journeying from St. Joseph, 
 Mo., up the Platte river and via Shasta, reach- 
 ing their destination after a trip of six months.
 
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 Going direct to a mine, Mr. Smith tried his luck 
 in prospecting for gold and mining. During 
 1858 he went to British Columbia at the time of 
 the discovery of gold in the Fraser river locality, 
 but the next year went back to California and 
 resumed mining. 
 
 At the opening of the Civil war Mr. Smith 
 enlisted in Company H, Fourth California In- 
 fantry, and with his regiment proceeded to 
 Yuma, .\riz., where he was stationed for a year, 
 going from there to the barracks at Camp 
 Latham, near Los Angeles. In 1864 he was 
 stationed at San Luis Obispo, but late in the 
 autumn went back to Dunn Barracks, near San 
 Pedro. During his service he was promoted to 
 second and later to first lieutenant of his com- 
 pany. In the fall of 1865 he started for Arizona 
 with the Fourteenth United States Regiment as 
 master of transportation, and continued for two 
 years at Fort McDowell, after which he took 
 charge of the government farm. Two years 
 later he was made post trader, under appoint- 
 ment from the secretary of war, and continued 
 as such for five years. Meantime, about 1872, 
 he started a mercantile store in Phoeni.x, having 
 his stock of goods shipped from California via 
 the Pacific ocean to the Gulf of California, thence 
 via the Colorado river to Yuma, and from there 
 by wagon to Phoenix. 
 
 Besides merchandising, Mr. Smith bad min- 
 ing and other interests. In 1876 he built the 
 second flour mill in the valley, and this he oper- 
 ated until 1887, when he built a substantial mill, 
 roller process, capacity one hundred barrels, con- 
 ducting the same until 1899, when he sold the 
 plant. The need of a good system of irrigation 
 early impressed itself upon his mind, and he 
 favored the digging of canals and ditches. At 
 the time the first ditch was started in 1866, not 
 a house stood on the present site of Phoenix, 
 and it was two years later before the town came 
 into existence. With its subsequent growth and 
 progress, he has been closely associated. His 
 brick residence, built in 1892, is one of the larg- 
 est in the city. He was married in Prescott to 
 Miss Ellen E. Shaver, who was born in Ontario. 
 Canada, and in 1873 taught the first school in 
 Phoenix. She is a daughter of W. H. Shaver. 
 The children of their tmion arc as follows: Wini- 
 fred, who was educated in Pomona College in 
 
 17 
 
 California; Bertram, now a student in the l"ni- 
 versity of Arizona; and Mary E., a member of 
 the Phoenix high school class of 1901. 
 
 The Republican party has a stanch friend in 
 Mr. Smith. For years he has been chairman of 
 the county central committee. He was elected to 
 the Phoenix council from the first ward, sen'ed 
 as chairman of the board of school trustees for 
 two years; in 1868 was elected to the territorial 
 legislature, serving in the session of 1869; again 
 in 1886 was elected to the territorial legislature 
 (this time from Maricopa county), and in 1888 
 was re-elected, serving in the fourteenth and 
 fifteenth general assemblies, and during the lat- 
 ter he w^as, with others, successful in securing 
 the removal' of the capitol from Prescott to 
 Phoenix. He was elected speaker of the fif- 
 teenth assembly, in which responsible position 
 he served with credit and distinction. In 1889 
 he was appointed territorial treasurer, which of- 
 fice he filled for two years. During the two 
 following years he was a member of the terri- 
 torial board of equalization. 
 
 Prominent in Masonry, Mr. Smith is past 
 deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of 
 Arizona. He is past commander of J. W. Owens 
 Post No. 5, G. A. R., and connected with the 
 California Commandery of the Loyal Legion, 
 also a member of the Society of California Vol- 
 unteers. 
 
 GEORGE MARTIN. 
 
 Of all the early settlers whose ability and en- 
 thusiasm have helped to bring about the resur- 
 rected fertility of Arizona, Mr. Martin is prob- 
 ably the first in whose mind there existed a hope 
 for the apparently worthless and desert vastness. 
 Long before the necessity for the Civil war arose 
 like a specter on the horizon of the country, and 
 when the territory was deemed inaccessible on 
 account of the reign of the treacherous and 
 bloodthirsty Apaches, his association with the 
 Second United States Infantry resulted in his 
 service in 1852 at Fort Yuma, on the Colorado 
 river. During the service, which extended to 
 1S56. his intimate knowledge of drugs gained 
 him the ])osition of hospital steward, which he 
 failhfullv conducted until his honorable dis- 
 charge.
 
 452 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Upon locating at Yuma, after his discharge 
 from the army, in 1856, Mr. Martin assumed 
 control of the sutler's store at that place, and 
 catered to their limited necessities until 1859. 
 When the placer mines were opened up at Gila 
 City he wisely .anticipated the needs of the coui- 
 ageous gold seekers, and started a general mer- 
 chandise store in the midst of probably the 
 crudest conditions in the west. After the war 
 broke out he went into partnership with King 
 S. Woolsey on the Agua Caliente ranch, on the 
 Gila river, eighty miles west of Yuma. At the 
 end of three years he disposed of his interests 
 to King Woolsey, and was then employed 
 by Hooper & Co. of Yuma, having charge of 
 their store. In 1872 he started a drug business 
 in Yuma, and transferred the store to Tucson 
 in January, 1884, where he has since been suc- 
 cessful as a purveyor of drugs and general re- 
 quirements in the line. As the pioneer drug man 
 of the place, he has witnessed the many changes 
 which have invaded this old-time settlement, and 
 has been identified in a substantial way with the 
 various means of growth. 
 
 Of interest always are the early environments 
 of the men who have braved the vicissitudes of 
 extreme western development. Of Irish birth 
 and extraction, Mr. Martin was born in County 
 Galway, Ireland, July 4, 1832. The influences 
 which molded his character were on a higher 
 plane than those within the reach of the average 
 Irish-born youth, for his father, Andrew Pierce 
 Martin, was a large land owner, and the scion 
 of an old and distinguished West of Ireland fam- 
 ily. His mother, Mary (McDonough) Martin, 
 had six children, two of whom in time came to 
 America, George and Louis. George Martin re- 
 ceived his education in his native land at the 
 Jesuit schools and through private tuition. He 
 was ambitious for larger opportunities than were 
 afforded by remaining within the borders of Ire- 
 land, and crossed the seas to America in 185 1. 
 In New York he enlisted in the Second United 
 States Infantry, and came to California the fol- 
 lowing year. Then followed his location at Fort 
 Yuma, and his subsequent successfid life in dif- 
 ferent parts of Arizona. 
 
 In Yuma, .Ariz., Mr. Martin married Delfina 
 Rodondo, a daughter of Stefan Rodondo, one 
 of the leading men of Sonora. Mexico, and a 
 
 member of an old Mexican family. To Mr. and 
 Mrs. Martin have been born eight children, viz.: 
 Mary; Matilda, who is now Mrs. Ronstadt of 
 Gila Bend; Agnes, Delfina, Stefan, George, An- 
 drew and Lewis. Although independent in poli- 
 tics, Mr. Martin has been prominent in local 
 affairs, and has servetl as county supervisor and 
 county treasurer in Yuma county, also as city 
 treasurer and member of the city council of 
 Yuma. 
 
 W. S. OWEN. 
 
 Over the hills from Jerome, in the world- 
 famed Verde district, are located the eight 
 claims of the Decatur Copper Mining Company, 
 four of which were formerly the Miller and Hol- 
 bead claims. The company at present develop- 
 ing this valuable property was formed in 1897 
 by the present secretary, George R. Bacon, the 
 president being W. J. Wayne. The development 
 of the mines has been such as to warrant large 
 expectations on the part of all concerned. Of 
 the ores found, copper predominates, with some 
 silver and gold. No expense has been spared in 
 testing to the fullest extent the quartz veins 
 traversing the claims. The company owns its 
 own hoisting plant and employs a practical engi- 
 neer to superintend the same. In addition to 
 these claims, the company has three very prom- 
 ising gold claims in the Mineral Point district, 
 assaying as high as $154.95 gold, which gives the 
 members a double assurance of success. The 
 future holds as bright an outlook for this aggre- 
 gation of developers and stockholders as it does 
 for many companies of older years and greater 
 pretensions. 
 
 Born in Indiana, Mr. Owen was reared and 
 educated at Decatur, 111., and early in life gained 
 a fair amount of business experience. In 1897, 
 with ready adaptability, he entered into the min- 
 ing life of the Verde district, and has since been 
 a moving spirit in his surroundings. In general 
 matters as well as mining he maintains a deep 
 interest, and his confidence in his adopted 
 county knows nu Ixiunds. which fact is undoubt- 
 edl\- accountable for nuich of his success. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with Jerome Lodge No. 
 18, K. of T. His marriage was solemnized in 
 Danville, III., and united him with Miss M. B. 
 Ncal.
 
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 453 
 
 EDWARD IRVINE. 
 
 The ancestral home of the Irvine faniilv i.s 
 Scotland, and there the patern.al grandfather. 
 Edward, was horn in the vicinity of Glasgow. In 
 later years he removed with his family to county 
 Tyrone, Ireland, and there his son, Alexander, 
 was born. The elder Edward was a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church, and upon immigrating 
 to America settled in New Brunswick, where 
 he eventually died. Alexander Irvine went to 
 New Brunswick with his family in 1840. and 
 conducted farming interests: also worked at his 
 trade of weaver. His useful and enterprising 
 life terminated in New Brunswick, as did that 
 of his wife, Jane (Johnstone) Irvine, who was 
 bom in Tyrone, Ireland, and was a daughter of 
 Samuel Johnstone. 
 
 Edward Irvine was born in county Tyrone, 
 Ireland, November 29, 1838. Of the three 
 daughters and one son who attained maturity, 
 he was the youngest, and was reared and edu- 
 cated in New Brunswick, rnd attended the pub- 
 lic schools, and St. John's private school. His 
 early aspirations were along the line of educa- 
 tional work, and when eighteen years of age 
 he began to teach school, an occupation which 
 engaged his attention on and off during the rest 
 of his residence in the province. He also be- 
 came interested in farming, and \vas for a time 
 engaged as a bookkeeper in Holton, Me., and 
 upon returning to New Brunswick became in- 
 terested in the mercantile business. In 1868 he 
 crossed the isthmus to California, and taught 
 school in Monterey and San Diego counties, and 
 also engaged in the cattle and merchandise busi- 
 ness in San Diego county. 
 
 Before leaving New Brunswick and during 
 his residence in California, Mr. Irvine had de- 
 v(jted his leisure moments to the study of law, 
 and was admitted to practice at San Diego, Cal. 
 .\fler taking up his dwelling in Phoenix, he 
 practiced his profession for a time, and served 
 for several terms as justice of the peace. He 
 subsequently became interested in the general 
 merchandise business, and continued the same 
 until about 18S3. Since then -he has been en- 
 gaged in loaning money, and in the real-estate 
 business, in addititjn to all of his other interests. 
 
 In Xew Brunswick, in 1850, Mr. Irvine mar- 
 
 ried Deborah Rideout, a native of New I'.runs- 
 wick, and a daughter of Joseph Rideout, a judge 
 and attorney of New Brunsw'ick. Mrs. Irvine 
 died in her native land in 1863; of her three 
 children two are deceased. Mr. Irvine con- 
 tracted a second marriage in New Brunswick in 
 1867, with Mary A. Chute. Of this union there 
 were two children, Thomas E., of Phoenix, and 
 Lilla C, who is now Mrs. Sharp, of Phoenix. 
 The present Mrs. Irvine was formerly Izora E. 
 Jackson, who was born in Ohio, and of this 
 union there are eight children, viz.: Izora J., 
 Edward, James M. B.. Angelina V., Roy O. J., 
 Evangeline, Sylvan, and Sarah. The children are 
 all at home. Mr. Irvine was ma(4e a Mason in 
 Arizona, and is connected with the Royal Arch 
 Chapter and Conmiandery No. 3, K. T., at Phoe- 
 nix. He is also associated with El Zaribah 
 Temple, N. M. S., and the Eastern Star. In 
 national politics he is independent, and aside 
 from serving for three terms as justice of the 
 peace, has been a member of the board of com- 
 missioners of the insane asylum. He is promi- 
 nent in religious circles, and as a member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church .South, has served 
 for many years as trustee and superintendent of 
 the Sunday-school. He is regarded as one of 
 the most substantial of the early pioneers who 
 have brought about the present prosperity, and 
 is esteemed for his, many admirable traits of 
 mind, character and attainment. 
 
 WILLIAM VALENTINE ELLIOT. 
 
 \\\'re one to search throughout the length 
 and breadth of Arizona, he could not find a 
 more typical reminder of the early days of the 
 territory t)ian is embodied in the undertakings 
 and adventures of William A'alcntinc Elliot. Ar- 
 riving here at practically the end of the Civil 
 war, when the possibilities of the long-neglected 
 land were but faintly outlined in the minds of the 
 daring venturers into the Indian infested regions, 
 he has been identified with almost every innova- 
 tion that has followed the first attempt to re- 
 habilitate, and his memory is stored with a vast 
 amoimt of interesting early information. Never- 
 theless, Arizona has furnished but a portion of 
 the adventure which has visited the career of 
 Mr. Elliot, for from his fifteenth year he entered
 
 454 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 upon a varied and many sided existence upon 
 land and sea, interspersed with active participa- 
 tion in the most severe and history-making wars 
 of his time. 
 
 A native of New York City, Mr. Elliot was 
 horn in 1833, of parents who were also natives 
 of New York. His education was derived at the 
 ninth ward public school, and was cut short by 
 his decision to put out to sea, which happened 
 when he was fifteen years of age. At first ship- 
 ping to English ports, he spent about eight 
 years on the deep, latterly on the trading ships 
 through the Philippine islands and Guatemala. 
 In 1854 he left an American vessel at Hull, Eng- 
 land, and joined the supply fleet going to Rus- 
 sia, subsequently serving as a soldier in the 
 Franco-English and Russian wars. While a sol- 
 dier in the English army against the Russians 
 he spent eleven months in the country of the 
 Czar. In 1855 he returned to his native city 
 and took up the iron moulder's trade, and later 
 followed the same in New York, New Orleans, 
 and other southern cities, returning eventually 
 to New York. Inured to an active and roam- 
 ing life, the peaceful occupation of the iron 
 moulder was discarded for the more exciting 
 events progressing on the other side of the 
 water, and he boarded a merchant vessel that 
 turned its prow towards the north of England. 
 Arriving in Glasgow at a later period, he joined 
 the East Indian service and for eight months 
 fought in the Indian army, taking part in the 
 terrible Sepoy war. At Jamestown, on the Isle 
 of St. Helena, he quit the service, and shipped 
 to Boston, Mass., proceeding thence to New 
 York City. He here became interested in real 
 estate, and bought and sold property success- 
 fully until the breaking out of the Civil war. 
 
 In March of 1861 Mr. Elliot enlisted in Com- 
 pany G, Eighth United States Infantry, under 
 Capt. Richard I. Dodge, and served with the 
 regular army for five years. In Virginia with 
 the army of the Potomac he served under all of 
 the commanders of that vast army, and was 
 particularly active at Fort Sumter, whither he 
 went from Governor's Island with two com- 
 panies as reinforcement after the fort had been 
 fired upon. Mr. Elliot's record was remarkable 
 from the number of battles in which he fought, 
 ap well as for the fact that although wounded at 
 
 the second battle of Manassas, at Malvern Hill 
 and at Cold Harbor, he lost not a day from the 
 service. He was promoted to the position of 
 first duty sergeant of Company G, and dis- 
 charged from service in the city of Baltimore, at 
 Camp Hancock, in August of 1865. Not yet 
 wearv of war, he then joined the Maximilian 
 expedition into IMexico under Col. H. F. Baker, 
 and went through Durango and Chihuahua. As 
 there was a division in the command he started 
 out independently with eighty-four men and 
 came into New Mexico at El Paso, where he 
 separated from the party and came to Arizona. 
 With two companies of cavalry he traveled from 
 Fort Wingate to Fort Whipple, and engaged 
 in mining, and also acted as government scout 
 for the United States troops. For six years also 
 he was one of the guards on the Cook & Shaw's 
 overland stage which ran between New Mexico 
 and Tucson, and for some time he was employed 
 in the quartermaster's department at Tucson 
 under Capt. (iilbert Smith. 
 
 Upon locating in Prescott in 1868, Mr. Elliot 
 opened an hotel there known as the Montezuma 
 House, which flourished under his management 
 for a year. He was also interested in mining, 
 an occupation in which he is still engaged, and, 
 during the changing course of events some very 
 valuable properties have come into his posses- 
 sion, which have been disposed of with gratify- 
 ing returns. In this way Mr. Elliot has fa- 
 miliarized himself with the different mining dis- 
 tricts of the territory, and is probably as well 
 informed concerning mining matters as any one 
 in this part of the country. 
 
 As proprietor of the Elliot House at Florence, 
 Mr. Elliot was for a time associated with that 
 flourishing little town, and he was once the 
 moving spirit in the building of that notoriously 
 rough camp of .\damsvillc, where he ran a res- 
 taurant in the days of its greatest prosperity, 
 when it was called the "toughest town in the 
 territorv." For a year he was one of the guards 
 at the territorial penitentiary at Yuma, and he 
 was interested in the hardware business at No- 
 gales, Santa Cruz county, for the same length 
 of time. In 1895 his wandering through differ- 
 ent parts of the territory terminated in his per- 
 manent residence in Casa Grande, where he has 
 since catered tn the necessities of the resident
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 457 
 
 population by conducting an excellent general 
 merchandise store and managing a hotel. To 
 no one is the town more indebted for helping to 
 place it on a solid and substantial basis, nor for 
 unwearying interest in all that pertains to its 
 re-establishment among the flourishing towns of 
 Arizona. 
 
 .\n active and imswerving Republican, Mr. 
 Elliot has been prominent in local political af- 
 fairs, and under Peter Brady, sheriff of Pinal 
 county, he served as public administrator, ex- 
 officio coroner, and deputy sheriff. Fraternally 
 he is associated with the Gila Valley Lodge No. 
 9, F. & A. M., and with the Royal Arch Chapter 
 at Phoenix. He is also a member of the No- 
 gales Lodge No. 13, Knights of Pythias. He 
 owns large properties in different parts of the 
 territory, especially at Casa Grande and at Flor- 
 
 HON. ANDREW J. DORAN. 
 
 For more than a quarter of the century re- 
 cently closed has Mr. Doran borne an important 
 part in the upbuilding of Arizona, and whether 
 in the general assembly of statesmen or in bus- 
 iness circles, the welfare of his chosen place of 
 abode has been the dominating element in his 
 life. Recognizing his stanch patriotism in the 
 early part of his residence here, his fellow-cit- 
 izens called him to positions of trust, and in 
 every such capacity he justified their judgment. 
 When living at Florence, in 1882, he was elected 
 sheriff of Pinal county, and for two terms he was 
 supervisor of the same county. During four 
 sessions of the territorial legislature he repre- 
 sented his district, spending two years in the 
 house and two in the council, the first election 
 being in 1880. In 1894 he was further honored 
 by being elected councilman-at-large, and thus 
 represented the entire territory, also being 
 chosen president of the council, and in that re- 
 sponsible office he for two years presided with 
 conspicuous ability. In 1896 he was a candidate, 
 on the Republican ticket, for delegate to con- 
 gress, being one of three candidates for the office. 
 However, he was defeated, owing to his sound- 
 money principles and his endorsement of the St. 
 Louis platform of 1896. Again, in 1900, he was 
 a candidate for the council of Arizona, but, with 
 
 all the Republican candidates of that year, he 
 suffered defeat. 
 
 In New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, 
 Ohio, Andrew J. Doran was born July 11, 1840. 
 His parents, George and Jane (Cribbs) Doran, 
 were natives of Pennsylvania. The mother died 
 in 1844, but the father lived to be seventy-eight, 
 and frequently occupied public offices both in 
 Ohio and in Iowa, where he settled in 1855. For 
 years he owned and operated saw-mills and dealt 
 in lumber. Andrew J. Doran was reared in 
 Iowa and Missouri, living with his grandparents 
 until about sixteen years of age. His public- 
 school education was supplemented by a course 
 in the Wesleyan University of Mount Pleasant, 
 Iowa. Having become a practical millwright 
 and bridge-builder, he followed these occupa- 
 tions. In June, i860, he went to Central City, 
 Colo. A year later he established himself at 
 Marysville, Cal. When the Civil war began, he 
 enlisted in Company E, Fifth California Infantry, 
 and served three years and two months, chiefly 
 in Arizona and Texas, where the Indians were 
 causing considerable trouble. When he had 
 been honorably discharged from the army, he 
 went to Canyon City, Ore., where he was super- 
 intendent of the Humboldt Mill and Ditch Com- 
 pany for two years. 
 
 Returning to California in 1867, Mr. Doran 
 embarked in the mercantile business at Peta- 
 luma, thence going to Chico, where he engaged 
 with Messrs. Allen Taylor & Co., and owned 
 and operated a saw-mill and dealt in lumber. In 
 1868 he commenced building bridges and snow- 
 sheds in the Sierra Nevada mountains, along the 
 Central Pacific Railroad, between Humboldt and 
 Promontory. The following year, after an ex- 
 tended trip in the east, he settled in Inyo county, 
 Cal., where he engaged in the construction of a 
 mill. In 1876 he came to Arizona and settled 
 in Pinal county, where he superintended the 
 building of the mill and works of the Silver King 
 mine, and later was superintendent of the mine 
 for one term. For some time he dealt in mining 
 property and still retains some landed posses- 
 sions in the Gila valley. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Doran came to Prescott and en- 
 tered into the real-estate business with ex-Gover- 
 nor Powers, under the firm name of Powers & 
 Doran. The next vear he took a bond and lease
 
 458 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 on the Accidental mine in Accidental Gulch, 
 being associated with Clement A. Griscom, Jr., 
 F. W. Morris, Jr., and Lloyd Griscom, of Phila- 
 delphia. They organized the Alontgomery Gold 
 Mining Company, with C. A. Griscom, Jr., as 
 president. F. W. Morris, Jr., as secretary and 
 treasurer, and A. J. Doran as manager. Erecting 
 a five-stamp mill, they had everything in a thriv- 
 ing condition, when the plant was destroyed by 
 fire in September, 1900. The ore, which is of a 
 free-milling nature, contains gold and a little 
 silver, averaging about $16 to the ton. The vein 
 containing the precious minerals is eight feet in 
 thickness and the work is now being carried on 
 at a depth of two hundred and fifty feet. Lender 
 the able management of Mr. Doran all depart- 
 ments of the enterprise are flourishing. 
 
 Under the administrations of Governors Wolf- 
 ley and Irwin, Mr. Doran served two terms on 
 the territorial board of equalization. While a 
 member of the Arizona council he drew up the 
 military code, providing for the organization of 
 the national guard in this territory, and subse- 
 quently was appointed by Governor Irwin as 
 lieutenant-colonel of the guard. He was the 
 author of the present board of control law, which 
 governs public institutions of the territory, in- 
 cluding prisons, asylums, etc., and drew up a 
 bill which became the arbor day law, requiring 
 the annual planting of trees on the day specified. 
 In the Masonic order he ranks high, having at- 
 tained the thirty-second degree. His member- 
 ship is retained in Gila Valley Lodge No. 9, F. 
 & A. M., of Florence ; Phoeni.x Chapter, R. A. 
 M., of Phoenix ; Salt River Coinmandery, K. T., 
 of Phoenix ; and Al Malakiah Temple, N. M. 
 S., of Los Angeles, Cal. In Prescott he is a 
 member of the order of Elks. He maintains an 
 interest in Grand Army matters and is identified 
 with Negley Post in Tucson. 
 
 ANDREW DENIER. 
 
 The thrifty and enterprising little town of 
 Florence numbers among its citizens that genial 
 member of the community, Mr. Denier. A 
 blacksmith and wagon-maker by occupation, his 
 social talents are none tlic less worthy of men- 
 tion, and as a musician, who skillfully manipu- 
 lates the alto horn, he is a member of the espe- 
 
 cial pride of his adopted town, the Florence 
 Brass Band. Any one familiar with the limited 
 means of amusement furnished in an out-of-the- 
 way Arizona settlement which is guiltless of as- 
 sociation with railroad facilities, and dependent 
 upon the excitement incident to the arrival of 
 the daily stage, knows in what exalted esteem 
 the brass band is held, and what a source of 
 joy are its lively and inspiring strains. 
 
 The youth of Mr. Denier was spent in his 
 native city of Cincinnati, where he was born in 
 1861. As a means of future livelihood he learned 
 the blacksmith and wagon-maker's trade at Cin- 
 cinnati and in St. Louis, in which latter place 
 he worked at his trade from 1883 until 1885. 
 Upon removing to Florence during the latter 
 part of 1885, he established the blacksmith shop 
 which has since been uninterruptedly successful, 
 and which is the oldest of its kind in the city. 
 Mr. Denier is also variously interested in the 
 occupations which are permitted by the peculiar 
 climatic and water conditions of the locality, and 
 in this connection owns and operates a farm on 
 the Gila river. As a miner he has unusually 
 bright prospects, and owns several properties in 
 Pinal county, from which he is hopeful of good 
 results. 
 
 Mr. Denier is a member of the local militia 
 which was established in 1894, and he is also 
 associated with the Commercial Club. In all 
 the efforts for improvement and advancement he 
 is liberal with jnirse and personal attendance, 
 and has been one of the upbuilding influences in 
 the all-around betterinsf of Florence. 
 
 WILLIAM BELL. 
 
 As an Indian trader at Pima agency Mr. Bell 
 has risen from a comparatively small beginning 
 to the ownership of a paying and continually in- 
 creasing business. Of Scotch-Irish extraction, 
 he was born at Belfast, in the north of Ireland, 
 and came to the United States in 1876. In the 
 interesting and picturesque little city of Glou- 
 cester on the Massachusetts coast he lived for 
 four years, following the liazardous occupation 
 of fisherman, to which the majority in the town 
 are devoted. In 1880 he became even more 
 closely associated with the sea, when he sailed 
 out of New York as a drover on a cattle steamer,
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 461 
 
 and for the fnllowing three years made in all 
 sixteen trips across the ocean, taking in Liver- 
 pool. London. Belfast, and Antwerp. 
 
 Upon retnrning to the life of a stable citizen 
 of the United States Mr. Bell gradually made 
 his way west, and upon arriving at Los Angeles, 
 Cal., was ill for quite a time with fever. In 
 1884 he came to Casa Grande and entered the 
 employ of Isaac Williams, an old-time Indian 
 trader, and also served as clerk for other trad- 
 ers. For eight years he was clerk for Isaac 
 Williams, and in this position became throughly 
 familiar with the Indians, and with the work of 
 the traders. So confident was he in his ability 
 to succeed along these lines, that in 1894 he 
 started an independent store, which has proved 
 a wise departure, and a decided success, doing 
 the largest business on the reservation. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Bell was united in marriage with 
 Senorita Concepcion Contraras, and of this 
 union there is one son, John Wycklifife Bell. 
 Mr. Bell is a man of Republican tendencies, but 
 entertains liberal ideas regarding the politics of 
 the administration. He is one of his county's 
 stanch supporters, and has contributed his share 
 towards its prosperity and well being. 
 
 JOSEPH B. TOMLINSON. 
 
 Among the mining engineers of Arizona Mr. 
 Tomlinson occupies an' enviable standing. From 
 his youth he has been associated with mine de- 
 velopment in various parts of the country, and 
 has occupied many positions of trust and promi- 
 nence by reason of his skill and extensive 
 knowledge of mining affairs. The circumstance 
 of his birth would seem to indicate the career 
 so ably adopted, for he was born in Nevada, 
 March 13, 1858, on the overland trail to Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 The first authentic record of the Tomlinson 
 family dates to the time of that ill-fated monarch. 
 Charles I., and the first to wander to other 
 shores was James B. Tomlinson, the father of 
 J. B. He settled first in New Orleans and later 
 in St. Louis, and in 1858 crossed the plains to 
 California, where he prospected and mined. 
 Subsequently he went to Colorado in June, i860, 
 and discovered the celebrated Freeland mine, in 
 Clear Creek county, in 1861. Eventually he 
 
 lived in Kent and Gilpin counties, Colo., and at 
 times mined and prospected in Central Amer- 
 ica, Nova Scotia, North Carolina, West Virginia, 
 and again in Colorado, where he died in Den- 
 ver. His wife, Elizabeth (Pitts) Tomlinson, who 
 is now living in Denver, is the mother of four 
 children, J. B. being the only son. 
 
 The education and early training of Mr. Tom- 
 linson was received in Gilpin county, Colo., and 
 when a mere boy he began to work in a forty- 
 stamp mill at Black Hawk. In 1882 he went to 
 I'tah, where he was for a time interested in the 
 brokerage business, and during the Coeur 
 d'.Alene excitement in Idaho was there engaged 
 in the forwarding conmiission, and had an assay 
 office in Eagle City, Idaho. He also spent four 
 months at Helena, Mont., and then went to 
 Boulder county, Colo., and moved a ten-stamp 
 mill from Left Hand to Gold Lake, below Ward. 
 He then operated the J. L. Sanderson mine at 
 Gold Hill, until the mill was shut down at the 
 end of three months, when he went to Denver, 
 and January 28, 1892 located in Cripple Creek, 
 where he erected the first stamp-mill in Beaver 
 Park. It was a twenty-stamp mill, which was 
 started June 23, 1892, and successfully conduct- 
 ed for two years and four months. This mill 
 was sold out on account of the strike, and in 
 July of 1894 Mr. Tomlinson came to Prescott 
 and organized the Mescal Milling Company, 
 which has a twenty-stamp mill on the Hassay- 
 ampa, of which he is still the possessor. He 
 then developed the Venezia property, in Crook 
 canon, twenty miles south of Prescott, and still 
 later the old property on the Hassayampa. He 
 is at present the superintendent of the Yaeger 
 Canon Copper mines, which are located twenty- 
 one miles east of Prescott, in the Black Hills 
 range. 
 
 In Denver, Colo., Mr. Tomlinson married 
 America R. Turner, who was born in Missouri 
 and educated in Denver. Of this union there 
 are three children, Edward L., Don J., and Har- 
 old. Mr. Tomlinson was made a Mason at Crip- 
 ple Creek. In jjolitics lie is a Republican. 
 
 II. P. WIGHTMAN. 
 
 Among the young business men of promise 
 who are helping to build up a permanent pros-
 
 4'')2 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 perity for Pima, none is held in higher esteem, 
 nor have any brighter prospects than Mr. 
 Wightman. Engaged in an occupation for which 
 there is invariably a demand, he is conducting 
 the largest and the pioneer drug industry in the 
 town, and has won a large and ever-increasing 
 patronage from all those who appreciate correct 
 business methods and a sincere desire to please. 
 
 The early associations of Mr. Wightman are 
 centered around Payson, Utah, where he was 
 born in 1871, a son of W. C. and Lucretia J. 
 (Pepper) Wightman, natives respectively of New 
 York and Ouincy, 111. In the pursuit of an 
 education he attended the public schools and 
 what is now the University of Utah, later grad- 
 uating from the department of pharmacy. North- 
 western University, of Chicago. As a field for 
 future eiifort he wisely selected Pima, locating 
 here immediately after his graduation. Armed 
 with his pharmacy certificate and a knowledge of 
 the jewelrv business which he had learned in 
 Salt Lake City, he had at his command occu- 
 pations readily combined and of a substantial 
 nature. His drug interests were carried on in 
 connection with his brother, Dr. L. E. Wight- 
 man, and in the jewelry business he carried a 
 complete line of things in connection there- 
 with, and ran a general repair shop. In 1898 
 he bought out his brother's share in the busi- 
 ness and at the time they were occupying the 
 store originally owned by the doctor. In 1898 
 H. P. Wightman erected the fine brick store, 
 necessitated by the increase of trade, and it is 
 stocked with the largest and most complete drug 
 supply in the Gila valley. 
 
 September 18, 1899, Mr. Wightman married 
 Maud Sims, a daughter of S. J. and Susan Sims, 
 the former of whom is a prominent merchant 
 and contractor, and one of the very early set- 
 tlers of Pima. He is prominent in the church, 
 and is stake superintendent of the Sunday- 
 school. Mrs. Wightman is the fifth daughter of 
 the family. Though not active in local politics 
 Mr. Wightman believes in the government of 
 the Republican party. However, he would in- 
 variably vote for the man best qualified to fill 
 the position. With his brother. Dr. Wightman, 
 he is interested in mining in the San Carlos 
 strip, and in this connection has been fairly suc- 
 cessful. He is a member of the Church of 
 
 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is assist- 
 ant stake secretary of the Sunday-school. 
 
 GEORGE W. WELLS. 
 
 Since 1882 Mr. Wells has dwelt in the vicinity 
 of Clifton and has been actively associated with 
 the development of this locality. While a man 
 of public spirit and faithful in the performance 
 of his duties of citizenship, he is in no wise an 
 office-seeker, and though it certainly was a 
 mark of esteem when, in the fall of 1900, he 
 was nominated for the county assessorship of 
 Graham county, it was done without his knowl- 
 edge or consent, and he felt perfectly justified 
 in withdrawing his name. In 1890 he had been 
 elected and served as one of the supervisors of 
 this county, being chairman of the board part 
 of the time, making a most creditable record 
 during his four years' term. His ballot is in- 
 variably given to the support of the Republican 
 party. 
 
 Of sterling New England ancestry, George 
 W. Wells himself was born in New Hampshire, 
 the event occurring in 1838. His parents, Moses 
 and Cyrene Wells, likewise were natives of the 
 state mentioned. When he was about sixteen 
 years of age G. W. Wells went to Chicago, 111., 
 where he was employed at different pursuits for 
 three years. The ''western fever" then took 
 possession of him and, making his way to Pike's 
 Peak, Colo., he spent eight years in mining and 
 milling enterprises in that region. Then, go- 
 ing to the Black Hills, in South Dakota, he was 
 similarly occupied in mining operations until 
 January, 1880, when he came to the southwest. 
 For about a year he was engaged in milling in 
 New Mexico, and in 1882 came to Arizona. 
 Settling at Oro, three miles from Clifton, on 
 the San Francisco river, he was employed by the 
 Clifton Hydraulic Company for some time. 
 Since 1884 he has been in the live stock busi- 
 ness on his own account and has made a suc- 
 cess of the undertaking. His home property 
 here is highly improved and beautiful, twenty 
 acres being under cultivation. A thrifty or- 
 chard supplies him with an abundance of fruit, 
 and his garden land he rents to Chinese garden- 
 ers. 
 
 For more than thirty years Mr. Wells has
 
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 465 
 
 enjoj'etl the companionship and wifely assistance 
 in all his hardships and vicissitudes of the lady 
 whose name prior to their marriage, in 1869, 
 was Miss Sarah C. Fisher. She is a daughter 
 of William Fisher, and was born in England, 
 but came to the United States when a child. In 
 the year which witnessed the close of the Civil 
 war in this country, Mr. Wells was initiated into 
 the Masonic order, at Black Hawk, Colo., and 
 ever since has been a faithful exponent of the 
 noble principles of the fraternity. Now he en- 
 joys the honor of being one of the charter mem- 
 bers of the blue lodge at Clifton. 
 
 HON. HENRY W. ETZ. 
 
 Hon. Henry W. Etz, who is engaged in con- 
 ducting a meat market at Benson, and also lias 
 large stock-raising interests, was born at Leaven- 
 worth, Kans., September i, 1859, and is a son of 
 William and Helena (Waldman) Etz. His youth 
 was practically uneventful and was passed in the 
 town of his birth, in the pursuit of those avoca- 
 tions which prepared a sound foundation for the 
 future, his education being obtained in the public 
 schools. While still a boy he gained considerable 
 business experience. At the age of twenty-one 
 he left Kansas and after a short sojourn in New 
 Mexico he went to Tombstone, Ariz., where for 
 one year he was employed in a meat market. 
 Next, going to Bisbee, he was engaged in the 
 meat business for two years, mean time meeting 
 with sufficient success to encourage him to con- 
 tinue in the same occupation permanently. In 
 the fall of 1885 he opened a meat market in Ben- 
 son, in which town he still makes his home. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Etz became interested in the cattle 
 business down the San Pedro river and during 
 the years that have since intervened he has been 
 remarkably successful in this industry. Fre- 
 quently he had on the range between fifteen 
 hundred and two thousand head of cattle. His 
 interests were large and important and he was 
 recognized as one of the most extensive cattle- 
 men in the territory. However, in December, 
 1900, he sold out his cattle interests, although he 
 still retains the ranches. In 1886 he purchased 
 a building in Benson and fitted up the same as 
 a meat market, which he has since conducted in 
 an energetic and profitable manner, having as 
 
 partners in the business his brother George, and 
 two half-brothers. Max and Fred Treu, and the 
 four men form what is known throughout the 
 west as the Three Bark Cattle Company. As 
 business men, they have a reputation for strict 
 integrity, a high sense of commercial honor, the 
 energy which almost invariably characterizes the 
 people of Arizona, and sound judgment in in- 
 vestments. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Etz took place at Tucson, 
 Ariz., in 1889, and united him with Ada May 
 Nye. Of this union there are five children, Helen 
 S., George, Agnes M., Henry W., Jr., and Alva 
 Nye. 
 
 In the political affairs of Benson Mr. Etz has 
 been active, as indeed he has been in every com- 
 munity where he has resided. The Democratic 
 party receives his stanch support. On the party 
 ticket, he was elected to the twentieth general 
 assembly of Arizona, in which he served 
 as chairman of the enrolling and engrossing 
 committee, and member of the committee on 
 education and the committee on live stock. He 
 is deeply interested in the cause of education, 
 and has served on the school board of Benson 
 for several years. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Knights of Pythias at Benson, of which 
 lodge he is past chancellor. While not connected 
 with any denomination, he contributes to the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, of which his wife is 
 a member. He is one of the most prominent 
 business men in this part of the territory and a 
 substantial citizen of Benson. 
 
 D. J. BRANNEN, M. D. 
 
 In the early part of the '80s the little settle- 
 ment of Flagstafif began the work of opening up 
 the largest pine forest in the world, and by 1882 
 about two hundred courageous settlers had pene- 
 trated the almost primeval paths, and erected 
 their little places of abode under the swaying 
 branches of the trees. Various crafts were rep- 
 resented among these pioneers, and the medical 
 profession had at least one worthy exponent in 
 Dr. Brannen, who came in April of 1882. The 
 same year witnessed the inauguration of the 
 operations of the Ayer Lumber Company, which 
 speedily made inroads into the timber, in their 
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 Railroad. A natural impetus for general ex- 
 pansion was created, supply following quickly in 
 the wake of demand, and hopes ran high before 
 the practically inexhaustible surrounding re- 
 sources. 
 
 Into this crude settlement Dr. Brannen 
 brought his skill as a practitioner, himself a 
 stranger, and with little more substantial back- 
 ing than a dauntless determination to obtain the 
 best possible results out of the situation. Nu- 
 merous were the demands made upon his diag- 
 nosis and medicine chest, the calls frequently 
 coming from remote localities, so that he was 
 often compelled to ride a hundred miles or more 
 in the earlier days. In connection with his prac- 
 tice he started a drug store, but, with the open- 
 ing up of the railroad and the consequent in- 
 crease in population, he abandoned the active 
 management of the store and devoted all of his 
 time to his professional labors, though still re- 
 taining the ownership of the business. In time 
 his duties were greatly increased by his selection 
 as surgeon for the Arizona Lumber and Timber 
 Company, originally the Ayer Lumber Com- 
 pany, and for the Santa Fe Railroad Company, 
 which positions he still fills, and he also served 
 for some time as city and county physician. 
 
 Dr. Brannen is widely known for his pro- 
 found and practical interest in the affairs of 
 Flagstaff arid vicinity, and his broad minded and 
 substantial business co-operation with other in- 
 fluential men toward the better development of 
 the community interests has brought him into 
 prominence. In 1883, as the candidate of the 
 Democratic party, he was elected to the thir- 
 teenth territorial legislature from the county of 
 Yavapai, receiving the largest vote accorded any 
 candidate for office during that election. His su- 
 perior attainments and his skill in debate caused 
 him to take place at once as the leader of the 
 Yavapai county delegation, and the record he 
 made in that body was one in which any man 
 might justifiably take pride. Upon his first en- 
 trance into politics he established his right to 
 be regarded as one of the bulwarks of the Demo- 
 cratic party in the territory, and that reputa- 
 tion has been enhanced with succeeding years. 
 His services have been recognized by various 
 important appointments. In 1893 Governor 
 Hughes, while on his way from Washington to 
 
 assume his executive duties, named him as su- 
 perintendent of the insane asylum at Phoenix, 
 the first official act of his administration. This 
 honor was declined by Dr. Brannen, although 
 the appointment was endorsed by the legislature, 
 and every pressure was brought to bear by in- 
 fluential men in the territory to induce him to 
 reconsider his determination. Subsequently, 
 however, he consented to act as territorial health 
 officer for northern Arizona, and to him belongs 
 the credit for stamping out contagious diseases 
 throughout the section under his control, the 
 measures adopted by him being of the most 
 stringent character, and along the lines em- 
 ployed by the most expert medical authorities in 
 the country. During the second administra- 
 tion of President Cleveland he served as post- 
 master of Flagstaff; and whenever he has found 
 it in his power to do so, he has performed valiant 
 service for his party and for the general public. 
 In 1893 he exhibited a deep interest in Arizona's 
 participation in the Columbian Exposition at 
 Chicago, and served as president of the terri- 
 torial board of exposition managers. 
 
 In the cause of education Dr. Brannen has 
 also shown a strong and intelligent interest. He 
 has served as a member of the visiting board of 
 the normal school located at Flagstaff, and in 
 various ways has accomplished much toward 
 securing superior educational facilities for the 
 town of his adoption. In 1887 he became one of 
 the organizers of the Flagstaff Board of Trade, 
 and, as continuous president of this body, has 
 been the means of placing the town on a solid 
 commercial basis. The stage coach, an import- 
 ant factor in the territory, has received his sup- 
 port, and he was president of the company which 
 operated the first stage line to the Grand canon. 
 For a period of about ten years he was also 
 interested in the cattle business, as a member 
 of the firm of Brannen, Finnic & Brannen, which 
 had large herds on the open ranges. He also 
 owns a ranch in the country, and real estate in 
 the residence and business districts of the town, 
 besides which he has property interests in 
 Champaign, 111.; Los Angeles, Cal., and Po- 
 mona, Cal. 
 
 Dr. Brannen has identified himself with sev- 
 eral fraternal organizations, in which he has 
 taken prominent positions. He was one of the
 
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 chief organizers of Flagstaff Lodge No. 13, A. 
 O. U. W., in which he is past master workman, 
 and since its organization has been medical ex- 
 aminer, and he has represented this lodge in 
 the grand lodge of Arizona, Colorado and New 
 Mexico. In the local court of the Independent 
 Order of Foresters he is past chief ranger and 
 medical examiner, while in Flagstaff Lodge No. 
 499, B. P. O. E., he is a leading officer. Deeply 
 interested in military affairs, he now acts as 
 assistant surgeon, with the rank of captain, in 
 the First Regiment, Arizona National Guard. 
 
 With all of his diverse interests, it is, never- 
 theless, in his professional work that Dr Bran- 
 nen is most deeply interested, and to the ex- 
 clusion of all other lines of work when it has 
 appeared to him to be necessary. By constant 
 research and contact with the most advanced 
 thought among the exponents of his science, he 
 has maintained an enviable place in the forefront 
 of his profession. He is president of the Santa 
 Fe Pacific Association of Railway Surgeons, a 
 member of the Association of Military Surgeons 
 of the United States, and examiner for the 
 Equitable Life Insurance Society, the Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company, the Manhattan Life 
 Insurance Company, and other leading insur- 
 ance corporations, and served as president of 
 the United States board of pension examiners 
 under Presidents Cleveland, Harrison and Mc- 
 Kinley. 
 
 Much of the success that has accompanied 
 Dr. Brannen in his career is undoubtedly attrib- 
 utable to his stiirdy northern ancestry and to his 
 early training among a people whose watchword 
 is perseverance. He was born in Ontario, Can- 
 ada, in 1857, and removed with his parents to 
 central Illinois in 1870. He was fortunate in 
 securing excellent educational advantages, his 
 graduation from the University of Illinois being 
 followed by his graduation in medicine in Cin- 
 cinnati in 1881. After a year of practice in 
 Cincinnati, he came to Flagstaff in 1882. In 
 April, 1889, he married Miss Kathleen O'Don- 
 nell, of Ottawa, Canada. She died in 1891, 
 leaving a daughter, who survived but a few 
 months. In December, 1896, he married Miss 
 Felicia Marley. There are no children of this 
 union. 
 
 In conclusion, it may be recorded that Dr. 
 
 Brannen has always borne an unimpeachable 
 reputation for integrity of character; and wher- 
 ever he is known, he is regarded as a liberal, 
 high-minded, useful citizen and man of affairs, 
 whose simple word bears as much weight among 
 his associates as the bond of the average indi- 
 vidual, and no higher compliment than this can 
 be paid to the character of any man in these 
 days when sordid, selfish motives are so apt to 
 predominate among those who are ranked as 
 successes in the business and professional world. 
 
 FRANK J. WATTRON. 
 
 More than a score of years ago Mr. Wattron 
 came to the southwest, and has been an inter- 
 ested witness of its progress. One of the early 
 settlers of Holbrook, he has been identified with 
 its affairs for the past seventeen years, being 
 classed among its representative business men. 
 Long ago he came to occupy an honored place 
 in the regard of the people of Navajo county, 
 and in 1896 was elected on the Republican ticket 
 to the ofiice of sheriff. At the expiration of his 
 term, in 1898, he was re-elected, and served to 
 the entire satisfaction of all concerned. He was 
 the first sheriff who was elected in the county. 
 In addition to this, he has held several county 
 offices, being a United States commissioner, a 
 notary public and justice of the peace, and in 
 each case discharged his duties with determined 
 fidelity. 
 
 •Mr. Wattron was born in Gasconade county, 
 Mo., Feb. 5, 1861, and at the age of seven years 
 went to Kansas, remaining in that state until 
 1877. For six years he traveled in Colorado, 
 New Mexico, and Mexico, residing in each 
 of those sections for some time. In 1884 he 
 came to Holbrook and entered into partner- 
 ship with Dr. T. P. Robinson, conducting a drug 
 store for six years, at the end of which time 
 Mr. Wattron purchased the doctor's interest, and 
 since has been alone in the business. For a 
 number of years he was financially interested in 
 the raising of sheep, and at the present time 
 has an investment in the Winslow opera house, 
 being a part owner of that paying enterprise. 
 
 One of the pastimes of Mr. Wattron lias been 
 the gathering together of a collection of Indian 
 and prehistoric relics, and beyond doubt he col-
 
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 lected the finest cabinet of specimens in this 
 region, and, perhaps, in the territory. Many of 
 the pieces of pottery and other interesting ar- 
 ticles speaking of races long passed away, were 
 dug from the graves and sites of deserted habi- 
 tations of the red race, many indications lead- 
 ing expert archaeologists to believe that they 
 date back to 1540, or thereabout. The 2,981 
 pieces comprising this collection are systematic- 
 ally numbered and catalogued, and recently the 
 owner was induced to dispose of it to the Field 
 Columbian Museum, of Chicago, in the belief 
 that the general public should have the benefit 
 and instruction which can be gained from a 
 study of these curious relics of a primitive peo- 
 ple. 
 
 It is needless to say that Mr. Wattron is an 
 earnest supporter of the Republican party, for 
 the local public is well aware of the fact, as he 
 possesses the courage of his convictions and 
 loses no opportunity of promoting the policy of 
 the administration. Fraternally he is a member 
 of the Winslow Lodge of the order of Elks. 
 In 1886 he was united in marriage with Miss 
 E. M. Herstein, a native of Nashville, Tenn. 
 They are the parents of four children, namely: 
 Frank J., Jr., Robin, Enid, and Marie. 
 
 CHARLES D. WILLARD. 
 
 In pursuing his successful career Mr. Willard 
 has not departed from any of the ways or tra- 
 ditions of the typical western man, in whose en- 
 vironment he was born, reared, educated, and 
 has since lived. A native of Lake county, Cal., he 
 was born in 1858, his parents being Joel and 
 Mary Grace (Vineyard) Willard. Much of the 
 inspiration to activity and enterprise was trans- 
 mitted from father to sons, for Joel Willard was 
 one of the interesting, honorable, and capable 
 old-timers of the coast. He was born in Mis- 
 souri, and from the peaceful occupation of farm- 
 ing ventured across the plains and came to Cali- 
 fornia in '49. He engaged in placer mining 
 and farming with some success until 1870, when 
 he removed to Nevada, and ten years later set- 
 tled in Arizona. With him he brought five hun- 
 dred head of cattle, which formed the nucleus 
 of large stock-raising enterprises. By trade a 
 civil engineer, he applied himself to this calling 
 
 during his younger years, and was then, and 
 until the time of his death in 1880, a successful 
 man in the most of his undertakings. He was 
 a stanch Republican, and a hard worker for his 
 party. In the midst of his sojourns and experi- 
 ences he raised a large family, and to his twelve 
 children gave all the advantages in his power, 
 instilling into their expanding minds ideas of 
 frugality, order, and industry. His wife still 
 lives in Arizona, and makes her home at Cotton- 
 wood. 
 
 The education of Charles D. Willard was ac- 
 quired in California and Nevada, and he was 
 subsequently associated with his father until 
 his death. In the latter part of 1880 he settled 
 in Verde on the old Indian reserve, and began 
 dealing in stock on the open range. Three of 
 the brothers Willard were connected in busi- 
 ness under the firm name of Willard Brothers, 
 and for several years raised, bought and sold 
 large numbers of cattle, having at times as many 
 as one thousand head. The brothers Willard 
 dissolved partnership in 1888 or 1889, Charles 
 D. and G. M. being for a time together, but 
 later went their separate ways. 
 
 Independent of the other brothers Charles D. 
 began a dairy business in a small way, and as 
 he prospered, and things came his way, the 
 Ijusiness was necessarily broadened, and he now 
 owns two hundred acres of land near Cotton- 
 wood Station, a few miles from Jerome. An 
 ideal dairy farm is the result of the arduous 
 labors of Mr. Willard, and his land is well 
 adapted for the purpose intended, being well 
 watered and prolific of vegetation. About sixty- 
 five head of cattle are the average fed, and these 
 supply a large portion of Jerome with rich milk. 
 A specialty is made of bottled milk and cream, 
 and the excellence of the materials furnished 
 ensures a large patronage. On his farm Mr. 
 Willard has made many improvements, and is 
 continually striving after better results. To this 
 end he studies the habits of his cattle and the 
 wishes of his patrons, and has arrived at a satis- 
 factory understanding of both. Nor has he 
 had entirely smooth sailing, for setbacks have 
 appeared from time to time, but have not im- 
 paired the perseverance of this industrious dairy- 
 man. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Willard married Ettie Scott, a
 
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 471 
 
 daughter of David Scott, of Verde. Four chil- 
 dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Willard, 
 two of whom are living, Alice and Emma. As 
 a Republican Mr. Willard has taken an active 
 part in the affairs of his locality, and in 1888 
 was appointed notary public by Governor Zu- 
 lick, since which he has been reappointed by 
 each succeeding governor, and has held the 
 position in all for twelve years. In 1898 he was 
 elected justice of the peace, and re-elected in 
 1900. For several years he has been connected 
 with the government as a correspondent and 
 statistical reporter for the department of agri- 
 culture. 
 
 DAVID L. MURRAY. 
 
 A frontiersman who has experienced the hard- 
 ships of the "wild west" in all its forms, and has 
 conquered almost insurmountable obstacles, 
 meeting every reverse with true courage and 
 pluck, David L. Murray, an honored citizen of 
 Phoenix and ex-sheriff of Maricopa county, has 
 well been deemed just the one for the important 
 public oflices to which he has been called. After 
 he had thoroughly identified himself with the 
 prosperity of this county he was elected as its 
 treasurer on the Democratic ticket, and assumed 
 his new duties in January, 1895. Then re- 
 elected by a much larger majority than he 
 received the first time, he continued to occupy 
 his position until the expiration of his term. 
 Altogether he ofificiated as treasurer for four 
 years, and, having been nominated for sheriff 
 of the county in the fall of 1898, he turned over 
 the affairs of his late office to his successor, was 
 released from his bond, and immediately took 
 the oath of his new position. During his long 
 term as treasurer he never was absent from his 
 post of duty for one day, and his fidelity and fine 
 executive ability are beyond question. 
 
 He comes of an old southern family. His 
 father, John Murray, a native of North Caro- 
 lina, in early manhood went to Tennessee, 
 where he married Annis Sullins, one of the 
 native daughters of that state, whose father was 
 of an old Virginia family, and settled upon a 
 plantation in eastern Tennessee. Moving to 
 Alissouri in the '40s, John Murray engaged in 
 agricultural pursuits near Springfield, and be- 
 
 came influential in that locality. Honored by 
 being elected to the judgeship of the county 
 courts, he served on the bench for several terms. 
 He also held the office of assessor of his county, 
 and was a valued member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church South. He died at his Missouri 
 home, and the wife and mother passed away 
 while in Colorado. 
 
 The only child of that sterling couple is David 
 L. Murray, who was born near Springfield, Mo., 
 in January, 1847, ^nd was reared upon the old 
 home place until he was sixteen years of age. 
 Then, going to the neighboring city, he obtained 
 a position as a clerk, but soon left the store to 
 complete his education in the University of Mis- 
 souri, where he remained for two years. Sub- 
 sequently he resumed his work as a clerk, and 
 for a period conducted a general store in Law- 
 rence county. Mo. In 1873 h^ went to Huerfano 
 county, Colo., and there embarked in the cattle 
 business. In 1875 he took his herd to San Juan 
 county and located about ten miles south of the 
 present town of Durango. The country there- 
 abouts was very wild and in an unsettled con- 
 dition, and the Indians were a constant menace 
 to the few hardy white men in their midst. 
 
 After the first survey, which established the 
 line of the Indian reservation, Mr. Murray 
 located a ranch on Florida creek, a branch of 
 the Los Animas river, and herded the first cat- 
 tle that ever grazed in that vicinity. With a few 
 other pioneers he built a fort of logs, to which 
 they often were obliged to resort when the red- 
 skins were on the warpath. In their early labors 
 of building cabins and cultivating the soil the 
 red men opposed them, but by feeding them 
 bountifully and doing other favors Mr. Murray 
 succeeded in gaining the good will of the major- 
 ity, and one family in particular gave him 
 friendly warning whenever there was an upris- 
 ing against the white men. He knew well the 
 great chiefs, Ignatio and Ouray, and when the 
 South Ute agency was founded assisted in dis- 
 tributing the first stock of goods sent to the 
 Indians. At length. La Platte county was or- 
 ganized and Durango laid out, after which efforts 
 in the line of civilization the settlers for the finst 
 time felt more secure in their lonely cabins, as 
 colonies began to flock in. .After having im- 
 proved a quarter section of land and introduced
 
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 the irrigating ditches and system into that local- 
 ity he sold his place in 1883 and came to Arizona. 
 
 In the following year Mr. Murray located in 
 Phoeni.x, and built the first cold storage plant 
 • in the territory. It is situated on Washington 
 street, opposite the city hall, and is still being 
 operated. He also buUt a slaughter house, 
 where beef of his own raising was killed and 
 then sent to his markets in Phoenix, for he was 
 the proprietor of two for some time, and it was 
 not until 1894 that he sold his meat and cold 
 storage business. In the mean time, soon after 
 his arrival in the territory, he had engaged in 
 the cattle business and had a ranch on the Yava- 
 pai, in what was known as the Bloody Basin 
 in Yavapai county. Having imported to these 
 wilds a fine lot of thoroughbred shorthorn, 
 Hereford and black Angus cattle he was a 
 pioneer in that enterprise, and his herds have 
 been noted for superiority in every particular. 
 For seven winters he fed cattle for the market, 
 as he owned a fine eighty-acre tract of pasture 
 near Phoenix, and dealt in live stock, both 
 wholesale and retail. 
 
 In all local enterprises Mr. Murray was a lead- 
 ing spirit from the time that he cast in his lot 
 with the people of this section, and to this day 
 he retains his deep interest in our progress. He 
 helped to organize the Cattlemen's Association 
 of Maricopa county, and was its first president. 
 At its organization and during its existence he 
 was identified with the old Chamber of Com- 
 merce as a director, and now holds membership 
 in the Board of Trade. When the Phoeni.x 
 National Bank was founded he was influential 
 in its establishment, and for a year was one of 
 the board of directors of the same. Since at- 
 taining mature years he has been active in the 
 Democratic party. In the fraternities he stands 
 high, being a past official of the Phoenix lodges 
 of the Odd Fellows, the Encampment, and the 
 Canton, and belonging to the Itcnevolcnt Pro- 
 tective ( )rder of Elks, the Woodmen of the 
 World and the Society of Moderns. His gen- 
 eral popularity with all classes is marked, for 
 though he is essentially a westerner and has 
 ex])erienced every vicissitude of fortune on the 
 frontier, he is broad-minded and public-spirited. 
 His genial disposition and gnoil fellowsiiip with 
 one and all have been factors in his rise to an 
 
 honored place in the hearts of the people, and 
 crowning his successful career is the record 
 which he has made as a public official. As sherif? 
 he fully met the confident expectations of his 
 fellow-citizens, and as county treasurer his 
 scrupulous attention to every detail of public ex- 
 penditures and the wisdom displayed in every- 
 thing relating to his work is a lasting com- 
 mentary to his genius. 
 
 In Lawrence county, Mo., the marriage of Mr. 
 Murray and Miss Sarah F. Guthrie occurred. 
 She was born in Mt. \'ernon, Mo., and comes of 
 an old southern family, formerly of Tennessee 
 and prior to that, of Virginia. W. J., the eldest 
 child of our subject and wife, is a graduate of the 
 Phoenix Commercial College, was deputy treas- 
 urer for four years while his father was treas- 
 urer, and later became his deputv sheriff. Lil- 
 lian, a graduate of the Phoenix high school and 
 the Arizona Normal, is the wife of Irvin An- 
 drews, of this city, and Fayetta, the younger 
 daughter, is a student in the high school. The 
 attractive home of the Alurray family was built 
 by our subject, and is pleasantly situated at the 
 corner of Van Buren and Fifth streets. 
 
 HON. J. A. VAIL. 
 
 The town of Flagstaff is the center of some 
 of the most interesting features of Arizo:ia, and 
 is remarkable alike for the practically exhaust- 
 less resources which surround it, for its splendid 
 climate, the beauty of its scenery, and the many 
 admirable men who have gathered within its 
 borders in response to the great and unde- 
 veloped opportunities awaiting them. Among 
 the citizens who have been longest associated 
 with its growth and prosperity mention belongs 
 to Mr. Vail. 
 
 .■\lthough a native of the vicinity of Shelby- 
 ville, Shelby county, Ohio, where he was born 
 January 27, 1861, Mr. Vail received the greater 
 part of his early training and education in In- 
 diana, his parents having removed there in 1864. 
 He attended the public schools at Goshen, and 
 remained on his father's farm until 1882, in the 
 mean time having learned to be a model farmer. 
 .After leaving the home surroundings he spent 
 six months in New Mexico, and arrived in Flag- 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 473 
 
 the possibilities of the place. He came here 
 from W'inslow with ox-teams and a saw-mill 
 outfit, which was put in place and ready for oper- 
 ation at the little station of Riordan, on the 
 main line of the railroad. I'"or a few years this 
 proved a profitable and congenial undertaking, 
 and the lumber interests were later disposed of 
 in favor of a liquor business, in which Mr. Vail 
 has since been engaged. He has been over- 
 come by tribulations in the shape of fires in 
 1886 and 1888, his place of business rising Phoe- 
 nix-like after each conflagration. After the sec- 
 ond blaze he wisely put up a brick structure on 
 the corner of San Francisco and Railroad ave- 
 nues, which is 120x25 in ground dimensions, 
 with a basement. His fire woes extended 
 further than the down-town district, for, Febru- 
 ary 19, 1894, the handsome residence which had 
 been erected in 1892 was wiped out by flames. 
 The following year he rebuilt on the same lot, 
 and is at present the owner of a fine and com- 
 modious home, which is fitted with every pos- 
 sible convenience, and was ready for occupancy 
 in April, 1896. Mr. Vail is the owner of other 
 real estate in the town. He is interested in the 
 cattle business with a brother-in-law, G. W. 
 Black, and has several ranches southwest of the 
 city, on wdiich graze from one thousand to one 
 thousand and two hundred head of cattle. In 
 addition he has many paying and promising 
 mining claims in the Grand Canon district, and 
 is a stockholder and director in the Flagstaff 
 Drainage & Improvement Company. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Vail married Mary E. Black, of 
 Morris county, Kans., and of this union there are 
 five children, viz.: Edna B., Grace E., Ella M., 
 James A., Jr., and William Theodore. The lat- 
 ter, who was born December 29, 1900, was named 
 in honor of William McKinley and Theodore 
 Roosevelt. As a member of the Republican 
 party, Mr. \ ail has been prominent in local and 
 territorial matters, and in 1890 was elected to 
 the territorial assembly for two years. During 
 the session he took an active part in the sepa- 
 ration of Coconino from Yavapai county, and 
 was one of the inenihers who held the pen dur- 
 ing the signing of the bill. He has served for 
 two years as a member of the board of super- 
 visors of Coconino county, and was a member 
 of the city council for four years. In June of 
 
 1900 he was a delegate to the Republican Na- 
 tional convention at Philadelphia and was ac- 
 companied on the journey to the Quaker city 
 by Mrs. Vail. 
 
 It is a surprising fact that in the face of the 
 sure defeat which is supposed to accompany all 
 political careers Mr. \'ail has never been de- 
 feated. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chancel- 
 lor; Flagstaflf Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he is 
 past noble grand ; and is also connected with the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is 
 one of the successful men of the place, and his 
 enthusiasm and faith in the possibilities of his 
 ailopted town and county have inspired many to 
 locate there. 
 
 RUDOLPH BAEHR. 
 As his surname indicates, the subject of this 
 sketch is of German descent, and doubtless in- 
 herited many of his most sterling qualities from 
 his Teutonic ancestors. This enterprising young 
 business man, who stands at the head of his 
 craft in Prescott, is one of the native sons of 
 Illinois, his birth having occurred in Mascoutah, 
 St. Clair county, September 10, 1871, and thus 
 he is in the prime of early manhood. 
 
 Fred Baehr, paternal grandfather of Rudolph 
 Baehr, was born in Germany, whence he im- 
 migrated to the United States several decades 
 ago, and became a farmer of Clinton county, 
 III, his home being near New Memphis. His 
 son and namesake, Fred Baehr, Jr., father of 
 our subject, was born on the old farm in Clin- 
 ton county in 1844, and departed this life in St. 
 Clair county. 111., in 1881. He, too, had fol- 
 lowed agriculture as a means of making his liv- 
 ing, and his widow is still making her home in 
 the vicinity of her former residence, in Mas- 
 coutah. She bore the maiden name of Cath- 
 erine Molter, and Alsace, France, was her 
 birthplace. With her father she came to this 
 country when a child, and until her marriage 
 resided upon his farm in Illinois. Of the six 
 children born to Fred and Catherine Baehr one 
 is deceased, and the only one of the family in 
 Arizona is he of whom this sketch is penned. 
 
 Rudolph Baehr was reared in Mascoutah and 
 locality, attending the public and high schools 
 of that town. He was only ten years old. how-
 
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 ever, when he commenced working at the trade 
 to which he has devoted his mature years, and 
 at intervals he earned considerable money, even 
 while attending school. In liis junior year in 
 the high school he abandoned his books and 
 ever since has given his entire attention to busi- 
 ness. Under the supervision of a man who was 
 a genuine artist in his line, ^Ir. Baehr learned 
 all kinds of painting, including sign-lettering 
 and work of a decorative character. 
 
 Coming to the west in 1887, Mr. Baehr located 
 in Albuquerque, N. M., and for nearly seven 
 years was successfully engaged in business, tak- 
 ing contracts for painting. June 16, 1894, he 
 located in Prescott, where he was in the employ 
 of others for about a year, or until he had be- 
 come somewhat acquainted and ready to embark 
 in business on his own account. He then com- 
 menced taking and executing contracts, and soon 
 built up a large and remunerative trade. Much of 
 the finest class of work in his line comes to him, 
 and without exception he has given complete 
 satisfaction. Among the handsome residences 
 which he has painted and decorated, under con- 
 tract, may be mentioned those belonging to 
 Frank M. Murphy, E. B. Gage, Ed Block, C. 
 A. Peters, P. A. Johns, Judge Sloan, Harry Bris- 
 ley, Mrs. D. Levy, Dr. J. B. McNally, A. W. 
 Edwards and Dr. J. R. Walls. Of the public 
 structures on which his skill has been exercised 
 the postoffice building, St. Joseph's school and 
 the Sisters of Mercy Hospital may be enumer- 
 ated. He also has been employed on many busi- 
 ness buildings, including the G. H. Cook, the 
 Sam Hill, the Wilson, the Bashford-Burmister 
 and the Fred Brecht blocks. 
 
 The pleasant modern residence of Mr. Baehr 
 is situated at No. 107 Grove avenue, and it was 
 built under his supervision. The lady who 
 charmingly presides over its hospitalities was 
 formerly Miss J. Edith Weaver. She is a daugh- 
 ter of B. H. Weaver, one of the representative 
 citizens of Prescott, and is a native of this place. 
 One child, Vivian, blesses the hearts of our sub- 
 ject and wife. Fraternally Mr. Baehr is con- 
 nected with the Woodmen of the World, the 
 United Moderns, Odd Fellows and Knights of 
 Pythias. In political affairs he is a loyal Repub- 
 lican. His wife is a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 ERNEST H. SIMPSON. 
 
 The lives and deeds of the Simpson family are 
 interestingly interwoven with the history of 
 Scotland, for. on the maternal side, the grand- 
 mother of Mr. Simpson, whose family name was 
 Kneeland, was descended from Robert Bruce, 
 King of Scotland. Some of the family partici- 
 pated in the war between England and Scot- 
 land, and one of them commanded a division of 
 the Scottish army at the battle of Bannockburn. 
 The first of the name to settle in America was 
 Captain Kneeland, who crossed the seas with 
 his family in 1634 and settled at Dedham, Mass., 
 of which they were among the very first set- 
 tlers. Afterward the captain, with his ship, was 
 lost at sea. The Kneeland family was repre- 
 sented in the Revolutionary war, one of the 
 members having taken part in the battle of 
 Bunker Hill and serving throughout the entire 
 war. also several members fought in the war of 
 1812. 
 
 Born in Watopa, Minn., June 29, 1859, Mr. 
 Simpson was educated in the schools of New 
 Hampshire, his parents having returned to the 
 east in 1861. His father. Henry C. Simpson, 
 was born in Londonderry, N. H., and was a 
 prominent man among newspaper circles of 
 Minnesota, where he made his home from 1857 
 until the opening of the Civil war. He then 
 enlisted as lieutenant in the Second Minnesota 
 Infantry and suflfered a hero's death in 1861, as 
 the result of wounds received at Mill Springs, 
 Ky. In his young manhood he had married 
 Martha Carson, a descendant of a prominent 
 Massachusetts family. 
 
 For two years E. H. Simpson was engaged in 
 learning the printer's trade in the press room of 
 the "Daily Mirror" at Manchester. N. H. Later 
 he was connected with the Forbes Lithograph- 
 ing Company and E. C. Allen's publishing house 
 in .A.ugusta, Me. In 1882 he came to Williams. 
 Ariz., as a railroad employee. In the spring of 
 1883 he w-ent on the range with C. T. Rogers in 
 the cattle business and until 1888 endured the 
 hardships, adventures and experiences of the 
 western cowboy. Later he clerked for C. E. 
 Boyce, during which time he learned much con- 
 cerning connnercial life. In 1894 he became 
 manager and, in 1899, proprietor of the Grand
 
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 Canon hotel, which jiosition he reHiiqiiishcd 
 in 1899, because of his appointment by Presi- 
 dent McKinle\' as postmaster of WilHams, for a 
 term of four years. 
 
 April 15, 1889, Mr. Simpson married Eva 
 K. Joyce, of San Uiego, Cal., and they have one 
 daughter, Helen M. Mr. Simpson is perma- 
 nently located in Williams and none of its resi- 
 dents entertains .a more certain hope of the 
 town's continued prosperity than does he. Dur- 
 ing his residence here he has been identified with 
 all of the important movements for local im- 
 provements, and has lent a ready hand and 
 practical aid in the furthering of wise plans. 
 As a politician he has shown judgment and enter- 
 prise. The various positions he has held furnish 
 evidence of his capability. For one year he 
 served as justice of the peace. During the 
 campaign of 1900 he was a member of the ter- 
 ritorial central committee. Besides this, he has 
 acted on the various county central committees 
 and has been a delegate to both county and 
 territorial conventions of his party since the 
 county was created, in 1891. Fraternally he is 
 a member of the Colorado Commandery of the 
 Loyal Legion, the Knights of Pythias, Sons of 
 Veterans, U. S. A., and is connected with the 
 Pilgrim Fathers of Salem, N. H. 
 
 PRESIDENT ANDREW KIMBALL. 
 
 Among people of every creed the great work 
 accomplished by the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter-day Saints arouses wonder. They have 
 been, among the first to make the desert "bloom 
 and blossom as the rose," and with wonderful 
 fcjrtitude and heroism they have borne hard- 
 ships such as rarely have been surmounted by 
 any people. Not satisfied with the conquering 
 of the great Utah deserts, they have made many 
 settlements in other arid regions and have 
 abundantly demonstrated that the genius of man 
 can largely control and subdue Nature, in her 
 harsher manifestations. 
 
 Though the history of President .'\ndrew 
 Kimball, of the St. Joseph Stake at Thatcher, 
 is well known {>> those of his own religion, 
 and throughout the inter-mountain west, and 
 though his father's life is also familiar to them, 
 to the general public they are not so well known. 
 
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 His father, Heber C. Kimball, who was second 
 only to Brigham Young in Utah, one of the 
 First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Clirist 
 of Latter-day Saints, who was born June 14, 
 1801, in the town of Sheldon. Franklin county, 
 .State of X'ermont. and who died in Salt Lake 
 eity, L'tah Territory, June 22, 1868. He was 
 reared in the faith of the Baptist church and 
 was a great student of theology, and, being dis- 
 satisfied with the systems then prevailing, 
 sought for further etilightenment, for this was 
 some time after the Prophet Joseph Smith re- 
 ceived his great message and commission. Early 
 in 1832 the Gospel was embraced by hiiji as a 
 message of glad tidings, and he became its life- 
 long defender and advocate. Chosen by the 
 Lord, to bear His Holy Priesthood, he was or- 
 dained an elder in 1832, and one of the Twelve 
 Apostles in 1835, and after the death of the 
 Prophet Joseph Smith he was called to be the 
 first councilor to President Brigham Young, 
 which position he held when he departed this 
 life. He filled many missions honorably and 
 faithfully in his own and foreign lands. He was 
 one of the Camp which, in 1834, went up to 
 redeem Zion in Jackson county. Mo. In 1837 
 he carried the Gospel to England, serving as 
 the first president of the European mission, that 
 being the first mission of an .\postle in this 
 dispensation across the ocean to foreign lands. 
 .\gain called with his brethren, the Apo.stles, 
 he filled another mission to England in 1S39. 
 He was also one of the pioneers who entered 
 the valley of the Great Salt Lake on July 24, 
 1847. President Kimball was an effective mis- 
 sionarv. a wise counselor, an undaunted leader, 
 a steadfast friend, a loving husband and a ten- 
 der father. In times of trial, of difficulty and 
 danger, his knees never trembled, his hand 
 never shook. — Engraved on the marble shaft 
 above his grave. 
 
 "He was a man of as much integrity, I pre- 
 sume as any man who ever lived upon this 
 earth. I have been personally acquainted with 
 him for forty-three years and I can testify that 
 he has been a man of truth, a man of benevo- 
 lence, a man that was to be tru.sted." — President 
 Brigham Young. 
 
 "President Heber C. Kimball was a striking 
 character among the Latter-day Samts. Tall,
 
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 erect, with piercing eyes and commanding man- 
 ner he made an impression wherever he went. 
 His quaint humor and forceful illustrations 
 made his public utterances always entertaining, 
 and everybody liked to hear him speak, except 
 the transgressor and the hypocrite, who some- 
 times writhed under his unsparing and pointed 
 castigations." — Editorial taken from the Deseret 
 Xews, June 15, 1901. 
 
 At Mendon, III. the life-long friendship be- 
 tween him and Brigham Young was begun. He 
 was instructed in the faith by Joseph Smith 
 himself, becoming second to Brigham Young 
 in power. With the "Mormon" converts he 
 lived in the Ohio Colony, thence went to Mis- 
 souri, from there to Illinois, later to Nebraska 
 and finally to Utah. For a time he was also asso- 
 ciated with the Latter-day Saints in Pennsyl- 
 vania and New York. On arriving in Utah he 
 was chosen to fill the official church position 
 of first councilor to Brigham Young in the 
 presidency of the church, and he aided not only 
 in founding Salt Lake City, but also in laying 
 out all of the principal towns and cities in Utah, 
 devoting his entire life to the church, without 
 material compensation, was a judge, a legis- 
 lator and filled many public positions of trust. 
 He reared many children, and today twenty-five 
 sons and nine daughters, many of whom are 
 ardent workers in the Mormon church. They 
 are widely scattered, living in numerous colonies 
 throughout the west, from Canada to Old 
 Mexico. 
 
 Andrew Kimball, son of H. C. and Ann A. 
 (Gheen) Kimball, was born in Salt Lake City, 
 .Septem1)er 6, 1858, and was bereft of his father 
 when but ten years of age. His mother sur- 
 vived until he was in his twentieth year. Febru- 
 ary 2, 1882, he married ( )live Woolley, daugh- 
 ter of Bisho]) Edwin D. and Mar\ -\nn (.\llpin) 
 Woolley, natives respectively of Pennsylvani i 
 and England. Seven children comprise the fam- 
 ily of President Kimball and wife, namely: 
 Olive Clare, who is a student in Thatcher Acnd- 
 eniy, and who was journal clerk in the house 
 (luring the twenty-first Arizona legislature; .\n- 
 drew Gordon, Delbert Gheen, Rutli Woolley, 
 Spencer Woolley, Alice Ann and Fannie Wool- 
 ley. A daughter, Maud Woolley, is deceased. 
 As a hoy Mr. Kimball supported his widowed 
 
 mother by working in railroad construction, at 
 ranching and farming. Later he learned the 
 tanners' trade. After his mother's death he 
 served his time as machinist and engineer on 
 the Utah division of what is now the Oregon 
 Short Line. After returning from Indian Ter- 
 ritory, where he devoted over two years' time to 
 preaching to the Indians and inhabitants of that 
 country, he was employed in wholesale and re- 
 tail mercantile establishments, developing into 
 a traveling salesman and was representing sev- 
 eral of Utah's home industries when called by 
 the church authorities to go to Arizona. In 
 this last occupation, which afforded him time 
 for other duties, he looked after the Indian Ter- 
 ritory mission and made frequent visits to the 
 various conferences, giving this time to the 
 church without compensation. 
 
 Aside from missionary work abroad, and mak- 
 ing a living, Mr. Kimball was active when at 
 home in prominent political positions and pre- 
 siding duties in the church. At one time, while 
 serving as school trustee, he established a night 
 school for working people, he becoming a stu- 
 dent, enjoying some of the best scholastic oppor- 
 tunities of his life. 
 
 For twelve years or more President Kimball 
 served as a missionary of his church in Indian 
 Territory and that section of country. There 
 he presided over sixty-one elders and carried on 
 a thriving work, much tci the satisfaction of the 
 authorities by whom he had been sent into what 
 has since developed into the Southwestern 
 States mission. When released from his duties 
 there, he was made a member of the Sunday- 
 school Union board of the church, which posi- 
 tii)n he still occupies, comprising not less than 
 one hundred and twenty-four thousand mem- 
 bers, and of which President George Q. Can- 
 non was superintendent. He took an inlhiential 
 ]iart in state politics, w:s a member of the city 
 council of Brigham City, and a member of the 
 constitutional convention. ^ 
 
 .\s successor to President Layton, who died 
 in i8(j8. President Kimball was sent by the 
 chuich to .Arizona. Sacrificing his own inclina- 
 tions and financial interests, he came to his new 
 and responsible post, where he has endeared 
 liimself to his ])eople. He owns a small farm 
 anil coiiifnrlable home, and is engaged in
 
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 479 
 
 Thatcher in the farm iniiilcnient and "general 
 merchandise business, with several others, oper- 
 ating as secretary and in charge of the business. 
 The characteristic energy of Mr. Kimball has 
 been displayed in many directions since his 
 arrival in this valley, in whose future he is a 
 firm believer. As a contractor, he assisted in the 
 construction of the Morenci South Railroad, 
 completing three miles of extremely difficult 
 grading, where every foot of the distance had 
 to be made by blasting the solid rock formation. 
 He is president of three canal companies, all 
 of which are of incalculable benefit to Gila 
 valley. Indeed, the limits of this article will not 
 permit a mention of the many industries in 
 which he is interested more or less directly; 
 sufifice it to say that he seeks to promote all 
 worthy enterprises. 
 
 The St. Joseph Stake, over which Elder Kim- 
 ball presides, is divided into ten wards and 
 three branches, over thirty-four hundred 
 members being included in this territory. He 
 is at the head of the Latter-day Saints' Acad- 
 emy at Thatcher, a flourishing institution on a 
 liberal basis, which does not preclude the ad- 
 mission of children of other religious beliefs. 
 Every branch of the work of the church is pro- 
 gressing, under the able jurisdiction of the presi- 
 dent, whose people look up to him in matters 
 spiritual and material. 
 
 In Xovember, 1900, he was elected to the 
 assembly of the twenty-first session of the .\ri- 
 zona legislature. In this body he was honored 
 by appointment to the chairmanship of the ju- 
 diciary committee, and was also a memljer of 
 the committees on live stock, education, and 
 rules. .Ml the matter pertaining to the revision 
 of the code passed through the hands of the 
 judiciary conmiittee, a i)ortion going to other 
 committees. The arduous duties of this com- 
 mittee naturally forced President Kimball to the 
 front, and made him ])ractically a leader in the 
 hotise. The last and not the least important 
 of the measures introduced by him was the local 
 optitni bill, which to the surprise of all passed 
 and became a law. In 191X) Mr. Kimlxill re- 
 ceived an a])pointnient from Governor X. O. 
 Murphy to represent .\rizona at the National 
 Irrigation Congress, which met in Montana. 
 and 1901 was appointed a delegate to the Trans- 
 
 Mississippi Congress held in C ripjile Creek, 
 Colo. 
 
 Possessing talent as a writer. President Kim- 
 ball has prepared articles that have been pub- 
 lished in many of the journals of the west. 
 
 The following article concerning the Gila val- 
 Ie\ and its prospects was written by Mr. Kim- 
 ball and appeared in the Arizona Bulletin, New 
 Year's edition of 1899: "Like an oasis in the 
 desert discovered by the weary caravan ; like the 
 rich bed of mineral digged to and uncovered by 
 the eager miner, the weary homeseeker dropped 
 in on the Gila and commenced the task of mak- 
 ing the desert blossom as the rose. 
 
 To fully appreciate one's advantages it is 
 necessary to learn by contrast. We sometimes 
 run in a narrow groove, imagine we are poor, 
 our country not the best, until we are awak- 
 ened by the busy hum of the traveler, and be- 
 fore we are aware our country is invaded by 
 those fleeing from more unfavorable conditions, 
 who have looked in and discovered the prize, 
 which to the old settler has become common- 
 place because of its sameness. 
 
 However much this valley has been appre- 
 ciated by its former settlers, we do not ques- 
 tion, but this fact is becoming self-evident, that 
 as new comers arrive and express their surprise 
 and appreciation of such a valley within the 
 confines of civilization, and in fact right in the 
 heart of this great American country, vast in 
 its dimensions, remarkable in its beauty and 
 unexcelled in its fertility, the old settler com- 
 mences to look about himself, and concludes 
 he is one of the favored few, one possessing an 
 inheritance in God's country — a fortune which 
 he ditl not realize. To own land in such a coun- 
 trv: to have an im(|uestioned right to a portion 
 of the water flowing down the Gila river, to 
 breathe the pure atmosphere that fills this moun- 
 tain vale, is in itself a fortune. 
 
 The writer may not live to see it, but our 
 young people will not have to live to be very 
 old before they see great changes in the Gila 
 vallcv. Surplus water will not only fill the reser- 
 voir now under construction near Pima, but a 
 series of them all along the line of the Enter- 
 prise canal. The fall of the spillway near the 
 headgate will turn a wheel with lightning rapid- 
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 some day furnish power for grist mills: milling 
 will then be done on a cheaper and more scien- 
 tific plan. The writer looks forward to see 
 woolen and cotton mills in operation by this 
 power. Our farmers will then be able to have a 
 \ little bunch of sheep or goats and we can pre- 
 pare the filling while we raise the cotton warp 
 on our farms. Our boys and girls can then be 
 employed, not only in these mills, but in caring 
 for the silkworm and spinning the silk, while 
 older hands will operate the silk loom. A tan- 
 nery will then tan the many hides and pelts pro- 
 duced by a practical and well operated slaugh- 
 tering .and packing house, tanned with the use of 
 canaigre root, raised on the seemingly useless 
 deserts. The same electric power will then 
 keep hununing the many wheels of improved 
 machinery, operated by skilled hands in the 
 manufacture of the best shoes. The Oose or 
 soap plant cactus can be used in the manufac- 
 ture of soap, and the various other products of 
 the soil now unnoticed become of vast use and 
 value. Up and down our well graded streets 
 in our many incorporated cities and villages 
 the electric lights will shine forth. ( )ur county 
 roads will necessarily be graded, while leading 
 out from the many cities will be pretty well- 
 shaded drives. We may see in the larger thor- 
 oughfares street cars wliich will supplant the 
 wagon and carriage. The writer looks to see 
 the day when a boat will run up and down the 
 Enterprise canal for excursion parties, while 
 parks and pleasure gardens will be established 
 here and tliere for the social enjoyment of our 
 people. On the mesa land now mioccupied, 
 beautiful vineyards will jjroduce the luscious 
 grapes and the many kinds of fruit trees will 
 be laden with choice fruits. 
 
 -A banking house and other metropolitan con- 
 veniences will be established in the center of 
 population, and the county will enjoy the use 
 of magnificent public buildings. Ta.xes will be 
 materially lessened by a judicious and economi- 
 cal administration ; our judges will be elected 
 then by the people and our representatives to 
 the legislature will have something to say about 
 senators in Congress, for we will enjoy the lib- 
 erty of statehood. Judges will not be imposed 
 upon us but we will choose the best man of our 
 own county to sit on the bench. Justice will be 
 
 meted out. Saloons and bad houses will be kept 
 under proper restraint. Mora! and true relig- 
 ious influence will bear sway, and with the flood 
 of light and intelligence will come the better- 
 ment of the people. With the busv farmer, the 
 active stock raiser, the successful mining man, 
 the steady manufacturer, the thriving merchant, 
 the rich banker, the happy lawyer, the busy 
 mechanic, the constant l)uzz of machinery, the 
 sound of music, the steady and progressive 
 growth of a commonwealth, causes the happi- 
 ness of a good people. 
 
 If the reverie of the writer can but be half 
 realized, he will be satisfied, llut laying aside 
 all guess work and prophecy, the writer, calcu- 
 l."ting from the magnificent outlay before us, 
 the foundation being laid, the well designed 
 plans of the superstructure, the class of people, 
 the unity of purpose, the faith in a Supreme ruler 
 who is so greatly blessing us. and who will aid 
 a faithful people; there is no reason why future 
 generations may not enjoy all that is predicted 
 for the "Future of the (iila Valley." 
 
 JUDGE ANTHONY WRIGHT. 
 
 As justice of the peace antl coroner at Clifton, 
 Judge Wright has been initiated into all phases 
 of life as here represented, and it is needless to 
 say that in a mountainous region, inhabited 
 largely by a reckless wealth-seeking element, 
 antagonisms are of frequent occurrence, and of 
 a nature which lead to extremes in the dealing 
 out of vengeance. Judge Wright was elected 
 to the office of justice in 1894, and re-elected in 
 1898 and 1900. .\s is well known, the office in 
 .\rizona carries with it the duties of coroner, 
 and it is priiicipalh in this capacity that the 
 present incumbent has distinguished himself by 
 the possession of shrewd conmion-scnse, un- 
 faltering allegiance to the laws of justice and 
 humanity, and a ready tact in adjustment and 
 reconciliation. The past has presented almost 
 insurmountable obstacles in ascertaining the 
 facts surrounding murders in the mountains, 
 and even at the present time an incjuest is one 
 of the most stubborn t- sks among the judge's 
 duties. It is extremely difficult to get either 
 juries or evidence when bodies are found in 
 remote mountain fastnesses. In 1883 there were
 
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 seventeen murders within an equal number of 
 days, and during this same year there were more 
 than fifty-five Hves ruthlessly taken. This grew- 
 some work is hardly representative of the judge's 
 inclination or ability, for he is one of the most 
 genial and friendly of men, and one of the town's 
 substantial and helpful citizens. 
 
 The Wright family numbers among its mem- 
 bers many who helped to lay the '"oundation of 
 American independence. Of fine old Puritan 
 stock, he is descended from the very early col- 
 onists who first settled in Massachusetts. He 
 was born in Concord, Mass., in 1836, his parents 
 being Anthony and Mary (Smith) Wright. An- 
 thony Wright was a veteran of the war of 1812, 
 and was also with Bolivar in South America. 
 He suffered many of the indignities of war, and 
 even after the close of hostilities was detained 
 as a British prisoner at Halifax. His son spent 
 the early part of his youth in his native state, 
 and there attended the public schools. He early 
 developed an ambition for the sea, and in 1850 
 sailed away from the New England coast as a 
 sailor lad in the clijaper ship "George L. Samp- 
 son." In 1854. after .a long and stormy voyage 
 around the horn in the "Sea Serpent," he landed 
 in San F"rancisco. His experience on the deep 
 at an end, he engaged in placer mining in Cali- 
 fornia, living at different parts of the state until 
 1861. 
 
 With the breaking out of the Civil war Mr. 
 Wright enlisted in Company C, First Volunteer 
 Infantry of California, and marched across the 
 mountains and plains. On account of lack of 
 water the regiment was forced to divide in small 
 numbers, and was again concentrated on the 
 banks of the Rio Grande, September 2, 1862. 
 Thenceforward they were in the mountains fight- 
 ing Indians. Judge Wright's discharge took 
 place at Los Pinos, on the Rio Grande, in Sep- 
 tember of 1864. Following his war experience, 
 he was for a time a teamster, and was then at- 
 tracted to the oil fields of Pennsylvania, where 
 he remained for six years. Upon removing to 
 Missouri he successfully experimented with 
 farming, and then prospected in the Black Hills 
 and in Colorado until 1881. He came to Clif- 
 ton, Ariz., in January, 1882, and was for ten 
 years a transfer agent. While holding that 
 position he filled the office of justice of the peace, 
 
 and was regularly elected justice in 1884. He 
 was one of the expedition that surveyed the 
 town of Prescott in April, 1864, Mr. McCor- 
 mick, secretary of the territory under Governor 
 Goodw;in, having laid out the town site. 
 
 In 1868 occurred the marriage of Judge 
 Wright and Mary Cornell, of Hornellsville, N. 
 Y., and of this union there have been born three 
 children: Neta, who is deceased; May P., who is 
 now Mrs. T. Simpson, of Clifton, and Harry, 
 who is in business at Clifton. Judge Wright has 
 one of the finest collections of ore specimens 
 in Arizona. The specimens have been gather- 
 ing for about fifteen years, and- include every 
 kind of copper, in all the various forms in which 
 it is found. Many were gathered by himself, 
 some were presented to the collector, and others 
 were purchased outright. The specimens fill 
 four large cases, and constitute a most beautiful 
 and interesting array. 
 
 PROF. EMIL MAESER. 
 
 As his surname indicates, the subject of this 
 article is of German descent, and, in fact, his 
 parents were natives of Saxony. They were the 
 first converts in that province, if not, indeed, in 
 Germany, to the faith of the Cburch of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter Day Saints, as they became 
 identified with it as early as 1854. Dr. Karl G. 
 Maeser, for such is the father's name, was a 
 great and valued worker in the church for five 
 and a half decades and for twenty years officiated 
 as a high priest in Salt Lake City, long his 
 home. He was the founder of the celebrated 
 Brigham Young Academy, at Provo, Utah — by 
 far the largest institution of learning in that 
 state. He died in Salt Lake City February 13, 
 1901. His wife, Anna T., mother of our subject, 
 died April 4, 1897. They crossed the Atlantic 
 and cast in their fortunes with the Utah colony 
 in 1857, and suffered many privations, the com- 
 mon lot of all during the early years of their 
 tabernacling in the wilderness. 
 
 The birth of Prof. Emil Maeser occurred in 
 Salt Lake City March 29, 1866, and in his boy- 
 hood the family removed to Provo. In Brig- 
 ham Young's Academy he obtained his 
 education largely, though subsequently it was 
 his great privilege to pursue his researches in
 
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 the hig'her branches of knowledge in the noted 
 colleges of Germany, where he remained five 
 years. Returning to Utah, he accepted a posi- 
 tion in Brigham Young's Academy, and for 
 eight years was connected with its faculty. In 
 August, 1898, he came to Thatcher to fill the 
 position which he has since occupied — that of 
 president of the Latter-day Saints' Academy. 
 Under his able management it has assumed 
 marked importance among the educational insti- 
 tutions of this territory, and his ambitious plans, 
 when carried out, will place it in the forefront 
 of western colleges. Ten acres of land adjoin- 
 ing Thatcher have been set apart as a site for 
 the new buildings, which it is estimated will cost 
 upwards of $25,000. At present the faculty 
 includes Prof. John F. Nash, Prof. A. T. Dalley, 
 Prof. John Burnham, Prof. A. B. Cosby, Mrs. 
 Maeser, Prof. William Moore Claydon, Prof 
 Frank VVightman and Miss May Curtis. The 
 capacity of the school building now in use is two 
 hundred and fifty, and ere long this will be 
 entirely inadequate. The normal and commer- 
 cial departments are of great practical value, as 
 is obvious, and it is a dear plan of the president 
 to have an industrial department as well. He is 
 intensely practical, and each year makes a trip to 
 the east for the express purpose of posting him- 
 self on approved modern methods of educating 
 the young. 
 
 In 1894 Prof. Maeser married Lillian, daugh- 
 ter of C. C. and Mary Loveland. Two promis- 
 ing little sons, Paul, born April 12, 1897, and 
 Earl, born October 14, 1899, brighten the pleas- 
 ant home of this worthy young couple. Re- 
 cently the professor built a handsome brick 
 residence for his family, and everything in its 
 appointments bespeaks the culture and good 
 taste of the inmates. 
 
 In national affairs Prof. Maeser supports the 
 platform and nominees of the Democratic party, 
 while in local elections he is independent, using 
 his ballot for the man or measure best calculated 
 to advance the interests of the people in his 
 opinion. 
 
 J. C. PHELAN. 
 
 From his earliest recollections Mr. I'helan has 
 been accustomed to the surroundings of min- 
 ing camps, having followed the fortunes oi his 
 
 parents, who visited different places in search 
 of the hidden treasures of the mines. He was 
 born at Ward, near Boulder, Colo., in 1866, and 
 when a small child was taken to New Mexico, 
 where for several years he lived at different 
 mining camps in the vicinity of Albuquerque. 
 Afterward he became interested in railroading 
 and also learned the butcher's trade in Albu- 
 querque, where for several years he was pro- 
 prietor of the Railroad Avenue meat market. 
 
 When Mr. Phelan came to Williams, in 1889, 
 there were b.irely two hundred people in the 
 town. He anticipated the needs of the future 
 residents in his special line and started a meat 
 market which has increased in proportions until 
 it is now the largest of its kind between Albu- 
 querque and San Bernardino. During the course 
 of a month he handles about seventy head of 
 cattle, one hundred sheep, and ninety hogs, and 
 besides his local and territorial trade makes 
 occasional shipments to California and Mexico. 
 In 1896 he bought one hundred and twenty acres 
 of land near Williams, upon which he has per- 
 fected an excellent system of water supply. A 
 dam built to catch surface water supplies a pond 
 holding six million gallons, out of which he 
 supplies water for the town of Williams. This 
 furnishes the largest water supply in the lo- 
 cality, as the S. & M. Lumber Company uses 
 about twenty thousand gallons a day from this 
 dam. 
 
 While the irrigating and stock interests com- 
 prise the chief utilities of Mr. Phelan's ranch, 
 general farming is engaged in to a limited ex- 
 tent. He is also the owner of a fruit orchard 
 in Fresno county, Cal., where he raises a fine 
 quality of peaches for shipment. His mining 
 interests are located in the Grand canon, Verde 
 and Equator regions. At times he has engaged 
 in successful prospecting. From time to time 
 several lots and buildings in Williams have come 
 into his possession, besides the meat market 
 block and his home residence. 
 
 As one of the most prominent and popular 
 men in his adopted town, Mr. Phelan has nat- 
 urally devoted considerable attention to politics, 
 and no one has labored more faithfully than he 
 to secure the incorporation of the town. His 
 sympathies are strongly on the side of the Dem- 
 ocratic party. In 1898 he was elected for a
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 487 
 
 term of four years a rneniber of the board of 
 supervisors of Coconico county, and is the pres- 
 ent chairman thereof. During its administra- 
 tion of the affairs of the county, the board has 
 acconipHshed most gratifying results and has 
 raised its financial standing from forty cents on 
 the dollar to par value. This is but one of the 
 many e.xcellent results that have materialized 
 under the able leadership of Mr. Phelan. Any 
 movement which has tended to improve the 
 general conditions meets his approval and re- 
 ceives his support. No one in the town has a 
 more secure foothold than he upon the esteem 
 of his fellow-townsmen. Fraternally he is asso- 
 ciated with the Knights of Pythias and the 
 Woodmen of the World at Williams. By his 
 marriage to Myrtle Dickinson he has two chil- 
 dren, Maude and Criss. 
 
 THOMAS MORROW. 
 
 This representative pioneer of the Salt River 
 valley came to Arizona in 1871. Two years later 
 he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres 
 of land near Tempe, which he still owns, and 
 which he has increased by subsequent purchase 
 to one hundred and seventy acres. In the rais- 
 ing of cattle, to which he devoted the greater 
 portion of his land and time, he has met with 
 great success, and has reason to rejoice at the 
 happy suggestion which resulted in his removal 
 to this promising and resourceful valley. In the 
 institutions which are the result of the peculiar 
 climatic and other conditions of Arizona, he has 
 shown great interest, especially in the develop- 
 ment of the water supply, always a preplexing 
 problem where artificial irrigation is necessary. 
 He has served as a director in the Tempe Irri- 
 gating Canal Company, and assisted in widen- 
 ing the canal. He also helped to dig the lateral 
 ditches, and for a short time served as zanjcro 
 of the Tempe canal. 
 
 A native of Webster county, Ky., Mr. Morrow 
 was born January 6, 1840. When a small boy he 
 removed with his parents to Missouri, where 
 they settled on a farm in Livingston county, and 
 were among the pioneers of their locality. As 
 may be imagined, the educational facilities of the 
 time and place were indeed limited, and confined 
 to a few months during the winter season. The 
 
 research of later years has, however, added much 
 to the information on all general subjects pos- 
 sessed by Mr. Morrow. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Morrow removed to Fort Union, 
 N. M., and for a number of years he resided 
 there and at other places in the territory but sub- 
 secjuently spent a short lime in Texas. Neither 
 of these places appealed to him as desirable 
 permanent locations, and in 1871 he removed 
 to Arizona, and lias since lived in the territory. 
 The unicjn of Mr. Morrow and Mary E. Gregg, 
 a daughter of Dr. J. L. and Mary P. (Shaffer) 
 Gregg, deceased, occurred near Tempe, Ariz., 
 December 25, 1878. Of this union there have 
 been ten children, all but one of whom are liv- 
 ing, namely: Laura, who is the wife of Henry 
 G. Shorey, of Los Angeles county, Cal.; Charles 
 H.; Walter; John M. (deceased); James L.; 
 Viola ; Bessie M. ; Mary E. ; Rebecca Thomasine ; 
 and Nancy Josephine. Mrs. Morrow's father. 
 Dr. J. L. Gregg, was a native of Jackson county. 
 Mo., while his wife was reared in Johnson 
 county, that state. In 1876 he moved with his 
 family to New Mexico, settling at Fort Union, 
 then going to the town of La Junta, but in 1877 
 he moved to his ranch near Tempe, Ariz. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Morrow is a Demo- 
 crat, and has served several terms as a trustee 
 of school district No. 13, Maricopa county. 
 Fraternallv he is associated with the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows at Tempe. During 
 the Civil war he served for three years in the 
 Confederate army, and participated in the bat- 
 tles of Wilson Creek, Prairie Grove, and many 
 minor skirmishes. He was twice captured dur- 
 ing the war, at Gallatin, Mo., and in Platte 
 county, of the same state, and was a prisoner of 
 war both times. Since coming to Arizona he 
 has greatly aided in the development of the 
 valley, and is regarded as one of the reliable and 
 substantial citizens of his community. 
 
 ELWOOD HADLEY. 
 
 The administration of Mr. Hadley as United 
 States Indian agent of the Pima .Agency, at 
 Sacaton, to which he was appointed by Presi- 
 dent McKinley in 1898, has been well received 
 by all who are in touch with the great work be- 
 ing accomplished in behalf of the best develop-
 
 488 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 merit of the red men. In the carrying out of his 
 large responsibihty Mr. Hadley is aided by an 
 unlimited faith in the future of the erstwhile pos- 
 sessors of the continent, and by a genuine lik- 
 ing for the many excellent traits of character 
 which follow in the wake of a redeeming civiliza- 
 tion. 
 
 The Pima .agency includes four different res- 
 ervations called the San Xavier, Salt River, Gila 
 Bend, and the Gila River, on the latter of which 
 the agency buildings are located. There is an 
 aggregate population of from eight to nine 
 thousand Indians, who are cared for according 
 to the best thought-out plans of observers of 
 Indian requirements. Mr. Hadley has intro- 
 duced some really wonderful improvements dur- 
 ing his regime, and has expended about $40,000 
 in l)cttering the condition of the agency dwell- 
 ers. An exceedingly prosperous, cleanly, and 
 orderly state of affairs prevails, quite in keeping 
 with the enterprise, humanity, and business 
 ideas of the presiding agent. One of the most 
 praiseworthy schemes connected with Mr. Had- 
 ley's management is his splendid water system, 
 than which there is no more complete anywhere, 
 and his constant striving for the securing of a 
 national system of irrigation for the Indian, 
 which shall render him self-sustaining. 
 
 The youth of Mr. Hadley was spent in Clinton 
 county, Ohio, where he was educated in the 
 jiublic schools and at Earlham College. When 
 twenty-two years of age he engaged in a mer- 
 cantile venture in Richmond, Ind., and for thirty 
 years was prominently connected with the af- 
 fairs of that place. His association with the 
 west began in 1890, at which time he located at 
 Florence and conducted a general merchandise 
 store there for two years. In 1892 he took up 
 government land in the Casa Grande valley and 
 made fine improvements upon his farm of three 
 hundred and twenty acres. An unexpected pos- 
 session came his way in the shape of the town 
 site of Arizola, which he was obliged to accept 
 in payment of money loaned to the Town Site 
 Company when the settlement was laid out. He 
 accordingly removed there and kept a store and 
 postofifice for two years, and still owns the town 
 site of the little town a few miles from Casa 
 Grande. In addition, Mr. Hadlev owns proj)erty 
 
 in Phoenix, Florence, and in the vicinity of Casa 
 Grande. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Hadley supports the 
 principles and issues of the Republican party, 
 and is actively interested in all of the under- 
 takings of the same. He has exerted a wide in- 
 fluence in various directions of improvement in 
 general in his locality, and been foremost in 
 securing a government reservoir for the valley. 
 He was in this connection a member of the 
 National Irrigation Congress, which met in 
 Chicago in November of 1900. For many 
 years Mr. Hadley was fraternally associated 
 with the Odd Fellows. Possessing a birthright 
 membership in the Friends' Church, he became 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church some 
 twenty years ago and retains the same at the 
 present. 
 
 PETER J. C. JACOBSON. 
 
 The promise and fertility of the Gila valley 
 have attracted hither men from countries vari- 
 ously scattered over the world, and Denmark 
 has contributed its quota of the enterprise that 
 here has found a footing and received a just 
 reward. The distant kingdom has an able rep- 
 resentative in Mr. Jacobson, who has succeeded 
 in Safford in not only one, but many lines of 
 industry and has established a reputation for 
 thoroughness, business integrity and devotion to 
 the community's prosperity. 
 
 Peter Jorgen Christian Jacobson was born 
 near Frederickshaven, Denmark, April 26, 1846, 
 being the oldest son of Frederick and Elizabeth 
 (Peterson) Jacobson. His father was born May 
 30, 1820, and died in Redmond, Sevier county, 
 Utah, June 23, 1895. The Jiiother was born in 
 Denmark December 3, 1825, and died in Bloom- 
 ington, Bear Lake county, Idaho, January 12, 
 1899. When sixteen years of age our subject 
 came to the United States with his parents and 
 settled in Brigham City, Utah. After a few 
 years in Utah he removed to Bear Lake county, 
 Idaho, and carried on general farming and mill- 
 ing, in which latter occupation he had perfected 
 himself by learning the trade. In Idaho he 
 zealously labored in the interests of the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With a 
 colony of settlers he started for the Gila valley. 
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 M., where he remained for a time, and built a 
 mill which had a brief and unsuccessful history. 
 Further misfortune also befell him in that coun- 
 ty, for his wife died there, leaving eight small 
 children. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Jaco!)son came to .\rizona and 
 purchased the farm adjoining SafTord, where he 
 now lives. Two years later he opened a small 
 general merchandise store, which in 1895 had 
 outgrown all expectations and necessitated the 
 erection of a larger building. A general line of 
 necessities is kept on hand, including a full line 
 of hardware. In 1895 Mr. Jacobson built a 
 steam saw-mill on top of the Graham mountains, 
 which is now owned by his son, George P. This 
 mill was an undertaking of some magnitude, as 
 the road had to be built through the mountain 
 rock, and the parts of the building hauled at 
 great expense. In building properties he owns 
 several lots and dwellings, and has recently 
 deeded eighty acres to his two youngest sons. 
 It is doubtful if any man in the vicinity has 
 builded more extensively or has more materially 
 aided in the development of the city. His farm 
 land extends all along the valley and during the 
 simimer of 1899 he bought a fine piece of land 
 on the outskirts of the town and erected thereon 
 a brick kiln, which is now doing a large business 
 in the manufacture of brick. 
 
 In Brigham City, in 1867, Mr. Jacobson mar- 
 ried Nicolena Thomson, who was born in Den- 
 mark April 21, 1846, and died in Socorro coun- 
 ty, N. M., September 17, 1885. His second mar- 
 riage took place in 1886 and united him with 
 Abigail Fowler, who was born in Utah June 22, 
 1864. His children are as follows: George 
 Peter, who was born in Bear Lake county, 
 Idaho, August 13, 1868; Eliza Christiana, April 
 22, 1870; Sara A., May 20, 1872; Anton E., April 
 12, 1874; Ira Thomas, February 12, 1877; Mar- 
 tin M., June 12, 1879; Lena Lovina. August 19, 
 1881 (all of the above born in Bear Lake county. 
 Idaho); Frederick Bailey, born in Socorro coun- 
 ty, N. M., February 7, 1884: Emma Elizabeth, 
 born in SafTord, Ariz., February 2, 1893; Abigail 
 Lorie, born in SafTord, June 4, 1896; and Peter 
 William, whose birth occurred in this town Oc- 
 tober 30, 1899. The oldest of the family, George 
 Peter, is now engaged in the lumber and general 
 mercantile business at SafTord. The oldest 
 
 daughter, Eliza, is the wife of J. L. Dunford, of 
 Bloomington, Idaho; Mrs. Sara A. Chugg lives 
 in Nounan, Idaho. Anton E. is a partner in the 
 Great Western Milling Company of J. T. Owens. 
 Ira Thomas died December 31, 1886, after the 
 arrival of the family in the Gila valley. Martm 
 M. is conducting a hotel in SafTord. Lena Lo- 
 vina is the wife of C. Kruger, of SafTor<l. The 
 other children are at home. 
 
 Though formerly a Democrat, Mr. Jacobson 
 is now allied with the Republican party. He 
 entertains very liberal ideas regarding ofTice- 
 holders and invariably votes for the one he con- 
 siders the best man. Himself and family are 
 working members of the Mormon Church. 
 
 EDWARD N. FISH. 
 
 There is much of inspiration to the general 
 public in the life of a man like E. N. Fish, a 
 genuine "Forty-niner," for to genius and sterl- 
 ing qualities such as are found in him is due the 
 wonderful civilization of the great west. It now 
 is an old story but ever new, how these brave 
 men of comfortable homes and surroundings en- 
 countered and overcame the almost insuperable 
 obstacles in their pathway, and brought prog- 
 ress and prosperity into the western wilds, 
 hitherto supporting but a scanty population. 
 
 This honored pioneer of Tucson, and one of 
 its oldest American citizens in years of continu- 
 ous residence here, is not ashamed that he is a 
 "Yankee," for, as everyone now knows, the en- 
 terprise of the "Yankee" has been the main- 
 spring of a large proportion of western under- 
 takings w'hich have been crowned w'ith success. 
 He was born in Barnstable, Mass., .A.ugust 12, 
 1827, and was reared in that place. His father, 
 Franklin Fish, a native of the same state, w-as 
 a merchant, and his grandfather, Heman Fish, 
 was an agriculturist. They were of Scotch an- 
 cestry. The mother of our subject, Bathsheba, 
 was a daughter of Prince Crocker, a farmer, and 
 both died in Massachusetts, their native state. 
 Of the four children born to Franklin and Bath- 
 sheba Fish, two of the daughters went to Cali- 
 fornia, and one, Mrs. Emma Allen, now- resides 
 in Tucson. 
 
 The only son and the eldest-born of the 
 family, E. N. Fish, was deprived of his mother
 
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 when he was ten years old. His higher educa- 
 tion was pursued in Barnstable Academy, and 
 while he was yet a mere lad he commenced 
 learning the trade of a wheelwright and later of 
 a tinsmith. Thus employed at Fair Haven when 
 the news of the wonderful discovery of gold on 
 the Pacific coast came to him, he determined to 
 set out for that El Dorado, and here it may be 
 said that his father joined him in the far west 
 during the '50s and died in San Francisco. With 
 forty Massachusetts men, E. N. Fish sailed from 
 New Bedford, on the "Florida," and rounded 
 Cape Horn, finally arriving in San Francisco. 
 On the way they had encountered a furious gale 
 which raged for twenty-six days, and thus it was 
 that they did not reach port until January 2, 
 1850. The chief cargo which the ship carried 
 comprised frame houses, all ready to be put to- 
 gether. A row of houses, called the "Bay State 
 Row," was immediately erected on the sand- 
 bank where the old "Occidental" has since stood 
 so long. Mr. Fish soon went to Sacramento, 
 where he conducted a tinshop and hardware 
 store for about a year, and then went to the 
 north fork of the American River, where he en- 
 . gaged in general merchandising, also buying 
 gold-dust for Wells-Fargo. At the end of three 
 years he returned to Sacramento, where he em- 
 barked in the sale of all kinds of supplies, in 
 wholesale lots, later established a branch house 
 in San Francisco, and for several years was 
 greatly prospered. 
 
 The year 1865 witnessed Mr. Fish's arrival in 
 Arizona, his future home, and for a twelfth 
 month he was a member of the firm of (iarri- 
 son & Fish, post traders at Calabasas. Then 
 locating in Tucson, he managed a general mer- 
 chandising store for five or six years at the cor- 
 ner of Main and Congress, finally bought that 
 property, and had his business divided into regu- 
 lar departments, as it had grown to such large 
 proportions. Then he gave the major share of 
 his attention to the cattle business and to mill- 
 ing. The old Eagle Mills, which he o])crated 
 until 1888, transacted a large business, and sup- 
 plies of grain and flour \^ere furnished to the 
 government on contract. In order to meet the 
 need of a reliable freighting system, Mr. Fish 
 employed four twelve-mule teams and one six- 
 teen-mule team, the finest animals to be found 
 
 in the territory. The teams were regularly en- 
 gaged in transporting goods from Yuma to Tuc- 
 son, and to different parts of Arizona, and fre- 
 quently other teams were pressed into the ser- 
 vice. One year over $300,000 worth of goods 
 was handled, and thus it was by far the largest 
 concern in this whole region. Mr. Fish bought 
 out the firm of Hughes & Stevens, and as a 
 member of the firm of Fish & Collingwood, 
 maintained a branch store at Florence, where a 
 very large business was transacted. That firm 
 advanced $30,000 to the development of the 
 Silver King mine before it realized a dollar, but, 
 of course, the amount was returned eventually. 
 For eight years, Mr. Fish was one of the su- 
 pervisors of Pima county, most of the time being 
 chairman of the board. In the early days of 
 California he was a member of the vigilance 
 committee. Of the Arizona Pioneer and His- 
 torical Society he is an honored member. In 
 political creed he is loyal to the Republican 
 party, as he has been since its organization. In 
 San Francisco he was initiated into Masonry, 
 becoming connected with California Lodge No. 
 I, F. & A. M., of which he is a life member; and 
 then being raised to the Royal Arch degree. 
 
 The first marriage of E. N. Fish occurred in 
 San Francisco, of which city his bride, Miss Bar- 
 bara Jameson, was a native. She departed this 
 life there and left two children, Edward, who 
 was accidentally killed in a railroad wreck near 
 that city, on the Southern Pacific; and Jennie, 
 wife of Henry F. Bennett, now of Seattle. In 
 Tucson Mr. Fish and Miss Maria Wakefield, a 
 native of New York state, were united in mar- 
 riage, March 12, 1874. She being the first white 
 woman married in Tucson,. Their son Frank, is 
 attending the University of Arizona, as also is 
 their daughter, Florence, and the eldest 
 daughter, Clara C, was graduated in that insti- 
 tution in class of 1897. 
 
 Neither Mr. Fish nor the future city of Tuc- 
 son realized the importance of an event which 
 occurred in November, 1873, the arrival of Miss 
 Wakefield here. A lady of excellent education, 
 she had been a successful teacher in New York 
 and in Minnesota, whence she went to Stockton. 
 Cal., in 1871, and there was similarly occupied. 
 After a visit at her old home, she was again 
 on her way to Stockton, in 1873, when she
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 493 
 
 met General Wasson, and made arrange- 
 ments to become a teacher in Tucson, agree- 
 ing also to find a lady who would take 
 charge of the girls' department of schools here. 
 Miss Harriet Bolton (who subsequently became 
 the wife of Surveyor-General Wasson) was in- 
 duced to come, and the ladies made the long- 
 overland journey from San Diego to Yuma and 
 to Tucson by stage-coach. The trip was not un- 
 attended by more than ordinary danger, for the 
 Indians were hostile at that time, and at many 
 a point along the route it was learned that dep- 
 redations had been committed here and there 
 by the redskins. These brave ladies therefore 
 were among the pioneer educators of Arizona, 
 and Mrs. Fish and the wife of Dr. Lord, now 
 of North Carolina, really were the founders of 
 the Tucson school, for two rooms only had been 
 at the disposal of the children. Having become 
 much concerned over the lack of proper educa- 
 tional facilities here the two ladies personally 
 raised $3,500 among the business men of the 
 place, and Esteban Ochoa having kindly donated 
 a lot, the first public school was built thereon. 
 With her husband, Airs. Fish experienced many 
 pleasures in those early days and now thor- 
 oughly enjoys the rapidly advancing civilization 
 she beholds here. 
 
 ARTHUR J. EDWARDS, LL. B. 
 
 Mr. Edwards, attorney-at-law, of Phoenix, 
 and prosecuting attorney of Maricopa county, 
 was born in Tarboro, N. C, in 1870. His father, 
 John H. Edwards, was a native of the same town, 
 and for years was actively engaged in mercantile 
 pursuits, but now gives his attention principally 
 to the oversight of his cotton plantation in the 
 vicinity of Tarboro. Reared under Whig in- 
 fluences and a member of a family stanchly 
 Union, he became a Republican on the organi- 
 zation of the party and has since voted for its 
 principles. 
 
 The ancestral home of the Edwards family is 
 Wales. From that country came John Jacob 
 Edwards to America and settled in New York, 
 but later established his home in Virginia. Dur- 
 ing the Revolutionary war he served in the 
 American army. The next in succession was 
 John B. Edwards, our subject's grandfather, who 
 was born in \'irginia and during the years of his 
 
 activity was a planter and merchant at Tarboro, 
 N. C. The wife of John H. Edwards was Acena 
 Parker, a native of Tarboro, and a daughter of 
 Rev. Arthur Parker, a planter and a clergyman 
 of the Baptist Church in his native state of 
 North Carolina. Great-grandfather Parker was 
 born in England and upon immigrating to the 
 United States took up his residence in Virginia, 
 from which state he enlisted in the Revolution- 
 ary war. Mrs. Acena Edwards makes her home 
 on the North Carolina homestead. Of her three 
 children, Persis, at home, and Arthur J., are 
 the survivors. 
 
 Reared on his father's plantation, A. J. Ed- 
 wards was educated in Tarboro Male Academy, 
 Davis Military College, and Wake Forest Col- 
 lege. In 1890 he went to Indianapolis, Ind., and 
 in the fall of the same year located in Lexington, 
 Ky., where he remained for a year. During 
 1891-92 he engaged in educational w-ork at the 
 Scotland Neck Military Institute, and in June, 
 1892, returned to Indiana, settling in Valparaiso. 
 From his nineteenth year he had studied law. 
 In 1893 he was admitted to the bar of Indiana, 
 and began the practice of his profession in Val- 
 paraiso. At the same time he studied in the law 
 department of the Northern Indiana Normal 
 School, from which he was graduated in 1894. 
 For one year he practiced law in partnership 
 with Agnew & Kelly, of Valparaiso. 
 
 The year 1895 found Mr. Edwards in Phoenix, 
 where three years later he formed a partnership 
 with ex-Judge Joseph H. Kibbey, since which 
 time the firm of Kibbey & Edwards has become 
 one of the most prominent at the Phoenix bar. 
 They act as attorneys for the Tempe Canal Com- 
 pany, the Southern Extension Tempe Canal 
 Company, and the Arlington Canal Company, 
 and several other corporations. Mr. Edwards is 
 a director of and attorney for the Arizona Mu- 
 tual Savings and Loan Association, and the 
 Lime Creek Copper Company. Politically he is 
 devoted to the principles and issues of the Re- 
 publican party. He was one of the organizers 
 and at one time was .president of the Young 
 Men's Republican Club of Phoenix, and a mem- 
 ber of the county Republican committee. In 
 1900 he was elected district attorney, leading 
 the Republican ticket in a Democratic county. 
 He is a member of the Territorial Bar .\ssocia-
 
 494 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tion. Among the members of the bar he ranks 
 high, and is known to be thoroughly grounded 
 in the principles of the law, and a careful, pains- 
 taking and able attorney. It may be said tliat 
 he is representative of the highest ideals of his 
 profession, and well qualified to successfully fol- 
 low the same. While living in Valparaiso, Ind., 
 he was made a Mason, and is now connected 
 with Arizona Lodge No. 2, F. & A. M., Arizona 
 Chapter No. i, R. A. M., and Phoenix Com- 
 mandery No. 3, K. T. He is also a member of 
 the Independent Order of Foresters, the Wood- 
 men of the World, the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, the Knights of the Maccabees and 
 the Independent Order of Good Templars. In 
 religion he is connected with the Baptist Church. 
 At Okolona, Miss., in 1891, occurred the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Edwards to Miss Julia Owen, 
 daughter of Dr. D. F. Owen, and Isabelle 
 (Owens) Owen. She was born in Mississippi 
 and received her education in Okolona College. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are both active members 
 of the Order of the Eastern Star. They have two 
 children, May Owen and Persis. 
 
 O. D. M. GADDIS. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born in Lump- 
 kin county, Ga., April 28, 1859. He was edu- 
 cated at the N. G. A. College, in the state of 
 Georgia, and after finishing his education taught 
 in the public schools of his native state for a 
 while. In 1880 he was appointed to a position 
 as storekeeper and gauger in the United States 
 internal revenue service northern district of 
 Georgia and filled the same until 1882, when he 
 was appointed United States traveling ganger 
 for thirteen counties in north Georgia. From 
 this position in 1883, W. H. Johnson, collector 
 of internal revenue, Georgia, appointed him 
 deputy collector, and assigned him to the deputy 
 collection division composing the counties of 
 Fannin, Towns and Rabun. These counties bor- 
 der on the line of North Carolina and Tennes- 
 see, and being far secluded from railroads and 
 very mountainous, were the natural homes of 
 the moonshiners (illicit distillers), and it was the 
 duty of Mr. Gaddis as deputy collector to chase 
 the moonshiners, cut u]) their stills and enforce 
 
 the revenue law, so he experienced many close 
 calls in armed skirmishes with them and has 
 more than one dead to his credit while acting in 
 this capacity. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Gaddis desired a change of work, 
 and was appointed deputy United States marshal 
 by Gen. James Longstreet, the noted Con- 
 federate general, now a good live Republican. 
 In 1885, when President Cleveland came into 
 office, Mr. Gaddis, being a Republican, resigned 
 from the revenue service. Thence he went to 
 Lexington, Ky., and took a full business course 
 in the Commercial College of Kentucky Univer- 
 sity. Next he proceeded to Orange Home, Fla., 
 and taught a commercial class for six months. 
 In April, 1886, he took the California fever, and 
 located in Fresno county, Cal., where he was 
 bookkeeper for the firm of Webber & Grayson 
 for over two years. He then went to New Mex- 
 ico and was bookkeeper on the Los Animas 
 ranch over a year, after which he was employed 
 in the chief clerk's office. Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road Company, at Sacramento. He left the rail- 
 road employ to accept a position as bookkeeper 
 for Beecher & Co., at Kingman, Ariz., in 1891. 
 After residing in Kingman three months. Judge 
 E. W. Wells, of the district court, appointed him 
 clerk of said court, which position he filled, but 
 still held his position as bookkeeper for Beecher 
 & Co. In the spring of 1893 he formed the cor- 
 poration of Gaddis & Co., who superseded 
 Beecher & Co. Mr. Gaddis became the man- 
 ager of this concern, and conducted a thriving 
 general merchandise business until 1894, when 
 he sold out to other stockholders and two 
 months afterward went into business alone. In 
 November, 1894, he took J. E. Perry in business 
 with him and the firm of Gaddis & Perry was 
 formed and this firm has been the leading gen- 
 eral mercantile establishment in Kingman ever 
 since, doing a majority of business at this point 
 without question. 
 
 At the November election in 1894 the Re- 
 publicans of Mohave county nominated and 
 elected Mr. Gaddis to the territorial assembly, 
 and he served in that body with distinction. In 
 1897 lie ^^'^s appointed postmaster at K'ngman, 
 the office then being a fourth-class one. Febru- 
 ary 14, 1899, the office was advanced to the third 
 class and President McKinley appointed him
 
 rORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 497 
 
 postmaster for a term of four years. Mr. Gaddis 
 is interested in some of the best mines in this 
 section and his business as merchant is thriving. 
 He is known by everybody in the county and 
 very popular among tlie masses. 
 
 GEORGE H. N. LUHRS. 
 
 In every part of the United States the Ger- 
 man-American has borne much of the burden 
 of enterprises, both pubHc and commercial, 
 which have been leading factors in the civiliza- 
 tion and prosperity of this great and growing 
 republic. For nearly three and a half decades 
 the subject of this review has been actively con- 
 nected with the west, and has witnessed most 
 of its marvelous progress, at the same time 
 loyally upholding the institutions which are the 
 foundations of the great western common- 
 wealths. 
 
 George H. N. Luhrs, the proprietor of the 
 popular Commercial hotel of Phoenix, was born 
 at Neuhaus-on-the-Oste, Hanover, Germany, 
 March 31, 1847. His father, John C, and grand- 
 father, John Nicholas Luhrs, also were natives 
 of that city, and both were successful wagon 
 manufacturers there, owning large shops. Both 
 were Lutherans in religious faith, and most of 
 their descendants, including our subject, are 
 faithful adherents to that church. The last years 
 of John C. Luhrs were passed in the home of 
 his son George, who made him a visit in 1884, 
 and on his return from Germany was accom- 
 panied by his elder, who was called to his reward 
 in his seventy-fifih year. His wife, whose 
 maiden name was Sophia Margarete Henriette 
 Wilhelmine Dieckmann, was liorn in liremer- 
 forde, Hanover, and died in 1855. Ol their five 
 children two died when young, and Mrs. Jane 
 Kalirs and John C. H. reside in Phoeni.x. 
 
 George H. N. Luhrs received a common 
 school education in his native land and was 
 apprenticed to the wagonmaker's trade with his 
 father when he was fourteen, continuing in his 
 employ for six years. In 1867 he secured a pass- 
 port, and May 15 sailed from Hamburg. Arriv- 
 ing in New York city after a sixteen-days' 
 voyage he soon proceeded to Aspinwall and 
 crossed the Isthmus of Panama, thence going to 
 San Francisco. Reaching his destination June 
 
 25, 1867, he went to Camptonville, Cal., where 
 he worked at his trade for eighteen months. 
 Then going to the White Pine district in Nevada, 
 in January, 1869, he prospected and mined for a 
 few months near Hamilton and Treasure Hill, 
 leaving there August 14. same year. 
 
 .September 29, 1869, Mr. Luhrs reached Wick- 
 enburg, Ariz., having made the long trip on 
 horseback with a party of nine persons. At the 
 town mentioned, then the liveliest mining camp 
 in this territory, he found ample scope for his 
 business, and for nine years he labored and pros- 
 pered. In the Centennial year he went to the 
 great Exposition at Philadelphia and thence to 
 Germany, where he spent six weeks or more, 
 visiting the old scenes and friends of his youth. 
 In 1878 he took up his abode in Phoenix, 
 where he bougiit two lots on Jefferson, neg.r 
 Central. In partnership with Newell Herrick 
 he ran a carriage and wagon factory here, soon 
 enlarging the shop, and in 1880 bought the 
 adjoining property, to the corner. The major 
 portion of the city trade fell to the firm, and 
 the business relations of the partners were not 
 separated until October 27, 1890, when Mr. 
 Luhrs bought Mr. Herrick's interest. 
 
 In 1887-8 the fine Commercial hotel, a sub- 
 stantial brick structure, was built by the part- 
 ners. Situated centrally, and three stories and 
 basement in height, it extends one hundred and 
 thirty-seven and a half feet on Center street and 
 one hundred and one and a half feet on Jefferson 
 street. It is conducted on the European plan, 
 strictly, one dollar a day and upwards, according 
 to accommodations, and special care is exercised 
 in catering to the wishes of commercial travelers. 
 In 1883 .Air. Luhrs embarked in the livery busi- 
 ness on the corner opposite to his present hotel, 
 and has managed that enterprise ever since, in 
 connection with it making a special feature of 
 boarding and dealing in horses. To-day he owns 
 the entire block bounded by Center and First, 
 lefferson and Madison streets, having purchased 
 the remainder of this property in 1882. His 
 business success has been wonderful, indeed, and 
 in all of his transactions he has adhered rigor- 
 ously to just and honorable methods. The 
 Arizona Mutual Savings & Loan asscK-iation, 
 founded largely through his efforts, has flour- 
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 be attributed to the fact that he is the treasurer 
 of the company. He is very active as a Repub- 
 Hcan, and for one term was a member of the city 
 council. That his iinancial ability is appreciated 
 is shown by his being made treasurer of Arizona 
 Lodge Xo. 2, F. & A. M.. of the Phoenix Chap- 
 ter and commandery, and of El Zaribah Temple, 
 N. M. S. Of the lodge he is past master, of the 
 chapter past high priest and besides, is the grand 
 treasurer of the grand commandery of Arizona. 
 In his native city in Germany, February lo, 
 1884, Mr. Luhrs married Miss Catharine Mar- 
 garete Dodenhof, who was burn there also. The 
 eldest child of this worthy couple, Arthur 
 Cleveland, born December 14, 1884, is a student 
 of the city high school. Ella Louise Henrietta 
 was born, August 11, 1886; Emma Sophia Jo- 
 hanne, December 13, 1888; and George Henry 
 Nicholas, Jr., June 28, 1895. 
 
 W. C. DAWES. 
 
 This gentleman is entitled to distinction as 
 one of the honored pioneers of Arizona, as well 
 as one of the most progressive and enterprising 
 business men of Phoenix. He came to the terri- 
 tory in 1875, and has since been prominently 
 identified with its agricultural and industrial in- 
 terests. He is now proprietor of the Valley 
 Pride Creamery, and is also engaged in the cat- 
 tle business, having a fine and well-improved 
 ranch of three hundred and twenty acres on the 
 Gila river and Buckeye canal, forty miles south- 
 west of Phoenix. 
 
 Mr. Dawes was born August 20, 1846, in 
 Washington, D. C, a son of J. C. and Margaret 
 (Moore) Dawes. The latter was also a native 
 of that city and of Scotch descent. On the 
 paternal side our subject is of English extrac- 
 tion. His grandfather, Joseph Dawes, owned 
 and operated a large tannery near Washington. 
 He fought for the liberty of the colonies in the 
 Revolutionary war, and he had one son who 
 was a soldier of the war of 181 2. The father 
 was born in Washington and in later life en- 
 gaged in merchandising in that city. In 1848 
 he removed to Macoujiin county. 111., and fr<jm 
 n tract of wild land developed a farm near Car- 
 linville, to the further improvement and culti- 
 vation of which he devoted his energies until 
 
 called to his final rest at the age of fifty-six years. 
 His wife died in Springfield, 111., in 1899, at the 
 age of eighty-six. They were the parents of ten 
 children, seven of whom reached manhood and 
 womanhood, and two sons and two daughters 
 are still living. Our subject's brother, T. I. 
 Dawes, is also a resident of Arizona. 
 
 W. C. Dawes, who is next to the youngest of 
 this family, was reared on his father's farm in 
 Illinois, and after attending the public schools 
 for some years completed his education at Black- 
 burn Theological College in Carlinville, that 
 state. In 1865 he started for Montana, going 
 up the Missouri river by boat to Fort Benton, 
 which trip consumed three months. He was en- 
 gaged in merchandising at Helena until 1869, 
 and later followed the same business at Basin. 
 He next conducted an Indian trading post at 
 Judas Basin, seventy miles from Carroll, on the 
 Missouri river, carrying on business with the 
 Crow and other Indians for two years. In 1875 
 he came to Prescott, Ariz., and while engaged 
 in merchandising at that place also conducted 
 branch stores at Tip Top, Williamson Valley 
 and Peck Mine. He also engaged in mining to 
 some extent, and has been interested in the cat- 
 tle business since 1878. In 1891 he removed to 
 Phoenix, where he has since made his home. 
 In August, 1899, he built the Valley Pride 
 Creamery, which is thoroughly modern in all 
 its appointments, being operated by steam, and 
 supplied with pot churns, separators and the 
 latest improved machinery. The capacity of the 
 plant is twenty-five hundred pounds of butter 
 and cheese per day, and the product is all sold in 
 Arizona, where it finds a ready market. The 
 creamery is located on Third street between 
 Washington and Adams. Mr. Dawes is sole 
 proprietor and manager of the same, and in its 
 operation has met with marked success. 
 
 In Prescott Mr. Dawes married Miss Callie 
 M. Rice, a native of Alabama, and to them have 
 been born two children, Mattie Belle and Le- 
 land Ruggles. The wife and mother is a consis- 
 tent member of the Presbyterian Church, and a 
 most estimable lady. Mr. Dawes belongs to 
 the Knights of Pythias and the Maricopa Club, 
 nnd is identified with the Democratic party, be- 
 ing an active member of the county central com- 
 mittee for many years. He is president of the
 
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 Salt River Valley Dairyman's Association, and 
 takes a very active and prominent part in its 
 work. As a business man he is upright and 
 thoroughly reliable, and as a citizen is public- 
 spirited and progressive, giving his support to 
 all enterprises calculated to promote the general 
 welfare. 
 
 FREDERICK C. DEMAREST. 
 
 Known to his hosts of friends as "Doc" 
 Demarest, the popular and successful proprietor 
 of the Arizona Central Hotel at Winslow, came 
 here in 1880, and has since been one of the 
 stanch supporters and most reliable citizens of 
 the town. At the time that he gradually worked 
 his way up from New Mexico, in search of a 
 desirable permanent location, a town site and 
 a few tents were all that suggested a future set- 
 tlement. For four years he shared the fluctuat- 
 ing fortunes of the other courageous antici- 
 pators of better times, and' in 1884 built the 
 first hotel in the place, known as the Arizona 
 Central, which was also the first hotel built in 
 northern Arizona. For several years a restaur- 
 ant was run in connection with the hotel, but 
 did not prove a paying proposition, and was 
 accordingly discontinued. In the meantime this 
 oldest settler within the city limits has put forth 
 his best efforts for the improvement of his town, 
 has erected several houses, and furthered every 
 desirable enterprise. That the place has now a 
 a population of one thousand and five hundred 
 people, and is a peaceful, law-abiding and ener- 
 getic center of activity, is largely owing to the 
 perseverance of Mr. Demarest, who has spared no 
 pains in booming its possibilities, and elaborat- 
 ing its inducements as a place of residence. 
 
 When a boy Mr. Demarest lived on his 
 father's farm in New Jersey, where he was born 
 in 1840. He was educated in New Jersey and at 
 sixteen years of age went to New York City, 
 where he began to earn his own living. For 
 three years he was a conductor on the street 
 cars, and for twelve years engaged in the 
 express and draying business. Inspired by the 
 tales of hidden wealth in the Black Hills, 
 Dakota, he spent two years in search of a for- 
 tune, visiting during that time besides Dakota, 
 Montana, Colorado and several northwestern 
 territories, locating in the winter of 1877 at Las 
 
 \ egas. N. M. While there he became prom- 
 inent in the affairs of the town, and for a time 
 served as town marshal. From Las Vegas he 
 came to Arizona, finally settling in Winslow. 
 
 The Arizona Central hotel, of which Mr. 
 Demarest is the proprietor, is a well-conducted 
 establishment, with clean pleasant rooms, and 
 many of the conveniences found only in larger 
 towns. "Mine host" looks well after the com- 
 fort of his guests, and those who tarry beneath 
 his hospitable shelter are sure to return, should 
 business or pleasure, or both, necessitate a 
 resumption of their relations with the town of 
 Winslow. Step by step this oldest business man 
 in the town has made his way in the world, and 
 his success is generously attributed to the able 
 assistance and encouragement of his devoted 
 wife and children. There are two sons in the 
 Demarest family, one of them, Albert C, being 
 a member of the citv council. 
 
 CHARLES A. DAKE. 
 
 For more than a score of years Charles A. 
 Dake has made his home in Prescott, and thus 
 since he arrived at the threshold of manhood 
 has been associated with the upbuilding and 
 prosperity of this place. He is the proprietor 
 of the Dake Opera House, one of the prettiest 
 and most complete little theaters to be found in 
 [he country. The seating capacity of the audi- 
 torium is seven hundred, and the stage is large 
 and well equipped, its dimensions being 25x52 
 feet, and all of the partitions and scenery being 
 hoisted by fine mechanism from above. 
 
 Major Crawley P. Dake, who was a highly 
 esteemed citizen of Prescott for twelve years, 
 won his title by meritorious service in the Civil 
 war. He belonged to the famous regiment com- 
 manded by Alger of Michigan, and with them 
 took part in some of the most important cam- 
 paigns of the war. He was actively engaged in 
 multitudes of battles and serious skirmishes and 
 for more than a quarter of a century suffered 
 from the effects of a wound received in one con- 
 flict with the foe. Indeed, his death was directly 
 traceable to that cause. His father was an early 
 pioneer of Michigan, going there from New 
 York state, and there spending his last years. 
 The Major's birth occurred in Michigan, and in
 
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 1862 he was mustered into the Federal service, 
 becoming a member of Company E, Fifth Mich- 
 igan Cavalry. He was commissioned as a cap- 
 tain and was promoted to the rank of major 
 December 31. 1862. Among the many battles 
 in which he was engaged the following may be 
 named: Hunterstown and (iettysburg (Pa.), 
 Cavetown, Smithtown, Williamsport, Kelly's 
 Ford, Culpeper, Raccoon Ford, Jones City, 
 Grundy Station, Bucklands Motmtain, Stevens- 
 burg, \'a., Morton's Ford, Wilderness, Beaver 
 Dam Station, Yellow Tavern, Meadow Bridge, 
 Mulford, Howes' Shop, Baltimore Road and 
 Cold Harbor. August 19, 1864, owing to his 
 disability. Major Dake tendered his resignation 
 at Harper's Ferry, and it was duly accepted and 
 approved by Major-General Sheridan. 
 
 Several years afterwards Major Dake was 
 made internal revenue collector in Michigan, 
 and in 1878 came to Arizona, having been ap- 
 pointed United States marshal by President 
 Hayes, his headquarters being in Prescott. Sub- 
 sequently he gave his attention to mining. He 
 departed this life at his home in this city, April 
 9, 1890, loved and honored by all. He was a 
 Mason and a member of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic. His widow, Mrs. Catherine E. Dake, 
 resides with their son, the subject of this sketch. 
 She is a native of Romeo, Mich., of which lo- 
 cality her father, Reuben R. Smith, was a pros- 
 perous farmer. 
 
 Charles A. Dake, the only child of his parents, 
 was born July 21, i860, in Romeo, Mich., and 
 was reared in that place. His public school 
 education was supplemented by :; course in the 
 Detroit Business College, and when twenty 
 years of age he came to Prescott. Here he 
 served as deputy United States marshal in his 
 father's office for about eighteen months. Then, 
 becoming interested in mining operations, he 
 gave some time to that pursuit. Later he be- 
 came a clerk in the general merchandising busi- 
 ness of J. G. Campbell, of this city, and remained 
 willi him luitil 1895, when he purchased the bus- 
 iness. During the next five years, or until the 
 fire of July 14. 1900, he successfully conducted 
 his store on Montezuma street. Tliougli his 
 possessions were destroyed by the fire, he un- 
 dauntedly determined to retrieve his fortunes, 
 and soon erected the substantial Dake building. 
 
 29x135 feet in dimensions, antl now rents the 
 space contained. 
 
 With characteristic energy, Mr. Dake is car- 
 rying on his several enterprises and enjoys a 
 well-earned success. He was married in Los 
 Angeles, Cal., to Miss Lulu M. Kendell, who 
 was born in Ophir, Nev., and whose father was 
 one of the "forty-niners" and pioneers of the 
 Pacific coast. Mr. D.ake belongs to the Wood- 
 men of the World and is a Republican. 
 
 HUGO J. DONAU. 
 
 One of the active organizers of the Tucson 
 Board of Trade was Hugo J. Donau, who, 
 though young in years and comparatively young 
 in commercial experience, was honored by his 
 co-workers in being elected as the first president 
 of the body, in which office he served satisfac- 
 torily for his term of two years. He still is 
 identified with its board of directors, and is as- 
 sociated w ith numerous local enterprises cal- 
 culated to upbuild this community. 
 
 Hugo J. Donau, the well-known assistant 
 manager of the house of L. Zeckendorf & Co., 
 was born in Kaiserslautern, June 18, 1870, and 
 passed a portion of his childhood in Germany, 
 his father's native land. The latter, Simon 
 Donau, now a retired citizen of San Francisco, 
 Cal., was born in Bavaria, and the mother, whose 
 maiden name was Amelia Sanger, also is of Ger- 
 man birth and is living in the city of the Golden 
 Gate. For many years the father was extensive- 
 ly engaged in merchandising, first in New York 
 City and later in San Francisco. Of their six 
 children, four were daughters, and the two sons, 
 Hugo J. and Alfred S. are business men of Tuc- 
 son. 
 
 In his youth Hugo J. Donau received an ex- 
 cellent German education in the Kaiserslautern, 
 ilavaria; ami in the schools of New York City, 
 which he attended for some time, and in the 
 Denver (Colo.) high school, where he studied in 
 1885, he acquired a practical English training. In 
 1887 he took his initial step in the world of 
 business by becoming a clerk in the dry goods 
 house of Ballin & Ransohoff, of Denver, and 
 in the following year went to San Francisco, 
 where lie was employed by the wholesale 
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 & Co. Witliin a few months he was made 
 foreman of the factory, and continued there 
 until i8go, when he went to Tacoma, Wash. 
 There he was bookkeeper for the Donau 
 lircwing' Company during tJic next tliree 
 years, after which he was made secretary of the . 
 Harris Brothers Company, a Tacoma ci)mniis- 
 sion firm. 
 
 At the beginning of the year of 1895 Mr. 
 Uonau came to Tucson, and since that time has 
 been connected with his present house. In 
 the June after his arrival here he was made as- 
 sistant mrnager of the great establishment. 
 which, as every one in the southwest knows, is 
 one of the pioneer firms of this section of the 
 I'nion. Hardware, dry goods, groceries, boots 
 and shoes, house furnishings, and almost every- 
 thing which the farmer, merchant and business 
 man requires, may be purchased direct from this 
 cnterprisin'g' house. Suffice it here to say that 
 under the able and jirogressive management and 
 system of Mr. lT)onau and Mr. Steinfcld (the 
 resident partner) the business has assumed enor- 
 mous ])roport:ons within thepast few years, and 
 today a large trade is carried on with Sonora, 
 Mexico, and adjacent territories and states. 
 
 Individually Mr. Donau has made some in- 
 vestments in different lines of activity, and main- 
 tains great interest in z\\ local enterprises. With 
 his brother he has become connected with the 
 .\rizona Land & Cattle Company, the former 
 being manager, while he is secretary and treas- 
 urer of the same. Their ranch is situated about 
 thirty-five miles south of Tucson. In politics 
 our subject is a Democrat. Fraternally he is 
 associated with the lodge and club of the Benev- 
 olent Protective Order of Elks, and at the pres- 
 ent time is ofificiating as vice-president of the 
 club. In business and social circles he is highly 
 popular, for he is a valued type of the wide- 
 awake, active and public-spirited citizen of the 
 period. 
 
 REV. JOHN G. I'RITCHARD. 
 
 Unfettered by narrow creed, and guided Ijy 
 naught save a broad and illuminating spirit of 
 humanitarianisni, the association of Mr. 
 Pritchard with .\rizona is inscparal)ly inter- 
 woven with the best moral, intellectual and so- 
 cial development of this great mining center of 
 
 19 
 
 the west. Coming to Bisbee in 1887 as chaplain 
 and librarian for the Copper Queen Consoli- 
 dated Mining Company, he has since identified 
 himself with w^orthy enterprises in the locality, 
 and has brought to bear a kindliness and wis- 
 dom of judgment compatible with the best inter- 
 ests of all concerned. 
 
 When a }oung man of twenty years, Mr, 
 Pritchard left his rugged little country of Wales, 
 where he was born January 28, 1848, and immi- 
 grated to the United States, settling in Granville, 
 X. Y. He was no pampered child of fortune, 
 and the liberal education which came his way 
 was the result of hard work which supplied the 
 funds for tuition. In 1873 he attended St. 
 I'rancis College at Richmond, Quebec, later en- 
 tering Morin College, Quebec, which was affili- 
 ated wath McGill University in Montreal. From 
 this institution he was graduated in 1881, 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1882 
 he was graduated from the theological depart- 
 ment of Morin College. His first pastoral 
 charge was in connection with the church of St. 
 Sylvester and Leeds, in the Province of Quebec, 
 which followed his ordination by the presbytery 
 of Quebec in 1882, and from which he removed 
 to Danville, Quebec Province, remaining there 
 until coming to Bisbee in 1887. While living in 
 Seneca county, N. Y., and at Utica, Mr. 
 Pritchard was united in marriage in 1873 with 
 Jennie Evans, also a native of \\'ales, and wlio 
 was reared and educated in New York. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Pritchard have two children, Ella M. and 
 .\rthur S., both of whom have been carefully 
 educated. 
 
 Soon after his arrival in Bisbee the library, 
 which has since been under the care and man- 
 agement of Mr. Pritchard, was completed by the 
 Copper Queen Mining Company, and is a 
 creditable structure two stories in height and in 
 dimensions 30x75 feet, the upper floor being de- 
 voted to lodge purposes, and on Sunday relig- 
 ious services arc held there, also a flourishing 
 Sabbath school. Under the liberal and well-di- 
 rected efforts of the librarian the reading facili- 
 ties have been enlarged until it is now one of 
 the best public libraries in the territory. .\t the 
 end of two years Mr. Pritchard was appointed 
 ])ostmaster of Bisbee, and assumed charge of 
 mail matters until an increase in the business
 
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 warranted a separation of the library and postal 
 interests, which transpired in 1898. Under 
 President Harrison Mr. Pritchard was again ap- 
 pointed postmaster, and again under President 
 McKinley. also serving during both of Cleve- 
 land's administrations, having in all held that 
 position under four different administrations, 
 and for a period covering over twelve years. 
 The postofifice at Bisbee is an international 
 money order department of the second class, and 
 from eight to nine hundred poiuids of matter arc 
 handled daily. 
 
 In March of 1888 Mr. Pritchard organized the 
 Bisbee Union church, which included among its 
 members representatives from all denomina- 
 tions, and which was conducted by him for 
 twelve years. At the expiration of that time the 
 accumulated and ever-increasing duties inci- 
 dent to the conduct of the library and postofifice 
 necessitated the withdrawal of Mr. Pritchard 
 from the pastorship of Union church, and he has 
 since devoted himself almost entirely to the 
 postofifice and library. As the only Protestant 
 pastor in the city during ten years, he has been 
 an indefatigable worker among all classes and 
 sects, and has built upon an enduring basis. 
 
 In addition to his other responsibilities Mr. 
 Pritchard has for several years represented the 
 Liverpool, London & Globe and the Niagara 
 fire insurance companies, and has placed many 
 policies in his adopted town. He is also inter- 
 ested in prospecting and mining, and is presi- 
 dent of the Solomon Spring Consolidated Min- 
 ing Company and the California and Arizona 
 Copper Mining Company. In fraternal circles he 
 has exerted a wide influence, and has assisted in 
 the organization of all of the jirincipal lodges in 
 the vicinity. He is a member of Perfect Ashlar 
 Lodge, F. & A. M.; of Landmark Chapter, K. 
 A. M., of which he is past high priest; Tucson 
 Commandry No. 3, K. T., and EI Zaribah Tem- 
 ple, N. M. S., of Phoenix. In Bisbee Lodge 
 No. 10, I. O. O.K., he is past noble grand, and was 
 at one time member of the Territorial Grand 
 Lodge, also Golden Rule Encamijment No. 5, 
 of liisbee, of which he is past jiatriarch. He is 
 a member of Rathbone Lodge No. 10, K. P.. 
 and ])ast chancellor and past grand chancellor 
 of the Territorial Grand Lodge. Politically ho 
 has always been a staunch Republican. 
 
 FRED E. BILES. 
 
 The general manager of the Dividend Gold 
 Mining Company, of Chaparal, Yavapai county, 
 is a man of practical business experience and 
 executive ability. As an assayer and geologist 
 ' he has an enviable reputation, and during the 
 comparatively brief period of his residence in 
 this section he has made a niuuber of discoveries 
 of valuable mineral deposits. 
 
 The birthplace of Mr. Biles is in Bradford 
 county. Pa., and his carlv years were spent in 
 that locality. Arriving at man's estate, he em- 
 barked in the mercantile business, and followed 
 that calling upwards of fifteen years in Pennsyl- 
 vania and Nebraska. In 1887 he went to Los 
 Angeles, Cal., where he was numbered among its 
 merchants for some time, and also was deputy- 
 chief of police of the city. For several years he 
 made his place of abode in Pasadena, only a 
 few miles from the metropolis of southern Cali- 
 fornia, and indeed, his memories of the place are 
 so dear that he still regards it as his home. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Biles came to Arizona and, locat- 
 ing in Pinal county, became superintendent of 
 the \'ekal mine, which is situated about forty 
 miles to the southward of Casa Grande. In 
 January, 190O, he took charge of the Dividend 
 mine in the Chaparal district, in which property 
 he owns an interest. A ten-stamp mill, with a 
 capacity of twenty tons a day is operated in 
 connection with the mine, which produces a 
 free-milling ore, averaging from $20 to $25 of 
 gold and silver to the ton. Besides attending to 
 this plant, Mr. Biles is interested in the Galena 
 and the Independence mines of this section, 
 which he believes are valuable. 
 
 A thoroughly patriotic citizen, our subject 
 uses his ballot and influence for men and meas- 
 ures of worth, in his estimation, his allegiance 
 being given to the Republican party. He stands 
 high in the Masonic fraternity, belonging to 
 the lodge, chapter and commandery of Pasadena 
 and to Al Malaikah Temple, A. a' O. N. M. S., 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
 WILLI.\M M. ZEEK. 
 
 No citizen of the town of Benson is deserving 
 of greater credit for the success wliich has 
 crowned his efiforts than is j\Ir. Zeek. .\ skilled 
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 Inisincs?, he has experienced (Irawliacks wliich 
 would have entirely discouraged one less stout 
 of heart or less cou:ageous. The village of 
 Grcentown. Howard county, Ind., was the scene 
 of the birth of Mr. Zeek .August 18, i<S56, and 
 it was here that his youth cind early manhood 
 were passed. His parents, .\ndre\v J. and Sarah 
 (Hall) Zeek. were natives respectively of Ohio 
 and Indiana, and afiforded their son every ad- 
 vantage in their power. He was educated in 
 the public schools and graduated at the high 
 school of Kokomo, Ind., and as a means to a 
 future livelihood learned the trade of barber, 
 later opening a shop in Kokomo. which was a 
 success during the three years of its operation. 
 
 In 1883 Air. Zeek changed his location to the 
 west, and after a short sojourn in Xew Mexico 
 located in Benson, where he started the only 
 American barber shop in the place. The shop 
 was constructed by himself, and he also owns a 
 residence, and. has been in many ways benefited 
 as far as business prospects are concerned. It 
 is in his home connections that the black shadow 
 of tragic disaster has fallen, so grim and dark 
 that its memory is haunting in its intensity- Air. 
 Zeek married, January 15, 1885, Nellie Breen, 
 a daughter of Thomas and Mary Breen, of Troy, 
 N. Y. Into this family came five children, who 
 are not now living. Elbert died of diphtheria 
 at the age of five, .and Harry and Cora died 
 later. The other two children, Edgar and Clyde, 
 and their mother, were drowned October i, 
 1896, when a cloud burst over the town, washed 
 away their house, destroying all who were in it. 
 This disaster was accompanied by a terrific 
 downpour of hail, and the water rushing through 
 the streets was several feet in depth. In the 
 Zeek home also were Mrs. O. F. Ashburn and 
 two children, the mother having been ill, Mrs. 
 Zeek had taken her children to her home to care 
 for them, and when the storm approached Mrs. 
 Ashburn r?.n over to look for her children, and 
 was lost with them in the swirling waters. The 
 bodies of the two mothers were found three 
 hoiu's later a quarter of a mile below the town, 
 Mrs. Zeek lieing covered with a thick coating of 
 hail with the exception of one foot. Two of the 
 children were found three days later under six 
 feet of hail, their little bodies frozen stiff and 
 hard, although the intervening weather had been 
 
 warm. The other two children were found five 
 davs from the day of the storm under two feet 
 of hail. The storm broke at noon, and Mr. Zeek 
 had just returned to his shop from his home. 
 In his heart there remains an undying gratitude 
 to the citizens, and especially the brave cow- 
 bovs who courageously came to the rescue, wad- 
 ing neck deep in the water and slush in their en- 
 deavor to rescue the drowned. No such demon- 
 iacal storm has before or since devastated the 
 region. In its ferocious and maddening power 
 it tore away the most solid foundations, and a 
 warehouse, containing tons of hay, was swept 
 away in the ])ath of destruction. 
 
 Mr. Zeek bravely took up his burden of liv- 
 ing alone, and has, as it is intended, found the 
 healer. Time, a gracious and beneficent friend. 
 He has been successful in business, and has won 
 the esteem of all who know him and appreciate 
 sterling worth. In jiolitics a Republican, his first 
 presidential vote was cast for James Garfield. 
 He was appointed by President Harrison post- 
 master of Benson and served four years. Fra- 
 ternallv he is past chancellor of the Benson 
 Lodge of Knights of Pythias. 
 
 CHARLES T. WISE. 
 
 For the past decade Mr. Wise has been an im- 
 portant factor in the development of Arizona's 
 resources. Born August 25, 1862, in Greene 
 countv. Pa., he is a son of Solomon B. and Han- 
 nah Wise, both of whom are natives of the Key- 
 stone state, and now make their home in Brown 
 county, Kans. The early years of Charles T. 
 Wise were passed at his birthplace, where he 
 mastered farming in all its details. Being an 
 apt student and an ambitious young man, he did 
 not rest content with a common-school educa- 
 tion, but further fitted himself for his career by 
 attending Monongahela College at Jefferson, 
 Pa., where he pursued a scientific and literary 
 course. February 12, 1880, Mr. Wise married 
 A,liss Sidney D. Spragg, likewise a native of 
 I'ennsvlvania, and one son, Frank S., blesses 
 their union. The young couple commenced their 
 wedded life at Spragg's Postoffice, Pa., Mr. 
 Wise being engaged in mercantile business 
 there for some time. Subsequently he was num- 
 bered among the agriculturists of his native
 
 5o8 
 
 PORTRAIT AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 county for several y.ars, and met with a fair 
 measure of success in his undertakings. 
 
 Ten years ago our subject came to Arizona, 
 where, notwithstanding the widely different 
 problems of climr.te and soil, he soon mastered 
 the difficulties and commenced to lay the foun- 
 dation of his future financial success. From the 
 time of his arrival in this section of the great 
 southwest he has dwelt in the beautiful Salt 
 River valley, his ranch being located near Mesa 
 Citv. About three-fourths of the sixty acres 
 which he owns here is devoted to fruit, the re- 
 mainder being given up to alfalfa. Twenty acres 
 of fine peach trees, five acres of almond trees, 
 ten acres of apricots and five acres of plums, 
 with several acres of blackberries and small 
 fruits, comprise his splendid fruit farm, and be- 
 speak his enterprise. He has made a special 
 study of fruit-culture and is meeting with well- 
 deserved success. Upright and thoroughly re- 
 liable in all of his dealings with his fellow men, 
 he commands the respect and genuine regard of 
 the entire community. In his political affilia- 
 tions he is a Democrat. In his religious belief 
 he is a Baptist; he belongs to the church of that 
 denomination at Mesa, and liberally upholds its 
 good work in the vicinitv. 
 
 ALFRED B. WILLIAMS. 
 
 To ]\Ir. Williams belongs the distinction of 
 conducting the largest catering establishment in 
 the territory. In eastern cities it would be dif- 
 ficult to find a better equipped hostelry wherein 
 people may satisfy the cravings of the inner man, 
 for every device for the comfort and convenience 
 of guests has been carefully thought out. and 
 tactfully applied for their disposal. From the 
 comparatively small beginning as a waiter, ]Mr. 
 Williams has risen since first coming to Plioeni.x 
 to a ])artnershi|i with Mr. Haffner, and to the 
 management of the restaurant at Nos. 9 and 11 
 West Washington street. The first floor of the 
 establishment is 20x138 feet in dimensions, and 
 has an accommodating lunch counter and ])ublic 
 dining room. The second floor is typical of the 
 best eating houses in the cast, and is fitted up 
 with ]irivate dining rooms and boxes. To facili- 
 tate the sui)])lying of the best materials j)rocur- 
 aljlc, and the preservatitm of the same, there is 
 
 a cold storage plant, wherein is manufactured 
 the ice necessary for the carrying on of the busi- 
 ness. Through the whole management of the 
 concern is evident the superior tact and knowl- 
 edge of human nature possessed by the genial 
 host, and his oft manifest desire to please. 
 
 Mr. Williams was born in Ipsw'ich, Sufifolk, 
 England, August 21, 1862. Of an interesting 
 ancestry, the original paternal side of the Wil- 
 liams family came from Wales. Upon emigrat- 
 ing to England his grandfather settled in Wor- 
 cestershire, and was there educated as a clergy- 
 man in the Church of England, and graduated in 
 belles lettres. His erudition received substan- 
 tial recognition, for he was elected to the chair 
 of classics at Cambridge University, and became 
 one of the distinguished educators of that his- 
 torical institution. The father of Mr. Williams, 
 Thomas by name, was born in Worcestershire, 
 and died when a young man. He was secretary 
 to Mr. Ransom, the head of a large agricultural 
 implement manufactory in Ipswich. His wife, 
 formerly Rachel Brinsmead, was born in Devon- 
 shire, at St. Giles in the Wood, and was a 
 daughter of Thomas Brinsmead. The paternal 
 great-grandfather, Brinsmead, was also a native 
 of Devonshire, and was the owner of a large 
 estate handed down through many generations. 
 The paternal grandfather was a farmer and a 
 manufacturer of agricultural implements. He 
 died at the age of eighty years. Mrs. Williams 
 is now living in London, Ontario. 
 
 Mr. Williams spent his early boyhood at St. 
 Giles in the Wood and at Exeter, and received 
 his education in the public schools. As early as 
 fourteen }ears of age he began to earn his own 
 living, and worked in an office as errand boy. 
 In 1880 he came to the United States, and after 
 a short sojourn in Boston, Mass., went to Lon- 
 don, Canada, and clerked in a shoe store until 
 1883. He then started a shoe store of his own, 
 and was fairly successful until 1887, when he 
 went west, and in Santa Monica, Cal., engaged 
 in the wholesale and retail fish business. In 
 1 89 1 he located in Phoenix, and was for a time 
 employed as a waiter in a restaurant, and was 
 also interested in a candy kitchen, as a partner 
 in the business. Upon selling his interest in 
 the candy kitchen, he started a small restaurant. 
 nm\ was so successful that he branched out and
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 511 
 
 eventually opened the large concern which is 
 such a credit to the city and manager. Mr. Wil- 
 liams has numerous interests aside from that 
 which engages the most of his time. He is in- 
 terested in mining and oils, and the various en- 
 terprises which tend to the development of his 
 adopted town. I'Vaternally he is associated with 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the 
 Royal Arch and Knights Templar Masons. He 
 is a inemher of the Board of Trade, and an ex- 
 director of the same. In national politics he is 
 a Republican, and in religion is a member of the 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 JUDGE STARR K. WILLIAMS. 
 
 Well known as justice of the peace at Bisbee 
 and a successful manipulator of mining proper- 
 ties, Judge Williams was born in Antioch, Con- 
 tra Costa county, Cal., October 31, 187 1. His 
 father, Charles Williams, has been foreman of 
 mines in California for half a century, and is at 
 present superintendent of the Corral Hollow 
 coal mine at !Mount Diable. He was born in 
 Xorway, of Swedish parentage, and immigrated 
 to San Francisco in the early '40s. A prominent 
 man in his locality and a stanch Republican, he 
 served as a member of the county central com- 
 mittee in 1884 and has been intimately identified 
 with local afTairs. 
 
 Judge S. K. Williams received his early train- 
 ing and education in and around San Francisco, 
 and in addition to attending the public schools, 
 was graduated in 1889 from the Heald's Busi- 
 ness College, at No. 24 Post street, San Fran- 
 cisco. The following spring he went to Bisbee 
 and engaged with the Copper Queen Mining 
 Company as miner and timberman, until he was 
 obliged to discontinue his work on account of 
 a broken ankle in 1895. In 1896 he was elected 
 justice of the peace on the Repubican ticket, 
 serving for two years, and re-elected by a ma- 
 jority of several hundred in a Democratic com- 
 munity in 1898. At the present time he is also 
 a police judge and magistrate, a notary public 
 and coroner. As a United States court commis- 
 sioner he is endowed with the same jurisdiction 
 as a district judge. 
 
 Mr. Williams' large mining interest* include 
 his position as secretary of the Cochise Copper 
 
 Alining Company, of which he drew the articles 
 of incorporation in 1898, the concern having a 
 capital stock of $5,000,000. He is a stockholder 
 in the South Bisbee Mining Company, and has 
 an interest in an estate at San Bernardino, Cal. 
 Another interest has been the organization of 
 the Cochise Review, at Bisbee, of which he is 
 one of the stockholders and assistant manager. 
 He was one of the original locators of the town- 
 site of Douglas, Ariz., a border town lying about 
 seventeen miles east of Bisbee, on the Intenia- 
 tional Line between the United States and Mex- 
 ico; and is a large stockholder in the Interna- 
 tional Land and Townsite Improvement Com- 
 [jany. 
 
 At Benson, Ariz., Mr. Williams married Mrs. 
 Mate Dobbins, May 28, 1892. Fraternally 
 Judge Williams is a member of the Elks, United 
 Workmen, Native Sons of the Golden West, 
 Improved Order of Red Men, the Odd Fellows 
 and the Knights of Pythias. He is one of the 
 enterprising and popular young business men of 
 the town, destined to win distinction in what- 
 ever line he chooses to direct his efforts, and is 
 recognized as one of the leading Republicans 
 of Bisbee and southern Arizona. 
 
 WILLIAM P. WOODS. 
 
 For a quarter of a century this well-known 
 citizen of Tucson has been connected with the 
 mining interests of Arizona, and for more than 
 two decades has looked upon this city as his 
 home. He is a native of Howard county, Mo., 
 born April 16, 1833, and is the eldest living- 
 child of Larkin Kavanaugh and Mary (Hocker) 
 Woods. There were three sisters and six broth- 
 ers, but three of the brothers are deceased. His 
 grandfather, Patrick Woods, w-as born in Ken- 
 tucky and was one of the early settlers of How- 
 ard county, Mo., where he owned extensive 
 tracts of land and a large distillery. The ma- 
 ternal grandfather, William Hocker, was born 
 in \'irginia and at an early period removed to 
 Missouri, where he was numbered among the 
 successful agriculturists. Larkin K. Woods was 
 a native of Mgdison county, Ky., and for many 
 years carried on a farm in Missouri, both him- 
 self and wife dying at their old homestead in 
 that state. He was an extensive slaveholder.
 
 5'^ 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 William P. Woods was reared on the old 
 Howard county homestead and in his boyhood 
 attended the primitive log schoolhouse of the 
 period. In March, 1853, he started on the long 
 journey across the plains, accompanied by six- 
 teen men, having a large cattle train. Going by 
 way of the North Platte, crossing the Sweet- 
 water and following the Humboldt they reached 
 their destination at the end of six months and 
 engaged in mining in El Dorado county. Mr. 
 Woods then prospected and mined in Nevada 
 and Montana until 1866, when he returned to 
 Missouri, going down the Missouri river from 
 Fort Benton to Omaha and St. Joseph, Mo. 
 Then he turned his attention to the cattle busi- 
 ness and in the spring of 1875 again went to the 
 west, taking the stage from Pueblo to Silver 
 City, N. M. 
 
 In December, 1875, Mr. Woods came to Pima 
 county, and in January went to Globe, where he 
 was one of the first prospectors and miners on 
 the field. In the spring of 1879 he took up his 
 abode in Tucson, and has built a number of 
 residences in the city. He owns several at pres- 
 ent, and also possesses some paying business 
 property. Of the Citizens' Building & Loan As- 
 sociation he is a director. For twenty years and 
 more he has been engaged in mining enterprises 
 in different parts of the territory, and has met 
 with success in many instances. 
 
 Mr. Woods built and owns his residence at the 
 corner of South Fourth avenue and Thirteenth 
 street. His marriage to Mrs. Lizzie (Johnson) 
 Bullard, a native of Missouri, took place in Tuc- 
 son, and they have one daughter, Mary Etta. 
 By her former marriage to John W. Bullard, 
 Mrs. Woods has one daughter, Gertrude R. Bul- 
 lard. In his political faith, Mr. Woods is a Dem- 
 ocrat, and for two terms he served in the city 
 council. Initiated into Masonry in Livingston 
 Lodge No. 51, F. & A. M., in Glasgow, Mo., 
 he now belongs to Tucson Lodge No. 4. 
 
 ASA C. WALKER. 
 
 The Dragoon mountains, with their vast sup- 
 ply of valuable ore, the extent of which is only 
 now being fully realized, have drawn hither men 
 f om all parts of the country, who are glad to 
 avail themselves of the undeveloped resources, 
 
 and to become a part of the unquestioned prom- 
 ise of the future. Among the energetic miners 
 and stock-raisers (for the locality abounds in 
 good pasture land, and the finest stock in the 
 territory are here successfully raised), is Asa C. 
 Walker, a pioneer of 1869 in Arizona, and who, 
 during the greater part of his life has been asso- 
 ciated with the conditions as found in the south 
 and west. 
 
 The boyhood of Mr. Walker was spent in 
 Colorado, although he was born in Des Moines 
 county, Iowa, near the city of Burlington, June 
 19, 1846. His parents, Eber and Susanna (Nel- 
 son) Walker, were natives of Virginia, and were 
 farmers by occupation. Tliev moved to Iowa 
 several years before the birth of their son, Asa. 
 When very young, Asa went away from home, 
 and lived in the cattle and mining districts of 
 Colorado until 1869, when he came direct to 
 Arizona, and settled in Prescott. After mining 
 for some time he went to the Merino mines 
 on the Maxwell land grant. New Mexico, and 
 later to Silver City. While residing in the 
 latter place, and carrying on mining, he par- 
 ticipated in the Indian war in which the 
 Apaches took such a bloody and important 
 part. He was by the side of Capt. John 
 BuUer, captain of the Home Guard, when he 
 was killed by the Indians. This gallant and cour- 
 ageous fighter, though not a member of the reg- 
 ulars, was buried by the soldiers with military 
 honors at Silver City, and is remembered for his 
 manly and strong traits of character. 
 
 Upon returning to Arizona Mr. Walker trav- 
 eled extensively through the territory, and famil- 
 iarized himself with its various phases and 
 opportunities. An unlooked-for misfortune 
 overtook him in the fall and continued through 
 the winter, for he lay sick and helpless at Mil- 
 ler's ranch, a little west of Prescott. After con- 
 valescing he again visited New Mexico, and for 
 some time was interested in the cattle business, 
 which took him to Louisiana, Texas, and several 
 points in the south, then back to New Mexico. 
 He finally sold out his cattle and spent a winter 
 in New Mexico on the Rio Grande, and then lo- 
 cated at the head of the Little Colorado and be- 
 gan to ranch. While here he was married, June 
 22, 1876, to Sarah Humphrey, a native of Cali- 
 fornia (but reared in Texas after her twelfth
 
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 515 
 
 year), a daughter of William and Nancy Humph- 
 rey. To Mr. and Mrs. Walker have been born 
 eleven children, named as follows: John H.; 
 George A.; Sarah J.; Elizabeth, who is de- 
 ceased; Asa E., Albert, Almond, Dudley, Mar- 
 tin, James and Stella. 
 
 After leaving his ranch on the Little Colorado 
 Mr. Walker came to the Gila river and again en- 
 gaged in farming until 1891, when he settled in 
 Russellville, in which neighborhood he has since 
 continued to reside. He lives two miles south- 
 west of Dragoon Summit, a station on the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad, and owns a large 
 ranch and is a very extensive stock-raiser. Al- 
 though many interests claim his attention, the 
 subject of mining is unquestionably the most en- 
 grossing, and the most remunerative. He has 
 the prospects of some fine gold, silver, and wol- 
 framite mines, from which he expects good re- 
 turns. In fact he was one of the first to become 
 interested in wolframite, and had some assayed 
 nineteen years ago, but there was no one who 
 knew anything about it. It is now known to be 
 a valuable ore, and is found in many of the 
 mines. With his son, John H., and P. L. Smith, 
 and Mr. Merrick, Mr. Walker owns a mine 
 which is rich in gold and silver, some of the 
 quartz veins assaying ninety-eight ounces of sil- 
 ver, and $35 in gold to the ton. These, how- 
 ever, do not represent the extent of Mr. Walk- 
 er's properties, for they are scattered through- 
 out the county, and are numerous in numbers. 
 A stanch Republican in politics, he has held a 
 number of local offices, and was deputy sherifif 
 in Yavapai county. 
 
 H. P. NEWTON. 
 
 One of the most interesting as well as success- 
 ful of the settlers of Cochise, which, though of 
 comparatively recent growth, has had its chosen 
 few prouKTters and most interested spectators, is 
 H. P. Newton, who is variously identified with 
 the affairs of the town, and one of its stanch 
 supporters and wisest prophets. 
 
 The early renienihrances of Mr. Newton are 
 centered in (Senesee county, N. Y., where he 
 was born Jaiuiary 25, 1836, a son of A. S. and 
 Eunice (Cobb) Newton, natives respectively of 
 Connecticut and \'erni(int. In order to better 
 
 their prospects the family removed to the middle 
 west in 1845, 'i"'! passed through Chicago when 
 it was but a small village, locating in Beloit, 
 Wis., wliere they lived for two years. The elder 
 Newton attained to considerable success in the 
 new location, and among the real-estate hold- 
 ings that came into his possession was the 
 ground upon which Beloit College now stands. 
 His son subsequently lived for some time in the 
 adjacent county of Winnebago, 111., twelve miles 
 north of Rockford on Rock river. In 1857 
 he crossed the plains to California, where he re- 
 mained until 1880. During this time he was in- 
 terested in several different occupations, which 
 ranged from teaming to the hotel business, min- 
 ing, stock-raising, general farming and mercan- 
 tile business, but which left him in the end a 
 comparatively poor nian. In 1880 he went to 
 Grandronde valley, Union county, Ore., which 
 had as yet no railroad facilities, then proceeded 
 to Idaho and the Wood river country, where he 
 contracted and mined for three years. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Newton came to Arizona from 
 Idaho, the journey consuming seventy-six days, 
 and being accomplished with a wagon and three 
 teams of horses. Since then, with the excep- 
 tion of a year spent in Texas, and six months in 
 California, he has made this his home and the 
 scene of his success. He at first settled in Bon- 
 netia canon, in the Cherry Cow mountains, where 
 he engaged in teaming and freighting, and had 
 considerable trouble with the Indians, who were 
 then on an animated warpath. For a year and 
 a half the settlers in the locality knew no peace 
 by night or day, and were in constant fear of 
 death at the hands of the murderous Apaches. 
 After a campaign covering seven or eight months 
 General Miles, with headquarters at Bowie, 
 succeeded in quelling the disturbance and in in- 
 spiring the Indians with a proper respect for 
 the rights of their pale-faced brothers. For the 
 four succeeding years Mr. Newton drove a 
 stage between Dos Cabazes and Willcox, and 
 then turned his attention to mining. He was 
 one of the first to locate a claim in the Pierce 
 camp, and with Harper Williams, at Pierce, mined 
 and sunk a well two hundred and eighty-seven 
 feet deep, which produced an abundance of water 
 and was used for some time by the mine owners. 
 This Pierce mine is seventeen miles south of
 
 5i6 
 
 rORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Cochise and was discovered in 1895 by a cow- 
 boy. 
 
 From Pierce Mr. Newton came to Cochise 
 and built a dugout, and the railroad people had 
 an abandoned car which was used as a postoffice. 
 He at once becjan to carry the mail between 
 here and Pierce, an occupation in which he is 
 still engaged. In addition Mr. Newton con- 
 ducts a livery stable, supplying prospectors and 
 others with rigs with which to go into the 
 country, and he also has on hand freighting 
 teams. He has been intimately associated with 
 the growth of the town, and .as a contractor and 
 builder has put vip a number of the buildings in 
 the place. Although born under strong Demo- 
 ciatic influences, he has been a Republican ever 
 since he was old enough to distinguish between 
 the two parties, and that was sixty years ago. 
 He is a typical representative of enterprising Ari- 
 zona life, and is esteemed and liked by all who 
 know him, and who appreciate his many ster- 
 ling qualities of mind and heart. 
 
 In 1859 h*^ married Emma Dawes of ]^Iinne- 
 sota, by whom he had three children: Otis, who 
 lives in San Jose, Cal.: Alexander, whose home 
 is in Sierra county, Cal., and Hattie, who makes 
 her home with her brother, Otis. Mrs. Newton 
 died in 1868. In 1880 Mr. Newton married 
 Uelle Jones of Illinois, who died in 1891. 
 
 HON. J. ELLIOTT WALKER. 
 
 There are in every communitv men of force of 
 character and ability, who by reason of their 
 capacity for leadership become recognized as 
 foremost citizens and take a prominent part in 
 public afifairs. Such a man is Mr. Walker, who 
 has been a resident of Arizona since January, 
 1881, and is now a citizen of Phoenix and treas- 
 urer of Maricopa county. 
 
 He was born on the 24th of September, 1847, 
 near Orange Court House, \'a., a son of James 
 W. and Louisa (Elliott) Walker, also natives of 
 that state, and of English descent. His paternal 
 great-grandfather. Jack Walker, was an officer 
 in the Revolutionary war, and a planter of the 
 Old Dominion, where the grandfather, James 
 W. Walker, Sr., spent his entire life as .a farmer. 
 In early manhood the father also engaged in 
 pgricnltura! pursuits. During the Civil war he 
 
 served as adjutant-general on General Mahone's 
 staff of Virginia troops, and later engaged in the 
 practice of law first in Mrginia and afterward 
 in Washington, D. C. He served one term as 
 United States district attorney of Alontana. He 
 was a member of the Masonic fraternity and was 
 a man highly respected by all who knew him. 
 His death occurred in Washington, D. C, in 
 1899, when he was seventy-four years of age. 
 His wife had died in \'irginia. She was a daugh- 
 ter of Jack Elliott, a native of that state. The 
 progenitor of the Elliott familv in this country 
 came over with Lord Fairfax and Governor 
 Spotsford. 
 
 Our subject is the oldest of a family of three 
 children, one son and two daughters, and was 
 reared on the home farm, his education being 
 acquired in private schools. In 1863 he entered 
 the Confederate army as a member of the engi- 
 neering corps, and after serving one year be- 
 came a student at the Mrginia Military Institute 
 at Lexington, which in the Confederacy corre- 
 sponded to West Point. In 1864 the whole 
 school enlisted in the Confederate army and was 
 sent to Newmarket. Mr. Walker joined General 
 Mosby's Cavalry and was on duty in Fairfax 
 and Loudoun counties, A'a., until the close of the 
 war. Lie then followed farming in his native 
 state until 1872, when he went to California and 
 was engaged in farming and contracting in El 
 Dorado and Sonoma counties with headquarters 
 at San Francisco. 
 
 In January, 1881, Mr. Walker came to Tuc- 
 son, Ariz., where he was engaged in mining un- 
 til January, 1886, when appointed clerk of the 
 United States district court at Phoenix, and re- 
 moved to that place to assume the duties of the 
 office. At the same time he also served as clerk 
 of the supreme court of Arizona. He retired 
 from the former position in April, 1890, but re- 
 tained the latter until 1891, when he was made 
 clerk and acting cashier of the Hartford Bank. 
 In 1893 he was appointed deputy county sheriff 
 under Mr. Murphy, and the following year was 
 appointed clerk of the district court under Judge 
 Baker, holding the latter office until August I, 
 1897. The following year he opened the Model 
 (jrocery, of which he was secretary, treasurer 
 and manager until February i, 1901, when he 
 sold his interest.
 
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 519 
 
 In Tucson occurred the marriage of Mr. Wal- 
 ker and Miss Matilda Thayer, a native of Ohio. 
 He is an honored member of the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen and the Masonic fraternity. 
 being connected with Arizona Lodge No. 2, F. 
 & A. M.; Phoenix Chapter No. 2, R. A. M.; 
 .\rizona Comniandery No. 3. K. T.. of which he 
 is at this writing commander; and El Zaribah 
 Temple, N. M. S. He is also a member of the 
 Maricopa Club, and is senior warden of the Epis- 
 copal Church. .-\ prominent representative of 
 the Democracy, he has served as secretary of 
 the territorial central committee, and a member 
 of the county committee. In 1900 he was the 
 Democratic nominee for county 'reasurer and 
 was elected. His life has been an upright and 
 honorable one, and he stands deservedly high 
 in the esteem of his fellow citizens. 
 
 FRANK E. ANDREWS. 
 
 The Andrews family include among their an- 
 cestors some of the voyageurs of the Mayflower, 
 and the descendants of these courageous emi- 
 grants helped to lay the foundation of the Ameri- 
 can Republic, and were soldiers in the wars of 
 the Revolution and 1812. For many years they 
 were identified with Massachusetts, where they 
 were Indian traders, and were otherwise inter- 
 ested in the occupations afiforded the colonists. 
 At an early date the paternal grandfather moved 
 from Massachusetts to what is now Maine, 
 where he raised his family, and became one of 
 the prominent agriculturists of his community. 
 
 Frank E. Andrews was born in Freeport, 
 Cumberland county. Me., July 21, 1858. "His 
 father, Samuel Andrews, was a blacksmith by 
 trade, and followed the same calling in his native 
 state until his death. The mother, Lovina (Hus- 
 kins) Andrews, was born and died in Maine, and 
 came from an old and prominent family. She 
 was the mother of ten children, seven of whom 
 are living, Frank E. being the youngest. Three 
 of the sons took part in the Civil war; Tristum 
 served all through the war under Kilpatrick, 
 and now lives at Granite Falls; John, who en- 
 listed in a Maine regiment, and was raised to the 
 rank of lieutenant, lost his life during the war. 
 and is buried on Warsaw Island; Edward was 
 also in a Maine regiment, and now lives at Ta- 
 
 coma. From 1878 until iSq8 he lived in Ari- 
 zona, and during that time was in the cattle 
 business, and also in the government employ 
 as engineer at Fort McDowell, but was later in 
 charge of the Phoenix water works. Another 
 brother, Charles, is living at Marvsville, Wash., 
 and Ste])hen resides at Phoenix, Ariz. ' 
 
 After fir.ishing his education in the public 
 schools at Free])ort. Me.. F. F. Andrews learned 
 the blacksmith's trade of liis father, and in 1878 
 went to Boston, where he finished the trade of 
 horseshoer. In 1879 he removed to the west, 
 and at Live Oaks, Cal., worked at his trade from 
 March until the fall of the same year. A later 
 field was at Lowell, Wash., where he lived until 
 the spring of 18S0. .■Xn excellent opportunity 
 then presented itself in the shape of a govern- 
 ment position at Camp Verde, Ariz., where he 
 had charge of the camp blacksmith department, 
 his brother being at the time chief engineer of 
 the same camp. In 1884 he resigned this posi- 
 tion to come to Prescott, where for a time he 
 was in the horse-shoeing business, and later be- 
 came interested in the cattle business. In this 
 latter enterprise he was associated with the Marr 
 Brothers and their ranch was located in the 
 Mogollon Mountains, about seventy miles from 
 Prescott. After a year the management of the 
 ranch was turned over to the partners, and Mr. 
 AndreW'S returned to his former position as 
 foreman at Camp McDowell. Later he was at 
 Fort Huachuca, and in 1888 resigned and spent 
 two years on the ranch. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. .\ndrews returned to Prescott 
 and worked at his trade, and the same year was 
 elected chief of police, from which position he 
 resigned at the end of a year, to start in business 
 for himself. His shop was at first located on 
 Gurley, and then on Cortez street, and in 1900 
 he removed to Granite street. Although con- 
 ducting a general blacksmith shop, he makes 
 a specialty of horse-shoeing, and caters to a 
 large and continually increasing trade. Inci- 
 dentally he is interested in mining, and owns 
 several paying properties throughout the terri- 
 tory. He has been prominent in many ways in 
 the affairs of his adopted town, was chief of the 
 fire department for several years, and for five 
 vears served in the city council. Fraternally 
 he is associated with the Knights of Pythias, in
 
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 the Uniform Rank, the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks, and the Woodmen of the World. 
 He is a Republican in politics, but believes in 
 voting for the best man. While at Camp Verde 
 he participated in several Indian skirmishes, and 
 was in three different campaigns, the first one 
 being iMider General Chafifee. 
 
 Air. Andrews was married June 15, 1892, to 
 Madeline Archibald, a native of Pennsylvania, 
 and a daughter of Daniel and S. E. Archibald, 
 who came to this country from Nova Scotia. 
 They are the parents of a daughter, Grace 
 Evelyn. 
 
 WILLIAM R. WADDILL. 
 
 Though at present a resident of Safford, 
 whither he removed that his children might have 
 better educational advantages, Mr. Waddill is 
 best known as a successful and enterprising agri- 
 culturist of the Gila valley. His farm near 
 Thatcher, on section 6, township 6, is one of the 
 finest improved properties for miles around, and 
 is an evidence of the untiring perseverance and 
 ability of the owner. The house is of brick con- 
 struction, the granary is well built, the land 
 neatly fenced, and the developments have been 
 carried on according to the most approved and 
 modern methods. On the banks of the river a 
 large and prolific orchard casts a cooling shade, 
 and bears the distinction of being the oldest 
 orchard along the stream. Of more recent 
 purchase is the five-acre tract, adjoining the 
 town, and improved with a large brick house, 
 in which the family now reside. Mr. Waddill 
 is interested in the upbuilding of his locality, and 
 every project for the well-being of the commu- 
 nity meets with his hearty endorsement and co- 
 operation. He is also interested in mining in the 
 Yukon region and hopes for large returns from 
 his investments. 
 
 Born in Alabama, near Grundersville, 
 Marshall county, December 25, 1854, Mr. Wad- 
 dill received his education and early training in 
 Arkansas. His parents, W. C. and Martha (Si- 
 bert) Waddill, were natives respectively of South 
 Carolina and Alabama, and were early settlers 
 upon a farm in Marshall county, Ala. When 
 William R. was six years of age the family re- 
 moved to Arkansas, and settled on the White 
 river, near the desert in White county. Here 
 
 he assisted his father in performing the vari- 
 ous duties incident to farm life and grew to be 
 a model farmer. At the age of twenty-one he 
 began to farm on his own responsibility and con- 
 tinued the same until 1877. He then came to 
 .\rizona and settled in what is now Apache 
 county, but after two years removed to Tomb- 
 stone, where he was engaged in freighting for 
 two years. After settling in Russellville, he 
 purchased the farm near Thatcher which is still 
 in his possession, and which has since been 
 brought under cultivation through his painstak- 
 ing efforts. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Waddill married Martha J. West, 
 a native of Clay county, N. C. To their union 
 have been born seven children, namely: Laura 
 F., Mary Laveda, Beulah D., William T., David 
 D., Velma V. and Sarah J. In politics Mr. 
 Waddill is a Democrat, and on that ticket in 
 1898 was elected supervisor of Graham county 
 for a term of four years. Though by no means 
 a seeker after office, he has always been active 
 in local affairs and keeps posted concerning 
 movements fox the benefit of the people. He 
 was reared in the Methodist faith and favors the 
 doctrines of that church. 
 
 J. R. WELKER. 
 
 The bishop of Layton ward is one of the most 
 enterprising young men of Safford, Graham 
 county. He is a son of Adam and Agnes Wel- 
 ker, and was born at Bear Lake, Idaho, January 
 25, 1866. Until he was seventeen years of age 
 he dwelt at his birthplace, in the mean time ob- 
 taining a good education in the public schools. 
 In the fall of 1882 he accompanied his parents 
 to Graham county, and in partnership with his 
 father bought a quarter section of land, situated 
 not far from the now thriving town of Safiford. 
 For seven years he industriously labored in the 
 improvement and cultivation of the homestead, 
 which since then has been sold at a good price. 
 The young man then invested a portion of his 
 share of the proceeds in his present business, 
 which is at Layton, a settlement located about a 
 mile south of Safford. Financially, he has pros- 
 pered, and today owns his store and the two and 
 a half acres on which it stands, with a comfortable 
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 521 
 
 of valuable farm land, well irrigated and under 
 a high state of cultivation, also being stocked 
 with standard-bred horses and cattle. 
 
 Bishop Welker was reared in the faith of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and 
 has been a great worker in its interests since he 
 arrived at maturity. He was sent to the Samoan 
 Islands in company with Judge Moody and sev- 
 eral others and si>ent three years there and in 
 the Friendly Islands, engaged in missionary la- 
 bors. In 1897, after his return home, he was 
 made bishop of Layton ward and as such is still 
 serving his church. He is very popular with his 
 brethren and possesses many of the qualities 
 which fit him for leadership. His example as a 
 business man and ])ublic-spirited citizen may 
 well serve as a model for his neighbors and the 
 younger generation, and even those who are not 
 adherents of his denomination are forced to ad- 
 mit that in everything, save in matters of a re- 
 ligious faith which they reject, his life is exem- 
 plary and worthy of respect. He gives his polit- 
 ical &up])ort to the Republican party and is one 
 of its most influential workers in this locality. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Welker married Miss Louise 
 Peel, daughter of Benjamin and Nancy Peel, of 
 Safiford. Their eldest child, Chloe, aged thir- 
 teen, is a student in the academy at Thatcher, 
 and the two little boys, Willard J. and Law- 
 rence, are at home with their parents. 
 
 CASWELL DRAKE DORRIS. 
 
 Probably there is not a more complete estab- 
 lishment of the kind in Arizona, and few in the 
 southwest than that in Phoenix, of which C. D. 
 Dorris is the proprietor. During his residence 
 here of some fourteen years he has witnessed 
 most of the development of this modern city, 
 and has been an important factor in its progress. 
 The strangers from the east or from old and 
 strictly up-to-date cities are amazed and dis- 
 possessed of their preconceived ideas as to 
 Arizona, by a mere stroll through the beautiful 
 storerooms of Mr. Dorris, in which are displayed 
 a splendid line of modern furniture, carpets and 
 general house-furnishings, all of which are find- 
 ing a ready sale in this locality, as our citizens 
 have a high standard and excellent taste in the 
 decoration of their homes. 
 
 Of an old and respected southern family, C. 
 
 D. Dorris was born near Winona, Miss., Janu- 
 ary 3, 1859, his parents, J. Mitchell and Nancy 
 J. (Powell) Dorris, being natives of Alabama and 
 Mississippi, respectively. The grandfather, 
 James Dorris, of English descent, his ancestors 
 having settled at an early day in \'irginia or 
 North Carolina, was a planter in .\labama, and 
 later in Mississippi. Thence removing to Grape- 
 vine, Tex., he died twelve days after his arrival 
 there, at the age of seventy-two years. His 
 father was a hero of the Revolution. J. Mitchell 
 Dorris served for two years in a Mississippi 
 regiment during the Civil war. Fraternally he 
 is a Mason, and in religious creed, a Baptist. 
 He was a wealthy planter, owning about seven 
 hundred acres in the state mentioned, and this 
 property he continued to manage until of late 
 years, when he retired to make his home with 
 his children, as his wife had passed to the better 
 land. Her father, Daniel Powell, a veteran of 
 the Mexican war, and the owner of extensive 
 plantations in Mississippi, attained the extreme 
 age of ninety-six years. 
 
 The brothers and sisters of C. D. Dorris are 
 named as follows: J. E., a planter near Hunts- 
 ville, Miss.; Mrs. Sarah F. Stovall, of Phoenix; 
 
 E. M., proprietor of the opera house of this 
 city; H. E., a Mississippi farmer; H. D., a 
 business man of Belton, Tex.; L. G., a farmer 
 of Mississippi; R. B., a retired business man of 
 Phoenix; J. W., a prosperous grocer of this 
 city; Mrs. Luella B. Boatman, of Kilmichael, 
 Miss.; Mrs. Martha L. Stovall, of Arkansas; 
 and Mrs. \'eronica Feekings, of this place. 
 
 Until he reached his majority C, D. Dorris 
 remained on the old plantation in Montgomery 
 county. Miss., where he was born. Having ob- 
 tained a liberal education, upon leaving Chilton 
 (Miss.) Academy, he engaged in teaching and 
 farming until 1884, when he went to Colton, 
 Cal., and in comjjany with his brother, E. M., 
 operated a stage-line between that point and 
 San Bernardino, meeting certain trains each 
 da\-. This successful enterprise they disposed of 
 in 1885, E. M. Dorris coming to Phoenix, while 
 our subject went to San Luis Obispo, Cal., and 
 held a clerkship there for about a year. Then 
 he, too, located in this city, and for several 
 months was engaged in the fruit business. In
 
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 1887 the firm of Dorris Brothers was formed, 
 and it was not until February, 1899, that C. D. 
 Ijecanie the sole owner of the business by pur- 
 chasing the interest of E. M. Dorris. At first 
 they had been small dealers, but gradually built 
 up a fine trade, and were obliged to enlarge 
 llicir stock and storerooms. In 1900 our sub- 
 ject removed to the Lewis block, and in Oc- 
 tober, 1900, to his present central quarters in 
 the fine Sherman block, Nos. 22-28, inclusive. 
 West Washington street. With the exception 
 of one room, 20x138 feet, his establishment oc- 
 cupies all of this four-story building — a floor 
 space of about 38,000 square feet. In addition 
 to the well selected line of furniture w'hich is 
 carried, departments devoted to carpets and 
 draperies, stoves and general house-furnishing 
 goods, queensware, wall paper, etc., a specialty 
 is made of tents, wagon-covers and awnings, of 
 which Mr. Dorris is a manufacturer. For some 
 time he was financially interested in the National 
 Bank of Arizona, but finally disposed of his 
 stock in that institution. He belongs to the 
 Board of Trade and to the local lodge of the 
 Order of Foresters, while in political matters he 
 is a Democrat. In the Baptist Church of this 
 city he is a member of the board of trustees. 
 
 In Henrietta, Tex., October 22. 1890, Mr. 
 Dorris married Miss Hattie G. Weldon, a native 
 of Kentucky. Four children bless their union, 
 namely: Marion, Stayton, Edwin and Burtis. 
 
 REV. FRANK W. DOWNS. 
 
 During the years intervening since 1885, Mr. 
 Downs has represented the best moral and in- 
 tellectual advancement of Arizona. As an elo- 
 quent and convincing disciple of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, his voice has for years been 
 heard in innumerable mining camps, towns, and 
 settlements, in earnest advocacy of the principles 
 of justice, truth, and humanity, and it is to his 
 untiring efforts that much of the prevailing order 
 is due. 
 
 Although born in Zanesfield, Logan county, 
 Ohio, February 9, 1853, Mr. Downs was reared 
 in southern Illinois, and in 1871 entered Mc- 
 Kendree College, from which he was graduated 
 in the classical course in 1878, which institu- 
 tion conferred upon him in 1883 the degree of 
 
 A. M. His course at the college was distin- 
 guished by brilliant scholarship, and in 1875 he 
 carried off the Citizen's prize for oratory, hav- 
 ing been marked one hundred above eight com- 
 petitors. In 1878 he was elected to represent 
 the college in the state oratorical contest at 
 Monmouth, 111., there being present one speaker 
 from each of the nine colleges in the state repre- 
 sented. In 1882 he entered Drew Theological 
 Seminary, and while there filled a pulpit twelve 
 miles from New York City. Subsequently for 
 several years he filled some of the leading pul- 
 pits in Illinois, his last charge in the middle west 
 being St. John's Church, at East St. Louis. 
 
 From there he came to Arizona as a mission- 
 ary in 1885, and has since labored among the 
 glowing possibilities of this promising territory. 
 For two years he lived at Tucson, and for the 
 same length of time at Globe, where, on account 
 of the arduous responsibilities involved in build- 
 ing up the church he received a proportionately 
 large salary, and was thus well equipped for 
 further work. A later station was at Tempe, 
 from which town he went to Tombstone, where, 
 for five years, he was supported by the mis- 
 sionary society. The church being very poor, 
 and many of the members unsuccessful in their 
 occupations, Mr. Downs was often obliged to 
 assist them from his own pocket. Nevertheless 
 the work at this mission was attended by satis- 
 factory results, and is remembered by him as 
 one of his most interesting fields of effort. From 
 Tombstone he came to Safford, which, in all 
 probability, will be his residence for some time to 
 come. He has purchased a comfortable brick 
 house, and is thoroughly identified with the in- 
 terests of the town. His-genial and large-hearted 
 personality have won for him a host of friends, 
 which are by no means confined to church cir- 
 cles, or to any special strata of life. He is one of 
 the people, and represents their aims, aspirations, 
 and undertakings in life. Mr. Downs is an act- 
 ive Republican in politics, being president of 
 the Lincoln Republican club of Safford, and is 
 fraternally associated with the Good Templars, 
 the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and 
 the Woodmen. 
 
 September 17, 1885, Mr. Downs married 
 Olivia E. Lemen, who was born January 6, 1856, 
 at Collinsville, 111., a daughter of Robert C. and
 
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 525 
 
 Eliza (Johnson) Lemen. To Air. and Airs. 
 Downs has been born one son, Robert Francis, 
 who was born at Safford November i, 1896. 
 
 HON. HENRY D. UNDERWOOD. 
 
 The commercial, legislative and social intlii- 
 ence exerted by Mr. Underwood during his 
 residence in the territory has been such as to 
 bring about the best possible results in the 
 struggle for growth and ascendency. As a citi- 
 zen of the oldest historical landmark between 
 the two oceans, he has been identified with the 
 fluctuating fortunes of Tucson since 1881, and 
 no one entertains a more profound certainty of 
 her continued and permanent prosperity. 
 
 A native of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., Mr. 
 L'nderwood was born October i, 1846, and 
 comes of a family who distinguished themselves 
 in the early w-ars of their adopted country. The 
 paternal grandfather, William, who was of Eng- 
 lish descent, served with courage and fidelity in 
 the Revolutionary war, and one of his sons, 
 Amos, was a colonel in the wat of 1812. H. P. 
 Underwood, the father of the Hon. Henry D., 
 was born in the town of Louisville, St. Lawrence 
 county, N. Y., and was an industrious tiller of 
 the soil in that section of the state. He is now 
 eighty-five years of age. His wife, who was 
 formerly Mary Ransom, comes of an old east- 
 ern family; she was born in St. Lawrence 
 county and died in 1854. Of her four children 
 two only are living. The oldest son, Ira A., 
 now living at Oakland, Cal., was a soldier in 
 the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment, known as the 
 "Eagle Eighth" during the Civil war. 
 
 The education of H. D. L'nderwood was ac- 
 quired in the public schools while living on his 
 father's farm, and later he attended St. Law- 
 rence university. With the breaking out of the 
 Civil war he enlisted in Company E, Ninety- 
 first New York Infantry, and with the army of 
 the Potomac he participated in the campaign 
 and siege of Richmond, the battle of Peterslnirg, 
 and other important battles of the war, and was 
 mustered out of service June 21, 1865, after hav- 
 ing taken part in the grand review at Washing- 
 ton. Returning to St. Lawrence county, N. Y.. 
 he was employed as a bookkeeper until 1S67, at 
 which time lu- removed to San I'ranci.sco, Cal., 
 
 and for five years was bookkeeper in the con- 
 struction department of the Central Pacific Rail- 
 road. He was later variously employed by dif- 
 ferent firms in San Francisco, and in January of 
 1 881, came to Tucson, and was in the employ of 
 L. Zeckendorf & Co., for two years. In 1883 
 he engaged in the real estate business, and con- 
 tinued with unabated success until 1898, when 
 he established the firm of Underwood & Frank- 
 lin, who have up to the present time been inter- 
 ested in insurance and real estate. They repre- 
 sent the best companies in the world, and in 
 addition do a considerable business in buying, 
 selling and developing mining claims. 
 
 In San Francisco, Cal., Mr. Underwood mar- 
 ried Annie Hutchinson, who was born in Lynn, 
 Mass. Of this union there are three children : 
 Harriet L., who is now the wife of L. L. Den- 
 nison, of Los Angeles ; Harry Putnam, who is 
 with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company ; 
 and Susie, who is at home. As a staunch Demo- 
 crat Mr. Underwood has taken an active part in 
 territorial political matters, and from 1885 until 
 1889 was chief deputy United States marshal of 
 Arizona, under W. K. Meade, and had charge 
 of the office. In 1888 he was elected to the 
 fifteenth general assembly, and was prominently 
 associated with the appropriation, finance, edu- 
 cational and other committees. In Potsdam, St. 
 Lawrence county, N. Y., he was made a member 
 of the Masonic order, and is now connected 
 with the Tucson Lodge No. 4, and with the 
 Royal Arch Masons, being past high priest of 
 Tucson Chapter No. 3. He is also past eminent 
 connnander of Arizona Commandery No. 1, K. 
 T., and a member of the Grand Consistory of 
 the thirty-second degree. Fie is a member of 
 the El Zaribah Temple, N. M. S. of Phoeni.x, 
 and is an officer of the Grand Chapter and of the 
 Grand Commandery of Arizona. lie is also a 
 member of the Benevolent Protective Order of 
 Elks, and Negley Post No. i, G. A. R. 
 
 J. A. R. IRVINE. 
 The Irvine family is of Scotch descent, and the 
 ])aternal grandfather, like so many of his coun- 
 trvmen during the unhappy years of religious 
 intolerance in their native land, removed to Ire- 
 land, and eventually to .\merica, where he set-
 
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 tied in New Brunswick. There his grandson, 
 J. A. R., was born, in the vicinity of Woodstock, 
 as were his parents, Edward and Deborah (Ride- 
 out) Irvine. When not yet three years of age 
 T. A. R. Irvine was deprived of the love and 
 care of his mother, who died in New Brunswick. 
 He attended public schools of Woodstock until 
 his father went to California, in 1868, where he 
 accompanied liim. and spent several years in 
 difTerent parts of the far western state. In 1872 
 he settled in .\rizona, where he assisted his 
 father in the various duties of his large mercan- 
 tile business. In this connection he was asso- 
 ciated with his father in the construction of the 
 first brick store building in the city of Phoenix, 
 at the corner of First and,. Washington streets. 
 In 1883 he sold out his general merchandise in- 
 terests. He still owns the brick building at the 
 corner of First and Washington streets and in 
 1897 he erected an adjoining brick building, the 
 whole now constituting the Irvine block, which 
 is in dimensions 130x200 feet. 
 
 In the town of Tempe Mr. Irvine married 
 Nancy J. Gregg, who was born in Missouri, 
 and came in 1877 with her parents to Arizona. 
 Of this union there have been eleven children, 
 viz.: Mary D., Nancy J., John, Leah, Palnier,_ 
 Alice, Gregg, Marvin, Lucile and Thelma; and 
 Lilly May (dead). In national politics Mr. 
 Irvine is a Democrat, but has never entertained 
 political aspirations. He is one of the success- 
 ful business men of the town, and has the es- 
 teem of all his friends and relations, and per- 
 haps most of his acquaintances. He is a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Trade, and interested in the 
 various enterprises for the upl)uilding of the 
 comnnmity in which he makes his home. Mr. 
 Irvine is connected with the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church South, is a trustee and worker in 
 the same, and a liberal contributor towards its 
 work and charities. 
 
 LIEUT. T. H. RYNNING. 
 
 A record of the life of Thomas H. Rynning 
 shows incidents rs interesting and .at times as 
 thrilling as those which are frequently intro- 
 duced by writers of fiction, who have taken as 
 their themes the various military exploits of the 
 far west during the days when the red men 
 
 still continued to contend with the whites for 
 the supremacy of the plains. Born in Chris- 
 tiana, Norway, February 17, 1866, a son of 
 Halvor and Indiana Rynning, he was brought 
 to America at the age of two years by his par- 
 ents, and for ten years, or until the death of 
 both parents, he made his home in Beloit, Wis. 
 During the succeeding three years he served 
 an apprenticeship to a stair-builder in Chicago. 
 At the age of fifteen he went to Texas and for 
 four years was employed as a cow-puncher. 
 
 February 18, 1885, he enlisted as a private in 
 Troop D, Eighth United States Cavalry, and 
 July 12 following was ordered with his com- 
 mand to the Indian Territory, where he served 
 through the Cheyenne outbreak. Returning to 
 Texas, he was detailed as packer with Troop 
 C, and served two years and three months in 
 Arizona under Generals Miles and Crook, at 
 various times during the period acting as dis- 
 patch carrier and mail rider. Upon his return 
 to Texas he rejoined Troop D and two days 
 later was made corporal. For some time he 
 performed duty as a line rider along the Mex- 
 ican frontier. In 1888 his regiment made its 
 famous ride to Fort Meade in the Black Hills of 
 Dakota, the longest cavalry march on record. 
 During this trip, on the 3d of July, he was pro- 
 moted to the rank of sergeant, and a few days 
 later was made assistant regimental quartermas- 
 ter sergeant, acting in this capacity about a year. 
 While on this expedition he made a ride from 
 F""ort Meade to Camp Crook, one hundred and 
 nineteen miles, in one night, which is prob- 
 ably the longest single ride within the same 
 time ever made by a United States soldier. 
 
 Lieutenant Rynning was honorably dis- 
 charged from the service February 19, 1890. 
 Until the spring of 1892 he remained in Beloit. 
 Going to Chicago, upon the opening of the Co- 
 lumbian Exposition he was appointed a guard, 
 then was made gate-keeper, and finally was pro- 
 moted to the post of installation officer in the 
 agricultural building. In November, 1893, he 
 removed to California, and a year later set- 
 tled in Tucson, Ariz., where for eighteen months 
 he was employed by the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road Company. From that time until the spring 
 of 189S he engaged in contracting, in which he 
 was very successful. Upon the breaking out of
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 527 
 
 the Spanish-American war he went to Prescott, 
 and April 29, 1898, enhsted as a private in Troop 
 B of the Rough Riders, under Captain McCUn- 
 tock. The day following he was promoted to 
 be first sergeant and acted as adjutant. May 
 20, while the regiment was at San Antonio, 
 Te.x., he was made jccund lieutenant, and that 
 office he held until the end of th_> war, command- 
 ing the troop when it was mustered out. While 
 in active service in Cuba he contracted the yel- 
 low fever, but his rugged constitution pulled 
 liini through the attack in excellent form. At 
 the close of the war he remained a month in 
 a hospital in Brooklyn, and finally arrived in 
 .'■ rizona en Thanksgiving day. Since that time 
 he has been engaged in contracting at Tucson 
 and Safiford, in which he has met with success. 
 Fraternally he is connected with the Knights 
 of Pvtliias. He has never married. 
 
 THOMAS SMITH. 
 
 The present popular recorder of Graham 
 countv, Thomas Smith, entered upon his new 
 duties on the first day of the twentieth century, 
 and is giving entire satisfaction to all concerned. 
 Possessing exceptional business ability and good 
 judgment, he was deemed to be just the man for 
 this important office and already has proved the 
 wisdom of his friends' choice. In the prime of 
 manhood, he was born in Scotland in 1858, and 
 received a high school education in the country 
 of the thistle and heather. 
 
 W'lun twenty years of age, in 1878, Mr. Smith 
 crossed the .\tl;:ntic. believing that the new 
 world affords better opportunities for advance- 
 ment to young men gf industry and upright hab- 
 its. Proceeding to Canada, he entiCred the em- 
 ploy of a large iron company and remained with 
 the firm for eight years, his duties being chiefly 
 of a clerical char:cter. Then he returned to 
 Scotland, visiting the home and friends of his 
 youth, and in March, 1887, came to the United 
 States, this time coming direct to Arizona, and 
 at once becoming an employee of the Arizona 
 Copper Company. This wonderfully far-sighted 
 ; nd prosperous company, upon assuming posses- 
 sion of the mining property which has been 
 controlled by it for nearly a score of years, built 
 a narrow-gauge railway seventy-one miles long. 
 
 connecting with the Southern Pacific at Lords- 
 burg. For more than thirteen years our sub- 
 ject held the office of railway agent at Clifton 
 for this railroad, which is owned and managed 
 by the company which originally constructed it. 
 Mis fidelity and promptness in the discharge of 
 all of his duties led to his becoming a candi- 
 date for a public office, and in November, 1900, 
 he was elected count}' recorder on the Repub- 
 lican ticket. Since becoming a voter in this 
 republic he has given his loyalty to the party 
 mentioned and keeps thoroughly posted on all 
 of the important issues of the day. He is identi- 
 fied with the Masonic order, being a past master 
 of Coronado Lodge No. 8, F. & A. M., of Clifton. 
 Besides he is a charter member of that lodge 
 and the same is true of Clifton Lodge No. 12, 
 A. 0. U. W. 
 
 Until his oiificial duties called him to the 
 county seat, Mr. Smith had his residence in 
 Clifton. His marriage took place in that town 
 in September, 1893, and his promising son, Sid- 
 ney is now in his seventh year. The family 
 have a multitude of friends and acquaintances in 
 Clifton and Solomonville, as well as in [jlaces 
 where they dwelt prior to their removal to Ari- 
 zona. 
 
 JOHN W. BOGAN. 
 
 The county assessor of Pima county was 
 elected on the Republican ticket to this impor- 
 tant position in 1898, and at the expiration of 
 his term was re-elected by a good majority. 
 Thus, from the beginning of 1899 to the com- 
 mencement of the year 1903, he is to be in 
 charge of the aftairs (jf this office, and thus far 
 has made an excellent record. He is an enthus- 
 iastic Republican, and keeps thoroughly posted 
 upon the great issues of the day. Formerly he 
 served on the county and on the territorial cen- 
 tral Republican committees, and his interest in 
 the success of his ])arty is unabated. 
 
 Both of the parents of John W. Bogan were 
 born in Ireland. The- father's birthplace was in 
 the city of Belfast, and in his boyhood he formed 
 the desire to follow the high seas. Shipping on 
 a vessel engaged in merchant marine service, 
 he spent several years in sailing from one port 
 to another, and in the course of time visited
 
 528 
 
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 nearly every part of the inhabited globe. When 
 only twenty-one years of age he had arrived at 
 the distinction of being captain of a ship, and in 
 1849, "hen the gold fever prevailed, he em- 
 barked on a vessel bound from Liverpool to 
 San Francisco, acting as a mate in order to make 
 the trip. The ship made the long journey 
 around South" America, and arrived at its des- 
 tination at the end of several months. Capt. 
 John Bogan, for that was his name, proceeded 
 to the gold fields on the Yuba, in Nevada 
 county, CaL, and continued there, actively en- 
 gaged in mining until 1872. He then went to 
 San Diego, CaL, and in 1877 came into Arizona, 
 where he had invested" in some mines, but after- 
 wards returned to San Diego, where he is yet 
 making his home. His wife, Mrs. Agnes 
 (Byrnes) Bogan, departed this life in that city 
 several years ago, and two of their six children 
 are deceased. 
 
 John W. Bogan was born in Grass Valley, 
 Nevada county, CaL, forty-six years ago, and 
 his youth was passed chiefly in Sierra county, 
 CaL, where he attended the public schools. In 
 1872 he went to San Diego and for three years 
 worked at the blacksmith's trade. Then, join- 
 ing the engineering corps of the Southern Pa- 
 cific Railroad, he spent about two years with 
 them, and by May, 1877, the road had been 
 laid out as far as Yuma. Since that time he has 
 been interested in mining in the Arivaca dis- 
 trict, as also is his brother, A. E. Bogan. For 
 the past fifteen years th.e cattle business has oc- 
 cupied a large share of his attention, and in 
 partnership with N. W. Bernard he owns a 
 valuable ranch and large herds of cattle near 
 Arivaca, about sixty miles south of Tucson. Fie 
 has investments in gold mining property, and 
 for some time was manager of the Yellow Jacket 
 Mining Company, and of the Boston Plomosa 
 Alining Company, of Sonora, Mexico. He has 
 made his home in Tucson only since 1898. 
 
 In this city Mr. Bogan married Catherine, 
 daughter of John Steuart, a California pioneer 
 miner, and sulisecjuently of .Arizona, in which 
 territory his death occurred. She was a native 
 of Sacramento, CaL The two children of Air. 
 and Mrs. Bogan are named respectively Ivo and 
 Steuart. In his social relations Mr. Bogan is 
 a popular member of the lodge and Hall Asso- 
 
 ciation of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men and of the lodge and club of the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks, of Tucson. 
 
 WILLIS AI. WARD. 
 
 'J o Air. Ward belongs the distinction of being 
 the best authority un the cultivation of citrus 
 fruits in the Salt River valley. His association 
 with this promising locality began in 1889, and 
 he located on the ranch which has since been 
 the object of his care in 1890. The ranch con- 
 sists of thirty acres, twenty-six of which are 
 under citrus fruits, mostly oranges. For many 
 }-ears Air. .Ward has devoted the greater portion 
 of his time to the study of horticulture, and to 
 a certain extent inherits his special aptitude for 
 this interesting branch of industry, his father 
 having applied himself in this direction during 
 the course of his long and active life. 
 
 In Geneva, N. Y., Mr. Ward was born No- 
 vember 8, 1849, ^"'l 's a son of Alyron and 
 Serena (Youmans) Ward, natives of New York. 
 When about three years of age he was taken by 
 his parents to Owego, N. Y., where he lived un- 
 til his thirteenth year. There the father engaged 
 in a fruit and nursery business, in which he at- 
 tained great success. The youth early devel- 
 oped habits of industry and thrift, and from his 
 father learned much of the important part of the 
 nursery business. The desire for independence 
 was paramount in his nature, and when sixteen 
 years old he went to Shelby county, 111., and en- 
 gaged as a traveling salesman for a nursery firm 
 of Bloomington. From Illinois he removed to 
 Mississippi and engaged in the fruit-growing 
 and nurser}* business, and subsequently con- 
 tinued in the same line of occupation in central 
 Texas. In Fort Worth and Palestine he was 
 successful for nearly thirteen years and later 
 Nvent to Lake county, Fla. In 1889 he sought 
 the larger possibilities of the far west and settled 
 in Arizona. 
 
 To the study of horticulture Air. Ward brings 
 a large fund of general information, obtained 
 through the avenues of an excellent education 
 which was obtained at the Owego public schools, 
 and at the Hudson River Institute at Claverack, 
 N. ^'. He has also read extensively along nian\'
 
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 531 
 
 lines, and learned much from keen observation 
 of men and events. 
 
 A Democrat in politics, Mr. Ward is yet not 
 an ofifice-seeker, preferring- to devote all of his 
 time to investigation along the lines of his favor- 
 ite occupation. He is public spirited and enter- 
 prising, and generously interested in all that 
 pertains to the uplniilding of the locality in 
 which he lives. . 
 
 DANIEL C. STEVENS. 
 
 1 )anicl C. Stevens, clerk of the United States 
 district court of the second judicial district of 
 Arizona, and secretary of the Arizona Consoli- 
 dated Stage & Livery Company, c.^me to the 
 territory in 1878, and has resided in Morence 
 since 1882. A native of Milan, Erie county, 
 Ohio, he was born in 1846, and at the age of 
 four years was taken by his parents to Sterling, 
 111., where, in 1857, his mother died and his 
 father then returned to Ohio. He himself was 
 taken to Wisconsin, and lived at Black River 
 Falls, Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. In 1862 
 he enlisted in Company G, Sixteenth Wisconsin 
 Infantry, and as a soldier served his country 
 fifteen months, being under Grant at the battle 
 of Shiloh, and receiving an honorable discharge 
 soon after the evacuation of Corinth. His en- 
 listment took place in the town of Eau Claire, 
 from which the famous war eagle, "Old Abe," 
 came. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Stevens began the occupation 
 which has engaged the greater part of his at- 
 tention up to the present time. During that 
 year he began to run a stage between Sparta 
 and Hudson, Wis. After a few years he re- 
 moved to Iowa and for several years was em- 
 ployed on various stage lines in that state. 
 Later he worked in Nebraska, Missouri, Kan- 
 sas, Indian Territory, and Texas, for the El 
 Paso mail line of stages. Altogether, he spent 
 about seven and one-half years staging through 
 that section. While in Missouri he ran the stage 
 between Sedalia and Springfield. March 7, 1870, 
 he became associated as manager with the Texas 
 & California Stage Company, with headcpiar- 
 ters at I'ort Smith, gradually working westward 
 through Sherman, Dallas. Richardson and El 
 Paso. In 1878 he came to .Arizona to assume 
 charge of the company's line !)etween Tucson 
 
 20 
 
 and Yuma, and has since been identified with 
 the same interests. At that time the expense 
 of chartering the stage from Texas to Cali- 
 fornia was $1,000. The year before the com- 
 pletion of the Southern Pacific Railroad, in 1880, 
 he started the Black Canon line of stages be- 
 tween Phoenix and Prescott, first running a 
 buckboard and later a stage, which always car- 
 ried a heavy load of passengers. 
 
 During the years that have passed since Mr. 
 Stevens came to Arizona, many changes have 
 taken place in the internal management of the 
 stage line running between Casa Grande and 
 Florence, and mnny have gone, after for a time 
 filling one or more of the various positions which 
 the company offers to deserving and industrious 
 people, but through all these changes Mr. Stev- 
 ens has retained the confidence of the company, 
 and has risen to his present responsible position 
 as secretary. The line is now conducted as the 
 Arizona Consolidated Stage & Livery Company, 
 with Mr. Stevens as resident manager at Flor- 
 ence, and Mr. Bollen manager at the Casa 
 Grande terminus. The stage makes a daily trip 
 between the two points, a distance of twenty- 
 eight miles. The route is interesting and pic- 
 turesque. The ruin of Casa Grande, which is 
 the objective point of many who take the trip, 
 is one of the oldest ruins in existence, and is 
 the supposed remains of the handiwork of the 
 most ancient civilization known to man. 
 
 In addition to his other interests, Mr. Stevens 
 owns one of the most extensive almond orchards 
 in the territory. The trees for this remunerative 
 venture were planted in 1894 and are now a 
 source of pride and profit to the owner. He 
 is also interested in general farming and stock- 
 raising, and owns considerable valuable prop- 
 erty in the county and town. As a stanch Re- 
 publican, he has been prominently identified with 
 the various local ofifices in the locality, and has 
 been supervisor four terms and county treas- 
 urer two terms. For one term he served as pro- 
 bate judge. In 1896 he was appointed clerk of 
 the United States di.'rtrict court. Fraternally, 
 he is associated with Gila Valley Lodge No. 9, 
 I'. & A. M., and the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen. He has been twice married, his 
 first wife having been Nora Coleman, while his 
 present wife was formerly Miss Ellen Bamrick.
 
 532 
 
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 Mr. Stevens has been one of the greatest pro- 
 moters of progress in the town of Florence, and 
 is regarded as one of its most rehable and enter- 
 prising citizens. 
 
 W. W. WILLIAMS. 
 
 A sterling pioneer of Arizona, dating his resi- 
 dence here from 1864, and since 1866 a citizen 
 of Tucson, Mr. Williams is known far and near, 
 especially on account of his extensive busi- 
 ness operations and public positions. He is a 
 direct descendant of a brother of Roger Wil- 
 liams of colonial New England fame, his an- 
 cestors living in Rhode Island and later in Con- 
 necticut and New York state. His grandfather, 
 Charles G. Williams, was the inventor of what 
 is well known as the Hoe printing press, and 
 possessed exceptional inventive genius. He had 
 taken out patents on the wonderful press and 
 had set up one in the Methodist Book Concern, 
 but as it proved too large for their business at 
 that time its merits had become little known. 
 Mr. Hoe, who had enough genius to know a 
 good thing when he saw it, stole the patent and 
 unrighteously reaped the fortune which should 
 have gone to the inventor. In fact, he became 
 a millionaire and today these presses are used 
 in the great publishing and printing houses of 
 this country. Charles T. Williams, father of 
 our subject, was in business in New York City 
 for a number of years and departed this life 
 in the metropolis. His wife, Eliza Wheeler, born 
 in Dutchess county, N. Y., was .a daughter of 
 Col. David and Abigail (Conklin) Wheeler, and 
 granddaughter of Colonel Wheeler, of Revolu- 
 tionary fame. The Wheelers originated in Eng- 
 land and settled near what is now Jamaica, L. I., 
 when they arrived in this country, but the perse- 
 cutions of the Tories forced them to change 
 their place of abode, and accordingly, they went 
 to Dutchess county, N. Y., where they were ex- 
 tensively engaged in farming. 
 
 W. W. Williams was born at Green River, 
 Columbia county, X. Y ., in January, 1840, and 
 was deprived of his mother by death when he 
 was four years of age, and only two of her chil- 
 dren lived to maturity. His early days were 
 spent in Berkshire county, Mass., in the home 
 of his grandmother Wheeler, and he completed 
 his education in Amenia (.\. Y.) Seminarv. 
 
 Then going to New York City he clerked in 
 a wholesale house from the time he was seven- 
 teen until he was twenty-four years of age. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Williams came to the west, go- 
 ing to the Isthmus of Panama and thence to 
 San Francisco. From that city he then went 
 liy steamer to Guaymas, Mexico, where for over 
 a year he was storekeeper for a mining com- 
 pany in the Sierra Colorado mountains. In 
 1866 he came to Tucson and in the following 
 year the partnership of Lord & Williams was 
 formed. For fifteen years the firm transacted a 
 a very extensive business, its volume at last 
 amounting to half a million dollars annually. 
 In 1881 the business was discontinued, and Mr. 
 Williams has since devoted his attention to 
 other enterprises. For three years he was the 
 manager of the Santa Rita Land & Mining Com- 
 pany and was an Indian trader at Montezuma. 
 Later he was actively engaged in the real-estate 
 and insurance business, but is now engaged in 
 the promotion of other interests intended to 
 further the material welfare of Pima county. 
 
 Before leaving New York City the young man 
 joined the volunteer militia, and patriotically did 
 his duty in helping to Cjuell the great riots there, 
 taking part in several engagements. Soon after 
 his permanent settlement in Tucson, and just 
 after the close of the Civil war, he was appointed 
 and served as postmaster here under President 
 Johnson. During Grant's first administration 
 he also acted as United States depositor. For 
 a short time he also acted in the capacity of 
 county treasurer, at another time was city treas- 
 urer of Tucson, and held other county offices. 
 Under President Harrison's administration he 
 was deputy collector of 'customs at Buenos 
 Ayres, Ariz. Initiated into Masonry in New 
 York City in 1878, he now belongs to Tucson 
 Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M., and in addition to 
 this is connected with the lodge and club of 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. From 
 the time when he cast his first ballot he has been 
 a stalwart supporter of the Republican party. 
 In the Arizona Pioneer Society he is an hon- 
 ored member and in the Episcopal Church of 
 this city holds the office of w'arden. 
 
 The marriage of ^Tr. Williams and Miss Eliza- 
 beth AFulford, (jf the old and prominent family 
 of Mulford, X. J., was solemnized in Tucson in
 
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 533 
 
 1875. Her paternal grandfather, Major Mul- 
 ford, was a soldier of the American war for in- 
 dependence, and was promoted from captain 
 to major for distinguished bravery at the battle 
 of Springfield. Mrs. Williams thus is a Daugh- 
 ter of the Revolution, and has been appointed 
 regent of that organization in Arizona. Having 
 been gifted with rare musical ability, she affords 
 her friends many an hour of pleasure by her 
 performances on the piano and Italian harp. 
 
 WILLIAM G. DAVIS. 
 
 In the death of William G. Davis the people 
 of Lehi ward, Maricopa Stake, sustained a se- 
 vere loss, though the memory of his good works 
 in this locality will not soon pass away. His 
 energy and thrift in business, his kindness and 
 goodness to his family and neighbors were 
 among his sterling traits of character, and thus 
 he endeared himself to all of his associates. The 
 imembellished history of his life, to those who 
 knew him well, is sufficient, for between the lines 
 can be read much that redounds to his praise. 
 
 Born in Wales, November 24, 1841, William 
 G. Davis had not yet reached the fifty-ninth 
 milestone in his life journey when, C^ctober 28, 
 lyoo, he was summoned to his reward. With 
 some relatives he immigrated to this country 
 when he was thirteen years old, and from that 
 time was dependent upon his own resources. 
 For some time he lived in Iowa, subsecjuently 
 going to LTtah, where he dwelt chieflv in Salt 
 Lake county. As soon as he had accumulated 
 sufficient money to provide for his parents, John 
 and Elizabeth (Cadwallader) Davis, he sent for 
 them, and continued to minister to their needs 
 until they were called to the silent land. In 
 the mean time he pursued various business en- 
 terprises with energy and increasing success, 
 and in 1892 came to Lehi. where, as formerly, he 
 prospered. The homestead in this precinct, 
 which he had greatly improved prior to his 
 death, is one of the valuable farms of this val- 
 ley, and the commodious and attractive resi- 
 dence thereon stands pre-eminent in this imme- 
 diate section. 
 
 Actively connected with many public enter- 
 j)rises, Mr. Davis served ;is a director of the 
 Utah Irrigating Canal while living in that part 
 
 of the west, and also acted in the capacity of 
 justice of the peace and constable in Salt Lake 
 county, Utah. In political matters he was a 
 Democrat. The Church of Jesus Christ of the 
 Latter-day Saints had few more devoted ad- 
 herents than he, and besides serving as a super- 
 intendent of the Sunday-school and in other of- 
 ficial positions, he went to England on an 
 ecclesiastical mission in 1880 and was gone from 
 home for about two years. 
 
 The first marriage of Mr. Davis occurred in 
 Utah, his wife being Esther Harrison, a native 
 of England. Four of the children born to them 
 survive, namely: Frank J., Alma M., Joseph W. 
 and Esther E., wife of Ray HufTaker. For a 
 second wife Mr. Davis chose Miss Emily Nix, 
 likewise of England, and she is yet living upon 
 the homestead near Lehi. Ten children blessed 
 the union of th's estimable couple, namely: 
 Fmma F., wife of Charles Rowlins; Hiram G., 
 May E., wife of Arthur Gibson; Charles T. ; 
 Henry W. ; Louie, wife of James Daley; Alice 
 A., Wilbur L., Hazel and Ethel. 
 
 CAPT. GEORGE D. CHRISTY. 
 
 Now one of the promising and ambitious 
 members of the bar in Phoenix, Captain Christy 
 was born in Osceola, Iowa, September 24, 1869, 
 and is a son of Col. William Christy. He was 
 educated in the public schools of Des Moines, 
 Iowa, and was a member of the class of 1883 in 
 the high school, but came to Phoenix before the 
 graduation in June. Arriving in the far west 
 he entered the Lhiiversity of Southern Cali- 
 fornia, and was graduated in 1890 with the de- 
 gree of Bachelor of Science. 
 
 As a business venture Mr. Christy engaged in 
 the cattle business while superintending his 
 father's farm, and met with a gratifying degree 
 of success. Following a long-thought-out de- 
 termination as to his future life work he entered 
 the law department of Harvard College in 1896, 
 temporarily discontinuing his studies in 1898. 
 Upon returning to Arizona he volunteered in the 
 Spanish-American war, and during the service 
 was raised from the rank of adjutant to that of 
 captain of Company A. After being nuistered 
 out in February of 1899, he returned to Harvard 
 College in the fall of the same year, but on this
 
 534 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 occasion, as before, was obliged to relinquish 
 the ambition to gfcduate owing to the illness 
 of his father. In igoo he was admitted to the 
 bar of Arizona, and is now conducting his legal 
 afifairs under the firm name of Millay & Christy. 
 Mr. Christy is variously interested in the po- 
 litical, social, and other enterprises which help 
 to enliven his progressive town. As a firm be- 
 liever in the ]irinciples and undertakings of the 
 Republican party he is destined, in the estima- 
 tion of his fellow-townsmen, by virtue of ability 
 and general equipment, for a brilliant future. 
 He is an ex-member and secretary of the county 
 committee, and was an alternate to both the 
 St. Louis and Philadelphia conventions. He is 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 Socially he is esteemed for his many admirable 
 and substantial traits of character, and is pop- 
 ular with all who come within the radius of 
 his optimistic and tactful personality. 
 
 JEROME DAIRY. 
 
 One of the finest and most prominent stock 
 and dairy farms in Yavapai county is being de- 
 veloped six miles below Jerome, by John F. 
 Dwyer. Although practically a new-comer to 
 this splendid grazing district, having arrived in 
 1898, he has started an enterprise which bids 
 fair to have few equals in this region. His orig- 
 inal purchase comprised the W. W. Nichols 
 dairy, with stock and general equipments. The 
 outlook for business was so promising and his 
 impression of the locality so favorable that the 
 following year he added to his possessions the 
 J. H. Strahan ranch of one hundred and twenty 
 acres. His herd is composed of the well-known 
 dairy strains, Holsteins, Durhams and Jerseys. 
 The grazing being excellent, the cattle arc in 
 fine condition, and iiroduce abundantly a rich 
 (|uality of milk which meets with a ready sale 
 in Jerome and vicinity. In fact, from one hun- 
 dred to one hundred and twenty gallons a day 
 are sold in Jerome alone. Like a progressive 
 dairyman, Mr. Dwyer is continually looking for 
 the most practical ways of mtnaging his busi- 
 ness, as may hv seen fiom his method of dclivi-r- 
 ing milk and cream in sealed glass jars, a method 
 universally recognized as the most approved and 
 
 wholesome way of delivering and preserving 
 milk. 
 
 Mr. Dwyer inherits an aptitude for farming 
 and stock-raising, his father having been a 
 farmer and he himself was reared to that occu- 
 pation on a Kansas farm. He was born in John- 
 son county, Kans., in 1871, and received his 
 education in the home county. In 1892 work 
 on the homestead was exchanged for a position 
 on the Jersey Mead dairy farm near Los Ange- 
 les, Cal., where he remained for nearly six years, 
 and during the latter part of that time acted as 
 manager of the dairy. The experience thus 
 gained was of incalculable benefit to him, en- 
 abling him to gain a thorough knowledge of the 
 stock business as conducted in the west, and 
 also of the dairy business when made a specialty. 
 This knowledge he is applying to his enterprises 
 in Yavapai county, with the most gratifying 
 results. Although his land is a dairy farm ex- 
 clusively, he is interested in beautifying the 
 property and has begun to make improvements 
 that will eventually add greatly to its value. In 
 fact, the greater portion of the hay consumed on 
 the dairy is raised on his own place, but no crops 
 for the general market. A man of enterprise 
 and definite purpose, he is devoting his atten- 
 tion to the successful management of his busi- 
 ness, and is entitled to credit for having accom- 
 plished so much in a comparatively brief period. 
 
 F. N. WOLCOTT. 
 
 Arriving in Tombstone in 1881, Mr. Wolcott 
 in time anticipated an additional demand in the 
 line of general merchandise, and laid in a com- 
 plete stock, the sale of which has more than 
 justified him in selecting this location as a field 
 for his future efforts. And it may be said that 
 the town has no more enthusiastic advocate of 
 its many excellencies, and he has practically 
 demonstrated his faith in the ultimate substan- 
 tial interests which are bound to come this way, 
 in the wake of the present and past depression. 
 In accordance with this faith he has invested in 
 real estate, and located in the midst of the great- 
 est gold and silver properties in the world with 
 the intention of awaiting the fulfillment of his 
 expectations. 
 
 A native of New York state, Mr. Wolcott was
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 537 
 
 reared in Batavia, 111., where he received a lib- 
 eral education in the public schools. He early 
 developed an ambition that reached beyond his 
 present surroundings, and in 1877 crossed the 
 continent to Los Angeles, Cal., where for four 
 years he was engaged in the wood, coal and 
 feed business. In 1881 he removed to Tucson, 
 and after a few months settled, in the same year, 
 in Tombstone, and August 25 became a partner 
 with Woodhead & Gay in the produce busi- 
 ness. In 1884 he became a partner of Mr. 
 Messick in the general merchandise business, 
 and in 1886 bought out his partner and added 
 a larger stock of general merchandise. From 
 a comparatively small beginning the business 
 has grown in proportion to the size of the town, 
 and Mr. Wolcott has met with the success which 
 his honest business methods ought to elicit. 
 
 As do most who live in Cochise county, Mr. 
 Wolcott is interested in mining in the Dragoon 
 mountains, being a stockholder in the Copper 
 Crown, and holding interests in several other 
 mining properties. The Copper Crown group 
 of mines is in the midst of the Dragoon moun- 
 tains, which have more than a local renown, 
 as the wonderful developments at present in 
 progress have brought to it the attention of the 
 whole mining world. The fact that the sur- 
 rounding mines have yielded beyond the fond- 
 est expectations of their stockholders, justifies 
 the owners of the Copper Crown in drawing at- 
 tention to the opportunities for investment, 
 which are destined to reap a reasonable inter- 
 est. The mines are located twenty miles from 
 Cochise station on the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road, and although the road does not extend to 
 the mines, a road may be constructed at a prac- 
 tically small cost. 
 
 In the fall of 1890 Mr. Wolcott was elected 
 on the Republican ticket to the office of probate 
 judge, and served in that capacity for one term. 
 He has taken an active part in local matters, 
 and is a bright example of a man who has over- 
 come many obstacles, working his way up in 
 this country of great and practically exhaust- 
 less possibility. To such are the great mining 
 towns of the west indebted for their subsequent 
 solidarity. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Wolcott was married to Emma 
 Kringle, of California. Born of this union are 
 
 three children, viz.: Eva, Lucie, and Henry New- 
 ton. The eldest daughter is a student at Knox 
 College, Galesburg, 111. Mr. Wolcott is a mem- 
 ber of the Ancient Order of L^nited Workmen. 
 Politically he has for years been recognized as 
 one of the influential Republicans of Cochise 
 county and this part of Arizona. 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY WILKY. 
 
 The well-managed ranch of Mr. Wilky is lo- 
 cated nine miles northwest of Phoenix, and is a 
 credit to its o^vner and to the surroundings of 
 which it is a part. Upon coming to the territorv 
 in 1883, ^Ir. Wilky took up one hundred and 
 sixty acres under the homestead act, upon 
 which he settled, and which he at once began to 
 improve. The farm has many advantages natu- 
 rally, and cultivation and the untiring efforts of 
 its owner have added doubly to its original 
 value. The land is devoted to the raising of 
 stock, alfalfa and grain, and to general farm- 
 ing. 
 
 Of German descent, Mr. Wilky was born in 
 Adams county. 111., June 19, 1865, and is a son 
 of Henry H. and Sophia (Lutgerding) Wilky. 
 His parents were born in Germany, and upon 
 coming to America settled among the early pio- 
 neers of Illinois, and grew to hold a prominent 
 place among the agriculturists of their locality. 
 They eventually migrated from Missouri to Ari- 
 zona in 1884, and afterward enjoyed the advan- 
 tages and promise of the Salt River valley. 
 
 When but a few months old William Henrv 
 Wilky was taken by his parents to Marion coun- 
 ty. Mo., where they carried on large farming 
 interests for several years. A later location was 
 in Shelby county. Mo., where they lived until 
 removing to Arizona. In 1887 he located on his 
 present ranch. Mrs. Wilky was formerly Emma 
 A. Mosier, a native of Hickory county. Mo., and 
 a daughter of Benedict and Mary A. (List) Mo- 
 sier, now of Calpela, Cal. Of this union there 
 are five children, viz.; Leslie G., \'era M., Henry 
 F., Clara A., and Homer B. Always interested in 
 educational advancement. Mr. \\'ilky served for 
 one term of three years on the board of trustees 
 of the Alhambra school district. During his 
 residence in this district he had charge of the 
 water distribution for the Maricopa and Grand
 
 538 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Canal Companies, in the western division of the 
 canals. In politics he is a Democrat. During 
 his residence in the valley he has witnessed 
 many changes, and has himself contributed not 
 a little towards the general advancement. He is 
 broad-minded and enterprising and highly es- 
 teemed by all who arc privileged to know him. 
 
 CHARLES M. LAYTON. 
 
 Too much credit cannot be given to the Lay- 
 ton family for the part they have played in the 
 upi)uilding and development of the Gila valley 
 and particularly Thatcher and vicinity. It is 
 a fact, known to all, that personal considera- 
 tions have weighed little with the representa- 
 tive members of the family, wdien the interests 
 of the public have been in jeopardy, for, in such 
 emergencies they have sacrificed their own 
 hard-earned means, and have spared no efifort 
 in the noble endeavor to aid their fellow-men. 
 The history of Arizona and Graham county 
 would be sadly lacking if for any reason the 
 names of the subject of this memoir, and that of 
 his honored father, recently passed to his reward, 
 were omitted. 
 
 The latter, President Christopher Layton, was 
 a native of England, whence he sailed to the 
 United States in 1842, then becoming an inti- 
 mate friend of Prophet Joseph Smith. Return- 
 ing to his native land, he spent some time there, 
 and on November 22, 1850, embarked on the 
 good ship "James Pennell," with two hundred 
 and fifty-four converts to the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter-day Saints (called "Mormon" 
 faith), bound for these shores. President Lay- 
 ton was in charge of this little party and per- 
 sonally paid the passage money for sixteen of 
 the poorer pilgrims to their land of promise. 
 When the war between the United States and 
 Mexico came on he enlisted in the "Mormon" 
 Battalion which marched across Arizona and the 
 southwestern territory to Los Angeles in 1847. 
 After reaching Los Angeles he served there un- 
 til he was granted an honorable discharge from 
 the army, and thence proceeded to the northern 
 part of California, where he aided in the build- 
 ing of the Sutor mill-race, at the point where 
 the first great historic find of the gold nugget 
 was made. 
 
 Settling in LTtah later on, President Layton 
 resided in Kaysville, Davis county, for a long 
 period, being bishop of that ward twenty-two 
 years, and June 17, 1877, was made councilor 
 of Davis Stake. Active in all great enterprises, 
 he became one of five directors of the Utah 
 Central Railroad, now a portion of the Oregon 
 Short Line, and aided in the construction of 
 that important road, the capital stock of which 
 then amounted to a million and a half dollars. 
 After acting in the capacity of councilor to the 
 president of the Davis Stake for four years, he 
 was called to the presidency of the St. Joseph 
 Stake, in the Gila valley. From that time, Feb- 
 ruary 25, 1883, until a short period before his 
 death, or, to be exact, until January 29, 1898, he 
 officiated as president here, great responsibilities 
 resting upon his shoulders. Then, released 
 from his arduous duties, he returned to his loved 
 old home in Kaysville, Utah, where, at the age 
 of seventy-seven, he passed away August 7» 
 1898, revered and honored by every one. Prior 
 to that event he had been ordained to the ofifice 
 of patriarch. 
 
 As one on a committee of investigation Presi- 
 dent Layton had bought the site and laid out 
 the town of Thatcher, building the first house 
 erected here, and altogether devoted about 
 $21,000 of his own to improvements. He also 
 was the prime mover in the work and chief 
 owner of the LTnion canal, and one season, when 
 the little colony here was poor and struggling, 
 a great flood destroyed a portion of the canal, 
 and President Layton promptly expended 
 $1,700 of his own funds in order to save the 
 crops of his people. By the hardest toil he had 
 learned the value of money, for at a very early 
 age he had been forced to enter the strife for a 
 livelihood, and by his own energy and labor 
 had amassed his little fortune. At one time he 
 and his sons owned upwards of two thousand 
 acres in Davis county, Utah, and fully three 
 hundred acres of finely improved land there is 
 still in the possession of his heirs. His ideas in 
 regard to the. reclaiming of arid lands were quite 
 original and thoroughly practical and he it was 
 who first sowed alfalfa in Davis county. For 
 the seed he paid at the rate of a dollar per 
 poimd, buying one hundred pounds, and the 
 enterprise was so successful that soon a large
 
 MR. AND MRS. HENRY H. WILKY.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 541 
 
 part of the agricultural lands of the count)' were 
 planted with alfalfa. The town of Layton, near 
 Safford. Ariz., was named in his honor, March 
 2, 1884, by Bishop J. R. Welker, now president 
 of that ward. The wife of his youth had died 
 prior to his second sailing from England, and 
 subsequently he married Sarah Martin, the 
 mother of the subject of this sketch. 
 
 Charles M. Layton was born in Kaysville, 
 Utah, July 3, 1862, and was reared to manhood 
 in that place. His experience in the business 
 world conmienced early, as he was only twelve 
 \-ears old when he first worked as a clerk in a 
 local store. He supplemented his common- 
 school education by a six months' course in the 
 Utah University, of Salt Lake City. For six 
 years he was employed in his father's store and 
 then was taken into partnership. This busi- 
 ness, located at Layton, a town near Kaysville, 
 and named for the senior Layton, was known as 
 the Farmers' Union, and for eight years our 
 subject was associated with the same. He then 
 opened a meat market, and for a number of years 
 also had agricultural investments. Elected as 
 one of the commissioners of Davis county, he 
 served in that office until he had completed his 
 plans for removal to Thatcher, when he re- 
 signed. 
 
 Reaching this thriving place March 17, 1897, 
 C. M. Layton at once associated with the firm 
 of C. Layton & Co., and started in business as 
 a general merchant. Rapidly the firm built up 
 a fine trade, and today undoubtedly receives a 
 large share of the local patronage. The name 
 as it now stands is Layton, Allred & Co., known 
 far and wide, and highly respected. They own 
 the new and large North Star Roller Flour Mill, 
 and between four and five hundred acres of 
 well cultivated and irrigated land near Thatcher 
 and in addition to these investments a well- 
 managed creamery and ice factory, owned by 
 the firm, supplies the people of this region with 
 two of the great staples of modern life. 
 
 The high esteem in which Mr. Layton is held 
 has been manifested by his fellow-citizens in 
 numerous ways. Politically he is a Democrat, 
 but not an aspirant to public positions. For 
 two years he was a director and for one year 
 was president of the board of the Union canal, 
 and vet is next to the largest holder of stock in 
 
 the company. At the same time that President 
 Kimljall was elevated to his high office, Mr. 
 Layton was appointed as his second councilor, 
 and is yet serving in that relation, the mantle 
 of his revered father, in a spiritual sense, hav- 
 ing descended upon him, at least in a measure, 
 as the faithful believe. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Layton married Miss Mary Ann 
 McAIaster, daughter of W. A. and Margaret 
 (Ferguson) McMaster, the former one of the 
 first settlers in Salt Lake City, Utah. Six chil- 
 dren constitute the family of our subject and 
 wife, namely: Sarah V., Alexander, Charles 
 M., Jr., Grace, Dora I. and Lucile. 
 
 HENRY H. WTLKY. 
 
 In the estimation of the many friends and as- 
 sociates who passed his way during his long 
 and useful life, Henry H. \\'ilky was regarded as 
 a man possessing singularly fine and noble traits 
 of character. By his own unaided efforts he 
 arose to an enviable position in the communi- 
 ties in which he resided, and after coming to 
 Maricopa county became one of the most suc- 
 cessful tillers of the soil in the Salt River valley. 
 In time he came to have a profound faith in the 
 future of this garden spot of the territory, and 
 his ranch, located nine miles northwest of Phoe- 
 nix, where his death occurred December 21. 
 1900, displays many evidences of his unceasing 
 toil and expectations. 
 
 Inheriting the strong and reliable character- 
 istics of the sons of Germany, augmented by a 
 substantial home training and common school 
 education, Mr. Wilky was born in Brunswick. 
 Germany, January 8, 1838. His parents were 
 farmers and natives of the same province, and 
 lived and died on the old family homestead. 
 Their son Henry developed an early ambition 
 for new fields in which to carry on his life work, 
 and when seventeen years of age, in 1855, he 
 boarded a sailing vessel bound for America, and 
 landed, after a long and dangerous voyage, in 
 New Orleans. Gradually he made his way up 
 the Mississippi river to Ouincy, 111., and went 
 nine miles out of the city to the farm of Peter 
 Rump, in whose employ he remained for several 
 vcars. On the 2d of April, 1861, he married 
 Sophia .\. Lutgerding, a near neighbor, and a
 
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 daughter of George and Elizabeth (Rump) Lut- 
 gerding, residents of Adams county, 111. 
 
 Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wilky 
 departed from the familiar surroundings of 
 Ouincy, and removed to jMarion county, Mo., 
 where they lived on a farm for a few years go- 
 ing later to Shelby county. Mo., where they con- 
 tinued to farm. Not satisfied with Missouri as 
 a permanent place of residence, he eventually 
 sold his property there, and in November of 
 1884 moved to Arizona. The same year they 
 located on a farm fourteen miles northwest of 
 Phoenix, and by industry and application, suc- 
 ceeded in accumulating a neat little sum in 
 farming and stock-raising. In 1894 the family 
 removed to the homestead where now live Mrs. 
 W'ilkv and the daughter of the house, Lena 
 ^ladelia. 
 
 Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Wilky, viz.: George L., who is conducting a 
 farm about a mile from the homestead: William 
 H., who is also a farmer and lives a mile and 
 a half west of the home: Erederick Daniel, who 
 married Miss Forrest, a daughter of R. O. 
 Green, and who died January 24, 1900; John 
 Adolph, who died July 12, 1886, when in his 
 seventeenth year: Clara Ellen, who is the wife 
 of John J. Meyer, and lives a mile west of her 
 mother; and Lena Madelia, who is at home with 
 her mother. While living in Adams county, 111., 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wilky became members of the 
 Evangelical Lutheran Church. In politics Mr. 
 Wilky was a stanch Democrat, and though not 
 a seeker after official recognition, was yet inter- 
 ested in local and national affairs. In his death 
 the community lost a valued and honored citi- 
 zen, and his family a loving father, husband and 
 friend. 
 
 J. W. DORRIS. 
 
 It is a conviction with shrewd, well-informed 
 business men that not more than one in a hun- 
 dred can become rich and prosperous in the 
 grocery trade, and that not more than one in 
 ten can more than gain a precarious existence in 
 this calling, owing to the fact, doubtless, that 
 so nnich credit is almost an inevitable feature, 
 the dealer thus becoming the prey of the desti- 
 tute and the unprincipled. In Phoenix, how- 
 ever, these conditions do not prevail to any ex- 
 
 tent, and the success which J. W. Dorris has 
 attained within the past few years is almost 
 phenomenal. Several of his brothers have be- 
 come rich and influential in commercial lines, 
 and beyond question they possess special abil- 
 ity and the genius which cannot fail of reaching 
 its desired goal. 
 
 The youngest of the eight sons of J. M. and 
 Nancy J. (Powell) Dorris, the subject of this 
 article was born near Winona, Miss., September 
 8, 1862. His birthplace was a fine old planta- 
 tion, and there he spent the happy years of 
 his youth. His grandfathers, James Dorris and 
 Daniel Powell, were well-to-do planters of the 
 state mentioned, and J. M. Dorris managed 
 over seven hundred acres. The father of James 
 Dorris was a participant in the war of the Revo- 
 lution, and J. M. served for two years in a Mis- 
 sissippi regiment during the Civil war, while 
 a brother of his wife was a veteran of the Mex- 
 ican war. (For further family history, the reader 
 is referred to the sketch of C. D. Dorris.) 
 
 Having completed his education in Clinton 
 College, J. W. Dorris engaged in teaching in 
 Mississippi. In 1883 he went to California, 
 where he traveled over almost the entire state, 
 and became quite familiar with its characteristics. 
 In 1886 he went to school and the two follow- 
 ing years taught at Woodland, Cal. In May, 
 1888, he came to Phoenix, and bought a half 
 interest in a very small confectionery business 
 with his brother, R. B. Dorris. In August of 
 the same year he returned to his old home, 
 where he married one of the native-born daugh- 
 ters of Mississippi, Miss Sallie Gelena Wil- 
 son. She is a lady of education and culture, 
 and prior to her marriage taught school for a 
 short time. Two children, Ruth Temple and 
 Rema Mae, aged ten and eight, respectively, are 
 the chief treasures of their parents. 
 
 J. W. Dorris continued in the confectionery 
 business with his brother until 1891, when they 
 sold out. and the next day he purchased a half 
 interest in the business of R. W. Draper & Co., 
 six months afterward purchasing his partner's 
 share, and since that time he has conducted the 
 enterprise alone. In 1892 he removed his stock 
 of goods to his present central location, though 
 at first his store was only a quarter of its pres- 
 ent dimensions. As the years passed his busi-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 545 
 
 ness increased so rapidly that he ke])t adding to 
 his acconiniochitions until today the space oc- 
 cupied here comprises two floors, eacli 56x100 
 feet, with storage rooms 36x77 feet in dimen- 
 sions. The location is Nos. 41-47 East Wash- 
 ington street and No. 15 South First street. 
 Since 1898 he has been carrying on a wholesale 
 as well as retail trade, and has warehouses on 
 Jefiferson street. In order to meet the demands 
 of his extensive trade he is obliged to keep 
 seven wagons going, and employs twenty-five 
 clerks in the various departments of the busi- 
 ness. According to the verdict of those in a 
 position to know whereof they speak, this is by 
 far the largest exclusive grocery establishment 
 in Arizona, and thus, within a decade, the pro- 
 prietor has achieved a remarkable measure of 
 success. 
 
 Politically Mr. Dorris supports the Demo- 
 cratic platform. He is a member of the Phoe- 
 nix Board of Trade, is one of its directors and 
 in 1899 was treasurer of the same. In religious 
 faith a Presbyterian, he is president of the board 
 of trustees and contributes liberally to the work 
 of the church. 
 
 SAMUEL S. STOUT. 
 
 The wonderful development of Maricopa 
 county owes much to the untiring efforts of 
 Mr. Stout, the county sheriff, who has lived 
 within the boundaries of Arizona since 1883, 
 and associated his ability and large business 
 ideas with the practically exhaustless fertility, 
 stored during unknown centuries. Upon his 
 well managed ranch about eight miles north- 
 west of Phoenix he conducts large cattle and 
 alfalfa raising interests, and has in all three 
 hundred and twenty acres. Redeemed from the 
 sterility of the desert, and its crude and unprom- 
 ising aspect, it has more than repaid the un- 
 ceasing toil of its owner, and is now one of the 
 finest ranches for miles around. 
 
 For a time after coming to the territory Mr. 
 Stout was interested in mining, and also en- 
 gaged in railroad construction. It was not un- 
 til 1887 that he decided to turn his attention ex- 
 clusively to general farming and cattle raising. 
 He was one of the first settlers in the localitv, 
 and one of the most earnest and enthusiastic of 
 the pioneers. He had the advantage also of a 
 
 wide knowledge of the world, and the benefit of 
 an extended business experience. 
 
 .\ native of Nashville, Tenn., \h. Stout was 
 born March 21, 1856, and is a son of Ira A. and 
 Sarah A. (Graham) Stout, both natives of Ten- 
 nessee. When a lad of only six years he was 
 deprived of the affectionate care and oversight 
 of his mother, and when eight years of age was 
 taken by his father to Dover, Tenn., where he 
 lived until he was sixteen years of age. At this 
 time he sought the larger possibilities of the 
 far west, and spent a number of years in differ- 
 ent states, finally going to Mexico and Texas, 
 where for some time he was engaged in rail- 
 roading. In 1883 he took up his permanent resi- 
 dence in Arizona, and has since been associated 
 with its most substantial growth. 
 
 In November of 1900 Mr. Stout was elected 
 sheriflf of Maricopa county, by one of the larg- 
 est majorities ever given a sheriif in the county. 
 While discharging the arduous duties of this 
 responsible position, he has managed to recon- 
 cile the dissenting elements, and to adjust mat- 
 ters to the satisfaction of all concerned. For one 
 term he has served as trustee of school district 
 No. 6. He has always been a stanch Demo- 
 crat and a strong and influential leader of his 
 party in the county. Fraternally he is associ- 
 ated with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows at Phoenix, and with the Sons of the 
 .\merican Revolution, belonging to the Arizona 
 chapter. This latter distinction belongs to him 
 by virtue of the services rendered during the 
 Revolutionary war, by his great-grandfather, 
 .\brahani St(nit. who served with courage and 
 distinction as an offi.cer in the army. He was a 
 native of New Jersey, and one of the original 
 members of the Society of the Cincinnati. 
 
 WILSON W. DOBSON. 
 
 This highly respected agriculturist of the Salt 
 River valley owns a valuable ranch four and a 
 half miles southwest of Mesa. He is a native of 
 Perth Ontario, Canada, his birth having oc- 
 curred December 24, 1862. His parciUs, George 
 and Eliza (Johnston) Dobson, also were born 
 and reared in Ontario, and his ancestors are of 
 English and Irish descent. When he was six- 
 teen years of age Wilson W. Dobson removed
 
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 from his birthplace to Carieton, Ontario, and 
 continued to live at home until he reached his 
 majority. In the mean while he received a lib- 
 eral education and a good grounding in the 
 principles which lead to honorable success. 
 
 In 1884 our subject started for the far west, 
 and, arriving in California, found employment 
 in the fruit-raising district near San Jose. In 
 the winter of 1887 he came to Arizona and 
 homesteaded a quarter section of land — a part 
 of his present possessions here. Having ex- 
 pended much time, energy and means in render- 
 ing it a model farm, he now may look with pride 
 upon what he has accomplished in so short a 
 period. By subsequent purchase he has in- 
 creased the boundaries of his homestead, and 
 now owns three hundred and twenty-eight acres. 
 His success in all of his business undertakings, 
 and they have not been a few, is the direct re- 
 sult of well applied principles of industry and 
 perseverance united with a sterling integrity 
 and fairness which have won him the confidence 
 and genuine esteem of the people of this com- 
 munity. His w-ord alone carries with it the 
 weight of a legally-drawn document, and the 
 great interest which he displays in all public 
 improvements and affairs of general moment to 
 the territory and Union arouses the respect of 
 his acquaintances. For two terms he has been 
 a director of the Utah ditch of Lehi. Now a 
 naturalized citizen of this republic, he uses his 
 right of franchise in support of the Republican 
 party. In religious afTairs he takes a special in- 
 terest and is an active member and worker in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, of Mesa. His wife, 
 formerly Miss Emma Argue, is a native of Carle- 
 ton, Ontario. She is the daughter of George 
 and Sarah Jane Argue, natives of Ontario, and of 
 Irish descent. The father is deceased and the 
 mother, at an advanced age, is living in the tdwn 
 of Wellington, Ontario. A son, Harold A., 
 blesses the union of Mr. and Mrs. Dobson. 
 
 WILLIAM A. WILSON. 
 
 The Wilson family is of Scotch-Irish extrac- 
 tion, and the first members to immigrate to 
 America settled in Virginia, and became identi- 
 fied with the agricultural interests of that state. 
 The paternal grandfather, Robinson Wilson, 
 
 was a soldier in the war of 181 2, and served 
 his country with courage and distinction. Will- 
 iam A. Wilson was born in the historic Shenan- 
 doah valley, in \'irginia, October 13, 1852, and 
 is a son of James M. and Ann E. (Robinson) 
 Wilson, who were both born in Virginia. 
 
 In his native Berkeley county, Va., Mr. Wil- 
 son passed an early existence not unlike that 
 experienced by the average farmer's son. He 
 was educated at Berkeley Academy in A'irginia, 
 and early evinced studious and methodical hab- 
 its. As an independent venture, he engaged as 
 a clerk in a mercantile establishment in Charles- 
 town for several years. Subsequently moving 
 west, he went into business for himself in Fort 
 Scott, Kans. In 1887, in search of a desirable 
 permanent location, he spent some time in Col- 
 orado and New Mexico, terminating his travels 
 in Kansas City, Mo. There he entered the em- 
 ploy of the Armour Packing Company, and for 
 thirteen years represented this house on the 
 road. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Wilson came to Arizona, and has 
 since been a resident of this promising terri- 
 torv. In 1892 he purchased eighty acres of 
 practically desert land, which, under his able 
 and conscientious management, bears at the 
 present time but a faint resemblance to its 
 former condition of sterility and apparent use- 
 lessness. In 1893 he started the almond and 
 orange orchard which is now one of the best in 
 Salt River valley, and comprises twenty-five 
 acres of land. Of this, ten acres are under 
 oranges and fifteen under almonds. In addi- 
 tion he has fifteen acres under apricots, and 
 the remainder of the land is as yet undeveloped. 
 Aside from his horticultural interests he is at 
 present engaged in the brokerage business at 
 Phoenix, and has an offlce in the Fleming block. 
 He was united in marriage with Cleo Camp, 
 who was born in Georgia. Of this union there 
 is one daughter, Mary E. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Wilson is associated 
 with the Democratic party, but entertains very 
 liberal ideas regarding the politics of the ad- 
 ministration. Fraternally he is a member of 
 the Masonic order. He is among the best and 
 most favorably known of the residents of Salt 
 River valley, and is esteemed for his many ad- 
 mirable and enterprising traits of mind and
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 547 
 
 character, and for the generosity which impels 
 an active interest in all that pertains to the gen- 
 eral well-being of the conmninitv. 
 
 HON. HENRY C. ROGERS. 
 
 Possessing the pluck and spirit of the true 
 frontiersman, Ilcnrv C. Rogers has experienced 
 and conquered mo'St of the obstacles which 
 came into his pioneer life, and is entitled to a 
 prominent place in the annals of Arizona. Near- 
 ly half a centurv ago he identified himself with 
 the upbuilding of Utah and for almost a quarter 
 of a century has been a resident of Arizona. 
 
 The birth of H. C. Rogers occurred October 
 19, 1833, in New York City. He is a descend- 
 ant of that John Rogers, of England, who was 
 Ijurned at the stake on account of his religious 
 convictions. On the maternal side he is the 
 grandson of Ebenezer Collins, who served with 
 the colonial patriots of New England in the war 
 of the Revolution, being in the ranks for seven 
 long years. The parents of our subject, David W. 
 and Martha (Collins) Rogers, were natives of 
 Vermont and New Hampshire, respectively. In 
 1838 the family started towards the west, cross- 
 ing the country in a wagon drawn by horses. 
 They settled in Lee county, Iowa, where they 
 remained until 1846, when they removed to Ma- 
 haska county, same state, and dwelt near Oska- 
 loosa until 1850. Then for two years they lived 
 in Polk county, Iowa, thence going across the 
 plains to Provo, Utah county, Utah, where the 
 parents both died. 
 
 The boyhood of our subject was chiefly spent 
 in Iowa, where he attended a subscription school 
 held in a log cabin. From his father he learned 
 the trade of cabinet-making, and also became 
 a practical wagon-maker, at both of which call- 
 ings he was more or less engaged until a few 
 years ago, though at the same time he owned 
 and operated a farm. 
 
 For a wife Mr. Rogers chose Miss Emma 
 Higbee, a native of Caldwell county. Mo., and 
 of the eleven children born to them nine are 
 yet living. In November, 1876, the family 
 started from their former home towards the 
 south, making the long journey to this locality 
 with wagons, and being part of a little colonv 
 which arrived in Lehi March 6, 1877. Here he 
 
 took up a quarter section of government land, 
 and by well applied energy and labor made a 
 valuable homestead, reclaiming a portion of the 
 desert. Of his original property he now re- 
 tains only sixty acres, which, however, amply 
 provides for his needs. 
 
 In November, 1893, Mr. Rogers was elected 
 on the Democratic ticket to the Arizona legis- 
 lature, where he served for one term, or two 
 years. While a resident of Utah he served for 
 seven years as sherifT of Utah county, and for a 
 similar number of years acted in the capacity of 
 city marshal of Provo, Utah. At the present 
 time he is the first councilor to the president 
 of the Maricopa Stake of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of the Latter-day Saints, and thus is a 
 powerful factor in his community, being looked 
 up to and consulted in everything pertaining to 
 their interests. 
 
 HON. ADAMSON CORNWALL. 
 
 Since 1880 the subject of this article has been 
 prominent in the affairs of Mohave county, and 
 for a quarter of a century has been closel}' identi- 
 fied with its development and progress. Time 
 and again he has been called to positions of 
 responsibility and trust, and always has abun- 
 dantly justified the confidence which the public 
 reposed in him. In the autumn of 1880 he was 
 elected to represent this district in the terri- 
 torial legislature of Arizona, and during his two 
 years of service in that capacity was chairman 
 of the committee on education and was a mem- 
 ber of several other committees. In 1884 he 
 was a candidate for the position of joint coun- 
 cilman of the northern district of Arizona and 
 was defeated by Dr. Ainsworth, his political 
 opponent, who received a small majority, carry- 
 ing twG of the live counties interested. In 1886 
 Mr. Cornwall was honored by nomination to 
 the same office, and was triumphantly elected 
 by a plurality vote of 982. He served his full 
 term as president of the territorial council, and 
 won the high regard and lasting esteem of the 
 general public by his wise and manly course. 
 Agaifi, in 1898, they manifested their great re- 
 liance upon him by electing him as treasurer 
 of Mohave county, and as such he served for 
 two years. From his early manhood he has 
 been devoted to the policy of the Democratic
 
 548 
 
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 party, and has bepn an influential factor in its 
 councils, frequently being selected as a dele- 
 gate to local and territorial conventions. 
 
 A westerner by birth and every association 
 and sentiment, Hon. ' Adamson Cornwall cer- 
 tainly is true to the vital interests of the Pacific 
 slope, and especially of this, his chosen com- 
 munity. His father, Rev. Josephus A. Cornwall, 
 was a pioneer minister in Oregon^ and for about 
 a score of years labored earnestly in the cause 
 of Christianity in that state, being a leading 
 light in the Presbyterian denomination there. 
 He._was a native of Georgia, whence he came 
 to the west in 1846, thus being among the her- 
 alds of on-coming civilization, and one of the 
 first settlers of •Oregon. His death occurred 
 when he had arrived at the advanced age of 
 eighty-two years, at which time he was a resi- 
 dejit of Ventura county, Cal. His wife, the 
 mother of our subject, bore the maiden name 
 of Nancy Hardin. Of their twelve children nine 
 are yet living and two, Adamson and William 
 Cornwall, are residents of Mohave county. 
 
 The date of our subject's nativity is June 10, 
 1850, his birthplace being near Salem, Ore. 
 His youth was chiefly spent in California, and 
 his literary education was obtained in Sonoma 
 College, after which he engaged in teaching 
 in the public schools of that state for two years. 
 In December, 1875, he came to Arizona from 
 Ventura county, Cal., and located upon a ranch 
 situated in the southern part of Mohave county. 
 From that time until the present he has been 
 more or less extensively interested in the cattle 
 business and in farming, and in order to ren- 
 der his property more valuable he had ditches 
 made from the Sandy river, thus affording irri- 
 gation privileges when necessary. By industry 
 and perseverance he has won a welJ deserved 
 prosperity, for he came here without capital or 
 resources, but with a firm resolve to make his 
 own way. That his sterling integrity is relied 
 upon might be proved in many ways, and that 
 his financial ability is believed in. has been fre- 
 (|ucntly shown, as, for instance, when he has 
 been appointed as administrator of mining prop- 
 erty, as he has been several times. In the 
 local lodge of Odd Fellows he is holding the 
 office of treasurer at this writing. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Cornwall married Miss Jennie L. 
 
 Hunt, of Monterey county, Cal. Faithfully she 
 shared his joys and sorrows, and in 1898 was 
 called to her reward in the better land. Five 
 children are left to mourn the loss of a loving 
 mother, namely: Amy L., Thomas Lane, Clay 
 A., Irene, and Clarence. 
 
 J. X. WOODS. 
 
 The splendid opportunities for sheep raising 
 afforded by the soil, climate, and general fitness 
 of Navajo county, have attracted the practical 
 attention of many who desired to engage in 
 this occupation, and without exception all have 
 succeeded who brought to bear the necessary 
 application and persistency of effort. Though 
 by early training a railroad man, which occupa- 
 tion he followed for years, Mr. Woods is now de- 
 voted entirely to his sheep, and is one of the 
 largest and most successful breeders in the 
 county. Nor are his claims for consideration 
 confined to this branch of work, for he is one 
 of the prominent men of the locality, and has 
 numerous interests which fill a busy life. 
 
 Though born in Ottawa City, Canada, in 1844, 
 Mr. Woods was reared in Cleveland, Ohio, 
 where he was educated and learned the trade 
 of engineer. He was subsequently connected 
 with the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Rail- 
 road for several years, and in 1869 came to 
 Missouri as an engineer on the Missouri Pacific 
 Railroad, his run being between Chamois and 
 Kansas City. During this time he lived in 
 Sedalia, and his engine drew a passenger train. 
 In 1874 he accepted a position as engineer on 
 the \'andalia road between Terre Haute and 
 St. Louis, and remained with this company until 
 1880, residing the while at Effingham, 111. He 
 was later connected with the Atlantic & Pacific 
 road until it was incorporated with the Santa 
 Fe. During 188 1 he had the run between Albu- 
 querque, N. M., and Enid, and then had charge 
 of the head engine in laying the track between 
 Fort Wingate and Canon Diablo. In 1882 he 
 entered upon five years of service as master 
 mechanic in the shops of the Atlantic & Pacific 
 at Winslow, and then took a run out of Winslow 
 on the passenger going west to Peach Springs, 
 which he continued until 1898. 
 
 In connection with his railroad work Mr.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 Woods became interested in the sheep industry 
 in 1884, on a ranch five miles south of WiUiams. 
 He branched out so extensively that in 1898 
 he found that he could no longer attend to his 
 duty in both directions, so relinquished the rail- 
 road for the sheep business. One of the larg- 
 est raisers in the county, he has on hanil all 
 the time between six and ten thousand animals, 
 and his brand is a fine kind of Merinos. I'nless 
 unforeseen circumstances arise, the annual crop 
 of wool averages between sixty and ninety 
 thnusand pornds. He was seriously afTected by 
 ihe wool p.-nic of 1893 and 1896, but although 
 suffering a loss of about $20,000, has since re- 
 trieved his reverses and enjoys every prospect 
 of increased success in the future. 
 
 Ccnsiderab'.e real-estate has come into Mr. 
 Wood's possession. He erected the first two- 
 story building in Winslow and has built several 
 residences which are rented out to other parties. 
 In politics a Republican, he has taken an active 
 p-rt in local and territorial affairs, and served 
 on the first elected board of supervisors of 
 Navajo county. In 1898 he was again elected, 
 and received the highest vote, which consti- 
 tutes a hold over, and is now entering upon his 
 fifth year. During his first term he was a mem- 
 ber of the building committee which constructed 
 the brick court house and jail at the county 
 seat. In 19CO Mr. Woods was tendered the 
 nomination to the legislative council. In fra- 
 ternal circles he is associated with the local lodge 
 of Elks, and is a member of the Brotherhood 
 of Locomotive Engineers. In connection with 
 the latter organization he was a delegate from 
 the Winslow Division No. 134, to the national 
 convention r.t New York City in 1887. He has 
 filled all of the chairs of the local division. 
 
 EDWIN L. DAVIS. 
 
 Erom his young manhood, Mr. Davis, of Clif- 
 ton, has been connected with- mining operations, 
 in one capacity or another, and has had a long 
 practical acquaintance with the treatment of 
 ores. He was born in England in 1852 and 
 attended the conmion schools of his neighbor- 
 hood until he had mastered the elementary 
 branches of knowledge. When fifteen years 
 old. he determined to seek his fortune in Amer- 
 
 ica, and immediately after reaching these shores 
 proceeded to Utah. There he worked in a num- 
 ber of mining camps and met with fair success 
 in his efforts. In 1881 he went to Colorado, 
 where he remained until the autumn of the fol- 
 h^wing year. 
 
 During the past nineteen years Mr. Davis has 
 been a resident of Arizona and for a short time 
 w.is in the employ of the Sonora Railroad. He 
 lived in Tucson for about a year and a half. 
 There he was in the employ of the Columbia 
 Copper Company and for the first time was asso- 
 ciated with the smelting of ores. At the end 
 of eighteen months with that concern, he went 
 to Johnsonville, where he worked for the Co- 
 chise Copper Company about one year. Since 
 1884 he has dwelt in Clifton and for fifteen years 
 of this period was foreman of the great smelting 
 pl-nt of the .\rizona Copper Company. Large 
 responsibilities have thus rested upon his shoul- 
 ders, but he has been equal to every duty and 
 emergency and year by year has added to his 
 reputation as a mining man. 
 
 One of the charter members of the Clifton 
 Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, Mr. Davis also belongs to the Masonic fra- 
 ternity, having joined the Clifton Lodge. His 
 franchise is used in behalf of the platform and 
 nominees of the Republican party. About ten 
 years ago, in October, 1891, Mr. Davis married 
 Mrs. Ella Richardson, and their pleasant home 
 in this town indicates their good taste and love of 
 the beautiful. . 
 
 ADOLI'H TYROLER, M. D. 
 
 The physical woes of the residents of Williams 
 are ably ministered to by Dr. Tyroler, the popu- 
 lar and successful physician, surgeon and drug 
 merchant. In the midst of this thriving little 
 town he has'built up a large and lucrative prac- 
 tice, which not only includes the dwellers within 
 the city limits, but in both directions along the 
 line of the Santa Ee Radroad. His skill in diag- 
 nosis and treatment lias struck a grateful and 
 responsive chord in the hearts of all who have 
 benefited bv his erudition, and he has gained 
 friends as well as patronage. 
 
 In C.rand Rapids. Mich., Dr. Tyroler was 
 born, educated and grew to manhood. He early 
 showed an inclination for professional life, and
 
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 decided to devote his future to a mastery, as 
 far as possible, of medical and surgical science. 
 The opportunity for study along these lines was 
 found at Ann Arbor, Mich., from which institu- 
 tion he was graduated in the class of 1894. As 
 a preliminary practice he located in Ithaca, 
 Mich., and two years later, in i8g6, returnecl to 
 his native city of Grand Rapids, and remained 
 for two years. 
 
 In January of 1898 Dr. Tyroler located in Wil- 
 liams, and started a general practice. He be- 
 came the manager of the Williams Drug Com- 
 pany, in January of 1900. The drug store is a 
 neat and well-stocked enterprise, and carries, 
 besides drugs, a general line of sundries. The 
 'responsibilities of the Doctor are augmented by 
 his positions as surgeon for the Santa Fe Rail- 
 road Company, between Williams and Seligman, 
 and for the Santa Fe. Phoenix & Prescott Rail- 
 road, at Ash Fork, .\riz. The general upbuild- 
 ing of the town has ever been paramount in 
 his mind and efforts, and any worthy enterprise 
 towards progress meets with his substantial co- 
 operation. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Masons, Elks, Foresters, Knights of Pythias, 
 and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, for 
 which latter organization he is medical exam- 
 iner. Much of the Doctor's success is due to his 
 liking for the country in which he lives, for the 
 town has no more enthusiastic advocate of its 
 resources and geneial advantages. An ardent 
 Republican, he is now serving as a member of 
 the executive committee of the Coconino Coun- 
 ty Republican Central Committee. 
 
 GEORGE RoiiERT WILLISCROFT. 
 
 Tile Williscroft family is of English descent, 
 and the paternal grandfather was born in Eng- 
 land. He subsequently removed to' the north 
 of Ireland, and successfully carried on a large 
 linen industry. His son, William, the father of 
 George, was born in the north of Ireland, and 
 upon emigrating to Canada was in the employ 
 of the government, and was one of the con- 
 structors of the Ridau cnnai. At the expira- 
 tion of his contract he turned his attention to 
 farnn'ng in the vicinity of Ottawa, where he died 
 at tlie age of fifty-two years. His wife, Sarah 
 (Becket) Williscroft, was born in the north of 
 
 Ireland, whither her ancestors had removed in 
 the thirteenth century. She was of distin- 
 guishetl family, claiming kinship with Thomas 
 a Becket. Mrs. Williscroft, who died in Can- 
 ada, was the mother of ten children, all of whom 
 are living, George being sixth. One son, Will- 
 iam, is a cattleman in northern Arizona, and 
 John is a merchant in the Indian Territory. 
 
 George Robert Williscroft was born near 
 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 4, 1852. His 
 early life was uneventful, and not unlike that 
 experienced by the average farm-reared boy. 
 He studied diligently at the public schools, and 
 in 1869 was apprenticed out as a carriage maker 
 in Kempville. After three years of patient appli- 
 cation to his trade, he started a business in 
 Oxford, and in 1878 began to work as a mill- 
 wright, and in time became a practical mechanic 
 and moulder. In Toronto, Canada, he engaged 
 for about ten years in the manufacture of mill 
 machinery, and in 1888 came west and located in 
 Phoenix. One of his first undertakings in the 
 far western city was the adjusting and placing 
 of the machinery in the Smith mill, and a year 
 later he built the foundry and machine shop in 
 which his work has since been carried on. He 
 manufactures all kinds of castings and machin- 
 ery, and handles new and second-hand machin- 
 ery, and also does a great deal of repairing. In 
 addition, he represents, as agent, the J. I. Case 
 Company, selling their engines and threshers. 
 
 The foundry built by Mr. Williscroft is ad- 
 mirably adapted by construction and equipment 
 for the purpose to which it is devoted, and no 
 expense has been spared in making it a model of 
 its kind. It covers a whole block, and contains 
 an engine of ten-horse power, and has a smelt- 
 ing capacity of five tons. Mr. Williscroft is a 
 natural mechanic, and has bent his ingenuity to- 
 wards several improvements along the lines of 
 his chosen work. He has unfortunately not bene- 
 fited by his inventions, which have proved of 
 such an excellent and useful nature that they 
 are extensively used over the whole country. 
 Among his contrivances is a dust collector 
 which has no equal, and is used, not only in 
 America, but has found its way to numerous 
 countries across the se.a. .\niithcr invention 
 which remains unpatented because of lack of 
 capital behind it, is a drop box to be used in
 
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 elevating any dry substance pneumatically. 
 Mr. Williscroft was married in Canada to 
 Martha Stewart, a native of Canada. Of this 
 union there are four children, viz.: Margaret 
 Adelaide, who is now Mrs. Carpenter, and re- 
 sides in Arizona; Florence Esther, who was the 
 wife of J. Ernest Walker, and died in I'hocnix; 
 Gertrude Louise, and Annie lie. trice. The last 
 two are living at home. Tn national politics Mr. 
 Williscroft is a Republican, jjul has no inclina- 
 tion for jjuljlic office. With his family he is a 
 member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 ERNEST FREDERICIv KELLNER. 
 
 The mercantile establishment founded as far 
 back as 1878 by E. F. Kellner, Sr., and now con- 
 ducted under the firm title of E. F. Kellner & 
 Co., is one of the substantial landmarks of the 
 town of Globe. The founder of this business 
 was born in New Braunfels, Tex., in 1849, ^'id 
 became a pioneer of Globe in 1878, during the 
 rugged days of early pioneer life. At once he 
 embarked in the mercantile business as a part- 
 ner of J. B. Morrill, the two carrying on a whole- 
 sale and retail trade. Soon, however, Mr. Mor- 
 rill disposed of his interest to his partner, wdio 
 conducted the enterprise alone. Afterward he 
 opened a similar establishment at McMillen, in 
 partnership with J. W. Ransom ; the venture 
 proved profitable, but was soon abandoned. 
 W'ith these two as partners, the business at 
 Globe was conducted until 1900, when Mr. Ran- 
 som's share of the stock came into the posses- 
 sion of E. F. Kellner, Jr., as a gift from his 
 father to commemorate the twenty-first anni- 
 versary of his birth. 
 
 About 1884 Mr. Kellner, Sr., opened a mer- 
 cantile store in Phoenix, which he now owns 
 with his youngest daughter, Frank R. Kellner, 
 the two conducting a wholesale and retail busi- 
 ness. Since then he has spent the greater part 
 of his time in Phoenix, with the exception of 
 infrequent trips to Globe to look over his inter- 
 ests here, which are many and varied. His home 
 is one of the most attractive in Phoenix, and 
 he has long been regarded as one of the most 
 capable and resourceful business men of the 
 territory. Besides his real-estate holdings in 
 I'jioenix, he owns three fine ranches in the Salt 
 
 River valley and one at Florence. Extensively 
 interested in mining, he owns copper and gold 
 mines in the vicinity of Globe, also mills, a 
 lun\ber yard, and an agricultural implement busi- 
 ness. While in New Mexico he was made a 
 Mason and later became a charter member of 
 the blue lodge at Globe, Ariz. In politics he is 
 a stanch Democrat, but his many interests and 
 busy commercial life have never permitted of 
 time for ])olitical office. His marriage took place 
 in Xew Mexico and united him with Mamie, 
 daughter of M. \'. Bennett. Of this union there 
 are four children, viz.: Willie, wife of Dr. S. 
 B. Claypool, of Globe; E. F., Jr., Frank and 
 Ben J., who are with their parents in Phoenix. 
 L'nlike the majority who are promoting the 
 commercial interests of Globe, E. F. Kellner, 
 Jr., who is managing the Globe store and has 
 one-fourth interest in the concern, was born 
 within the borders of the town. Although still 
 a young man (having been born in 1880) he has 
 remarkable business ability, which is partly an 
 inheritance, but mainly the result of unwearied 
 application to his father's interests. He was 
 educated at St. Mathew's College in San Mateo, 
 Cal., and is well equipped for whatever responsi- 
 bility life may bring him. He has entire charge 
 of the affairs in Globe, which, in addition to a 
 general mercantile business, includes a general 
 banking business of large proportions. With 
 the example of his father before him and with 
 the aid of his own natural ability, he will with- 
 out doubt become an influence in local and ter- 
 ritorial affairs. 
 
 H. L. GEORGE. 
 
 The well-known proprietor of the Club Stables 
 of Phoenix, which are among the finest and 
 largest liveries in Arizona, was born in Seguine, 
 Tex., September 17, 1862, and belongs to a 
 family that has been especially prominent in 
 military affairs. His paternal ancestors were of 
 English origin and were among the first set- 
 tlers on the James river in X'irginia. His great- 
 giandfather. Colonel George, was a native of 
 that state, and was one of the first settlers of 
 that ])art of the Old Dominion which is now 
 Kentucky, lie lived the life of a planter and 
 served witli distinction as a colonel in the Rev- 
 olutionarv war. The grandfather. Major J. W.
 
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 George, was an officer in the war of 1812, and 
 was an extensive planter of Kentucky. He was 
 born in Henry county, that state, and continued 
 his residence there throughout life. 
 
 Capt. W. L. George, our subject's father, was 
 also a native of Henry county, Ky., and was a 
 graduate of the military academy at Drennan 
 Springs, tiiat state. When a young man he 
 went to Seguine, Te.x., and during the Civil war 
 raised two companies with Governor Ireland 
 of that state, being commissioned captain of 
 one of these. He served all through the war 
 with Generals Longstreet and Hood, and was 
 once wounded. His brother. Major M. B. 
 George, was a member of General Hood's staff. 
 After the war Captain George became a gov- 
 ernment contractor and removed to Kansas 
 City, from which place he supplied the western 
 forts and Indians with government beef, doing 
 a very successful business. He and Major J. 
 W. L. Slavin built the first packing house in 
 Kansas City and ran it for several years, but 
 the firm failed during the panic of 1873. Cap- 
 tain George was also president of the First 
 National Bank of Kansas City. 
 
 Nothing daunted, he commenced farming on 
 an extensive scale and made another fortune, 
 but lost this in 1882. Four years later he came 
 to Phoenix, Ariz., and engaged in railroad con- 
 tracting and canal building. He died here in 
 August, 1897, honored and respected by all who 
 knew him. His widow, who bore the maiden 
 name of Eliza Le Gette, is still a resident of 
 Phoenix. She was born on Cape Fear river in 
 South Carolina, and is descended from the 
 French nobility, her great-great-uncle being 
 Marquis de Resette. Her ancestors were 
 among the Fluguenots who were driven from 
 France on account of the revocation of the edict 
 of Nantes. Our subject is the oldest in a family 
 of three children, the others being W. L. and 
 !\. 11., I)otli residents of Phoenix. 
 
 During his boyhood and youth H. L. George 
 attended the military academy at Frankfort, Ky., 
 and then entered the University of Kentucky, 
 where he pursued his studies until the senior 
 year. lie b^'gan his business career as his 
 father's assistant, and in February, 1887, came 
 to Arizona, and engaged with his father in canal 
 construction, building the Peoria, East River- 
 
 side, Agua Fria and other canals. They were 
 also contractors on both the Southern Pacific 
 and United Verde Railroads. Our subject served 
 as deputy sheriff under Linn Orme four vears, 
 and in 1897 embarked in the livery business, 
 building the Club Stables on North Center street, 
 which he has since so successfully conducted. 
 He was also one of the organizers of the Al- 
 hambra I'.rick Company, which lias built a mod- 
 ern plant and is now engaged in the manufacture 
 of all kinds of brick. Mr. tieorge is secretary 
 of the company, and is justly regarded as one of 
 the most energetic, progressive and capable 
 business men of the city. 
 
 At Woodford, Ky., he married Miss Minnie 
 Brookie, a native of that place and a daughter 
 of James W. Brookie, a planter. She died in 
 1888, leaving one daughter, Brookie. The 
 Democratic party has always found in Mr. 
 George a stanch supporter of its principles. He 
 is a charter member of the Maricopa Club, and 
 is cjuite popular both in business and social cir- 
 cles. 
 
 J. E. HASKELL. 
 
 The general manager of the Penn Gold Min- 
 ing Company, whose claims are situated in the 
 Walker district on Lynx creek, within a score of 
 miles of Prescott, is a business man of recog- 
 nized ability and is eminently fitted for the re- 
 sponsible position he now holds. Though a 
 native of New York state, he went to Pennsyl- 
 vania when in his ninth year, and much of his 
 subsequent life has been passed in Bradford. 
 For upwards of thirty-six years he has been ac- 
 tively associated with the coal-oil industry, and 
 during that period has been interested in not 
 less than three hundred producing wells, these 
 being located chiefly in the vicinity of Bradford, 
 Pa., and in West \'irginia. In 1892 he became 
 interested in the oil fields of Indiana, and to- 
 day owns about twenty wells in the northeastern 
 part of that state. Exclusive of the royalty ex- 
 acted, the output of these wells is not less than 
 seven hun<Ired barrels per month. 
 
 Though he has devoted the main share of his 
 time to the development of oil fields, and has 
 met with remarkable success in his undertak- 
 ings, J. E. Haskell also has made investments in 
 other directions. He is a member of the firm
 
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 557 
 
 and a director of the Erie Chemical Works of 
 Erie, Pa., whicli phnt now turns out twenty 
 tons of ahun cake daily. His finely-kept vine- 
 \ar(l at Mooreheadville, Pa., covers about one 
 hundred acres, and in iQco a crop was s;athered 
 ;unounting to three hundred and forty tons. 
 
 The Penn Gold Mining Companv was oroan- 
 ized aljout one year ago, when the following 
 officers were chosen by the l)oard (it directors: 
 C. P. Collins, of Bradford, Pa., president; J. R. 
 Leonard, of Beaver, Pa., vice-president; Harry 
 Hcasley, of Pittsburg, Pa., treasurer; and J. E. 
 Haskell, of Bradford, Pa., general manager. 
 The mill was started in operation .April i8, 1900. 
 It has a capacity of forty tons daily, about four 
 and one-half tons of concentrates resulting, 
 averaging about $70 per ton. The ore is a heavy 
 sulphide, averaging about $7 to the ton. About 
 twentv-five men are etnployed in the mines, and 
 four are engaged in running the mill. During 
 . 1901 a second Huntington mill was added, and 
 the two now crush eighty tons of ore daily, mak- 
 ing about eight and one-half to nine tons of con- 
 centrates, employing forty-five men at the mine 
 and mill. 
 
 Every detail of the business is under the per- 
 sonal and direct supervision of Mr. Haskell, to 
 whom is due the credit for the success attend- 
 ing the enterprise. Having given his attention 
 closely to business matters, he has not had 
 leisure to participate actively in politics, but he 
 maintains an interest in all matters bearing upon 
 the welfare of the nation, .and in his political 
 views is a Republican. 
 
 ABRAHAM DIAZ. 
 
 The birth of the subject of this article oc- 
 curred in L^res, Mexico, January 8, 1850. There 
 he continued to live until he was eighteen years 
 of age, and by that time had obtained a liberal 
 education in the public schools and local col- 
 lege. Then he went to San Diego, Cal., where 
 he remained for a period, after which he became 
 a resident of Los Angles, same state. 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Diaz came to Arizona and was 
 in the employ of a government contractor for 
 some time, his home being in Tucson. Having 
 learned the ])rinciples of business pretty thor- 
 oughly, tlie young man then conmienced taking 
 21 
 
 contracts on his own account, supplying Fort 
 Apache. In 1876 he catne to Solomonville and 
 for three years engaged in farming in this neigh- 
 l)orho<nl. Tints he is one of the first settlers 
 of the place, .and only three small dwellings 
 stood on the site of the future county-seat when 
 he took up his aboile here. During the next 
 twenty years he devoted his attention largely to 
 the cattle business, and it was not until January, 
 1900, that he disposed of the last of his live 
 stock. In the meantime he had also been en- 
 gaged in the liquor business for thirteen years, 
 and in March, 1900, opened a store in which 
 general merchandise is carried in stock. In 
 addition to this he is interested in mities near 
 Clifton and in the Lone Star district. 
 
 Mr. Diaz began the New Year of 1885 by 
 marrying Miss Gerarda Johnson, of Clifton. 
 They have two promising children, John, tiow 
 twelve years old, and Antonia, in his ninth year. 
 Both are at home and are apt students in the 
 local school. The family is Catholic in religious 
 faith and contiibutes generously to the work of 
 the church. Iti politics Mr. Diaz is a Democrat 
 and at present is serving as a member of the 
 city council. From 1888 to 1891 he held the 
 responsible office of jailor in the county, and 
 faithfully discharged every duty devolving upon 
 him. 
 
 CHARLES E. NATHHORST. 
 
 As a chetiiist and assayer Mr. Nathhorst has 
 few equals in Arizona and, indeed, in the United 
 States. He received his preliminary training in 
 this direction in Sweden, where he was born in 
 Falun, October 2, 1866. After graduating from 
 the public schools he entered the Falun School 
 of Mines, and was graduated as a chemist and 
 tnining engineer. As is well known, the trades 
 and professions in Sweden are taught in no lax 
 and uncertain way, and he who would win dis- 
 tinction or even graduate must apply himself 
 unceasingly for months and years, and then pass 
 an exatnination which for rigor and exactness 
 has no parallel in America. 
 
 Naturally, JNIr. Nathhorst came to the greatest 
 mining country in the world as a desirable field 
 in which to apply his knowledge, and in 1888 
 located at San Pedro, N. M., as assayer for Sen- 
 ator Clark, at the San Pedro mines, now the
 
 558 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Santa Fe Copper Company. Here he remaiiieil 
 for two years, when he accepted a position of 
 greater responsibility as chemist and assayer for 
 the United Verde Copper Company, with whom 
 he remained for si.x years. Since then he has 
 been engaged in general assay work, and is an 
 expert mine examiner and reporter. He is also 
 the owner of some valuable properties, and de- 
 votes considerable time to prospecting. In 
 1899 Mr. Nathhorst erected a large stone Iniild- 
 ing, which, since completion and furnishing, is 
 the finest laboratory in the territory of Arizona 
 and one of the finest in the country. 
 
 In i8g6 the union of Mr. Nathhorst and 
 Annie Kuchler occurred, Mrs. Nathhorst being 
 a daughter of Frank Kuchler of San Francisco, 
 formerly proprietor of the Jerome hotel at 
 Jerome, Ariz. She is the mother of one daugh- 
 ter, Anita. Mr. Nathhorst is entirely devoted 
 to the work which nature and education have so 
 ably fitted him to perform, but he is nevertheless 
 a broad-minded and progressive citizen, and full 
 of enthusiasm for the locality in which his lot 
 has been cast. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Jerome Lodge No. 18, K. of P. A believer in 
 Republican principles, he has, however, never 
 found time to maintain more than a passing 
 interest in politics. 
 
 HON. JOHN S. JONES. 
 
 Hon. John S. Jones, the well-known mining 
 operator of Yavapai county, and owner of the 
 Little Jessie group of mines, as w'ell as of others 
 in that district, possesses about a quarter of a 
 centurv's experience in mining matters, and is 
 acknowledged to be a reliable judge of ores and 
 values. He is popular in mining circles of this 
 county, and, though it is strongly Democratic, 
 his personal ability and merits received the 
 stamp of the public's approval when it elected 
 him to the territorial legislature. As a represen- 
 tative of this district in the eighteenth general 
 assembly he used his influence in behalf of the 
 mining community and strongly advocated the 
 bill providing for the establishment of the ter- 
 ritorial prison at Prescott, wdiich bill passed the 
 upper house, only to be defeated in the lower as- 
 semblage. 
 
 Mr. Jones was born in Wa'es ,'nd came to the 
 United States with his parents in 1861. He was 
 
 reared in Columbus, Ohio, and after leaving 
 school was apprenticed as a machinist, serving 
 four years as such. During the next four years 
 he was employed as assistant engineer at the 
 Deaf and Dumb Institute, of Columbus, and in 
 1870 he became a resident of St. Louis, Mo. 
 There he engaged in the manufacturing of min- 
 ing machinery, under the firm name of Ferguson 
 & Jones, for fully nine years, meeting with suc- 
 cess in the enterprise. 
 
 Since 1879 Mr. Jones has been more or less di- 
 rectly occupied in mining operations. His first 
 experience in this line was in the Black Hills of 
 Dakota. Erecting a mill near the Homestake 
 mine, he contracted for ores about one year. 
 Then he went to Central America in the interests 
 of the St. Louis Syndicate and spent fourteen 
 months there, in the meantime obtaining a con- 
 cession to seventy-seven thousand acres of land, 
 but owing to the troubles between President 
 Soto and the President of Guatemala and their < 
 respective factions it was found advisable to 
 abandon the contract. Returning to St. Louis, 
 he went thence to San Juan county, Colo., on 
 behalf of a syndicate, closing out property owned 
 there, and for several years gave his attention to 
 the sale of mines. Among others of note which 
 might be mentioned, except for the limits of this 
 article, it may be said that he it was who nego- 
 tiated the sale of a famous mine in the Ophir 
 district, the consideration of the same being $75,- 
 000. In 1886 he went to New York city, where 
 he was associated in heavy financial operations 
 with Prof. James Whitehead, of Chicago, until 
 the autumn of that year. 
 
 Then coming to Arizona as the representative 
 of a New York syndicate which had mines in 
 the Groom Creek district of Yavapai county, Mr. 
 Jones supervised the construction of a ten-stamp 
 mill on its property, but the necessary capital to 
 carry on the work was not forthcoming, so he re- 
 signed. Devoting his time to prospecting for 
 himself in various districts, he located the Little 
 Jessie mine in 1889, and still continued to make 
 claims at points which he deemed worthy of 
 Ijcing developed. In 1890 he put up a five-stamp 
 mill and proceeded to operate the Little Jessie 
 mine. Later he increased the capacity of his 
 mill, which is now classed with the twenty-stamp 
 mills of the countv. The ore extracted from
 
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 this mine is of an exceptionally fine quality, aver- 
 aging about $90 to the ton, gold being the chief 
 precious mineral, and a little silver, though no 
 copper, being found. The average value of the 
 shipping ore ranges between $350 and $400 a 
 ton, with shipments .as high as $1,000 per ton, and 
 has produced upwards of $750,0:0. The Little 
 Jessie group of mines comprise eighteen claims, 
 situated in the Big Bug or Chaparal district. The 
 owner has displayed great good judgment in his 
 management of this valuable property and is 
 rapidly amassing a fortune. 
 
 A company is now formed on the Little Jessie 
 mines, over two miles of mineral bearing on two 
 mother lodes or veins, and known as the Trede- 
 gar Mining Precious Metals & Reduction Com- 
 pany. A 200-ton daily capacity mill is to 
 be erected, and guarantees to pay 2 per cent 
 monthly dividend after this mill is in operation. 
 Hon. John S. Jones is president and managing 
 director of the company, which has a capital 
 stock of $2,500,000. 
 
 From the time that he became a voter until 
 the present, Mr. Jones has been a stalwart Re- 
 publican. Fraternally he is identified with the 
 Masonic order, his membership being in the 
 Prescott lodge. His wife (now deceased) was 
 Mrs. Ella G. De Long, her former husband hav- 
 ing been a cousin to the famous De Long of 
 Arctic fame. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had three 
 children, Jessie S. (for whom the mines were 
 named), Grace and William. 
 
 REV. CHARLES H. COOK. 
 
 The Pima Indians at Sacaton, Pinal county, 
 have no truer friend and adviser than is to 
 lie found in Rev. Charles H. Cook, who 
 has worked in their midst since 1870 with 
 a singleness of purpose and large-hearted 
 hunianitarianism to be found only in those 
 gifted with "the nameless touch of nature 
 that makes the whole world kin." Per- 
 haps few, if any, of our Indian tribes of late 
 years have made more progress in the arts of 
 civilization than the Pimas. There is. however, 
 one great drawback at present. The many white 
 settlements above Sacaton take from the In- 
 dians the water needed for irrigation. It is Mr. 
 Cook's hope that the government will provide 
 
 them with a large reservoir, in which case he 
 feels assured that, as heretofore, the Pimas will 
 remain a contented and prosperous people. 
 
 Of German birth and training, Mr. Cook claims 
 the principality of \\'aldeck as his native place, 
 and he was born in 1838. The family of which 
 he is a member has for many years been iden- 
 tified with the intellectual life of their place of 
 residence, his parents, grandparents and great- 
 grandparents having devoted their lives to edu- 
 cational work and to successful literary careers. 
 He himself was preparing for a teacher's life 
 at Nieder Wildungen, but just before graduat- 
 ing came to the United States, reaching New 
 Orleans about November 16, 1855. For a time 
 he was employed in a printing office and book- 
 store there. At the outbreak of the Civil war 
 he entered the Union army, and as a gunner in 
 Battery L, First New York Light Artillery, took 
 part in the battles of the army of the Potomac, 
 serving his adopted country with courage and 
 fidelity. In 1865 he was mustered out at Elmira, 
 N. Y.' 
 
 With the restoration of peace Islr. Cook went 
 to Chicago, 111., and for a time was associated 
 with the banking house of Lunt. Preston & 
 Kean. Afterward he became a member of the 
 Rock River conference of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, and was placed in charge of the 
 Halsted street mission in Chicago, in which he 
 was interested until 1870. Following a long- 
 cherished plan, he came to Sacaton, Ariz., at his 
 own expense, to teach the Gospel to the Pima 
 antl ]\Iaricopa Indians, supporting himself the 
 while by teaching in the government Indian 
 school. This independent missionary undertak- 
 ing was conducted until 1881, when he became 
 a member of the Presbyterian Church and was 
 placed in charge of the work here under the 
 Home ^Missionary Board of that denomination. 
 One may arrive at an idea of the great work 
 being accomplished by him when it is known 
 that since 1881 he has built four churches on 
 the reservation, and two more have been added 
 by his two assistants-. He is now in charge of 
 four churches, with an aggregate membership 
 of eight hundred Indian members. To the 
 various duties connected with this responsible 
 undertaking he devotes his unwearying efforts, 
 and that his labors arc not in vain is shown not
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 only by the intellectual and moral aspects of the 
 case, but also by the sffectionate regard in which 
 he is held by the Indians. He is connected with 
 the Arizona presbytery and also belongs to the 
 svnod of New Me.xico. In addition to the work 
 under his charge, the Roman Catholics also 
 have four churches on this reservation. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Cook married Anna T.ath, an 
 educated lady of Lierlin, Germany, who for 
 seventeen and one-half years was of great help 
 to him. She became the mother of seven chil- 
 dren and died at Sacaton in December, i88q. 
 His second marriage took place in August, 1895, 
 and united him with Miss Catherine Barley, 
 whose death occurred April 21, igoi. 
 
 JOHN DENNETT, JR., M. D. 
 
 A busy, capable and energetic man is Dr. 
 Dennett, general practitioner at Congress and 
 special physician for the Congress Gold Com- 
 pany, the largest gold mining property in the 
 southwest. While the fifteen hundred people 
 at Congress require most of the Doctor's time, 
 the camps of the surrounding companies come 
 in for a share of his attention, and all .are unani- 
 mous in according high praise for the skill in 
 treatment and diagnosis, and the innumerable 
 kindy attentions which are brought into their 
 work-worn lives by their physician and friend. 
 
 In the main Dr. Dennett has found all that 
 he sought in coming to this wonderful territory. 
 In his estim.ation the climate has no superior in 
 the land for pulmonary difficulties, and it has 
 served him a good turn by building up a some- 
 what shattered constitution. He was born in 
 Yoik, Me., of colonial New England ancestry, 
 and is the only son of Capt. John Dennett of 
 the United States nav\'. Captain Dennett served 
 as an officer under Farragut in the Civil war, 
 and participated in the battle of Mobile Bay, 
 later being stationed on the blockade off Pensa- 
 cola. He married Miss Annie Fernald Thomp- 
 son, the daughter of a distinguished family in 
 maritime New England. When fourteen years of 
 age Dr. Dennett was sent to Boston to be edu- 
 cated, and was graduated from the English high- 
 school in 1887. He subsequently entered Har- 
 vard College for a special course of three years 
 leading to medicine, and was graduated from the 
 
 Harvard Medical College in the class of 1894. He 
 proved a brilliant scholar, and an ambitious one, 
 and followed his graduation by taking a course 
 in hospital practice in Boston, and was later 
 admitting physician at the Boston City Hos- 
 pital. He here contracted a severe lung dis- 
 order, and in the hope of recuperating, came 
 west to Arizona in October of 1895, and settled 
 in Congress in August of 1896. From the first 
 he became associated with the Congress Gold 
 Company. He is the present vice-president of 
 the Arizona Medical Association, and is a mem- 
 ber of many eastern medical and scientific socie- 
 ties. 
 
 The extended practice of the Doctor has 
 brought him in good financial returns. He 
 takes an active interest in all of the enterprises 
 of the town, and is a forceful medium of prog- 
 ress in his adopted county. Although affiliated 
 with the Republican party, he is not an office 
 seeker, preferring to devote all of his time to 
 his practice, and to additional research along 
 the lines of his great profession. 
 
 HENRY M. WELBORN. 
 
 This rancher of Maricopa county was born in 
 Lafayette county, Mo., April 26, 1853. His par- 
 ents, James H. and Eliza (Gamble) Welborn, 
 were natives respectively of North Carolina and 
 Indiana. James H. Welborn was a prominent 
 farmer of Lafayette county, and for years served 
 as a justice of the peace. His son, H. M., led a 
 practically uneventful life in youth, and received 
 his education in the district schools of his native 
 county. 
 
 With the exception of twiD years spent in Gib- 
 son county, Ind., Mr. Welborn lived in ^Missouri 
 until he took up his permanent residence in 
 Arizona in 1895. While living in Missouri he 
 was united in marriage with Laura Avitt, who 
 was a daughter of John R. and Fannie (Van 
 Meter) Avitt, residents of Lafayette county. Mo., 
 but natives of Kentucky, and of this union 
 there were two children, one of whom is 
 living, Rena li. A second alliance was con- 
 tracted with Miriam R. Green, daughter of 
 R. ( ). and Susan (Gvvinn) Green, who were 
 formerly of Kentucky, though at the time of 
 .Mr. Welborn's marriage they were residents of
 
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 Lafayette county, Mo. To this second union were 
 born four children, three of whom arc livin<j,viz.: 
 Leiah M., Mary and Henry M. Jr. 
 
 Since coming to the territory Mr. Welborn 
 has been able to realize many of his expectations, 
 for his efforts in the way of improvement have 
 met with satisfactory results, and he is to-day 
 one of the successful cattle raisers in the valley. 
 The ranch which has been the scene of his untir- 
 ing efforts is one hundred and fifty acres in ex- 
 tent, and is located twelve miles northwest of 
 Phoenix. It is devoted exclusively to the rais- 
 ing of cattle, and has proved an unusually suc- 
 cessful venture. 
 
 A Democrat in politics, Mr. Welborn is yet 
 not an office seeker, preferring to leave to others 
 the manipulation of the political machinery. He 
 is liberal minded and enterprising, and is willing 
 and anxious to assist in all movements for the 
 upbuilding and improvement of the locality in 
 which he lives. He is prominent in the Christian 
 church, and contributes generously towards its 
 sujiport. 
 
 JAMES T. PRIEST. 
 
 To such men as Mr. Priest is invariably due 
 a large share of the prosperity of the localities 
 in which they reside. Of progressive thought, 
 keen business sagacity and large-hearted devo- 
 tion to the public good, he has made his impress 
 upon the latter-day civilization of the Salt River 
 valley, and entered heartily into all of the best 
 schemes for improvement. Coming to the ter- 
 ritory at a time when there was practically little 
 of the promise which has so surprised the sur- 
 rounding states, he took up a farm of one hun- 
 dred acres, which is now one of the best in the 
 locality. From crude and sterile acres it has 
 been made to produce abundantly, thereby re- 
 flecting credit upon the owner and upon the ad- 
 jacent well improved farms. 
 
 While the interests of Mr. Priest extend in 
 various directions, his greatest thought and 
 study have been in regard to the development of 
 water, and it is perhaps in this connection that 
 he will be most gratefully remembered in the 
 future. Like all large land owners, the subject 
 of artificial irrigation has been with him a ques- 
 tion of large moment, and its solution an imper- 
 ative necessitv. With the construction of the 
 
 Tempe irrigating canal and its tributaries he has 
 had much to do, and was for a number of years 
 president of the Tempe Irrigating Company. At 
 the present time he is president of the Kirk- 
 land & McKinney Canal Company. In political 
 circles also he has taken an important part, and 
 is a stanch member of the Republican party. In 
 this connection he has served as a member of 
 the school board, and has in many ways evinced 
 his firm belief in the benefits of the best possible 
 education. No one in the locality has more 
 earnestly desired excellent educational advan- 
 tages than has Mr. Priest, or more readily con- 
 tributed time and money to the improvement of 
 the system of education. For ten years he has 
 served as a supervisor of Maricopa county, and 
 during all of that time has been president of 
 the board of supervisors. For several years he 
 has held office as a justice of the peace. At this 
 writing he is president of the board of water 
 storage commissioners, by an act of the legis- 
 lature. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 The early members of the Priest family were 
 loyal subjects of the English crown, and George 
 and Elizafjeth (Templeman) Priest, the parents 
 of James T., were born in Nottinghamshire, 
 England. Early in the '30s they immigrated to 
 America, settling in Canada, and subsequently 
 removing to the LTnited States when their son. 
 James, was about four years of age. They set- 
 tled in Piond county. 111., and devoted them- 
 selves to tilling the soil, and years later returned 
 to Canadian soil, where they eventually died. 
 James T. Priest was born in Ontario, Canada, 
 September 19, 1835. He received the greater 
 part of his education in Bond county, 111., and 
 availed himself of such instruction as was pro- 
 curable in the early subscription schools. When 
 arrived at years of discretion he left the home- 
 stead in Bond county. 111., and spent some time 
 in Indiana and New Orleans, finally determin- 
 ing to make his future home in the far west. 
 In 1859 he made the memorable trip across the 
 plains with ox teams- and wagons, and accom- 
 panied by a herd of cattle, the journey from 
 \'andalia. 111., to the Indian valley, Cal., extend- 
 ing from May 18 to the following October. 
 After a short sojourn in California Mr. Priest 
 went, in i860, to Oregon, and for three years
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 was more or less successfully eugagcd in the 
 lunilx-r business, continuing the same after his 
 removal to Santa Cruz county, Cal., in 1863. 
 
 In 1871 Mr. Priest came to the territory of 
 Arizona, and has since lived in the midst of the 
 peace and prosperity of the Salt River valley. 
 In 1875 he was united in marriage with Mariana 
 Gonzales, a daughter of Mariano Gonzales, .a 
 native of Sonora, Mexico, who came to the vi- 
 cinity of Tempe in 1874. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Priest have been born eight children, five of 
 whom are living: Clara, who has been educated 
 in mu.sic and is a fine vocalist; John G., Marina, 
 Ann, and Lourdcs. The children are all living at 
 home. 
 
 HON. HENRY M. WOODS. 
 
 The latter part of the active life of Mr. Woods 
 has been associated with the mining interests of 
 one of the largest copper mining centers in the 
 world, and since 1896 he has been pattern maker 
 for the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining 
 Company, to which Bisbee and the whole ter- 
 ritory owe much of the prosperity which has 
 visited them. 
 
 A native of Southboro, Mass., Mr. Woods was 
 born May 12, 1855, and is a son of Morgan and 
 Elizabeth Woods, the former of whom was, dur- 
 ing the years of his activity, a carpenter and con- 
 tractor. When only four years of age the boy 
 lost his mother by death, and was subsequently 
 raised to years of maturity in his native locality, 
 and received his education in the public schools. 
 Following an inclination to travel and become 
 financially independent, he started west in April 
 of 1877, stopping for two years at Forth Worth, 
 Texas, which was then the end of the Texas 
 Pacific Railroad. In 1879 he continued his 
 journey westward, going in a train composed of 
 thirteen men and thirteen mules, and finally 
 landed at a little mining town in Cochise county, 
 Ariz., called Dos Cabezos. Here he encoun- 
 tered his first experience in mining, and after 
 trying for a time to extract gold from the earth 
 moved into the Clierry Cow mountains, where 
 for one year he was interested in lumbering and 
 prospecting. 
 
 In March of 1880 Mr. Woods removed to 
 Tombstone, Cochise county, and became the 
 foreman for the Contention silver mine, remain- 
 
 ing with the company until 1892. In the mean 
 time, during the strike of 1884, he availed him- 
 self of the lull in mining affairs to travel through 
 the northwest, visiting California, Oregon, 
 Washington, Idaho and into the Coeur de Leon 
 mining country. On the return trip he pros- 
 pected through the Red mountains of Colorado, 
 and worked in the Carlysle mine in Grant 
 county, N. M., returning to his former position 
 with the Contention mine in 1886. When this 
 once famous mine practically closed down Mr. 
 Woods came to Bisbee and engaged in carpen- 
 tering for the Copper Queen Consolidated Min- 
 ing Company. He is one of the best-known 
 men in his line in the territory, and is not only 
 a pattern m.aker, but a practical miner and also 
 an expert carpenter. 
 
 In the various enterprises which have been 
 the means of developing the county and terri- 
 tory Mr. Woods has been foremost as an in- 
 fluence for progress, and has exerted a wide 
 influence over mining affairs as a member of the 
 legislature, to which he was elected in 1898. At 
 this election he was one of four Republicans 
 elected in a Democratic county, and in 1900, at 
 which time he was one of three elected in the 
 same county, he received the highest vote of 
 any assemblyman in the county. As an assem- 
 blyman in 1898 he served on some of the impor- 
 tant committees, among them being mines and 
 mining, corporations, and the position of chair- 
 man of the federal relations. In the session of 
 1901 he was a member of the committee on 
 appropriations, education, mines and mining, 
 and chairman of the committee on enrolled and 
 engrossed bills. He has also served on the 
 school committee of Bisbee." 
 
 In, 1886 Mr. Woods married Letta May 
 Steele, who was born in Missouri, and when ten 
 years old she went to Charlotte, Mich., where 
 she was reared and educated. Of this union 
 there were born the following children: Curtis; 
 Adelaide, who died at the age of seven years; 
 Steele and Gladys. Mr. Woods is variously in- 
 terested in the fraternal associations in which 
 the town abounds, and is a member of Perfect 
 Ashlar Lodge No. 12, F. & A. M., and Land- 
 mark Chapter No. 6, Royal Arch Masons, of 
 which he is the present scribe. He is also a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work--
 
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 men, and past master of the same. For many 
 years lie has been recognized as among the 
 prominent RepubHcans of Cocliise county. 
 
 ROBERT BLAIR. 
 
 Although a resident of Prescott, ^Ir. Blair 
 is one of the largest cattle raisers and farmers 
 of Yavapai county, and as one of the very early 
 settlers of this part of the territory has an inti- 
 mate acquaintance with its resources and growth. 
 As early as 1869 he came to Prescott and located 
 a cattle ranch four miles north of the town on 
 Willow creek. This property has since been 
 known as Burnt Ranch, and is three hundred 
 and twenty acres in extent. The land is 
 deeded, and a portion of it is devoted to general 
 farming. Connected with the estate is an ex- 
 tensive range for cattle and horses. Here have 
 been carried on large interests, and the genial 
 owner of the fine property is one of the best 
 authorities on cattle in the county. Of Scotch 
 descent and parentage, Air. Blair was born in 
 Mercer county, Pa., November 20, 1832, and is 
 a son of James Blair, a native of Scotland and 
 an early settler in Pennsylvania. By the mar- 
 riage of James and Mary Blair (the latter a 
 native of Ireland), there were born three sons 
 and one daughter, of whom Robert is the sec- 
 ond. The youngest son, William, was a soldier 
 in the Civil war, and was killed while defending 
 the honor of his country. 
 
 Until twenty-one years of age Robert Blair 
 remained at home on his father's farm, and as 
 opportimity offered attended the public schools. 
 With a company of emigrants who hoped much 
 from the practically undeveloped west he 
 crossed the plains in 1853, and upon arriving 
 in California engaged in mining and prospecting 
 in Sierra county. In 1863 he enlisted in Com- 
 pany G, First California \'olunteer Cavalry, and 
 served from Alay i, 1863, to May 21, 1866. In 
 company with his regiment he traveled through 
 Arizona and New Mexico on an Indian cam- 
 paign, and was mustered out at Santa Fe, N. AL, 
 after which he returned to Los Angeles. From 
 there in 1869 he came to Prescott, and has since 
 been devoted to the best interests of the town 
 and surrounding county. He is the owner of 
 two valuable gold mining claims in Crook 
 
 canon district, Yavapai count}', cast of the 
 Hassayampa range. 
 
 In August, 1872, Mr. Blair married Rosario 
 Rubia, who was born in Tucson, Ariz., in 1834, 
 and is a daughter of Xavier and Alvina (Mar- 
 tinez) Rubia, both deceased. Her father and 
 grandfather were Indian fighters, and the former 
 was killed in the war with the Apaches. Mrs. 
 Blair has a brother and sister in Sonora. She 
 is a most estimable woman, and has many 
 friends in Prescott, and many interests which 
 fill her industrious life. A singular large-heart- 
 edness characterizes her dealings with others, 
 which is not confined to human beings, however, 
 but extends to the cattle on her husband's ranch, 
 to the horses, dogs, cats and other household 
 pets, of which she is very fond. She is an ardent 
 Catholic, and a member of the Sacred Heart 
 church. In politics Mr. Blair is a Democrat, 
 and he is a member of the Yavapai County Stock 
 Growers' Association. 
 
 JAMES DALTON. 
 
 This successful farmer and stock-raiser of the 
 Salt River valley came to Arizona in 1890, and 
 located upon his present ranch in 1896. His 
 farm comprises one hundred and sixty acres 
 under a high state of cultivation, and is well 
 equipped as to buildings and implements. 
 
 A native of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., Mr. 
 Dalton was born December 31, 1866, and is a 
 son of John and Margaret (Moniban) Dalton, 
 early settlers in St. Lawrence county. They 
 were born in Ireland, and were industrious and 
 enterprising farmers. Their son, James, re- 
 ceived the early training of the average farmer's 
 son, and w'as initiated into every department of 
 farm work. He studied diligently at the district 
 schools, and laid the foundation for much later 
 study and application. In the spring of 1890 
 he decided to start out in the world for himself, 
 and as a preliminary tarried in Boston, Mass., 
 for a short time, and came to Arizona in De- 
 cember of 1890. For a time his lines by in 
 pleasant places, and he was employed by a vinc- 
 vardist in the Salt River valley. Subsequently 
 he engaged in the milk business, and had a large 
 milk route in the city of Phoenix. In 1896 he 
 settled on his present ranch.
 
 5f« 
 
 I'ORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 April 26, i8y8, Mr. Dalton was united in mar- 
 riage with Cora E. Moffett, a native of Cali- 
 fornia, and a daughter of J. P. and Czarina (Mc- 
 Morris) Moffett. Of this union there have been 
 born a daughter and son, Frances M. and John 
 James. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Dalton is 
 interested in all of the undertakings of his party, 
 hut lias never been an ofiiice seeker. He prefers 
 to devote his entire time to the care and man- 
 agement of his farm, and to this close applica- 
 tion to the business at hand attributes much of 
 the success that has attended his efiforts. He 
 keeps on the place about a hundred head of cat- 
 tle. In his religious belief he is associated with 
 the Roman Catholic Church, and contributes 
 generously towards its support. He is public 
 spirited and enterprising and enjoys the confi- 
 dence and esteem of all wdio are privileged to 
 know him. 
 
 JOE W. WILSON. 
 
 There is probably no man in the territory of 
 Arizona who possesses a more thorough and 
 extended knowledge of the clothing business 
 than does Mr. Wilson, one of the largest cloth- 
 iers of Prescott. I'rom practically his thirteenth 
 year he has been grappling with the perplexing 
 problem of properly clothing the male portion 
 of the race who have happened his way in dif- 
 ferent parts of the country, and his success in 
 life is proof of a correct understanding of the 
 various individual requirements of his patrons. 
 That Mr. Wilson is an eastern man no one 
 would for a moment doubt, and that he comes 
 from Boston is also a foregone conclusion. He 
 is possessed of the tact, courtesy, finish and 
 good taste that one associates \vith the men wdio 
 come from the Atlantic coast and make a suc- 
 cess of their life work in the west. 
 
 A native of Boston, Mass., he was born No- 
 vember II, 1848, and studied at the public 
 schools of the Hub city. At the age of thirteen 
 he entered the employ of a wholesale clothing 
 house in Boston, and in 1872 filled a like posi- 
 tion in Louisville, Ky., in both of which places 
 he was a traveling salesman. In 1876 he became 
 identified with a wholesale concern in New York 
 City, and three years later represented a New 
 York house in Albuquerque, N. M. In the 
 meantime he had worked up a good deal of 
 
 enthusiasm over the possibilities of the business 
 in the west, and in 1882 located in Prescott, and 
 started the clothing business of J. W. Wilson & 
 Co. At first the enterprise was located on 
 Goodwin street, then on Montezuma, and later 
 on the corner of Montezuma and Gurley. In 
 July of 1900 a devastating fire destroyed the 
 stock, but not the hope of the head of the firm. 
 On the northwest corner of the same streets he 
 has erected a new building of fine appearance, 
 which anticipates no formidable rivals for some 
 time to come. The dimensions are 50x100 feet, 
 and the handsome circular plate glass windows 
 and general furnishings of the interior are ele- 
 gant and costly in the extreme. The business 
 is now conducted by Mr. Wilson alone. 
 
 The success of Mr. Wilson has been of a gen- 
 eral kind, for he has availed himself of many 
 chances here represented. A ranch in Skull 
 valley, which has been devoted to the cattle 
 business, is plentifully supplied with water from 
 springs and wells, and considerable alfalfa is 
 grown on a portion of the land. He is also the 
 owner of some paying mining claims, and has 
 spent a great deal of money in developing, from 
 which he expects large future returns. In this 
 connection he was associated as president for 
 one term with the fitful but now terminated 
 career of the Mining Exchange. In the city of 
 his adoption he has erected a pleasant home on 
 the corner of Grove and Gurley streets. 
 
 Since living in Prescott Mr. Wilson has mar- 
 ried Margaret Archer, who was born in Ohio. 
 They have a daughter, Margie Edna. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with the Masons, the 
 Knights of Pythias, and the United Moderns. 
 In politics he is independent. 
 
 J. W. WEATHERFORD. 
 
 The beautiful Hotel Weatherford, of Flag- 
 staff, certainly not only is a great credit to the 
 "Skylight city," but would be such to any 
 metropolis, east or west. Built in the season of 
 1898-9, along thoroughly modern plans, this 
 handsome red-sand stone l)uilding, constructed 
 of material quarried in the vicinity of the town, 
 is fouf stories in height and 50x100 feet in 
 dimensions. It was opened for the patronage 
 of the public on New Year's day, 1900, and is
 
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 meeting the approbation of the most critical 
 tourists, as well as that of local patrons of wealth 
 and cultured tastes. The ground floor of the 
 building is a light, commodious store, occupied 
 by our enterprising merchant. P. R, Weather- 
 ford, brother of the proprietor of the hotel. The 
 forty-two large and pleasant guest rooms of the 
 hotel are furnished excellently, are kept clean 
 and in good order and each room is provided 
 with hot and cold water, marble washstands 
 being a special feature of this modern house. xA 
 fine system of heating and lighting the estab- 
 lishment commends it to every one, electricitv 
 being used for the latter purpose. A good 
 sample-room and bar is kept in connection with 
 the hotel, and everything within the bounds of 
 reason is furnished to patrons. The personal 
 supervision of the proprietor and his efficient 
 wife is given to the details of the business, and 
 this constant watchfulness insures comfort to 
 guests. The cuisine of the house is particularly 
 fine and varied; the rates are $2.50 per day, and 
 special terms are made to parties desiring to 
 pass several weeks or more under this hospit- 
 able roof. 
 
 J. W. Weatherford is a native of Fort Worth, 
 Tex., his birth having occurred in 1859. His 
 parents removed to the western part of the Lone 
 Star state at an early day and the town of 
 Weatherford was named in honor of our sub- 
 ject's father. In 1879 the young man left his 
 native state and spent about a year in New 
 Mexico. In the spring of 1880 he came to 
 Arizona and for a year or more dwelt in the 
 town of Globe, then returning to New Mexico. 
 Thence he went into old Mexico, where he en- 
 gaged in mining and prospecting until 1885, 
 when he located in Phoenix, Ariz. In the 
 autumn of the ne.xt year Mr. Weatherford came 
 to Flagstaff, then a small town, and though then 
 on his way to Butte City, Mont., he was 
 impressed with the possibilities of this well- 
 situated railroad point and wonderful surround- 
 ing country — termed the "most available gate- 
 way to the Grand Canon of the Colorado." 
 This county was then included within that of 
 Yavapai county, both very large portions of the 
 middle-northern part of the territory. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Weatherford won the race for the 
 office of justice of the peace, a very busy posi- 
 
 tion in those days, and for two years he served 
 in that capacity. In 1889 he connnenced his 
 mercantile career here, and for ten years gave 
 his entire attention to that jjursuit. meeting with 
 success. He has been a loyal adherent to the 
 Democratic party, but is in no wise a politician, 
 in the usual sense. When the nomination for 
 the position of representative to the territorial 
 legislature was tendered him in i8<j8 he declined 
 the honor, preferring to keep to the quiet path- 
 ways of private life. He is a member of the 
 local lodge of the Odd Fellows order, being 
 past Noble Grand of the same, and his member- 
 ship also is held in Flagstaff Lodge No. 499. B. 
 P. O. F. His marriage to Miss Margaret J. 
 McGratten took place in 1893, ^^d they have 
 one son, Hugh M. I)v name. 
 
 JOHN N. BROWN. 
 
 The large cattle industry of Pinal county has 
 a valued promoter in Mr. Brown, who is one of 
 the best authorities on the subject for miles 
 around. Since 1873 he has been variously iden- 
 tified with the growth of the hitherto appar- 
 ently worthless section of the country, and has 
 helped to establish a reputation for its cattle 
 raising as well as mining properties. A native 
 of Deer Creek, Pickaway county, Ohio, he was 
 born March 9, 1844, his birthplace being ten 
 miles from Circleville. His father. John W 
 Brown, was born in Delaware, and removed to 
 Pickaway county, Ohio, when twenry-one years 
 of age. In 1858 he moved to Piatt county. III., 
 si.x miles west of Monticello.and died at Bement, 
 in the same county. His wife. Annie (Cochrane) 
 Brown, was born in Ireland and died in Illinois. 
 She was the mother of four sons and one daugh- 
 ter, of whom two of the sons are deceased. Dur- 
 ing the Civil war Marion and Charles enlisted in 
 the One Hundred and Seventh Illinois Infantry 
 and died in the service of their country. James 
 R. Brown lives at Bement, 111. The daughter, 
 Mrs. Catherine Baker, also lives in Bement. 
 
 John N. Brown had an interesting youth and 
 early manhood, replete with changeful adven- 
 tures and glimpses of different parts of the 
 country. He was educated in the public schools 
 and in 1858. when fourteen years of age, accom- 
 panied his parents and the rest of the family to
 
 572 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Piatt county, 111., going thence by way of teams 
 through Ohio and Indiana. Until 1865 he as- 
 sisted his fatlier in the management of the farm 
 upon which tliey settled, and returned to Circle- 
 ville, from which point himself and a friend came 
 by team and wagon to Nebraska City, where 
 they joined a mule train which was headed for 
 Denver. A further sojourn into the unsettled 
 regions was a trip to St. Joe, Mo., from which 
 they returned to Denver in the spring of 1866. 
 While here he became interested in one of the 
 early and hazardous institutions of that time, and 
 drove the stage between Denver and Pueblo. 
 He later achieved considerable success as the 
 owner and manager of a grocery enterprise in 
 Pueblo, which terminated in 1873, when he un- 
 dertook the journey to Prescott, Ariz., by way 
 of wagon and team. 
 
 Mr. Brown's association with Tucson began 
 in 1874, at which time the sleepy old town which 
 had its origin in 1555 or 1560 was beginning 
 to realize its possibilities and its duties in the 
 march of American development. As yet known 
 only to outsiders as the center of a great mining 
 district, the cattle raising industry was but then 
 in its infancy, and Mr. Brown was one of the 
 first to establish the real excellence of the local- 
 ity for grazing purposes. He purchased a ranch 
 on the lower San Pedro river, and a later ac- 
 quisition was the ground upon which Mam- 
 mouth was later built, and for which he laid 
 out the site, and of which he was one of the 
 chief instigators of grow^th. Mr. Brown still 
 owns interests and land in the town of Mam- 
 mouth, and his splendidly situated and cultivated 
 land of two thousand two hundred acres, which 
 stretched for six miles along the San Pedro 
 river, is a source of pride, remuneration and sat- 
 isfaction to its successful owner. About one 
 hundred and sixty acres of the land are devoted 
 to the raising of alfalfa, grain and vegetables, 
 and the irrigation is derived from ditches from 
 the San Pedro river. The brand which distin- 
 guishes the cattle raised on this model range 
 from their neighbors is "7B." 
 
 The union of Mr. Brown and Dolores Mera, 
 of Sonora, Mexico, occurred in Florence, Pinal 
 county, and of this marriage there is one child, 
 Amelia, who was educated at the academy at 
 Waukesha, Wis., and is now the wife of Fred 
 
 Steward, of Tucson. Their residence adjoins 
 the homestead of her father. Mr. Brown is a 
 Democrat in politics, and served as councilman 
 for one term. He was made a Mason in Pueblo, 
 and is now associated with the Tucson Lodge 
 No. 4. 
 
 P. B. WARNEKROS. 
 
 No one now living within the limits of the 
 town of Tombstone contributed in .a greater de- 
 gree than Mr. Warnekros to the vigorous pros- 
 perity that once visited this settlement which 
 sprang into being on the mesa sloping from the 
 foothills of the Mule mountains. Nor is any one 
 more familiar with the ups and downs which pre- 
 ceded the present tranquillity, the coming and 
 going of the expectant throngs who saw great 
 opportunities for the acquisition of wealth, and 
 the passing away of these same throngs to their 
 farms, and surer, but less exciting means of live- 
 lihood. In the more staid and dignified city 
 of the present Mr. Warnekros is now conduct- 
 ing the largest general merchandise business in 
 the town, an enterprise which is in every way 
 worthy the ambitious public spirit of the owner, 
 and the demands of the citizens whose wants he 
 is able to supply. 
 
 A native of Germany, JMr. Warnekros came 
 to the United States in 1864, and upon settling 
 in San Francisco lived there for ten years. He 
 then came to Arizona and became immediately 
 interested in the Silver King mine in Pinal 
 county, and located in Tombstone in 1878. Af- 
 ter the starting of the industries of the town, he 
 acted as manager for the P. W. Smith general 
 store until 1884. and in 1887 went into business 
 for himself. From a comparatively small begin- 
 ning and in somewhat circumscribed quarters 
 he laid in his little stock of necessities for the 
 dwellers of the town, amounting in all to about 
 ten thousand dollars' worth, and with the in- 
 crease of population and consequent demand 
 was enabled at the end of a year to move into a 
 larger store. He carries a stock worth about 
 thirty-five thousand dollars, and includes dry- 
 goods, groceries, hardware, agricultural imple- 
 ments, mining supplies, bay and grain, and lum- 
 ber for mining purposes. In this connection he 
 enjoys the patronage which is due his honest 
 and reliable business methods, and his earnest
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 57.^ 
 
 desire to please in the matter of selection ami 
 quality of goods. 
 
 The general merchandise business is but one 
 of the many interests to which Mr. Warnekros 
 turns his attention. He is by far the largest 
 land owner in the town of Tombstone, and has 
 built, besides numerous houses, the Arlington 
 Hotel, a well-conducted hostelry, with forty 
 rooms and comfortable furnishings. This hotel 
 is under the management of Mrs. Warnekros, 
 who has proved her ability to render comfort- 
 able the guests who chance to come her way. 
 Mr. \\'arnekros is perhaps the largest mine 
 owner in the city, and is intersted as a stock- 
 liolder in several of the largest mines in the 
 surrounding country. He is one of the partners 
 of the Great Western Copper ^Mining Company 
 in the Dragoon mountains, eighteen miles from 
 Tombstone, which has unusually bright pros- 
 pects. He also owns one-half interest in the Six- 
 Mile Hill property in Pearce City, and is a large 
 stockholder in the Turquoise mining district. In 
 all he may be said to be substantially interested 
 in thirty different mines. 
 
 Of interest is the fact that Mr. Warnekros 
 has come into all of his possessions in the min- 
 ing districts and in the town by reason of the 
 successful manipulation of his affairs since 1887, 
 at which time he started business in this part of 
 the country. He owns a large part of Schietflin 
 Hall, the largest building in Tombstone, and 
 considerable valuable property in Pearce. It is 
 to men of like enterprise and sound business 
 principles that a large portion of the success of 
 the rapidly-growing mining towns in the west 
 is due. Many come and go, and some take away 
 with them all that they sought in coming, but 
 it remains for the men with financial ability to 
 get down to bed rock, and build thereon a per- 
 manent and lasting interest. Politically he is a 
 Democrat. He was married in Tombstone to 
 Mrs. N. E. Hunt. 
 
 ALFRED PERRY WALBRIDGE. 
 In the rush and hurry of commercial life men 
 often neglect the holier duties that devolve upon 
 each individual, their duties to their fellow-men. 
 Humanity has a claim upon each one: there is 
 something we owe to those around us and in 
 accordance with the law of compensation which 
 
 prevailed the universe over this debt must be 
 discharged or we reap the result that must 
 follow a failure to fill our obligations. With 
 such an omission Mr. Walbridge can never 
 be charged. While attending to his business af- 
 fairs he has always taken an active and promi- 
 nent part in church and temperance work. 
 
 He was born in Fannin county, Tex., Decem- 
 ber 27, 1857, a son of Solomon and Amy (Crock- 
 er) Walbridge, natives of New York and Indiana 
 respectively. He traces his ancestry back to 
 Henry Walbridge, who came to this country 
 from England in 1640, and settled in Massachu- 
 setts. His great-grandfather, Solomon Wal- 
 bridge, was born in \'ermont, and was one of 
 the Green Mountain boys of Revolutionary 
 fame, taking part in the battle of Bennington. 
 The grandfather, William Walbridge, was a sol- 
 dier of the war of 1812. He was also a native 
 of \'ermont, from which state he removed to 
 Cliautauqua county, N. Y., and later became a 
 resident of Wisconsin, where his death occurred. 
 He married Zilpha Perry, a native of New Eng- 
 land and a niece of Commodore Oliver Perry, 
 the hero of Lake Erie. Our subject's maternal 
 grandfather, Orion Crocker, was also a soldier 
 in the war of 181 2 and was wounded in the ser- 
 vice. He was a native of the Empire state and 
 a farmer by occupation. He was a first cousin 
 of Charles Crocker, who built the Central & 
 Southern Pacific Railroad. His wife was Olive 
 Berry, of Kentucky, and two of their sons were 
 members uf an Indiana regiment in the Mexican 
 war. This famil\' finally removed to Texas. 
 Theophilas Crocker, the father of Orion, was 
 born in England, and on his immigration to 
 America settled in New York. He^married a 
 sister of Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga. 
 
 Solomon Walbridge, father of our subject, 
 was reared in Chautauqua county, N. Y. In 
 1849 li^ went to California by way of the Pana- 
 ma route, and on his return located in Texas, 
 where he owned a large amount of land and 
 engaged in stock raising. He went to California 
 again in 1859, this time crossing the plains with 
 ox teams, by the Pecos route through .'\rizona. 
 He was first engaged in mining in the Silver 
 mountain of Nevada county, and later followed 
 farming in Napa county. In 1869 he removed 
 to Los Angeles, where he continued to engage
 
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 in agricultural pursuits for some time, and later 
 became a pioneer apiarist of Ventura county, 
 Cal., doing a large business there until October, 
 1880, when he sold out and came to Pinal coun- 
 ty, Ariz. During his residence in this territory 
 lie engaged in freighting. In 1887 he removed 
 to Phoenix, where he died in 1891, at the age of 
 seventy years. The mother passed .away at this 
 place in 1893, at the age of sixty-seven years, 
 being buried on the anniversary of her birth. 
 This worthy couple had only two children, of 
 whom our subject is the older. His sister, Olive 
 B., resides with him. 
 
 The early life of A. P. Walbridge was passed 
 in California, and he was educated in its public 
 schools and the Southern Pacific College at 
 Downey. For two years he engaged in teaching 
 in Los Angeles county, Cal., and in 1880 came 
 to Pinal county, Ariz., being employed in the 
 Silver King mill for eighteen months. He was 
 next manager of the lumber yards of J. Cliam- 
 pion of Casa Grande for five years. On resign- 
 ing that position in 1887, he came to Phoenix 
 as local agent for the L. W. Blinn Lumber Com- 
 pany, and started their yard at this place. On 
 the 1st of December, 1890, he resigned to ac- 
 cept the position of bookkeeper of the Arizona 
 Improvement and Arizona Canal Companies, 
 occupying the same position with the Arizona 
 Water Company, which is the successor of the 
 old companies. He also has charge of the pur- 
 chasing of supplies for the different canals. He 
 is interested in gold mining in the Humbug min- 
 ing district of the Bradshaw mountains, and is 
 secretary of the Mountain Chief Mining Com- 
 pany and the Little Joe Mining Company. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Walbridge vi'as married in Phoe- 
 nix to Miss Narcissa Wright, of California, and 
 a daughter of Joseph Wright, who is a veteran 
 of the Mexican war, ex-justice of the peace, and 
 a prominent citizen of Pomona, Cal. By this 
 union were born four children, namely: Amy, 
 who was born in 1887 and died in 1893; Charles, 
 aged ten years; Zilpha Perry, aged four years; 
 and Zella, aged eighteen months. The family 
 residence is in the University addition of Phoe- 
 nix. 
 
 In politics Mr. Walbridge is a Repul)lican, 
 and while a resident of Pinal county was a candi- 
 date for the territorial legislature, but his party 
 
 being in the minority he was defeated. He is 
 a member of the Independent Order of Foresters 
 and the Woodmen of the World, and was one of 
 the organizers of the Arizona Society of Sons 
 of the American Revolution. He is a very prom- 
 inent and enthusiastic Good Templar, holding 
 membership in Garden Valley Lodge No. i, of 
 which he is past chief templar. In 1892 he as- 
 sisted in organizing the grand lodge of Arizona, 
 and was elected first grand secretary, which of- 
 fice he has now filled five terms. He also served 
 as grand chief templar of Arizona two years, 
 and was editor of the official organ of the grand 
 lodge from 1892 until 1900, but was compelled 
 to resign in the latter year for lack of sufficient 
 time to attend to the work. He has traveled all 
 over the territory organizing lodges and in- 
 structing them in the work of the order. Among 
 its members he raised the money to purchase a 
 flag for the First Arizona Regiment and made 
 the presentation speech. The regiment was dis- 
 banded at the close of the Spanish-American 
 war, and Colonel McCord sent the flag to our 
 subject by the color sergeant. It now adorns 
 the hall of the Good Templars in Phoenix, and 
 will in time be placed in the historical rooms 
 of the territorial capitol. At Prescott Mr. Wal- 
 bridge organized a Military Lodge, No. i^ I. O. 
 G. T., in the First Regiment, which was kept 
 up until the regiment disbanded. He is one of 
 the most prominent and influential members of 
 the Christian Church of Phoenix, in which he 
 has served as trustee and deacon for the past 
 ten yfars, and also as clerk of the board. He 
 drew up the plans for the erection of a new 
 house of worship, and was secretary of the build- 
 ing committee. He has also been treasurer of 
 the Territorial Sunday-school Association, since 
 its organization, and a member of its executive 
 committee. 
 
 HENRY KATZ. 
 
 Success comes only to the industrious and 
 persevering, in the majority of instances, and 
 Henry Katz, of Clifton, is thoroughly deserv- 
 ing of the prosperity which he now is enjoying. 
 In his experience in the world of business he has 
 met many reverses, yet has bravely stood the 
 test, and with undaunted energy has adhered to 
 the course which he marked out originally.
 
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 577 
 
 As his surname indicates, Henry Katz is of 
 German extraction, and his birth took place in 
 the province of Alsace, twenty-eight years ago. 
 In his native land he received an excellent aca- 
 demic education, and, having learned much of 
 the possibilities of ihc Xcw World to a young 
 man of energy, he decided to try his fortune 
 here. .Vrriving in the L'nited States in 1891, he 
 went to El Paso. Tex., where he w.as connected 
 with a dry-goods business for two years. Thence 
 he proceedeil to old Mexico, and for a year 
 clerked in a dry-goods store in the cit\- of 
 Mexico. 
 
 Having mastered the details of the business, 
 Mr. Katz formed the resolution that he would 
 have an establishment of his own, and as vari- 
 ous things pointed out that the town of Mor- 
 enci would be .a favorable location, he opened 
 a store there and conducted: it sitccessfully 
 until 1896, when it was destroyed by fire, his 
 loss being almost total. He then engaged in 
 business at Nogales, Ariz., and within a short 
 time came to Graham county. Here he first 
 carried on a small store on Chase creek, but 
 later moved his stock of goods into the sub- 
 stantial new brick building in Clifton, opposite 
 the smelting plant. Today he has tlie reputa- 
 t-'on of having the largest and finest line of dry 
 goods to be found in the town, and much of 
 the local trade is supplied by him. 
 
 Courteous and ever desirous to meet the 
 wishes of the public, Mr. Katz is deservedly 
 popular with all who know him. In 1898 he 
 was married to Miss Bertha Weiller, likewise a 
 n.ative of Germany, and in the near future in- 
 tends to build a comfortable home in Clifton. 
 While a resident of Nogales, he joined the 
 Kniyhts of Pvthias. 
 
 HON. M. G. SAMANIEGO. 
 
 1 his pioneer of Tucson was born in the state 
 of .Sunora, Alcxico, July 26, 1844. a son of Bar- 
 tolo and Ysabel (Luna) Samaniego, natives re- 
 spectively of Babispe and Fronteras, Sonora. 
 His grandfather, Tiburcio Samaniego, who was 
 born in Babispe, engaged in raising stock and 
 selling merchandise in that place, where he 
 owned large tracts of land and served as magis- 
 triite. .\s coimselor for the Yaqui and ( )pata 
 
 Indians, he was their trusted friend and helpful 
 adviser. The family to which he belonged was 
 one of the oldest in Sonora. In the management 
 of his large business interests, the active life of 
 P.artolo Samaniego was busily passed, and he 
 lemained in Mexico luitil his death, in 1850. 
 .\fterward his widow continued the mercantile 
 business which he had established at Corralitos, 
 Chihuahua, but later moved the enterprise to 
 wlr.t is Missilla, \. .M., a ])art of the Gadsden 
 ])Urchase, and it was there that our subject was 
 naturalized by the ( iadsden treaty. After some 
 years in that place she reiuoved to Albuquerque, 
 N. M., where she owned large property interests. 
 At this writing she makes her home with her 
 only surviving son in Tucson. In spite of her 
 eighty-six years, she is hale and hearty. The 
 family of which she is a member is among the 
 oldest in Sonora. Her father, Pedro Luna, was 
 a soldier in the Spanish army; he was born in 
 Sonora and died in New Mexico. Of her chil- 
 dren, Frances is the wife of James A. Lucas, in 
 Silver City, N. M.; Mrs. Arnijo died in Albu- 
 querque in 1893, and Bartolo was killed Ijy the 
 Apache Indians at Cedar Springs, Ariz., Oc- 
 tober 2, 1881, while in charge of a train belong- 
 ing to our subject. 
 
 The best education which the schools of 
 .\merica afforded were given to M. G. Sama- 
 niego when he was a boy. It was the desire of 
 his parents that he might be fitted to fill any 
 position of responsibility ably and well. In 
 1862 he graduated from the St. Louis Univer- 
 sity When the war broke out he was employed 
 as interpreter for the Confederates of the Texas 
 Rangers. After several months he joined his 
 mother in Missilla, N. M., and clerked in her 
 store. In 1864 he began freighting between 
 differei>t posts and to points as far east as the 
 Missouri river. 
 
 As earlv as i86g Mr. Samaniego came to 
 Tucson, .\riz., making the trip by wagon. Here 
 he has since made his home. While a resident 
 of New Mexico, the year before coming to Ari- 
 zona, he lost a fine train of five wagons and 
 forty-eight mules, all of which were taken by 
 the Indians. For two days he and his men 
 fought the Indians, but finally their anununition 
 was exhausted and lhe\ were forced to give up. 
 r.\ night thc\ made llu-ir wav to the nearest
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 town, thirty miles distant, and thus escaped 
 their enemies. During the same year Mr. Sa- 
 maniego lost another train and stock near Las 
 Cruces, N. M., all of which were stolen by the 
 Indians, this proving a severe financial blow to 
 him. However, in spite of these and other dis- 
 couragements, he continued freighting, and at 
 the same time conducted a store in Chihuahua. 
 During the year 1881 he lost over one hundred 
 mules and about twelve wagons, which were 
 stolen by Indians. The train was in charge of 
 his brother, Bartolo, who, with all his men ex- 
 cept one was killed at Cedar Springs, z\riz. 
 
 After a freighting ttip to La Junta, Colo., in 
 1876, Mr. Samaniego went east to visit the 
 Centennial Exposition and other points of inter- 
 est. Returning, he brought with him a freight- 
 ing outfit from La Junta. This outfit was a 
 very complete one, the schooners having a ca- 
 pacity each of eight thousand pounds, and re- 
 quiring sixteen mules to a team. In 1881 
 he sold his contract to carry supplies to forts, 
 after which he turned his attention to cattle- 
 laising, and has since successfully followed the 
 occupation. His property interests are large. 
 Among his ranches is the Canada (_)ra ranch, 
 thirty miles north of Tucson, near Oracle, Pinal 
 county. He also owns Rillito ranch, six miles 
 northeast of Tucson, at the foot of the Santa 
 Catalina mountains. In addition, he owns fifty 
 acres in and adjoining Tucson, which forms a 
 very valuable tract, and he has other property 
 in this city. Among his cattle are high grade 
 Herefords and Shorthorns, also a good grade 
 of horses and mules. For years he ran the 
 stage line from Tucson to Oro Blanco, with a 
 connection to Xogales, and he also had the 
 mail contract to Oro Blanco and Monmouth, 
 and from Arivaca to Laosa. 
 
 Every enterprise for the advancement of Tuc- 
 son has received the co-operation and support 
 of Mr. Samaniego, and certainly it is true that 
 no native-born citizen of the United States is 
 more loyal to tlie government than is he. Es- 
 pecially is he interested in the development of 
 Arizona. Realizing the great value of securing 
 an adequate water su|)]ily for Tucson, he was 
 foremost in the plans for supplying the city with 
 water, and owns tlie land that first furnished 
 the supply to the town. On the whole, his life 
 
 has been a successful one; for, although his 
 losses were heavy from Indian depredations, yet 
 he succeeded in securing $11,000 damages from 
 the United States government, so was at least 
 partially reimbursed financially. 
 
 While the business interests of Mr. Samaniego 
 have required almost constant attention, he has 
 neglected no duty as a citizen. Politically he 
 is one of the most prominent Democrats in 
 Arizona. He was the first assessor elected in 
 the county and for ten years has been a member 
 of the board of supervisors, of which he is now 
 chairman. As a representative of Pima county 
 in the eleventh, thirteenth, sixteenth and eight- 
 eenth assemblies, he took an active part in leg- 
 islation for territorial interests. He was one of 
 the first members of the l)oard of regents of the 
 University of Arizona and was treasurer of the 
 same for a time, subsequently serving another 
 term as regent. For two terms he officiated 'as 
 president of the Arizona Pioneers' Society. In 
 the organization of the Spanish-American alli- 
 ance, he was warmly interested and at this writ- 
 ing he is its supreme president. In the Benevo- 
 lent Protective Order of Elks he holds member- 
 ship. For several terms he has served in the 
 cit_v council. 
 
 At Las Cruces, N. M., Mr. Samaniego mar- 
 ried Miss Dolores Aguirre, who was born in 
 Chihuahua, Mexico, and whose brother, E. 
 Aguirre, was at one time the largest freighter 
 between Colorado and the Missouri river, but 
 he finally fell at the hands of Indians. 
 
 During the early days of his residence in 
 Arizona Mr. Samaniego was in constant peril 
 of his life, the Indians being particularly hostile. 
 In 1885 they made a raid within fifteen miles of 
 Tucson and captured a boy from a ranch. As 
 soon as the new's of this attack was received he 
 gathered together thirteen men (all Mexicans 
 but one) and started in pursuit. After a ride 
 of four and one-half hours, with a running fight, 
 they recovered the boy. Proceeding to the 
 Martiez ranch they reorganizeil and with a force 
 of nineteen men again started in pursuit of the 
 red men, whom they overtook just as they were 
 making a raid on an Italian's ranch. Fortu- 
 nately, they were in time to save the family, and 
 the\- also captured twenty head of stock from 
 the Indians. This was the last raid the Indians
 
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 579 
 
 made. Twice he was wounded by Indians, 
 but always had the satisfaction of feeling that 
 the shots were returned "with interest." He is 
 a man of great courage, perfectly fearless, and 
 therefore admirably adapted to life on the west- 
 ern plains and among frontier surroundings. 
 
 GEORCE P. SCHOLEEIELD. 
 
 Xdw extensively engaged in the cattle in- 
 dustry in the vicinity of Tucson. Mr. Schole- 
 lield was born in L'tica, X. \ .. May 23, i860. 
 Of interesting ancestry, the best remembered 
 of the family is the paternal great-grandfather. 
 Sir W'ilHam Scholefield, who was born in Eng- 
 1 ,nd. as was his son Arnold, the paternal grand- 
 father. Arnold Scholefield was a dissenter from 
 the Church of England, and in consequence was 
 disinherited by his father, who cherished the old- 
 time intolerance of all save his own method of 
 worship. In search of broader and more liberal 
 fields in which to preach the gospel as pro- 
 pounded by the Methodist Church, Rev. Arnold 
 Scholefield came to America, and ministered to 
 the spiritual necessities of his locality in New 
 York state until his death. 
 
 The father of George P. Scholefield, Charles 
 M., was born in Cooperstown, N. Y., gradu- 
 ated from Union College, and in after years be- 
 came one of the prominent attorneys of the state. 
 Pie spent the greater part of his active life in 
 Utica, N. Y., and was a law partner of Roscoe 
 Conkling. During the Civil war he enlisted as 
 second lieutenant of a company of New York 
 regulars, and was finally raised to the rank ot 
 major. He was affiliated with the Republican 
 part}', and served for three terms as assembly- 
 man, and for one term as state senator. He 
 arose to a high place in his profession, and was, 
 with Chauncey M. Depew, attorney for the 
 Vanderbilt railroads. He was also a prominent 
 Mason, and identified with the most advanced 
 unilertakings of the city in which he lived. Mr. 
 Scholefield lived to be fifty-two years of age. 
 His wife was, before her marriage, Helen M. De 
 Graff, who was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., and 
 a daughter of Emanuel De GrafY, a native of 
 Holland, and a farmer in the Mohawk valley. 
 Mrs. Scholefield, who now lives in New York, 
 
 is the mother of four children, of which George 
 P. is the oldest and the only son. 
 
 In L'tica, N. Y., George P. Scholefield re- 
 ceived his early home training, and when eleven 
 years of age became a page in the New York 
 state senate, and after a service of two years, 
 became a messenger in the New York assembly. 
 He was later a clerk in the assembly for three 
 years, and in the meantime had been diligently 
 attending the public schools and later was grad- 
 uated from high-school at Utica. In 1879 he 
 became associated with the territory of Arizona, 
 as auditor for the Centennial Mining Company, 
 r.nd after the expiration of a year was connected 
 with the Old Dominion Copper Mining Com- 
 pany for a period covering four years. Inci- 
 dentally he had become interested in the cat- 
 tle business, first on the Coon creek, until the 
 Tonto basin feud, and in 1885 he established 
 a ranch in Pima county where, until the pres- 
 ent time lie has engaged in raising cattle and 
 horses. The ranch is forty miles southeast 
 from Tucson, in the Santa Rita moimtains, and 
 is one of the most successfully conducted af- 
 fairs of the kind in the county. 
 
 It is doubtful if any in the territory are bet- 
 ter informed on all phases of the cattle business 
 than is Mr. Scholefield. In this connection he 
 had leceived extended appreciation from his fel- 
 low cattlemen even before locating in Tucson. 
 From the passing of the law requiring an in- 
 spector, he filled this important position from 
 1894 until 1898, at which time he located in 
 Tucson. He was then reappointed inspector 
 of district No. 3, and in 1899 started a live-stock 
 commission business, real estate, mines, etc. He 
 has built a residence in the city. .\t different 
 times he has been associated with various or- 
 ganizations in the city and county, and was 
 deputy collector of customs for two years. He 
 was also secretary of the South Arizona Stock- 
 men's Association, which is now discontinued. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Benevolent 
 Protective ( )rder of Elks. In iiolitics a Re- 
 publican, he is an ex-member of tlie county and 
 territorial ceiUral conuuittees, and has held 
 several local offices within the gift of the people. 
 
 In Globe. .\riz., Mr. Scholefield married Clara 
 .\. Moore, a native of .San llernardino. Cal., and 
 a daughter of Capt. James Moore. Captain
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Moore was born in England, where he became 
 in time a sea captain. Upon immigrating to 
 America he still followed the fortunes of the 
 deep until 184Q. when he left behind him the 
 roving; life u])iin the main, and settled down to 
 the mining of gold in California. When the 
 fever had worn away he became interested in 
 the stage business and ran a ilaily overland stage 
 coach with six horses, between Yuma and Tuc- 
 son. When the advent of the railroad dimin- 
 islied the receii)ts of the time-honored an<l now 
 almost obsolete stage coach, he turned his at- 
 tention to mining in the Globe district, where he 
 eventually died. His wife is still living at Globe. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Scholetield have been born 
 three children: Armour, who is superintendent 
 of the home ranch: Helen, .and Carl. 
 
 JOSEPH R. WATTS. 
 
 With the concentrated efifort of recent years 
 to infuse a degree of modernity into the oldest 
 city of European settlement in the western hem- 
 isphere, Mr. Watts has been the moving spirit 
 in the perfecting of one of the necessary and 
 admirable institutions without which no city can 
 hope to rank as the abode of truly enterprising 
 sons of the nation. The Tucson water works, 
 than which there is no more complete system in 
 the territory, and as manager of which Mr. 
 Watts came here in 1884, were erected by the 
 Tucson Water Company in '■1882. With the 
 gradual increase in population and the conse- 
 quent demand along all lines of progress, the 
 water company's afTairs under the new manage- 
 ment were not allowed to fall in arrears of the 
 improvements as developed in the east, and in 
 1889 there were added to the gravity plant the 
 pumping plant, stand i)ipe, and tank, at an ex- 
 penditure of $50,000. At the time the concern 
 was operated under th.e firm name of Watts & 
 Lawson, and supplied water to all parts of the 
 city, becoming not only a convenience and lux- 
 ury to the citizens in general, but, when operated 
 in connection with the hitherto inadequate fire 
 department, supplied a -source of long-needed 
 security. Having brought the water works on a 
 level with institutions of the kind in other ami 
 larger cities, the plant was disposed of to the 
 city in 1900, and will from now on be under 
 
 municipal control. Since then Mr. Watts has 
 been enjoying a well earned rest from active 
 participation in business affairs. 
 
 The Watts family is of English descent, and 
 has been represented in .America for a great 
 many years. Grandfather Watts was born in 
 Massachusetts, and here also his son John, the 
 father of J. R., was born. John Watts was an 
 unusually well-informed and interesting man, 
 and led a life somewhat remote from stereo- 
 txqied lines. In 1818 he took up his residence in 
 St. Louis, and for many years was a pioneer 
 pilot on the Missouri river. He was also an . 
 Indian trader, and was employed by the Ames 
 Fur Company, up above Fort Benton. As may 
 well be imagined he suffered many of the vicis- 
 situdes from association with the Indians, and 
 was in many bitter fights with the intrepid red 
 men. His wife, LHalie Dufrane, was born in St. 
 Louis, and was a daughter of Roman Dufrane, 
 a native of Quebec, Canada, and a builder and 
 contractor during the years of his usefulness. 
 He was of French descent and spent his most 
 active years in St. Louis, where he eventually 
 died. Mrs. Watts, who died in 1888, was the 
 mother of six children, four of whom attained 
 maturity. John, who was a tack manufacturer, 
 died in St. Louis in 1900 at the age of seventy- 
 four; Joseph R. is living in Tucson; Julia is now 
 Mrs. Nicholas Brazeau, of St. Louis; Sylvester, 
 who is a contractor for water and gas plants, 
 and who in 1882 built the water works of Tuc- 
 son, and later those at EI Paso, Tex., Atchison, 
 Kans., and the gas works at Austin and San 
 Antonio, Tex., now owns the water works at El 
 Paso, and the gas works at Columbia, Mo. 
 
 Joseph R. Watts was born in St. Louis, Mo., 
 August 29, 1830. During his younger years he 
 availed himself of the opportunities for educa- 
 tion at the public schools, and eventuall}- fitted 
 himself for future independence l)y learning'the 
 trade of ship carpenter, and during the Civil war 
 was engaged in building boats in the navy yard. 
 He also assisted his l)rother Sylvester with his 
 contracting work, and in 1884 located in Tucson 
 as manager of the water works. 
 
 In St. Louis, Mo., Mr. Watts married Julia 
 I'.arber. of St. Louis, and of this unicm there 
 are four children, viz.: William H., who has 
 been in the water and gas business all of his life.
 
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 and who is now the manager of the El Paso 
 water works; Edward, who is the chief engineer 
 of the El Paso water works; James, who is a 
 collector of the same works ; and Mamie, who is 
 now the wife of A. E. Crcpin. of I^itagonia, 
 Ariz. Mr. Watts and family arc mcmhers of the 
 Catholic Church of Tucson, lie was appointed 
 by Archbishop Bouregard president of the build- 
 ing committee of the fine new l)rick cathedral 
 of Tucson. In national politics he is associated 
 with the Democratic party, but entertains liberal 
 views regarding the politics of the administra- 
 tion. 
 
 CHARLES PENDERGAST. 
 
 This representative live-stock raiser and 
 grain-grower of the Salt River valley was born 
 in Saratoga county, N. Y., March 22, 1854. His 
 ])arents, John and Mary (Barry) Pendergast, 
 were prominent farmers of Saratoga county, 
 where they lived for many years. The early 
 years of their son were not unlike those of many 
 farm-reared boys, and his training, education 
 and general influences were calculated to foster 
 a natural aptitude for developing the soil, and 
 for engaging in peaceful country occupations. 
 
 When about nineteen years of age Charles 
 Pendergast started out to face the world, and to 
 depend upon his own independent exertions. In 
 New York City he was for a time employed in 
 a Turkish bath house, and while here qualified 
 as an expert Turkish bath and general scien- 
 tific manipulator. In this capacity he built up 
 a large private practice, and successfully treated 
 many prominent people, his electrical treatments 
 being especially efificacious. He thus built up 
 an enviable reputation, which was not by any 
 means local. In the hope of still greater suc- 
 cess, Air. Pendergast changed his location to the 
 far west, and in San Francisco, Cal., was super- 
 intendent and part owner in a large Turkish bath 
 establishment, being the first to introduce that 
 kind of bath in San Francisco. In 1878 he re- 
 moved to Tombstone, Ariz., and for a time en- 
 gaged in mining, and in 1879 settled in the Salt 
 River valley, Maricopa county, which has since 
 been his home. 
 
 In Arizona Mr. Pendergast took up three- 
 quarter sections of land twelve miles from Phoe- 
 nix, under the homestead, timber-culture and 
 22 
 
 pre-emption acts, each of which has been re- 
 deemed from its sterility and inactivity and made 
 to produce abundantly. Here are raised in great 
 quantities grain, alfalfa and such other general 
 crops as are the necessary accompaniments of 
 farming on a large scale. Cattle and hogs are 
 also raised in large numbers. Mr. Pendergast 
 is greatly interested in the matter of artificial 
 irrigation, a (|ue.stion which must of necessity 
 engage the attention of all large land owners 
 in Arizona. He was one of the constructors of 
 what is known as the Grand canal in the Salt 
 River valley. 
 
 Since coming to Arizona Mr. Pendergast has 
 married Isabella Ivy, daughter of Silas Ivy, a 
 well-known resident of the valley. Of this union 
 there were born eight children, namely : Charles 
 H., Sarah J., John, James, Lulu, Ralph, Grover 
 C. (deceased) and an infant son unnamed. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Pendergast is a 
 Democrat. At present he is road overseer of 
 District No. 2, and is also serving as a member of 
 the school board of his district, a position which 
 he has filled for many years. He commands the 
 confidence and esteem of all who are privileged 
 to know him, and is considered one of the re- 
 liable and substantial dwellers of the valley. 
 
 MERRITT L. DUFFEY. 
 
 This successful agriculturist of the Salt River 
 valley was born in De Kalb county. 111., June 
 13, 1858. From his earliest youth he was reared 
 to the pursuit of farming and stock-raising, for 
 his parents, James and Alartha (Walling) Duf- 
 fey, were successful and industrious tillers of 
 the soil. James Dufifey was a native of Penn- 
 sylvania, and the mother was born in New Eng- 
 land. The family on the paternal side are Irish, 
 and the first members to come to America set- 
 tled in Pennsylvania. 
 
 On his father's farm in De Kalb county Mer- 
 ritt DufTey developed habits of industry and 
 thrift, and acquired a fair education in the public 
 schools. At odd times he acquired considerable 
 business experience and was thus well fitted to 
 battle with the trials of life. While living in 
 Nemaha county, Kans., he was united in mar- 
 riage with Minnie E. Campbell, a daughter of 
 James Campbell, of Maricopa county, Ariz. Of
 
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 this union there have been three children, Elzie 
 H., Roy M., and Naomi M. 
 
 In time Mr. Duffey drifted to the far west, 
 and in 1891 located in Arizona upon a claim five 
 miles south of Tempe. His land consists of forty 
 acres, and under his able management has been 
 made to produce in a satisfactory manner, there- 
 by proving a remunerative and successful invest- 
 ment. Mr. Duffey has great faith in the possi- 
 bilities of Arizona, and is interested in all that 
 pertains to its improvement and upbuilding. He 
 has never entertained political aspirations, but 
 is nevertheless interested in the undertakings 
 of the Republican party. In national politics he 
 entertains liberal views, and believes in voting 
 for the man best qualified to fill the position. 
 For a time he served as road commissioner of 
 his district, w^hich is No. 3. He is a member of 
 the Modern Woodmen of the World. Mrs. Duf- 
 fev is identified with the Congregational Church. 
 
 JAMES H. KNOWLES. 
 
 Pluck and persistence in a course of action 
 once decided upon ultimately bring success, and 
 this is but the barest justice, in the order of 
 things. How many men have stopped, disheart- 
 ened, just short of the goal towards which they 
 have been pressing eagerly for years, and if they 
 but knew it, then almost within their grasp. This 
 point was strikingly illustrated a few years ago 
 bv a clever model of a now famous producing 
 mine. For years and years a party had been 
 working it and over $100,000 had been invested 
 in it, but at last it was abandoned. Others took 
 up the work and after tunneling a few feet or 
 yards the precious metal was disclosed in great 
 quantities. By many this would be termed 
 "luck," when it really merits the title of pluck 
 and perseverance. The subject of this article 
 possesses the spirit which cannot be daunted; 
 he lias not dissipated his forces, but from early 
 manhood has steadily pursued one line of occu- 
 ])atif)n, mining, which he thoroughly and prac- 
 tically understands. 
 
 James H. Knowles was born in the up])cr pen- 
 insula of ^Michigan and during the first twenty- 
 five years of his life lived in the mining district 
 adjacent to Lake Superior. Quite naturally, he 
 became thoruughlv interested in mines and mill- 
 
 ing, and since boyhood has devoted his time 
 and attention to the work. Leaving his native 
 locality, he went to Colorado, where he pros- 
 pected and mined for several years, with fair 
 success, and still retains a share in mines in Gil- 
 pin county, that state. 
 
 Two years ago ]\Ir. Knowles, in company with 
 a friend, — a capitalist, — came to Arizona, with 
 a view to investing in copper mining property. 
 The friend, whose interests financially are ex- 
 tensive elsewhere, finally concluded to return to 
 the north, and endeavored to persuade his com- 
 rade to accompany him. However, he had al- 
 ready formed a high opinion of Arizona's min- 
 eral wealth, and loath as he was to part with his 
 old friend, he cast in his lot with our citizens 
 permanently, then and there. After visiting 
 nearly all of the mining districts of this territory, 
 he invested some means in Dragoon Mountain 
 mine property, and for a few months was en- 
 gaged in the task of developing it, with flatter- 
 ing results. Unfortunately, however, he was 
 unable to secure a proper title to his claims, and 
 therefore found it advisable to change the base 
 of his operations. 
 
 The Maraville Copper Company, recently or- 
 ganized through the efforts of S. S. Campbell, 
 of Boston, now employs Mr. Knowles in the 
 capacity of superintendent, and under his wise 
 and far-sighted management its affairs are rapid- 
 ly progressing. The property controlled by the 
 company consists of ten hundred and twenty 
 acres, or fifty-one claims, in the Lone Star dis- 
 trict of the Gila mountains, seven miles north of 
 Solomonville and about the same distance north- 
 east of Safford. Several shafts, varying from 
 one hundred to two hundred and fiftv feet, have 
 been sunk; engine-rooms, well equipped w^ith 
 engines and machinery; a number of cottages, 
 tents, necessary horses, mules and burros, and, 
 in short, everything which goes to make up the 
 essential features of a completely-fitted mining 
 camp, have been in use for some time, and be- 
 speak the enterprise and determination of the 
 proprietors and superintendent. The body of 
 ore is believed by able authorities to be practi- 
 cally inexhaustible, and the company expects 
 to reap splendid rewards for the faith, labor and 
 capital invested. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND P.IOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 585 
 
 the credit of the success of this enterprise, for 
 he is a. man of practical experience and judg- 
 ment in matters of this i<ind, and spares no effort 
 in making a success of this, as of whatever lie 
 undertakes. An ardent Republican, he loyally 
 unholds the policy of the present administration. 
 In Hurley, Wis., he was initiated into Masonry, 
 and still retains his membership in the lodge 
 there. 
 
 JOSEPH DOUGHERTY. 
 
 This successful merchant of I'rcscntt, whuse 
 only brother, J. \V. Dougherty, is the present 
 ]iopular mayor of this city, has been established 
 in business here for the past twenty-three years. 
 He has been closely connected with the upbuild- 
 ing of this place and always has been an earnest 
 advocate of public improvements and of every- 
 thing making for progress. 
 
 Joseph Dougherty was born in r)ellevue, 
 Jackson county, Iowa, April 23, 1854. His fath- 
 er, Edward Dougherty, was one of the early set- 
 tlers of that place and was interested in agricul- 
 ture in that vicinity for many years. In 1849 he 
 made the overland trij) to California, remaining 
 there until 185 1, returning by the water route 
 via Panama, New Orleans and the Alississippi 
 river to Bellevue. In 1859 he went to Pike's 
 Peak, Colo., and afterwards to Clear Creek, in 
 (Hlpin county, and in that locality lived until 
 his death in 1882. His widow, Mrs. Mary 
 (Crosby) Dougherty, now making her home in 
 Prescott, is a native of Massachusetts. Or- 
 phaned at the early age of five years, she was 
 taken then to Bellevue, Iowa, where she grew 
 to maidenhood. Of the six children born to her- 
 self and husband two sons and three daughters 
 lived to maturity. 
 
 The boyhood and youth of Joseph Dougherty 
 were passed in his native town, and when seven- 
 teen years of age he became an employe on the 
 Diamond Joe steamship line, ruiming between 
 Fulton, 111., and St. Paul until 1874. Then go- 
 ing to Central City, Colo., he spent some time 
 there and later carried on a thriving barber's 
 shop in Nevadaville, same state. In 1878 he be- 
 came financially interested in a mercantile busi- 
 ness in Prescott, as his brother, the present 
 mayor, had that year established a store here 
 andi the firm was known as the Dougherty 
 
 Brothers. Coming to this city in 1879, Joseph 
 Dougherty remained in the partnership until 
 1881, then selling out to his brother. From 1881 
 to 1884 he dwelt again in Bellevue, his birth- 
 place, but returned to Prescott in the last-men- 
 tioned year. Buying out J. W. Dougherty's in- 
 terest in the O. K. store, he has conducted it 
 ever since, meeting with marked success. In 
 1900 he built a substantial Ijrick block, three 
 stories in height, having a street frontage of 75 
 feet, and a depth of 50 feet, divided into three 
 large storerooms, all of which he occupies. His 
 Ijusiness departments occupy the first floor and 
 basement, and a fine hall, next to the largest one 
 in the city, is above. He owns and has built sev- 
 eral residences in Prescott and has made some 
 investments in mining property. In addition to 
 his other enterprises, he conducts a livery, popu- 
 larly known as the "O. K. Barn,'' and is the 
 proprietor of the "Cross S" ranch, situated about 
 forty miles west of this city, on the upper Santa 
 Maria river, and there he has a large herd of cat- 
 tle. 
 
 As mav be seen from his numerous undertak- 
 ings and varied investments, Mr. Dougherty is 
 a typical energetic Arizonian. In his political 
 faith he is a Republican, and at one time was 
 an active member of the county central commit- 
 tee. Throughout the city he is popular with the 
 best and representative classes, and for one term 
 served their interests as an alderman. His mar- 
 riage to Mrs. Laura (Johnson) Ritter, whose 
 birthplace is in Oregon, took place in this city 
 in 1897. , 
 
 F. T. LaPRADE. 
 
 The most prominent enterprises of Winslow 
 have received the hearty support and coopera- 
 tion of Mr. LaPrade, who has been a resident of 
 the town since January 9, 1886. He was born in 
 Clarksville, Ga., December 30, 1852, and re- 
 ceived his home training, and such limited edu- 
 cation as was afforded by the public schools in 
 Habersham county. His father was a successful 
 farmer and closely identified with the affairs of 
 his county, and served with courage and dis- 
 tinction all through the Civil war. His son early 
 displayed habits of thrift and industry, and in 
 1877 undertook to earn his own livelihood in 
 Weatherforil. Tex., where he farmed for two
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 years. In 1S79 he began the wild and adventur- 
 ous Hfe of a western cowboy, roaming on the 
 trails of New Mexico and Texas, and laying up 
 a little money with which he later purchased 
 cattle of his own. In 1886 he made his entry 
 into Winslow, astride a horse which had been 
 ridden from Fort Worth, Tex., the journey con- 
 suming thirty days, (in the intervening i)rairics 
 there were no settlements, .and the lonely jaunt 
 was undertaken for the greater distance alone. 
 As a means of livelihood he took to blacksmith- 
 ing, having had some early training in that line 
 in Georgia. He subsequently built the first 
 blacksmith's shop in Winslow, which is still the 
 only one there, and carries on general black- 
 smithing and repairing. 
 
 Soon after his arrival in Winslow Mr. La- 
 Prade purchased the first team of horses in the 
 town, and for many years did a general dray and 
 delivery business in connection with his black- 
 smithing. In the latter '80s he invested $8,000 
 in cattle, which were kept on the open range, 
 and has since dealt heavily in cattle. His brand 
 is 41 on the right side and a slanting bar on the 
 left shank, and there is usually a herd of from 
 four to five hundred. In 1890 Mr. LaPrade 
 bought a ranch one mile from Winslow, of which 
 eighty acres are planted with alfalfa, and the 
 reniaining four hundred and eighty acres are 
 devoted to the raising of the cattle. He also 
 owns three hundred and twenty acres three 
 miles from tow?n and north of the river, and a 
 cattle ranch on the Little Colorado open range. 
 In 1891 he established a dairy on the old Brig- 
 ham City ranch, where are raised milch cows, of 
 the Durham and Holstein breeds, which bear 
 the brand A. T. L. on the right side. These 
 cows furnish milk for the town of Winslow. 
 
 In all Mr. LaPrade is one of the largest land 
 Dwncrs in this part of Arizona. Aside from his 
 1 .-inches he is the possessor of a great deal of 
 city property, owning forty-nine town lots, and 
 many houses, also the LaPrade Ijlacksmith shop, 
 which he built and still owns. For a number of 
 \ears he carried on a livery business in the town, 
 and dealt in wood, coal, hay and grain. In 
 politics he is affiliated with the Democratic 
 party, and was chairman of the board of super- 
 visors of Apache county, for four years, before 
 the formation of Navajo county. lie has been 
 
 largely instrumental in securing the incorpora- 
 tion of the town of Winslow, and was elected to 
 the city council in 1900. 
 
 Mr. LaPrade is a splendid example of what a 
 man may accomplish without assistance or in- 
 fluence, solely by the exercise of shrewd com- 
 ni(in sense and patient application to the work 
 at hand. He came here in January of 1886 with 
 practically nothing for a staiter, and has grasped 
 the opportunities by which he was surrounded, 
 and in many directions turned them to good ac- 
 count. He is a typical successful western man, 
 with the courage and breezy good-fellowship 
 which inspires confidence, and a large-hearted- 
 ness which generously takes an interest in every- 
 thing which tends to the public good. 
 
 DAVID GRUBB. 
 
 David Grubb, one of thfe pioneers of Arizona, 
 and one of the miners and prospectors of the vi- 
 cinity of Prescott for the past thirty-four years, 
 having come to the territory in 1867, first lo- 
 cating at the Vulture mines, is a native of Ross 
 county, Ohio, his birth having occurred on a 
 farm eight miles from Chillicothe, November 14, 
 1842. He is the son of Jacob and Susan (Went- 
 worth) Grubb. Jacob was a native of Ross 
 county, Ohio, and lived there until his death. 
 The wife was born in the state of Maine, and 
 with her parents came to Ohio when she was 
 three or four years of age. They raised a family 
 of ten children, of whom seven are still living, 
 our subject being the si.xth child. His early 
 years were passed in the quiet pursuits of the 
 country and his education was such as the com- 
 mon schools of the neighborhood afforded, and 
 for a short time he attended E. K. Bryan's com- 
 mercial school at Cliillicothe. 
 
 When in his twenty-fourth _\ear David Grubb 
 located in Macon City, Mo., and eighteen 
 months later came to Arizona, making the trip 
 overland from Salina, Kans., with nude teams. 
 At that time Indians, buffalo and game were 
 plentiful on the plains. He first proceded to 
 Tucson. Then going to Wickenburg and in 
 1868 coming to Prescott he conuncnccd to pros- 
 pect and sought for good mining property at in- 
 tervals for several years, in the meaiUime work- 
 ing in llic mines of this district. In .Vpril,
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 589 
 
 1875, he located the Cash mine, which is now 
 being developed, Mr. Grubb having bonded it 
 to George Sturdevant, Jr., and he also discov- 
 ered the Glenn mine, adjoining the Cash mine. 
 Having secured patents to both of these mines 
 and being fully satisfied as to their worth, he 
 refused hundreds of propositions in regard to 
 their sale or management, and it was not until 
 1899 that he bonded the two claims. In addi- 
 tion to this, he still owns three claims known 
 as the Snow Clad mine, a valuable property from 
 every indication. The ore is suitable for pyrites 
 smelter, and gold, silver and lead in paying 
 quantities are yielded. The vein containing 
 these desired minerals runs to the southeast, and 
 in places gold and copper are found. 
 
 Ever since 1882 Mr. Grubb has made his 
 home and headquarters in Maple Gulch, mail 
 reaching him here regularly from Prescott. He 
 is persevering and industrious in all of his un- 
 dertakings, and is thoroughly deserving of suc- 
 cess. Among the miners and mine-owners of 
 this district he is well liked, and every one has 
 a good word for him. He is a typical westerner, 
 well used to the multitudinous privations and 
 hardships which fall to their lot. Politically he 
 is a Democrat. 
 
 SIMON NOVINGER. 
 
 An honored pioneer and highly esteemed citi- 
 zen of Phoenix, the useful and well-spent life of 
 Mr. Novinger has not only gained the confi- 
 dence of his fellow-men, but has also secured 
 for him a comfortable competence which 
 enables him to lay aside all business cares and 
 spend his declining days in ease and retirement. 
 
 Mr. Novinger was born in Halifax, Dauphin 
 county, Pa., January 14, 1832, a son of Isaac 
 and Hannah (Hawk) Novinger, both natives of 
 Lykens \'alley, that county. His paternal 
 grandfather, De \\'alter Novinger, was born in 
 France and became one of the first settlers of 
 Dauphin county, Pa. Being a large land owner 
 and very wealthy he led a life of leisure. He 
 aided the colonies in their struggle for indepen- 
 dence during the Revolutionary war, and the 
 father of our subject was a soldier of the war 
 of 1812. The latter was a wheelwright by 
 trade, and was also a mill and railroad bridge 
 contractor. In religious belief he was a mem- 
 
 ber of the German Reformed Church. He 
 died upon his farm in Halifax township, 
 Dau])hin county, at the age of sixty-four 
 years, and his wife passed away in 1874. She 
 was a daughter of Matthias Hawk, who was 
 born in Pennsylvania of German and English 
 ancestry, and became an extensive farmer. Our 
 subject is one of a family of eight children, six 
 of whom are still living. His two sisters are 
 still residents of Pennsylvania. His brothers 
 were Hiram, who was a lieutenant in Cameron 
 Guards during the Mexican war and died in 
 Mexico; Charles, a farmer of Cofifey county, 
 Kans. ; Thomas, who was captain of Company 
 D, Forty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan- 
 try during the Civil war, and is now a machinist 
 and foundryman at Lillyville, Pa. ; James, who 
 was also a member of a Pennsylvania regiment 
 in that war, and is now train dispatcher for the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad at Harrisburg; and Isaac, 
 who served in a Pennsylvania regiment and died 
 at Leechburg, Pa. 
 
 Simon Novinger was reared in much the usual 
 manner of farmer bovs of his day, attending 
 school about four months and devoting the re- 
 mainder of the year to the labors of the field. 
 After attaining his majority he worked two years 
 at the stone mason trade, and then again en- 
 gaged in farming. He spent considerable time 
 in traveling over the cast, and in 1863 started 
 for Nevada. From St. Joseph, Mo., he started 
 across the plains with ox teams, but learning 
 of the gold excitement at A'irginia City, Mont., 
 he decided to go to that place. He went up 
 the North Platte to Red Butte, and then took 
 the trail north, afterward known as the Bozeman 
 route. There were 417 men in the company 
 with which he traveled, and they had with them 
 127 wagons. They were twice attacked by In- 
 dians, but finally reached their destination in 
 safety. On his arrival in A'irginia City, Mr. 
 Novinger engaged in building for a time, and 
 then turned his attention to placer mining, in 
 which he was quite successful. He spent five 
 years in Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and 
 British Columbia, and in 1868 went to Stockton, 
 Cal., where he engaged in farming for a time, 
 later following the same pursuit at \'izalia, that 
 state. 
 
 In 187 1 Mr. Novinger came to the Salt River
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 valley, at which time Phoenix contained but two 
 buildings. He engaged in prospecting at Four 
 Peaks. On one of his expeditions he was ac- 
 companied by two other men. Leaving him at 
 camp the two others started out to look for 
 water, and while they were gone he was attacked 
 by six Indians, whom he put to flight, although 
 they succeeded in wounding him in the right 
 leg. He was taken to Fort McDowell, where 
 on account of his injuries he remained for one 
 hundred and forty days. He then returned to 
 Phoenix, and in 1873 bought a claim and filed 
 it, consisting of the southeast quarter of section 
 12, township 2, Maricopa county, a mile and a 
 half from the city. As the years have passed 
 Phoenix has steadily grown until now her im- 
 provements touch the boundaries of Mr. Nov- 
 mger's ranch. In 1877 he bought another tract 
 of one hundred and sixty acres adjoining it on 
 the north, and has since laid out what is known 
 as the capitol addition to Phoenix, which has 
 been built up rapidly with lovely residences. Mr. 
 Novinger has operated his ranch, raising grain 
 and hay. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, 
 and has served as a member of the county com- 
 mittee. During his residence in Arizona he has 
 frequently visited the east, and has traveled ex- 
 tensively over both the north and the west. He 
 can relate many interesting incidents of his life 
 on the plains, and is a most entertaining con- 
 versationalist. 
 
 The portrait of Mr. Novinger, which appears 
 in connection with his biographical sketch, is 
 accompanied by that of his grandniece, Mabel 
 Clara Novinger, daughter of Mason D. and Eva 
 (Hampton) Novinger. The latter is of the same 
 family which numbered Gen. Wade Hampton 
 of South Carolina among its members. 
 
 JACK GIBSON. 
 
 A well-known pioneer of Phoenix is Jack Gib- 
 son, who has been engaged in numerous busi- 
 ness enterprises in this immediate locality for 
 more than a score of years. He was born near 
 Fredericksburg, Tex., September 18, 1861, his 
 parents being Joseph and Margaret (Powers) 
 Gibson, natives of Missouri. The father, whose 
 birthplace was in the vicinity of St. Joseph, was 
 a son of James Gibson, a farmer, and an early 
 
 settler of Missouri and later of western Texas. 
 During the Civil war he served in a Texas regi- 
 ment. For many years he was extensively en- 
 gaged in the cattle business, and it was not until 
 1880 that he departed this life. Joseph Gibson 
 also was a private in a Texas regiment while 
 the Civil war was in progress, and in the year 
 1869 he determined to try his fortunes in Cali- 
 fornia. With his family and some neighbors he 
 started across the plains, the caravan compris- 
 ing, all told, about twenty-five men. besides 
 women and children, and with their thirteen 
 hundred head of cattle, ox-teams and equip- 
 ments, proved a great temptation to the red- 
 skins. 
 
 At a point near the Pecos river about seventy- 
 five Apaches attacked the travelers, and a hot 
 fight ensued. The Indians were well mounted 
 and it was not until three hours or more of pur- 
 suit and skirmishing that they were routed. In 
 the meantime, Silas, brother of Joseph Gibson, 
 was killed, and at least one Indian is known to 
 have been instantly sent to "the happy hunting- 
 ground." For ten years Joseph Gibson and 
 family lived in Anaheim, Cal., engaged in farm- 
 ing and dairying, and also conducting a livery 
 and sale stable for some time. In 1881, after the 
 death of the mother (who was a daughter of 
 John Powers, a lifelong resident of Missouri), 
 the father came to Phoenix, and, starting a liv- 
 ery, continued to manage it until his death, in 
 1890, in his fifty-seventh year. In addition to 
 the enterprise mentioned, he dealt extensively 
 in cattle here for some time. Fraternally he was 
 identified with the Masonic order, and was justly 
 popular with all classes. 
 
 Jack Gibson and his two brothers, James T. 
 and John P. Gibson, have been citizens of Phoe- 
 nix or this locality during the greater share of 
 its existence. Their only sister, Mrs. Lizzie 
 Beauchamp, resides in Santa Ana, Cal. Our 
 subject obtained a liberal education in the public 
 schools of Anaheim, Cal., and in 1880 came to 
 Phoeni.x with his father, with whom he was in 
 partnership in the livery business for ten years, 
 also being associated with him in the cattle busi- 
 ness from 1886 to 1890. Subsequently, with his 
 brother, James T. Gibson, he continued in the 
 same enterprises until 1894, when their partner- 
 ship was dissolved. Jack Gibson became the
 
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 sole owner of the livery by buying his brother's 
 interest in tlie same, and, as always, keeps a fine 
 line of vehicles and reliable roadsters. The 
 barns are located on Third street, between 
 Washington and Jefferson, and are thoroughly 
 e(|ui])ped, in every respect. The proprietor is 
 a nicndjcr of the Phocni.x Driving Association, 
 and among the fine thoroughbred horses now in 
 liis ]wssession three may be mentioned: Frank 
 l"., whose record is 2:19]; Princie G., a pacer, 
 with a record of 2:i2-J, and Windy Jim, a sorrel, 
 with a half-mile record of :48i. 
 
 Though he is interested in several good 
 ranches, Mr. Gibson's best one. perhaps, is the 
 old Alkire ranch, forty miles north of Phoenix, 
 on the I31ack Canon road. His partner in this 
 enterprise is L. K. Smith, and their brands, 
 are to be found on hundreds of excellent 
 cattle. They also feed extensively, often having 
 fully seven hundred head of cattle fattening for 
 the market. 
 
 In appearance Air. Giiison is a striking figure, 
 six feet three and a half inches in height, weigh- 
 ing about two hundred pounds; he is well pro- 
 portioned, and straight as an arrow. In the 
 councils of the Board of Trade, in the Demo- 
 cratic party of this locality, and in tlie Phoenix 
 lodge of the Benevolent Protective Order of 
 Elks, he is a man of no slight importance and 
 influence. He has one son, Floyd Monroe, a 
 bright and promising youth. 
 
 M. F. SWANGER. 
 
 One of the prosperous farmers on the main 
 road between Solomonville and Safford is Mr. 
 Swanger, who was born in Dodge City, Steele 
 county, Minn., in 1856. His parents, J. Q. and 
 Elsie Swanger, were natives respectively of Ohio 
 and Michigan, and were farmers during the 
 greater part of their lives. In the very early 
 days of the settlement of Minnesota they lo- 
 cated in the northern state and materially as- 
 sisted in the all-around development of their 
 locality. When their son, M. F., was but a 
 youtli, they changed their home to the south- 
 western part of Michigan, where they lived for 
 about nine years. A later location was Macon 
 county, Mo., and here M. F. Swanger lived on a 
 
 farm for three years, going then to South Bend, 
 St. Joseph county, Ind.. where he remained for 
 five years. 
 
 The farming pursuits of Mr. Swanger were 
 tcm]jiirarily interrupted in 1878, when he en- 
 listed in the regular army, in Chicago, 111., and 
 for five years served in New Mexico and Ari- 
 zona, as a member of Troop A, Sixth Cavalry. 
 During this time he saw a great deal of wild 
 frontier life, and became familiar with the treach- 
 erous and strange ways of the Indians, whom 
 he was constantly employed to subdue. Upon 
 being discharged at Fort Apache in 1883, he 
 took up his location at Fort Grant, and for two 
 \ears was engaged in the cattle business. He 
 later came to the Gila valley and bought a ranch 
 near Safford, which was later traded for the 
 farm of one hundred and twenty acres, which is 
 now in his possession, and which is just a mile 
 from Safford. Later purchases in land have 
 l)een forty acres nearer town, and another forty 
 acres directly across the road from the original 
 purchase, also one hundred and twenty acres 
 near Solomonville, on the upper road. Of all 
 the land which Mr. Swanger has owned at differ- 
 ent times during his farming life he claims that 
 his present property has been the most satis- 
 factory, and has yielded the best results for the 
 time and labor employed. He is enthusiastic 
 and hopeful for the future of the valley, and his 
 home is proof of the wisdom of his belief. The 
 improvements on his land are the best possible 
 obtainable in this part of the country, the house 
 and oittbuildings are comfortable and con- 
 venient, and a splendid orchard is the reward of 
 unceasing toil and successful propagation. The 
 fruit crop is one of the best raised, the alfalfa 
 averages five tons to the acre, and last year the 
 hay crop was abundant, and sold for $12 a ton. 
 Wheat and barley are staple crops, and the com- 
 bined output has brought a competence to the 
 faithful sower of seed and tiller of the soil. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Swanger married Clara R. Har- 
 ris, a daughter of Oliver and Lodema Harris, 
 of Thatcher, Ariz. Of this union there have 
 been four children born: Elsie, who is eleven 
 years of age and attending the Safford school; 
 Lodema, nine years of age, and Knoland, who 
 are also acquiring an education; and Flora, two 
 _\ears old. Though a .stanch Republican, Mr.
 
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 Swanger holds liberal views as to office-holders, 
 but he has never entertained aspirations for 
 office himself. 
 
 COL. GILBERT D. GRAY. 
 
 The United States, steadily rising in import- 
 ance among the great nations of the world, and 
 the citizens of this republic who are enjoying 
 rights and privileges purchased at an appalling 
 price — the lives and untold sufferings of an in- 
 numerable host of patriots — are deeply indebted 
 to the gallant Tenth iMissouri regiment of in- 
 fantry, among others, of which heroic band Col- 
 onel Gray was an officer until its ranks were ter- 
 ribly depleted. Ex-quartermaster-general of the 
 Grand Army of the Republic, in Arizona, his 
 worth has been fittingly recognized here. 
 
 His great-grandfather Gray was born in Ire- 
 land, and settled in Philadelphia prior to the war 
 of the Revolution, in which he was a soldier in 
 the colonial army. His last years were passed 
 upon his plantation in Fauquier county, Va. 
 His son Henry, grandfather of the Colonel, was 
 born there and as early .as 1813 he became a set- 
 tler of Perry county, Ohio. Following in the 
 footsteps of his patriotic father, he defended the 
 United States in the second war with the mother 
 country, enlisting at the second call for men. 
 His brother, Malachi, was the first lieutenant of 
 his company, and subsequent to the conflict he 
 located in Muskingum county, Ohio. Together 
 the brothers went to Drakesville, Iowa, where 
 they engaged in farming, and passed their de- 
 clining years. Lieut. Malachi Gray, when sev- 
 enty-two years of age, was a private in the 
 Thirty-seventh Iowa Infantry, known as the 
 "Graybeard Regiment." 
 
 Jonas H., father of Col. G. D. Gray, was born 
 near Somerset, Ohio, and followed the business 
 of a merchant tailor. He departed this life in 
 1850, leaving a widow and three children. The 
 mother was Achsah Priscilla, daughter of Ros- 
 well Mills, a member of the Ohio senate at the 
 time of his demise. He was a pioneer of that 
 state and was a member of the bar of Somerset, 
 Perry county, for many years. His birthplace 
 was in Maine, and his father was a hero of the 
 Revolution. Mrs. Achsah Gray, who was born 
 in Connecticut, is still living, her home being in 
 Glenwood, Mo. 
 
 On October 13, 1840, occurred the birth of 
 Col. Gilbert D. Gray, at Somerset, Ohio, in 
 which town he continued to dwell until he was 
 seventeen years of age. Then, going to Iowa, 
 he obtained employment as a clerk at Bloom- 
 field, and was there when Fort Sumter was fired 
 upon. At the first call for defenders of the 
 Union he volunteered, but was rejected. In 
 July, 1861, he went to St. Louis with forty-nine 
 companions and was enlisted in Company D, 
 Tenth Missouri Infantry, ,as second lieutenant. 
 Then followed a campaign against the bush- 
 whackers in Missouri, and here it may be said 
 that during his army life he and many of his 
 comrades had narrow escapes from being mur- 
 dered in cold blood or, more exactly, assassi- 
 nated. After participating in the two engage- 
 ments at Corinth and Farmington, he was pro- 
 moted to the post of first lieutenant, December 
 31, 1861. He participated in the battle of Farm- 
 ington, Miss., the siege and capture of Corinth, 
 on account of disability was sent north, stationed 
 at Lancaster, Mo., where he took part in the 
 battle of Lancaster September 7, 1862, and the 
 battle of Pell's Farm, October 3, 1862. The fol- 
 lowing April he took part in the siege of Cape 
 Girardeau; in May with a detachment of nineteen 
 men he crossed the A-Iississippi and reached his 
 regiment May 9, 1863; May 12, was in the fight 
 at Raymond; May 14, captured Jackson, Miss.; 
 May 16, fought the battle of Champion Hill; 
 19th, crossed Black river; and 20th, participated 
 in the siege of Vicksburg, and was at the sur- 
 render and with his command marched into the 
 city July 4, 1863. In November, same year, he 
 participated in the battles of Chattanooga and 
 Missionary Ridge. While making a gallant as- 
 sault upon Vicksburg, May 22, 1863, Colonel Gray 
 was shot in the left thigh, and August 22 follow- 
 ing was commissioned captain of his company, 
 B. Though he had made a truly heroic effort 
 to remain with his regiment. Captain Gray was 
 forced to resign, February 24, 1864, owing to 
 the painful and weakening abscesses which had 
 formed near his w'ound received at Vicksburg. 
 (^nly a little more than two hundred of his orig- 
 inal regiment were left in the ranks, as its losses 
 had been terribly heavy, and when mustered out 
 at the close of the war, there were only one 
 hundred and eight of the number first enrolled.
 
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 As soon as able to do somctliing- more for his 
 country. Captain Gray set about the task of 
 raising a company, at first called the "Davis 
 County Militia," and later Company A (First 
 Border Iowa Regiment). On August lo, 1864, 
 our subject was commissioned captain of the 
 company and later was promoted to tlic lieu- 
 tenant-colonelcy, ranking as such from Novem- 
 ber ID, 1864. His service during the last months 
 of the w.ar was on the borders of Iowa and Mis- 
 ' souri. for Dmm's Battalion and Shacklet's Bat- 
 talion, Confederate troops, were raiding Davis 
 and \'an Buren counties, Iowa, and were mak- 
 ing great trouble in the locality. With his regi- 
 ment, 1,250 strong, Colonel Gray was mustered 
 out of the army in November, 1865. 
 
 Establishing himself in business at Bloom- 
 field, Iowa, Colonel Gray dealt in stoves, hard- 
 ware and agricultural implements and in June, 
 1867, returned to Schuyler county. Mo., the 
 scene of many of his fights and victories in the 
 war. For something over a year he carried on 
 a drug business at Lancaster, after which he was 
 occupied in the same line at Glenwood, Mo., for 
 about twenty-two years, and still owns the drug 
 store there. In the meantime, he was honored 
 by election to the ofifice of justice of the peace, 
 in which capacity he served for sixteen years, 
 and as judge of the countv court he officiated 
 one term. Since 1892 he has been a resident of 
 Arizona, and after living near Payson for a short 
 time came to Phoenix. Here he has transacted 
 a large real-estate and loan business and has de- 
 voted much attention to his fine peach and 
 apple orchard. He is a member of the board of 
 trade, and in Missouri was active in the Masonic 
 lodge, the Odd Fellows and Encampment, and 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is 
 past representative to the grand lodge of the 
 Odd Fellows of Missouri, and is past grand 
 patriarch of the grand encampment of that state. 
 Recently the quartermaster-general of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic of Arizona, and past com- 
 mander of D. A. Roberts Post No. 25, of Glen- 
 wood. Mo., the Colonel occupies an honored 
 place in the hearts of his army comrades, it is 
 nlainlv s^e". Tn thf Rennblir^ti mrtv h" It-s 
 li'^^n nn -irknowlf do-prl IpP'Vr Vri'-f>m1ipr tRoR 
 
 elected justice of the pence: re-elected Novem- 
 
 The marriage of Colonel Gray and Miss 
 Theresa E. Spencer took place in Bloomfield, 
 Iowa, January 19, 1863. She is a native of 
 Brown county. 111., and was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools of Illinois and Iowa. The only son 
 of this estimable couple is James M., who is a 
 real-estate and loan agent of Glenwood, Mo. 
 Their elder daughter, Emma, is the wife of L. F. 
 Leyhe.of Marshall, !Mo., and the younger daugh- 
 ter, Maude, wife of Sylvanus Palmer, resides in 
 Phoenix. Colonel Gray and wife are members 
 of the Christian Church of this city, and are lib- 
 eral towards numerous leligious and benevolent 
 enterprises calculated to uplift and benefit hu- 
 manity. 
 
 HOSEA G. GREENHAW. 
 
 There is no memory in Maricopa county 
 that travels as far back through the history of 
 Arizona as does that of Mr. Greenhaw. Long 
 before the possibilities of the seemingly desert 
 waste were even dimly outlined in the minds of 
 men, and when the red men still held undisputed 
 possession of the latent greatness of the soil, and 
 wandered with unfettered freedom through the 
 valleys and plains, this far-sighted prophet of 
 good settled in Salt River valley in 1868, and for 
 a number of years lived near the present site of 
 Phoenix. One can scarcely imagine the changes 
 which his industry has assisted in developing, 
 nor the satisfaction experienced while watching 
 the awakening of the soil, after centuries of dor- 
 mant rest. 
 
 In the early days Mr. Greenhaw took up one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land nnder the home- 
 stead act, and the three hundred and twenty ad- 
 ditional acres are the result of more recent pur- 
 chase. At the present time he is engaged in the 
 raising of sheep, cattle ?nd mules, on his land 
 twelve miles west of Phoenix. He is the oldest 
 settler in this part of the territory, from the 
 standpoint of residence and age. and no one has 
 shown greater interest in the enterprises which 
 have contributed towards the general upbuilding. 
 
 Of English ancestry,^ Mr. Greenhaw was born 
 in Union county. Ark., July 10, 1848, and is a 
 son of Joseph D. and Mary A. (Doty) Green- 
 haw. born in .A.labama. On his father's planta- 
 tion in Arkansas the son was trained to habits 
 of industry and thrift, and educated in the early
 
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 subscription schools. The echicational advan- 
 tages were necessarily limited, and were con- 
 fined to a few winter months each year. He 
 assisted his father in the duties around the cot- 
 ton plantation, and lived amid the surroundings 
 of his youth until 1868. After settling in 
 Arizona he married, in 1877, in California, 
 Elizabeth A. Barton, daughter of John Barton, 
 and a native of Texas, but reared near Fresno, 
 Cal. Of this union there have since been born 
 five children, viz.: Hosea, Jr., Miriam, Paul, 
 Mary and Leslie, all single and at home with 
 their parents. 
 
 Aside from the responsibilities connected with 
 his cattle raising, and the management of four 
 hundred and eighty acres of land, Mr. Greenhaw 
 has devoted nuich thought and money to the 
 cjuestion of water develoiimcnt, and has served 
 as a director in the Maricopa Canal Company, 
 and has also been a director in the Salt River 
 Valley Canal Company. He is a member of 
 the Democratic party and has great faith in the 
 principles and issues of that organization. With 
 the educational work of his locality he has kept 
 in touch, and is interested in all schemes for 
 progress along that line. At the present time 
 he is a member of the board of trustees of the 
 west end school district. He is endow-ed with 
 the excellent traits of mind and character so 
 necessary in the maintaining of order in the 
 affairs of all new and promising localities, and 
 is recognized as a helpful and reliable pioneer, 
 to whom the present residents of the valley are 
 indebted for much of the prosperity which they 
 now enjoy. 
 
 O. F. KUENCER. 
 
 For thirty years deputy United States mineral 
 surveyor, and since boyhood associated with 
 mining in all its varied details, O. F. Kuencer 
 has literally grown up in the business, as he was 
 but twelve years of age when he accompanied 
 an uncle to the Pacific coast and became con- 
 nected w^ith the mining interests of the west. 
 He was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1848, and in 
 1857 accompanied his uncle to California, via 
 Cape Horn. In i860 he again made the long 
 and eventful journey via the Horn to San Fran- 
 cisco, this time for the purpose of locating in 
 the west. During the next eight years he at- 
 
 tended school in Stockton and San Jose. Being 
 an ambitious youth, he decided to thoroughly 
 prepare himself as a mining and civil engineer, 
 and went to Germany, where there w^as at that 
 time the only mining school on the European 
 continent. Having been graduated from the 
 School of Mines, at Freiberg, Germany, in 
 1868, with the degrees for which he has labored, 
 he returned^ crossing the ocean and continent. 
 For a few months after his arrival in the city 
 of the Golden Gate he was employed by the' 
 Comstock Mining Company, and then embarked 
 in independent business. Opening an office at 
 White Pine, Nev., he transacted a large amount 
 of laboratory work, and having purchased the 
 Dell silver mine, operated the same until the 
 summer of 1869. Then, for a couple of years, 
 he was occupied in mining and civil engineer- 
 ing at Pioche, Nev. 
 
 Three decades ago Mr. Kuencer came to Ari- 
 zona, becoming a resident of Mineral Park, 
 where he conducted a general assaying ofifice and 
 at the same time had charge of quartz mills in 
 that place and vicinity. In connection with his 
 ofifice as deputy United States mineral surveyor 
 he visited all parts of the mining localities of 
 Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Montana and 
 New Mexico, inspecting and making reports on 
 the same, in accordance with his instructions. 
 Thus it may be seen that he has long been 
 looked upon as an authority upon the subject, 
 his opinion carrying great weight. At times he 
 superintended mines, and since 1886 he has 
 lived in Kingman and has made his headquar- 
 ters at his mining engineer's ofifice, surveying 
 and examining mines throughout this county, in 
 particular. In company with some St. Louis 
 capitalists he is financially interested in the de- 
 velopment of the Ark, San Antonio and Es- 
 meralda mines, located near Mineral Park, 
 where they have a concentrating plant, of which 
 he is now serving as superintendent. He has 
 a finely equipped laboratory at the Ark mine, 
 and makes all needful tests of ores and minerals 
 submitted to his attention. 
 
 The growth and progress of Mohave county 
 is of vital interest to Mr. Kuencer, and he 
 neglects no opportunity of promoting its wel- 
 fare. In this community, and wherever he has 
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 of sincere friends. In the fraternities of King- 
 man he belongs to several of tlie leading lodges, 
 being a member of the Odd Fellows, the order 
 of Elks and other organizations. He was mar- 
 ried in 1885 to Sarah J. Gross, a native of 
 Yuma, .\riz. They have b:en the parents of 
 five children, of whom three survive. namcl\-: 
 Walter E., C. W., and Kenneth C. 
 
 NOAH GREEN. 
 
 .At this stage of a career which has wellnigh 
 spanned four score years, and into which has 
 been crowded a world of usefulness and contin- 
 ued advancement towards better and more pro- 
 gressive things, Noah Green represents that 
 fine type of pioneership whom all delight to 
 know and honor. When he first came to .Ari- 
 zona in 1886 he possessed the inspiring sum 
 of $7 upon which to found his prosperity, and 
 the present is a just reward for untiring atten- 
 tion to all the tasks set before him, and the com- 
 mercial integrity and high moral courage which 
 characterized his every action. As a miner, 
 farmer, stock-raiser, stage-line manager, mill 
 owner, and all around promoter of the best inter- 
 ests of the comnumity he is one of the prized 
 and appreciated citizens of Solomonvillc. 
 
 As long ago as 1823 Mr. Green was born in 
 Licking county, Ohio, and is a son of Hazel and 
 Susanna M. Green, who were born respectively 
 in A'irginia and Pennsylvania. His youth was 
 passed amid the familiar surroundings to which 
 he was accustomed, and his education was de- 
 rived at the public schools. When nineteen 
 years old he sought an independent existence 
 upon a farm, upon which he lived until 1850. In 
 the meantime he married, at Columbus, Ohio, 
 November 9, 1846, Evelyn Coulter, a daughter 
 of John Coulter, of Marion county, Ohio, and 
 four years later, on May 19, 1850, they left his 
 native state, and after a short sojourn in Indi- 
 ana settled in Carroll county. 111. Here Mr. 
 Green engaged in farming for thirty years, with 
 the exception of twelve years spent in buying 
 and shipping stock and grain and lumber. He 
 purchased lumber in the upper lake regions by 
 the boatload and shipped to Thompson, where 
 he lived, and in this town the greatest grief in 
 his whole life visited him in the loss of his wife. 
 
 who was also his comrade and helpmate, and an 
 unceasing jov and consolation during all the 
 years of their union. .She is buried in the York 
 cemetery at Thompson, as is also her mother. 
 So dear is the memory of this cherished wife 
 that her husband has never thought of sup- 
 planting her in his heart or home. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Cireen came to Colorado, and for 
 six years mined and prospected, and in 1886 
 removed to Arizona, which has since been his 
 home. For a time he here mined and pros- 
 pected, and later bought out the stage line be- 
 tween Carlisle and Duncan, operating the same 
 in partnership with two other men. For three 
 and a half years they carried the mails and pas- 
 sengers between the two places, and during all 
 that time Mr. Green drove the stage himself. 
 He then came to Solomonvillc and ran the stage 
 line between here and .Sheldon, then to Dimcan, 
 and finally to Sheldon .again, carrying the mail 
 to those two places about six and a half years, 
 and though still owning this line, his occupation, 
 as far as the mails were concerned, terminated 
 with the advent of the railroad through this sec- 
 tion. Since June i, 1899, he has been running 
 the stage from Coronado to Solomonvillc. At 
 present one of his principal interests is what is 
 known as Green's Corral, which is owned in part 
 by a son, Luther, in partnership with whom the 
 most of Mr. Green's undertakings are carried on. 
 Jointly they also own one hundred acres adjoin- 
 ing the town, ninety-seven of which are in the 
 town. About ninety acres of this land is irri- 
 gated, and is sufficient to raise feed for the stock 
 owned by them. 
 
 An enterprise of recent date is a mill in which 
 father and son are greatly interested, and which 
 is proving a great industry for the community. 
 It represents a total investment of over $30,000. 
 Mr. Green had charge of a company of men 
 who constructed a ditch seven miles long for 
 operations, and it is believed that so complete 
 are the details of construction and working ca- 
 pacity that it will draw a large amount of trade 
 to Solomonville, and materially aid in the com- 
 mercial advancement of the city. Ec|uipped 
 with the finest machinery, three or four grades of 
 flour, it has no superior in tiie territory; grinds 
 corn and rolls barley and employs three men in 
 the mill. In many other ways also Mr. Green
 
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 and his capable son have aided in the general 
 development of the city, and their amicable and 
 harmonious business association is a matter of 
 comment among all who appreciate harmony in 
 whatever light it is viewed. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Green is a Democrat, 
 and cast his first presidential vote for James K. 
 Polk. He has been a Mason since 1855; hav- 
 ing joined Lodge No. 355 at Mount Carroll, 
 111., and became a member of the Royal Arch 
 Chapter also. The four children born to Mr. 
 and Mrs. Green arc: Susan, who is now Mrs. 
 Charles Cochr;;n, of Carroll county, 111.; Moses, 
 who is a master painter by trade, and located at 
 Safford, Ariz.; Margaret, who is the wife of 
 George N. Melendy, of Carroll county, 111.; and 
 Luther, who is his father's partner in business, 
 and has a family of six sons. 
 
 SAMUEL J. GEDDES. 
 
 The flourishing town of Willcox numbers 
 among its citizens many who have an abiding 
 faith in its uninterrupted prosperity, and of these 
 one of the most enthusiastic is Mr. Geddes, the 
 popular and successful general merchant, and 
 member of the firm of McCourt & Geddes. 
 Possessed of a sound conuuercial integrit)- and 
 a perseverance which knows no obstacles, he has 
 fallen into fortunate lines, and is one of the re- 
 spected and capable citizens of the place. 
 
 Of Irish parentage, he was born in Montreal, 
 Canada, and is a son of Samuel and Jane Geddes, 
 natives of county Tyrone, Ireland, and who 
 emigrated to Canada in 1859. They are farmers 
 by occupation, and are still residents of this 
 northern clime under the jurisdiction of the Eng- 
 lish. Their son received a good common-school 
 education, and an excellent home training, and 
 was well qualified to buffet with the various 
 winds of fortune when he started away from 
 home in 1882, at the rge of eighteen. For three 
 years he settled in the Red River valley in north- 
 ern Minnesota and then accepted a position as 
 clerk with the firm of Pratt & Elliott, of Gran- 
 din, N. D. After four years he occupied a simi- 
 lar position with John A. Getty & Co. at White 
 Bear Lake, Minn., with whom he stayed until 
 1891. 
 
 After a year's sojourn at his home in Canada, 
 
 Mr. Geddes came to .Arizona in June, 1S92, and 
 was with the Arizona Copper Company as sales- 
 man at Clifton for two years. In the spring of 
 1894 he came to Willcox as salesman for Nor- 
 ton & Co., wholesale and retail purveyors of 
 general merchandise, remaining with this con- 
 cern for three years. He then started in busi- 
 ness for himself in partnership with L. V. Mc- 
 Court, and for the carrying on of the general 
 merchandise l)usiness there was erected a fine 
 large building, 30x100 feet in ground dimen- 
 sions, and which is stocked with one of the larg- 
 est and most complete assortments of general 
 merchandise in the town. A wholesale as well 
 as retail business is successfully conducted, and 
 the firm have met with a deserved patronage and 
 appreciation. In addition to the two partners 
 the services are required of two clerks and a 
 bookkeeper. 
 
 To add to his responsibilities, Mr. Geddes was 
 appointed postmaster of Willcox by President 
 McKinley in February of 1899, his assistant in 
 the discharge of the duties of the position being 
 J. M. Pickarts, formerly of Leavenworth, Kans. 
 During the year ending with June, 1900, a busi- 
 ness amounting to $2,228 was carried on, and 
 in the short time of a year and a half the office 
 was raised from fourth to third-class. To aid 
 him in postofifice and store, Mr. Geddes pos- 
 sesses a thorough knowledge of the Spanish lan- 
 guage. He is a believer in the principles and 
 issues of the Republican party, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally he 
 is a chapter Mason and a member of the Knights 
 of Pythias. 
 
 COL. JOHN GRAY. 
 
 The thoroughly efficient and popular clerk of 
 the board of commissioners of Maricopa county, 
 Col. John Gray, of Phoenix, served as quarter- 
 master-general of the department of Arizona, 
 G. A. R., for two terms, with the rank of col- 
 onel, and was assistant inspector-general of the 
 national encampment of Arizona in 1899-1900. 
 His popularity in Grand Army circles is thus 
 indubitably shown, and his executive talents as 
 an officer are highly praised by all concerned. 
 Moreover, he is past commander of J. W. 
 Owens Post No. 5, G. A. R., of this city. 
 
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 Susan (Sutton) Gray, the Colonel was born 
 February 25, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa. He had 
 three sisters, one of whom is deceased. Their 
 father was born in New Jersey, in 18 12, and 
 lived to a good age, his death taking place in 
 1890. For several decades he v.as a business 
 ni:;n f)t the "Ouakcr" city, engaged in the manu- 
 facture of combs. During the Civil war he 
 served under McClcllan in the rcninsular cam- 
 paign, in the (|uartermaster's department. Ik- 
 was ideiUified with the Odd I'ellows and with 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of Cierman 
 descent, his father, John Gray, also was born 
 in New Jersey, and passed his entire life in 
 tliat state. In the Revolution he served in the 
 colonial army as a commissioned officer. The 
 Sutton family originated in England, and Mrs. 
 (iray's parents were from Maine. Her father 
 was one of the pioneer merchants of Cincinnati, 
 in which city her birth took place. 
 
 Col. John Gray was reared in I'hiladelphia, 
 where he attended the grammar and high 
 schools. At the age of seventeen he commenced 
 learning the trade of a stove-molder, but the 
 great war then being waged between the North 
 and South so aroused his patriotism that, as 
 roon as possible, he enlisted in the defense of 
 the Stars and Stripes. In the spring of 1864 
 the youth of eighteen years volunteered in Com- 
 pany M, One Hundred and Ninety-second Penn- 
 s-ylvania Infantry. After serving for four months 
 in Ohio and West Virginia, he, with the regi- 
 ment, was honorably discharged, and then 
 j(jined the Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry, 
 then campaigning in Virginia. From that time 
 until the close of the war he was a private in 
 Coni]iany I of the regiment named, being mus- 
 tered out at Philadelphia, in July, 1865, with 
 the rank of corporal. 
 
 His life in the south awakened in our subject 
 the desire to see something of his country, and 
 for some time he traveled, going to Louisiana, 
 Texas, Missouri and other sections. For a 
 period he then was employed as a clerk in De- 
 troit, Mich., and while there met the lady who 
 liecame his wife. In 1879 he volunteered as a 
 regular in the Sixth United States Cavalry, and 
 was assigned to Company I. Proceeding to 
 [•"ort McDowell, .Ariz., he was detailed and em- 
 ployed as a clerk in the quartermaster's depart- 
 
 ment. At the end of five years of service he 
 was honorably discharged and came to Phoenix. 
 Obtaining a position with the firm of J. Y. T. 
 Smith, proprietor of .a flouring mill, he contin- 
 ued as clerk and bookkeeper there for seven 
 \ears. Mr. Smith then selling his business. Dur- 
 ing the next year ;\Ir. (iray was in tlie employ 
 of T. J. Trask. after whicli lie was bookkeeper 
 for .\lcXulty & Chapman Pros, for seven years. 
 In January. 1899, he became clerk of the county 
 board of supervisors of Maricopa countv. and 
 held that office until January 31, 1901. In the 
 world of politics he is recognized as a repre- 
 sentative Republican, and frequently has acted 
 on county committees and local organizations. 
 In the Odd Fellows' lodge and in the Encamp- 
 ment and Canton he is a past officer and is a 
 member of the grand lodge. In 1891 he at- 
 tended the Grand Army's convention at Detroit, 
 as a delegate from Arizona. He also belongs to 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
 
 In Detroit, Mich., Colonel Gray married Mar- 
 garet Maxwell, one of the native daughters of 
 the city. Their sons, George and Frank, are in 
 the employ of the Wells-Fargo Express Com- 
 pany, the former as a messenger, and the latter 
 is in Phoenix. David, the other son, is in Kan- 
 sas, and Mary and .\lice, the daughters, are 
 at home. The attractive residence of the fam- 
 ily, on North Seventh street, was built by the 
 Colonel. Mrs. Gray is a member of the Epis- 
 copal Church. 
 
 WILLIAM II. r.ROWN. 
 
 Of the many successful cattle-raisers of the 
 Salt River valley none is entitled to more credit 
 than Mr. l^rown, who, when he first came here 
 in 1893, had seventy-five cents with wdiicli to 
 face the conditions existing in a strange part of 
 the country. From this small beginning he has 
 now to his credit two hundred and twenty acres 
 of land under a higli state of cultivation, and is 
 c.xtensivclv engaged in the raising of cattle anil 
 hogs. His cattle enterprises are conducted in 
 connection with the interests of J. J. Meyer, 
 under the firm name of Aleyer & Brown. 
 
 The life of Mr. Brown jirevious to coming to 
 Arizona was of an interesting and eventful 
 order, and had largely to do with the condi- 
 tions existing in frontier states and territories.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 A native of San Antonio, Tex., he was born 
 September 20, 1863, and is a son of William H. 
 and Lncy (Humphrey) Brown, natives respec- 
 tively of Mrginia and Mississippi. William 
 Brown removed to San Antonio in the early 
 '40s, and became identified with the pioneer days 
 of that locality. His son, \\'illiam, was here 
 reared to manhood, and educated in the public 
 schools. He retains vivid remembrances of his 
 historic nati\c town, and of his visits to the 
 celebrated Alamo, the scene of the heroic re- 
 sistance of a handful of men and women during 
 the war in Texas, who eventually left their re- 
 treat rather than starve to death, and as a con- 
 sequence were mowed down by the Mexicans. 
 In his nineteenth year Mr. Brown left Texas 
 and went to the far west, and for seven years 
 worked in the copper mines at Butte, Mont. 
 Upon removing to Deadwood, S. D., he was 
 still interested in mining, but in gold mines, 
 and continued the occupation until his removal 
 to Arizona in 1893. Though practically speak- 
 ing a new comer. Air. lirown is regariled as a 
 substantial acquisition to the conminnity in 
 which he lives. He is public-spirited and keenly 
 alive to the interest of his fellow townsmen. A 
 Republican in national politics, he is not an 
 office seeker, preferring to devote all of his time 
 to the management of his many interests. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Indepen- 
 dent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 JOHN LA TOURRETTE. 
 
 More than a half century has passed since 
 this gentleman arrived on the Pacific slope, and 
 as he has been a resident of Arizona since 1876 
 he is justly numbered among her honored pio- 
 neers and leading citizens. He has been promi- 
 nently indentified with her minmg and cattle 
 interests, and now h;is cattle scattered all over 
 the territory. 
 
 Mr. La Tourrcttc was burn on the banks of 
 Lake Cayuga in Cayuga county, X. ^^, Decem- 
 ber 7, 1822. a son of Peter and .Vnn (Ouigley) 
 La Tourrcttc, both natives of New Jersey, where 
 our subject's paternal grandfather settled on 
 coming to this country from France. The 
 father, who was a weaver and reed-maker, died 
 in \'esta!, Broome county, N. Y., and the moth- 
 
 er's death occurred in Cayuga county, that state. 
 Of their seven children only two are now liv- 
 ing. Their son Henry was drowned while serv- 
 ing as a ship carpenter on the Mississippi squad- 
 ron during the Civil war. Aaron came west 
 with our subject and is still engaged in mining 
 at Diamond Spring, Cal. 
 
 During his boyhood John La ToiuTette pur- 
 sued his studies in the pioneer district schools 
 then so connnon. with its puncheon floor, slab 
 benches, and desks ranged around the wall. 
 Here he studied Daboll's arithmetic and wrote 
 with a quill pen. At the age of eighteen he 
 commenced clerking in the store of George S. 
 Murphy at Auburn, N. Y., where he remained 
 three years. In 1844 he went to St. Louis, 
 Mo., where he bought goods, and then started 
 for La Harpe, Hancock county. 111., with the 
 intention of locating there, but six months later 
 sold out and returned to New York. In 1845 
 he went to Jackson, Wis., and for a time en- 
 gaged in clerking in a hotel at Watertown, that 
 state, but in 1846 we again find him in New 
 York. 
 
 By v^'ay of the Panama route Mr. La Tour- 
 rette went to San Francisco, Cal., in 1850, and 
 engaged in placer mining on a branch of the 
 American river, but not meeting with success 
 he later went to Nevada. He was not success- 
 ful at that place, and returned to Weavertown, 
 Cal. Later he struck a rich claim near Mary- 
 ville, which he had to abandon on account of 
 high water three months later. He then went 
 with his brother to Diamond Spring, where he 
 was engaged in mining eighteen months, and 
 later spent a short time at Downieville, on the 
 North Yuba, after which he returned to Dia- 
 mond Spring. Subsequently he devoted two 
 years to mining on the McAusby river, but not 
 meeting with success he returned to Diamond 
 Spring. There he purchased two yoke of oxen 
 and a fifty dollar wagon, which he filled with 
 provisions, and in company with his wife and 
 two children started for Oregon. There he 
 bought a farm in Rogue River valley, which he 
 operated for fourteen years, and later was en- 
 ,ga.ged in the cattle business at Klamath, Ore., 
 until coming to Arizona in 1876. He brought 
 with him a herd of 175 head of cattle a distance 
 of 1,600 miles, ami wintered the same in Wil-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Co; 
 
 liamson's valley. He then went to Cave creek 
 and later to Camp creek, but the supply of wa- 
 ter being short in that locality he located a 
 ranch on the \'erde in 1877, thirty-five miles 
 above Fort McDowell. Since then he has de- 
 voted his time almost exclusively to the cattle 
 business, and is today one of the most success- 
 ful and largest cattle-owners in the territory, 
 lie l)rought twenty-one head of full-blooded 
 Durhams with him from Oregon. After living 
 on his ranch for seven years he removed to 
 riioenix in 1884. and there owns a nice home. 
 At Diamond Spring, Cal., Mr. La Tourrette 
 married Rosanna Mathers, a native of Quincy, 
 i;i.. and a daughter of William Mathers, who 
 crossed the plains in 1853 and settled at Dia- 
 mond Spring. Five children bless this union: 
 Peter, who lives on his father's ranch; James, 
 who makes his home in the suburbs of Phoenix; 
 Mrs. Cornelia Munds, a resident of Jerome, 
 .\riz.; Mrs. Rose Sheridan of Phoenix; and 
 Mrs. Viola Wells, at home. Fraternahy Mr. 
 La Tourrette is a member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and politically is identi- 
 fied with the Democratic party. A man of keen 
 perception, of unbounded enterprise, his suc- 
 cess in life is due entirely to his own efforts, 
 and he deserves prominent mention among the 
 leading and representative business men of 
 Phoenix. He is also a public-spirited, enterpris- 
 ing man, who is recognized as a valued citizen 
 of the community. 
 
 HOMER GOSS. 
 
 The secretary and treasurer of the Gardner, 
 Wdrthen & Goss Company, of Tucson, is a 
 ]iractical and experienced machinist and is the 
 ])rcsent superintendent of the machine shops. 
 Mis father before him was in this line of occu- 
 paiinn and the genius for handling machinery 
 seems to have been inherited by the son. His 
 general financial and executive ability are among 
 his more marked characteristics, and he is mak- 
 ing a gratifying success out of everything which 
 he undertakes. 
 
 Leonard ami Anna .\. (Lane) Goss, jiarcnts 
 of the above-named gentleman, were natives of 
 Maine, the former's birthplace being in Au- 
 gusta and the latter's birthplace being at Dan- 
 ville [unction. I'rior to the Civil war Leonard 
 
 Goss removed with his family to California and 
 for years was connected with the Sacramento 
 Iron Works and with the Dow Steam Pump 
 Works at San Francisco. His death occurred 
 at his residence in Berkeley and his widow is 
 still living at that place. 
 
 The only one of the seven children of this 
 worthy couple now surviving is Homer Goss, 
 who was born August 2, 1862. His youth was 
 spent in Sacramento, Sonoma antl Berkeley, 
 Cal., and in the common and high schools he 
 received a lil>eral education. At an early age 
 it became a])parent that machinery possessed 
 great attractiveness to him, and at seventeen he 
 commenced serving an apprenticeship in the 
 Dow Steam Pump Works. Thus he continued 
 for lour years, and then continued in the em- 
 ploy of the concern three years longer. In 
 1889 he came to Arizona and for four and a 
 half years was a machinist in the shops of the 
 Southern I'acific Railroad, at Tucson. Subse- 
 (|uently he was in the employ of the government 
 i.t Mare Island, but in 1894 came to Tucson 
 and bought an interest in the firm now known 
 as Gardner, \\'orthen & Goss Company. His 
 ])ractical knowledge of the business was called 
 into recjuisition during the erection of the ma- 
 chine shop and the placing of the machinery 
 therein, for he was constituted superintendent 
 of the work and carried it forward successfully. 
 The majority of the leading mines of southern 
 Arizona have been equipped with mining ma- 
 chinery by this establishment during the past 
 few years, anil it has the reputation of being 
 the largest foundry and shop in the territory. 
 Certainly, the volume of business transacted here 
 annually is enormous and contracts are taken 
 for the manufacture of about everything in the 
 line of machinery. In 1899 tlie company was 
 incorporated under its present style, with ]Mr. 
 Gardner as president, our subject as treasurer 
 and secretary and Mr. Worthen as manager. 
 
 In Berkeley, Cal., a marriage ceremony united 
 the destinies of Mr. (ioss and Miss h-lla T. 
 Worthen. sister of l!. L. Worthen, a member of 
 the firm. (See sketch of B. L. Worthen, printed 
 elsewhere in this volume.) Four children l^less 
 the he.rts and home of our subject and wife, 
 namel\-: Howard Lane, Eleanor C, Douglas 
 W., and Donald H.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 A member of the Knights of Pythias and of 
 the lodge and Hall Association of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen, Mr. Goss is a di- 
 rector of the last-named society. His right of 
 franchise is exercised in behalf of the platform 
 and nominees of the Repnblican party and all 
 worthy public enterprises receive his inllnence 
 and support. 
 
 FR.WK GRIEBEL. 
 
 An old and distinguished Rhenish family has 
 a genial and successful representative in Mr. 
 Griebel, who was bom near historic Bingen, on 
 the Rhine, June ii, 1845. The maternal grand- 
 father, Franz Fuelber, conducted a farm in the 
 Rhine country, and from the grapes in his vine- 
 yard produced' large cpiantities of wine. Hein- 
 rich Louis Griebel. the father of Frank, fol- 
 lowed the occupation of a vineyardist during 
 his long and industrious life. He conducted a 
 bakery and had large vineyards and died amid 
 his vineyards on the banks of the great river. 
 The mother, Rosina (Fuelber) Griebel, was born 
 in the same locality, and was a daughter of 
 Henry Fuelber, also an old family name, and 
 by occupation a miller. He belonged to the 
 strict old-fashioned Lutheran Church. Of the 
 three daughters and three sons composing this 
 family, two daughters .and one son are now liv- 
 ing. One daughter emigrated to America, and 
 is living in Wisconsin. 
 
 The youth of Mr. Griebel was uneventful, and 
 surrounded by the wholesome influences of the 
 average German home. At the public schools 
 of his native land he received a good education, 
 and was well equipped for the future responsi- 
 bilities of life. With high hopes for the future 
 in a new country, yet with sincere regret for 
 the vineclad Rhenish hills, .and the home circles 
 from which he departed, Mr. Griebel sailed from 
 Bremen on the steamer America, in 1865, and 
 located at Beaver Dam, Wis. Here for two 
 years he w'as employed as a clerk in a general 
 merchandise store, and continued the same oc- 
 cupation after removing to Milwaukee in 1867, 
 where he also pursued a course in the Spen- 
 cerian Business College. In 1883 he sought 
 the larger possibilities of the far western coun- 
 try, and u])(jn locating in Los Angeles, Cal., 
 
 was again engaged in clerking, for a large con- 
 cern. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Griebel became associated with 
 the prosperity and promise of Arizona, and in 
 Phoenix, eng;\ged in clerking for Dillon & 
 Kanealy, on Washington street. When this 
 tirm sold out to the .\lkire Company, he still re- 
 tained his position, and in 1897 started in busi- 
 ness for himself. He carries a stock of general 
 merchandise, and caters to a continually in- 
 creasing trade, the result no doubt of his con- 
 scientious and upright business methods, and of 
 his sincere desire to please. The store is lo- 
 cated at 218 and 220 West Washington street, 
 and is 30x80 feet in dimensions. As proof of 
 his prosperous condition, Mr. Griebel has ac- 
 cumulated a fair property in the city of his 
 adoption. He is a member of the Board of 
 Trade. In national politics he is a believer in 
 the principles and issues of the Democratic 
 party. He is a member of, and generous con- 
 tributor to, the Lutheran Church. 
 
 CHARLES GOLDMAN. 
 
 Within the period of Charles Goldman's resi- 
 dence in Phoenix nearly its entire development 
 has occurred, for at the time of his arrival here 
 not a frame or brick store had been erected, and 
 only men of exceptional sagacity predicted for 
 the place a tithe of its present prosperity. As 
 is generally known, he has been an influential 
 factor in its upbuilding, and possesses the es- 
 teem of the wdiole community in a marked de- 
 gree. 
 
 Born October 17, 1845, in Bavaria, Germany, 
 Charles Goldman is a son of Solomon and Re- 
 becca (Kauffmann) Goldman, who were identi- 
 fied with the agricultural class of that province. 
 In his youth our subject received a practical 
 industrial education in the school of his native 
 land, afterwards serving a three years' appren- 
 ticeship to a dry-goods merchant. In the spring 
 of 1866 he came to the United States, wliither 
 his brother, .\. Goldman, had preceded him, 
 and for about a year was employed as a clerk in 
 Philadelphia. Then going to Woodland, Cal., 
 by way of the Isthmus of Panama and San Fran- 
 cisco, he continued as a clerk and also was thus
 
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 609 
 
 employed later at San Luis Obispo, Cal., and 
 Prescott, Ariz. 
 
 Since March, 1871, Mr. Goldman has been a 
 resident of Arizona, and thus is a pioneer of long 
 standing. For five years or more he made his 
 home in Prescott, and then embarked in gen- 
 eral merchandising upon his own account in 
 Williamson \'alley. The brother above men- 
 tioned had located in Phoeni.x in 1874, and in 
 1878, just before he returned to his old Ba- 
 varian home, he sold his business to our sub- 
 ject, who cariied on the enterprise at the same 
 loc.'i'tion (across the street from his present 
 store) for several years. In 1879 the firm of 
 Goldman Brothers was formed, Leo Goldman 
 being admitted as a partner of our subject. 
 Buying the lot at the northwest corner of Wash- 
 ington and Center, they retained it for about 
 twenty years, selling it in 1900, and receiving 
 therefor the highest price ever paid for a lot 
 in this city. For a number of years the broth- 
 ers were engaged in general merchandising, 
 later adding .3 large stock of hardware, agricul- 
 tural implements and carriages and wagons. In 
 1903 the establishment was removed to Center, 
 between Washington and Jefferson streets, 
 where two floors, 45x150 feet in dimensions, are 
 occupied by the different departments of the 
 business. The Canton clipper. Buckeye mow- 
 ers and reapers, the Studebaker wagons and 
 carriages and Owendorf's agricultural imple- 
 ments are carried in stock. 
 
 Owning a granary situated near the railroad 
 station, Mr. Goldman also deals in grain and 
 hay, in wholesale and retail quantities, and fur- 
 nishes these staples, as well as flour, to several 
 forts, under contracts with the government. In- 
 dividually, he has extensive investments in 
 ranches and cattle, owning forty acres at a 
 point about a mile and a half from Phoenix, 
 one of eighty acres three miles from the city, 
 and one of a hundred acres in Yavapai county, 
 .\riz. Altogether, he has about three thousand 
 cattle at the present time, and continues to deal 
 in live stock with marked financial success. For 
 many years he has been a director in the Na- 
 tional Bank of .Arizona, and now is the admin- 
 istrator of the Wormser estate, which com- 
 prises seven thousand acres of fine land, with 
 a canal for irrigating purposes. The import- 
 
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 ance of this great trust may be gathered from 
 the fact that Mr. Goldman gave a bond of $400,- 
 000, the largest bond ever given in this terri- 
 tory, in a like case. He is a member of the 
 Board of Trade, and in political affairs is affili- 
 ated with the Democratic party. 
 
 In San Francisco the marriage of Mr. Gold- 
 man and Miss Sarah, daughter of Benjamin 
 Fleischman, was solemnized in 1881. She was 
 born in Diamond Springs, Cal., and her father 
 was one of the pioneers of that state, his resi- 
 dence there dating from 1850. Three children 
 bless the union of our subject and wife, namely: 
 Rose Belle, a graduate of the San Francisco 
 Female College ; Sidney, who is attending the 
 Belmont (Cal.) Military College; and Eugene, 
 who is a student in the Phoenix high school. 
 
 VALENTINE GANT. 
 
 One of the large land owners and successful 
 cattle raisers of the Salt River valley, is Mr. 
 Gant, who upon coming to the territory in 1890 
 sojourned for a time on the Gila river. However, 
 the prospects there were not sufficiently alluring, 
 and in 1892 he purchased the farm upon which 
 he has since lived. He is the possessor of nine 
 hundred and sixty acres of land, which is devoted 
 in the main to the raising of cattle. 
 
 I'ntil his twentieth year Mr. Gant lived in 
 Randolph county. 111., where he was born June 
 7, 1834. His parents, Robert and Maria (Shafer) 
 Gant, were natives of Kentucky, the former of 
 English, and the latter of Swiss descent. Robert 
 Gant was an agriculturist during the years of his 
 activity, and was a courageous soldier in the 
 Black Hawk war. His son, \'alentine, had the 
 l)enefit of his father's thorough knowledge of 
 farming, and received a fair education in the 
 <listrict schools. Possessing an ambitious tem- 
 perament, when twenty years old he started out 
 in search of a desirable permanent location. He 
 drifted to the west, making the journey in 1854 
 with mule teams in a company of emigrants. For 
 a time he lived in Oregon and was engaged in 
 mining in that state, California and Idaho for 
 about ten years. A later venture was the cattle 
 iiusiness which he followed in Oregon for several 
 vears, and at the same time successfully raised 
 sheep. Subsec|uently, for a number of years.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 he engaged in agriculture in wliat is now Kings 
 county, Cal, and from there in 1890, perma- 
 nently removed to Arizona. 
 
 Mr. Gant is a self-made man in the highest 
 sense of the word, and during his life on the 
 frontiers of the west has accumulated a large 
 fund of general information, and a practical 
 knowledge of the affairs of the world. He is a 
 typical frontiersman, and one of the best judges 
 of cattle in the Salt River valley. In national 
 politics he is a Republican, and is a warm ad- 
 mirer of McKinley and his policy of administra- 
 tion. In the development of the various enter- 
 prises of his locality, he is interested and was at 
 one time a director in the southern extension 
 of the Tempe canal. He enjoys the good will 
 and confidenGe of all who know him, and is ac- 
 counted one of the enterprising residents of the 
 valley. 
 
 WILLIAM FOURR. 
 
 During the years which Mr. Fourr has spent 
 in the west he has experienced many of the 
 vicissitudes which befell the determined and 
 courageous early settlers, and has had to cope 
 with many hair-breadth and dangerous situ- 
 ations. His experiences have, however, brought 
 about the prosperous and happy ending that 
 would be expected of so enthusiastic and en- 
 terprising a man, and he is today one of the 
 successful farmers and miners of Cochise 
 county. A native of St. Louis, Mo., he was 
 born July 11, 1854, and is a son of William 
 Fourr, of whom he has not the slightest re- 
 membrance, as he was deprived in early life of 
 the care and affectionate solicitude of both par- 
 ents. Left thus alone in the world he was taken 
 to Kansas City, Mo., when a small child, and 
 there, and at St. Joe, Mo., was reared to man- 
 hood and educated in the public schools. 
 
 The opportunity for independence came when 
 most desired in the friendly interest of Mr. Iliff, 
 the great cattle king of Colorado, whom Will- 
 iam Fourr accompanied to New Mexico, and for 
 whom he herded cattle for a year and a lialf. 
 He then had a government position as foreman 
 of the corrals at h'ort Gregg, after which, in 
 company with Cieorge Copley, he started for 
 the mines at Pvescott. and engaged in pkcer 
 mining for several vears. During this lime 
 
 there w-as difficulty with the Apaches, and on 
 several occasions they were drawn into close 
 combat with these treacherous and murderous 
 red men. For one year Mr. Fourr again held a 
 government position as mail carrier and express 
 man, and then began keeping a station or store 
 on the road between Yuma and Tucson. He 
 was also interested in the cattle business, and 
 at times suffered great loss from the depreda- 
 tions of the Indians. At one time himself and 
 Col. K. .'^. Woolsey, with thirty-live soUliers, 
 foUoweil the Indians under command of Col- 
 onel McClave, into the Hockahale mountains, 
 but failed to recover the two hundred head of 
 cattle that had been stolen, as they had al- 
 ready been killed by the red men. They suc- 
 ceeded, however, with the loss of but one sol- 
 dier from their ranks, in converting, with the 
 aid of reliable shot, twenty-seven bad Indians 
 into an equal number of good Indians. This 
 was but one of the outrages that happened in 
 the neighborhood. While still living at Burk 
 station, an Italian lost one hundred mules to 
 the Indians, and George Frame, of Gila Bend, 
 had a hefder killed while endeavoring to save 
 his flock. 
 
 After severa.1 years adventurous residence at 
 Burk station Mr. Fourr came to Cochise county 
 and located on the Fourr ranch, five miles south 
 of Dragoon station. This is one of the finest 
 ranches in the county, and the soil is adapted 
 to the raising of almost everything in the way 
 of general farm produce, and all manner of 
 fruits, and is abundantly supplied with water. 
 Nor are Mr. Fourr's interests confined to farm- 
 ing, for he has a mine in the Dragoon moun- 
 tains which is turning out large quantities of 
 coi)per, silver and lead. In fact, he has unlim- 
 ited faith in the future of these mountains as 
 wealth producers, and believes that the next 
 five years will bring to the surface much that 
 has never been supposed to exist. 
 
 At Gila Bend Mr. Fourr married L. Nunn, 
 and of this union there are eight children liv- 
 ing: James, Robert, INIary, Clara, Zona, Daisy, 
 Roy and Ida. The children have hiul the bene- 
 fit ol good educations, and have studied at the 
 Tombstone public schools. Mrs. Fourr is a 
 member of the Presbyterian Church. Although 
 a stanch and uncompromising meml)er of the
 
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 Democratic party, Mr. Fourr is not an office 
 seeker, but is interested in all local affairs, as- 
 sisting to the best of his ability in all of the 
 enterprises which have to do with the upbuild- 
 ing of the locality, and in the maintaining of 
 order and prosperity in the midst of the great 
 possibilities. . 
 
 M. J. GALPIN. 
 
 The junior member of the firm of Goflf & 
 Galpin, builders and contractors, was born in 
 Auburn, N. Y., April 23, 1843. The ancestry 
 of the family is English on the paternal, and 
 Scotch on the maternal side. The paternal 
 grandfather, Asa, was born in Xew York state 
 during the latter part of the eighteenth century, 
 and served with distinction in the war of 1812. 
 During the course of his long and useful life 
 he devoted his energies to farming, and subse- 
 quently died in his native state. The maternal 
 grandfather. Joseph, came from an old New 
 England family, and was also a farmer. The 
 father of M. J. Galpin, William Galpin, was 
 born in Auburn, X. Y., and in 1846 removed 
 to Battle Creek, Mich., where he engaged as 
 a contractor and builder. In 1861 he removed 
 to Rochester, Minn., and located on new land 
 w liicli he improved and developed into a paying 
 farm, and there he died at an advanced age. 
 His wife, formerl\- Louise Hakes, was born in 
 the state of Xew York, and was a daughter 
 of Giles Hakes, also born in Xew York. Giles 
 Hakes was of English descent, and was by occu- 
 pation a slioemaker. Mrs. Galpin died in Minne- 
 sota. She was the mother of five children, four 
 of whom are living, M. J. being the second 
 youngest. One of the sons, Charles R., served 
 during the Civil war in the Second Michigan 
 Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Kno.x- 
 ville: Herbert is a builder and contractor in 
 Winnebago, Minn. 
 
 When three years of age M. J. Galpin was 
 taken by his parents to Battle Creek, Mich., 
 where he was educated in the public schools, 
 and where he also learned much from his father 
 of building and contracting. His early life was 
 uneventful, and not unlike that spent by other 
 boys in like circumstances. The first impor- 
 tant event that interrupted a tranquil existence 
 was the breakinii' out of the war. at which time 
 
 he enlisted, in August of 1861, in Company I, 
 Merrill's Horse, Second Missouri Cavalry, at 
 Detroit, intended for General Tremont's body 
 guard. As a private he served with his com- 
 pany in Missouri and Arkansas, and for the 
 greater part of the time was after General Price. 
 They then went into Tennessee, and partici- 
 pated in the battles of Nashville, Chattanooga, 
 Missionary Ridge, Georgia Camp, and several 
 unimportant skirmishes. At Alpine, Ga., he 
 was wounded and laid up in the hospital for 
 some time, and was subsequently mustered out 
 of the service in August of 1865. He veteran- 
 ized at Little Rock, Ark., and when mustered 
 out had the rank of sergeant. 
 
 After the cessation of hostilities, Mr. Galpin 
 returned to Battle Creek, Mich., and worked 
 at the carpenter's trade for about a year. In 
 1866 he removed to Rochester, Minn., and in 
 1870 to Minneapolis, where he became one of 
 the foremost contractors and builders in the 
 city. The demand for his services was so great 
 that at times he was obliged to employ as high 
 as two hundred and fifty assistants, and the busi- 
 ness amounted to nearly $350,000 a year. For 
 twenty-one years he received the patronage of 
 a large part of the city, and constructed many 
 of the public buildings and large business blocks. 
 In addition he also improved and built up con- 
 siderable residence property and business prop- 
 erty of which he later disposed. In 1891 he 
 sought the larger possibilities of the far west, 
 and located in Phoenix in the same year. His 
 first undertaking was the starting of a cannery 
 business, which was the first of its kind in the 
 city. From a comparatively small beginning the 
 enterprise grew apace, and had a capacity of 
 six thousand cans a day. The occupation, 
 though successful, resulted in the undermining 
 of the health of Mr. Galpin, owing to the ex- 
 cessive heat and the arduous work. For nearly 
 five years he was partially incapacitated for any 
 hard work, but at the end of that time again 
 entered upon his old occupation of contracting 
 and building. In 1897 the affairs were con- 
 ducted under the firm name of Goflf & Galpin, 
 and this firm is responsible for many of the 
 most substantial public buildings and fine resi- 
 dences in the city, including most of the resi- 
 dences in Capitol addition.
 
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 In Winnebago, JNIinn., in 1870, Mr. Galpin 
 married Sarah A. Wiiitney, who was born in 
 Manchester, N. H. Her father, Alpheus Whit- 
 ney, was a farmer during the years of his ac- 
 tivity, and in early manhood settled in Wells, 
 Minn., where he had a large farm. He died in 
 Minneapolis. The ancestry of the family is 
 Welsh, and the paternal grandfather, Henry, was 
 born in Boston. He later lived in New Hamp- 
 shire, and served his country in the war of 1812. 
 The mother of Mrs. Galpin was formerly Sarah 
 C. Fletcher, born in Pro.spect, Me., and a daugh- 
 ter of John Fletcher, a farmer. Mrs. Whitney 
 died in Minneapolis. To Mr. and Mrs. Galpin 
 have been born three children: .Mpheus W., 
 who is living in Yuma, is in government em- 
 ploy; Clara L., who is now Mrs. Ma.x Vianlt, 
 is a graduate of the Sacred Heart Convent, and 
 is living in Phoeni.x; William .\. is studying at 
 the high school. ^Mr. Galpin is a firm believer 
 in the principles of the Republican party, and 
 has been actively interested in its undertak- 
 ings. Fraternally he is associated with the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and with 
 the Ancient C)rder of United Workmen. He 
 is a member of the Chase Post, G. A. R., in 
 Minneapolis, and of the Veteran's Association 
 of Merrill's Horse. 
 
 WTLLIAM KIRTLAND. 
 
 This practical blacksmith and manufacturer 
 of carriages and wagons, is one of the substan- 
 tial business men of Safford. He is a native 
 of Logansport, Ind., his birtli having taken 
 ])lacc thirty-eight years ago. His father, Will- 
 iam Kirtland, was born in England and his 
 mother, Fannie (Jennings) Kirtland, was a \'ir- 
 ginian. They settled in the Hoosier state in 
 1833 and reared three daughters and a son. 
 
 William Kirtland of this sketch grew to man- 
 hood in his native city and received a liberal 
 public school education. Having decided to 
 i)ecome a blacksmith he devoted si.x years to 
 learning every detail of the business, and thus 
 was thoroughly fitted for his life work. When 
 he embarked in business on his own account 
 he went to Lucerne, Ind., and later he conducted 
 a shop in Lucerne for a short time. During 
 the latter i)art of the pc.iod of his a])prenticeship 
 
 to the trade he owned an interest in the busi- 
 ness, and from an early age he has been a prop- 
 erty holder. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Kirtland came to the west and 
 for three years was post blacksmith in the em- 
 ploy of the government at Fort Apache and 
 Fort Thomas, being at the last-named place 
 onlv from November, 1890, to March, 1891. 
 Then, in company with C. K. Jennings, he 
 bought a general merchantlise store at SafTord, 
 and carried on the business until 1895, when he 
 sold out to his partner. He then opened a l.)lack- 
 smith shop and in January, 1897, again became 
 coimected with his former mercantile establish- 
 ment, by buying out Mr. Jennings. To these 
 two enterprises he devoted his attention with 
 success attending his efforts. In February, 
 1898, he disposed of the general store and went 
 to the Klondike, where he remained for a year 
 and eight months. His experiences were ex- 
 tremely interesting, and though he prospected 
 and mined industriously he did not make a suc- 
 cess of the expedition, on fhe wdiole. Return- 
 ing to Safiford in August, 1899, he resumed his 
 former occupation as a blacksmith, and just a 
 year later built a substantial brick shop, with a 
 department used in the manufacture of wagons 
 and buggies. The location is central and he 
 owns one-fourth of the block on which the 
 shop stands. In addition to this, he owns two 
 and a half acres of property in the residence 
 portion of the town, and has built two good five- 
 room frame dwellings. In the artesian-well dis- 
 trict he owns a cjuarter section of farm land 
 and water is furnished to his place by two wells 
 which he has had sunk. He has an interest in 
 an artesian-well boring machine — a profitable 
 and highlv useful thing in this locality. From 
 time to time he has invested money in mining 
 property and within the past few years has ex- 
 pended about a thousand dollars in developing 
 some mines in the Lone Star district. 
 
 Ten years ago Mr. Kirtland married Miss 
 Ennna Talley, daughter of Thomas Talley, and 
 their four children, Harry, .\gnes, Charles, and 
 I'rank, are aged respectively, eight, si.x, four .and 
 three years. In fraternal circles Mr. Kirtland 
 is identified with the Woodmen of the World, 
 being a charter member of the Safford lodge. 
 In political affairs he is a Democrat. His sue-
 
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 615 
 
 cess in business is due to his thorough knowl- 
 edge of his trade and the genuine desire to 
 please his customers, added to financial talent 
 and abs(jlute integrity. 
 
 JAlNIES L. GANT. 
 
 W'hile "the race is not always to the swift nor 
 the battle to the strong," the invariable law of 
 destiny accords to tireless energy, industry and 
 ability a successful career. The truth of this 
 assertion is abundantly verified in the life of Mr. 
 Gant, who since 1883 has been identified with 
 the business interests of Phoenix, and the Salt 
 River valley and is today one of its most pros- 
 perous citizens. 
 
 He was Ijorn in Sterling, Jackson county, 
 Iowa, November 10, 1854, a son of John and 
 Elizabeth (Grant) Gant, natives of Lincolnshire, 
 England. His maternal grandfather, Jonathan 
 Grant, died in that country, as did also the pa- 
 ternal grandfather, William Gant. On crossing 
 the Atlantic the father located at Dundas, On- 
 tario, Canada, where he cleared and improved 
 one hundred acres of heavily timbered land. 
 Subsequently he became one of the early settlers 
 of Sterling, Iowa, locating there in March, 
 1854. He bought a farm at that place, and 
 speculated in lands in central, northern and 
 western Iowa and southern Minnesota. In 
 1866 he removed to Fort Scott, Kans., where 
 he engaged in farming until 1874, when he 
 crossed the plains to Pueblo, Colo., and was 
 engaged in the stock and cattle business at 
 that place for a time. He now makes his home 
 near Belvidere, Kiowa county, Kans., where he 
 served as first deputy sheriff for a time and also 
 carried on the stock business. His wife is still 
 living. They are the parents of eight children, 
 six of whom are living. 
 
 Of this family, James L. Gant is the sixth in 
 order of birth. He accompanied his parents on 
 their removal to Fort Scott, Karis., where he at- 
 tended the public schools and also engaged in 
 herding cattle. In 1874 when the family went to 
 Colorado he crossed the plains with a drove of 
 cattle, going up the Arkansas river to within 
 eight miles of Pueblo. The following year was 
 spent on tlie cattle trail in Wyoming. Going 
 
 to Omaha he took the train for San Francisco, 
 and from there went to Portland, Ore., but not 
 being pleased with that locality he proceeded to 
 Boise City, Idaho, where he was engaged in the 
 wood business one winter. In 1876 he went to 
 Kiowa county, Kans., and during the following 
 three years w'as engaged in trailing cattle from 
 Texas and Indian Territory to Kansas. In 1879 
 he embarked in the cattle business on his own 
 account, and conducted a ranch on .Medicine 
 river until 1883, when he sold out and came to 
 Phoenix, Ariz. 
 
 The first ranch ]\Ir. Gant bought near tliis 
 place he sold a year later, and on the loth of 
 April, 1884, opened the Golden Eagle livery 
 stable adjoining his present meat market, in 
 Phoenix and conducted the same until 1892, 
 when he sold out and embarked in the harness 
 business, but soon traded that for a herd of cattle 
 and a ranch at Seven Springs, which is one of 
 the finest and best watered ranches in Marico[)a 
 county. He has corrals at two or three different 
 places, feeding about six hundred head of high 
 grade cattle in the Salt River valley, mostly on 
 the I)uckeye. He has two hundred and forty 
 acres of land on St. John ditch, fifteen miles from 
 Phoenix, and his slaughter house is located one 
 mile south of Phoenix. In February, 1899, he 
 opened a meat market at No. 234 East Washing- 
 ton street as a member of the firm of Gant & 
 Balsz, who also conducted the Denver market 
 at No. 219 West W'ashington street. They carried 
 -on both a wholesale and retail business; manu- 
 factured sausage and lard by steam power ; and 
 had a fine large refrigerator. In November, 
 1900, he sold his interest in the meat market. Be- 
 sides the property already mentioned Mr. Gant 
 owns an improved place of eighty acres north- 
 west of the city ; and several pieces of residence 
 and business property in Phoenix, including his 
 pleasant home at No. 120 East Adams street. In 
 1892 he started a lemon grove at Point Loma, 
 San Diego, Cal., which site Charles Dudley War- 
 ner describes as one of the three best points of 
 observation in the world. He has since disposed 
 of that property. 
 
 In Pratt county, Kans., Mr. Gant married Miss 
 Hattic Hulett, a native of Massachusetts, wdio 
 died in Phoenix, leaving one child. William, who 
 is now engaged in the stock business witli his
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 father. Mr. Cant was again married at Gypsum, 
 Colo., liis second union being with Miss Mertie 
 Hockett, daughter of Barclay Hockett. She was 
 born in Kansas, and removed with her family to 
 Colorado at an early day, where she resided for 
 two years before she saw another white woman. 
 For seven years she successfully engaged in 
 teaching school in that state. 
 
 Air. Cant has seen almost the entire develop- 
 ment of Phoeni.x, for when he located here the 
 ])lace contained but four brick Iniildings, and he 
 shipped the first train load of cattle from the 
 citv. About twelve years ago, in connection 
 with D. R. Smith, he conducted the city meat 
 market, which they sold to D. L. Murray. 
 Throughout his entire residence here Mr. Gant 
 has been prominently identified with the business 
 and political affairs of the city, and is a stalwart 
 supporter of the Republican party. When he 
 first located in Arizona there were only forty Re- 
 ]niblicans in Maricopa county. He has been an 
 influential member of both the county and terri- 
 torial committees. Mr. Gant is one of the most 
 prominent stock men in this section, and has 
 served as general manager of the Territorial 
 Live Stock Association, which he assisted in or- 
 ganizing, and of which he is still an active mem- 
 ber. He is now secretary of the Butchers' Live 
 Stock Association of Arizona, and is a member 
 of the Board of Trade. He was a charter mem- 
 ber of the hook and ladder company and served 
 as second chief of the fire department of Phoe- 
 nix. He is connected with the Benevolent Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks and the Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows. His wife holds membership 
 with the Society of Friends. 
 
 Throughout his career Mr. Gant has had many 
 exciting experiences. In 1881 his horse fell with 
 him and broke and badly splintered his left 
 arm. Afterward, for three years, he was a pa- 
 tient in a hospital in Kansas City, but saved his 
 arm. He met with several other accidents, his 
 horse falling with him and fracturing his leg and 
 hip. In the summer of 1900 he had a narrow 
 escape from death by a similar accident. This 
 time he was injured in the head and lay imcon- 
 scious for twenty-nine days, but his strong con- 
 stitution and the good care he received saved 
 his life. He is one of the most popular and 
 honored citizens of Phoenix, his pleasant manner 
 
 winning him hosts of friends, while his strict in- 
 tegrity and honorable dealing in business com- 
 mend him to the confidence of all. 
 
 JOSIAH II. GRAY. 
 
 Among the many pioneers who came from 
 the east, and lent their abilities and large- 
 hearted efforts towards the upbuilding of Ari- 
 zona, none is remembered with greater regard 
 than Mr. Gray. In all of the places in which he 
 elected to reside he was a factor for progress 
 ;.nd strict integrity, and unselfishly made his 
 own interests subordinate to those in whom he 
 was most interested. 
 
 Mr. Gray was born in Burke county, Ga., in 
 which state his father, Thomas, v>-as also born. 
 He was of English descent, and was for many 
 years a farmer and merchant in Georgia, and 
 was later similarly employed in Alabama and 
 Arkansas. In his early manhood he was united 
 in marriage with Temperance Kersy. Josiah H. 
 Gray was reared in Georgia and Alabama, and 
 when about twenty-one years of age removed 
 to Arkansas, r.nd engaged in farming in Union 
 county. In 1850, in company with his brother, 
 Columbus, he went to California, via the Isth- 
 mus of Panama, and became interested in min- 
 ing in different places along the Pacific coast. 
 In 1854 he returned to Arkansas, his brother 
 following him in 1859. In June of 1865 Mr. 
 Gray was married in Eldorado, Union county, 
 Ark., to Annie Cartledge, a native of Decatur, 
 Ga., and a daughter of Thomas Eason Cart- 
 ledge, a farmer, who was born in Georgia. The 
 family is of English descent, and the grand- 
 father, James, was born in Alabama, and during 
 the years of his activity engaged in farming in 
 Georgia. The mother of Mrs. Gray was for- 
 merly Sarah Kersy, a native of Burke county, 
 Ga., and a daughter of Bud Kersy, of Georgia. 
 Mrs. Gray died in California. She was the 
 mother of seven children, of whom five are liv- 
 ing. Thomas is a farmer at Tempe; Lynn is 
 in Morgan, Ga.; Gilford is in Jackson, Fla.; and 
 Mrs. Fryer lives in California, near Pomona. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Gray again started for California, 
 accompanied, as before, by his brother, Colum- 
 bus. They had a long and ])erilous journey, and 
 crossed tiie plains in a train of twenty wagons
 
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 619 
 
 and mule teams. They came through Texas 
 and the Salt River valley. Mr. Gray located 
 twelve miles east of Los Angeles, and purchased 
 a farm whereon was conducted a large stock 
 husinets, and where an orange grove was also 
 planted. In time, all manner of fruit rewarded 
 the industrious application of Mr. Gray, and the 
 farm proved a successful and remunerative ven- 
 ture. Nevertheless, in the fall of 1888, Mr. 
 Gray abandoned the sunny skies and balmy air 
 of California, and located on government land 
 twelve miles southwest of Phoenix, on the grand 
 canal. Here the sterility of the desert was re- 
 deemed by the unfailing patience of this tiller 
 of the soil, and made to produce the abundant 
 harvests which are known only in this garden 
 spot of the territory. The declining years of 
 Mr. Gray were spent in improving his land to 
 the utmost, and here, surrounded by the man)- 
 evidences of his handiwork, he died in 1892, at 
 the age of sixty-eight years. 
 
 With the idea of lessening the responsbility 
 inseparable from the management of a farm, 
 Mrs. Gray disposed of the property in the Salt 
 River valley, and purchased the home in Phoe- 
 nix, on South Seventh street. It is a comfort- 
 able and homelike place, and many improve- 
 ments have been made by the present occupants. 
 There are two children in the family. Lee, who 
 resides with his mother, is a graduate of the 
 Normal school at Tempe, and also a graduate 
 of Yale College, class of T893, having been 
 honored with the degree of LL. B. Allie is 
 also a graduate of the territorial normal school 
 at Tempe, and is now engaged in educational 
 work. Mrs. Gray is a member of the Baptist 
 Church. Mr. Gray was a Democrat in national 
 politics, but never an office seeker. He also 
 belonged to the Baptist Church, and was fra- 
 ternallv associated with the Masons. 
 
 HON. NIELS PETERSEN. 
 
 Mr. Petersen, sailor, farmer, stock-raiser, ex- 
 president of the Farmers .and Merchants Bank 
 at Tempe, ex-treasurer of the Tempe Irrigating 
 Canal Company, and ex-member of the legisla- 
 ture, is one of the largest land owners, and most 
 successful and enterprising citizens of the Salt 
 River vallev. He is endowed with the reliable 
 
 and substantial traits of character which arc the 
 rightful heritage of his fellow countrymen in 
 Denmark. He was born in the Danish countr\ 
 October 21, 1845, of parents who were natives 
 of Denmark, and who were farmers during the 
 greater part of their lives. They appreciated 
 the benefits of a liberal education, and the youth 
 Niels reaped the benefit of their broad-minded 
 views, and was well fitted for the future by the 
 best educational training in the locality. At the 
 early age of sixteen he determined to make his 
 own way in the world, and entered the German 
 merchant-marine, sailing from Hamburg for 
 China, the Philippines and the East Indies. Sub- 
 sequently he entered the English merchant- 
 marine, and for three years sailed the high seas, 
 visiting the East and West Indies, and familiar- 
 izing himself with the conditions as they exist 
 in remote and different countries. In 1865 he 
 decided to try his fortunes in the new world, and 
 after landing in New York made that his head- 
 quarters for future journeys upon the deep, until 
 1869. He then made a visit to the land of his 
 birth, remaining there until the summer of 1870, 
 when he returned and remained in California for 
 a year. There he led a seafaring life and was 
 ■also interested in mining, and was fairly success- 
 ful in the land of flowers and sunshine. 
 
 In the summer of 1871 Mr. Petersen associat- 
 ed himself with Arizona, and the following year 
 settled on the ranch upon which, during all the 
 vears up to the present time, he has expended 
 the best efforts of his life. To the one hundred 
 and sixty acres which have been developed from 
 their former crude and unprofitable condition, 
 other land has been added by more recent pur- 
 chase, until at the present time Mr. Petersen is 
 the possessor of a farm of twelve hundred and 
 fifty acres of land, and one of the finest and 
 largest brick residences and rural homes in the 
 whole Salt River valley. Pleasant to contem- 
 plate are the changes which have come over this 
 famously fertile valley since he first took up his 
 abode in the midst of its desert-like waste, and 
 to no one of the many successful agricuturists is 
 the present prosperity more directly due than to 
 this enterprising citizen who lias so courageously 
 overcome the obstacles in his way, and forged a 
 path to the prominent position which he now oc- 
 cupies.
 
 620 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 
 
 There are few public enterprises in the valley 
 
 which have not received the support and back- 
 ing of Mr. Petersen, and his interest is as wide 
 as are the demands for the exercise of his public- 
 spiritedness. As a stanch Democrat, he has held 
 many local and other offices to the credit of 
 himself and the community in whose interests 
 he has served. During the '80s he was a mem- 
 ber of the ]\Iaricopa county board of super- 
 visors, and he has served as a member of the 
 board of trustees of the school district of his 
 neighborhood. For a number of years he served 
 as treasurer of the Tempe Irrigating Canal Com- 
 pany, and no one in tlic locality worked more 
 earnestly in the early days to solve successfully 
 the problem of artificial irrigation. For a time 
 also he served as a director and president of the 
 Farmers & Merchants Bank at Tempe. He is 
 a member and trustee of the ^lethodist Episco- 
 pal Church, to the support of which he is a lib- 
 eral contributor. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at 
 Tempe. 
 
 Mr. Petersen has been twice married. His 
 first wife was formerly Isabel Dumphy, who was 
 born in Duluth, Minn., and who became the 
 mother of one son, John N., now deceased.- 
 Mr. Petersen mrrried for his second" wife Sus- 
 anna Decker, of South Montrose, Pa. With all 
 of the other responsibilities which have fallen 
 to the lot of Mr. Petersen in his adopted terri- 
 tory, he served one term in the territorial as- 
 sembly, as a member of the eighteenth legisla- 
 ture. He is esteemed by all who know him in 
 the valley and elsewhere, and his life is a suc- 
 cessful one from the various standpoints from 
 which men of public trust are viewed. 
 
 J. I. GARDNER. 
 
 As he has dwelt in Prescott for twenty-two 
 years, this sterling citizen is a veritable pioneer 
 of the place, and within his recollection about all 
 of the undertakings worthy of being called pub- 
 lic improvements have been instituted here. His 
 own influence, w'hich is not slight, has always 
 been exercised in behalf of progress, and for two 
 terms he was numbered among the "city fath- 
 ers,"' advocating measures which he deemed 
 
 would prove of permanent benefit to this, the 
 city of his choice. 
 
 The ancestors of J. I. Gardner were south- 
 ern people, and his grandfather. Nelson Gard- 
 ner, who was of remote Scotch extraction, lived 
 and died upon his plantation in Virginia. James 
 A., father of J. I. Gardner, was born in the 
 Old Dominion, and in early manhood settled in 
 Cooper county. Mo., where he improved and 
 cultivated a farm. His career well rounded, he 
 was summoned to his eternal reward, dying at 
 his old homestead in 1870. His wife, Martha, 
 a daughter of William Smith, was born in Ken- 
 tucky, and accompanied the family in its early 
 immigration to Cooper county, Mo. Thence- 
 forth she dwelt in that state, and of her three 
 sons and two daughters only a son and a 
 daughter survive. 
 
 The birth of J. I. Gardner occurred in 1857, 
 near Boonville, Mo., upon the parental home- 
 stead, and there fourteen years of his life passed. 
 Then he went to Saline county and made his 
 home with a brother-in-law upon a farm until 
 1873, wken lie started forth to make his own 
 way in the world, independently. For some 
 time he was employed on a farm in Cass county, 
 Mo., and in the Centennial year went to Wichita, 
 Kans., where he attended the public school, as 
 he felt the need of further education, and had 
 the good sense not only to improve his oppor- 
 tunities, but to make opportunity. 
 
 In the autumn of 1878 Mr. Gardner went to 
 Trinidad, Colo., then the terminus of the Santa 
 Fe Railroad, and in the following spring started 
 for Silver City, N. M., with a mule train. At 
 Santa Fe, however, he learned enough about 
 Arizona to alter his decision, and proceeding on 
 burros, he came to Prescott, reaching here only 
 after a journey of twenty-three days, in April. 
 During the next three years he was occupied in 
 running a saw-mill, mining and freighting. 
 Then, after clerking a short time, he embarked 
 in business for himself in a small w^ay, renting 
 a store and laying in a limited stock of general 
 merchandise. Little by little his trade increased 
 and his enterprise and courteous treatment of 
 the public led to his ultimate success. Continu- 
 ing in business imtil 1891, he then found it 
 necessary to build larger quarters, and since 
 that time has occupied the substantial store,
 
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 623 
 
 50x150 feet in dimensions, which lie erected that 
 year. He carries a large stock of dry goods 
 and general supplies, including hardware and 
 queensware. For three years he also was the 
 proprietor of a general merchandise store at 
 Jerome, having first built the room occupied, 
 but at length he sold out to Miller & Co. Own- 
 ing some valuable land in Skull valley, not far 
 from this city, he planted an orchard there and 
 is deriving a good income from that source. 
 P)esides, he has invested capital in mines and in 
 other'enterprises. He is a member of the Wood- 
 men of the World and in politics is a Democrat. 
 The marriage of Mr. Gardner and Miss Re- 
 becca Bell, a native of Clay county. Mo., was 
 solemnized in Warrensburg, Mo., in 1890. They 
 have two children, named respectively, Mary 
 and Gail. Mrs. Gardner is identified with the 
 Christian Church. 
 
 JAMES E. STURGEON. 
 
 The successful manager and proprietor of the 
 pioneer meat market of Tempe is well posted 
 regarding the early conditions of the territory, 
 having arrived here in 1879. Like so many who 
 have been attracted to the far west by the glow- 
 ing tales concerning the resources of the mines, 
 he engaged in prospecting and ftiining. many 
 ye^irs of his life being devoted to developing the 
 ore in the great Silver King mine. Subsequent- 
 ly he became interested in the cfittle industry 
 in Gila and the surrounding counties, breeding 
 and shipping cattle in large quantities. In 1894 
 he located in the Salt River valley near Tempe, 
 and has since been engaged in general farming 
 and stock-raising. Although raising several 
 kinds of cattle, he is particularly interested in 
 the breeding of Durham and Hereford stock. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Sturgeon was filled with 
 many obstacles, for the overcoming of which 
 he is indebted for his present success. It may 
 truthfully be said that he has had no assistance 
 aside from his own determination to succeed, 
 and the ability to grasp present opportunities. 
 A native of \'ermont, he was born in the vi- 
 cinity of St. Johnsburg, Caledonia county, .\u- 
 gust 18, 1861, and is a son of James and Nancy 
 (Patterson) Sturgeon, born respectively in the 
 nortli I if Ireland and in Glasgow, Scotland. The 
 
 serious and responsible side of life was pre- 
 sented to the boy when only thirteen years o! 
 age, at which time he was forced to face the 
 problem of self-su])])()rt. owing to the death of 
 his parents. In the pursuit of a more congenial 
 and remunerative occupation than was afforded 
 from a residence among the somewhat sterile 
 hills of his native state, he departed for the west, 
 and in the vicinity of .San Francisco, Cal., and 
 other parts of the state engaged with fair suc- 
 cess in agriculture and the dairy business. For 
 a time also he was collector for Walter Blair, 
 who, in his day, was one of the most noted dairy- 
 men and street railroad men of Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Subsequently, as heretofore stated, Mr. Stur- 
 geon located in the Salt River valley, and, in 
 connection with his stock-raising business, 
 opened and successfully managed a meat mar- 
 ket in Tempe. H-e is a firm believer in the ad- 
 vantages to be derived from association with 
 the recent development of Arizona, and is one 
 of the most enterprising and public-spirited of 
 the farmer citizens. In national politics a Re- 
 publican, he is liberal-minded regarding the poli- 
 tics of oflice-holders, and believes that principle 
 rather than politics should prevail. Fraternally 
 he is associated with the Woodmen of the 
 World. He is well and favorably known through 
 the entire valley, and is considered an authority 
 on all matters pertaining to the cattle industry. 
 
 Mr. Sturgeon was married June 10, 1891, to 
 Belle Elgie, a native of Springfield, 111., and a 
 daughter of William Elgie. They are the par- 
 ents of two children, Charles E. and Beulah. 
 
 ANDREW J. KNOBLOCK. 
 
 The junior member of the firm of Lyons & 
 Knoblock, purveyors of general merchandise at 
 Jerome, came to Arizona in 1881, from South 
 Bend, Ind., where he was born in 1863. In the 
 Hoosier state he received an excellent home 
 training, and the substantial education to be 
 found in the public schools. When compara- 
 tively young he faced the problem of self-sup- 
 port. He readily grasped an opportunity when 
 the .S-mta Fe road was built west of .\lbu- 
 (|uer(]ue. and kept a restaurant at Williams, 
 and when the road reached The Needles he 
 shifted his location to California, and was for
 
 624 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 
 
 the Southern Pacific 
 
 five vears employed by 
 Railroad Company. 
 
 With a lingering faith in the future of Ari- 
 zona he again settled within her borders in 1886, 
 locating in Pinal county, where he engaged in 
 the hotel business about three years. In 1890 
 he located in Prescott, where he conducted both 
 the Relleview and Williams hotels until 1897. 
 In 1897 he transferred his hotel interests to 
 Jerome, and successfully conducted the Grand 
 A'icw House until a disastrous fire destroyed the 
 structure in 1898. After this a business for 
 which there was an unceasing demand appealed 
 to Mr. Knoblock, and he formed a partnership 
 with A. H. Lyons, and established a general 
 merchandise concern under the firm name of 
 Lyons & Knoblock. The store is well stocked 
 with the articles in general demand in towns of 
 this kind, and the patronage extends to the sur- 
 rounding towns and camps. The firm make 
 every efifort to meet the demands of the citizens, 
 and keep in touch with their requirements and 
 different tastes. 
 
 Mr. Knoblock is reliable and broad-minded, 
 and invariably works for the best interests of 
 his friends and fellow-townsmen. He is asso- 
 ciated with the Knights of Pythias, and is past 
 grand chancellor of the Territorial Grand Lodge 
 and also a member of the Prescott division No. 
 4, U. R. I\. P. In politics he is a stanch Re- 
 publican, and in the fall of 1900 was the candi- 
 date of that ])arty for supervisor, but suffered 
 defeat at the polls with the balance of tlie ticket. 
 
 HARRY GRAY. 
 
 One of the finest stock breeders in the Salt 
 'River valley is Harry Gray, who is conducting 
 a finely managed farm of forty acres in the vi- 
 cinity of Tempe. His first experience in the 
 territory was in 1888, when he located in Phoe- 
 nix, and for several years was engaged in vari- 
 ous enterprises. In 1895 he purchased the 
 claim upon which he now lives, and where he 
 is raising a high grade of short horns. So ex- 
 tensive are his dealings in the cattle line that 
 it has become necessary to rent considerable ad- 
 joining land. 
 
 Mr. Gray is a native of Campbell county, Ky., 
 and was born May 11, 1855. His parents, James 
 
 J. and Margaret (Finn) Gray, were respectively 
 of English-Welsh and Scotch extraction, and 
 the former was born in Alichigan. Until his 
 seventeenth year their son Harry was reared 
 in Kentucky, and received a fair education in 
 the public schools. He then started out in the 
 world for himself, and worked at the trade of 
 carpenter in Texas, which occupation he had 
 perfected himself in through the able instruc- 
 tion of his father. While living in Texas he 
 married a Mrs. Mattie L. Speer, who at the 
 time was the mother of three children, AVhit 
 C, who is now living in San Antonio, Texas; 
 Mrs. D. W. Steele, of Idaho Falls, Idaho; and 
 Mrs. F. W. Warnke, of Flagstaff, Ariz. To 
 Mr. and Mrs. Gray has been born one son, 
 Frank, who is living at home 
 
 Mr. Gray has witnessed many changes since 
 coming to Arizona, and has himself contributed 
 not a little towards the general improvement. 
 In national politics he is a Democrat, but has 
 never desired or worked for public office. He 
 has made his own way in the world regardless of 
 many obstacles, and is accounted one of the 
 successful and substantial dwellers of the Salt 
 River valley. 
 
 FRANK M. KING. 
 
 Self-made in a business sense and self-edu- 
 cated, as his school advantages were decidedly 
 limited, Frank M. King, of Tucson, is cjuite a 
 remarkable man, in many respects, and his 
 achievements, particularly as a journalist, are 
 worthy of notice. He may be called a typical 
 westerner of this period, for he has experienced 
 the vicissitudes of frontier life in nearly every 
 phase, and has been resourceful, fearless and 
 resolute in every emergency. As a public of- 
 ficial, and he has served in several different 
 capacities as such, he has been found reliable, 
 prompt and upright, and in private life he mani- 
 fests commendable qualities. 
 
 The King family contributed soldiers to the 
 colonial war for independence, and at an early 
 period was established in Virginia. Sanuiel 
 King, grandfather of our subject, was born in 
 eastern Tennessee, thence went to Georgia, and 
 for twelve years served as sheriff of his county, 
 also was interested in mining affairs in that 
 state. In 1849 'ic crossed the plains to Santa
 
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 Fe, where he engaged in contracting for the 
 government until 1852, and then went to Los 
 Angeles, where he gave his attention to his 
 ranch and cattle, as long as he lived. 
 
 Samuel H., father of Frank M. King, was 
 born in Georgia and became a resident of the 
 west when young. In Los Angeles county, 
 Cal, he owned a large ranch and dealt extensive- 
 ly in cattle prior to 1872, when he went to the 
 vicinity of Henrietta, Tex., and for seven years 
 was numbered among the cattle men of that 
 section. Next, he proceeded to San Pedro, 
 N. M., where he spent several years, in the 
 meantime owning herds of cattle, and in com- 
 pany with his sons discovering the Lincoln 
 Lucky mine, which became famous. He now 
 lives upon a fine ranch in Yuma county, Ariz. 
 Many vears ago it was believed that he had been 
 fa,tally wounded. His brother. Judge A. J. 
 King, then serving on the Los Angeles (Cal.) 
 bench, had been appointed receiver of some 
 property owned by the Carlisles, several of his 
 predecessors, receivers, having been driven from 
 the field by one "Bob" Carlisle, a man who had 
 the reputation of having killed several men in 
 Missouri and New Mexico. One evening he 
 stabbed Judge King in a ball-room in Los 
 Angeles and threatened to kill all of the King 
 family. The next day he met S. H. King and 
 his brother, Frank King, on Spring street, Los 
 Angeles, and shot the former through the lungs 
 and killed Frank King. S. H. King, almost 
 mortally wounded, steadied himself against a 
 door and shot his assailant, who fell dead at his 
 feet, and thus was ended the unreasonable feud. 
 
 For a wife S. H. King chose Jaquilina Biggs, 
 a native of Ellis county, Tex., and daughter of 
 David Biggs, whose birthplace was in Tennes- 
 see. In 1849 David Biggs drove a large herd 
 of cattle to Los Angeles county, Cal., and for 
 years owned the Santa Anita ranch, now belong- 
 ing to "Lucky" Baldwin. He died in Nevada 
 and his daughter, Mrs., King, passed away in 
 Phoenix, Ariz., in 1886. She was the mother 
 of two sons and three daughters. The other 
 son, Samuel King, is engaged in mining near 
 Tombstone, Ariz. 
 
 The eldest of the family, Frank M. King, was 
 l)orn at El Monte, Cal, February 26. 1863, and 
 when nine years of age went to Texas, where 
 
 he had no opportunity to attend school. How- 
 ever, at the age of nineteen he returned to his 
 birthplace and for eighteen months pursued his 
 studies in the town school. Then on horse- 
 back, with his books attached to his saddle, he 
 made the long journey back to New Mexico, 
 where his father was in the cattle business and 
 with him was associated until 1886. One day, 
 while hunting for his saddle-horse, he discov- 
 ered the Lincoln Lucky mine, which was de- 
 veloped to some extent by himself, his father 
 and brother, and which has become celebrated. 
 In 1886 the young man went to Yuma, Ariz., 
 where he assisted in the l)uilding of the Ante- 
 lope canal, from the (iila river, but a flood un- 
 fortunately destroyed the work ere it had been 
 completed. The following year he conducted 
 a livery on Jefferson street. Phoenix, and then 
 for about six months was employed as a guard 
 at the territorial penitentiary at Yuma. 
 
 In the fall of 1888 Mr. King became city edi- 
 tor of the Phoenix "Gazette," and for five years 
 was actively associated with that enterprise. In 
 the meantime he won a name as an ardent 
 worker in the interests of the Democratic party 
 and was made secretary of the city central com- 
 mittee and a member of the territorial central 
 committee. In 1893 he was appointed under- 
 sherif? of Maricopa county under J. K. Murphy, 
 but soon resigned in order to accept the post of 
 special deputy collector of customs at Nogales, 
 Ariz. At the end of two years and ten months 
 he resigned that position and returned to Phoe- 
 nix, where he was clerk for Ignited States At- 
 tornev E. E. Ellinwood, until the spring of 1897. 
 That place he resigned then, as he desired to 
 return to Nogales, and, having bought the "Bor- 
 der Mdette," he continued to publish the paper, 
 also conducting a job printing office and keep- 
 ing a book, stationery and musical merchandise 
 store. A favorable opportunity presenting it- 
 self, he sold out, and on December 4, 1898, took 
 
 up 
 
 his abode in Tucson. Here he is engaged in 
 a commission business, handling cattle and min- 
 ing property, dealing in real estate and making 
 loans, and in addition to this, represents the 
 New York Life Insurance .and several old-line 
 fire insurance companies. Besides, he is the 
 agent here of the State Mutual Building and 
 Loan Association of Los Angeles, and is the
 
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 agent ami treasurer of the Columbia Building 
 aiul Loan Association, of Denver, Colo. For- 
 nierlv he was active in the Ancient Order of 
 I'nited Workmen and the Knights of Pythias. 
 He is a member of the Tucson Board of Trade 
 and is one of the city Democratic central com- 
 mittee. 
 
 In Fresno, Cal., Mr. King married Miss Ila 
 Hayes, daughter of J. C. Hayes, a former pio- 
 neer of Arizona, now a resident of Portersville, 
 Cal. J\lrs. King was born in C)akland, Cal., re- 
 ceived a liberal education and is a member of 
 the Christian Church. 
 
 CHARLES N. TAYLOR. 
 
 To enumerate the various responsibilities in 
 the town of Tempe which the unusual ability of 
 Mr. Taylor has enabled him to assume, is to 
 trace tlie career of a man who still belongs to 
 the voungcr business men of the community, 
 .and who in a few short years has attained to a 
 position in the popular esteem and appreciation, 
 usually considered the rightful heritage of ma- 
 ture years and extended services. 
 
 Much is invariably ascribed to early training 
 and to the influences surrounding youth. In 
 this respect Mr. Taylor was singularly fortunate, 
 for he had before him the example of a noble 
 and unselfish life. A native of Columbus, Neb., 
 Mr. Taylor was born July ii, 1869, and is a son 
 of Isaac and Sarah E. (Lawton) Taylor, born re- 
 spectively in Ohio and Indiana. Isaac Taylor 
 was a clergyman in the Congregational Church, 
 and for nearly thirty years taught the gospel of 
 humanity and kindliness to thousands of willing 
 listeners. He was a scholar and practical phil- 
 anthropist, and out of his own purse built sev- 
 eral churches and seminaries in Indiana and Ne- 
 braska. He was one of the earliest settlers in 
 Columbus, Neb., having settled there in the be- 
 ginning of the '60s. While his early ministra- 
 tions were conducted in Ohio, the great work 
 of his life was carried on in Nebraska, where he 
 was called upon to fill many positions of trust. 
 In the early days he had charge of the lands of 
 the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, at 
 the time the road was in process of construction, 
 and with headciuarters at Omaha. He was for 
 a time regent of the University of Nebraska, 
 
 and served as a district and probate judge in 
 Platte county, Neb. For several years he served 
 as secretary of the Nebraska state board of emi- 
 gration. A man of splendid and inspiring char- 
 acter, there followed in the wake of his unselfish 
 ministrations and loyalty to public trust a pro- 
 found gratitude on the part of all who were ever 
 associated with him, and his death, which oc- 
 curred June 3. 1898, was widely regretted. His 
 demise terminated a life covering eighty-three 
 years. The wife of Isaac Taylor was a first 
 cousin of General Lawton, whose patriotic ser- 
 vices and untimely death in the Philippines 
 caused widespread sorrow among all classes of 
 American citizens. 
 
 The education of Charles N. Taylor was ac- 
 quired for the greater part in Antelope county, 
 Neb., and, after graduating from the high school 
 at Oakdale, he completed the course at the 
 Presbyterian Seminary, and subsequently grad- 
 uated from the normal Campbell University at 
 Holton, Kans. While at the latter institution he 
 varied his study with the duties incident to his 
 position as instructor in penmanship and book- 
 keeping. In 1887 Mr, Taylor sought the larger 
 possibilities of the far west, and, upon locating 
 in Phoenix, studied law with Gen. C F. Ains- 
 worth, and was later employed in the Valley 
 abstract office at Phoenix. In 1889 he removed 
 to Tempe, where his grasp of public affairs, and 
 continual rise in the public esteem has been truly 
 gratifying. For some three years he was man- 
 ager for the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, and 
 for five years was secretary of the Tempe Irri- 
 gating Canal Company. As local agent for vari- 
 ous insurance companieg he handles both fire 
 and life insurance, and in this, as in other enter- 
 prises, has been very successful. As a stanch 
 Republican, Mr. Taylor is interested in all of the 
 undertakings of his party, and for two years was 
 a member of the city council. Fraternally he is 
 associated with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, the United Moderns, and the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, at Tempe, and 
 was one of the chief promoters in the construc- 
 tion of the Odd Fellows building in the town. 
 He is a member of the board of directors of the 
 Tempe Hotel Company, proprietors of the fine 
 and commodious Hotel Atwood at Tempe. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Taylor was elected cashier of the
 
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 Farmers and Mechanics Bank, at Tempc, which 
 position he is filling at tlie present time. He 
 married Daisy M. Lewis, a daughter of Boon 
 Lewis, of Tempe. Ariz. Of this union tliere are 
 two children, Helen and Charles L. Mr. Taylor 
 is a member of the Phoenix Presbyterian 
 Church, and contributes generously towarils 
 the maintenance of the same. One of the dis- 
 tinguished connections of Mr. Taylor is a half 
 brother, Roliert S. Ta\lor, of Fort Wayne, Ind., 
 who is not only one of the leading lawyers and 
 ])oliticians of Indiana, I)nt lias jiracticall)- a na- 
 tional reputation. 
 
 MICHAEL E. CURRY. 
 
 l-'ew of the residents of Tempe have a longer 
 standing familiarity with the early days of the 
 west than has Mr. Curry. A native of New 
 iirunswick, he was born in Gloucester county 
 .March 25, 1854. The ancestry of the family is 
 Irish, and the parents, Daniel and Mary 
 (Moloughney) Curry, were both born in Ireland. 
 The father settled in New Brunswick when 
 fourteen years of age, and became in time a 
 successful farmer and prominent citizen. 
 
 Michael Curry was reared in his native coun- 
 try, and early developed a spirit which rebelled^ 
 at dependence. \Mien but seventeen years of 
 age he started out in the world to carve his own 
 fortune, and in pursuit of a suitable field of ac- 
 tivitv went to the northern peninsula of Mich- 
 igan. Following a later inclination, he traveled 
 farther west, and eventually found himself in 
 Sonoma county, Cal., where an annoying ac- 
 cident befell him, serious indeed to one in search 
 of a living, and among strangers in a strange 
 jjart of the country. He broke his leg at the 
 ankle, and was of necessity laid up for about 
 a year, remaining four months of that time in 
 St. Mary's Hospital, in San Francisco, .\fter 
 leaving the hospital, and during the convales- 
 cence, he improved the remaining eight months 
 of his stay in the city by attending night school, 
 and continuing the study begun in the iniblic 
 schools of New Brunswick. 
 
 To satisfy an ambition to be a miner. .Mr. 
 Curry for a time remained at Sutter Creek, 
 .\niador county, Cal., and led the life experi- 
 enced liy the miners of those early days. He 
 came to .\rizona in 1878, and found the prcjs- 
 
 pects so ver}' promising, that he decided to 
 avail himself of the fertility of the soil which de- 
 veloped under his care and patience. Like so 
 many of the pioneers, he has seen important 
 changes, and met with the success due his earn- 
 est efforts for improvement. L'pon first coming 
 t(.i the territory he located in Pinal county, and 
 engaged in mining with the Silver King Mining 
 Company until 1S84, and then went to the Tonto 
 Ilasin and interested himself in cattle raising 
 until i8ij8. In Tempe, of the same state, he 
 also lor a time speculated in cattle, and in that 
 and in other lines of enteri^rise, has been unus- 
 ually successful. In January, 1901, he became 
 one of the organizers of the Tempe National 
 Bank, and in March, 1901, helped to organize 
 the Tempe Hardware & Supply Company, in 
 both of which concerns he is a director. 
 
 Mav 5, 1900, Mr. Curry was united in marriage 
 with Mrs. Mary Tracy, widow of John Tracy, of 
 Blackstone, Mass. By her marriage with Mr. 
 Tracy she became the mother of one child, Susie 
 M. Mr. Curry is a member of the Democratic 
 party, but has decided independent inclinations. 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Order 
 of LTnited Workmen, at Tempe. A self-made 
 man in the best sense of the word, lie has won 
 the confidence and esteem of all who know him. 
 He is a devoted meniber of the Catholic Church, 
 as is also Mrs. Currv. 
 
 C. B. TARBELL. 
 
 With the exception of four years spent in the 
 ne.-ir-by town of Charleston, Mr. Tarbell has 
 for twenty-one years shared the fluctuating for- 
 tunes of Tombstone, and that the city is now 
 on the way to a semblance of its former prestige 
 among the ideal mining centers of the west is 
 due to the untiring faith and perseverance of 
 men of like sterling characteristics, who have 
 builded upon a supposed hopeless commercial 
 foundation. 
 
 In Jeffer.son county, N. V., Mr. Tarbell was 
 born June 15, 1851, a son of Thomas and Har- 
 riet (Bunce) Tarbell, pioneers and farmers of 
 JelYerson county, and natives of Windsor county, 
 \t. Both were descended from old families of 
 New England, 'i'lic ancestors of Mr. Tarbell 
 came from luigland to the colony of Massa-
 
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 chusetts about 1630, while the Biince family 
 crossed the ocean about the same time. Isaac, 
 father of Thomas Tarbell served as a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary war, enlisting when sev- 
 enteen years of age, and participating with his 
 ^lassachusetts regiment in several of the impor- 
 tant engagements of that historic struggle. 
 
 Tlis first aspirations of C. B. Tarbell toward 
 an independent livelihood were in the line of 
 educational work. At the age of sixteen he be- 
 gan to teach school, and for twelve years he was 
 so employed in his home district. In search of 
 a desirable permanent location, he visited the 
 west in 1878, and for a year was foreman of a 
 ranch at Santa Clara county, Cal. His associa- 
 tion with Tombstone began January 5, 1879, 
 but almost immediately afterward he departed 
 for Charleston, a mining camp twelve miles dis- 
 tant on the San Pedro river. For two years 
 he studied the milling of silver ore, and in 1881 
 built the Eagle hotel, which enjoyed a brief 
 season of prosperity, but subsecjuently relapsed 
 into the lonely inactivity which followed in the 
 wake of the departing miners. With the going 
 down of Charleston he returned to Tombstone, 
 and for a time was interested in mining. In 
 1885 he established a general mercantile busi- 
 ness which he continued for two years, and in 
 1887 he formed a partnership with George R. 
 Watt in the undertaking business. After a time 
 he bought out his partner's interest, and became 
 the sole manager and proprietor of the business. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Tarbell became a stockholder in 
 the Southwestern Ice Company, which, through 
 its well-managed manufactory, was enabled to 
 supply ice to many of the towns of Arizona and 
 northern ^Mexico. In 1897 he became a stock- 
 holder in the Arizona Mail and Stage Coach 
 Company, which carries the United States mails 
 between Fairliank and Tombstone, since which 
 time he has devoted his energies almost entirely 
 to the company's interests, and to his position 
 with the Wells-Fargo Express Compan}-. Mr. 
 Tarbell is the owner of considerable real estate 
 in Tombstone, including residence antl business 
 l)ropcrty, and he also owns mining properties 
 in the Tombstone mountains, and is one of the 
 stockholders in the Telephone Mining Company. 
 
 Politically a Republican. Mr. Tarbell has 
 served for one term in the city council, for the 
 
 same length of time was city clerk, and for three 
 years held office as a member of the school 
 board. Fraternally he is associated with King 
 Solomon Lodge No. 5, F. & A. M., and is an 
 ofiicer in Cochise Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. His 
 marriage took place in Jefiferson county, N. Y., 
 in 1873, and united him with Miss Florence 
 Waffle, daughter of Charles ami Mary (Osborne) 
 Waffle, old residents of that county. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Tarbell have four children, namely: 
 Thomas Edson, who is married and lives in 
 Tombstone; Qiarles Brent, a practicing physi- 
 cian at Naco, Ariz.: <_)la, who died in infancy; 
 and Grace, who is a student in the Tombstone 
 public school. 
 
 HINSON THOMAS. 
 
 A typical westerner, a man of varied intellec- 
 tual and commercial attainments, and one of the 
 prized and progressive citizens of Globe, Mr. 
 Thomas was born in Mobile, Ala., Jantiary 8, 
 1854. Lntil after the Civil war his lot was cast 
 amid the home surroundings, w'here he received 
 the training and education requisite for the 
 workng out of a successful career. After a nine 
 years' residence in New York City he went to 
 Los Angeles in 1874, antl in less than a year lo- 
 cated in Prescott, Ariz. Here he was chief clerk 
 in the terriforial council, and engaged in jour- 
 nalistic work as local editor of the "Prescott 
 Courier." In February of 1879 he obtained in 
 Tucson the position of chief clerk under S. W. 
 Carpenter, county recorder of Pima county, 
 which county at that time embraced Tombstone. 
 The large area furnished a great volume of work 
 for the recorder's ofifice, and necessitated the 
 employment of six assistants. 
 
 Mr. Thomas became associated with Globe in 
 1880, and for a few months acted as editor of the 
 "Globe Chronicle," which was founded by him 
 in July of that year. The following year he went 
 to Pinal county and for two years was under- 
 sherifT for J. P. Gabriel, this position being fol- 
 lowed bv his election as county recorder of Pinal 
 county, the term of service extending over two 
 terms, or four years. During the administra- 
 tion of SherifT Jerry Fryer he served for four 
 years as under-sherifT of Pinal county, and con- 
 tinued in the same capacity under Mr. Drais for 
 two years longer. After prospecting and mining
 
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 for two or three years he again located in Globe, 
 and for a year was bookkeeper for the United 
 Globe Mines, since which time, with the excep- 
 tion of a period of less than a year as bookkeeper 
 for the Old Dominion Commercial Company, 
 he has devoted his time to minins; and prospect- 
 ing;. In the Pinto rei^ion Mr. Ihimias has an 
 interest in the Republic <,'roup. which contains 
 seven well developed claims, his ])artners being 
 jnhn Clark. Herman Sidow and (Jcorge Powen. 
 1 hough rematkably snccessful, these claims arc 
 now for sale, and negcjtiations are pending to- 
 wards tlicir disposition. As evidence of pros- 
 perity, Mr. Thomas is the owner of considerable 
 propert}', and has two lots and a good dwelling 
 in Globe, as well as a residence in Florence. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Thomas was united in marriage 
 with Ynaz Sanchez, of Florence. Of this union 
 there are six children: Frank E., Marguerite, 
 Ida, Charles L., Emeline and Hinson. The 
 children are all at home and three are attending 
 school. In politics Mr. Thomas is a stanch Dem- 
 ocrat. Fraternally he is associated with the An- 
 cient Order of Ignited Workmen at Florence, of 
 which he is a charter member and past master. 
 He is also connected with Globe Lodge No. 
 152, United Moderns, and the Alianza Hispano- 
 Americana. 
 
 JUDGE JOHN BLAKE. 
 
 The typical western business man. with his 
 worldly possessions extending to mines, farms, 
 stock and general merchandise, and endowed 
 with an honesty of purpose and large-hearted, 
 whole-souled interest in all who struggle in the 
 busy marts of this territory of practically 
 exhaustless resources, has an ideal representa- 
 tive in Judge John Blake, one of the leading 
 men of the town of SafTord! 
 
 Many of the firm and substantial traits of 
 character so noticeable in Judge Blake's deal- 
 ings with his fellow men are directly traceable to 
 his Scotch ancestry. He was born in 1848 in 
 that country of blufif and hardy men, and re- 
 ceived the training and education of the Scotch 
 schools. Following an early acquired ambition 
 I'.e came to the United States in i86g, and for 
 several years was interested in farming in north- 
 western Missouri. In 1874 he progressed far- 
 ther west, and in California engaged in the 
 
 raising of sheep with fair success, after which 
 he drove his flock to .\rizona, and continued in 
 the same business until 1881. From raising 
 sheep to the cattle business in the Sulphur 
 Spring valley was a change which took place in 
 1882, and in the latter Judge lilake still retains 
 an interest. .\t Willcox he became a member 
 of the Chiricahua Cattle Company, which is gen- 
 erally conceded to be one of the largest in the 
 territory, and at the j)resent time he is secretary 
 of the organization. On account of scarcity of 
 feed in 1887 the com])any moved a ])ortion of 
 their stock to Graham county, and the judge 
 then took up his residence in Safford, where he 
 has since lived. The stock company has a ranch 
 in Graham county in extent thirty-five bv 
 seventy-five miles, and they also have large farm 
 lands upon which is raised alfalfa. 
 
 In 1891 Judge Blake purchased an interest in 
 a flour mill which he operated until 1900, and in 
 1895 he opened a general merchandise store, 
 which carried a full line of general necessities, as 
 well as an assortment of hardware, mining and 
 stock requirements. His interests extend to 
 many of the industries here represented. He 
 owns large tracts of land in the artesian well dis- 
 trict, and has several wells under construction. 
 His mining properties are extensive, and include 
 valuable and paying finds in the Lone Star dis- 
 trict and in the Stanley Butte district. With 
 all of these responsibilities he still finds time to 
 promote whatever of good and utility is ad- 
 vanced for the general welfare and improvement, 
 and is known as the friend of the poor and de- 
 serving, and to whoever shows an inclination 
 to help themselves. As a stanch Republican. 
 Judge Blake has been active in local and ter- 
 ritorial political matters, and in 1890 was elected 
 to the office of probate judge, which [position he 
 creditabl}- filled for four years. 
 
 WILLI. VM 
 
 THOMAS. 
 
 .\t thi.s time prominently identified with the 
 pioneer industries of .Vrizona, and prosecuting 
 large agricultural interests in the vicinity of 
 Phoenix, Mr. Thomas is a native of Lynchburg. 
 \'a.. and was bo: n November 8, 1852. His par- 
 ents. John .M. and Sarah A. (Jones) Thomas, 
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 arcliitect and builder, wlio for many years car- 
 ried on his occupation in the town of Salem, 
 Roanoke county, \'a. 
 
 When but a child, William E. Thomas re- 
 nioved with his parents to Salem, Va., where he 
 grew to man's estate, and received excellent 
 educational advantages. After attending the 
 public schools he entered Roanoke College, at 
 Salem, and subsequently was graduated from 
 r.ryant & Stratton's Business College, at Balti- 
 more. As a means of livelihood, he was en- 
 gaged for a number of years as a bookkeeper at 
 Baltimore, but in the spring of 1880 sought the 
 larger possibilities of the west, and located at 
 Leadville, Colo. His ability received almost 
 instant recognition, for he was appointed deputy 
 county recorder of Lake county, Colo., and later 
 became identified with the postofifice department 
 at Leadville. Owing to the failing health of his 
 wife he was forced to relinquish association with 
 Leadville, and to seek a change of climate and 
 surroundings. With abundant faith in the cura- 
 tive elements of the California climate, he lived 
 for a short time in Los Angeles county, and in 
 October of 1883 removed to Phoenix, Ariz. 
 
 As in Leadville, Mr. Thomas became asso- 
 ciated with town affairs in Phoenix, and for a 
 time served as a deputy sheriff, and subsequent- 
 1\' became identifieil with the assessor's office 
 of Alaricopa county. For three years he was 
 deputy county recorder of Maricopa county, and 
 was appointed postmaster of Phoenix, under 
 Cleveland's administration, February 14. i8<j4. 
 After taking the oath of ofifice on April i, he 
 served four years, to the satisfaction of the com- 
 munity in which he lived. As a loyal member 
 of the Democratic party, he has been promi- 
 nently connected with the undertakings of that 
 organization, and has as well shown great inter- 
 est in the development of the various enterprises 
 which have been instrumental in securing for 
 Phoenix and vicinity a place among the promis- 
 ing centers of the country. 
 
 The ranch which has developed under the un- 
 tiring efforts of .\lr. Thomas is eighty-five acres 
 in extent, and is devoted to general farming 
 ; nd stock-raising. The improvements are of the 
 best, and the most advanced and modern meth- 
 ods of farming arc here carried on. It is need- 
 less to say that the genial owner has won the 
 
 confidence and esteem of all who come within 
 the radius of his good-will and devotion to the 
 general well-being, and that while he has wit- 
 nessed many changes in the general aspect of an 
 originally wild and uncultivated region, the pub- 
 lic estimation of his honesty of purpose and char- 
 acter has never undergone a change. He is con- 
 nected with the Mutual Protective League, and 
 is a member and worker in the Presbyterian 
 Church. Mr. Thomas was united in marriage 
 with Hallie P. Orme, a native of Maryland and 
 a daughter of Charles H. C. and Deborah Brook 
 (Pleasants) Orme (a full sketch of whom appears 
 elsewhere in this work). IVIr. and Mrs. Thomas 
 have one living son, Ralph O. 
 
 JOHN \AN TUYL. 
 
 Today many citizens of states where the cli- 
 matic conditions are not salubrious for a large 
 portion of the year are seeking homes in the far- 
 famed Salt River valley. Of the number the 
 subject of this article was some ten years ago, 
 but for that period has been quietly and happily 
 passing the evening-time of his life here, since 
 1895 making his home in the town of Tempe. 
 Honored and held in high esteem, he maintains 
 his deep interest in the affairs of the world in 
 general and in his own connnunity, for he has 
 always been patriotic and public-spirited. 
 
 Nearly seventy-three years ago, July 13, 1829, 
 the birth of John \'an Tuyl occurred in Scho- 
 harie county, N. Y. His parents, Isaac and 
 Polly (Livingston) \'an Tuyl, natives of the 
 same state, were of Holland-Dutch extraction. 
 When the son was three years old he was taken 
 to Tioga county, N. Y., and was there reared 
 to maturity. At the age of twenty-one he went 
 to Steuben county, N. Y., where he followed the 
 trade of wagon-making until 1858. 
 
 That year witnessed his removal to the west, 
 and, having homesteaded a quarter-section of 
 land in Nemaha county, Kans., near the Ne- 
 braska state line, proceeded to improve the prop- 
 ert}". For twenty-eight years he continued to 
 live on that farm, and finally, in 1886, he re- 
 moved to Sabetha, Kans., where he was retired 
 from active toil for some five years. His health 
 had become impaired by his long struggle with 
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 ing his farm, and in i8gi he wisely decided to 
 locate in the Salt River valley. Coming here in 
 tlio fall he resided upon a ranch near Tenipe for 
 nearly fonr years, and in 1895 becnnie a citizen 
 of Tempc. Here he and his wife are valued 
 niend)ers 1 if tlic Congregation.'d Church, the uf- 
 tice of deacon having been delegated to him. In 
 his political principles he is a Republican of no 
 uncertain stripe. 
 
 Fifty-one years ago, in Steuben county, N. 
 v.. Air. \'an Tuyl married Miss Alary J. Law- 
 rence, one of the native daughters of that county. 
 Of the three daughters born to them Dora is 
 deceased ; Anna is the wife of Xoel Phelps, of 
 Broome county, N. Y.; and Aland is the wife of 
 Alerritt McNary, of Sabetha, Kans. In 1886 
 Air. \'an Tuyl married Airs. Elizabeth Taylor, 
 widow of J. AI. Taylor, of Henry county, 111. 
 Her daughter by her first marriage, Ella F., is 
 the wife of J. H. Root, of Tempe. 
 
 JAMES C. PURSLEY. 
 
 lioth in his present office of vice-president of 
 the Bank of Saiiford and his former employ- 
 ment as extensive cattleman and miller. Air. 
 Pursley has formed a wide acquaintance 
 throughout his part of Arizona. Born in Ten- 
 nessee in 1852, he is a son of William and Alary 
 Pursley, early settlers of Tennessee. Lhitil his 
 twenty-first year he lived in the same house 
 which witnessed his birth, in the mean time at- 
 tending the public schools, and receiving the 
 business and other advantages which placed 
 him in a position to help himself. When of age 
 he left the home surroimdings. and in Colfax 
 county, N. AI., farnie<l for about a year, and then 
 went into the cattle business, in which he was 
 engaged until i8qi. . 
 
 In 1880 Air. I'ursley drove a herd of cattle 
 across the plains and settled near Willcox in the 
 Sulphur Spring valley, and during his residence 
 here was a member of the Cliiricahua Cattle 
 Company for six years. This cattle company is 
 one of the largest in the territory, and owns large 
 ranches and ;dfalfa farms. In i8yT Air. Pursley 
 disposed of his cattle and came to Safiford, where 
 he purcliased a farm of one himdred and sixty 
 acres in the vicinit\ of the town, ii])on which 
 he made extensive inipnnrincnts and raised 
 21 
 
 large crops. Alean time he also became inter- 
 ested in a mill in the locality. He disposed of 
 his I'arni in June of 1898, and of the mill in 1900. 
 .\t the present time Air. Pursley owns a half 
 interest in the Safiford Bank, which has a cap- 
 ital stock of $io,oco, antl of which he is vice- 
 president, J. X. Porter, of Globe, president, and 
 I'. P. Greer, cashier. His prosperity in general 
 business is attested by numerous possessions, 
 among these being a comfortable and fine ap- 
 pearing brick residence, which is the scene of 
 kindly hospitality, and is graciously presided 
 over by Mrs. Pursley, formerly Eunice Dial, of 
 SafTord, whose marriage to Mr. Pursley oc- 
 curred in 1889. Air. Pursley is actively inter- 
 ested in the best material and intellectual de- 
 velopment of Saf?ord, and is one of the sound 
 and reliable citizens of the place. Of Demo- 
 cratic inclinations, he is a strict party man, but 
 believes, nevertheless, in voting for the best 
 man. 
 
 RAAION VASQUEZ. 
 
 The proprietor of a general merchandise es- 
 tablishment in the interesting city of Nogales, 
 Air. \'asquez was born while his parents were 
 journeying in Alexico in 1858. The father, Juan 
 \'asquez, was born in that oldest of cities of 
 European settlement on the western hemisphere, 
 Tucson, and here spent the greater part of his 
 life as an integral part of its latter-day rise and 
 prosperity. He was a man prominent in all 
 matters pertaining to the welfare of his town, 
 and from a commercial standpoint, was counted 
 among those who achieved success. 
 
 In Tucson. Ramon Vasquez passed his boy- 
 hood and early manhood days, and attended the 
 first public school started in the city, in 1871. 
 His first business life was associated with this 
 unique town, and was conducted between 1882 
 and 1887. He then shifted the field of future 
 efifort to Xogales, of which he has since become 
 a substantial and reliable citizen. For two years 
 he conducted his atTairs in ])artnership with F. 
 G. Hermosillo. and has since been alone in the 
 management of the general merchandise busi- 
 ness. His business house is a two-story brick 
 business block, which affords ample accommo- 
 dation as a store, and also as storage room, and 
 is fitted with ati increased stock of general iner-
 
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 chandise, of about $25,000. This enlargement 
 has been brought about through the increase of 
 population and consequent demand, and the ap- 
 preciation which the city is willing to express by 
 a large patronage, of the excellent, up-to-date 
 and honest business methods which are known 
 to prevail in the estalilishnient conducted by 
 this popular merchant. 
 
 Mrs. Vasquez, formerly Carmen Soto, was 
 born and reared to womanhood in Tucson. She 
 was a daughter of J. M. Soto, an old and well- 
 known citizen of Tucson. In the family of :\Ir. 
 and Mrs. Vasquez is an adopted son, Juan Ro- 
 mero, who is now attending school in Los An- 
 geles, Cal. A RepubUcan in national politics. 
 Mr. Vasquez is interested in all of the under- 
 takings and issues of his party, and is now serv- 
 ing his second term as councilman, having been 
 elected by a large majority on the Tax Payers 
 ticket. He is fraternally associated with the 
 Masons at Sonora, and in Nogales is past chan- 
 cellor of the Knights of Pythias, and past master 
 of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, at 
 Nogales. Mr. Vasquez is a successful financier, 
 and one of the town's most enterprising citizens. 
 He is the possessor of property both in Nogales 
 and in Tucson. 
 
 HARRY S. VAN GORDER. 
 
 To the indefatigable energy of Mr. \'an Gor- 
 der is due the erection and management of a de- 
 partment store in Morenci, which, comparatively 
 speaking, lias few equals, and no superiors in the 
 west. As the whole-souled manager of the store 
 department of the De'.roit Copper Company, this 
 genial promoter of his firm and town visited the 
 large commercial centers of the country, observ- 
 ing every detail of successfully conducted de- 
 partment stores, and omitting nothing from his 
 intended designs which should detract from the 
 completeness of a model store. The result of 
 these applied suggestions has more than satis- 
 fied the most fastidious critics of the enterprise, 
 and the satisfaction and pride of the citizens is 
 e(|ualcd only by the added status of the town, 
 as the h(jmc of a trul\' modern and commerciully 
 strong mercantile establishment. 
 
 The store of the Detroit Cop()er Conqjany 
 was erected in i(;co, and is 75x150 feet in 
 grounfl dimensions. There are four stories, the 
 
 skeleton is of steel, and the stone used is a cop- 
 per-colored or brown material quarried in the 
 neighborhood of Morenci. The interior finish- 
 ings are of birch; large plate glass windows fur- 
 nish light, and mirrors reflect the artistically ar- 
 ranged stock. As in like stores in New York, 
 Cliicago and San Francisco, the counters have 
 glass fronts: the Lamson electric endless cable 
 ss'steni of cash carriers has been adopted 
 throughout, and the offices are beautifully fur- 
 nished and fitted with burglar-proof vault ac- 
 connnodations. An attractive reception room 
 invitingly awaits the tired shopper, who here 
 finds the latest periodicals of the day, and is fur- 
 nished with materials for correspondence. The 
 heating apparatus is steam, and the artificial light 
 is gained from three hundred incandescent lamps. 
 The large house-furnishing department covers 
 the entire third floor, and the fourth floor is used 
 for reserve stock, each line of goods having a 
 separate stall, wdiere the goods are sorted and 
 marked. The basement is the receiving room 
 and delivery room, and the railroad tracks run 
 to the door, from which goods are received and 
 shipped. In the rear of the store is an ice plant, 
 which opens into the basement, and a glass re- 
 frigerator 7x14 feet, and five feet high, preserves 
 in good order the perishable goods. Great at- 
 tention has been paid to ventilation, and the 
 most approved sanitary arrangements have been 
 perfected, the water and sewerage systems being 
 beyond criticism. Every detail of this store was 
 planned by Mr. Yzn Gorder, wdio was assisted 
 by P. W. Delancey, of Minneapolis, architect and 
 builder, and it is a monument to his skill, in- 
 genuity, common sense, and shrewd business 
 tact. Previous to moving into the new structure 
 the carrying on of the store required the assist- 
 ance of thirty-five men, and at the present time 
 the services of thirty-seven men are required. 
 
 This enterprising representative of one of the 
 largest mining companies in Arizona was born 
 in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1858. When a mere 
 child he was brought to Warren, Trumbull coun- 
 ty. Ohiti, where he outlived his' boyhood, and 
 entered upon the responsibilities of life. His 
 educational advantages were the Allegheny Col- 
 lege, at Meadville, Pa., and the Pennsylvania 
 Military College, at Chester, Pa., from both of 
 which he was gradu.'itcd, frcim the l;Uter in 1879.
 
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 637 
 
 Subsequently for four years he was with the 
 BelI-]\Iiller Company, of Cincinnati, and then 
 traveled in Colorado as supervisor of the Tuttle 
 Hardware Company, who had six stores in the 
 latter state. In 1S86 Mr. \'an Gorder purchased 
 one of the stores of the company at Golden, 
 Colo., which he successfully operated for three 
 years, and advantageously disposed of at that 
 time, lie then opened a store at Orient, Colo., 
 for the Colorado Coal & Iron (now the Colo- 
 rado Coal & Fuel) Company, and remained there 
 until 1 89 1, when he came to Morenci, as general 
 manager of the Detroit Copper Company's store. 
 Mr. Van Gorder has materially aided in the 
 progress of the town, and he is regarded by all 
 who know him as a man of sound and unim- 
 peachable commercial integrity, and commend- 
 able devotion to the general good of Morenci. 
 
 MRS. LOUISE G. TUTTLE. 
 
 The Gilbert family to which Mrs. Tuttle be- 
 longs is of English descent, and its members 
 have at different times distinguished themselves 
 in their respective walks of life, and two at least 
 have faithfully followed their best inspirations 
 as soldier and educator. Her paternal grand- 
 father, James Gilbert, was born in Connecticut, 
 and during the years of his activity conducted a 
 mercantile establ'shmcnt in Schenectady, X. Y. 
 He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and lived to 
 be ninety-one years of age. His son, George 
 Gilbert, the father of Mrs. Tuttle, was born in 
 Schenectady, N. Y., and devotetl the greater part 
 of his life to educational work. A graduate of 
 Union College, soon after his graduation he be- 
 came registrar of that institution. His general 
 knowledge was broadened by qualifying as a 
 lawyer, and his subsequent admission to practice 
 at the New York bar. At the time of his death 
 he had passed fifty-seven years. The mother of 
 Mrs. Tuttle was formerly Emeline R. Rickard, 
 daughter of Frederick Rickard, both natives of 
 Montgomery county, X. Y. The latter, a farmer, 
 and of German descent, served our country dur- 
 ing the war of 1812. Mrs. Gilbert died in Chi- 
 cago, July 23, 1898. Of her five children, two 
 attained mature years, Mrs. Tuttle being the 
 eldest, while the other survivor is Mrs. Elizabeth 
 (1. Kendall, nf I Miocni.x. 
 
 Mrs. Tuttle was educated in Schenectady and 
 graduated from the Union School. In 1883 she 
 accompanied Tier mother to Aurora, 111., and in 
 1887 came with her to Phoenix. In the mean- 
 time, however, she had become the wife of 
 Judge Henry Budd Lighthizer, who was born in 
 Oregon, 111., in 1839. This eminent and erudite 
 jurist received his early educational training in 
 Illinois public schools, and in the University of 
 Wisconsin, at Madison. At the age of twenty 
 he was admitted to the bar, and at twenty-one 
 was admitted to practice before the supreme 
 court of Wisconsin. During the Civil war he 
 helped to organize and was commissioned sec- 
 ond lieutenant of the Jefferson county guard, 
 Company E. Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, and 
 later was raised to the rank of captain. The 
 company saw service in Virginia, Maryland, and 
 the department of the Gulf, and was present at 
 the occupation of Xew Orleans, May i, 1862, 
 afterward was on board the Arkansas at Vicks- 
 Inirg, and served at Baton Rouge, Camp Bis- 
 land and the siege of Port Hudson. 
 
 Forced to resign from the service on account 
 of disability in 1863, Captain Lighthizer re- 
 turned to his old home, but in 1866 settled in 
 Cape Girardeau, Mo., and in the fall of the same 
 year removed to St. Louis. There he met with 
 deserved recognition. Aside from gaining a 
 large legal practice, he became prominent in Ma- 
 sonic circles, was at the head of the blue lodge, 
 and assisted in organizing two commanderies in 
 St. Louis, of both of which he was chosen emi- 
 nent conmiander. In 1879 he located in 
 Tucson, Ariz., and in 1885 came to Phoenix. 
 Here he was one of the organizers of Arizona 
 Commandery X"o. 3, K. T. Among the Masonic 
 offices he filled were those of senior warden of 
 Arizona Lodge No. 2, F. & A. M., high priest 
 of Arizona Chapter No. i, R. A. M., eminent 
 commander of Phoenix Commandery No. 3, K. 
 T., also eminent commander of Ivanhoe Com- 
 mandery No. 8 and St. Aldemar Commandery 
 Xo. 18, K. T., of St. Louis. At the time of his 
 death he was grand royal arch-captain of the 
 Grand Chapter of Arizona, vice-president of the 
 Order of High Priesthood of Arizona, and grand 
 generalissimo of the Grand Commandery of Ari- 
 zona. 
 
 Judge Lighthizer is remembered as a strong
 
 638 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 and vigorous personality, tempered with kind- 
 ness and good-will. He had the tact and discre- 
 tion which makes friends, and the steadfastness 
 which retains them. A truly upright judge, his 
 integrity was never questioned, nor was his 
 honor ever assailed. His decisions were founded 
 on the best principles of humanity, and his in- 
 nate goodness tempered nuich of the severit)' 
 of the law. A member of the Grand Army, at 
 one time he served on the coimcil of administra- 
 tion of the National Grand Army of the Repuli- 
 lic. He died of pneumonia January 2. 1894. 
 
 October 19, 1897, ]\Irs. Lighthizer became the 
 wife of Adelmar ]\Iarcius Tuttle, M. D.,' who 
 was born in Homer, N. Y. When twelve years 
 of age he accompanied his parents, E. A. and 
 Orissa C. Tuttle, to Clear Lake, Iowa, where he 
 received the greater part of his education. At 
 an early age he decided to devote his life to the 
 science of mdicine. After graduating from the 
 Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, he 
 practiced successively in Texas, Warren county, 
 III., Chamberlain, S. D., and lastly in Phoenix, 
 Ariz., where he died April 20, 1899. Dr. Tuttle 
 was a successful physician and received a large 
 patronage in Phoenix, his patients appreciating 
 his skill and broad professional knowledge. He 
 was a prominent member of the Baptist Church, 
 and contributed generously toward its charities 
 and support. Fraternally he was associated with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the 
 Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 Mrs. Tuttle continues to reside in her com- 
 fortable and commodious residence on North 
 P'ourth avenue. At one time she was a member 
 of the Eastern Star in Schenectady, N. Y., and 
 is connected with the W'oman's Relief Corps of 
 Phoenix, of which she formerly served as presi- 
 dent; also a member of the W. C. T. U. and a 
 stanch believer in the White Ribbon principles, 
 and is a helping hand in the Florence Crittenden 
 Home Circle. In leligious circles she is promi- 
 nent, as a member of and active worker in the 
 llaptist Church. 
 
 HAR\EY HUi'.P.S. 
 
 .\lmost continuc'UsK' for the past twelve years 
 1 larvey Hul)l)s, a well-kn(juii citizen of King- 
 man, has occupied puljlic positions of honor and 
 
 responsibility, and never has been found remiss 
 in meeting his obligations as an official. His 
 financial and executive ability have been thor- 
 oughly tested and his fidelity to duty is beyond 
 question. 
 
 Born in California forty-six years ago, Harvey 
 llubbs spent his boyhood and youth in that 
 state, but since 187S has dwelt within the Ijor- 
 ders of Mohave county. For about six years 
 subsequent to his arrival here he was exclusive- 
 ly devoted to mining and prospecting, and to 
 this day retains a strong interest in that line of 
 Inisiness. He is the owner of a valuable group 
 of gold and silver mines in the Hualapai district 
 at the present time and at intervals continues to 
 make investments in mining property. 
 
 About seventeen years ago the well-known 
 Hubbs House, of Kingman, was built by the 
 subject of this sketch, and after being success- 
 fully managed for a decade and a half it was de- 
 stroyed in the great fire of 1898, in which the 
 entire block fell a prey to the flames. In addi- 
 tion to his other losses, Mr. Hubbs suffered one 
 which he feels deeply. His cabinet of fine speci- 
 mens of ores and minerals, valued at $6,000, at 
 the lowest estimate, and to him almost beyond 
 price, was burned. Experts often had pro- 
 nounced the collection as wonderful, with few, if 
 any, equals in the territory. 
 
 With characteristic energy and undaunted 
 purpose Mr. Hubbs, associated with Samuel 
 Crozier, set .about the erection of a substantial 
 brick hotel in 1899, and in the due course of 
 time it was completed and ready for business. 
 The two-story building, 75x100 feet in dimen- 
 sions, is utilized as storerooms on the ground 
 floor. Above is the Hotel Beale, as it is called, 
 comprising forty rooms, and now a thriving and 
 popular hostelry. Besides this, Mr. Hubbs is 
 interested in other real estate and property in 
 Kingman, and also owns a fine herd of cattle, 
 upwards of two hundred head of stock. 
 
 Throughout his mature life, Mr. Hubbs has 
 Ijcen active as a Democrat. He was elected for 
 a two years' term as one of the supervisors of 
 this county in 1888, and at the close of his ser- 
 vice in that capacity was further honored, being 
 elected county treasurer. Again, in 1894, and 
 a third time, in 1896, he was elected to the same 
 responsible office, for which his qualifications
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 641 
 
 seem to liave specially fitted him. At the expira- 
 tion of his last term as such, his name was once 
 more l)roiight forward to public notice, and in 
 llic fall of 1898 he was elected as sheriff of Mo- 
 have county. In this important position, as in 
 each of the others which he has occupied, he 
 fulfilled every requirement and earned fresh 
 conmiendations from the public. The only fra- 
 ternal organization with which he is now identi- 
 fied is that of the Benevolent Protective Order of 
 Elks, as he is a charter member of the Kingman 
 Lodge of the same. 
 
 In 1887 the marriage of Mr. Hublis and Miss 
 Johanna Wilkinson, of Iowa, took place in this 
 city. They have a pleasant home aiid are the 
 ]jarents of two sons and two tlaughters, namely: 
 .\lta. \\'avne, \'ernon and Xadine. 
 
 Z. C. PRINA. 
 
 From out a gloomy and cheerless childhood, 
 and early and discouraging circumstances, Mr. 
 Prina has emerged to a prominent position 
 among the citizens of Safiford, and is a promoter 
 of some of the town's most conmiendable enter- 
 prises. .A. son of sunny Italy, where he was 
 born in 1862, his remembrances of his southern 
 land are extremely vague, for, when but nine 
 years of age, he was brought to America by his 
 father, and landed in Galveston. There he was 
 immediately placed up against the imhappy side 
 of life by being bound out to an Italian, with 
 whom he lived nine months, which seemed, how- 
 ever, like nine years. His best intentions in 
 this household were misconstrued and treated 
 with incredible severity, the lady of the mansion 
 especially taking particular delight in the exer- 
 cise of whipping him long and hard. Needless 
 to say he availed himself of the first opportunity 
 to escape and rejoin his father, with whom he 
 traveled to Houston and Austin, Tex., in which 
 latter place he remained until 1876. 
 
 A position on a cattle ranch near Austin was 
 hailed with delight, and here the younger Prina 
 faithfully attended to the duties assigned him, 
 and was interested in the raising and selling of 
 stock until 1897. In the mean time the father 
 had vanished into the uncertainties of the Texas 
 frontier, and the son subsequently indirectly 
 heard of his death. In 1884 lie came to Ari- 
 
 zona, and lived in Tombstone and Cochise 
 county until 1888. At this time he was sent by 
 the Chiricahua Cattle Company to take charge 
 of their ranch at Safford, which position he held 
 for two years, when he purchased an interest in 
 the ranch of W. T. Hughes, selling the same in 
 1897. 
 
 L'pon coming to Safiford in 1897 Mr. Prina 
 bought a third interest in the flour mill of J. T. 
 Owens, and also a third interest in John Blake's 
 business, but in June of 1900 sold his interests to 
 J. T. Owens. Since then he has branched out 
 independeiUly and in partnership with George 
 .\. Olney has established an ice plant, 
 which manufactures a sufficient quantity to 
 supply the entire Gila valley. The firm have re- 
 cently moved into a new brick plant, with a ca- 
 pacity of ten tons daily. Ice is a commodity 
 which is vastly appreciated during the summer 
 b\' the inhabitants of the valley, and the large 
 undertaking of Mr. Prina displays a thoughtful- 
 ness £S well as business shrewdness entirely com- 
 mendable. The firm are contemplating doing 
 still more toward the improvement of their 
 adopted city, and will at an early date put in an 
 electric plant of sufficient power to light the en- 
 tire city. 
 
 November 16, 1897, Mr. Prina married Martha 
 Wanslee, a daughter of Nathan and Ruth Wans- 
 lee, of Safiford. Of this union there are two 
 children, Eva, who is now (May, 1901) twenty- 
 six months old, and Ruth, who is ten months of 
 age. Mr. Prina has erected a commodious and 
 comfortable home in Safiford, built of brick, 
 which is the scene of nuich hospitality and good 
 fellowship. At Globe he was made a Mason, 
 and is a charter member -of the blue lodge at 
 Safiford. He was also a member of the Knights 
 of Pythias at Benson, and was then transferred 
 to the lodge at Solomonville. 
 
 JOHN MONTGOMERY. 
 
 As one of the capable and enterprising citizens 
 of Tombstone, Mr. iVIon-tgomery lias won the 
 confidence of all who have been associated with 
 him in a business or social way. In the manage- 
 ment of the livery business in which he has for 
 some time been engaged, he has so conducted 
 his affairs as to ins])ire a large patronage, and
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 bring' a ready means of livcliliood. It is doubt- 
 ful if any now living in the town have more 
 readily shown their unbounded faith in the ulti- 
 mate sound and substantia! basis of Tombstone, 
 and its sure awakening' from the comparative in- 
 activity which followed in the wake of one of the 
 ,s;reatest mining booms of the great west. 
 
 The youth and early manhood of Mr. Mont- 
 gomery were spent in Ohio, where he was born 
 in Seneca county, in 1831. In" the public schools 
 of his county he received a liberal education, and 
 was well prepared to face the world when he left 
 his home in 1852. Like so many of the eastern 
 vouth, he was impressed with the ready possibil- 
 ity of making a fortune in the far west, and in 
 quest of the same started for California via the 
 Isthmus of Panama. In search for the hidden 
 treasure of the earth he spent the years between 
 1852 and 1874 in California, British Columbia, 
 Washington and Montana, subsequently settling 
 in New Mexico, where he engaged in prospect- 
 ing and stock-raising. 
 
 Upon arriving in Tombstone in 1879, the town 
 was extremely small, and barely suggested the 
 liveliness and mining activity which soon visited 
 it. After a short time Mr. Montgomery went 
 into the livery and sale business in partnership 
 with Edward Benson, and after four years 
 bought him out. End has since conducted his af- 
 fairs independently. In the mean time he has 
 been continuously interested in mining projects, 
 having prospected and invested in mining prop- 
 erty. 
 
 As a stanch member of the Republican party 
 Mr. Montgomery has faithfully adhered to its 
 best principles, and has filled the ofScial posi- 
 tions entrusted him by his fellow townsmen with 
 credit to himself and to the city whose interests 
 he represents. In 1882 he was elected super- 
 visor of the county and served for four years, 
 and has since then served for four terms. 
 
 LINDLEY H. ORME. 
 
 Of the many who have come out of the east 
 and associated their enthusiasm, ability and 
 large-heartedness with the promising history of 
 the Salt River valley, none is remembered more 
 gratefully than Lindley H. Orme. Arriving 
 here in practically the dawn of its recognized 
 
 possibilities, when a desert waste stretched a dis- 
 couraging length before the hopes of those in 
 search of more promising conditions, he antici- 
 ]mted the hidden resources and practically aided 
 in tlieir develo])menl. And wdien the peaceful 
 agriculturist supplanted the roving red man as 
 superior possessor of the. soil, and the hum of 
 industry was heard through the valley, Mr. 
 (Jrme was the first to introduce in their midst 
 the threshing machine, which was indicative of 
 his unceasing efforts for advancement. 
 
 LTpon arriving in the vicinity of Phoenix in 
 1870, that city was then but dimly outlined in 
 the minds of a few, and its present state of in- 
 fluence and growth a matter only of vague con- 
 jecture. Mr. Orme at once settled on what is 
 known as the Hurley ranch, and later removed 
 to the ranch now occupied by his widow. Here 
 his days were spent in well directed activity until 
 his death, September 24, igoo. For many years 
 he was a successful raiser of fine stock, and 
 through the excellent management of the vari- 
 ous lines of activity which engaged his attention, 
 accumulated considerable of this world's goods, 
 and was accounted a successful man from many 
 standpoints. His strong and influential person- 
 ality dominated the political and other affairs 
 of his locality, and he was a forceful impetus to- 
 wards well-doing. As a stanch member of the 
 Democratic party he served his party faithfully 
 and well, and for eight years was sherifif of Mari- 
 copa county. This difficult and responsible posi- 
 tion was invested with a rare display of tact and 
 discretion, and wise avoidance of the friction .and 
 animosity often accompanying the best efforts 
 of men in like positions. As a member of the 
 territorial council which secured the removal of 
 the territorial capital from Prescott to Phoenix, 
 he rendered substantial assistance, and he also 
 served for four years on the territorial board of 
 equalization. 
 
 Many of the strong and reliable traits of char- 
 acter which so materially aided Mr. Orme in 
 the accomplishment of his purposes were de- 
 rived from his Puritan maternal ancestry. A na- 
 tive of Montgomery county, Md., he was born 
 December 19, 1848, .and was a son of Charles 
 H. and Deborah (Pleasants) Orme. On his 
 father's plantation in Maryland he received the 
 early training so carefully supervised by his
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 645 
 
 r'iml;iii mother, aiul in time became a capable 
 and appreciative tiller of the soil. The educa- 
 tion derived in the private schools of the day, 
 tliout;h somewhat crude, was thoughtfully and 
 conscientiously entered into, and supplemented 
 bv the erudition and research of later years. 
 1 )urini;; the last two years of the Civil war he 
 fought for the lost cause of the Confederacw 
 and upon returning to his home in Maryland, 
 worked on the home farm for two years. To 
 gratify an ambition extending beyond the bor- 
 ders of Maryland, he sojourned to the far west, 
 crossing the plains in a caravan of emigrants. 
 The long journey terminated at Sacramento, 
 Cal., and in this state of infinite possibility he 
 engaged for a time in sheep raising. Later he 
 became interested in freighting from San Ber- 
 nardino and Yuma to Tucson, Ariz. 
 
 The permanent residence of Mr. Orme in Ari- 
 zona began in 1870. when he settled in Mari- 
 copa county, near the site of Phoenix. He was 
 twice married, the present Mrs. Orme having 
 formerly been Mary J. Jeffries, daughter of J. 
 W. and Louisa H. (Wall) Jefifries, and her mar- 
 riage with Mr. Orme occurred November 1 1 , 
 1884. A most interesting woman, Mrs. Orme is 
 a native of Cynthiana, Ky., and is widely known 
 for her many fine and social attributes. She is 
 the mother of one son, Alfred H. Her father 
 was a Virginian and her mother a Kentuckian. 
 They settled in Phoenix in 1886, and are both 
 now deceased. The first Mrs. Orme was Flor- 
 ence Greenhaw, of Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Orme were devoted members of the Episcopal- 
 ian Church. Fraternally he was associated with 
 the Elks, and with the Odd Fellows of Phoenix. 
 
 BEN R. CLARK. 
 
 It is the prevailing opinion among all who are 
 familiar with the work accomplished by Ben R. 
 Clark in Graham county, that no incumbent of 
 the sheriff's office in Arizona possesses in a 
 greater degree than he the qualities of mind and 
 character best calculated to insure success in 
 preserving the peace in a locality containing a 
 heterogeneous gathering of humanity. So 
 thoroughly did he understand his business, that 
 it was a foregone conclusion when he started out 
 for an evil-doer, the destrover of the peace was 
 
 already in the clutches of the law, and face to 
 face with his just deserts. And it was certainly 
 due to the unwearying vigilance of the man at 
 the helm that the rough and desperate, and more 
 refined and educated classes pursued in compar- 
 ative harnionv their various occupations of min- 
 ing, agriculture, and cununerce. in a compara- 
 tively isolateil and remotely situated locality, and 
 where the animating motive is the resolve to 
 wrest a fortune from the undeveloped resources. 
 A native of North Carolina, Mr. Clark was 
 born in 1862, and is a son of E. G. and Mary E. 
 (Hinson) Clark, wdio were born in the same 
 state. Besides himself there were five children 
 in the family, of whom W. F. served as deput\ 
 sherifl:' imder his brother : Lizzie Laman is living 
 in Sidon, Leflore county, Aliss.; and Joseph 
 died in October of i8y6. The family removed 
 from North Carolina to Mississippi in 1870, and 
 there Ben R. received a substantial home train- 
 ing, and the education obtainable at the district 
 schools. He early developed habits of thrift and 
 industry, and an independence which sent him 
 out into the world at a comjiaratively early age. 
 His first venture was in western Texas, where he 
 engaged in the cattle business for about a year, 
 and then settled on the San Carlos Indian Reser- 
 vation, where he bought and sold cattle, and had 
 a government contract to furnish beef to the 
 Indians. After the expiration of five years he 
 began to serve as deputy sheriff under J. H. 
 Slaughter, in Cochise county, and after three 
 years was deputy sheriff in Graham county un- 
 der C)lney Wight and Birchfield for a period 
 covering six years. In 1898 he was regularly 
 elected sheriff of Graham county, and served one 
 term of two years. He was ably assisted in pre- 
 serving order by James R. Nicks, T. G. Bell, 
 Ben W. Olney, George M. Nicks, W. A. Hart, 
 S. J. McClinick, H. D. Keppler, A. A. McKin- 
 ney, and his brother, W. F. Clark. During his 
 years of experience with the various conflicting 
 elements that have gathered in the mining re- 
 gions of the territory, Mr. Clark has had many 
 exciting adventures with the Indians, which, 
 when recounted in his picturesque manner, arc 
 of a highly diverting nature. He was present in 
 the camp of the San Simon Cattle Company in 
 1886, when the old Apache chief, Geronimo, 
 and nineteen of his warriors were surrounded
 
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 and captured, and their lives of crime and depre- 
 dation turned into more harmless channels. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Clark married ^Mrs. Ellen K. 
 Shivers, a daughter of Dr. B. F. Kittrell, of 
 Blackhawk, Miss. This union has been blessed 
 with one child, Caroline Elizabeth. Mr. Clark 
 took his residence in Solomonville in January 
 of 1899, and at the time purchased two hundred 
 acres of land a mile above town, which is all irri- 
 gated and improved, and among the best tracts 
 in the locality. A strict party man and a Dem- 
 ocrat, he has been active in local and territorial 
 politics. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Solomonville Lodge No. 16, K. P. Mr. Clark 
 is respected and esteemed by those who know 
 him. All acknowledge the excellence of his 
 service to the county, his dauntless courage, and 
 relentless pursuit of all that tended to undermine 
 the stability and safety of the community. 
 
 W. J. DAVIS, M. D. 
 
 W. J. Davis, M. D., physician and surgeon 
 for the Detroit Copper Company, the Arizona 
 Copper Company, the hospital connected there- 
 with, and tlie families of the many miners, was 
 born in Ontario, Canada, in 1861. He received 
 his education and training in the northern coun- 
 try that was his home, and came to the states 
 when nineteen years of age, settling in Chicago, 
 where he made his home for several years. Next 
 he went to Denver, where he began the practice 
 of medicine, and in the various duties of profes- 
 sional work he continued in that city for three 
 years. While living in Denver he made arrange- 
 ments with Mr. Church, who is now the presi- 
 dent of the Detroit Copper Company, to assume 
 charge of the company's medical and surgical 
 work at Morenci, .\riz., which has since been 
 the field of his activity. 
 
 VoT eleven years Dr. Davis has made his 
 headquarters at Morenci. During that time he 
 has steadily advanced in the good-will and ap- 
 preciation of the five thousand or more patients 
 whom he is called upon to treat during the 
 course of a year. The .\rizona Copper Com- 
 pany's hospital, of which he has the charge, is a 
 creditable and well-managed institution, and 
 comijares favorably with hospitals in larger and 
 
 older settlements. Patients here receive the best 
 care known to science. 
 
 In 1887 Dr. Davis was united in marriage with 
 Miss Jennie M. Lesuer, of Chicago. To their 
 marriage were born three children, namely: Al- 
 len, who is a student in the Los Angeles Mili- 
 tary Academy: Harold and Ruth. Fraternally 
 Dr. Davis is connected with the Masons, and 
 with the Knights of Pythias at Clifton, in both 
 of which organizations he maintains an interest. 
 
 H. H. SCORSE. 
 
 Mr. Scorse, wdio is engaged in general mer- 
 chandising at Holbrook and is numbered among 
 its influential citizens, came to Arizona twenty- 
 three years ago. Practically, he was the first 
 resident of this place, known as Horsehead 
 Crossing in 1878, when he located here. With 
 a comrade he had started from Montana to the 
 mining district of Tombstone, Ariz., and had 
 walked from LTtah, but, owing to the hostility of 
 the Indians in that region at the time, they de- 
 cided to camp here for the winter, and were de- 
 pendent upon their hunting skill for game, other 
 supplies being scarce. 
 
 In the following year Mr. Scorse was em- 
 ployed for six months on the Star mail line, ply- 
 ing between Brigham City and this point. Then, 
 opening the first store in existence here he con- 
 tinued to trade with the Indians and old-timers 
 of this district until the fall of 1882. Then he 
 went to the neighborhood of the present town 
 of Williams, and was the manager of a store at 
 Rogers' ranch about a twelvemonth. Returning 
 to Horsehead Crossing, he again engaged in the 
 management of a general store, and thus, with 
 the exception of the year mentioned, has been 
 in business here since 1879. Indeed, he is the 
 pioneer merchant of the railroad line, from Al- 
 buquerque to Needles, Cal., .and always has done 
 more or less freighting across the country. In 
 1883, during the Apache outbreak, and at other 
 times, he experienced much anxiety and discom- 
 fort, and while outlaws were so plentiful on this 
 frontier had about as much trouble with them, 
 as within eighteen years they stole nearly eight 
 hundred head of horses from his ranch. He 
 now owns a valuable ranch situated some twen- 
 t\-tvvo miles north of Holbrook, and keeps large
 
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 649 
 
 herds of cattle, horses and sheep, at the present 
 time owning upwards of ten thousand head. One 
 of the oldest and most widel\- known horse- 
 dealers of the southwest, he now has about five 
 hundred, and always commands the best market 
 price. 
 
 Great credit is due Mr. Scorse for the leading 
 part wdiich he has ever taken in the upbuilding 
 of Holbrook. At the time when the ]jlace was 
 laid out, he became the owner of a large amount 
 of town property, for he always has had great 
 faith in its future, and probably has constructed 
 more buildings and accomplished more in its 
 advancement than any other citizen. In 1888 he 
 built a dam across the Little Colorado river, 
 with a view to utilizing the extra water for irri- 
 gating purposes, but unfortunately a great flood 
 swept it away. In most of his many and varied 
 enterprises he has met with gratifying success, 
 and though certain reverses have come to him, 
 as to all, his business career has been decidedly 
 prosperous, on the whole. 
 
 Turning backward a few pages in the history 
 of Mr. Scorse, we find that he is a native of 
 Somersetshire, England, and came to the United 
 States in 1869. Innnediately beginning his ca- 
 reer in the west, he went to Montana in the fol- 
 lowing year and for three decades has shared the 
 fortunes of the frontiersmen of the state men- 
 tioned, of Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Ari- 
 zona. He has prospected, mined and hunted in 
 all of these localities, and has numerous inter- 
 esting reminiscences of those years. 
 
 July 29, 1891, the marriage of Mr. Scorse and 
 Miss Julia Garcia was solemnized in Holbrook. 
 They have a pleasant home and are the jwrents 
 of six promising children, named respectively, in 
 order of birth: Ellen, Julia, Henry H.. Jr., Rose, 
 James and Lizzie. 
 
 THEODORE GEBLER. 
 
 Like so many of the early settlers of Nogales, 
 Mr. Gebler was first attracted to the territory by 
 the widely reported mining possibilities. That 
 he still has faith in the country argues well for 
 the other prospects, for in the matter of mining 
 his experience has been dearly bought and disil- 
 hisionizing. In the White mountains of Califor- 
 
 nia wdiere his enterprises were carried on, he 
 came to own several supposedly good proper- 
 ties which afterwards played out, and he lost the 
 savings of years. After four years of futile effort 
 in this direction he, located in Nogales in 1885, 
 at which time the settlement consisted of about 
 a dozen shanties, inhabited by stout-hearted and 
 enterprising pioneers. He built the first residence 
 and store west of the railroad, and started a tin- 
 ware and hardw-are business which was the first 
 of its kind in the locality. With the gradual in- 
 crease of population and demand his stock was 
 increased accordingly, and he has since the be- 
 ginning reaped satisfactory results from the ex- 
 penditure. In addition to all kinds of hardware 
 he carries a full line of miner's supplies, and so 
 successful has he been that he is the owner of 
 considerable real estate in and out of the city. 
 He has also built a number of houses, and in all 
 wavs has been instrumental in securing the best 
 development of the town. 
 
 The youth of Mr. Gebler was spent in his na- 
 tive land of Germany, where he was born in 
 Berlin, July i, 183 1. He received an excellent 
 education in the public schools. In 185 1 he 
 innnigrated to .\merica, and in 1855 located in 
 San Francisco, where he follow-ed the trade of 
 tinsmith for twelve years. After removing to 
 San Jose. Cal., he continued the same occupation 
 for nineteen years, and while living in this de- 
 lightful California tow'n was for some time a 
 member of the city council. In 1881 he came 
 into Arizona, locating at Tucson, near which 
 were conducted his mining enterprises. 
 
 Since coming to Nogales, Mr. Gebler has wit- 
 nessed many changes and has himself contrib- 
 uted largely to the prevailing prosperity. He 
 was a member of the town council for five years, 
 and took an active part in securing the creation 
 of Santa Cruz county. He believes in good roads 
 in the country as a sure means of assistance to 
 the farmers, and aided in the construction of the 
 road from Nogales to Oro Blanco, and to the 
 Washington camp. He is one of the oldest and 
 most respected of the early pioneers, and one of 
 the best citizens of this or any of the cities in the 
 country. 
 
 In 1852 Mr. Gebler was united in marriage 
 with Louisa Waldman. daughter of Christopher 
 \\'aldman. To them has been born one son,
 
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 Oscar. Fraternally Air. Gebler is a member of 
 the Masonic order and the Odd Fellows. Polit- 
 icalh- he is a Democrat. 
 
 COL. J. A. ZABRISKIE. 
 
 To all who have read that wonderfully inter- 
 esting narrative of Thaddeus of Warsaw, the 
 name of Zabriskie stands forth in the memory 
 in unfading colors of adventurous light. The 
 family whose glories and woes have brought 
 emotion into thousands of hearts, and who were 
 among the bravest of the adherents of a des- 
 perately contested crown, are principally cited 
 in history during the reign of King Joim Sobie- 
 ski, who lived from 1625 until i6g6. The reign 
 of this courageous king of Poland was anything 
 but peaceful, for his country was torn by internal 
 dissension and external strife. The ultimate 
 and tragic fate of Poland seemed to hang over 
 his head, and he 'was powerless to stem the 
 stranding of a people, destined to a homeless 
 future. The branch of the family to which Col- 
 onel Zabriskie belongs is descended from one of 
 two brothers of King John, who, after the king's 
 downfall in the middle of the seventeenth cen- 
 tury, turned their faces in the direction of free- 
 dom and equal brotherhood, and immigrated to 
 America, settling respectively in New York and 
 New Jersey. The evolution of the name through 
 the different members of the family has brought 
 it from Sobieski, Sobriskie and Zabrowski to 
 Zabriskie. 
 
 A native of New Jersey, Colonel Zabriskie 
 was born May 29, 1844, and is a son of James 
 C, who w^as born at Hackensack, N. J. The 
 paternal grandfather, J. C. J. Zabriskie, also a 
 native of Hackensack, there owned and man- 
 aged a large farm. During the Revolutionary 
 war he served his country with courage and 
 fidelity, and for meritorious services was ad- 
 vanced to the rank of major. James C. Zabris- 
 kie became a prominent lawyer in New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J., but in 1849 migrated to California 
 via the Isthmus of Panama. Arriving at Pana- 
 ma, he was one of a company of fifty (and served 
 as their captain) who i)urchased a vessel to con- 
 vey them to the end of their journey. Starting 
 from Panama in their own ship, they stopped at 
 Realejo, on the coast of Costa Rico, then pro- 
 
 ceeded to California. At Sacramento, Cal., Mr, 
 Zabriskie engaged in the practice of law, be- 
 came the first city attorney, and wrote the first 
 city charter. In 1861 he went to San Francisco 
 as agent for pre-emption and state lands, and 
 while holding that position wrote his last work 
 on the land laws of the United States, the 
 same being now recognized as a standard au- 
 thority on the suliject. He was one of the best- 
 known men of California and was gifted with 
 an eloquence that was convincingly applied when 
 he stumped the state. His wisely-directed life 
 terminated in San Francisco in 1881. 
 
 The mother of Colonel Zabriskie was formerly 
 Elizabeth Mann and was born in Camden, N. J. 
 Her father, William Mann, a native of Philadel- 
 phia, Pa., and of English descent, descended 
 from ancestors who distinguished themselves in 
 various lines of occupation. His father served 
 America during the Revolutionary struggle and 
 he himself was a soldier in the war of 1812, after 
 which he settled upon a farm near New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J. Mrs. Zabriskie died at New Bruns- 
 wick, N. J., while still in middle life. Of her 
 two daughters and four sons. Colonel Zabriskie 
 is the sole survivor. The oldest son, William 
 M., was one of the most prominent attorneys in 
 California, and for twenty years was recognized 
 as the leading criminal lawyer of the state. An- 
 other brother, Alexander, also an attorney, died 
 in Honolulu in 1858. 
 
 Although the family removed to California 
 in 1850, J. A. Zabriskie continued at school in 
 Erasmus Hall Academy, Flatbush, L. I., and in 
 1854 was appointed a cadet at West Point, from 
 California. However, before the completion of 
 his term at the academy he resigned from the 
 army on account of ill health, and entered Col- 
 umbia College, from which he was graduated in 
 i860. In 1857 he had made a flying trip to Cali- 
 fornia. After his graduation he returned to the 
 far west and studied law with his father and 
 Judge Stephen J. Field, late LInited States Su- 
 preme Court justice. In 1861 he was admitted 
 to the bar of California. LIpon the breaking out 
 of the Civil war he organized and was chosen 
 captain of Company D, Fifth California Infantry, 
 which he fitted out at a personal expense of 
 $3,000, at Camp Lhiion in Sacramento. Next 
 he was appointed a captain on the general stafif
 
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 651 
 
 in Los Angeles, but later went to Yuma, where 
 he acted ,as adjutant-general of southern Cali- 
 fornia. In 1863 he started for Texas, and was 
 there made adjutant-general of western Texas, 
 filling the position vmtil General Sheridan took 
 command of all the west, and afterward he 
 served on that general's staff until the close of 
 the war. As lieutenant-colonel, he was mus- 
 tered out in 1865. 
 
 Locating in El Paso. Tex., Colonel Zahriskie 
 engaged in the practice of law. together with 
 farming and conducting a grain business. He 
 served as assistant LInited States attorney for 
 the western district of Texas, and took an active 
 part in the constitutional convention which 
 drafted the first constitution for Texas. During 
 the first administration of General Grant, he 
 was secretarv of a delegation that went to \\'.ash- 
 ing to consult with the president in regard to 
 the division of the Republican party of Texas. 
 The head of this delegation was Governor A. J. 
 Hamilton, who had been appointed provisional 
 governor by Mr. Lincoln at the close of the re- 
 bellion. For three successive terms he was 
 elected state's attorney for the twelfth judicial 
 district of Texas, having his headquarters at El 
 Paso. 
 
 As an officer of the treasury department, Col- 
 onel Zabriskie came to Tucson in 1878. Soon 
 afterward he resigned his position and began 
 the practice of law. In 1881 President Arthur 
 appointed him United States attorney for Ari- 
 zona, and this position he held for four years. 
 During the latter part of 1881 and in 1882 he 
 was ordered to Washington to assist in the pro- 
 secution of the star routers, and worked in con- 
 junction with Attorney-General Brewster. In 
 1885 he resumed a general law practice in Tuc- 
 son, and at the same time gave some attention 
 to mining interests. 
 
 The many and arduous duties which con- 
 sumed the time of Colonel Zabriskie for many 
 consecutive years were eventually made ap- 
 parent upon a system strained to the utmost 
 tension. For almost ten years he was obliged, 
 because of extreme nervous exhaustion, to re- 
 frain from active participation in business or 
 professional affairs, and is only now attaining to 
 the renewed health which will permit of a con- 
 tinuance of his labors. Since again taking up 
 
 the work of the law. he has also again become 
 interested in mining, and in additicin is connect- 
 ed with a large land deal in Southern California, 
 besides which he is engaged in the cattle busi- 
 ness and is the organizer of the San Raphael 
 Cattle Company. 
 
 In the affairs of the locality in which he lives, 
 Colonel Zabriskie has ever shown a vital and 
 substantial interest, ?nd in the undertakings of 
 the Republican party has figured luost promi- 
 nently. Lender the auspices of the national 
 committee, in 1868, he stumped the states of 
 New York, Indiana and Illinois for (.leneral 
 Grant. In 1896 he was a delegate to the con- 
 vention at St. Louis which nominated William 
 McKinley as president. In that bodv he served 
 on the platform committee and took an active 
 part in the discussion of the silver question, 
 which was the dominant jjroblem before the con- 
 vention and before the country. Although his 
 sympathies were with the silver issue, he and the 
 balance of the Arizona delegation stood firmly 
 by their party and refused to leave the conven- 
 tion, although pressed to do so by the friends of 
 silver. After the adjournment of the conven- 
 tion he stumped Texas. California and Arizona 
 for McKinley. He has served continuously on 
 the territorial and county committees of his party 
 and has stumped the territory whenever occasion 
 demanded. 
 
 While living in El Paso, Tex., Colonel Zabris- 
 kie married Adelaide Stephenson, a native of 
 Texas, and whose father, Hugh Stephenson, was 
 an own cousin of Governor Jonathan Stephen- 
 son, of Kentucky. Of this union there are five 
 children, namely: William Alexander, now in 
 Honolulu: Walter Scott, who is with the Cobre 
 Grande Mining Company at LaCananea: Bre- 
 vort, who is a contractor in the Sandwich 
 Islands; Mary Adelaide, who is living at home: 
 and Mctor Hugo, who is connected with the 
 mining company of which his brother, Walter 
 S,, is also a member. Walter S. was one of the 
 first to volunteer in the Spanish-.A,merican war; 
 he enlisted in the First Territorial Regiment 
 and was nuistered out in February of 1899. 
 
 .\t the request of his partner, Hon. C. C. Ste- 
 ])hens, who was then a member of the territorial 
 council. Colonel Zabriskie drew the bill which 
 passed the legislature authorizing the establish-
 
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 ment of the University of Arizona ?,t Tucson, 
 and of this institution he was appointed a regent 
 in ^larch, 1 90 1. Fraternally he is associated 
 with Tucson Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M., Chapter 
 No. 3, R. A. M., the Consistory, and has taken 
 the thirty-second degree. F'or seven years he 
 was First Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge of 
 Arizona. With the Knights of Pythias he was 
 the first chancellor commander of the lodge and 
 also officiated as deputy grand chancellor of Ari- 
 zona. He is also identified with the California 
 Consistory of the Loyal Legion. In the organi- 
 zation of Negley Post, G. A. R., he took an act- 
 ive part, and he was chosen the second com- 
 mander of the same, and he is now assistant in- 
 spector-general of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public. 
 
 HARRY FULTON. 
 
 The splendid possibilities for sheep-growing 
 in Coconino county have paved the way to a 
 competence for many of the dwellers of this 
 fertile part of the territory. ]Mr. Fulton has 
 availed himself to the full of the opportunit}' 
 presented here, and is known as one of the most 
 successful wool-growers in the San Francisco 
 mountains near Flagstaiif. A resident for many 
 years of this town of bustling activity, he has 
 identified himself with the enterprises which 
 have tended to her upbuilding, and has aided 
 with his influence and money in every good and 
 worthy cause of advancement. 
 
 Of southern ancestry, he was born in P.alti- 
 niore, j\Id.. in 1855, his parents removing during 
 the Civil war to ( )hio. The greater part of his 
 education was acquired in Zanesville, and he 
 subsequently spent three years in Columbus, 
 Ohio, where he gained considerable mercantile 
 experience as a collector for the Armstrong 
 Company. Having worked up commendable 
 enthusiasm for the west he departed for Cali- 
 fornia in 1875. ^"fl remained for a year at Santa 
 Barbara. In the fall of 1875 he started for Ari- 
 zona with a sheep herd numbering thirteen thou- 
 sand head, but only succeeded in reaching the 
 middle of the desert when he retraced his steps 
 to San Bernardino. In January of 1876 he re- 
 turned alone across the desert with a pack horse, 
 and for two years made his headquarters in 
 Prescott, and handled sheep on shares. In 1881 
 
 he invested in a large number of sheep and made 
 his headquarters at Flagstaff, herding between 
 two and nine thousand head on the Colorado 
 plateau and in the San Francisco mountains. 
 The ranch was located in the Fulton canon, 
 named after this enterprising early settler and 
 large wool-grower, whose sheep were of a su- 
 perior quality, and who imported his sires from 
 Wisconsin and Michigan. 
 
 In 1892 Mr. Fulton sold out his interests in 
 sheep and returned to his native place in ]\I.ary- 
 land, where he remained for two and a half 
 vears, handling sheep near Oakland, Md. In 
 1895, however, he returned to the greater free- 
 dom and opportunity of Arizona, and, taking up 
 his headquarters at Flagstaff, again engaged in 
 sheep raising near Bellemont. He is extensive- 
 Iv involved, invariably having on hand between 
 three and five thousand sheep, which he ships to 
 eastern and western markets. It is readily under- 
 stood that he is one of the most practical sheep 
 men in the county, having had an experience in 
 the line which covers twenty or more years. He 
 is an authority on all kinds of sheep and wool, 
 and has made a study of the respective good 
 (|ualities of each known breed. During the 
 sheep panic between 1893 and 1896 he suffered 
 severe losses, which have been more than made 
 up during the ensuing years. 
 
 In 1888 Mr. Fulton married Julia G. Kilrtz, 
 a daughter of T. Newton Kurtz, the noted pub- 
 lisher of Baltimore. A brother of Mrs. Fulton, 
 Albert Kurtz, was assistant postmaster of Bal- 
 timore under Postmaster Johnson, and insur- 
 ance commissioner under Governor Lowndes. 
 The paternal grandfather. Rev. Benjamin Kurtz, 
 D. D. LL. D., was born in Gettysburg, and was 
 the editor and publisher of the Lutheran Ob- 
 server. He was widely known in the church, 
 aiid was the founder of the Lutheran Female 
 .Seminary and the author of the book "Why Are 
 You a Lutheran?" To Mr. and Mrs. Fulton 
 has been born one daughter, Marguerite H. Mr. 
 Fulton is a stanch upholder of the principles and 
 issues of the Republican party, and in 1892 was 
 a candidate for the legislature. After returning 
 to Coconino county he has been twice a candi- 
 date for county treasurer, and has always re- 
 ceived a good substantial vote from the business 
 men of the place. In 1891, when Coconino was
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 655 
 
 separated from Yavapai county, he was a mem- 
 ber of the committee from Flagstaff to draw 
 lines and make arrangements for the division. 
 Since then he has been interested in all local 
 and territorial political matters, as well as in .all 
 else that promotes the general gootl. He is the 
 owner of real estate in I'lagstaff, and has ac- 
 complished considerable in the building line. 
 
 WILLIAAI SCHUCKMANN. 
 
 ]"or fullv eleven \ears William Schuckmann, 
 the president and treasurer of Las Dos Naci- 
 ones Cigar Company, of Nogales, Ariz., has been 
 interested in various enterprises in this terri- 
 tory rnd Sonora, Mexico, and it would be hard 
 to find any one having a greater faith in the 
 natural wealth and promising future of this 
 region. Moreover, he is giving abundant proof 
 of "the faith that is in him," and is winning an 
 honored place in the hearts of the people of 
 this borderland. It must be acknowledged that 
 to Germany we owe this sterling business man 
 rnd now stanch American citizen, for he was 
 born, educated and reared to manhood in the 
 [•"atherland, and, indeed, it was as recent as 
 1887 that he cast in his destiny with that of the 
 United States. He still owns valuable property 
 in Bechtolsheim, Rhine-Hessen, Germany, and 
 has hosts of sincere friends at his old and be- 
 loved home. 
 
 For a year or two after arriving in this coun- 
 tr\-, Mr. Schuckmann made his home in Milwau- 
 kee, and then went to Sonora, Mexico, where he 
 was proffered a position as first assayer of the 
 San Pedro Mining & Milling Company. Later 
 he became the cashier of the Inuiris Mines, 
 Limited, Company, and after a period accepted 
 the position of manager of the Grand Central 
 Mining & Milling Company, of Prietas, Sonora. 
 In 1894 he returned to Milwaukee and until 
 October, 1897, was connected with the A. Get- 
 telman Brewing Company, of that citv, serv- 
 ing in the cajiacity of auditor and traveling sales- 
 man. ( )ld Mexico again became the field of his 
 business operations, as in the fall of 1897 he 
 went to Sonora and that winter was the super- 
 intendent for the Yaqui River Mining Com- 
 l^any, to prospect for gold in the Yaqui river. 
 In March. 1898, he came to Xogales and became 
 
 interested in his present enterprise, succeed- 
 ing in orgrnizing the Las Dos Xaciones Cigar 
 Companv, which began business .\ugust i, i8g8, 
 with himself as president and treasurer, L. B. 
 Fleischer, secretary, and A. A'arona, manager. 
 Re-elected to the same offices, in 1899, 1900 
 and Kjoi, Mr. .Schuckmann is meeting • with 
 marked success in this undertaking, and the 
 in<lustry is proving valuable to this little bor- 
 der town. Upwards of sixty persons are em- 
 ])loyed in the business, and thus from $600 to 
 ^750 in gold is distributed here every week. The 
 firm owns a good building, situated on Morley 
 avenue, Nogales, while their warehouses are 
 on the Mexican side. About seven thousand 
 cigars are manufactured daily, only the finest 
 quality of iVlexican tobacco being used, and a 
 good demand for these products exists in the 
 market. No brands are so well known in .Ari- 
 zona as the products of this warehouse. 
 
 The vast mineral wealth of Sonora and south- 
 ern Arizona is appealing to the far-sighted cap- 
 italist, and Mr. Schuckmann is no exception. 
 At present he owns a quarter interest in the 
 Eureka mine, which claim is situated next to 
 the Grand Central, in Sonora, Mexico. Though 
 he was offered $50,000 for his share in this 
 faA'orablv-located mine, he refused it, and firmly 
 believes that a much greater fortune will be 
 developed there in the near future. 
 
 While devoting the major part of his time and 
 attention to commercial affairs, Mr. Schuck- 
 mann has other interests, as well. In the ranks 
 of the Knights of Pythias of .\rizona he stands 
 high, as is shown by the fact that he was elected 
 as chancellor conunander of the Nogales Lodge, 
 and entered upon his new duties in that capacity, 
 in January, 1901. July 20. 1898. he married 
 Miss Lena Gettclman, of Milwaukee, daughter 
 of Peter Gettelman. Horn of their union is a 
 daughter, Elsa. 
 
 R. W. KERSEY. 
 
 No more public-spirited man lives in Pinal 
 countv than Mr. Kersey, and all that has to do 
 with its improvement meets with his hearty 
 sanction. .At present accessible only by means 
 of the stage coach, a concerted movement is 
 now on foot to bring the railroad to Morence, 
 thus stinudat'Ug trade and rendering jxissiblc a
 
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 larger and more enterprising city. In politics 
 also Mr. Kersey is an influential factor in his 
 neighborhood, and leads in Democratic ranks. 
 Elected a member of the board of supervisors 
 of Pinal county, he was in 189S chosen as chair- 
 man of the same. 
 
 Horn in drant county, Ind., in 1S42, Mr. Ker- 
 sev spent his early years in \\'ayne county, that 
 state. His father. Dr. \ierling Kersey, who 
 died in 1875, was for many years a prominent 
 physician in Wayne county and stood at the 
 head of his profession in the state. By his mar- 
 riage to Emily B. Butler, nine children were 
 born, four of whom are now living, namely: R- 
 \V., the eldest; Dr. Charles Kersey, of Chicago, 
 111.: Virginia, of Washington, D. C, and Robert 
 B., now a manufacturer of school and church 
 furniture, but formerly for some years an engi- 
 neer on the railroad, for a time running out of 
 Tucson on the Southern Pacific road. 
 
 In 1866 R. W. Kersey became an engineer on 
 the Panhandle Railroad, and in 1868 entered 
 the employ of the Central Pacific road in Cali- 
 fornia, returning finally to Indiana. For fifteen 
 years he was an engineer in that state and Ohio, 
 and during his trips touched at Cincinnati, Ham- 
 ilton and Dayton. In 1887 he removed to Los 
 Angeles, Cal., and remained there about five 
 years, during which period he served for a short 
 time in the fire department. In 1892 he came 
 to Florence, Ariz., and settled on his farm near 
 this town, which has since been the object of his 
 care. 
 
 In 1884 Air. Kersey married Miss Abbie 
 Brewer, and of this union there are two sons, 
 \'ierling and Marius. Mrs. Kersey, who is a 
 graduate of Earlham College at Richmond, Ind., 
 an institution under the auspices of the Society 
 of Friends, is a daughter of W. S. Brewer, now 
 living in Cincinnati, Ohio, of which state he is a 
 native. During his years of special activity Mr. 
 lirewer was a locomotive engineer and for twen- 
 ty years ran out of Cincinnati, but he is now sta- 
 tionary engineer for the "liig Four" elevator. 
 He is a member of the Brotherhood of Loco- 
 motive Engineers. I'y his marriage to Emma 
 Staley he had five children, of whom Airs. Ker- 
 sey is the eldest. The others are: Mrs. Stewart; 
 William, who is living in New York City; Harry, 
 who is an engineer on the Cincinnati, Hamilton 
 
 & Dayton Railroad; and Dr. Clara Schleef, who 
 is the wife of Dr. O. F. Schleef, of St. Louis, Mo. 
 For a number of years Mr. Kersey has been 
 associated with the Brotherhood of Locomotive 
 Engineers. Frateinallv he is connected with 
 the Masons in Indiana. 
 
 ANTHONY \TNCENT CxROSSETTA. 
 
 Tucson can Ijoast of nci more public-spirited 
 citizen than .\nthony \'incent Grossetta, who 
 has dwelt here since 1880, and has been fore- 
 most in many undertakings which have mate- 
 rially contributed to its growth and desirability 
 to tourists and as a place of residence. He is no 
 less popular in political and social circles than 
 in the world of conniierce, and it is safe to say 
 that his friends are legion. 
 
 The Grossetta family originated in Austria, 
 whence some of the name crossed the Adriatic. 
 Matthew, grandfather of A. V. Grossetta, was 
 a farmer and stock-raiser of Dalmatia, Austria, 
 and Vincent, father of our subject, was born 
 near the town of Ragusa, wdiere he subsecpientlv 
 was a shoe merchant. The wife and mother, 
 whose maiden name was Annie Bardach, was 
 born, lived and died in that same locality. Of 
 her six children only two survive. 
 
 The only member of his family who came to 
 America was he of whom this sketch is penned. 
 He is a native of Ragusa, Austria, born April 
 27, 1856, and in the public schools he obtained 
 a fair knowledge of the German, Slavonian and 
 Italian languages. When only twelve years old 
 he shipped aboard a sailing vessel, and for six 
 years cruised on the high seas. During that 
 time he crossed the Atlantic, and was employed 
 on both English and United States ships. 
 
 In 1874 A. V. Grossetta came to this country, 
 and for about a year was employed on the New 
 York Central Railroad. Then, going to Mon- 
 treal, Canada, he was connected with the Italian 
 consulate for nearly two years. Toward the close 
 of 1877 he went to San Francisco, and thence 
 went to Los Angeles, drifting to Tucson in 
 January, 1880. Here he was employed by a 
 grocer, and in 1882 embarked in the same line 
 of business on his own account. His small store, 
 situated near the railroad station, was carried 
 on until 1893, when the business was removed
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 657 
 
 to its present quarters. The Tucson Grocery 
 Company, as it is known, is one of the largest 
 wholesale and retail grocery firms in this terri- 
 tory, and Gustav Hoff, ex-mayor of the city, is a 
 partner in the company. They also are inter- 
 ested in the Tucson Hardware ( 'ompany, an in- 
 corporated concern, of which Mr. Grossetta is 
 the secretary. It is located in the Grossetta 
 Block, where a sjjace 50x100 feet is set apart for 
 this large wholesale and retail husiness. The 
 handsome and sul)stantial building in question 
 is two stories rnd basement in height, and is 
 112x100 feet in dimensions. ISesides having 
 built this fine structure, Mr. Grossetta is identi- 
 fied with the Tucson Building & Loan Associa- 
 tion, has built several residences here and owns 
 considerable local property, including a well- 
 irrigated ranch of one hundred and twenty acres, 
 three miles north of the city, and provided with 
 a thriving orchard. One of his best achieve- 
 ments, in the opinion of many of our citizens, is 
 the Tucson Opera House, which he built in 
 1897, and of which he is the proprietor and man- 
 ager. The audience hall has a seating capacity 
 of one thousand, the stage is commodious and 
 fitted with approved modern equipments, and 
 electric lights and every convenience contribute 
 to the comfort of actors and audience. 
 . The first president of the Tucson Electric 
 Light & Power Company was Mr. Grossetta, 
 who served in that office until it was in fine run- 
 ning order, when he resigned, though he yet re- 
 tains an interest in the business. He also was 
 inlluential in the organization of the Hall Asso- 
 ciation of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, and still is a director of the same. Of the 
 fraternity mentioned he is a past ofificer, and in 
 the Masonic order is identified with Tucson 
 Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M.; Tucson Chapter No. 
 3, R. A. ^L, and Arizona Commandery No. i, 
 1\. T., also belonging to El Zaribah Temple, N. 
 M. S., at Phoenix. Both he and his wife are 
 members of the Eastern Star, she being secre- 
 tary of the lodge. In the Republican party he is 
 a leader, having been a member of the county 
 central committee and a delegate to the terri- 
 torial i)arty convention. In ujoo he was his 
 p:.rty's nominee fr)r the legislature, but was de- 
 feated. In the city council he represented the 
 first ward, and at that time the old graveyard in 
 
 the heart of Tucson was condemned, and the 
 property is now built up. He is an influential 
 member of the board of trade, and is chairman 
 of the conmiittee appointed to confer with the 
 trustees in regard to the sale of the old adobe 
 scliool ])ropert\-. In March, 1901, he was ap- 
 pointed bv Governor Murphy a member of the 
 hoard of regents of the I'niversity of Arizona. 
 In iS(S4 the marriage of Mr. Grossetta and 
 Miss llessic 11. Warren took place in this city. 
 She is a direct descemlant of General Warren, 
 of Revolutionary fame, and her father. Dr. Jo- 
 seph Warren, was a jirominent dentist of Terre 
 Haute, Ind., and later, of Darlington, Wis. The 
 mother, Mrs. h" ranees (Pilling) Warren, now liv- 
 ing with Mrs. Grossetta, was born in Darling- 
 ton, where her father, Elias Pilling, was a pio- 
 neer, while England was his birthplace. Mrs. 
 Grossetta is a native of Darlington, and was 
 graduated in its high school. After her father's 
 death in that city, she came to Tucson with her 
 mother. The only child of our subject and wife 
 is named \\'arren .Arthur. Mrs. Grossetta is a 
 member of tlie Congregational Church. 
 
 JOEL R. SLACK. 
 
 The superintendent and discoverer of the 
 mines now owned and controlled by the Britton 
 Gold Alining Company has had a very interest- 
 ing and eventful life. Though he has experi- 
 enced the vicissitudes connnon to the lot of the 
 pioneer and miner, he has been very success- 
 ful, on the whole, and is widely regarded as an 
 unusually fine judge of the merits of ores and 
 mines in general. 
 
 Born in Calais, Me., May 4, 1831, Mr. Slack 
 was reared in his native state and in Cambridge, 
 Mass., his education being completed in the 
 place last named. When eighteen years of age 
 he started upon his merchant-marine career, 
 which extended over seven years. As part owner 
 and master of the "John Ross," employed in 
 the coasting trade, he sailed from Boston har- 
 bor, and was chiefly engaged in conveying car- 
 goes from and to Cuba and other islands of the 
 West Indies. Several times he crossed the .\t- 
 lantic, going to Liverpool and London, and 
 even made trips to the other side of the world.
 
 656 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 larger and more enterprising city. In politics 
 also Mr. Kersey is an influential factor in his 
 neighborhood, and leads in Democratic ranks. 
 Elected a memher of the board of supervisors 
 of Pinal county, he was in 1898 chosen as chair- 
 man of the same. 
 
 r.cirn in ( irant county. Tnd., in 1842, Mr. Ker- 
 sey spent his early years in Wayne county, that 
 state. His father. Dr. \'ierling Kersey, who 
 died in 1873, was for many years a prominent 
 physician in Wayne county and stood at the 
 head of his profession in the state. By his mar- 
 riage to Emily B. lUuler, nine children were 
 born, four of whom are now living, namely: R. 
 W., the eldest: Dr. Charles Kersey, of Chicago, 
 111.; Virginia, of Washington, D. C, and Robert 
 B., now a manufacturer of school and church 
 furniture, but formerly for some years an engi- 
 neer on the railroad, for a time running out of 
 Tucson on the Southern Pacific road. 
 
 In 1866 R. W. Kersey became an engineer on 
 the Panhandle Railroad, and in 1868 entered 
 the employ of the Central Pacific road in Cali- 
 fornia, returning finally to Indiana. For fifteen 
 years he was an engineer in that state and Ohio, 
 and during his trips touched at Cincinnati, Ham- 
 ilton and Dayton. In 1887 he removed to Los 
 Angeles, Cal., and remained there about five 
 years, during which period he served for a short 
 time in the fire department. In 1892 he came 
 to Florence, Ariz., and settled on his farm near 
 this town, which has since been the oliject of his 
 care. 
 
 In 1884 ]\Ir. Kersey married Miss Abbie 
 Brewer, and of this union there are two sons, 
 Vierling and Marius. Mrs. Kersey, who is a 
 graduate of Earlham College at Richmontl. Ind., 
 an institution under the auspices of the Society 
 of Friends, is a daughter of W. S. Brewer, now 
 living in Cincinnati, Ohio, of which state he is a 
 native. During his years of special activity Mr. 
 Brewer was a locomotive engineer and for twen- 
 ty years ran out of Cincinnati, but he is now sta- 
 tionary engineer for the "Big Four" elevator. 
 He is a member of the Brotherhood of Loco- 
 . motive Engineers. By his marriage to Emma 
 Staley he had five children, of whom Mrs. Ker- 
 sey is the eldest. The others are: Mrs. Stewart; 
 William, who is living in New York City; Harry, 
 who is an engineer on the Cincinnati, Hamilton 
 
 & Dayton Railroad ; and Dr. Clara Schleef, who 
 is the wife of Dr. O. F. Schleef, of St. Louis, Mo. 
 For a number of years Mr. Kersey has been 
 associated with the Brotherhood of Locomotive 
 Engineers. Fratcmallv he is connected with 
 the Masons in Indiana. 
 
 ANTHONY MNCENT GROSSETTA. 
 
 Tucson can boast of no more public-spirited 
 citizen than Anthony Mncent Grossetta, who 
 has dwelt Iiere since 1880, and has been fore- 
 most in many undertakings which have mate- 
 rially contributed to its growth and desirability 
 to tourists and as a place of residence. He is no 
 less popular in political and social circles than 
 in the world of commerce, and it is safe to say 
 that his friends are legion. 
 
 The Grossetta family originated in Austria, 
 whence some of the name crossed the Adriatic. 
 Matthew, grandfather of A. V. Grossetta, was 
 a farmer and stock-raiser of Dalniatia, Austria, 
 and \"incent, father of our subject, was born 
 near the town of Ragusa, where he subsec|uently 
 was a shoe merchant. The wife and mother, 
 whose maiden name was Annie Bardach, w^as 
 born, lived and died in that same locality. Of 
 her six children only two survive. 
 
 The only member of his family who came to 
 America was he of wdioni this sketch is penned. 
 He is a native of Ragu&a, Austria, born April 
 2y, 1856, and in the public schools he obtained 
 a fair knowledge of the German, Slavonian and 
 Italian languages. When only twelve years old 
 he shipped aboard a sailing vessel, and for six 
 years cruised on the high seas. During that 
 time he crossed the Atlantic, and was employed 
 on both English and United States ships. 
 
 In 1874 A. V. Grossetta came to this country, 
 and for about a year was employed on the New 
 York Central Railroad. Then, going to Mon- 
 treal, Canada, he was connected with the Italian 
 consulate for nearly two years. Toward the close 
 of 1877 he went to San I'rancisco, and thence 
 went to Los Angeles, drifting to Tucson in 
 January, 1880. Here he was employed by a 
 grocer, and in 1882 embarked in the same line 
 of business on his own account. His small store, 
 situated near the railroad station, was carried 
 on until 1893, when the business was removed
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 657 
 
 to its present quarters. The Tucson Grocery 
 Company, as it is known, is one of the largest 
 wholesale and retail grocery firms in this terri- 
 tory, and Gustav Hoff. ex-mayor of the city, is a 
 p:irtner in the company. They also are inter- 
 ested in the Tucson Hardware Compan\ , an in- 
 cori)t)rated concern, of which Mr. (jrossetta is 
 the secretary. It is located in the firossetta 
 Klock, where a space 30x100 feet is set apart for 
 this large wholesale and retail husiness. The 
 iiandsonie and suljstantial building in cpiestion 
 i.^ two stories ; nd basement in height, and is 
 112x100 feet in dimensions. IJesides having 
 built this fine structure, Mr. (jrossetta is identi- 
 fied with the Tucson Building & Loan Associa- 
 tion, has built several residences here and owns 
 considerable local property, including a well- 
 irrigated ranch of one hundred and twenty acres, 
 three miles north of the city, and provided with 
 a thriving orchard. One of his best achieve- 
 ments, in the opinion of many of our citizens, is 
 the Tucson Opera House, which he built in 
 1897, and of which he is the proprietor and man- 
 ager. The audience hall has a seating capacity 
 of one thousand, the stage is commodious and 
 fitted with approved modern equipments, and 
 electric lights and every convenience contribute 
 to the comfort of actors and audience. 
 
 The first president of the Tucson Electric 
 Light & Power Company was Mr. Grossetta, 
 w ho served in that office until it was in fine run- 
 ning order, when he resigned, though he yet re- 
 tains an interest in the business. He also was 
 intluential in the organization of the Hall Asso- 
 ciation of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men, and still is a director of the same. Of the 
 fraternity mentioned he is a past ofificcr, and in 
 the Masonic order is identified with Tucson 
 Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M.; Tucson Chapter No. 
 3, R. .\. M., and Arizona Commandery No. i, 
 K. T., also belonging to El Zaribali Temple, N. 
 M. S., at Phoenix. Both he and his wife are 
 inendjcrs of the Eastern Star, she being secre- 
 tary of the lodge. In the Republican party he is 
 a leader, having been a member of the county 
 central connnittee and a delegate to the terri- 
 torial party convention. In 1900 he was his 
 ]):.rty's nominee for the legislature, but was de- 
 feated. In the city council he represented the 
 first ward, and at that time the did "raveyard in 
 
 the heart of Tucson was condemned, and the 
 property is now built up. He is an influential 
 member of the board of trade, and is chairman 
 of the connnittee ajipointed to confer with the 
 trustees in regard to the sale of the old adobe 
 schonl property. In March, 1901, he was ap- 
 l)(iinled by Governor Murphy a member of the 
 board of regents of the L^niversity of Arizona. 
 In 1884 the marriage of Mr. Grossetta and 
 Miss Bessie 11. Warren took place in this city. 
 She is a direct descendant of General Warren, 
 of Revoluti()n;ir\ fame, and her father. Dr. Jo- 
 seph Warren, was a prominent dentist of Terre 
 Haute, Ind., and later, of Darlington, Wis. The 
 mother, Mrs. h'rances (Pilling) Warren, now liv- 
 ing with Mrs. Grossetta, was born in Darling- 
 ton, where her father. Elias Pilling, was a pio- 
 neer, while England was his birthplace. Mrs. 
 Grossetta is a native of Darlington, and was 
 graduated in its high school. After her father's 
 death in that city, she came to Tucson v^'ith her 
 mother. The only child of our subject and wife 
 is named Warren Arthur. ]Mrs. Grossetta is a 
 member of the Congregational Church. 
 
 JOEL R. SLACK. 
 
 The superintendent and discoverer of the 
 mines now owned and controlled by the Britton 
 Gold Mining Company has had a very interest- 
 ing and eventful life. Though he has experi- 
 enced the vicissituiles common to the lot of the 
 pioneer and miner, he has been very success- 
 ful, on the whole, and is widely regarded as an 
 unusually fine judge nf the merits of ores and 
 mines in general. 
 
 Born in Calais, Me., May 4. 1831, Mr. Slack 
 was reared in his native state and in Cambridge, 
 Mass., his education being completed in the 
 place last named. When eighteen years of age 
 he started upon his merchant-marine career, 
 which extended over seven years. .As part owner 
 and master of the "John Ross," employed in 
 the coasting trade, he sailed from Boston har- 
 l)or. and was chiefly engaged in conveying car- 
 goes from and to Cuba and other islands of the 
 West Indies. Several times he cros.sed the .At- 
 lantic, going to Liverpool and London, and 
 even made trips In the other side of the world.
 
 6s8 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 stopping at Calcutta, Bombay and many other 
 foreign ports. 
 
 Leaving the high seas in 1857, Mr. Slack set- 
 tled in Colchester county. Nova Scotia, where 
 he managed a farm, and subsequently traveled 
 through W'w I'.runswick. Prince Edward Isl- 
 and, and Canada, with a view Iit making a per- 
 manent location. However, in 1858, lie decided 
 to go to the l^acific coast, and went to San 
 Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama. 
 For about three years he was superintendent 
 of lime \\oiks at Santa Cruz, Cal., and in 1862, 
 when the mining excitement in the Caribou dis- 
 trict of British Columbia was at its height, he 
 went to that locality, and after spending two 
 years or more in placer mining returned to the 
 States with several thousand dollars. In 1865 
 he built a ten-stamp quartz mill at a point forty 
 miles from Uniontown, in eastern Oregon, and 
 remained there until 1868. Next we find him in 
 Silver City, Idaho, where he prospected and 
 mined, also serving as foreman in mines. In 
 1874 he accepted the position of foreman of 
 All)ion mine, near Eureka, Nev., and retained 
 that ]iost four years. He also devoted some time 
 to locating mines of his own and met with suc- 
 cess in developing them. 
 
 In 1881 Mr. Slack arrived in Prescott, Ariz., 
 then a small town. For some time he freighted 
 supplies, including wood and fuel, to Fort Whip- 
 ple, under contract with the government. Then 
 he transported supplies from Phoenix through 
 the Black Canon to the Big Bug mining camps. 
 In company with his son James he located the 
 Henrietta mine, which was discovered by the 
 son in May, 1892. The mine was subsequently 
 sold for $50,000, that amount being portioned 
 tnit to the three persons owning the property, 
 being the father and son and Joseph Clears. 
 Ever since that time he has been actively occu- 
 pied in locating claims, and four years ago came 
 to the Groom Creek district, where he has a 
 number of valuable mines. The Britton Gold 
 Mining Company, in which he is financially 
 interested, and of which he is superintendent, 
 owns thirteen claims, all connecting, and pro- 
 ducing ,a free-milling gold-bearing ore, averag- 
 ing an ounce of the precious mineral to the 
 ton. In May, lyoi, they sold the Britton mine 
 for $20,noo cash. The chief vein is two 
 
 and a half feet in thickness and runs from 
 north to south. Four shafts have been ex- 
 cavated to an average distance of one hun- 
 dred and seven feet, and everything connected 
 with the work is in a thriving condition, thanks 
 to the efficient and watchful care of the manager. 
 He owns, among others, some silver mines in 
 this district, known as Old Benjamin claims, 
 which have recently been bonded for $20,000. 
 Mr. Slack's wife and family are with him at the 
 scene of his labors, and his son James, a partner 
 in the Britton company, is a practical mining 
 man. As long ago as 1865 our subject joined 
 the Masonic order, and now is identified with 
 Prescott Lodge and Chapter. In national poli- 
 tics he casts his influence on the side of the 
 Democratic party, reserving his ballot for the 
 man whom he deems best fitted to carry out the 
 wishes of the people, in local elections. 
 
 E. S. GOSNEY. 
 
 Of the widely known and deservedly popular 
 men who have brought the force of their 
 convictions, character, and striking ability to 
 bear upon the rapidly awakening civilization of 
 Arizona, none is recognized as more deserving 
 of a high place in the annals of achievement of 
 their specially selected field — Coconino county 
 — than is that able lawyer, banker, merchant, 
 organizer, rancher, miner and imlilic-spirited cit- 
 izen, E. S. Gosney. 
 
 Nor is his success in life the fulfilled dream of 
 a pampered child of f(.)rtune, treading a royal 
 road beset with ready-made and imavoidable op- 
 portunities: rather it may be saitl that the farm 
 in Kenton county, Ky., where he was born in 
 1855, offered, with its kindly associations, but 
 meager rettirns for an ambition which would 
 rest only after much had been accomplished. 
 When thirteen years of age, after his father's 
 death, he shouldered a gripsack containing be- 
 longings, and, in compan\- with the family, start- 
 ed for F^ort Worth, Tex., where for three years 
 he worked at such odd jobs as came his way. 
 Subsequent wanderings from Texas brought him 
 to Richmond, Mo., with $11.20 in his pocket, 
 and a determination to acquire an education at 
 any cost. Through working for his board he 
 was enabled to enter the freshman class of Rich-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND lUOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 66 1 
 
 nioiul College in 1874, and so diligently did he 
 apply himself that the four years" course was 
 completed at the end of three years. He then 
 taught school for eighteen months, and at the 
 same time employed his leisure in reading law 
 with C. J. Hughes. Jr., after which he success- 
 fully passed the entrance examination for the 
 senior year at the St. Louis Law School. After 
 graduating in 1880 with the degree of LL. B., 
 he entered upon a general practice of law at St. 
 Joseph, Mo., remaining there for six and a half 
 years. For six years he wr.s attorney for the 
 Kansas, St. Joseph & Council BlufTs I-iailroad 
 Company, hut resigned his position owing to 
 impaired health. For the following two years 
 he sought in a change of surroundings and cli- 
 mate in Colorado a restoration of his former 
 health, and in June of 1888 took up his perma- 
 nent residence in Flagstafif. 
 
 In September of 1888 Air. Gosney organized 
 the Citizens' Bank of Flagstaff, with a capital of 
 $50,000, and after serving as president of the 
 institution for eight months, sold out to the Ari- 
 zona Central Bank. Since the sale of the bank 
 this enterprising settler has experienced con- 
 tinued successes, and has ventured into almost 
 every field of effort afforded by the peculiar 
 climatic and other conditions of the country. 
 While formerly engaged in a general law prac- 
 tice, he now devotes considerable attention to 
 private loans, and his money has backed up some 
 of the most ambitious schemes for advancement 
 in the locality, his law practice now being con- 
 fined to consultation, he not having the time 
 to engage in court work. As a resident of one 
 of the greatest sheep districts in the country, 
 he has naturally devoted much time and atten- 
 tion to sheep and wool growing, and in this 
 connection is responsible for many of the ad- 
 vances in the line which have won for him the 
 gratitude and appreciation of the sheep-growers 
 of the territory. In 1898 he effected the organi- 
 zation of the Arizona Wool Growers' Associa- 
 tion, and drew up the articles of incorporation 
 and the by-laws. This departure has been of 
 great protection to the sheep inclustry of the ter- 
 ritory, and Mr. Gosney has proved an admirable 
 president of the association. He also secured 
 the forest reserve grazing groimd. Personally 
 he is the owner of three ranches, one of which 
 
 25 
 
 is located at Marshall Lake, and the annual 
 number of sheep raised is between six and 
 twelve thousand head. Between and including 
 1892 and 1896 he was interested in cattle, and 
 had a large herd on the open range. 
 
 The mercantile business has received the co- 
 operation of Mr. Gosney. and, m partnership 
 with- T. A. Brown, he is conducting a large gen- 
 eral merchandise store in Manvel, Cal.. under 
 the name of the Brown & Gosney Company. A 
 branch of this store is conducted at Search- 
 light. Xev.. and a telephone line connecting the 
 two stores has been constructed. From his 
 mines in the \Miite Mesa district some excellent 
 returns have been shown, and continuous devel- 
 opment is being carried on. In Nevada his ex- 
 pectations are sufficiently bright to warrant him 
 in keeping prospectors at work a greater portion 
 of the time. 
 
 From time to time Mr. Gosney has come into 
 the possession of real estate in Flagstaff and 
 elsewhere in the territory, and has come to be 
 known as a large propert)' owner. He is a mem- 
 ber of the city council of Flagstaff, and is frater- 
 nally associated with the Woodmen of the 
 World and the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. During his long and active life in this 
 county of wonderful resources he has builded 
 an enviable credit among the sound business 
 men of the community, and his success is based 
 upon an unflinching integrity, an innate far- 
 sightedness, and an adherence to the soundest 
 principles of finance. He himself attributes 
 much to a principle conscientiously maintained 
 by the boy with the gripsack and the man of ma- 
 ture development, whereby all that is worth do- 
 ing is worth doinc; well. 
 
 HON. FRANCIS M. ZUCK. 
 
 The present treasurer of Navajo county. F. 
 'Si. Zuck, came into .Arizona on the first sched- 
 uled passenger train westward from Albuquer- 
 que, off the Santa Fe, going at that time to Wins- 
 low, near the western limits of the county of 
 .Navajo. He is a native of Greensburg, Pa., born 
 July 21, 1838. and in 1850 accompanied his par- 
 ents to Iowa, where he was reared in Marion 
 countv. When twenty years of age he went to 
 Wavne countv, Ind.. where he was occupied in
 
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 merchandising for several years. .-\t the begin- 
 ning of the Civil war he responded to his coun- 
 try's call for patriots, enlisting in the Third Iowa 
 Volunteer Infantry. With the army of the Ten- 
 nessee he serveil under the leadership of Gen- 
 eral Grant. partici]iating in the battles of Doncl- 
 son and Shiloh, as well as many other engage- 
 ments of that campaign. Previous to this, dur- 
 ing the first nine months of his enlistment, he 
 had served with his regiment in battling with 
 the bushwhackers in northern Missouri. .Vfter 
 experiencing many hardships and privations 
 which greatly afifected his health, he received an' 
 honorable discharge November 20, 1863, and re- 
 turned to Iowa. 
 
 Per nineteen years Mr. Zuck was employed 
 as a traveling salesman. On coming to Arizona, 
 he and his family made their home at Carrizo 
 for five months, and in the fall of 1882 came to 
 Holbrook, where, in ]\Iarch, 1884, he and his 
 son purchased tire interest of the party who laid 
 out the town. Owning the site, he is often al- 
 luded to as the "father" of Holbrook, and he 
 still owns a large amount of real estate here, in 
 addition to which he possesses ranches, cattle 
 and horses in great numbers. The mere laying 
 out of Holbrook is one of his least claims to be 
 called its founder, for no one has more earnestly 
 laljored, in every possible manner, for its ad- 
 vancement. Certainly it was a terrible blow to 
 him when the whole town was destroyed by fire 
 in 1888, but with his accustomed energy he at 
 once began the work of restoration, and has 
 since contributed to its progress. For years he 
 was the proprietor of the Holbrook House, and 
 after it had succuml)ed to the universal fiery ele- 
 ment, he built another hotel of stone and man- 
 aged it for ten ye?rs. 
 
 Knowing the absolute necessity of judicious 
 irrigation of the so-called desert lands, Mr. Zuck 
 has advocated the system in this locality and 
 frecjuently has attended conventions of parties 
 assembling for the purpose of disseminating 
 knowledge and practical views on the question. 
 For six years he labored earnestly for the divi- 
 sion of Navajo and .Apache counties, and at last 
 succeeded in getting the bill passed by the legis- 
 lalme in 1895. -^oon afterward he was apjioint- 
 cd probate judge, being the first to occupy the 
 ofifice in the newly-organized county, and, in- 
 
 deed, he took an influential part in that very 
 organizing. In 1900 he was elected county 
 treasurer on the Republican ticket, for his al- 
 legiance always has been given to that party. 
 For many years prior to his acceptance of the 
 offices last-named he was a justice of the peace, 
 and won an enviable reputation for integrity and 
 impartiality. In the Masonic order he ranks 
 high, being a charter member of Holbrook 
 Lodge and one of its past masters, and having 
 represented it in the grand lodge of Arizona, of 
 which he is senior grand warden. He belongs 
 to the chapter and the Prescott Commandery, 
 besides being illustrious noble of El Zaribah 
 Temple, N. M. S. 
 
 January 21, 1864, he married Miss Jennie 
 Brobst, of Knoxville, Iowa, a daughter of Josiah 
 and granddaughter of Judge Joseph Brobst. Her 
 family were pioneers of Iowa and her grand- 
 father was the first county and probate judge 
 of Marion county. Mr. and Mrs. Zuck have 
 four children, namely: Frank A., who is en- 
 gaged in the cattle and horse business as a 
 rancher, also runs a meat market at Holbrook; 
 Harry Z., who is an attorney at Tempe, Ariz.; 
 Myrtle J., wife of Dr. Walter Hough, who is 
 curator of the National Museum, in Washing- 
 ton, D. C; and Grace May, wife of S. H. Fine, 
 now residing at Gallup, N. M. 
 
 For many years Mr. Zuck has been one of the 
 leaders of the Rcpuljlican party of Navajo coun- 
 ty and he is well known among the prominent 
 members of that party throughout the territory. 
 
 NORRIS GOFF. 
 
 Many of the important buildings in Phoeni.x 
 are due to the skill of l\I.r. Goff, who is one of 
 the representative architects and builders of this 
 progressive city. .A native of La Porte, Ind., he 
 was born March 5, 1849, and is a son of Manor- 
 ris and Lucy (Welch) Gofif. The father was 
 born in New York state, and when a young man 
 removed to Indiana, where he became a success- 
 ful school teacher. Later, in MacondD, Mich., 
 he continued to teach, and was also interested 
 in general farming and stock-raising. He died 
 at Macomb, Mich., after a life industriously de- 
 \'i)led to the enterprises to which he was best 
 : dajited. His wife is residing at the ])rcsenl
 
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 663 
 
 time in PueI)lo, Co'o. The paternal grandfather, 
 Rosvvell Goff, was born in New York, and was 
 a representative of an old family of that state. 
 
 Xorris Goflf is the second oldest in a family 
 of one daughter and three sons. His early days 
 were surrounded by the influences that are usu- 
 ally brought to bear upon the lives of the sons 
 of farmers, and .he had the advantage of his 
 father's superior education and teaching ability. 
 As a menus of livelihood he qualified for the 
 trade of carpenter and builder, in southern Mich- 
 igan, and in 1880 removed to Minneapolis, 
 ]Minn., where he contracted until 1892. At this 
 time he settled in Phoenix, and was at first en- 
 gaged in building up and selling residence prop- 
 erty. He has since done a great deal of outside 
 contracting, snd among his most satisfactory 
 efforts may be mentioned the construction of 
 the wood-work in the Fleming, Stroud and Red- 
 well blocks. He built the high school building 
 at Mesa, and his own comfortable and commo- 
 dious residence, at Xo. 542 North First avenue. 
 
 At Owatonna, Minn., October 8, 1889, Mr. 
 Gof¥ married \'esta Planks, who was born in 
 Massachusetts. Mr. Goff is affiliated with the 
 Republican party, but has no desire for public 
 official recognition, tie is one of the substanti:il 
 residents of the city, and an authority along lines 
 pertaining to architecture and building. Mrs. 
 GofT is an earnest member of the Con- 
 gregational Church. 
 
 PETER NELSSEN. 
 
 Few of the residents of Salt River valley are 
 entitled to the credit which is due Mr. Nelssen, 
 both for his general success and for his share 
 in the development of the territory of his adop- 
 tion. His life is a record of obstacles overcome 
 and opportunities grasped, with more than aver- 
 age courage and persistency. He was born in 
 Sweden, September 18, 1S42, and is a son of 
 Nels and Mama (Pierson), Nelssen, natives of 
 Sweden. When but fourteen years of age he 
 was deprived by death of the care and guidance 
 of his father, and at that time became practically 
 dependent upon his own resources. His mother 
 survived the triji to America, and died at her 
 son's home in Arizona at the age of eighty-five 
 vears, She is buried in I'hoenix. 
 
 In his native country, Peter Nelssen received a 
 fnir education in the district schools, and at an 
 early age evinced traits of industry and thrift, 
 so characteristic of the sons of Sweden. When 
 twenty-one years of age he came to America, 
 sailing from Liverpool to New York, the jour- 
 ney taking sixteen days. For a time he was 
 employed at Farmington, Conn., as a farm hand, 
 but finally drifted to the west, and in Missouri 
 w<irked for several months on the Hannibal & 
 St. Joe Railroad. He later went to Utah, and 
 entered the employ of Wells-Fargo Company 
 on their stage lines, and was with them in Utah 
 for eighteen months. Still in pursuit of a de- 
 sirable permanent location, he went to Wyo- 
 ming, and at Sweetwater worked in the gold 
 mines for a few months. Subsequently, for sev- 
 eral months, he worked for the L'nion Pacific 
 Railroad Company in the construction depart- 
 ment in Wyoming and Utah, and in the fall of 
 1868 came to Arizona, where he has since re- 
 sided. 
 
 To have redeemed one small claim from the 
 arid desert is a consununation that would appeal 
 to the self-complacency of almost any one of 
 average enterprise, but to have been a land mis- 
 sionary to several apparently hopeless farms, and 
 to cause them to yield their hidden riches for 
 the use of man, is a task not sought after by 
 the person of average enthusiasm. Yet that is 
 what has been accomplished through the per- 
 severance and untiring energy of Mr. Nelssen. 
 When he first came to the territory there was not 
 a house in Phoenix, nor was its existence 
 dreamed of. For a time he engaged in prospect- 
 ing for gold in the Black canon, near where 
 Prescott is now located, and in 1869 he came 
 to the Salt River valley. He lived on several 
 different farms in the valley, and rescued them 
 from their dormant inactivity. In 1888 he re- 
 moved to tlie ranch five miles west of Phoenix, 
 which is still in his possession, and where he is 
 successfully conducting general farming and 
 stock-raising enterprises. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Nelssen and Enuna Mor- 
 ten, a dau.ghter of Niels Morten, of the Salt 
 River valley, occurred .in 1876. Of this union 
 there arc ei.ght children: Anna, Ada P>.. John 
 M.. \\'illiam N., Frederick, Benjamin F., Fannie 
 L.. and I'^letcher. Mr. Nelssen is a Republican
 
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 in politics, ami has served as a trustee of his 
 school district. Frateinally he is associated with 
 the Ancient Order of L'liited Workmen at Phoe- 
 nix. 
 
 VICTOR E. MESSINGER. 
 
 The most reliable and substantial business en- 
 terprise of Glendale is ably represeiited by \'ic- 
 tor E. Messinger, who, as postmaster of the 
 town, and manager of the H. W. Ryder lumber 
 yards, has won the confidence and esteem of the 
 conununity, who appreciate his conscientious 
 and painstaking methods of conducting busi- 
 ness. 
 
 Mr. Messinger was born in Tazewell county, 
 111., January 19, 1873, and is a son of Marcus 
 \V. .and Mary (Roberts) Messinger, who were 
 natives of Illinois. Marcus W. Messinger was 
 a well-known farmer in Tazewell county, and 
 was prominently identified with the affairs of 
 his locality. Previous to engaging in agricul- 
 ture, he liad been a banker in Clarke county, 
 Iowa. With his wife he is now living in Phoe- 
 nix, where he has repeated his former successes, 
 and has been identified with the prosperity and 
 growth of this promising land of plenty. For 
 a number of years he served as cashier of 
 the Valley Bank of Phoeni.x. He is ex-county 
 treasurer of Maricopa county. 
 
 To a large degree V. E. Messinger inherits 
 his father's ability, and has profited by the exam- 
 ple of his industrious and capable life. His 
 earl)' education was derived in the public schools 
 of Tazewell county, supplemented by a year's 
 study at Knox College, Galesburg, 111. After 
 removing with his |.iarcnts to Phoenix, Ariz., 
 in 1887, he attended the Leland Stanford Uni- 
 versity for one year (1891). When old enough 
 to assume responsib'lity, he entered the employ 
 of H. W. Ryder, the well-known lumber mer- 
 chant at Phoenix, and lemained in that town for 
 a short time. In 1895 '""^ assumed control of 
 the liranch of the business located at Glendale, 
 and has since satisfactorily discharged the re- 
 sponsibilities of his position. In 1900 he pur- 
 chased a qu.arter section of land at lUickeye, 
 which he has converted into an alfalfa and stock 
 ranch. He i^ varloiislv interested in several 
 
 ventures, and is agent for the Fireman's Fund 
 and Hartford Insurance Companies. 
 
 In July of 1899 Mr. Messinger was appointed 
 postmaster of Glendale by President McKinley. 
 and took possession of the ofifice during the fol- 
 lowing October. Serving with Mr. Messinger 
 is the deputy postmaster, E. T. Hawkins. In 
 national politics ]Mr. Messinger is devoted to the 
 principles and issues of the Republican party, 
 but entertains exceedingly liberal ideas regard- 
 ing the politics of the administration. Frater- 
 nally he is associated with the Masons at 
 Phoenix, and with the Independent Order of 
 (3dd I'>Ilows and the United Moderns at Glen- 
 dale. In conjunction with H. W. Adams and 
 others, m 1897, Mr. Messinger founded the 
 Glendale Public Library, which now comprises 
 about nine hundred volumes of the choicest his- 
 torical and scientific works and fiction. The 
 library occupies a building furnished free of 
 expense bv Mr. Messinger, and is greatly ap- 
 preciated by the inhabitants of Glendale and 
 vicinity. It is the only liljrary of the kind in 
 any small town in Arizona. He is enthusiastic- 
 ally interested in the development of this par- 
 ticular part of Arizona, and is possessed of the 
 traits of mind and character which, in all pioneer 
 localities, have contributed towards a solid fun- 
 damental growth. 
 
 WILLIAM O. KELLNER. 
 
 During his administration as postmaster at 
 Globe, Mr. Kellner has given the most complete 
 satisfaction, and in the time intervening between 
 his appointment, November 1, 1897. and the 
 present, the department has increased in the 
 volume of the matter distributed, and improved 
 in the methods employed. To this work the 
 poptflar postmaster has brought a keen attention 
 to the minutest details, a ready consideration 
 for all, and an unfailing desire to please. As 
 a third-class ofUce, the salary in 1897 was but 
 $r,ioo, but has since that time been increased 
 to $1,700. 
 
 In other ways also Mr. Kellner has been inter- 
 ested in local political afTairs, although he has 
 never gone out of his way to gain preferment. 
 .•\s a stanch Republican, his first presidential 
 vote was cast for Grant. In Globe he served
 
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 667 
 
 for two terms as school trustee, and during that 
 time was actively engaged in furthering the 
 cause of education, and it was during his time of 
 service that the new school building was erected. 
 Mr. Kcllner has otherwise aided by counsel, 
 money and labor in the best and most substan- 
 tial development ot his town, and is regarded as 
 one of the most entiuisiastic advocates of its 
 progress and well being. 
 
 A native of Texas, Mr. Kellner was born in 
 1847, '^'i'' acquired his education in the academy 
 at New Braunfels, Tex. His first independent 
 venture was in old Mexico, whither he went in 
 1863, and where he assumed a position as clerk, 
 continuing a similar position upon his return to 
 Texas in ]866. In 1880 he became identified 
 with the lively mining settlement of Globe, where 
 he conducted a sawmill business for his brother, 
 E. F. Kellner & Co., until 1893, when he became 
 bookkeeper for the concern until his appoint- 
 ment as postmaster in 1897. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Kellner married Maria Gonzales, 
 of Phoenix, and of this union there are four 
 children: Tulita, William, Earnest and Alma. 
 As an evidence of his success in life Mr. Kellner 
 owns considerable real estate in Globe, and has, 
 besides a good residence, two hundred and 
 thirty-three feet of real estate on Broad street, 
 which runs back to Hill street. He is a Wood- 
 man of the World, and a charter member and 
 one of the organizers of the lodge at Globe. 
 
 JUDGE W. F. NICHOLS. 
 
 Inseparably associated with the all-around 
 development of Cochise county since 1880, and 
 a representative of the soundest commercial 
 interests of W'illcox since 1881, Judge W. F. 
 Nichols has proved himself one of the stanch 
 and never failing advocates of this great min- 
 ing settlement in the west. After all these years 
 of varied experiences and subsequent success 
 he is today the oldest resident in Willcox, and 
 the best informed as to the details of the town's 
 rise from comparative obscurity. At first a resi- 
 dent of Tombstone and Charlestown for about 
 a year, he came to \\'illcox the year that the 
 invasion of the Southern Pacific Railroad in- 
 creased the possibilities of the hitherto inert 
 locality, and became interested, as agent, in the 
 
 L. W. Blinn Lumber Company. In 1888 he had 
 mastered every detail of the business and bought 
 out the company, and is still interested in this 
 paying and well-conducted enterprise. Nor are 
 Judge Nichols's abilities confined solely to this 
 line of occupation, for he is largely interested in 
 mines, and is an extensive raiser of cattle. Hav- 
 ing an abiding faith in the uninterrupted pros- 
 perity of Willcox and its environment, he has 
 invested heavily in real estate and buildings in 
 the town, and is in many ways an integral part 
 of her past, present and future ex]iansion. 
 
 Coming from that state which has been the 
 playground of so many youth of sterling charac- 
 teristics and ultimate success in different lines 
 and localities all over tlie country. Judge Nichols 
 was born in Worcester, Mass., in 1852. His 
 parents. W. N. and Emily Nichols, who were 
 natives respectively of Massachusetts and New 
 Hampshire, removed from their home in 
 Massachusetts about 1855, making their wav to 
 the Pacific coast by way of the Isthmus of 
 Panama, and seitling at Michigan Bar, Sacra- 
 mento county, Cal. After a year they removed 
 to Sacramento, where the Judge received the 
 greater part of his education, graduating at the 
 high school, and subsequently finishing the 
 course at Oakland (Cal.) College, in 1868. His 
 first connuercial experience was gained by asso- 
 ciating in business for two years with his father 
 and brother, who composed the firm of Nichols 
 & Co., purveyors of woodenware. As an inde- 
 pendent venture he came to Arizona, and has 
 since been one of the reliable and highly es- 
 teemed citizens of the territory. 
 
 In 1898 Judge Nichols married Mrs. Norah S. 
 Butterfield. daughter of Dr. Seeley, of Kenosha, 
 Wis. In the world of politics Judge Nichols is 
 widely and favorably known, and is one of the 
 stanch upholders of the principles of the Re- 
 pnl:)lican party. He has held various offices 
 within the gift of the people, and has been a 
 justice of the peace for over sixteen years. In 
 1885 he was a member of the legislature, and 
 has been a member of the county committee 
 since 1880. At the present time he is a member 
 of the Live Stock Sanitary Board. In tlie 
 Masonic order he is one of the most pronunent 
 rejiresentatives in the territory, a remarkable 
 showing, since he has been a member for only
 
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 nine years, having joineil at Willcox. On two 
 different occasions he has served as Grand 
 Master of Arizona, and served in this connection 
 when the Grand Lodge met at Phoenix in igoo. 
 He has taken all the degrees in Masonry np to 
 and inclnding the thirty-second. He was Grand 
 Master when the Grand Lodge of Arizona met 
 at Bisbee in i8q7. and when a session, which in- 
 cluded representatives from all over the United 
 States and Mexico, convened in a cave several 
 hundred feet under the ground. Judge Nichols 
 is also a member of the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, and a charter member of the lodge 
 at Willcox. For several years lie has served as 
 United States court connnissioner. He has 
 taken part in many of the events of importance 
 throughout the territory, and among the most 
 interesting may be mentioned his laying of the 
 corner-stone of the Carnegie free library at 
 Tucson, November ii, 1900, and having served 
 in a like capacity at the laying of the corner- 
 stone of the Masonic Temple at Nogales, in 
 
 1897- 
 
 FRED FLEISHMAN. 
 
 The largest, finest and most complete drug 
 business in the city of Tucson is conducted by 
 Mr. Fleishman. It is doubtful if enterprises of 
 the kind in the east are better fitted to meet the 
 demands of retail and wholesale trade, or are 
 managed with a more comprehensive regard for 
 the best interests of all concerned. Ably quali- 
 fied by an already extended experience, Mr. 
 Fleishman came to the territory in 1881, and in 
 Tucson started a drug business from a com- 
 paratively small beginning. With the gradual 
 awakening of the sleepy old town to a realiza- 
 tion of its responsibilities as the dwelling place 
 of nineteenth century energy and jjrogress, the 
 drug business was necessarily enlarged, and in 
 time assumed gratifyingly large proportions. At 
 first located on the corner of Congress and 
 Court, it was later removed to Congress and 
 Meyer, where for fifteen years the obliging and 
 tactful proprietor catered to a continually in- 
 creasing trade. In 1900 was erected the present 
 commodious and convenient structure, the 
 Fleishman Buikliiig, at Xos. 19-21 East Con- 
 gress street, which has two floors, and is 28x115 
 feet in dimensions. The drug business as here 
 
 conducted is regarded as one of the most reli- 
 able and substantial houses in the city, and the 
 business methods are above reproach. 
 
 From earliest youth Mr. Fleishman has been 
 familiar with the conditions in the far west. A 
 native of Areata, Humboldt county, Cal., he was 
 born December 27, 1857, and is of German an- 
 cestry and parentage. His father, Herman 
 Fleishman, was born in Bavaria, as was his 
 mother, Hannah (Goldsmith) Fleishman. The 
 paternal grandfather, Henry, was born, and 
 spent the greater part of his life in Bavaria, and 
 was a merchant during the years of his activity. 
 Herman Fleishman came to Mobile, Ala., from 
 Bavaria, and in 1850 braved the dangers of an 
 overland journey to California, where he en- 
 gaged in the general merchandise business at 
 Areata, Humboldt county. In 1869 he returned 
 to the east, and continued his merchandise busi- 
 ness in New York City. In 1872 he went to 
 Los Angeles, Cal., where he carried on a mer- 
 cantile business until his death. He was a pub- 
 lic-spirited and enterprising man, and a member 
 of the Masonic fraternity. 
 
 In a family of seven children, all living, Fred 
 Fleishman is the second. His education was ac- 
 quired in the public schools of California and 
 New York, and he was graduated from the Iiigli 
 school at Los Angeles in 1873. As a means of 
 future livelihood he began the study of phar- 
 macy, and after serving an apprenticeship of 
 three years, continued in the pharmacy business 
 in Los Angeles until his removal to Tucson in 
 1881. 
 
 In addition to the responsibility incident to 
 the management of the drug enterprise, Mr. 
 Fleishman is variously interested in the afifairs 
 of the city, and is vice-presrdent and a director 
 of the Arizona National Bank, and chairman of 
 the loan committee of the Citizens Building As- 
 sociation. He has also been greatly interested 
 in the matter of lighting the city, and was one 
 of the organizers and builders of the electric 
 light plant, and a member of the Electric Light 
 & Power Company. In national politics he is 
 a Republican, and is a member of the board of 
 trade. Fraternally he is associated in the Ma- 
 sonic order with Arizona Lodge No. 4, F. & A. 
 M., Chapter No. 3, R. A. M., and Comniandery 
 No. I, K. T. He is also a member of the El
 
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 Zaribah Temple, past grand chancellor of the 
 Knights of Pythias, and identified with the 
 Benevolent Protective ( )rder of Elks and the 
 Ancient Order of L'nited Workmen, of which 
 he is a stockholder in the Hall Association. He 
 is also a stockholder in the Masonic Hall Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 Mr. Fleishman married, since coming to Tuc- 
 son, Charlotta Meyer, a native of Tucson, and 
 of this union there is one child, Herman, who 
 is in business with his father, and was educated 
 at St. \'inccnt College, Los Angeles, Cal. Mr. 
 Fleishman is one of the most substantial of the 
 many reliable citizens who have brought about 
 the later prosperity of the oldest city in the west- 
 ern hemisphere, and his many admirable traits 
 of mind, character and attainment have won for 
 him an extended popularity and a host of 
 friends. 
 
 HON. E. MILTON WILLIAMS. 
 
 When this highly-respected citizen of Clifton 
 was honored by election to the twentieth gen- 
 eral assembly of the territorial legislature of Ari- 
 zona it was a surprise to him, owing to the fact 
 that his residence in Graham county had been 
 of brief duration and he was comparatively little 
 known. Nevertheless, he did not disappoint his 
 adherents, and the good record which he made 
 in that session undoubtedly led to his recent ap- 
 pointment in August, 1900, as postmaster of 
 Clifton, aided, however, by some Republican 
 friends, Governor Murphy and others. 
 
 E. M. Williams was born in Rockford, Coosa 
 county, Ala.. October 26, 1862, and was reared 
 to maturity in that state. Supplementing his 
 high school education by a course in the Agri- 
 cultural & Mechanical College at .\uburn, Ala., 
 he embarked in conmiercial activities after being 
 graduated in the last-named institution, in 1883. 
 At the expiration of a decade he decided to try 
 his fortunes in the far west, and for about a year 
 he resided in the state of Washington and in 
 Denver, Colo., there being connected with a 
 commission business. In the World's Fair year 
 he went to Chicago, and for three months was 
 employed in a shoe store. 
 
 In September, 1893, Mr. Williams made ar- 
 rangements with the Arizona Copper Company 
 to hold a position as a salesman in the dry-goods 
 
 department of its Clifton store. His fidelity to 
 the interests of his employers was duly rewarded 
 in 1897. when he was made manager of the Mo- 
 renci branch of the company's store, and later 
 was also constituted general manager of the 
 department stores of the company, being placed 
 in charge of all three of the company stores. 
 One store now requires ten men to supply cus- 
 tomers with luerchandise needed, while another 
 has a force of five employes. Under the able 
 jurisdiction of our subject the business is flour- 
 ishing in every department. Personally he is a 
 stockholder in the Arizona Copper Company, 
 and owns considerable real estate, while his resi- 
 dence is furnished by the company. 
 
 November 14, 1900, Mr. Williams married 
 Miss Maggie Lee Harris, daughter of Judge 
 George Harris, of San Saba, Tex. Both himself 
 and wife are members of the Baptist Church of 
 Clifton. Since 1892 he has been connected with 
 the Masonic order, and is onii, of the charter 
 members of Wetumpka Lodge No. 9, F. & A. 
 M., of Wetumpka, .Ma., where he took three 
 degrees. In addition to this, he is affiliated 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 Politically his strong preference is for the plat- 
 form of the Democratic party. His manifold 
 duties have caused his refusal to public ofifices 
 on more than one occasion, as when he refused 
 to run for a place in the territorial council, in 
 the fall of 1900, and at present his assistant, Mr. 
 Hudson, is attending to the postofifice almost 
 exclusively. L'pon the organization of the First 
 National Bank of Clifton, May 14, 1901, Mr. 
 Williams became one of the founders and a char- 
 ter director. 
 
 JOSEPH H. LINES. 
 
 At the age of ten years Mr. Lines came to 
 Pima with his parents, Henry and Emily 
 (Weech) Lines, and has since been a resident 
 of this flourishing little town in the Gila valley. 
 He was born in L'tah county, L'tah, in 1870, 
 his father having been born in England. Since 
 coming to Arizoiia he has been variously inter- 
 ested in the dififerent occui)ations here repre- 
 sented, but is chiefly known for his ability as 
 an educator, and for his satisfactory filling of the 
 positioii of justice of the peace. 
 
 In the earlv davs of his residence in Arizona
 
 672 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Lines was associated with some of the dis- 
 agreeable features which confronted the pio- 
 neers of the district, and suffered on several 
 occasions from close proximity to the Apaches 
 and their cruel and relentless warfare. In July, 
 1882, while Mr. Lines and his father were camp- 
 ing near Fort Thomas, in endeavoring to regain 
 possession of some horses which the Apaches 
 had ridden away, Jacob S. Ferrin, father of 
 Mrs. Lines, while on his way from Globe, was 
 shot and killed by the robber redskins. In the 
 changing course of events Mr. Lines has pros- 
 pered amid the promising surroundings of his 
 adoption, and has to show for his pains a com- 
 fortable and homelike little house, with a fine 
 garden and adjacent orchard. For the past two 
 years he has been one of the valued instructors 
 of one of the district schools of Pima, and has 
 been identified with the intellectu:il anil moral 
 development of the city. 
 
 October 6, 1891, Mr. Lines married Sarah 
 Elizabeth Ferrin, a daughter of Jacob and Jean- 
 nette (McBride) Ferrin, of Pima. To Mr. and 
 Mrs. Lines have been born four children: Freda 
 E., Cora, Charles H. .and Rowena. A Democrat 
 in politics, Mr. Lines has been prominent in 
 local politics, and was elected justice of the 
 peace November 6, 1900, having served in the 
 same capacity for two terms prior to that time. 
 He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of the Latter-day Saints, and is active in the 
 afTairs of the church. He is stake superinten- 
 dent of religious classes, and a teacher in the 
 Pima Ward Sundav-school. 
 
 GEORGE N. GAGE. 
 
 As much to his earnest efforts as to those of 
 any other one man Tempe is indebted for a 
 large share of its prosperity to George N. Gage, 
 who has been a citizen of this place for the past 
 twelve years. He has an abiding faith in the 
 future greatness of Arizona, the country likened 
 to Persia by the talented author, Charles Dud- 
 ley Warner, the land noted for "dry air, even 
 temperature and marvelous productiveness." 
 The Salt River valley, undoubtedly, today is the 
 most highly esteemed of the inhabited portions 
 of the territory, and wise, indeed, were the multi- 
 
 tudes who sought renewed health and wealth in 
 this delightful climate. 
 
 George N. Gage, the manager of the Tempe 
 branch of the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, of 
 Los Angeles, Cal., and secretary of the Tempe 
 Land and Improvement Company, possesses the 
 ability of the New Englander, and the zeal and 
 enterprise justly attributed to them. He was 
 born at Pelham, N. H., March 16, 1842, and is 
 a son of John and Rebecca (Greeley) Gage. 
 Both were natives of New Hampshire, also, and 
 the Gage family is an old one in that state, orig- 
 inally coming from England. The education of 
 our subject was acquired in the public schools 
 of his native town, where he continued to reside 
 until he was about eighteen years of age. 
 
 In i860 Mr. Gage went to Coles county. 111., 
 and became station agent for the railroad now 
 known as the Big Four, remaining at Charleston 
 in that capacity for nearly ten years. Subse- 
 quently he was engaged in the lumber business 
 in the same town for a number of years, and 
 finally formed the resolution to become a citizen 
 of the great southwest. In 1886 he arrived in 
 Tombstone, Ariz., where he made his home for 
 about two years, then removing to Tempe. 
 From 1886 to 1890 he was a member of the 
 board of railroad commissioners of Arizona, and 
 for two years held the responsible office of 
 chairman of that body. The board, which played 
 a useful part in the early period of our railroad- 
 ing enterprises, was later abolished by law. 
 After locating permanently in Tempe twelve 
 years ago, Mr. Gage became secretary of the 
 Tempe Land and Improvement Company, which 
 has been a very important factor in the develop- 
 ment of the place. For eight or nine years he 
 also has held his present position as manager 
 of the L. W. Blinn Lumber Company, and has 
 built up .a fine local business for the firm. Po- 
 litically he is a stanch Republican and in the 
 fraternities is connected with the Odd Fellows 
 and the Masonic order, being a Knight Templar 
 and member of the Mystic Shrine. 
 
 For a companion and helpmate in the battles 
 and joys of life, Mr. Gage chose Miss Nannie 
 Nesbit, a native of Charleston, 111., their mar- 
 riage taking place in 1874. Their daughter, 
 Martha N., is the wife of R. H. Burmister, now 
 a bookkeeper in the Arizona National Bank, of
 
 
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 Prescott. Miss Louie V. Gage, the younger 
 daughter, is a teacher in the public schools of 
 Prescott. 
 
 Mrs. Gage is a member of the Christian 
 Church. She is the daughter of Simeon H. 
 Nesbit, a native of Cynthiana, Ky.. and who 
 subsequently moved to Charleston, HI. His 
 deatli occurred in December, 1900. 
 
 ESTEBAN (KHOA. 
 
 The history of Arizona would be sadly incom- 
 plete should the name which the subject of this 
 article bears be omitted. One of the sterling 
 and well-liked pioneers of this rapidly develop- 
 ing future state was the father of the young 
 man who is his only child and namesake, and 
 the importance of his great enterprises in the 
 early days of Tucson cannot be overestimated. 
 He was a typical frontiersman, bold, aggressive 
 and fertile in resource, laughing danger to 
 scorn, rarely daunted by any obstacle, and, in 
 brief, possessing just those qualities which are 
 essential in the founding of a new state. Force 
 of character was his, undoubtedly, yet, withal, 
 his was a kindly and sympathetic heart, and 
 many a time has he shared his scanty meal on 
 the desert or in the mountain with some poor 
 traveler or Indian. While he was held in some 
 awe and thorough respect, his innate goodness 
 of heart was w'ell known far and wide, and, in- 
 deed, few pioneers of this great southwest were 
 more widely known from Kansas City to the 
 boundaries of old Mexico. 
 
 The parents of the immediate subject of this 
 sketch were Esteban and Altagracia (Salazar) 
 Ochoa, and his paternal grandfather bore the 
 name of Jesus Ochoa. The families whence 
 they sprang were among the old and influential 
 ones in the republic of Mexico. Standing fore- 
 most in his line, from a business point of view, 
 was Esteban Ochoa, Sr., who, even in boyhood, 
 left home and birthplace in New Mexico and 
 went to Kansas City, where he soon obtained 
 emjiloyment and acquired a fair knowledge of 
 English. His brothers were much indebted to 
 him subsequently, for he assisted to educate 
 them. Starting in business at Mesilla, N. M., 
 near Las Cruces, same county, he made a suc- 
 cess of the enterprise, and in the course of time 
 
 established, a number of branch stores in both 
 of these territories. As a member of the firm 
 of Tully & Ochoa he also operated a stage line 
 from Tucson and \'unia to Santa Fe, executed 
 government contracts, and for several decades 
 was tlie most extensive freighter of Arizona and 
 New Mexico. Most of the merchandise which 
 he handled for himself was brought from dis- 
 tant Kansas City, and his teannng outfit, when 
 he was at the height of his prosperity, repre- 
 sented a cool $100,000 — for that was what it 
 cost him. Necessarily he was obliged to main- 
 tain relay stations along his long route, and his 
 fine system and sagacity won the admiration of 
 every one. Like the majority of the typical fron- 
 tiersmen, now fast passing away, he was liberal 
 and open-handed, spending his means freely, 
 though he amassed quite a fortune. When the 
 great agent of civilization and progress — the 
 railroad — came, it was a personal loss to him, 
 for it deprived him of a large share of his busi- 
 ness, and left him with a $100,000 outfit jjrac- 
 tically unmarketable. I'he city of Tucson was 
 his headquarters and home for many years, and 
 he was really one of its chief founders. Ochoa 
 street was named in his honor, and the first pub- 
 lic school erected here stands on grounds which 
 he gave to the city. For one term he was the 
 mayor of Tucson, and in the legislature of 
 Arizona he represented this district during one 
 session. His busy and useful career came to 
 an end Octolicr ij, 1888, when he died at his 
 home in Las Cruces, N. M. His widow, who 
 was born in the state of Sonora, Mexico, now 
 lives with her son. 
 
 Esteban Ochoa, Jr., who has inherited nuich 
 of his father's executive ability, was born at San 
 Ignalio, Sonora, Mexico, in 1870. His boyhood 
 was spent chiefly in Tucson, where he laid the 
 foundations of knowledge in the public schools. 
 Later he attended St. Afichael's College at Santa 
 P"e, and completed his studies in Phillips' 
 Academy, Exeter, N. H., where he remained 
 two years. Then, returning home, he took 
 charge of his mother's large landed estates and 
 cattle business, for she is the owner of a fine 
 and extensive cattle ranch in Sonora, ^Mexico. 
 Since 1898 the young man has conducted a mer- 
 cantile business of his own at No. 329 South 
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 also engage his atlention, for he has a cattle 
 ranch near Arivaca, Pima county, owns the old 
 .Mission farm, which is situated about half a 
 mile from Tucson, and has numerous mining 
 interests in this county, having opened a large 
 and paying co])per mine here. He is a member 
 of the mining firm of Manzo «Se Ochoa. In the 
 multiplicity of his duties he finds little time for 
 politics, but, nevertheless, is a loyal Republican 
 and patriotic citizen. Fraternally he is identified 
 with the Order of Red Men. 
 
 The marriage of two of the children of ster- 
 ling pioneer Arizona families was witnessed 
 April 20, 1899, when Mr. Ochoa and Miss Ger- 
 trude McCleary joined their destinies. She is 
 a native daughter of Tucson, and her father, 
 Troy McCleary, now retired, was an early set- 
 tler here, coming from Missouri. The young 
 couple have a little son, Esteban by name, and 
 their home is the abode of hospitality. 
 
 PETER GOULD. 
 
 This successful farmer of the San Pedro val- 
 ley was born in Salt Lake City, LTah, October 
 13, 1852. His father, C. Christenson, was a 
 Scandinavian by birth, and died when his son 
 was a comparatively young boy. The mother 
 married in time a Mr. Gould, and .as a matter of 
 convenience Peter has since taken the name 
 of Gould. In 1873 he started out to indepen- 
 dently face the trials and responsibilities of life, 
 and became interested in teaming in Nevada. 
 This occupation w.as carried on until 1882, when 
 he returned to Utah, and in 1884 came to Ari- 
 zona, settling in Graham county, in the Gila 
 River valley. Here he carried on extensive 
 farming and ranching enterprises until 1892, 
 when he settled at St. David, on the San Pedro 
 river, and homesteaded one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land. At once he began the work of 
 developing, and in May of 1897 sunk his first 
 artesian well. He now has several artesian 
 wells with an average flow of forty gallons, and 
 four reservoirs. The wells were all sunk by the 
 owner, who has devoted much study to the sub- 
 ject of water development, and is now building 
 a machine that will dig one thousand feet, four 
 hundred ajid twenty feet being the average 
 depth. 
 
 Aside from the wells on his own property, Mr. 
 Gould has bored wells for some of the surround- 
 ing ranchmen, and at Benson he succeeded in 
 finding water at a depth of eight hundred feet. 
 He is one of the most expert in the business 
 in the county, and much of the present fertility 
 is due to his efforts at water production. Upon 
 his own farm is grown alfalfa and barley, a 
 variety of fruits, vegetables, also roses and other 
 flowers. Alfalfa averages about one and one- 
 half tons to the acre at each cutting, four crops 
 being cut each year. General crops are also 
 raised with good results. 
 
 Juh- 4, 1882, Mr. Gould married Emily, 
 daughter of James and Sarah (Carroll) Adams, 
 all natives of New Brunswick, Me. Mrs. Adams 
 and her children moved to Lincoln county, Nev., 
 and it was there that Mr. and Mrs. Gould were 
 married. To their union have been born four 
 children: A'ane, Burwell, Milton, and ' Emily, 
 all living at home. Mrs. Gould was previously 
 married to George Smith, and Ijy that union had 
 seven children, four of whom are married. Mr. 
 Gould is a member of the Republican party, but 
 entertains very liberal views regarding the poli- 
 tics of the administration. He believes in voting 
 for the man best qualified to fill the position. 
 
 LEO GOLDSCHMIDT. 
 
 The president of the Eagle Milling Company, 
 one of the largest business concerns of Tucson, 
 is Leo Goldschmidt, who has been one of the 
 foremost citizens of this place since 1878, when 
 it was a small hamlet. His success has been 
 won by strict regard to the first principles of 
 business, and every one with whom he has had 
 dealings speaks of him in terms of admiration 
 and praise. With two of his brothers he became 
 interested in Tucson and Arizona almost a quar- 
 ter of a century ago, and their names are closely 
 associated with the development of this city. 
 
 The Goldschmidts are an old and highly re- 
 spected family in Hamburg, Germany. Our 
 subject's paternal grandfather, who was a mer- 
 chant, attained the age of eighty-five, and his 
 grandfather Lichtenheim, a native of Dantzic, 
 Prussia, died in Hamburg in his sixty-fifth year. 
 S. H. Goldschmidt, father of our subject, was 
 a lifelong resident of Hamburg, and was a pros-
 
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 perous merchant and banker. To liiniself and 
 wife, Fredericka, four .sons and four daughters 
 were born and lived to maturity. The mother 
 was born in Dantzic, Prussia, and was reared in 
 Hamburg. Henry S., the oldest son, is an at- 
 torney-at-law in Chicago. Adolph, who came 
 to Tucson in 1878 and was secretary of the 
 Eagle IMilling Company, died in San Francisco 
 in 1899. Alfred J. is mentioned at the close of 
 this sketch. Mrs. Florsheim and Mrs. A. Zeck- 
 cndorf reside in Hamburg, Germany, and Mrs. 
 Mansfeld and Mrs. Leventhal are citizens, re- 
 spectively, of Tucson and Los Angeles. 
 
 The birth of Leo Goldschmidt took place in 
 Hamburg, Germany, September 15, 1852. At 
 the age of sixteen, when he had completed his 
 common school education, he became an office 
 boy in a mercantile exporting establishment: .at 
 the end of eighteen months joined his brother 
 Henry, then in Leavenwortli, Kans. Later, he 
 proceeded westward to Kit Carson, and then 
 went overland to Las \'egas, N. M., where he 
 was employed by his sister's husband, Mr. 
 Florsheim. lioth removed to Santa Fe in the 
 following year, and when Mr. Florsheim re- 
 turned to New York City, our subject remained 
 at Santa Fe until 1878, when he came to Tucson. 
 
 With the small capital which he had acquired 
 by economy and good management, Leo Gold- 
 schmidt embarked in the furniture business on 
 Main street, opposite Mr. Zeckentlorfs, and con- 
 ducted that store for ten years. Selling out, in 
 1888, he purchased an interest in the Eagle 
 Milling Company, which had been recently or- 
 ganized, and was chosen as its president and 
 manager. The mills on South Main street were 
 of forty-barrel a day capacity, but soon the roller 
 process supplanted the old burr mill-stones, and 
 eighty barrels a day were manufactured. In 
 1899 the fine new' five-story high milling plant 
 was built between the railroad and Toole ave- 
 nue, a space 90x142 being used as a grain room, 
 and another, 35x65 feet, being used for the stor- 
 age of flour. A full roller system, engines of 
 one hundred and twenty-five horse power and 
 modern machinery has been supplied, and the 
 capacity of the plant is two hundred barrels of 
 flour per day, or two car-loads of rolled barley. 
 The high patent flour Peerless and the Gold- 
 dust. Extra Family and Straight are popular 
 
 brands of the flour here manufactured. A. J. 
 Goldschmidt is vice-president and S. G. Rowe 
 secretary of this company. 
 
 In addition to his mills, Leo Goldschmidt has 
 other financial interests in this territory, having 
 investments in mining property and local real 
 estate. A Mason of the thirty-second degree, he 
 was initiated into the order in Tucson Lodge 
 No. 4, I*". & A. M. He also belongs to the 
 Lodge and Club of the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks, and to the .\ncient Order of 
 Lhiited Workmen, as well as to the Tucson 
 Board of Trade. In his political faith he is 
 loyal to the Republican party, and all worthy 
 charities and local public enterprises are liber- 
 ally assisted bv liini. Mr, Goldschmidt resides 
 at the Owls. 
 
 Albert J. Goldschmidt also is a native of 
 Hamburg, Germany, and for five years served 
 an apjjrenticeship as a clerk in a wholesale fur- 
 nishing house. In 1879 he came to Tucson and 
 clerked for his brother-in-law, J. H. Mansfeld, 
 until 1884, when he went to Ouijatoa and en- 
 gaged in general merchandising for two years. 
 The camp was then broken up, and in 1887 he 
 went to Los Angeles, where he was employed 
 for a vear as a traveling salesman for a whole- 
 sale grocerv house. Then he followed the same 
 line of business at San Bernardino until 1890, 
 when he became associated with his brother, 
 Adolph, in the wholesale grocery trade at Tuc- 
 son. This was closed in 1892. and in the ensu- 
 ing year A. J. Goldschmidt took charge of the 
 business of his brother-in-law, Mr. Florsheim, 
 and after his death, in 1896, settled his affairs. 
 Then, once more he returned to Los Angeles, 
 where he was in business until 1899, and since 
 that year has been connected with the Eagle 
 Milling Company as secretary. His straight- 
 forward and energetic business methods have 
 won him the good opinion of all. Fraternall\- 
 he is connected with the Order of Elks and 
 politically is a Republican. 
 
 FREDERICK G. FISHER. 
 
 In the town of Meiseh, Kingdom of Saxony, 
 Germany, Mr. Fisher was born January 15, 1831. 
 His parents, Frederick G. and Hannah E. 
 l-'isher, were natives of Saxony, and reared their
 
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 son to an appreciation of the dignity of labor, 
 rnd the vahie of an lionest and conscientions 
 life. Like the average German youth, he was 
 trained in the homely and industrious habits 
 which insure good citizenship, and at the same 
 time received an excellent education in the 
 schools of his native land. When fourteen years 
 of age he was apprenticed to the machinist's 
 trade, and after four years of faithful service to 
 his employer, started out as a journeyman ma- 
 chinist. For a time, also, he worked in Saxony 
 as a coppersmith, and in his travels picked up a 
 great deal of useful and interesting knowledge 
 of the world. 
 
 The prospects for a continued residence in 
 Saxony were not sufficiently alluring to this 
 ambitious young man, and he resolved to try 
 his fortune in the United States. In 1853 he 
 made arrangements whereby he could come to 
 America on the "Washington," paying his fare 
 with his services as a mechanic. The journey 
 drearily stretched over twenty-one days from 
 Bremen to New York City, and upon arriving 
 in the United States he lived for a short time 
 in Brooklyn. Subsecjuently he found employ- 
 ment in various carriage shops in New York 
 City, and after going to New Jersey worked as 
 a machinist for some time. A later venture was 
 in Peoria, 111., where he continued his former 
 occupation with considerable success. In 
 Griggsville, Pike county. 111., he went into busi- 
 ness on a large scale, and manufactured bug- 
 gies, carriages, wagons and plows, and was 
 agent for several lines of mowers, re.ipers, and 
 other agricultural implements. He here met 
 with a gratifying degree of success, but in 1867 
 decided to change his location to Junction City, 
 Kans., where he lived until 1875. This same 
 year saw the beginning of Mr. Fisher's resi- 
 dence in Arizona, where he has since continued 
 to reside. It is needless to say that since 1875 
 he has witnessed many startling changes in the 
 order of things. Tlie buried fertility of the soil 
 has developed under the untiring efiforts of the 
 agriculturists, and with many plans for im- 
 provement he has been identified. As a cattle 
 raiser he has attained great success, and was 
 the first to introduce Hereford cattle into Salt 
 River valley. 
 
 Upon first reaching Arizona Mr. Fisher lo- 
 
 cated at Prescott, and for a time engaged in the 
 blacksmithing and wheelwright business. In 
 1885 he located upon the ranch where he at 
 present lives. He is the possessor of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres of land, and is engaged 
 exclusively in the breeding of fine grade cattle, 
 and makes a specialty of Hereford cattle. He 
 is progressive and enterprising and one of the 
 best authorities on cattle breeding in the valley. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 JOSEPH L. GIROUX. 
 
 During a mining experience of twenty-six 
 years Mr. Giroux has worked his way up from 
 the bottom round of the ladder, mastering the 
 intervening stages between a placer miner and 
 the enormous responsibility attached to the 
 position of superintendent of the United V'erde 
 Copper Compan)', at Jerome, one of the largest 
 mining properties in the world. 
 
 When practically a boy, in 1874, Mr. Giroux 
 left his home in Illinois, and went to Utah, 
 wdiere he became connected with the Jordan 
 Mining Company, remaining with them for 
 two years. After a year spent in the silver mines 
 at White Pine, Nev., in 1871, he went to the 
 Black Hills, S. D., and there began the great 
 good fortune of this persevering prospector. In 
 the course of his continued investigations he lo- 
 cated the Poor Man's mine, which later proved 
 to be rich in gold, and furnished fortunes to the 
 developers. He also located the Aurora, after- 
 wards called the Golden Curry, wdiich, like the 
 other, realized the expectations of investors, and 
 ])roved a valualjle find. In 1878 he became su- 
 perintendent of Senator Clark's copper mines 
 at Butte. Alont., and acceptably filled the posi- 
 tion until 1888, when he came to Jerome to 
 serve in a like capacity with the senator's prop- 
 erty here, known as the United Verde Copper 
 Company's claims. 
 
 During the thirteen years of his residence here 
 Mr. Giroux has witnessed many changes, not 
 the least of which is to be found in Jerome itself. 
 The bustling little town has fulfilled the pre- 
 dictions of those wdio realized the enormous pos- 
 sibilities by which it is surrounded, and who 
 liave practically backed up their faith in its con-
 
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 68 1 
 
 tinned prosperity by investing in real estate and 
 otherwise .aiding in its upbnilding and growth. 
 Aside from his position as stiperintendent of 
 the mines Mr. Giroux is privately interested in 
 several mines, carrying stock in the Equator 
 Mining Company, and is interested, with Sena- 
 tor Clark, in the developing of the copper mines 
 in Sonora, Mexico, known as the Sultana mines. 
 During his experiences he has prospected and 
 mined in silver, lead, copper, and gold, and is an 
 authority on each of these metals and on the 
 methods of producing them from the earth. He 
 is one of the ablest men in his line in the coun- 
 try, and commands the respect and esteem of 
 all who know him. 
 
 WILLIAM THOMAS. 
 
 In the estimation of those who are familiar 
 with the conditions which have surrounded his 
 rise in life Mr. Thomas, the superintendent of 
 the Yavapai County Hospital, is entitled to great 
 credit, and richly deserves the high esteem in 
 which he is held by Iiis fellow-townsmen of 
 Prescott. As a young man he came here in 
 1889, and was for a time engaged in mining and 
 various occupations afforded in the locality, not 
 the least of which was conducting an eating 
 house at the Henrietta mine. His ability as a 
 manager and financier was recognized in 1894, 
 when he was appointed superintendent of the 
 hospital by the board of supervisors, his re- 
 appointment following -in 1895-6-7-8 and 1900 
 and i(;oi, making in all six years of faithful 
 service to the county. It is noticeable that he 
 is tlie only nu n who has ever held the position 
 longer than one or two years, which argues well 
 for his general fitness and conscientious applica- 
 tion to duty. 
 
 Incidentally Mr. Thomas deals in cattle and 
 hogs, in which he has been very successful, and 
 during the years of his residence here he has 
 accumulated a large amount of property in the 
 city, and has built a fine residence in West 
 Prescott. .-\ large share of his success is gen- 
 erously and fairly attributed to the earnest ef- 
 forts of his wife, whom he married in July, 1885, 
 and who was formerly Anna Brown, of North 
 Lawrence, Ohio, daughter of James and Anm 
 (Norman) Brown. Four children have been 
 
 born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, only one now 
 living — Howard. 
 
 When a babe in arms Mr. Thomas was 
 brought by his parents from the little country 
 of Wales, and was reared and educated near 
 Canton, Ohio. Into an otherwise uneventful 
 x'outh came the opportunity to visit the west in 
 1889. which he availed himself of with the re- 
 sult that he is now one of the most earnest 
 and enthusiastic advocates of this part of the 
 territory to be found aiiywhere. He contem- 
 plates making Prescott his perm.anent home, 
 and his many substantial and pleasing traits of 
 mind and character are sure to win continued 
 success. His initiation into the territory w'as 
 accompanied by ill health and comparatively lit- 
 tle of this world's goods, and it is not surpris- 
 ing that he entertains a kindly regard for the 
 people and influences among which his lot is 
 now cast. In politics Mr. Thomas is a Repub- 
 lican, and he is a great admirer of President 
 McKinley, whom he has the honor to personally 
 know. He is fraternally associated with the Odd 
 Fellows and with the Elks, at Prescott. 
 
 GEORGE H. KELLY. 
 
 The marked enterprise of the editor of the 
 .\rizona Bulletin, published at Solomonville, 
 was specially manifested in January, 1900, vidien, 
 at vast expenditure of time, capital and brains 
 he issued a fine pamphlet setting forth the al- 
 most innumerable undertakings of the inhabi- 
 tants of Graham county, and the great wealth 
 and natural resources of this section of the 
 territory. Five thousand copies of this splen- 
 did prospectus and resume, of Graham county 
 were put into circulation, and conveyed much 
 needed and desired information to all parts oi 
 the United States and to widely scattered por- 
 tions of the world. Over one hundred excel- 
 lent half-tone cuts embellished the work, and 
 no pains or expense were spared in making this 
 a souvenir worthy of preservation as a work of 
 reference. 
 
 George H. Kelly, who possesses so thorough- 
 ly the modern sp'nh of journalism, is a native of 
 Poplar r.lufT. Mo., his birth having occurred 
 I'ebruary 5. 1854. He is a son of John G. and 
 Sarah f'. Kellv, the former an early settler of
 
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 Missouri. Living in a locality where the public 
 schools were poor, our subject has been mainly 
 dependent upon his own efforts in the acquisi- 
 tion of learning and, indeed, the printing office 
 may be said to have been his best teacher. 
 
 When sixteen years of age George H. Kelly 
 entered the office of the Black River News, 
 and there mastered every detail of the business. 
 At length he rose to the distinction of being 
 the proprietor of the paper, as he had accumu- 
 lated sufficient capital to purchase the plant. 
 He then changed the name of the journal to 
 that of the Poplar Bluff Citizen, and success- 
 fully conducted the business until 1887, when, a 
 favorable opportunity presenting itself, he sold 
 out and came to Arizona. For two years he 
 was employed by Tucson newspapers and then, 
 having bought a controlling interest in the Ari- 
 zona Bulletin, removed to this, 4;he county-seat 
 of Graham county. With enthusiastic inter- 
 est in this wonderful county he makes a special 
 point of advertising its resources and attrac- 
 tions and thus is proving its genuine l^enefactor. 
 No exaggeration can be charged to him, how- 
 ever, as he aims to state the plain facts in the 
 case, and, as we all know, this is all that is 
 necessary, for the facts are wonderful in them- 
 selves. The Bulletin is printed in one of the 
 best equipped modern newspaper establishments 
 in the west. A Babcock cylinder power press, 
 two first-class Gordon job presses, paper-cut- 
 ter, stapler, automatic numbering machine, per- 
 forator and many other modern improvements 
 and labor-saving machines are to be found here. 
 The circulation of the paper long ago passed 
 the thousand mark, and is steadily growing in 
 importance and usefulness. As its patrons are 
 scattered throughout the territory, its value as 
 an advertising medium is univcrsallv under- 
 stood, and business men of Tucson, El Paso, and 
 the leading towns of this county, as well as else- 
 where, use these columns in publishing the merits 
 of mining property, agricultural lands, and mer- 
 cantile ventures. 
 
 In 1875 Mr. Kelly married Miss Alice V. 
 Beatty, of Carroll county, Miss. Her parents, 
 James and \'irginia F. Beatty, still reside in 
 Mississippi. W. B. Kelly, the elder child of our 
 subject and wife, has been associated with his 
 father in the office of the Bulletin until recently. 
 
 and now is editor and proprietor of the Cochise 
 Review, of Bisbee. Ariz. He is an able young 
 man, and has been an important factor in the 
 upbuilding of our local paper. Jennie V., the 
 only daughter, is the wife of C. L. Rawlins, an 
 attorney-at-law of this place. 
 
 In his political affiliations, Mr. Kelly is an 
 unswerving Democrat, but not an office-seeker. 
 Of Solomonville Lodge No. 16, K. of P., he 
 is a charter member. In 1895 he was appointed 
 emigration agent, and occupied that position for 
 three years to the satisfaction of his superior 
 officers. By strict attention to his business and 
 to the needs of the public he has forged right 
 ahead in his profession, and today is well-to-do 
 and highly respected by every one. 
 
 A. J. GO S ART. 
 
 The proprietor of the plumbing establish- 
 ment at No. 28 North Second avenue. Phoenix, 
 was born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 5, 1861. 
 His father, Jacob, led an interesting life, and 
 when a voung man came to America from his 
 native land of Germany. He was a gold-beater 
 bv occupation, and in Philadelphia earned a 
 fair competence by the exercise of his trade. 
 The severe strain of constant confinement told 
 on his none too robust organization, and he died 
 in Wilkesbarre, Pa., when a comparatively 
 young man. His wife, Louise (Saar) Gosart, 
 was born in Bergefeldt, Germany, and died in 
 Wilkesbarre. She was' the mother of six sons 
 and two daughters, of whom five sons and two 
 daughters are living. The children are all in 
 Pcnnsvlvania, with the excej^tion of A. J., who 
 is the second youngest in the family. 
 
 When only eight years of age Mr. Gosart 
 was taken by his parents to Wilkesbarre, Pa., 
 and here he received the greater part of his 
 education. At the age of eighteen he began 
 to prepare for future independence, and was 
 employed in the Lehigh \'alley shops to learn 
 the trade of coppersmith and plumber, the con- 
 tract calling for four years of .-ervice. In 1883 
 he migrated to the west, and in Ohio engaged 
 in the occupation of tin and cornice manufac- 
 ture for two years, and continued the same 
 after removing to Omaha, Neb., where he re- 
 mained for four months. He then returned to
 
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 Lincoln, and did a fairly good business, and in 
 1886 took up his residence in Humboldt, Xeb. 
 A later scene of occupation was at Culbertson, 
 Neb., where he worked at the trade for eigh- 
 teen months, and in 1889 located in Denver, 
 Colo., and assumed charge of the heating and 
 ventilating department of tlie Denver Hardware 
 Company. In iSyi he went to Silverton, Colo., 
 and the following year to Evanston, Wyo., where 
 he successfully manipulated his trade until 1894. 
 
 Upon coming to Phoenix from Wyoming, Mr. 
 Gosart was the agent for the Chicago Fire Ex- 
 tinguishing Company, and in the fall of 1895 he 
 went to Nogales, Ariz., and after a sojourn of 
 two years removed to Guaymas, Mexico. At the 
 expiration of eighteen months he settled in El 
 Paso, Tex., and from there went to Silver City, 
 N. M., and in 1899 returned to Phoenix, which 
 has since been his place of abode. After four 
 months' time Mr. Gosart bought out C. O. F. 
 Youngstrom, and has since conducted the busi- 
 ness alone. In Phoenix he has met with gratify- 
 ing success, and is considered an expert and au- 
 thority in his line. Fie manufactures tin and 
 sheet iron work, and carries on plumbing, and 
 has secured some of the most important con- 
 tract work in the city. In the manufacture of 
 sheet iron tanks he is especially successful, and 
 is given most of this kind of work in the county. 
 
 In Culbertson, Neb., ]\Ir. Gosart married 
 Sarah Legg, who was born in Illinois. ]\Ir. 
 Gosart is interested in the improvement and 
 growth of his town, and has built a handsome 
 residence on East Adams street. He was made 
 a Mason while residing in Nebraska, and now 
 lielongs to the Arizona Lodge No. 2. In na- 
 tional politics he is a Republican. His wife is a 
 member of the Baptist Church. Air. Gosart is 
 regarded as one of the enterprising and substan- 
 tial men of the town, and is one of the best at 
 his trade in the territorv. 
 
 ALEXANDER M. TUTHILL, AI. D. 
 
 Were one to search through many states and 
 territories it would be difficult to find a better 
 field for the practice of the medical profession 
 than is afforded Dr. Tuthill as physician and sur- 
 geon for the Arizona Copper Company. Xor 
 are his efTorts confined to the needs of this par- 
 
 ticular mining company, for he has charge of the 
 surgical and medical afifairs of the Arizona Cop- 
 per Conip.my, at Morenci, and of the Longfel- 
 low Hospital at that place. XoJ only are his 
 patients among the employes of the mines, but 
 the families of the same come in for a share of 
 lieatment, and swell the responsibility of the 
 physician to about five thousand persons. Each 
 day brings its quota of afflicted humanity, and 
 opportunities for skill in diagnosis and treat- 
 ment are practically limitless. Dr. Tuthill has 
 gained to a gratifying degree the confidence and 
 appreciation of his patients, who not only have 
 faith in his understanding of themselves, but 
 r.lso in his largeness of heart, and unswerving 
 devotion to a noble calling. To his work he 
 brings a wide knowledge of the best tenets of 
 medical science, and keeps in touch with its 
 progress as developed in the large world cen- 
 ters. 
 
 Although born in the east, at South Lebanon, 
 Sullivan county, N. Y., September 22, 1871, Dr. 
 Tuthill was reared and educated in California, 
 whither his parents removed when he was six 
 years old. The father, W. II. Tuthill, was a na- 
 tive of New York state, and died in 1900. The 
 niQther, Christina Mackenzie, was born in Scot- 
 land, and is still living in Los Angeles, Cal. The 
 Doctor received a high-school education, and 
 early determined to devote his life to the niedi- 
 ceI profession. By way of preparation he en- 
 tered the medical department of the University 
 of Southern California at Los Angeles, from 
 which he was graduated in 1895. For the fol- 
 lowing three years he engaged in practice in his 
 home city of Los Angeles, where he met with 
 encouraging success, and relinquished only 
 when ofTered the position of physician for the 
 Detroit Copper Company at Morenci. where he 
 hES since resided. Since January i, 1901, he has 
 been identified with the Arizona Copper Com- 
 pany as its surgeon at Morenci. 
 
 In 1896 Dr. Tuthill was united in marriage 
 with I\Iay E. Heimann, of Los Angeles, a daugh- 
 ter of Richard and Pauline Ileimimn. the for- 
 mer manager for the wholesale hardware con- 
 cern of James W. Ilellman. To Dr. and Mrs. 
 Tutliill has been born one daughter. Dorothy, 
 u ho is three years of age. 
 
 Dr. Tuthill is enthusiastic of lite in .\rizona,
 
 684 
 
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 as well he might be, for one whose future holds 
 such bright prospects must needs feel kindly to- 
 ward a people and condition which has pro- 
 duced the greatest possible nmtual satisfaction. 
 He has made many friends in this far western 
 mining settlement, which goes far toward being 
 compensation for the larger advantages of more 
 settled localities. In national politics he is a 
 Democrat. With his wife, he is a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. He is 
 identified with the Masons, and professionally 
 is a member of the Arizona Territorial Medical 
 Association. He is also a non-commissioned 
 officer in Troop D, First Brigade, California Na- 
 tional Guard. He is interested in mining, hav- 
 ing valuable claims in the Copper Mountain dis- 
 trict and in New Mexico. 
 
 REUBEN W. FULLER. 
 
 Among the first settlers of Thatcher Mr. 
 I'uller was numbered, and after being identified 
 with its agricultural interests for several years 
 embarked in business at Thatcher, of which 
 place he is considered one of the most enterpris- 
 ing citizens. He is in the prime of manhood, 
 as his birth occurred July 17, 1865. His par- 
 ents, F. W. and Elizabeth (Miller) Fuller, were 
 natives respectively of Missouri and Pennsyl- 
 vania. They accompanied their respective fam- 
 ilies on the long journey across the almost in- 
 terminable western jjlains to Utah, and though 
 at that time they were boy and girl, the memo- 
 ries of that trip are fresh in their minds. The 
 father, now an elder in the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter-day Saints, resides in Millard 
 county, Utah, and his wife also is yet living. 
 
 The birthplace of Rcul)en W. Fuller was in 
 Salt Lake City, and it was not until he was in 
 his fifteenth year th.at he left Utah, where he 
 obtained a fair education. Settling with his 
 parents at Sunset, on the Little Colorado river, 
 he spent two years there and in the spring of 
 1881 came to the valley of the Gila. During 
 the next few years he was actively engaged in 
 farming in different parts of this valley and in 
 1886 located in Thatclier, which fact makes him 
 a j)ioneer of the place. In 1895 he became asso- 
 ciated in ])artnershi]) with I. E. D. Zundel and 
 Joseph Fish, and about eighteen months later 
 
 bought out the others and conducted the busi- 
 ness alone until August, 1898. Then, finding 
 it advisable to consolidate his interests with 
 those of the old firm of Layton & Co., he be- 
 came a member of the present thriving estab- 
 lishment of Layton, Allred & Co. The brick 
 store building in itself shows the enterprise of 
 the firm and every department is well stocked 
 with reasonable and seasonable goods. A large 
 share of the trade of this locality is given to this 
 old and reliable house, and no dissatisfaction 
 with goods purchased here is ever felt by the 
 l)ublic. 
 
 Mr. Fuller resides in a pretty brick house ad- 
 jacent to the store. His marriage to Miss Amy 
 C. Layton took place on New Year's day, 1886. 
 She is a daughter of President Christopher Lay- 
 ton, and her mother bore the maiden name 
 Septemma Sims. Four children bless the union 
 of Mr. and Mrs. Fuller, namely: Maggie D., 
 Reuben W., Lawrence and Archie J. 
 
 Politics have little attraction for Mr. Fuller, 
 though he keeps well posted on the great issues 
 of the day and uses his ballot in favor of Demo- 
 cratic nominees. During the years of 1898 and 
 1899 he traveled in the interests of his church 
 through the southwestern states, including Kan- 
 sas and Indian Territory, and also devoted a 
 part of 1900 to the work, returning home in 
 September. At present he is one of the mem- 
 bers of the high council of St. Joseph stake, 
 and is a teacher in the Sunday-school of 
 Thatcher ward. He enjoys the genuine esteem 
 of all who know him, and has built up a fine 
 repiUati(jn for business ability and uprightness. 
 
 C. M. FUNSTON. 
 
 The editor of the Coconino Sim and clerk of 
 the fourth judicial district court was born in 
 \\'ashington county, N. Y., and received his 
 early training and education in Michigan. In 
 anticipation of future independence he learned 
 the printer's trade in Detroit, and subsequently 
 followed the same in Chicago, St. Louis, and 
 in many of the cities throughout the south and 
 west. He became associated with Arizona in 
 1885, locating at Clifton, where he managed the 
 weekly periodical called the Clarion. A chr.nge 
 of location was effected in 1887. when he re-
 
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 moved to Kingman, and bouglit Tlie Miner, 
 also a weekly publication, which h-.d an era 
 of uninterrupted success until it passed into 
 other hands in 1891. 
 
 During the year last named Mr. Funston 
 came to Flagstaff and purchsed the Cham- 
 pion, which was later printed as the Coconino 
 Sun, and which is at the present time exerting 
 an extended influence in the county. In connec- 
 tion with this paper is carried on a general job 
 office, which is largely patronized by the busi- 
 ness men of the city. Though widely known as 
 an editor, Mr. Funston is no less prominent as 
 a politician, his allegiance to the Republican 
 party having met with appropriate recognition. 
 While living at Kingman he v^'as appointed clerk 
 of the fourth judicial district, and held the posi- 
 tion for two years, when he resigned to come to 
 Flagstaff. In 1897 he was appointed clerk of 
 the same district in Coconino county, and has 
 since creditably fulfilled the duties of the ofifice. 
 Since coming to the territory he has been suc- 
 cessful and is appreciated and liked by all who 
 have the good fortune to know him. 
 
 BENJAMIN H. WEAVER. 
 
 To those ac(]uainted with the history ol this 
 worthv pioneer of the west it truly seems that 
 he has led a charmed life, for he passed through 
 some very exciting and dangerous periods on 
 the frontier and hundreds of times was saved 
 from impending death, when his partners and 
 comrades fell bv the hand of the Indians and 
 outlaws. Could, his story be given in full, or in 
 his own words, it would not fail of deeply inter- 
 esting the general jiublic and especially those 
 of the rising generation, who can hardly form an 
 idea of the trials and hardships which those 
 hardy, brave spirits passed through in the "50s 
 and '60s. 
 
 B. H. Weaver, an honored citizen of Prescott, 
 first came to Arizona in 1861, when in the ser- 
 vice of the government, connected with the 
 army. He is a native of Palmyra, Mich., born 
 March 17, 1837, and was the only child of How- 
 ard and Phoebe (Crandall) Weaver, of New 
 York state. His father was an early settler and 
 successful builder and contractor of Palmyra 
 and Hillsdale, Mich., his death occurring at the 
 
 last-named place. The maternal grandfather, 
 John Crandall, was a Michigan farmer and a 
 hero of the war of 181 2, in which he served with 
 the rank of captain. 
 
 Our subject's birth occurred sixty-four years 
 ago, and when he was in his fourteenth year he 
 was apprenticed to the printer's trade, being 
 connected with the Hillsdale "Standard" for 
 three years, and then, for a twelvemonth, was 
 associated with the Adrian (Mich.) "Watch- 
 tower." During the following three years he 
 was engaged in farming, going to DeKalb coun- 
 ty, 111., in 1857 and spending two years there. 
 Returning to Michigan in 1859, he made prep- 
 arations to make the long journey across the 
 plains to Pike's Peak. In March of that year 
 he started with horse-teams, crossed the Mis- 
 sissippi, proceeded through Iowa and from 
 Council Bluffs went by way of the Platte and 
 -South Platte westward. It was a period of great 
 excitement, and at certain favorite camping 
 grounds he saw no less than ten thousand teams, 
 some on the way to the gold fields and others 
 returning to the east. His own party broke up 
 at Elm Creek, many returning home, discour- 
 aged by the tales of woe which they had heard. 
 Mr. Weaver, however, possessed too much 
 pluck to go back and continued his journey, 
 though changing his plans, he proceeded to Cali- 
 fornia, where he arrived in August. For a few 
 months he conducted a livery business in Or- 
 leans Flat, Cal., and in i860 went to Virginia 
 City, Nev., where the great boom was in prog- 
 ress. On account of the mountain fever with 
 which he was at^ictcd he left that place and 
 spent the winter at Bear River, Cal. 
 
 .\t the Ijeginning of the Civil war Mr. Weaver 
 presented himself at the Benecia Barracks, and, 
 joining the California volunteers, in January, 
 1861, was assigned to the Cjuartermaster's de- 
 partment. They were sent to the southwest via 
 Yuma, through Arizona and New Mexico to El 
 Paso on the Rio Grande. They participated in 
 several fights, more or less serious, with the In- 
 dians and outlaws, and did much to preserve 
 peace and order. In the fall of 1862 Mr. Weaver 
 returned to California aiid took the contract for 
 carrying the government and military mail 
 rxross the desert for one hundred miles, to and 
 from Yuma. His two predecessors in office had
 
 690 
 
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 ness, Mr. Kelly has other interests. He is con- 
 nected with mining prospects in different dis- 
 tricts in Yavapai county. Politically he is 
 active in the Republican party in Prescott. Un- 
 der President Grant he was appointed register 
 of the United States land office at Prescott, and, 
 by reappointment under Presidents Hayes and 
 Garfield, filled the office for nine years, resign- 
 ing when a change of politics was made in the 
 administration. Under Treasurer x-Msop he 
 served as deputy territorial treasurer. For four 
 successive years he served as mayor of Prescott, 
 and later he was again elected to the office, 
 which he filled with characteristic energy and 
 efficiency. 
 
 In Beverly, Mass., Mr. Kelly was born Octo- 
 ber 18, 1835. His father, Moses, was a son of 
 John William Kelly, a native of New Hampshire 
 and a soldier in the war of 1812. From New 
 Hampshire Moses Kelly moved to Beverly, 
 Mass., where he engaged in brick manufacturing 
 and contracting. Later he carried on a similar 
 business in Lynn, Mass., where his death oc- 
 curred. He married Hannah, daughter of Ed- 
 mond Needham, and a member of an old 
 Quaker family of Massachusetts. In the paren- 
 tal family there were eleven children, all but 
 two of whom attained majority, W. N. being 
 third in order of birth. Two of his brothers, 
 Gerald S. and Moses, served in Massachusetts 
 regiments during the Civil war. When a mere 
 boy he began to learn the dry-goods business, 
 clerking with the firm of George Middleton & 
 Co., of Boston. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Kelly came via Panama to San 
 Francisco, where he remained a short time, 
 thence going to Nevada count}' and acting as 
 agent for a sawmill. In 1865 he came to Pres- 
 cott, where he started a meat business. Re- 
 turning to California in December, 1867, he re- 
 mained but a short time, and in March, 1868, 
 came back to Prescott. making the trip from 
 San Pedro oveiland, through a country filled 
 with hostile Indians. During 1868 he started a 
 mercantile business in Prescott, under the firm 
 name of D. Henderson & Co., the stock of goods 
 liaving been brought here with freight teams. 
 After two years he sold his interest in the busi- 
 ness, and began mining and prospecting, but 
 in 1871 resumed his connectinn with the mer- 
 
 cantile business, and a year later formed the 
 partnership which continues to this day. 
 
 Since coming to Prescott Mr. Kelly has im- 
 proved an attractive homestead, the beauty of 
 which is enhanced by a terraced lawn. In this 
 city he married Miss Martina Stephens, who 
 was born in Missouri, a daughter of Varney A. 
 and Nancy A. Stephens. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly 
 have a daughter, Edith. He was made a Mason 
 in .\tzlan Lodge No. i, F. & A. M., and is 
 also connected with the chapter and command- 
 ery in Prescott. 
 
 WILLIAM R. LEWIS. 
 
 One of the best known and most prosperous 
 agriculturists of the Salt River valley, Mr. Lewis 
 was born in Northampton county, Pa., April 2, 
 1844. His parents, Newman E. and Elizabeth 
 Lewis were natives, respectively, of England 
 and Pennsylvania. During his years of activity 
 the father followed farm pursuits. When but 
 two years of age William was taken into the 
 home of an aunt, Mrs. John Fisher, of Bradford 
 county. Pa. He was fortunate in securing an 
 excellent education, his study in the public 
 schools being supplemented by attendance at 
 the Wyalusing Academy, in Bradford county. 
 Pa. Thus prepared for whatever emergency 
 miglrt arise, for a time he taught school in Wyo- 
 ming county. Pa., and later turned his attention 
 to farming. 
 
 In an otherwise uneventful youth, the Civil 
 war came as a dearly bought experience. When 
 seventeen years of age Mr. Lewis enlisted in 
 Company C, One Hundred and Twelfth Penn- 
 sylvania Volunteer Infantry, and during the two 
 and a half years of service was attached to the 
 army of the Potomac. Pie participated in the 
 battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court 
 House, Cold Harbor, the siege of Petersburg, 
 and many minor engagements. For three 
 months he was a prisoner of war at Belle Isle 
 and Libby prison, having been captured at the 
 l)attle of Weldon Railroad, August ig, 1864. 
 
 With the restoration of peace Mr. Lewis lived 
 for three years in Wyoming county, where he 
 engaged in educational work, and between the 
 years 1868 and 1876 sojourned in the far west, 
 visiting Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and 
 Texas, from which latter state he came to .\ri-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 693 
 
 zona in 1876. The marriage of ^Ir. Lewis and 
 Jennie M. Harmon, a native of West \'irginia, 
 and the daughter of Thomas and Fannie Har- 
 mon, has resuhed in three children, Sarah \'., 
 Amy and William. 
 
 The farm, to the care of which Mr. Lewis lias 
 devoted himself since coming to the territory, is 
 in the vicinity of Tempe, and is one hundred 
 and sixty acres in extent. The land was orig- 
 inally homesteaded from the government, and 
 developed from a crude and unprofitable con- 
 dition to its present position among the best 
 improved farms in the valley. In addition to 
 the responsibilities incident to the management 
 of his farm, Mr. Lewis takes an active part in 
 the affairs of the locality, and is a believer in 
 progress and the best possible education. In 
 politics a Republican, he has yet had no polit- 
 ical aspirations, preferring to devote his entire 
 time to the care of his farm. Fraternally he is 
 associated with the Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows. Airs. Lewis is a member of the Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 EDWARD F. THOMPSON. 
 
 This pioneer of Mohave county enjoys the 
 honor of having been one of the foimders of the 
 now thriving little place of Kingman. In com- 
 pany with Conrad Shenfield he settled upon the 
 site of the future prosperous railroad town and 
 then proceeded to lay out the place and erect 
 the first buildings here. He then was made 
 postmaster of Kingman, the first to occupv that 
 position, and from its inception has retained a 
 lively interest in the town so near to valuable 
 mining properties. 
 
 The birth of Mr. Thompson occurred in So- 
 lano county, Cal., December 12, 1852, and when 
 he was in his seventh year he accompanied his 
 parents to Carson City, Nev., where he lived 
 until 1871. Desiring to become acquainted with 
 the resources and advantages aiiforded by the 
 various sections of the great west, he then made 
 an extended trip through several of the leading 
 states and territories. In March, 1877, he came 
 to Arizona, to which his allegiance has since 
 been unwavering, and for a number of years 
 gave his entire attention to mining and pros- 
 pecting, chiefly in the vicinity of the Silver King 
 mine and on Mineral creek. 
 
 Then going to Coconino county, nearly at the 
 center of the territory from east to west. Mr. 
 Thompson entered the employ of Mr. Shen- 
 field, the contractor, and assisted in the construc- 
 tion of the present Santa Fe Railroad system, 
 then known as the Atlantic & Pacific. Subse- 
 quently, in 1883, he assisted in laying out King- 
 man, which was named in honor of the popular 
 chief engineer of the road. About 1885 Mr. 
 Thompson went to Mineral Park and during 
 the following five years was in the employ of 
 Beecher & Co., general merchants of that place. 
 The superintendency of the Empire mine at 
 Chloride, owned by him, then devolved upon 
 him, and for two years he held that position. 
 Since 1892 he has been engaged in business in 
 Kingman. Here he has owned considerable real 
 estate since the time the town was laid out and 
 his own residence is one of the most convenient 
 and pretty homes hereabouts. His interest in 
 mining has not flagged in the least and at the 
 present time he has large investments in claims 
 located in the Hualapai district. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Thompson married Mrs. Joseph- 
 ine Christie, a resident of Mineral Park. 
 They have three promising sons and a little 
 daughter, the sunshine of their home. In order 
 of birth they are named, resjiectively, Claude, 
 Stewart. Arthur and Bessie. 
 
 From the time that he reached his majority 
 Mr. Thompson has been active in the counsels 
 of the Democratic party. His influence, which 
 is not slight, is always used for his political 
 friends, and he rarely is absent from the local 
 conventions of his party. Fraternally he is a 
 charter member of the Kingman lodge of the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, of which 
 he is now exalted ruler. 
 
 PETER GORDON. 
 
 The largest brick industry in the city of Phoe- 
 nix has its origin in the enterprise and business 
 ability of Mr. (jordon, who has been a resident 
 of this wonderful city since 1893. From a com- 
 paratively small beginning on South Seventh 
 street, the manufactoiy was started in 1895, and 
 with the increase of population and the conse- 
 i|uent demand for building materials, has de- 
 veloped into a ca])acity of thirty thousand brick
 
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 per day, and a kiln capacity of two million brick. 
 The plant is now being conducted on South 
 Third street, and covers an area of nine acres. 
 For the first few years in Phoenix, Mr. Gordon 
 was also engaged in brick contracting, but at 
 the present time is obliged to devote all of his 
 time to its manufacture. Touching the subject 
 of brick-making, it is doubtful if any one in the 
 territory is better informed or to a greater de- 
 gree an authority. 
 
 The city of New York was the scene of the 
 birth and early life of Mr. Gordon. His boy- 
 hood days were uneventful, and not unlike that 
 experienced by the average youth of industrious 
 and well-to-do parents. As a means of future 
 independence he learned the brick-makers' 
 trade, and was thus prepared for whatever 
 emergency might arise. The impulse of those 
 who produce the wherewithal for the erection 
 of buildings, and the paving of streets, is nat- 
 urally westward, where are being brought into 
 being every day the foundation of some plot 
 for the carrying on of new industries, where 
 people may live, work, and rear their families. 
 Mr. Gordon wisely saw an excellent and unde- 
 veloped field of endeavor in Arizona, and, fol- 
 lowing his inclination, settled in Phoenix in 
 
 1893-'^ 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Gordon and Alice Moore 
 occurred September 12, 1893. Of this union 
 there are three children, Earna, Robert and 
 Sarah. Mr. Gordon is a member of the Board 
 of Trade. In national politics he is afifiliated 
 with the Republican party, but has independent 
 proclivities. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Encampment and Canton Independent Or- 
 der of Odd Fellows, and the Woodmen of the 
 World. 
 
 Associated in business with Mr. Gordon is 
 Mr. Smithline, a native of the Hawkeye state. 
 He came to Arizona in 1881, impelled hither by 
 the brilliant mining prospects of the Tip Top 
 district. In company with his brother, J. A. 
 Smithline, he prospected and mined, and in the 
 course of time discovered and opened the Silver 
 Museum mine, and successfully worked it vmtil 
 1893. At this time the depreciation of silver 
 placed a bar upon their operations, and they 
 soon after sold out. In the palmy days the ore 
 from their mine was assayed and found to be 
 
 the richest in the territory. At the present 
 time Mr. Smithline owns a two-thirds interest 
 in the Good As Any mine, an extension of the 
 Silver Museum. In 1894 Mr. Smithline came 
 to Phoenix, and engaged in farming until 1898, 
 when he purchased an interest from Mr. Gordon 
 in the brick works, and has since taken an 
 active interest in the afifairs of the plant. In 
 1884 he was the commissioner from Yavapai 
 county to the World's Exposition at New Or- 
 leans, and was prominent in arranging the min- 
 ing exhibit. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 with the Ancient (Jrder of United \\'orkmen. 
 
 ARTURO M: ELIAS. 
 
 Among the wide-awake business men of Sol- 
 omonville Mr. Elias has been numbered for the 
 past eight or nine years. In his substantial 
 store building, which was erected by him on 
 one of the best corners of the leading business 
 part of the place, a large and excellent stock of 
 goods is always kept on hand. The chief de- 
 partments are those devoted to groceries, dry- 
 goods, boots and shoes, but in addition to these 
 a full line of drugs, hardware and general house- 
 hold supplies is carried, and the proprietor also 
 deals in hay and grain. 
 
 Old Mexico is following in the footsteps of 
 this, her sister republic, and her young men are, 
 more and more, becoming prominent in the 
 world of conunerce. Arturo M. Elias claims 
 Guaymas, Mexico, as his birthplace, and his 
 parents, Plutarco and Jennie Elias, came of 
 highly respected families of that locality. He 
 passed his boyhood mainly in Tucson, and there 
 received a liberal education in the public schools. 
 Upon completing his studies, he obtained a posi- 
 tion in a mercantile establishmeni as a clerk, 
 and for the following seven years served in that 
 capacity in a number of city stores, including 
 the New York store, in which he spent four 
 years. Thus thoroughly equipped, by long and 
 practical experience, and having amassed some 
 capital by economy and strict attention to busi- 
 ness, he decided to enter the business world, on 
 his own account, as soon as a favorable oppor- 
 tunity presented itself. 
 
 Coming to Solomonville in 1892, Mr. Elias
 
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 clerked for I. E. Solomon for a year, and then 
 set about the construction of a store building. 
 Wlien it was finished he put in a stock of goods, 
 and b\- degrees added to his supplies. Within 
 a comparatively short time he had built up a 
 large and remunerative trade, and today he af- 
 fords employment to three clerks, in especially 
 busy seasons of the year — a fact which plainly 
 indicates the volume of trade handled. By a 
 wise regard for the needs and wishes of the pub- 
 lic and by uniform courtesy and sterling integ- 
 rity he has won the confidence and respect of 
 his fellow-citizens and their liberal ])atronage as 
 well. 
 
 In 1895 Mr. Elias took an especially import- 
 ant step in life, as in that year he was united 
 in marriage with Miss Guadalupe Gallego. The 
 young couple have a daughter, Lydia. They 
 occupy a pleasant home and extend its hos- 
 pitality to their many friends. 
 
 In his political creed, Mr. Elias is a Demo- 
 crat of strong convictions. He is vice-presi- 
 dent of the Hearst Democratic Club of Graham 
 county antl is secretary of the county central 
 committee. One of those having the perma- 
 nent welfare of Mexico and the United States 
 deeply at heart, knowing that their interests 
 are naturally interwoven, he joined the Allianza 
 Ilispano-.Vmericano, and seeks to promote the 
 friendly feeling between the'two great republics 
 of the western continent. 
 
 EUGENE MIDDLETON. 
 
 Though comparatively speaking a young man, 
 having been born in California in 1861, Mr. Mid- 
 dleton was associated with the trying early days 
 of Arizona, and were his experiences all told 
 they would read like a tale from Cooper. His 
 parents, William and ?\liriam Middleton, re- 
 moved from \'entura county, Cal., in 1873, and 
 settled at Tempe, .'\riz., where the father was 
 employed l)y Charles T. Hayden. who ran a 
 Ijlacksmith establishment in the town. In time 
 father and son became interested in a stage line 
 which was operated between Globe and Flor- 
 ence, and which was continued over a period of 
 si.x years, lieginning with 1887. 
 
 While driving ]jassengers and carrying the 
 mails over this once well-used route, Mr. Mid- 
 
 dleton encountered some of the lively and not 
 always appreciated experiences which invariably 
 embellished the careers of the promoters of this 
 somew'hat primitive method of locomotion. In 
 1889 he was conveying nine prisoners by stage, 
 among them being the notorious Apache Kid, 
 and, through the carelessness of the officers in 
 charge. Sheriff Reynolds and Deputy Sherifif 
 Holmes were overpowered and killed, and Mr. 
 Middleton was shot in the head and left for dead. 
 The prisoners, who made their escape, were 
 afterwards recaptured or killed, the e-xception 
 being the Apache Kid, who, it is supposed, got 
 far enough away to pursue his previous methotl 
 of lawlessness. 
 
 Previous to undertaking the stage line busi- 
 ness Mr. Middleton and his father became in- 
 terested in the cattle business, and had a ranch 
 in the northern part of Gila county. This was 
 a difficult undertaking at the best, for the Indians 
 were still hostile towards the intruding pale 
 faces, and were likely at any time to start on a 
 protracted tour of devastation. In 1881 the 
 ferocious Apaches gave an exhibition of their 
 prowess, and made a raid on the horses and cat- 
 tle, and carried away the former to the number 
 of fifty head. In the encounter two young men, 
 who had come to warn Mr. Middleton of the 
 outbreak, were killed by the red-skins, a brother 
 of the owner was wounded, and the father was 
 shot at but managed to escape. 
 
 At the time of starting the stage line the town 
 of Globe was but a meager collection of hotises, 
 and in no way suggested the great boom which 
 has made it one of the great mining towns of 
 the west. After going out of the stage business 
 Mr. Middleton opened a station between Globe 
 and Florence, which was successfully conducted 
 for some time. In 1896 he located permanently 
 in the town, which was then at the height of 
 its mining prosperity, and started the store 
 which has since been the object of his care, and 
 where the enterprising residents may purchase 
 all kinds of stationery, besides books, notions, 
 wall pajjer, cigars, tobacco and sporting goods. 
 That Mr. Middleton has prospered and realized 
 many of his expectations is evinced by the prop- 
 erty of which he is the possessor, and the gen- 
 eral air of success w-hich surrounds his business 
 establishment and his home. His domestic in-
 
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 terests are centered in a well and comfortably 
 constructed home, of which he is the builder 
 and owner, and he also owns an adjoining house, 
 which is rented to tenants. The home residence 
 is presided over by Mrs. Middleton, whom Mr. 
 Middleton married Decemlier 20, 1894, and who 
 was formerly Elvira Borquez, of Globe. Mr. 
 Middleton is a Democrat in politics, and is at 
 present a member of the city council. Frater- 
 nally he is associated with the Odd Fellows at 
 Globe, and is a charter member of the home 
 lodge. In 1899 the Odd Fellows built a com- 
 modious and prepossessing opera house and 
 hall, and of this he is manager. He is also a 
 member of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 men. He is one of the wide-awake citizens of 
 the place, and has a record for integrity of which 
 any man might be proud. 
 
 LINZY C. AUSTIN. 
 
 One of the successful apiarists of southern 
 Arizona is Linzy C. Austin, who has been in- 
 terested in this particular industry for the last 
 five years, and is meeting with marked success. 
 As a general agriculturist, also, he has thorough- 
 ly demonstrated . his ability, and is highly es- 
 teemed in his community. 
 
 He is native of northern Texas, and was born 
 November 13. 1868. His father, Albert W. 
 Austin, who was born in Virginia, married a 
 Missouri lady. Miss Martha Wilson. He was 
 called to the better land in 1895 and is survived 
 by his widow, who now makes her home in 
 Tempe. 
 
 The first twenty years in the life of Linzy C. 
 Austin were spent in his native state, and his 
 education was such as the public schools of the 
 period afiforded. After his arrival in Arizona he 
 attended the territorial normal school for one 
 year and by private reading and study has stead- 
 ily pressed forward in the pursuit of knowledge. 
 On the subject of bees and bee-culture he is 
 thoroughly jjosted, and is regarded as an author- 
 ity. Thirteen years ago he accompanied his par- 
 ents to the Salt River valley, and has made his 
 home here ever since. Finding that the district 
 is specially adapted for apiaries, he started in 
 the business on a small scale, and year by year 
 has extended his operations along this line until 
 
 at the present time he owns one hundred and 
 seventy-five colonies, or hives of bees. The 
 quality of honey produced in this region, where 
 the fragrant mesquite and alfalfa blooms furnish 
 delicately flavored material to the industrious 
 bees, is exceptionally fine, and the product al- 
 ways is in great demand in the market, where 
 it commands a good price at all times. Having 
 taken up a homestead of one hundred and sixty 
 acres from the government, at a point about nine 
 miles south of Tempe, Mr. Austin has developed 
 a good farm here, and from a wild condition 
 has reduced at least eighty acres to a high state 
 of cultivation. 
 
 On the loth of September, 1899, Mr. Austin 
 married Miss Georgie Hendrix, daughter of J. 
 Frank Hendrix, of Tempe. They are members 
 of the Christian Church of Tempe, he being a 
 member of the official board, and at present 
 holding the ofifice of deacon. They have one 
 son, Harold, born February 23, 1901. A firm 
 believer in temperance, he has identified him- 
 self with the Prohibition party. In everything 
 which tends to uplift and permanently benefit 
 the conmiunity he is actively interested, con- 
 tributing to many local enterprises of the kind. 
 
 WILLIAM S. AUSTIN. 
 
 Having learned much of the wonderful Salt 
 River valley, Mr. Austin determined to try his 
 fortune here, and is meeting with deserved suc- 
 cess in his modest undertakings. His residence 
 here dates from the summer of 1888 and even 
 within this comparatively short period he has 
 witnessed truly marvelous changes for the better 
 in almost every field of human activity. 
 
 A son of Albert W. and Martha (Wilson) 
 Austin, who were natives respectively of Vir- 
 ginia and Missouri, William S. Austin was born 
 in the northern part of Texas. He accompanied 
 the family to ^Arizona upon their removal here 
 thirteen years ago, and in the mean time has 
 lived in this valley, where his father died in 1895. 
 In 1899 he settled upon his present place, ten 
 miles south and east of Tempe, where he owns 
 twenty acres of land well adapted for the rais- 
 ing of alfalfa or other products. He makes a 
 specialty of keeping bees, and has met with 
 great success, at present owning about thirty
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 701 
 
 hives. The sweet mesquite and alfalfa blossoms, 
 so abundant hereabouts, provide excellent fooil 
 for the bees, and an exceptionally pleasant flav- 
 ored honey is made by the industrious little con- 
 tributors to the world's lovers of sweet delica- 
 cies. A good price is always obtained in the 
 markets for this product, and more and more 
 are people becoming interested in the industry. 
 December 27, 1893, ^^^- -Austin ^ii<l Miss 
 Lorena Cosner were united in marriage in this 
 locality, and they have two sons: Anthony W., 
 born October 7. 1898, and Wilford G., born 
 January 13, 1901. Mrs. Austin was born in 
 Missouri, and at the age of two years was taken 
 to Texas by her parents. There she lived until 
 about thirteen years old, when she and her 
 mother came to Arizona, her father having died 
 in Texas. Our subject and wife are members 
 of the Christian Church at Tempe, where for 
 several years he has been the superintendent 
 of ttie Sunday-school. In his political views he 
 is a Democrat in national afifairs, while in local 
 elections he is independent, voting as appears 
 to him expedient, and for the real interests of 
 the community. 
 
 HENRY HILL. 
 
 Henry Hill, who was born in Ireland in Octo- 
 ber, 1849, passed sixteen years of his life in that 
 beautiful isle, and, having learned the hatter's 
 trade, came to the United States at the close 
 of the Civil war. Taking up his residence in 
 Bridgeport, Conn., he dwelt there for the ensu- 
 ing four years, in the meantime giving his atten- 
 tion to his trade, and meeting with success, as 
 he deserved, for he is a conscientious and prac- 
 tical workman. 
 
 In 1869 Mr. Hill went to San Francisco, Cal., 
 where he spent two and a half years, then enlist- 
 ing in Company D, Sixth Regiment of United 
 States Cavalry, for the regulation term of five 
 years. During the greater part of this period 
 he was stationed at Fort Apache, Ariz., and there 
 received his honorable discharge in 1878. He 
 had taken part in numerous skirmishes, more 
 or less serious, with the Indians, who were ex- 
 tremely hostile to the few and scattered white 
 settlers and travelers of this territory. Having 
 become thoroughly well posted in the topog- 
 raphy of Graham county and southeastern 
 
 .Arizona, especially, the young man then was 
 offered employment as a guide to the govern- 
 ment troops and later was retained in the L^nited 
 States service in different capacities. Thus, alto- 
 gether, he was on the pay-roll of his adopted 
 country for about nine years, a fact which, in 
 itself, speaks highly in his favor and attests to 
 his fidelity and value. 
 
 Since 1881 Mr. Hill has given his entire 
 energy to his own business afifairs, having kept 
 a hotel and restaurant for a period, and for seven 
 years having been occupied in freighting sup- 
 plies. Steadily he accumulated capital, and from 
 time to time invested in real estate. Today he 
 owns a beautiful, well-irrigated tract of land in 
 southern Clifton, and is laying ofif a large portion 
 of it in lots, this to be called Hill's Addition 
 to Clifton. Beyond a doubt this is the most de- 
 sirable location for residences in the neighbor- 
 hood of Clifton, and that the soil is very rich 
 and productive is shown by the adjoining gar- 
 dens, which are worked by Chinamen. Another 
 feature of interest upon the property owned by 
 Mr. Hill is some rather cleverly done carvings, 
 cut on the surface of the solid rock or face of 
 a mountain. The characters, which comprise 
 some figures of animals, chains, stars, etc., ap- 
 pear fully fifty feet from the ground, and though 
 it is commonly believed to be a record of his- 
 toric facts, and undoubtedly is the work of In- 
 dians, no translation of the same has been made 
 as yet. Another enterprise in which Mr. Hill 
 is occupied is the transformation of the old rail- 
 road bridge into a wagon bridge, for which pur- 
 pose he purchased it from the railroad. 
 
 In 1880 the marriage of our subject and Miss 
 Rosie Trumble. a native of Illinois, was solem- 
 nized. They have just reason to be proud of 
 their two daughters, Maggie and Rosie. who are 
 highly educated and accomplished. They have 
 pursued their studies in Notre Dame College, of 
 San Jose, Cal., the former being a member of 
 the class of 1901. and the latter of 1902. 
 
 From the time when he became a voter imtil 
 the present Mr. Hill has loyally supported the 
 Republican jiarty. Though in no wise an office- 
 seeker, he was nominated and elected as one 
 of the supervisors of Graham county in 1894. 
 and in the fall of 1900 was again elected to that 
 office — a thing without precedent in this county.
 
 702 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Needless to say he fully met the requirements 
 of that responsible position, winning the genuine 
 respect of even his political opponents. 
 
 BEN T. GILLETT. 
 
 The merchant tailoring business in Arizona 
 has no more successful or popular addition to 
 its ranks than is found in Mr. Gillett, now of 
 Bisbee, who thoroughly understands his busi- 
 ness, and is possessed, in addition, of great 
 tact and a sincere desire to please. 
 
 The Gillett family is English, and Ben T. 
 was born in Bridgewater, Somersetshire, July 
 19, 1841. The family is a very old one, and 
 the deeds and traditions of those who have borne 
 the name are treasured by the latter-day de- 
 scendants. The paternal grandfather, John, was 
 an architect and builder in Somersetshire, and 
 died in England. The father, Alfred John, was 
 born in 1819, in Langport, and during the years 
 of his activity was a harness-maker in Bridge- 
 water. He eventually retired from business life, 
 and died in 1895. The mother, formerly Sarah 
 Tazewell, was born in Bridgewater, and was a 
 daughter of Benjamin Tazewell, a government 
 employe. Mrs. Gillett died in England. She 
 was the mother of five children, four of whom 
 arc living: William Henry, who is a dentist in 
 Kentucky; Frederick James, who lives in Los 
 Angeles; Ben T.; and Mrs. Brown, of Des 
 Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Ben T. Gillett received his early training in 
 Bridgewater, and his opportunities for acquir- 
 ing an education were somewhat handicapped 
 by the necessity for self-maintenance. At twelve 
 years of age he was apprenticed out to a tailor 
 in Langport, and served at his trade for seven 
 years. He afterwards became foreman of an 
 establishment in London, and was sent to the 
 proprietor's house in Toronto, Canada, in 1866. 
 The following year he came to the states, and 
 as a foreman tailor, led an interesting life for 
 several years. During this time he visited every 
 state and territory in the north and southwest 
 except Dakota, Montana and Minnesota, and in 
 this way saw a great deal of the world, and ac- 
 cumulated considerable interesting and valuable 
 information. For seventeen years Mr. Gillett 
 conducted a merchant tailoring establishment in 
 
 Des Moines, Iowa, and though very successful, 
 decided in favor of a permanent residence in 
 the far west. In 1892 he located in Phoenix, 
 intending to take land under Rio Verde, but 
 when the canal was not built he turned his at- 
 tention to his former occupation, and conducted 
 his enterprise at the corner of Washington and 
 Second avenue. 
 
 In Toronto, Canada, Mr. Gillett married Eiifie 
 McAlpine, born in Eldon, Victoria county, On- 
 tario. Of this union there have been two chil- 
 dren, Granville Malcolm, a graduate of the Uni- 
 versity of Arizona, and at present a draughts- 
 man of the surveyor general's offices at Tucson ; 
 and Leslie Alexander, now attending the Uni- 
 versity of Arizona. Mr. Gillett is a Republican 
 in national politics, and is a member of the 
 county Republican central committee. For four 
 years he has been a member of the board of 
 education, and is also connected with the Board 
 of Trade. At Burlington, Vt., he was made a 
 Mason of the first degree, and took the third 
 degree at Macon, Ga., and became a Royal Arch 
 Mason at Des Moines, Iowa. He was also a 
 prelate of the Temple Commandery No. 4, of 
 Des Moines. In Phoenix he is a member of the 
 Conmiandery No. 3, of which he is past com- 
 mander and is also a member of the Mystic 
 Shrine. The Ancient Order of LTnited Work- 
 men numbers him among its members. In re- 
 ligious circles he is prominent, and as member 
 of the Baptist Church has served as deacon, and 
 is an ex-Sunday-school superintendent. 
 
 At present he is residing at Bisbee as fore- 
 man of the merchant tailoring department of the 
 Copper Queen Mining Company. 
 
 CHARLES A. CORBELL. 
 
 One of the most commodious and comfort- 
 able ranch residences adjoining Tempe on the 
 east is that occupied by a pioneer who has ac- 
 complished much during his long residence in 
 the territory. Chrrles A. Corbell came to Ari- 
 zona in 1882 from his former home in Texas, 
 and brought with him a fund of hard-earned ex- 
 perience, a stout heart and willing hands. For 
 a time he made his home in Tempe, and then 
 removed to Pinal county, where he success- 
 fully engaged in the cattle and dairy business
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 703 
 
 for several years. In about 1889 lie returned 
 to Maricopa county, and located on a ranch 
 seven miles southeast of Tempc, where he lived 
 until 1898. In that year he took up his resi- 
 dence adjoining;' Tempe, where he is one of the 
 most substantial citizens. In addition to his 
 town projjerty, he is the possessor of two 
 ranches, comprising in .all two hundred and 
 eighty-five acres. His land is under a high 
 state of cultivation, and is devoted to general 
 farming and stock-raising. 
 
 In his native Kerr county, Tex., where he 
 was born March i, 1858, Mr. Corbcll spent his 
 early years under the watchful care and afifec- 
 tionate solicitude of his parents, who surroundetl 
 him with good influences, and taught him hab- 
 its of industry and economy. ,\ son of Tilman 
 A. and Mary (Nolan) Corbell, natives respec- 
 tively of Mississippi and Arkansas, his parents 
 were among the early and courageous pioneers 
 of Kerr county, Tex., and willingly shared the 
 vicissitudes incident to life in those early days. 
 
 Charles A. Corbell was reared to a knowledge 
 of farming and stock-raising. He married, in 
 Texas, in September, 1882, Ellen North, who 
 was born in that state, and w'ho is a daughter 
 of T. C. North, now residing in Sonora, Tex. 
 To Mr. and Mrs. Corbell have been born seven 
 children: Ernest C, Edith V., Pearl, Mary, 
 \'ictor, Ethel and an infant. Almost immedi- 
 ately after his marriage Mr. Corbell sought the 
 larger possibilities of Arizona and has since re- 
 sided within its borders. He is an unusually 
 interesting and enterprising man, and ever will- 
 ing to lend a hand towards the improvement of 
 his locality. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Woodmen of the World, and is a Democrat 
 in national politics. He is prominent in the 
 religious world, and is affiliated with the Church 
 of God. 
 
 GEORGE CHRIST, JR. 
 The earliest remembrances of Mr. Christ are 
 centered in Des Moines, Iowa, where he was 
 born in 1870, and in which city his father. Gen. 
 George Christ, was engaged in the general 
 merchandise business. He received his educa- 
 tion from the public schools, and was graduated 
 from the high school in 1887. An otherwise 
 uneventful youth was interrupted when he went 
 
 to Washington as special officer under Colonel 
 Canady, sergeant-at-arms of the United States 
 senate, from which position he resigned in 1890 
 in order to come to Nogales, Ariz. 
 
 In Nogales Mr. Christ became iilentified with 
 his father's affairs, the latter having removed to 
 the territory in 1882. Covering a period of 
 seven years he assumed the management of his 
 father's hotel, the Montezuma, and after the 
 sale of the hostelry in 1897 went to Sonora. 
 Mexico, and was secretary and bookkeeper for 
 the Le .\ndreana Mining Company organized 
 by his father, and of which he was president. 
 In the fall of i8ij7 he came to Tucson and has 
 since been a clerk in the office of the surveyor- 
 general of Arizona, to which position his father 
 was appointed in 1897 by President McKinley. 
 
 -V Republican in national politics, Mr. Christ 
 has been prominently identified with the politics 
 of his locality, and has been chairman of the 
 Pima county central committee and a member 
 of the territorial committee for the past eight 
 years. In 1896 he was elected an alternate dele- 
 gate to the St. Louis convention, which nomi- 
 nated William McKinley. Mr. Christ is one of 
 the most j^roniising of the young politicians of 
 the county, and enjoys the confidence and es- 
 teem of all who are privileged to know him. 
 Fraternally he is a member of the Elks, in Tuc- 
 son. 
 
 JUDSON A. HARMON. 
 
 The well-improved farm and busy blacksmith- 
 ing establishment of Mr. Harmon is located 
 about nine miles south of Tempe. The farm 
 is one hundred and sixty acres in extent, and 
 was homesteaded by the prosperous owner, who 
 has transformed its barrenness into a condition 
 of utility. Abundant harvests have repaid the 
 untiring efforts of Mr. Harmon, who has cause 
 to congratulate himself upon the happy chance 
 which led him to the Salt River valley. He came 
 to the territory in 1886, and in 1889 moved to 
 the land which has since yielded such satis- 
 factory results. 
 
 A native of Cabell county, W. \'a., Mr. Har- 
 mon was born January 8, 1855, and is a son of 
 Thomas .\. and Amy F. (Newman) Harmon, 
 natives respectively of West Virginia, and of 
 Kentucky. Great-grandfather Harmon is
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tliought to have been a soldier in the Revo- 
 kitionary war. Judson Harmon .spent his youth 
 on his father's farm, and was initiated into all 
 the duties incident to the management of a large 
 and successful farm. .\t the public schools he 
 diligently studied as opportunity offered, and 
 in later life learned much from observation, and 
 from the perusal of books. 
 
 In West Virginia, Mr. Harmon was united in 
 marriage with Eliza J. Mc.Mlister, a native of 
 Putnam countv. that state. Of this union there 
 are four children. May, Benjamin F., Pansy and 
 Thomas J. The excellent workmanship of Mr. 
 Harmon has brought him large patronage as 
 a blacksmith, and he is also esteemed for his 
 honest methods of conducting business. Mr. 
 Harmon is a Democrat in national politics, but 
 entertains liberal ideas on the subject. He has 
 no political aspirations, preferring to devote all 
 of his time to farming and blacksmithing. As 
 a director in the southern branch of the Tempe 
 canal, he has rendered valuable service, and 
 evinced great interest in the matter of water- 
 ways and artificial irrigation. With his family, 
 he is a member and ardent worker in the First 
 Baptist Church of Tempe, and has served as a 
 deacon and clerk in the church. He is one 
 of the enterprising citizens of the valley, and is 
 laboring faithfully for its development and well 
 being. 
 
 L. J. OVERLOOK. 
 
 The enterprising and successful manager and 
 proprietor of the establishment known as the 
 Union market and bakery, at Bisbee, came to 
 Arizona from Massachusetts in 1883. A native 
 of Bangor, Me., he was born May 23, 1862, and 
 is a son of Jacob and Elniira Overlock. He 
 was educated and grew to manhood in his na- 
 tive state, and his childhood days were unevent- 
 fully passed amid the duties and occupations of 
 the average youth. In 1883 he sought the ap- 
 parent advantages of the west, and after remain- 
 ing for a time in Tombstone, Ariz., engaged in 
 the cattle business in the Sulphur Spring valley. 
 His enterprise was conducted on ambitious lines, 
 his herd of cattle comprising from two to three 
 thousand head. The cattle business was dis- 
 posed of in 1887, at which time the previous 
 owner became interested in the butchering busi- 
 
 ness with his brother, W. H. Overlock. In 
 1897 he formed a partnership with his brother, 
 Charles A. In 1900 L. J. bought out his broth- 
 er's interest and April I, 1901, sold out the 
 business. 
 
 A nev^' departure was entered into by Mr. 
 Overlock in 1896, at which time he purchased 
 the Lhiion market from Robert Tublett, and 
 after razing to the ground the old structure, 
 erected in its place the commodious and well- 
 planned buihling in which he conducted the 
 affairs of the market and bakery, in connection 
 with his brother, Charles R. In connection with 
 this business is maintained a cold storage plant, 
 which enjoys the distinction of being the only 
 one in the city. In order to understand the 
 extent of the business he carried on in the mar- 
 ket, it is only necessary to state that he utilized 
 from one hundred and twenty-five to one hun- 
 dred and fifty head of cattle a month, as well as 
 a large number of sheep and hogs. In justice 
 to Mr. Overlock's honest and conscientious busi- 
 ness methods, he met with a large patronage 
 from his fellow-townsmen. 
 
 As do most who live in the greatest copper 
 district in the territory and perhaps in the coun- 
 try, Mr. Overlock is interested to some extent in 
 mining, and has reaped some fairly good results 
 from this enterprise. Fraternally he is a mem- 
 ber of the order of Elks. In politics a Repub- 
 lican, he is interested in local matters, but has 
 never found time or inclination for political 
 office. Since coming to Cochise county in 1883 
 he has been identified with the progressive 
 movements of the locality, and is accounted one 
 of the reliable and broad-minded citizens of the 
 place. 
 
 PIERRE CHAROULEAU. 
 
 A citizen from other shores who has become 
 identified with the best material and intellectual 
 interests of Arizona, Mr. Charouleau was born 
 in Toulouse, capital of the department of Haute 
 Garonne, France, which city was also the birth- 
 place of his parents, Sebastian and Jeane (St. 
 Germaine) Charouleau. Sebastian Charouleau 
 was a prosperous farmer in his native land, and 
 subsequently died within the borders of France. 
 The six children comprising the family were 
 scattered in comparatively early life, one brother
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 707 
 
 Jean, arriving in America in 1875, ''"d locating 
 in Arizona, where lie accumulated a consider- 
 able amount of land, and where he died. 
 
 In Toulouse Pierre Charouleau received his 
 earlv training and derived his education from 
 the public schools. Into a previously unevent- 
 ful life came the necessity in i86g of a journey 
 to Peru, South America, where he w^as called 
 to settle the estate of a brother who had lo- 
 cated in that remote land. Five ye.ars later, in 
 1874, he came to Tucson, and availed himself of 
 the impending resurrected prosperity of the old- 
 est town on the continent, of European settle- 
 ment. In addition to the lands and real, estate 
 purchased in the early days he became the pos- 
 sessor of the property of his aunt, Mrs. Anna 
 Artigue, a successful business woman who had 
 preceded him to the territory by several years. 
 
 As time wore on Mr. Charouleau started the 
 ranch of which he is at present the proud pos- 
 sessor, and which is by far one of the finest in 
 the territory. Of eight hundred acres in extent, 
 it is located about four miles from Florence, and 
 within its well-fenced borders are all manner 
 of modern improvements known to scientific 
 farming, and every convenience suggested 
 by the tactful and enterprising resource of the 
 owner. Upon the fine soil redeemed from the 
 aridity of the desert is grown alfalfa and all 
 kinds of fruit, made possible by a plentiful sup- 
 ply of water, Mr. Charouleau having the first 
 deed of right to the water of the Gila river. 
 This splendid piece of property evolved from 
 the ingenuity of an enthusiast is called White 
 Ranch, and is rented out to tenants. In con- 
 nection with general farming a large cattle en- 
 terprise has here lieen conducted since 1880, 
 and thus is utilized the whole of the land to the 
 best possible advantage for man and beast. In 
 connection with the ranch Mr. Charouleau has 
 built several residences at Adamsville, which are 
 in a fine state of repair and comfortable to live 
 in. 
 
 In Sonora, Mexico, Mr. Charouleau married 
 -Angeline Pierson, also a native of France, and 
 born at St. Denis, in the vicinity of Paris. Her 
 father, Joseph Pierson, was a capitalist, and upon 
 coming to America bought a large tract of land 
 in Dane county, Wis., but after a sojourn here 
 of eighteen nionths returned to hVance. Six 
 
 months later he was rejoined by his family w'ho 
 remained with him until his death, his widow 
 subsequently removing to Sonora, Mexico, 
 where she later died. One of her sons, Edward, 
 was a graduate physician of France, and was 
 a surgeon in the army under Maximillian of 
 Mexico. He eventually died in the army. An- 
 other brother, Joseph, came at an early day to 
 Sonora, Mexico, where he became a large land 
 owner, and where he died. Mrs. Charouleau 
 came to Mexico in 1871 to join her brother 
 Joseph. The Pierson family is of English de- 
 scent. To Mr. and Mrs. Charouleau have been 
 born two daughters, Louisa and Anna, who are 
 attending school at Pasadena, Cal. Mr. Cha- 
 rouleau is identified with the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows. He and his family are mem- 
 bers of the Catholic Church. 
 
 Aside from the ranch which claims the greater 
 part of his attention, Mr. Charouleau has nu- 
 merous real estate interests in the city of Tuc- 
 son, where he has accumulated a large amount 
 of valuable business and residence property, and 
 where he has built numerous residences. He is 
 one of the most enterprising and public-spirited 
 of the pioneers of this locality, and is esteemed 
 for his many excellent and substantial traits of 
 mind, character and attainment. As a financier 
 he has no superior in the city, nor is any one 
 more popular or better liked. 
 
 S. J. FORBES. 
 
 The enterprise of this young man has excited 
 favorable comment throughout Clifton and 
 vicinity, and today he stands as proprietor of 
 one of the largest and best-equipped stores in 
 Graham county. Although comparatively a 
 new-comer in this place, he is well known, and 
 wherever known, is respected. Great interest in 
 all of the local enterprises and industries is main- 
 tained by him, and, like a patriotic citizen, he 
 does all within his power to promote the general 
 prosperity. 
 
 The birth of S. J. Forbes occurred in Char- 
 loltetown. Prince l-'.dward Island, Canada, in 
 1866, and when eight years of age he accom- 
 panied his parents to the United States. Settling 
 in Omaha, Neb., he pursued his studies in the 
 public schools of that city. Having been gradu-
 
 7o8 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ated in the high school in 1883, the youth soon 
 obtained a position in a wholesale grocery house 
 of Omaha, and during the three years of his 
 service there, thoroughly mastered the business. 
 In 1889 Mr. Forbes went to San Francisco, 
 where he was associated with wholesale estab- 
 lishments, special attention being given to im- 
 ports and exports with foreign countries. In 
 1895 he came to Arizona and in Phoenix was in 
 the employ of E. F. Kellner, the wholesale 
 grocer, for two years. Coming to Clifton in 
 1897 he was in the Arizona Copper Company's 
 service for a few months, after which he entered 
 into a partnership and engaged in business. The 
 entire charge of the store gradually developed 
 upon Mr. Forbes. In 1900 the latter purchased 
 his partner's interest in the business and now 
 has everything in a flourishing condition. The 
 store building is 28x100 feet in dimensions, in 
 addition to which the proprietor has ware- 
 rooms. He carries a very large and well se- 
 lected stock of general merchandise, making a 
 specialty of miner's and cattlemen's supplies. His 
 trade has assumed great proportions and his 
 customers come from quite distant points along 
 the Blue river and from all directions. That he is 
 prospering may be inferred from the fact that 
 he employs seven salesmen to attend to the 
 needs of his patrons and personally superintends 
 every detail of the business. Though thoroughly 
 recognizing the fact that one's forces must not 
 be divided, in order to obtain success, and 
 though first and last a thorough business man, 
 Mr. Forbes maintains a high standard of the 
 duties of a citizen and endeavors to perform his 
 full share in the support of good local govern- 
 ment. In national affairs, he favors the Demo- 
 cratic policy, and makes a point of attending all 
 of the primaries and conventions of the district 
 and county. 
 
 JUDGE WILLIAM H. CULVER. 
 
 The Culver family claim .an ancient and dis- 
 tinguished lineage, and are associated with the 
 remote and dimly remembered historv of Eng- 
 land. Some of their numbers accompanied Wil- 
 liam the Conqueror from Normandy to England, 
 and sulisequcntly held positions of trust in the 
 localities in which they resided. Upon immi- 
 grating to the United States they became iden- 
 
 tified with the early days of Connecticut, and in 
 addition to tilling the soil, and perfecting them- 
 selves in various crafts, they fought liravely for 
 their country wdien prompted by duty or inclina- 
 tion. The paternal grandfather, James, was in 
 the Revolutionary war, and upon being taken 
 prisoner by the English, made his escape, and 
 after a long journey barefooted, settled in Sara- 
 toga county, N. Y. 
 
 Judge Culver was born in Saratoga county, 
 N. Y., and is a son of William Culver, who was 
 born in Wallingford, Conn., and subsequently 
 settled in Saratoga county, N. Y. He was a 
 farmer and contractor during the years of his 
 activity, and served with distinction in the war 
 of 1812. The mother of Judge Culver was for- 
 merly Mary Weeks, who was born, of Welsh 
 descent, in Saratoga county, N. Y., and was a 
 daughter of Daniel Weeks, a native of W^est- 
 chester county, N. Y. Mrs. Culver died in Jer- 
 sey City. She was the mother of nine children, 
 seven sons and two daughters, of whom four 
 sons and one daughter are living, Judge Culver 
 being the oldest child. 
 
 A graduate of Okley Lyceum, in Saratoga 
 county, N. Y., connected with Lfnion College in 
 Schenectady, Judge Culver later studied law 
 with his brother and was admitted to the bar 
 in 1849. On Christmas day of 1850 he started 
 for California via the Panama route, and after 
 a short sojourn in Cuba, continued his journey 
 and arrived in the far western clime in the days 
 of gold. In Tuolunuie county he engaged in 
 mining and in the practice of his profession, and 
 was for a time recorder of the city of Sonora. 
 In 1853 he located in San Francisco, and until 
 1864 was a judge in the different courts of that 
 city. After a visit of eighteen months to the 
 east, he returned to San Francisco and remained 
 until 1879, and from that year until 1881 was in 
 New York. In the fall of 1882 he took up his 
 residence in Tucson, and engaged in the general 
 practice of law. In addition to his other respon- 
 sibilities Judge Culver has been a L-nited States 
 commissioner for four years, a justice of the 
 peace for seven ye:rs, is also a notary public, 
 and formerly served as county coroner. 
 
 In Sonora, Cal., Judge Culver married Kate 
 P). Towle, who was born in Columbia, Cal. Of 
 this union there are two children, Willie R., who
 
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 is in the lumber business in Tucson, and Emma 
 Louisa, who is attending the University of Ari- 
 zona. In politics Judge Culver is a strong Re- 
 publican, and in 1864 was a delegate to the na- 
 tional Republican convention at Baltimore, 
 which brought about the second nomination of 
 Lincoln. He is a past master of the Masonic 
 Lodge at San Francisco. 
 
 IRA HARPER. 
 
 Ira Harper, of the firm of Harper & Depee, 
 dealers in lumber and general merchandise, is 
 a prominent business man of Clifton and has 
 been identified with the development of these 
 southwestern territories for a score of years. A 
 native of Guthrie county, Iowa, he is a son of 
 J. M. and Lydia Harper, who are still living, 
 their present home being on a fine ranch and 
 fruit farm on the Middle Gila in New Mexico. 
 
 Reared in his native place and in Dallas 
 county, Iowa, until his thirteenth year, Mr. 
 Harper moved with his family to Van Buren 
 county, remaining there until March, 1870, then 
 went to Texas, where for four years he assisted 
 his father in the operation of a flour mill and 
 cotton-gin. Later he was employed by other 
 parties in the same line of occupation some seven 
 years. In 1881 he located in the Burro moun- 
 tains, near Silver City, N. M., and during the 
 next three years devoted his energy to the man- 
 agement of a saw-mill. For a like period he 
 then was near Carlisle, N. M., in the same kind 
 of business, and for the five years which fol- 
 lowed resided in tiie vicinity of Pinos Altos, 
 N. M. 
 
 Turning his attention to other chamicls of 
 activity, Mr. Harjjcr settled in the upper Gila 
 valley, and though he continued to operate saw- 
 mills, gave his chief efforts to the development 
 of his farm for a period of seven years. In 1895 
 he came to Arizona and resided at Cold creek 
 for a couple of years, carrying on a lumber trade 
 and being busied in the construction of a wagon 
 road (costing about $1,500) from that point to 
 Clifton. Of late years he has dwelt in Clifton, 
 where he has built up an extensive business in 
 general merchandise. At a cost of over $3,000 
 he Iniilt a wagon road twenty-five miles long 
 between this place and the H. L. Canon, he 
 
 having one mill at the head of that canon, while 
 another is situated on Squaw creek. One of 
 these mills he sold in January, njoi. One of 
 his present enterprises is the building of a forty- 
 mile road from Morenci to Pine Flat, this work 
 rec]uiring about $2,000. Personally he owns 
 considerable valuable property, including a 
 farm of one hundred and eighty-four acres in 
 the splendid agricultural region of Erath county, 
 Tex. On his small ranch near Clifton he is 
 preparing to plant an orchard of ten acres. He 
 owns a flock of the valuable Angora goats now 
 grazing in the H. L. Canon, and doubtless will 
 make a snug little fortune from this venture. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Harper married Miss Clementine 
 Head, of Erath county, Tex., and December 15, 
 1896, she passed to the silent land. Their eldest 
 son, J. M., is engaged in the cattle business in 
 New Mexico. Frank, the second son, is living 
 at home, and Perry, five years old, is residing 
 with his grandparents. Mrs. Nettie Batendolf, 
 the eldest daughter, lives in Clifton, where her 
 husband formerly conducted a meat market, and 
 in addition to this has engaged in the cattle 
 business. Dora is a student in the Agricultural 
 College at Mesilla Park, N. M., and Docia, the 
 youngest daughter, is. at home. January 2, 1898, 
 Mr. Harper married Mrs. Anna Hartwell, of 
 Clifton. By her first marriage she has one child, 
 Grace, now in her tenth year, and- under the in- 
 struction of a private tutor. 
 
 From his early manhood Mr. Harper has 
 given his allegiance to the Democratic party. 
 November 6, 1900, he was honored by being 
 elected a supervisor of Graham county. In all 
 of his business, social and domestic relations he 
 bears a record of which he may justly be proud. 
 With his accustomed consideration for the pos- 
 sible needs of the dear ones dependent upon 
 him he carries a life insurance of some six thou- 
 sand dollars, five thousand of this being in the 
 Cnion Mutual of Maine, and the remainder with 
 the New York Mutual. 
 
 JAMES T. OWENS. 
 
 That much-abused term, self-made, applies 
 with all the force of conviction to J. T. Owens, 
 one of the most ])rosperous busuiess men and 
 large iiroperly owners in Safford. On his fa-
 
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 ther's farm in Alabama, where he was born Au- 
 gust 2, 1854, he was reared to agriculture, and 
 diligently studied in the public schools. His 
 parents, David and Jemima (Smith) C)\vens, 
 were among the e:.rly settlers in Alabama, hav- 
 ing gone there in 1834. They were born in 
 North Carolina, and though industrious and 
 frugal were not in a position to aid their son 
 when he started out in life for himself. When 
 twenty-four years of age he left the home sur- 
 roundings and went to Emporia, Kans., where 
 he worked by the day at whatever presented it- 
 self. After a year he went to Mississippi, but 
 did not there find his anticipated good luck, and 
 so returned to where his home had formerly 
 been in .Alabama, remaining there until 1886. 
 
 Mr. Owens" entry into Arizona was not prolific 
 of any visible signs of future fortune or success, 
 for when he alighted from the train at Bowie 
 he had in his possession the magnificent sum of 
 one dollar. He soon came overland to Thatcher, 
 where he worked by the day, and then borrowed 
 a team of horses, with the aid of which he en- 
 gaged in peddling farm produce. Here he en- 
 countered the first streak of good luck, and 
 found a friend indeed in a Air. Campbell, of Saf- 
 ford, who was at the time engaged in a mercan- 
 tile business. He was impressed with the hon- 
 esty and ability of his new-found acquaintance, 
 and, wishing to dispose of his mercantile busi- 
 ness, sold it to Mr. Owens, taking his personal 
 word as a guarantee of payment. His faith in 
 the purchaser of the business never had occasion 
 to waver, for Mr. Owens became a successful 
 manager, having charge of the store until within 
 the last year. By that time he had paid in full 
 for the business, and was so far ahead that he 
 purchased in 1892 the only mill in Safford, of 
 which he still retains a three-fourths interest. 
 The capacity of the mill is one hundred barrels 
 a day, and the business conducted there is very 
 extensive. For years this was the only mill in 
 the valley, and it ground all of the grain from 
 Duncan to San Carlos. April i, igoi. Union 
 Milling Trading Company was incorporated, 
 with J. T. Owens as general manager. They 
 conduct a general mercantile business, including 
 implements of all descriptions, and have taken 
 Evans. Ellsworth & Co. into the cnnipaiiv, re])- 
 resenting $40,000 capital invested. 
 
 For years Mr. Owens has dealt in farm lands, 
 and now owns one hundred and four acres be- 
 tween Safford and Thatcher, about a mile and 
 a half from town. This property is well im- 
 proved and fenced, and is irrigated throughout. 
 The farm is divided and rented to two tenants, 
 and fitted with two brick residences, and all 
 modern conveniences. The mill company also 
 own about twenty acres of land on which the 
 mill is erected, and Mr. Owens is also the owner 
 of several lots besides that on which his home 
 is located, eight of which are near the depot. 
 His home is one of the finest and most modern 
 and convenient in the town, and is built of a 
 high grade of pressed brick. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Owens married Lona Ragsdale, 
 a daughter of John and Margaret Ragsdale, of 
 Springville, Ala. Of this union there are eight 
 living children: Ella, who is now Mrs. Madi- 
 son, of Safford; Cora, who is the wife of A. E. 
 Jacobson; Dora, who is attending the university 
 at Tucson; Delia and \'iola, wdio are living at 
 home and attending the high school; Oance, 
 who is 'four years old; J. T., Jr., who is two 
 years, and Beauregard, an infant. In politics 
 Mr. Owens votes for the best man, regardless 
 of party issues. With his family he is a member 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day 
 Saints. Mr. Owens is a member of the board of 
 education for St. Joseph Stake Academy at 
 Thatcher, the principal normal school of the 
 territory. 
 
 GEORGE C. CLARK. 
 
 In the ranks of those who have devoted their 
 large gifts to a practical and scientific study of 
 mining in the great west, Mr. Clark occupies a 
 prominent ])osition. Though young in years 
 compared with the majority who have been sim- 
 ilarly regarded, having been born in St. Louis 
 county. Mo., November 25, 1868, the greater 
 part of his life has been spent m acquiring a 
 mastery of every detail of mining, tow'ard which 
 his earliest aspirations tended. As a mere child 
 he was taken to Colorado and educated in and 
 around Denver, where the whole atmosphere 
 seemed imiiregnated with the possibilities for 
 future distinction in developing the stored great- 
 ness of the hills. 
 
 Covering a period of sixteen years, Mr. Clark

 
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 souglit an outlet for his mining propensities in 
 Colorado, Oregon, and as far north as Juneau, 
 Alaska, and he worked for seven years in leasing 
 and developing mines at Leadville. In 1895 he 
 entered the department of mining engineering 
 in the University of Missouri, at Rollo. Mo., 
 from which he was graduated in i8g8. .\lmost 
 inmiediately he sought the center of the greatest 
 copper interests in the west, and opened an of- 
 fice in Bishee, Cochise county, where he rapidlv 
 came to the front as an authority on surveying, 
 reports on mines, estimates of machinery re- 
 quired, and all kinds of engineermg. There is 
 also conducted in connection an assay office 
 which does about all of the local work. 
 
 At the present time Mr. Clark is mining en- 
 gineer and United States mineral surveyor for 
 Arizona. In addition to his other responsibili- 
 ties he is extensively interested in mining in 
 Sonora, Mexico, where he keeps a corps of as- 
 sistant prospectors at work all of the time. In 
 furtherance of the best mining interests of the 
 territory, he is a member of the Aiuerican In- 
 stitute of Mining Engineers. 
 
 TURNER ASH BY HAWES. 
 
 The fertile environment of Tempe is indus- 
 triously tilled by men who have known how to 
 utilize to the utmost the latent cjualities of the 
 soil, and to make of the locality a garden spot, 
 in place of what was once a dreary desert sweep. 
 Among the many who have come from different 
 directions to cast their lot within the borders of 
 Salt River valley, none is held in higher re- 
 pute, nor have any applied themselves with more 
 diligence to the development of the resources 
 at hand than has Mr. Hawes. In addition to 
 the cultivation of a farm of one hundred and 
 sixty acres, he has grasped an opportunity to 
 cater to the necessity for dairy produce, which 
 abounds in all well directed communities. In 
 this undertaking he has met with a large degree 
 of patronage and appreciation, for his business 
 methods are honest, and his goods the best pos- 
 sible procurable. I'or the supplying of the milk 
 and cream for his trade he breeds a fine (|uality 
 of Shorthorns, and is unusually successful as a 
 cattle raiser. 
 
 Upon first coming to the territory in 1887, Mr. 
 
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 Hawes resicled for a couple of years in Tempe, 
 where he was engaged in contract work of vari- 
 ous kinds, including the stacking of hay. He 
 subscqueiuly returned to his former home in 
 Missouri, and in the spring of 1891 visited the 
 far west, and remained in Washington until he 
 took up his permanent residence in the Salt 
 River valley in 1892. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Hawes was practically 
 uneventful, and not unlike that of other farm- 
 rearetl youth. ( )n his father's farm in Loudoun 
 county. \'a., he was born November 23, 1863, 
 his parents being Oliver and Alcinda (Lunse- 
 ford) Hawes, natives of \'irginia. The parents 
 were, during the years of their activity, success- 
 ful agriculturists, and are at present at Tempe, 
 resting from the labors of an industrious life. 
 Their son received a fair education in the public 
 schools, and when eighteen years of age re- 
 moved with the family to Jackson county, Mo., 
 where he lived until coming to the west. 
 
 After removing to Arizona Mr. Hawes mar- 
 ried, January 6, 1895, Nettie Clay, a native of 
 New Mexico, and educated in Missouri and Ari- 
 zona. Mrs. Hawes is a daughter of Thomas and 
 Alice (Godwin) Clay, at present residing in the 
 state of Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Clay is engaged 
 in farming. To Mr. and Mrs. Hawes have been 
 born two children, Eugene and Thomas W. Mr. 
 Hawes is a Democrat in national politics, with 
 independent proclivities. He is interested in all 
 that pertains to the development of his locality, 
 and served for one year as a director of the 
 Tempe Irrigating Canal Company. An inter- 
 esting and remarkable fact in the history of the 
 Hawes family is that the two children born to 
 these people, and themselves, have in all seven 
 grandparents living at the present time. 
 
 EDWARD MORRIS SKINNER. 
 
 This successful contractor and builder and 
 manager of the .\rizona Building Company, at 
 Phoenix, was born at Spanish Fork, Utah, July 
 20, 1869. His early youth was spent on the 
 paternal farm in I'tah. and the education ac- 
 quired was that derived at the public schools. 
 He was an industrious and ambitious lad. and 
 gave to the plans for the future much thought 
 and studv. When sixteen vears of age he went
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 to Salt Lake City and learned the plasterer's 
 trade, and was thus master of a craft for which 
 there is always an imperative demand. Subse- 
 quently he worked at his trade in Butte City, 
 and other towns in Idaho, also in San Francisco, 
 Los Angeles, and several coast cities. In 1889 
 he undertook the work of contracting, in which 
 he has since been successfully engaged. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Skinner became identified with 
 Arizona, at which time he located at Phoenix, 
 and at once received the appreciation and pat- 
 ronage due his painstaking and conscientious 
 methods of conducting business. As a builder, 
 contractor, and brick contractor, he carries on 
 an extended business, not only in the erection 
 of other people's buildings, but also as regards 
 independent ventures, and the erection of resi- 
 dences which he afterwards sells. The Arizona 
 Building Company is an organization with an 
 extended influence in building circles, and which 
 has made itself responsible for nmch of the en- 
 terprise and development of the city. It takes 
 the initiative in developing and building up resi- 
 dence property, which usually finds a ready mar- 
 ket. Nor has any particular part of the city 
 profited by the superior methods of the Arizona 
 Building Company, for its handiwork is recog- 
 nizable in all localities, and in all manner and 
 style of construction. It is to organizations of 
 this kind that a large part of the progress of 
 the west is traceable, for buildings are necessary 
 for all kinds of enterprise, and homes are neces- 
 sary for the propagators thereof. 
 
 In San Francisco, Cal., Mr. Skinner was 
 united in marriage with Ellen Jane Timilty, 
 who was Ijorn in Indiana. Of this union there 
 have been three children, Edward M., Jr., Ger- 
 trude and Irene. In national politics Mr. Skin- 
 ner is a believer in the principles and issues of 
 the Republican party, and has been a delegate 
 to several conventions. 
 
 PETER ANDERSEN. 
 
 From a stretch of land in the Gila valley cov- 
 ered with mesc|uitc brush and timber, to one of 
 the most attractive and remunerative farms ex- 
 tending from the railroad to within half 
 a mile of the town of Sufford, repre- 
 sents the untiring eiTorts of Peter .\ndersen 
 
 to develop and improve a part of the fu- 
 ture garden spot of Arizona. In the claim 
 are two hundred and sixty-seven acres, one hun- 
 dred and sixty of which were homesteaded, the 
 remainder being the result of a later purchase. 
 The slope from the railroad is gradual, and the 
 entire farm may be seen from the track. The 
 improvements are unexcelled in the valley, and 
 include a good residence and excellent out- 
 buildings, besides a picturesque windmill. The 
 visitor is delighted with the prevailing air of 
 neatness and thrift which everywhere abounds, 
 and with the orchards, of which there are two, 
 with their fruit-bearing trees, and wide summer 
 shade. Two hundred and twenty acres are used 
 for the cultivation of alfalfa, and wheat is also 
 raised extensively. In the peaceful and verdant 
 meadows graze fine cattle and horses, some of 
 which belong to the Arizona Copper Company 
 at Clifton, and which Mr. Andersen has under 
 his care. 
 
 Mr. Andersen had familiarized himself with 
 the west before coming to Arizona, and was 
 well-equipped with a general knowledge of busi- 
 ness and an all-around experience. His life has 
 turned into various useful channels, of which 
 agriculture is a representative. He was reared 
 to this occupation in his youth, in his far-off 
 native land of Norway, where he was born in 
 1844. His youth was clouded by the death of 
 his mother, and in 1866 his father, Andrew An- 
 dersen, brought his son to America, where they 
 Landed in New York, and settled immediately in 
 Minneapolis. Flere the elder Andersen bought 
 and sold wheat for a great many years, and the 
 son learned the trade of carpenter, which he fol- 
 lowed in Minneapolis until 1873. He then went 
 to San Francisco and was in the building busi- 
 ness until 1877, when the tales of hidden wealth 
 from the Black Hills attracted him thither, and 
 for a year he had the opportunity to disprove his 
 expectations. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Andersen came direct to SafTord, 
 and at the time there were few evidences of 
 prosperity, and only two business places in the 
 embr^'o town. In anticiiKition of a continued 
 increase of population he erected a hotel in the 
 ])lace, the uncertain career of which was alto- 
 gether ruined by the removal of the county seat. 
 .\s a possible improvement in occupation he
 
 rORTRAIT A\D BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 715 
 
 then engaged in the cattle business for four 
 years, and had, in the nieantiiiie, purchased the 
 farm upon which he located in 1889. He was 
 one of the first white men to take a claim west 
 of Safiford, and the wisdom of his choice of loca- 
 tion is more than demonstrated by the splendid 
 developments wrought by his industry. He still 
 owns the old hotel and a block of ground, which 
 are but secondary to his other large possessions. 
 
 In the matter of mining Mr. Andersen has 
 been ecjually fortunate. In 1884 he and James 
 P. Lindsey discovered what is now called the 
 Lone Star mining district, which is eight miles 
 northeast of Safiford in the Gila mountains. This 
 possession has been the cause of continued 
 trouble, as several of the companies who have 
 wanted it have failed to produce reliable security. 
 In the mean time Mr. Andersen and his partner, 
 Mr. Lindsey, have been working the mine and 
 shipping ore to El Paso, and a Boston com- 
 pany have bonded it and already paid down 
 $8,000, $i6,Oco being the price asked. Besides 
 this property Mr. Andersen has other land in 
 the same neighborhood, which promises equally 
 good results. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Andersen married Isabella 
 Handy; of this union there are no children. He 
 is a stanch Republican in politics, but has no 
 time or inclination for other than a passive in- 
 terest. Although reared in the Lutheran 
 faith, he attends the Presbyterian Church, and 
 lias been prominently identified with the best 
 moral and religious growth of his locality. He 
 has helped to build three different churches, and 
 contributes generously toward all that tends to 
 the best improvement of the coimnunity. 
 
 CHARLES T. HIRST. 
 
 Charles T. Hirst, who has had a number of 
 years' experience in the southwest as a fruit- 
 grower and stock-raiser, has been identified with 
 the interests of Arizona for the past nine years, 
 and has exercised no slight influence upon its 
 present and future. In the prime of life, he was 
 born September 4. 1861. near West Branch, 
 Cedar county, Iowa. His parents, James and 
 .Anna M. (Steer) Hirst, were natives of Ohio, 
 and their respective families long have been con- 
 nected with the .Societ\- <if I'ricnds, and are of 
 
 English descent. Thomas Hirsi, grandfather 
 of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania and at 
 an early period settled in Belmont county, Ohio, 
 where he was occupied in farming. James Hirst, 
 born on the old homestead in that county, re- 
 sided there until he was twenty-five years old, 
 when he removed to Linn county, Iowa. Later 
 he dwelt in Cedar county, same state, and during 
 his residence in that section of the Union owned 
 and improved several farms. In 1885 he went 
 to San Diego county, Cal., and now, in his sev- 
 enty-third year, is living retired in Whittier, Cal. 
 His wife, a native of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, and 
 daughter of Amos Steer, of Pennsylvania, also 
 survives. The eldest child of James Hirst and 
 wife is Mrs. Elizabeth tlampton, of Merced 
 county, Cal., and the youngest, Mrs. Josephine 
 Jordan, resides in Whittier, Cal. Mrs. Ellen 
 Hensler died in Orange county, Cal., and Louis 
 was killed in Kansas, his death resulting from 
 his being throw-n from his horse. Mrs. Clara 
 Kenworthy resides in Buckeye, Ariz. 
 
 The boyhood of C. T. Hirst was spent in the 
 cjuiet pursuits of a farm, and his early homes 
 were in Cedar and Lyons counties, Iowa, and 
 in Osage county, Kans. Supplementing his pub- 
 lic school education by a course at Penn Col- 
 lege, at Oscaloosa, Iowa, he commenced teach- 
 ing in Osage county. At the expiration of the 
 year, or in 1886, he went to California, and, 
 purchasing a farm at Wildomar. San Diego 
 county, managed it with success. Two years 
 subsequently he embarked in the real estate bus- 
 iness at Wildomar, San Diego county, and also 
 devoted considerable attention to the raising of 
 fruit and the management of extensive orchards. 
 
 In 1892 Mr. Hirst came to the Salt River 
 valley and assumed charge of the fine ranch 
 owned by S. C. Bartlett. This place, compris- 
 ing an entire section, is situated to the east of 
 Glendale and has more than a local reputation. 
 Just half of the land was then devoted to orch- 
 ards, while the remainder was given up to the 
 raising of alfalfa and other crops. For five years 
 Mr. Hirst was at the head of tins ranch, after 
 which period he became the manager of the 
 Glendale Fruit Company's ranch — a fine tract of 
 three-quarters of a section, all given up to fruit- 
 raising. Since the autumn of 1898 Mr. Hirst has 
 made his home in Phoenix, his residence being
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 at Xo. 614 North Seventh avenue. At tlie same 
 time he is operating three himdred and eighty 
 acres of land, situated on the Buckeye canal, 
 which affords an abundance of water. He makes 
 a specialty of raising alfalfa and sorghum, and 
 also raises and feeds cattle for the markets. 
 
 For five veers Mr. Hirst has been the presi- 
 dent of the Glendale Live Stock Association, 
 and for some time has l^een an active member 
 of the board of trade. In the Repul)lican party 
 he has been an efficient and valued worker, at 
 one time being a member of the county central 
 committee, but steadfastly declining public of- 
 fice. Belonging to the board of stewards of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church of this city, he is 
 earnestly concernetl in the work of his denomi- 
 nation, loyally aiding it in many substantia' 
 ways. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Hirst and Miss Hattie 
 Spencer took place in Cedar county, Iowa, De- 
 cember 9, 1887. She is a native of that locality, 
 the daughter of Ira L. and Martha E. (Pearson) 
 Spencer, an errly settler of Iowa. He was born 
 in Ohio and now makes his abode in Pasadena, 
 Cal. A son and daughter bless the union of our 
 subject and wife, namely: Lewis I. and Helen, 
 attcndine: school in Phoenix. 
 
 BEXJAMl.X IRAXKL-IX HALDERMAX. 
 
 This stock-raiser and miner, of Cochise coun- 
 tv, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Xovember 30, 
 1851, and is a son of Benjamin Y. and Mary 
 Jane (Dean) Halderman, wiio w-ere also born 
 in Pennsylvania. He received a good conmion- 
 school education, and a home training which 
 fitted hmi for tlie responsibilities of life. In the 
 course of time he more definitely prepared for 
 inde]KMidence by learning the trade of brass 
 niolder, which he subsequently successfully fol- 
 lowed for seven years. 
 
 In ]88i Mr. Ilalilerman came to Arizona and 
 located at Russelville, at the foot of the Dragoon 
 mountains, four and one-half miles north of 
 Dragoon Sunnnit .Station, on the Southern- Pa- 
 cific Railroad. .\t the time the prospects were 
 not snr])risins;l\ iirnmising and there was but 
 one house in llic ]ilace. Nothing ilaunted. this 
 l;iter recruit in the small colonx' went to work 
 
 immediately and built himself a house, and w'ith 
 high hopes for the future began to raise cattle, 
 in which he prospered exceedingly. In fact at 
 the present time the cattle on the Halderman 
 ranch have no superiors for miles around, the 
 owner thereof having already had fourteen years 
 of experience in this particular line of occupation. 
 Xor .are his efforts confined to stock-raising, for 
 he is a large mine owner and numbers among 
 his possessions such valuable properties as the 
 Tip Top, Old Glory and Copper Shield mines, 
 located in the same district as the Peabody mine, 
 and several others of an ecpiaily paying nature. 
 Mr. Halderman is a machinist and engineer, as 
 well as practical miner. 
 
 December 24, 1871, Mr. Halderman married 
 Emma C. Schneider, a daughter of William F. 
 and Rebecca (Zanes) Schneider, of Bucks coun- 
 ty. Pa. Of this union there are four children, 
 viz.: Charles William, who is now carrying on 
 a freighting business at Cochise; Edmund, wiio 
 is superintendent of Smnmit ranch; B. F., Jr., 
 who is in the cattle business; and .\da E., who 
 is living at home and attending school. In 
 politics Mr. Halderman is a believer in the prin- 
 ciples and issues of the Democratic party, but 
 in local affairs he generally votes for the best 
 man. He is not an office seeker, but as an enthu- 
 siast on the subject of education has been in- 
 duced to serve as a school trustee for the past 
 fourteen years. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Chosen 
 Friend Lodge Xo. 100, at Philadelphia. Though 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 he is not connected with any church here, as 
 there is none of that denomination. 
 
 SETH J. JOHNSON. 
 
 Xow one of the enteqtrising and successful 
 agriculturists of the Salt River valley, Mr. John- 
 son came to the territory in 1882, and has since 
 associated himself with its protnise anil growth. 
 The well managed claim of which he is the 
 owner is located about five and a half miles 
 southeast of Temjic, and was ])urchase(l in 1887. 
 .\t that time there seemed but little ])rospect of 
 tile alnmdant harvests which hax'c m later years 
 rewarded the untiring efforts of the owner, fur 
 llu' laud had the ap])earance of a desert, and it^
 
 GEORGE H, DOE.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 719 
 
 stored resources were Init a matter of conjec- 
 ture. 
 
 The life of Mr. Johnson has been spent within 
 the Ijonndaries of the far west, and few are more 
 famiHar witli the vicissitudes of hfe as experi- 
 enced by the pioneers of this part of the coun- 
 try. He was born in L'tah. .\pril 10. 1858, and 
 is a son of Henjamin V. and Harriet X. lilol- 
 nian) Johnson, .at the present time residents of 
 the -Sah River vaUey. In his early days he was 
 reared to farming ])iu'suits, and also skilled in 
 the work of the lumberman, which occupation 
 his father carried on in connection with the 
 management of his farm. He was fortunate in 
 being able to obtain a better education than falls 
 to the lot of the average farm-reared boy, and 
 was admirably fitted for the future responsibili- 
 ties of life by studying at a private school, and 
 by such business experience as chanced his way. 
 
 While living in Utah, December 23. 1881, Mr. 
 Johnson was united in marriage with Polly E. 
 Richmond, who was born in Utah. Of this 
 iniion there ha\e been ten children, viz.: Seth 
 J. Jr., .\nnnon L., Genevieve, Seymour, Lorena, 
 I'rank W., Edith, Armanilla (who is deceased), 
 Georgiana and Atelia Mirth. Mr. Johnson has 
 overcome many obstacles and discouragements 
 while making his way in the world, and is a self- 
 made man in the highest sense of the word. He 
 is an ardent advocate of the best possible educa- 
 tion, and contributes much time and monev to- 
 ward furthering the cause of education. He is a 
 member of the board of education of Alaricopa 
 county. In all other directions towards the up- 
 building of the locality in which he lives he may 
 be depended u])on to assist to the full extent of 
 his powers. He and his family are members of 
 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 
 and he is now serving in the high council of the 
 chnrcli in .Maricopa county. 
 
 GEORGE H. DOE. 
 
 The senior member of the firm of Doc & 
 Parsons, who have their offices on Mesilla street, 
 near Main, Tucson, is an old settler of southern 
 Arizona, in point of years of residence, and has 
 contributed materially to the upbuilding of this 
 city, numerous structures which he has erected 
 
 here being comprised among our best build- 
 ings. 
 
 George H. Doe coines from an early-estab- 
 lished New England familw His father. William 
 Doe, a native of Waltiiam. Mass., has been a 
 contractor and builder of that place for many 
 years, and is yet living there, though now re- 
 tired from active labors. His wife, Mary, 
 daughter of James Harrington, both natives of 
 Watertown, Mass., has passed to tlie silent land, 
 but all of their children, two sons and four 
 daughters, are living. The second in order of 
 birth, our subject was born July 18, 1845, '" 
 Waltham, Mass., and received a public-school 
 education. When fifteen years of age he was 
 apprenticed as a machinist in P>oston and served 
 for three years, also becoming thoroughly famil- 
 iar with stationary engines. In 1866 he went to 
 Colorado, and during the next four years en- 
 gaged in mining on Clear Creek, near Central 
 City, Black Hawk, Idaho Springs and George- 
 town. Then he entered the employ of the Santa 
 Fe narrow gauge railroad, putting in pumps 
 along the line, and at length, when at Pueblo, 
 in 1871, he left the company and went to Taos, 
 N. M., where he spent the winter. 
 
 Next, on horseback, with some pack animals, 
 Mr. Doe came to Tucson and for some time 
 prospected and mined in southern .\rizona. In 
 the fall of 1872 he commenced the building of 
 Fort Lowell, and subsequently purchased a 
 ranch on the Rillto. There fifteen years of his 
 life passed quietly away, his time being devoted 
 to the raising of cattle and to the cultivation of 
 his farm. Since 1888 he has lived in Tucson 
 and has been occupied in building business 
 blocks, public edifices and residences. .-Vniong 
 others that might be mentioned it may be stateil 
 that he constructed the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks Block, the Carnegie Public 
 Library, the Consolidated Bank Building, many 
 of our principal store buildings and some of the 
 finest residences in the city. The present firm 
 of Doe & Parsons has been in existence for the 
 past four years, and business is in a flourishing 
 c(5ndition. In fraternal relations Mr. Doe is 
 identified with the Masonic order, the Improved 
 ( )rder of Red Men and the Woodmen of the 
 World. In his political affiliation he is a Demo- 
 crat. He was married in Tucson to Miss Mary
 
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 Valenzula, a native of Sonora. Mexico, and four 
 sons and a daughter bless their home, namely: 
 William, Henry, Irving, George and Mary. The 
 eldest son, William, is in partnership with his 
 father, and Henry, the second son, is employed 
 hy them as a carpenter. 
 
 Few men have been more closely identified 
 with the actual upbuilding of one of the most 
 important cities of Arizona than Mr. Doe, and 
 the many monuments to his architectural skill 
 will live after him for years, keeping alive his 
 name as one of the most progressive and valued 
 pioneers of the territory. 
 
 LEWIS W. COOLEY. 
 
 The thrilling earlv days of Cochise county, 
 when human lives were rated by the marauders 
 as less valuable than buckshot, when a grudge 
 often terminated in the terrible vengeance 
 wrought by spilled human blood, and when the 
 passing stage coach was watched by scheming 
 and envious eyes with ever-present designs upon 
 the possibly valuable cargo, the peaceful and 
 law-abiding citizen who lent a dignity of pur- 
 pose to his life here was obliged to cultivate a 
 steady nerve and unfaltering purpose, in order 
 to circumvent the cunning and treachery of 
 those who desired fortunes, but were unwilling 
 to work for them along the lines offered in the 
 locality in mining, agriculture and commerce. 
 Perhaps no one in the coimty has more vivid 
 remembrances of these adventurous times than 
 has Mr. Cooley, who has lived here for many 
 years, and the greater part of whose life has been 
 spent in the outposts of the country. 
 
 Near Mendota, 111., eighty miles from Chi- 
 cago, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
 Railroad, Mr. Cooley was born, May 13, 1854. 
 His parents, F. L. and Jane (Dodge) Cooley, 
 were natives respectively of Massachusetts and 
 \'ermont: the latter died about thirty-five years 
 ago, and the former is now living in Kansas 
 City. L. W. removed with his parents when 
 ten years old to Fort Scott, Kans., where he lived 
 until 1873. He then went to Dallas, Tex., and 
 later to Fort Worth, remaining there until the 
 first railroad was built there. Upon moving 
 west, near El Paso, he had a government posi- 
 tion as stage driver between Forts Concho and 
 
 Davis, and later between Davis and El Paso, on 
 the Star Rotite line, for six years. This famous 
 old stage line was owned by Dick Kerens, now 
 a noted Republican and prominent business man 
 of Missouri, and Mr. Cooley's, association with 
 him began when he was himself a stage driver 
 in moderate circumstances. From EI Paso Mr. 
 Cooley came to Arizon.i, and drove the stage 
 between Yuma and Tucson until the railroad 
 interfered with the usefulness of the stage, and 
 in 1879 he began to drive between Benson and 
 Tombstone. The driver who succeeded him to 
 the position met his death at the hands of ban- 
 dits, who commanded him to halt, failing which, 
 he was shot. This stage had $60,000 worth of 
 treasure, which the robbers failed to get, as the 
 frightened horses could not be stopped by them, 
 but continued their mad run into l'>enson, where 
 they arrived apparently unharmed. 
 
 After this cleploral)le incident the stage com- 
 pany offered Mr. Cooley $125 a month to re- 
 enter their service, but he had in the mean time 
 entered the employ of E. B. Gage, who was su- 
 perintendent of the Grand Central mine at 
 Tombstone, and who refused to let him return. 
 N. K. Fairbanks was the principal owner of the 
 Grand Central Mining Company at Tombstone, 
 and his interest in Mr. Cooley came about in a 
 strange manner. The Chicago multi-millionaire 
 wished, one dark and stormy night, to get to his 
 mines, thirty miles distant, and, having missed 
 the train, was afraid to start out alone. Mr. 
 Cooley assured him that he would drive him in 
 safety and speed to his destination, a feat which 
 was accomplished in two hours and fifty-five 
 minutes. This gave Mr. Fairbanks and the party 
 who accompanied him decided confidence in the 
 driver's ability and trustworthiness, and was the 
 means of his employment by the Grand Central 
 iVIining Company for three years. 
 
 Mr. Cooley then entered the employ of an 
 English mine owner at Sonora, Mexico, and 
 part of the time drove his fancy six-horse rig. 
 He then assayed for the Tough Nut Mining 
 Company, at Tombstone, for a year at $100 a 
 month, and subsecjuently opened a cigar store, 
 which was abruptly broken up by the strike. He 
 was then employed as driver for Mr. Gates, who 
 is now president of the Congress mine, and in 
 1886 went into the cattle business, and for ten
 
 
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 stone mountains. Upon removing to Benson he 
 engaged in the cattle business on an e\''en larger 
 scale, and at the present time has about five 
 hundred head of cattle -on three ranches, two 
 of which are in the Whetstone mountains, anil 
 one east of Benson. He has erected a comfort- 
 able home in the town, and is interested in the 
 building up of the bustling little place. His hos- 
 pitable home is presided over by Mrs. Cooley, 
 formerly Carrie W. Tempest, a daughter of I. 
 W. Tempest, and a native of London, England. 
 They have a bright child, Lester E., who is at- 
 tending school in Benson. Mr. Cooley is a 
 Democrat. His wife is a member of the Episco- 
 palian Church. 
 
 JOSEPH S. FIFIELD. 
 
 Prominent among the business men of 
 Phoenix is numbered the gentleman whose name 
 introduces this review. He is one of the most 
 successful and extensive contractors and build- 
 ers of Arizona, and of his skill many notable 
 examples are seen throughout the territory. He 
 was born in Kentucky on the 4th of September, 
 1858, and is a son of Peter Fifield, a native of 
 Maine, where the grandfather spent his entire 
 life. Going to Kentucky in early life the father 
 married Miss Maria Buckler, who was born 
 forty miles south of Louisville. Her father, 
 Richard Buckler, was also born in the Blue 
 Grass state, and died in Illinois. During the 
 childhood of our subject his parents removed 
 to Edgar county, 111., where the father improved 
 a farm, and meeting with success in his new 
 home he became the owner of several good 
 farms. He died there at the age of seventy 
 years, and the mother passed away at the age 
 of about seventy-three. 
 
 In their family were five children, all of whom 
 are still living, Joseph S. being next to the 
 youngest and the only one residing in Arizona. 
 Riley and Stephen were both members of an Il- 
 linois regiment during the Civil war. Joseph 
 S. Fifield was reared on a farm near Paris, Ed- 
 gar county, 111., and was educated in the district 
 schools and Grandview L^niversity. .\t the age 
 of eighteen years he went to western Texas, and 
 as a cow-boy traveled all over Kansas, Nebraska, 
 Wyoming and Montana, living in the last three 
 
 states from 1879 to 1883. Later he was engaged 
 in the cattle business in Nevada until coming \.o 
 Prescott, Ariz., in 1884. 
 
 During his youth Mr. Fifield learned the car- 
 penter's trade, and at Prescott he engaged in 
 contracting and building until 1886, when he 
 went to San Diego, Cal., remaining there two 
 years. The follow'ing two years were spent at 
 Seattle, Wash., and subsequently he was in Salt 
 Lake City and other places in the west. In 1893 
 he came to Phoenix, and has since successfully 
 engaged in contracting and building at this 
 place, having been a member of the firm of 
 Fifield & Gallagher since Frida'y, December 13. 
 iSy". They also do general contracting and put 
 in the water and sewer system at Sacaton, be- 
 sides erecting a number of buildings at that place. 
 In Phoenix they have built many residences, 
 tb.e O'Neill Building No. i, and the harness and 
 manual training buildings at the Indian school. 
 
 In Phoenix Mr. Fifield married Mrs. Mary 
 (Hall) Lewis, a native of New York state, and 
 they have one child, Rosa. By his ballot Mr. 
 Fifield supports the men and measures of the 
 Republican party. He is a member of the Board 
 of Trade and the Maricopa Club of Phoenix ; 
 the Odd Fellows Lodge at San Diego ; the Be- 
 nevolent Protective Order of Elks and the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen. By un- 
 tiring industry and sound judgment he has won 
 a merited success in his business undertakings, 
 and is in all respects worthy the high regard in 
 which he is held h\ his fellow-men. 
 
 T. W. CHAMBERLAIN. 
 
 C)ne of the most successful and public-spirited 
 citizens of Phoenix is the president and manager 
 of the T. W. Chamberlain Lumber Company. 
 Born in Keokuk, Iowa, May 10, 1858, he is a son 
 of Edwin A. and Celeta Chamberlain, both de- 
 scendants of old eastern families. As is gener- 
 ally known, many of the Chamberlains took an 
 active part in the colonial history of New Eng- 
 land, and the family was well represented in the 
 war of the Revolution and in the second war 
 with the mother country. The father of our sub- 
 ject was born in Salem. Mass., and in his early 
 nianliood became one of the pioneers of Keo- 
 kuk, Iowa, where he was engaged in the manu-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 facturing of carriages for a number of years. 
 He also took large contracts for saddles and 
 similar supplies for the government, and was 
 noted for his enterprise and integrity. In re- 
 ligion he was a Presbyterian and fraternally a 
 Mason. At the age of sixty-five he was sum- 
 moned to his reward. His wife, who was born 
 in Jacksonville, 111., was a member of .a pioneer 
 family of that state. Only three of the eight 
 children of Edwin A. Chamberlain and wife sur- 
 vive, namely: T. W.: Horace W., a prosperous 
 druggist of Alton, 111., and Arthur, who is asso- 
 ciated with a newspaper published in Keokuk, 
 Iowa. Frank, who was a conductor on the Santa 
 Fe. was killed in a railroad wreck near Prescott, 
 Ariz. 
 
 T. W. Chamberlain obtained ,an excellent pub- 
 lic school education, and soon after completing 
 his higher studies entered the office of the "Gate 
 City," one of the oldest Republican newspapers 
 of Keokuk and of that portion of Iowa. Steadily 
 rising from one position to another until he was 
 assistant manager of the paper, he remained 
 there until 1878, when he went to Peoria, 111., 
 and became the manager of the Peoria "Tran- 
 script." At the end of three years' service in 
 that capacity he associated himself with the 
 great fire insurance firm. Gale & Co., of Min- 
 neapolis, Minn. For a score of years he was ac- 
 counted one of their most valuable men, and in 
 the capacity of manager had numerous large re- 
 sponsibilities. 
 
 In October, 1896, Mr. Chamberlain came to 
 Phoenix, and, buying out the old Saginaw lum- 
 ber yard, embarked in business on the same site, 
 Second and Jackson streets. July 10, 1899, 
 the T. W. Chamberlain Lumber Company was 
 incorporated, with a capital stock of $20,000, 
 and today the firm enjoys the patronage of the 
 majority of the public of this locality. Over a 
 quarter of the block occupied by the yards is 
 under cover, large sheds and warehouses having 
 l)cen built for the protection of fine lumber and 
 building material, lime, cement and builder's 
 hardware. By characteristic enterprise the head 
 of the firm has met the demands of the trade 
 and has won the confidence of his patrons. Per- 
 sonally, he owns five acres of land near the In- 
 dian school, just outside of the city limits of 
 Phoenix. There he has made substantial im- 
 
 provements, built a comfortable modern resi- 
 dence, and makes a specialty of raising every 
 variety of fruit which can be successfully grown 
 in this locality. 
 
 While in Minneapolis Mr. Chamberlain was 
 united in marriage with Miss Lillian G. Parry, 
 whose birthplace is in La Crosse, Wis. Her fa- 
 ther, Uriah Parry, was one of the most prosper- 
 ous wholesale druggists of his section at the time 
 of his death, and by his superior talents had be- 
 come extremely popular in the community. Just 
 on the threshold of his mature career, when but 
 twenty-two years of age, he was killed by an 
 explosion of muriatic acid. Mr. and Mrs. Cham- 
 berlain are the parents of one daughter, Marian 
 Grace, now attending the Ramona Convent in 
 California. The family is identified with the 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 Every movement tending to advance the in- 
 terests of Phoeni.x finds an ardent friend in our 
 subject, who is connected with the board of 
 trade and the Maricopa Club. In political faith 
 he is a stanch Republican, and in the line of his 
 business he belongs to the Phoenix Lumber 
 Men's Association. 
 
 ELLING OLSEN. 
 
 Norway has sent many of her industrious and 
 capable sons to different parts of America, and 
 nowhere are their sterling and substantial na- 
 tional traits better appreciated than in the Salt 
 River valley. Here they have helped to develop 
 the latent riches of the soil, and to make for 
 themselves a home amidst the most promising 
 surroundings of the great southwest. In 1882 
 Mr. Olsen first came to the territory, and so 
 great lias been his success that he owns a whole 
 section of land eight miles southeast of Tempe, 
 and carries on extended general-farming and 
 stock-raising enterprises. 
 
 In the mountainous little country of Norway 
 Mr. Olsen was born, April 4, 1862. His parents 
 were natives of the same country, and while 
 their son remained under the family roof, he was 
 instructed in the ways of carrying on a farm. 
 When thirteen years old he joined the navy and 
 went to sea in the Norwegian merchant marine, 
 and for several years was a wanderer upon the 
 wide expanse of the deep. During his journey-
 
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 727 
 
 ings he visited the East and West indies and 
 Australia, ant! many otlier remote parts of the 
 earth, accumulatini; in the mean time a large 
 general fund of useful information. In 1882 his 
 wanderings terminated in .\rizoua, he having 
 innnigrated to .America in tlu heginning of that 
 year. 
 
 Mrs. Olsen was formerly Christina Johanesen, 
 a native of Norway, and a daughter of Johanes 
 and Annie (Hansen) Johanesen. To Mr. and 
 Mrs. Olsen have been born four children, three 
 of whom are living: Anton E., John ()., and 
 Charles O. -Vlbert is deceased. Mr. Olsen is a 
 Republican in politics, and is progressive and 
 enterprising, and is regarded as an acquisition 
 to the locality which has benefited 1)> liis untir- 
 intr efiforts as an agriculturist. 
 
 GEORGE H. WTLSOX. 
 
 As transportation agent for the United States 
 Mr. \Mlsi)n has at times lived in several of 
 the western cities, and is familiar with the hard- 
 shijis and advantages of a residence in what may 
 be termed the outposts of civilization. A na- 
 tive of far-ofT Maine, he was born at Orono, 
 near Bangor, in 1858, and is a son of Oliver M. 
 and Harriet Fayette (Weeks) Wilson. His edu- 
 cational advantages were excellent. He was 
 graduated from the high school at Orono and 
 for two and a half years attended the University 
 of Maine in Orono. 
 
 Into an otherwise uneventful youth came the 
 opportunity most desired of acquiring indepen- 
 dence. .\n uncle, George H. Weeks, was at the 
 time chief (juartermaster of the department of 
 Arizona, with headquarters near Prescott, and 
 he offered his nephew a position there as clerk. 
 Needless to state, this was a prized and readily- 
 accepted chance, and he became the quartermas- 
 ter's assistant at Maricopa, Ariz., Los Angeles, 
 Cal., Phoenix and Willcox, Ariz., he being now 
 located in Willcox, w-here he has charge of the 
 work of transporting supplies to Fort (Srant. In 
 addition to his government position, Mr. Wilson 
 has been variously interested in affairs in .Ari- 
 zona, and for ten years was interested in farm- 
 ing in the Salt River valley near Phoenix, and 
 did a large business in cattle and horses. He 
 
 also owns mining claims at Dos Cabezos and in 
 the Rincon mountains. 
 
 .Xjiril 6, 1901, Mr. Wilson organized the San 
 Ygnacio Copper Mining Company, associating 
 with him H. A. Morgan and W. !•". .\ichols, of 
 Willcox. Their property is located in the Rin- 
 con mountains, in Cochise county, eighteen 
 miles from Mescal. .\t this writing (1901) Mr. 
 Wilson is organizing a company for the devel- 
 opment of his property at Dos Cabezos, and in 
 New Mexico, being associated with George W. 
 Bibbens, of Kansas City, George W. Cass, of 
 Chicago, and Mr. Indalid, of Binghamton, N. Y. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Wilson and Miss Julia 
 S. King, of Jersey City, occurred in December 
 of 1890. ()f this union there are two children: 
 •Mice, who is nine ye.irs of age; and (ieorge B., 
 who is five. Air. and Mrs. Wilson are members 
 of the Episcopal Church and contribute gener- 
 ously toward the support of the same. 
 
 In national politics a stanch Republican, Mr. 
 Wilson is a decided party man and has always 
 maintained an interest in local politics. Fra- 
 ternally he is connected with the Ancient Order 
 of United W'orkmen. He is one of the reliable 
 and substantial members of the community, and 
 has the good will and respect of all who know 
 him. 
 
 ADONIRAM J. HEAD. 
 
 One of the early ]iioneers of Prescott is this 
 well-known citizen, who arrived here in 1876. 
 By persistent industry and concentration of pur- 
 pose, he h?.s justly earned the financial success 
 which he today enjoys, and at the same time he 
 has ever been mindful of his duties of citizen- 
 ship, and has jierformed them faithfully. 
 
 D. J. and Mrginia (Stubblefield) Head, par- 
 ents of A. J. Head, were natives of Georgia and 
 Alabama, respectively . The father, who was of 
 English-\\'elsh descent, was the owner of a plan- 
 tation in -Alabama, and when the Civil war was 
 in progress he enlisted in one of the regiments 
 of his state and died while in the service. Doubt- 
 less from his maternal grandfather. George 
 Stubblefield, .\. J. Head inherited his natural 
 aptitude for machinery, for that ancestor, as well 
 as all of his sons, were engineers and expert ma- 
 chinists. Airs. Head died at her old Alabama 
 home, and all of her four children survive.
 
 728 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 The subject of this article was born near 
 Union Springs, Ala., March i8, 1848, and was 
 reared upon the old plantation. He received 
 his early education in the primitive country 
 schoolhouses of the place and period.- In 1870 
 he joined his uncle, George Stubblefield, who 
 owned a lumber mill at Troy, Ala., and under 
 his supervision mastered the business of a saw- 
 yer and stationary engineer. After this appren- 
 ticeship of two or more years he went into the 
 shops of the Montgomery & Eufaula Railroad, 
 and in 1873 went to Florida, where he worked 
 in sawmills until the spring of 1876. 
 
 Desiring to behold the great and enterprising 
 west, Mr. Head made a journey to San Fran- 
 cisco, there took a steamer bound for the sea- 
 port of Los Angeles, and thence proceeded by 
 rail to Colton, Cal., where he became a passen- 
 ger in a stage coach coming to Prescott. That 
 summer he assisted in the task of making hay 
 with a hoe, as it was done in those days, his 
 employer being a government contractor. In 
 September the young man returned from the 
 Verde to Prescott, and for several months was 
 employed in a brickyard. When the Clipper 
 Mills at Hassayampa were started he applied for 
 a position as a sawyer, and on October 18, 1876, 
 became an employe of J. G. Wiley, with whom 
 he continued two years. Then for nearly six 
 years he was sawyer and foreman for the firm of 
 Clark & Adams, in their dififerent mills. 
 
 Having husbanded his earnings until a good 
 opportunity opened for embarking in business 
 on his own account, Mr. Head purchased the old 
 "Jeff Davis" ranch, twelve miles south of Pres- 
 cott, and about a year later, in 1885, sold the 
 place. Then he was engineer in a mine for a 
 few months, after which he took charge of a saw- 
 mill for the Walnut Grove Water Storage Com- 
 pany. 
 
 Appointed postmaster of Prescott in 1886 by 
 President Cleveland, Mr. Head assumed his of- 
 fice February 10, 1887, and for four years faith- 
 fully discharged his duties. When J. W. Archi- 
 bald was appointed as his successor, Mr. Head 
 was made deputy by him, and continued as as- 
 sistant postmaster until 1893, when he resigned. 
 During the following three years he was en- 
 gaged in the real estate and brokerage business, 
 and in 1896 started a small planing-mill and 
 
 commenced dealing in lumber. Later, he built 
 his present substantial mill, equipping it with a 
 twenty-horse power boiler and fifteen-horse 
 power engine. In addition to general mill work, 
 he manufactures moldings, sash, doors and 
 builder's supplies. A large stock of lumber is 
 kept on hand, and a wholesale and retail trade 
 of large proportions has been built up by the 
 enterprising proprietor. In 1899 l^^ erected the 
 postofifice building, and in addition to the hand- 
 some residence on Cortcz street, which he budt 
 for his family, he owns other residence and busi- 
 ness property in this city. Since 1887 he has 
 carried on a piano and organ business, making 
 a specialty of renting them. All of his enter- 
 prises are flourishing, and to himself only does 
 he owe his business success. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Head and Miss Susie 
 Tighe, a native of Ellenburg, Grant county, Wis., 
 took place in Prescott, September 10, 1884. 
 They have one child. Viva G. Mrs. Head's fa- 
 ther, Thomas Tighe, a native of Ohio, was a 
 pioneer farmer of Wisconsin, and her brother, 
 Hubert, now of Flagstaff, came to Arizona in 
 1874 and was long engaged in mining enter- 
 prises. Mrs. Head was educated at the Platte- 
 ville (Wis.) State Normal, and in the fall of 1882 
 came to this territory, taught the first school at 
 Ash Fork, the first on Groom creek, also the 
 first one at Agua Fria. Thus, she, too, is a pio- 
 neer of Arizona, and within her recollection 
 notable changes have taken place here. 
 
 For three years Mr. Head was a school trustee 
 and also acted for a period as clerk of the board. 
 Fraternally he is a past officer of the Odd Fel- 
 lows Lodge and also of the Encampment, and of 
 the lodge of the Woodmen of the World. In 
 politics he is a stalwart Democrat. 
 
 GEORGE H. CLAYSON. 
 
 The fertility and promise of the Salt River 
 valley have been utilized in a substantial manner 
 by Mr. Clayson, who, as proprietor of the well- 
 known Arizona Nurseries, has realized many of 
 his expectations as to the adaptability of the soil 
 for his interesting occupation. The nurseries, 
 located about five miles east of Phoenix, are the 
 pride of their owner, and a credit to the locality 
 in which thev are situated. The ranch of which
 
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 they are a part is eighty acres in extent, forty- 
 seven acres being under various kinds of fruits, 
 and the balance under nursery stocl< and or- 
 antres. Here, under the bright skies, and in 
 close proximity to the sun-kissed land of Califor- 
 nia, this student of the intricacies and possibili- 
 ties of nature and her soil jjursues an unrelenting 
 research, remote from commercial strife, and in 
 touch with the best things of life. Mindful of 
 the comfort and convenience of the tourist pub- 
 lic, Mr. Clayson has erected on his land a com- 
 modious and well-equipped private hotel, called 
 the Homeside Park Hotel, which is sure to meet 
 with the appreciation of the traveling element. 
 
 The Qayson family comes of old New Eng- 
 land stock, and his paternal grandfather, Reu- 
 ben, served with courage and distinction in the 
 war of the Revolution. George H. Clayson was 
 born in Steuben county, N. Y., November 22, 
 1833, and is a son of Benjamin and Eliza (Sal- 
 mon) Clayson, natives of New York. On his 
 father's farm he was reared to habits of industry 
 and thrift, nor was his education neglectetl, for 
 he studied in the public schools and in the acad- 
 emy at Bath, N. Y. Upon attaining his majority 
 and starting out in the world for himself, he 
 became interested in a mercantile venture at 
 Avoca, N. Y., and after several years continued 
 the mercantile business in Chicago, for a period 
 of seven years. After removing to Crystal Lake, 
 111., he entered upon the work which has since 
 claimed his devoted attention, and developed a 
 large fruit-growing industry, by far the most 
 extensive in that state. At the time he was the 
 largest grower of raspberries in America. Dur- 
 ing the forty years of his residence in Illinois 
 Mr. Clayson became identified with the various 
 enterprises of the localities in which he lived, 
 and was particularly influential from an educa- 
 tional and religious standpoint. For a quarter 
 of a century he served as Sunday-school super- 
 intendent at Crystal Lake and Palatine, in both 
 of which places he resided after leaving Chicago. 
 For a time he was part owner of the Crystal 
 Lake canning and preserving works. In 1888 he 
 took up his permanent residence in Salt River 
 valley, and has come to regard it as a field for 
 continued prosperity. 
 
 By the union of Mr. Clayson and Martha A. 
 Harris, of Palatine, 111., there are three children; 
 
 Frank H.: Daisy J., who is the wife of Henry 
 Millholland: and G. Roy. Mr. Clayson is a 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at 
 Phoenix, and as one of the official board is ac- 
 tively interested in the afTairs of the church. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Masonic 
 order. 
 
 FDW.XRD ll.XLE. 
 
 One of the most active and efficient members 
 of the Tucson city council is Edward Hale, who 
 was elected by his Democratic friends to this 
 honorable body in i8y8. He is the chairman of 
 the fire committee and belongs to the commit- 
 tees having in charge the streets, building and 
 land questions. He also is identified with the 
 Tucson Hook & Ladder Company No. i, and 
 in inmunerable ways has expressed the genuine 
 interest which he takes in everything pertaining 
 to the welfare of this city. 
 
 The ancestors of our subject, on both sides 
 of the family, belonged to the Society of 
 Friends. The Hales were Pennsylvanians back 
 to the time of William Penn. Thomas S., father 
 of Edward Hale, was born in Philadelphia, and 
 was a member of the successful firm of Brown 
 & Hale, furriers and hatters. It is said that 
 Thomas S. Hale was the first man who ever 
 manufactured a fur hat in the LTnited States, 
 and the first engaged in dyeing fur in this 
 country. His wife, whose maiden name was 
 Frances Bromley, also was a native of Phila- 
 delphia, and both passed their entire lives in 
 that city. They were the parents of five sons 
 and one daughter. 
 
 The third in order of birth was Edward Hale, 
 born April 30, i860, in the "Quaker City." He 
 was reared to maturity there and mastered the 
 trade of a ])ainter. At the age of eighteen he 
 went to New York City and was employed at 
 his calling there and in Boston, Providence, R. 
 I., Buffalo, N. Y.. Chicago, 111., and Butte City, 
 Mont., until 1879. Then he went to the Pacific 
 coast and found plenty of employment in Seattle, 
 Tacoma and Portland. In 1881 he went to San 
 I'rancisco, thence proceeded to Los Angeles, 
 Cal.. and in 1882 came to Arizona, locating in 
 Prescotl, where he took contracts for painting. 
 In 1883 he was similarly occupied in Tempe, 
 Ariz., and from 1884 to 1890 was in Phoenix,
 
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 where he found no dearth of work. Since 1890 
 he has been a resident of Tucson, where he has 
 executed some of tlie finest contract painting 
 performed in this period. Among other build- 
 ings of note which he has decorated are the ca- 
 thedral, the University building, St. Joseph's 
 Academy and the Indian School, the old hos- 
 pital, the opera-house, the court-house and 
 numerous business buildings and residences of 
 the best class. In the meantime he has been 
 the proprietor of a store in which a fine supply 
 of paints and wall-paper is kept in stock. In 
 1897 he opened a carriage painting shop, and 
 now transacts the largest business in this line 
 in southern Arizona. Like most of the wide- 
 awake citizens of this territory he has made 
 investments in mining property. 
 
 Needless to say, Mr. Hale is a great worker 
 in the interests of the Democratic party, and 
 formerly was a member of the county central 
 committee. Fraternally he is connected with 
 the Improved Order of Red Men and with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. For a wife 
 he chose Miss Julia DeBoud. their marriage tak- 
 ing place in Tucson in March, 1897. She is a 
 native of Los Angeles, Cal., and is the mother 
 of a daughter, Henriette. 
 
 WHITFIELD T. CUMMINGS. 
 
 Much of the prosperity which the dwellers of 
 Salt River valley now enjoy is due to the un- 
 tiring pioneer eiiforts of men like Mr. Cum- 
 mings, who worked to substantiate a splendid 
 faith in the possibilities of tjieir surroundings 
 and to build up a home for themselves and for 
 their children, and their children's children. 
 Under their indulgent care the soil, long inured 
 to inactivity, was made to give up its stored 
 excellence, and to yield abundant Iiarvests; and 
 where was once a desert of intimidating aspect, 
 and scant inducement for labor, the cattle now 
 peacefully graze and multiply, under bright 
 skies, and with plenty of artificially procured 
 water. In this work of transformation wliich 
 has so amazed the surrounding states and terri- 
 tories Mr. Cummings has contributed his share, 
 and is entitled to the gratitude and appreciation 
 of latter-day residents. 
 
 In his native county of Jackson, Mo.. Mr. 
 
 Cummings was born November 23, 1849, and is 
 a son of John and Mary (Barnett) Cummings, 
 born respectively in Kentucky and Missouri. 
 ( )n his father's farm in Jackson county, Whit- 
 field T. Cununings was reared to an appreciation 
 of the dignity and usefulness of an agricultural 
 life, and received a fair education in the public 
 schools. In 1868 he was united in marriage 
 with Elizabeth Cosner, a native of West Vir- 
 ginia, and of this union there have been eleven 
 children, nine of whom are living: Mrs. Fisher 
 Bailey, Mrs. Charles Austin, Mrs. Carl Keller, 
 Mollie, Hattie, Lucy, Ethel, John A. and Edwin. 
 Mr. Cummmgs came to Arizona in 1877, and 
 has resided in the Salt River valley up to the 
 present time. The ranch wdiich has for so many 
 years been the object of his care is located near 
 Tempe, and is one hundred and twenty acres in 
 e.xtent. It was accjuired under the homestead 
 act, and has been developed from an arid waste 
 to its present remunerative condition. With the 
 various enterprises for the development of the 
 locality he has been wisely and substantially in- 
 terested, and in the matter of water development 
 especially has brought to bear much study and 
 thought. For several years he has served as a 
 director of the We"stern Branch of the Tempe 
 canal. As a broad-minded member of the Dem- 
 ocratic party he has rendered his party valuable 
 service, and for a number of years has been a 
 school trustee of district No. 12. He has also 
 been road-overseer of district No. 3, Maricopa 
 county, and is still holding the same position. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Independ- 
 ent Order of Odd Fellows and the United Mod- 
 erns, at Tempe. A typical pioneer, he possesses 
 the reliable traits of mind and character which 
 insure excellent citizenship,and the fundamental 
 growth of localities. He is esteemed by all \\ ho 
 are privileged to know him, and is respected for 
 his integrity and honesty of purpose. 
 
 CLINTON CAMPBELL. 
 
 As an unusually successful contractor and 
 builder Mr. Campbell has been enabled to realize 
 many of his glowing expectations in regard to 
 life in the territory, and more especially in 
 Phoenix, where his skillful handiwork is seen in 
 many of the prominent residences and public
 
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 buildings. It is doubtful if any who are engaged 
 in a similar line of work have received more 
 gratifying evidences of appreciation tlnn has 
 he, and it may be doubted, too, if they keep in 
 closer touch with the advancement in their oc- 
 cupation as developed in the s;reat building 
 centers of the world. 
 
 The ancestral home of the Campbells is Scot- 
 land, and when some of their numbers decided 
 to come to America they settled in the Caro- 
 linas. They were loyalists, however, and during 
 the Revolution removed to Canada and settled 
 on a grant of land from Scotland in Prince Ed- 
 ward Island. The paternal grandfather, Archi- 
 bald, lived in Prince Edward Island, and 
 married a Miss McDonald. He was a member 
 of the Presbyterian Church, and lived to be 
 ninety-six years of age. To a degree Mr. Camp- 
 bell inherits his special ability as a builder and 
 contractor, his father, Donald, who was also 
 born in Prince Edward Island, having been a 
 builder during his years of activity. He was 
 interested especially in the construction of 
 wharves and breakwaters, and in addition, 
 owned and managed a large farm. He lived to 
 be seventy years old. His wife, formerly Jane 
 McGregor, was born in Perth, Scotland, and 
 was a daughter of \\'illiam McGregor, also born 
 in Scotland, but during his later years a resident 
 of Canada. \\'illiam McGregor was a clergyman 
 in the Presliytcrian Church, a man of wide 
 knowledge and a profound scholar and writer. 
 Mrs. Campbell clied in Canada. She was the 
 mother of six children, two sons and four daugh- 
 ters, of whom one daughter is deceased. 
 
 Clinton Cam|ibell is the yovmgest in his 
 father's family and the only one in the United 
 States. He was reared on a farm in Prince 
 Edward Island, and received his education from 
 the ]nil)lic schools. When sixteen years of age 
 he began to learn the carpenter's trade under his 
 father's able instruction, and in 1886 went to 
 1 )enver, Colo., where for three years he was em- 
 ployed in the planing mill of McPhee & Mc- 
 Ginity. Subsec|uently he worked independently 
 at his trade in Denver, and in iSiji located in 
 Phoenix, which has since been the scene of his 
 successful efforts. 
 
 .\n!ong tlu' many l)uildings erected b\ Mr. 
 Lampbell may l)e meiUioned the Territorial 
 
 Xormal School at Tempc, several buildings of 
 the United States Industrial School at Phoenix, 
 O'Neill building No. 2, the Hickey building, the 
 Indian school and several business blocks at 
 Yuma, several business buildings at Mesa, and 
 some of the finest residences in Phoenix. He 
 also did some carpenter work on the Fleming 
 block. Mr. Campbell has built several resi- 
 dences for himself in Phoenix, and is living in a 
 commodious and comfortable structure at No. 
 515 North Fourth avenue. He is variously in- 
 terested in the enterprises which make for the 
 development of the town of his adoption, and 
 is a stockholder and director of the Alhambra 
 Brick Company, a large brick manufacturing 
 concern, lie is a member of the Board of 
 Trade, and is fraternally associated with the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, and with 
 the Knights of Pythias. 
 
 In Denver, Colo., December 25, 1890. Mr. 
 Campbell married Lena Rowen, who was born 
 In Nodaway county. Mo. Her father, Nelson 
 Rowen, is a native of Indiana, and a I'armer and 
 builder. At a very early day he settled in Col- 
 orado, near Canon City, and later removed to 
 Denver. He is now living on his farm near 
 Fowler, Colo. His wife, Elizabeth (.\mo.s) 
 Rowen, was born in Kentucky, and was the 
 third youngest in a family of nine children. To 
 Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have been born two 
 children, George W. and Frank L. 
 
 C. J. HALL. 
 
 ( )ne of the soundest financial institutions in 
 the country is the Phoenix National P)ank, of 
 which C. J. Hall is a controlling genius, and, 
 as cashier, has had nuich to do with shaping the 
 destiny of one of the landmarks and principal 
 developers of this most wonderful city. 
 
 A native of Charlotte, Mich., .Mr. Hall was 
 born October i. 1866. His father, Charles A. 
 T. Hall, was l)orn in Ohio, and died at the early 
 age of twenty-three years. He was a merchant 
 at Charlotte, and a musician of more than ordi- 
 nar\- ability. The paternal grandfather. Dr. 
 Joseph P. Hall, a native of Rumney, N. H., and 
 a graduate of Dartmouth College, for many 
 years was a prominent member of the ])rofes- 
 si.)n <>i medicine, and continued to practice until
 
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 his death in 1863. As early as 1841 he took up 
 his residence in Charlotte, when there were but 
 a few straggling settlers as forerunners of later 
 prosperity, and courageously faced the depriva- 
 tions incident to all pioneer life. In 1845 h^ 
 built a residence in the embryo town when there 
 were scarcely enough men to complete the 
 structure. He was a prominent Democrat, but 
 invariably refused the local offices within the 
 gift of the people, and devoted all of his time 
 to the practice of his profession. He was proud 
 of a distinguished lineage, and some of his 
 ancestors served with courage and fidelit}- in 
 the war of the Revolution. The mother of C. 
 J. Hall was formerly Laura Lacey, a daughter 
 of E. D. Lacey, a native of New York, and a 
 merchant, first in New York, and later in 
 Kalamo, Mich. He was prominent in the 
 political affairs of his locality, and served as 
 registrar of deeds of Eaton county, Mich. Mrs. 
 Hall is a sister of Hon. E. S. Lacey, ex-comp- 
 troller of the currency, ex-member of congress, 
 the "father" of the postal savings bank bill, and 
 now president of the Bankers' National Bank of 
 Chicago. The Lacey family originally settled 
 in Vermont upon coming to America, and later 
 removed to New York. Mrs. Hall is living at 
 the present time with her son, C. J. Hall. 
 
 Mr. Hall received a common-school educa- 
 tion. When he was fifteen years of age he 
 became office boy in the First National Bank 
 of Charlotte, of which Mr. Lacey was the con- 
 trolling power. \\'ith commendable aptitude he 
 rapidly advanced to a general knowledge of the 
 banking business, and at the time of his removal 
 to the far west was assistant cashier. While 
 living in Charlotte he married Jessie Ainger, 
 who was born at Napoleon, Ohio, a daughter of 
 Gen. D. B. Ainger, formerly postmaster at 
 Washington, D. C, and for many years prom- 
 inent in the affairs of Michigan. During the 
 Civil war General Ainger served in the same 
 regiment with William McKinley, and was later 
 adjutant-general of Michigan. The mother of 
 Mrs. Hall was Fannie (Rhodes) Ainger, a 
 daughter of Joshua Rhodes, of Napoleon, Ohio, 
 and from a family resident on the eastern shore 
 of Maryland. General .\ingcr makes his home 
 in Chicago. 
 
 The Phoenix National I'.ank, witli which Mr. 
 
 Hall is associated as vice-president, was organ- 
 ized April 20, 1892, with James A. Fleming 
 president, and E. J. Bennett cashier. February 
 25, 1895, a controlling interest was purchased 
 by F. S. Belcher, of Charlotte. Mich.; D. M. 
 Ferry and C. C. Bowen, of D. M. Ferry & Co., 
 the Detroit (Mich.) seedmen; Simon J. Murphy, 
 of Detroit, and others more or less prominent 
 in financial circles. F. S. Belcher was elected 
 president, and C. J. Hall, formerly assistant 
 cashier of the First National Bank, of Char- 
 lotte, Mich., was elected cashier. The deposits 
 at that time were $265,737.53, and loans 
 $127,464.53. Mr. Belcher died November i, 
 1896, and in the following April E. B. Gage, 
 president of the Congress Gold Company, was 
 elected his predecessor. In January, 1898, C. J. 
 Hall was elected vice-president, and E. B. Knox 
 promoted to the position of cashier. Mr. Hall 
 served as vice-president until January 11, 1901, 
 at which time he was elected cashier. Tlie bank 
 has among its stockholders and directors some 
 of the most widely known heads of financial con- 
 cerns in the country, and among the former may 
 be mentioned D. M. Ferry, of D. M. Ferry & 
 Co., seedmen ; C. C. Bowen of the same firm ; 
 Simon J. Murphy, the wealthy lumberman; John 
 T. Shaw, cashier of the First National Bank, all 
 of Detroit, Mich.; F. S. Belcher, of the First 
 National Bank, Charlotte, Mich.; Hon. E. S. 
 Lacey, president of the Bankers' National Bank, 
 of Chicago, 111.; A. G. Hubbard, of Redlands, 
 Cal., and others ecjually well known. The pres- 
 ent board of directors are E. B. Gage. J. A. 
 Fleming, G. B. Richmond. T. W. Pemberton. 
 F. M. Murphy, D. M. Ferry, B. Heyman, A. N. 
 Gage and C. J. Hall. Deposits were at the last 
 public statement $780,153.34, and loans and dis- 
 counts, $405,013.61 ; available cash and due from 
 other banks, $428,692.80; surplus and undivided 
 profits, $43,847.52; capital. $100,000, and total 
 footings nearly $1,000,000. 
 
 In addition to the responsibilities incident to 
 the vice-presidency of the Phoenix National 
 Bank, Mr. Hall holds many other important 
 positions in the community, and has been iden- 
 tified with most of the forward movements for 
 the upbuilding of the locality. He is vice-presi- 
 dent of the Arizona Water Company, a director 
 of the Phoenix Light and Fuel Company, and
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 director of the board of trade. He is a member 
 of the American Bankers" Association, the 
 Maricopa Chib, and the Athletic Chib. In poli- 
 tics he is affiliated with the Republican partv, 
 and is a stanch upholder of its principles and 
 issues. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He repre- 
 sents the best and most progressive element in 
 Phoenix, and too much cannot be said of his 
 many fine and sterling traits of character, 
 whether viewed from a business or social stand- 
 point. 
 
 LeROY F. HILL. 
 
 The subject of water supply in Arizona has 
 engaged the most serious thought and attention 
 of many of the dwellers in localities dependent 
 upon artificial irrigation, and their various solu- 
 tions of the problem have been the means of re- 
 claiming the lands from sterility. Among the 
 number who have been actively interested in 
 the subject may be mentioned LeRoy F. Hill, 
 secretary of the Tempe Irrigating Canal Com- 
 pany. LTpon first coming to the territory, in 
 1885, he resided for a time with his parents at 
 Mesa, and then removed with them to a farm in 
 the vicinity of Tempe. In 1888 he came to the 
 town of Tempe, and attended the public schools, 
 later graduating from the Territorial Normal 
 School at this place. In 1895 his association 
 with the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company be- 
 gan and subsequently he became secretary of the 
 concern and of its branches, which position he 
 still holds. 
 
 Assuming yet another responsibility in 1896. 
 Mr. Hill became proprietor of a store, which 
 contained a full line of sporting goods and bi- 
 cycles, as well as a complete repairing outfit. Of 
 this business he continued to be the head until 
 December, 1899, when it was merged into the 
 Bicycle Electric Plumbing Company, of which 
 he has since been the secretary. The company 
 has met with gratifying success and is looking 
 forward to still greater returns in the future. In 
 March, 1901, he was the prime mover in the 
 organization of the Tempe Hardware and Sup- 
 ply Company, which absorbed the hardware 
 business of F. W. Holsapple, and that of the 
 Bicycle Electric Plumbing Company. This com- 
 ])any has a paid-up cai)ital of $10,000 and is com- 
 
 posed of some of the best-known business men 
 in town. Mr. Hill is the principal stockholder 
 of the company and is officially connected with 
 the same as secretary and manager. 
 
 In Dunnville, Haldimand county, Ontario, 
 Mr. Hill was born, July 12, 1876, and is a son of 
 Melvin G. and Ella (Page) Hill, natives of New 
 York state, the latter now deceased. The father 
 is station agent at Tempe for the Maricopa & 
 Phoenix & Salt River \"alley Railroad. When 
 a small child LeRoy F. Hill was taken 1)>- his 
 parents to Passaic, N. J., and he was only four 
 years old when the family settled in Durango, 
 Colo., where they made their home for a number 
 of years. A later place of residence was Bloom- 
 ington, N. M., and from there they came to Ari- 
 zona in 1885. It will thus be seen that Mr. Hill 
 has been a resident of this territory since boy- 
 hood. He represents the most progressive and 
 substantial of the young business men in his sec- 
 tion of the territory. In national politics he is a 
 Republican and maintains a warm interest in the 
 issues of his party. June 30, 1900, he was united 
 in marriage with Alma \'irginia George, a native 
 of Missouri, and a daughter of Benjamin J. 
 George, of Tempe. 
 
 EUGENE S. L. JACKSON. 
 
 The name of ^Ir. Jackson will ever be asso- 
 ciated with the growth and prosperity of Ari- 
 zona, and especially will he be remembered 
 because of his particular interest in the construc- 
 tion of the Buckeye canal. As early as February 
 17, 1877, in company with his father and two 
 men, named Wylie and Hughes, they found and 
 purchased a suitable location for the canal, 
 which, however, was not started before 1884. 
 At this time they raised the money through 
 forming a stock company, of which Mr. Jackson 
 was secretary and treasurer, and the elder Jack- 
 son president. For the carrying on of their 
 plans, they utilized the underflow of the Gila 
 river, and devoted their combined energA' and 
 monev to redeeming a ]iart of the territory, 
 which is now indebted to the earnest efforts of 
 these far-sighted pioneers for its abundaiU har- 
 \ests and well-tilled farms. The canal is thirty- 
 six miles U)ng, and su|)])lics water sufficient for
 
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 all demaiuls of the surrounding farmers. In this 
 enterprising undertaking Mr. Jackson still re- 
 tains an interest, and is himself one of the prin- 
 .cipal beneficiaries of his own forethought. Aside 
 from the responsibility which he discharges as 
 chief engineer of the Phoenix Ice Company's 
 plant, Mr. Jackson has a finely improved farm of 
 three hundred and twenty acres, two and a half 
 miles from Sidney, where are conducted large 
 general farming and stock-raising interests. An 
 additional source of responsibility is the copper, 
 silver and gold mining enterprise in Yuma coun- 
 ty, Ariz., in which he has for a long time been 
 engaged. 
 
 A native of Edgerton, Wis., Mr. Jackson was 
 born in 1858, and is a son of M. M. Jackson, 
 born in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio. The pa- 
 ternal grandfather, Seward Jackson, came to 
 Montgomery county, Ohio, when a boy of sev- 
 enteen, where he Ijecame successfully interested 
 in dairy-farmmg, and where he died. He was 
 a first cousin of Andrew Jackson, and married 
 a member of the prominent Roberts family, of 
 Pennsylvania. M. M. Jackson was the only son 
 in his father's family, and was reared in his native 
 state of Ohio. Upon coming west to Wiscon- 
 sin he learned the trade of carpenter, and after- 
 wards worked at his trade in Ohio. During the 
 Civil war he served with courage in an Ohio 
 regiment. When his son, Eugene, > was eight 
 years old, the family removed to Macon City, 
 Mo., where the father engaged as a builder and 
 contractor, and later made c|uite a success of 
 tobacco raising near Mendon, Mo. Owing to 
 failing health, Mr. Jackson was oliliged to seek 
 a change of occupation and climate, and in 
 search of renewed health traveled for four years 
 through the south and west. In 1876 he drifted 
 to Arizona, and in Prescott followed his old oc- 
 cupation of contracting and building, which has 
 since engaged his time and ability. His associa- 
 tion with the Buckeye canal began in 1877, and 
 in this undertaking of utility and magnitude his 
 efforts go hand in hand with those of his son. 
 Mr. Jackson is now living two and a half miles 
 from Phoenix. His wife, formerly Amelia 
 Thompson, was born in Middletown, Butler 
 county. Ohio, and is a daughter of Samuel 
 Thompson, a descendant cjf an old N'irginia fam- 
 ily. Mrs. Jackson is the mother of two sons and 
 
 five daughters, of whom one daughter is de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Until 1866 Eugene Jackson lived in Ohio, 
 and made the most of the limited educational 
 opportunities that came his way. As a means 
 to future independence he learned the trade of 
 blacksmith and wagon-maker, which he success- 
 fully carried on until 1875. He was filled with 
 early ambitions which he sought to gratify in 
 the far west, and crossed the plains via Colo- 
 rado and New Mexico to .\rizona. Here he 
 found a small village where has since grown the 
 promising city of Prescott, and secured employ- 
 ment in a sawmill in the vicinity of the town. 
 In the following year he located in Phoenix, 
 which also at the time bore but a trace of resem- 
 blance to its present large proportions, and after 
 clerking for a while, worked at his trade as 
 blacksmith, and was also interested in mining. 
 In 1881 he entered the employ of the Phoenix 
 Ice Company as chief engineer, and has followed 
 the rise and fortunes of this large concern down 
 to the present time. The plant has a capacity 
 of twenty-five tons, and has two Corliss engines 
 of seventy-five and ninety horse-power respec- 
 tively. 
 
 In Phoenix occurred the marriage of Mr. 
 Jackson and Virginia Scott, of Virginia, and of 
 this union there are three children, Gladys, Vic- 
 tor and Jewel. In national ]3olitics Mr. Jackson 
 is affiliated with the Democratic party, but has 
 never been a seeker after official recognition. 
 Fraternally he is associated with the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 RICHARD 15. ORNDORFF. 
 
 Though his life has ~ spanned less than a 
 quarter of a century, Richard B. Orndorff (pop- 
 ularly known as "Burt" Orndorfif) is a young 
 man of vmdoubted business talents and is mak- 
 ing a great success of the hotel which bears 
 his name — the leading hotel of Tucson. He has 
 looked upon this city as his home since he was a 
 mere child and takes an active interest in what- 
 ever affects its prosperity. Already he is felt as 
 an influential political factor, as he has served 
 in the county and territorial central committees 
 of the Democratic party, ?nd in Tgoo was sent 
 as a delesjate to the territorial convention.
 
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 The paternal grandfather of our subject is Ira 
 I'. Orndorfif, a native of Kentucky and yet liv- 
 ing on his old plantation near Russellville, that 
 state. The maternal grandfather of Richard B. 
 Orndorff was S. A. Allis, a Louisiana planter 
 who was killed in the [Mexican «ar while acting 
 as correspondent for the New Orleans "Picay- 
 une." The parents of our subject are L. H. and 
 .Mice (Allis) Orndorff, natives of Russellville, 
 Ky., and Louisiana, respectively. In the Blue 
 Grass state and in Missouri L. II. Orndorff was 
 a successful cattle raiser and dealer, and in 1887 
 he came to Tucson and entered the employ of 
 the Southern Pacific as a conductor. Before he 
 had been thus engaged two months he was acci- 
 dentally killed, while signaling for the stopping 
 of a train. His widow subsequently became the 
 wife of Charles DeGroff, who was the postmas- 
 ter of Tucson under the second administration 
 of President Cleveland. She possesses excep- 
 tional business ability and not only placed the 
 Tucson Orndorff Hotel on a good paying basis, 
 running it for eight years, but also is making a 
 success of the Hotel Orndorff, of El Paso, Tex., 
 of which she is the proprietor. 
 
 Richard B. Orndorff doubtless inherited his 
 mother's genius as manager of hotels, for he 
 not only is doing finely now, but also contrib- 
 uted materially to her success when she was at 
 the head of this enterprise. He was born in 
 Nevada, Mo., on the last day of the Centennial 
 year, and came to Tucson when he was ten years 
 old. Here he pursued his studies in the public 
 schools and was ready for admission to the Uni- 
 versity of Arizona in its first class. He con- 
 tinued there until his junior year, when he went 
 to the National Military Preparatory .Academy 
 at Highland Falls, N. Y. After spending one 
 year there he returned home and identified him- 
 self with the hotel business, for in 1890 his 
 mother had opened the Orndorff on North 
 Church street, and continued to conduct it until 
 1894, when she purchased the present hotel of 
 the same name, and, having remodeled the 
 building, it began its career as the largest and 
 leading hotel in the city. In 1898 the present 
 owner and manager of the Orndorff became its 
 sole proprietor. Its location is central, at the 
 corner of North Alain and Pennington streets. 
 From 1893 to 1896, under the administration 
 
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 of Cleveland, Mr. Orndorff was assistant to 
 Postmaster DeGroff, of this city, winning many 
 friends and an extended acquaintanceship. He 
 is a member of the lodge and club of the Benev- 
 olent Protective Order of Elks, and at present is 
 the esteemetl loyal knight of the lodge. He also 
 belongs to the Woodmen of the World and to 
 the C)rder of Foresters. His marriage to Miss 
 Cora Delano, a native of the state of Nevada, 
 took place in tliis city, December 31, 1898. They 
 have a daughter, Alzina DeGroff. 
 
 MAX C. BONNE. 
 
 For a man who was reared to the non-com- 
 mercial life of a German officer, and the conse- 
 quent freedom from serious responsibility or the 
 necessity of hustling for a livelihood, Mr. Bonne 
 has made a splendid success of his life in the 
 west, where conditions are so diametrically op- 
 posite. He is the owner and proprietor of the 
 largest and best-equipped meat concern in the 
 town of Globe, his enterprise being conducted 
 in a large brick store which he personally owns, 
 the interior arrangements of which are com- 
 patible with neatness, thrift and the remarkable 
 success which has rewarded the efforts of the 
 enterprising purveyor of everything good in the 
 meat line. For the conduct of his business Mr. 
 Bonne has his own slaughter house, and buys 
 stock in large quantities, supplying material also 
 in wholesale lots to small dealers for many miles 
 up and down the valley. His stock yards are 
 equipped with Buffalo scales, and are the equal, 
 in point of convenience, to those in any large 
 city. It is needless to state that he has realized 
 nianv of his expectations, and has a bank ac- 
 count of goodly proportions to show for his strict 
 honesty and untiring attention to business. He 
 is also the possessor of considerable real estate 
 in different parts of the territory, and has inter- 
 ests in copper and silver mines in Cooke, Mont. 
 
 Much of the thrift which has characterized the 
 career of Mr. Bonne is his by right of inherit- 
 ance if not by early training. The German is 
 by instinct thrifty, and he has a far-reaching 
 vision for fine opportunities. Ur. Bonne was 
 borne in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, June 14, 
 1862. He received a military education, attend- 
 in"- a militarv school between the ages of four-
 
 740 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 teen and twenty-four. He subsequently at- 
 tained to the rank of second lieutenant in the 
 army, and at the age of nineteen was made a 
 lieutenant. In 1888 he came to the United 
 States, and was at once ushered into the crude 
 and changeful atmosphere of a mining camp m 
 Montana, where he engaged for eight years in 
 the butchering and cattle business in Bozeman. 
 Following this experience he came immediately 
 to Globe February i, 1896, and has since been 
 one of the principal hustlers of the place. 
 
 In politics a Republican, Mr. Bonne is a strict 
 party man, and is active in all of the local under- 
 takings of his adopted town. He is connected 
 with the Elks, with the blue lodge of Masons in 
 Globe, and with the Scottish Rites at Livingston, 
 :\Iont. Mr. Bonne's prosperity is a one-sided 
 afTair, for he is unmarried and the sole appre- 
 ciator of his worldly affluence. 
 
 F. J. MLLAESCUSA. 
 
 Commercial activity is the keynote of Ameri- 
 can prosperity today, and where one fortune is 
 made in the mines thousands are acquired in the 
 safe and certain channels of the business world. 
 Realizing this and modeling his career on the 
 conclusions formed, F. J. Villaeseusa, a promi- 
 nent and valued citizen of Tucson, has risen to 
 an enviable position of wealth and influence. 
 Literally, he has been the architect of his own 
 fortunes, and in a narration of the main points 
 in his life, much can be learned, lessons of indus- 
 try and perseverance being chief. 
 
 Though springing from one of the old and 
 formerly wealthy families of the state of Sonora, 
 Mexico, F. J. \'illaescusa perceived at an early 
 age that he was destineil to be dependent upon 
 his own resources, for his father, Manuel \'illaes- 
 cusa, died when he was young. The birth of our 
 subject took place at Arispe, Sonora, Mexico, 
 February 4, i860, and he was reared at Hermo- 
 sillo, same state. Prior to his arrival in Tucson, 
 in 1879, he had commenced to learn the sad- 
 dlery trade, and completed the calling with the 
 firm of Clarke & Patton, of Tucson. 
 
 Just a score of ye.irs ago the yotmg man em- 
 barked in business for himself. His little shop, 
 a niinu 10x12 feet in size, was situated on South 
 Meyer street, opposite his present establishment. 
 
 A few tools, a sewing machine and fifty dollars 
 in cash then constituted his business stock and 
 capital, but within a few years he had built up so 
 large a trade that he was in much larger quar- 
 ters, and ten years ago, in 1891, he erect- 
 ed his fine building, running from !Meyer 
 to Main streets, and .36x192 feet in di- 
 mensions, part of it two stories in height. 
 It is all utilized in his business, and in 
 addition to this he owns warehouses on Cor- 
 ral street. For some years he has kept a wagon 
 and carriage repository, representing old and re- 
 liable manufactures, including the Mitcliell 
 wagons and Racine (Wis.) wagons and carriages. 
 At the same time he maintains his harness and 
 saddlery business, his goods standing unrivaled 
 in the markets of these territories. He deals 
 in all kinds of horse furnishings, both in whole- 
 sale and retail. For some time he owned and 
 carried on a tannery, but discontinued it, as he 
 had too many other "irons in the fire." 
 
 Mr. Villaescusa is interested in the Tucson 
 Building & Loan Association, has invested in 
 local property on his own account, and built a 
 handsome residence for his family at the corner 
 of Convent and Corral streets. Fraternally he 
 is coimected with the Ancient Order of United 
 ■Workmen and with the Hall Association of that 
 fraternity. In his political convictions he is a 
 Republican. The first wife of our subject bore 
 the maiden name of Mctoria Jimenes. She was 
 born in Sonora, Mexico, and died in this city, 
 leaving one son, Philip. The lady who now is 
 the wife of ]Mr. AlUaescusa was formerly Miss 
 Luz Redondo, also of Sonora. 
 
 RAMON B. ARBALLO. 
 
 Unlike the majority who have cast their lot 
 with the fluctuating fortunes of the towns of 
 the territory, Mr. Arballo is a native of Ari- 
 zona, having been born in Tucson July 23, 1870. 
 Here he was educated in the public schools of 
 Florence, whither his parents removed in 1875. 
 Of an ambitious and enterprising turn of mind, 
 he early evinced habits of industr\' and thrift, 
 and October 9, 1884, at the age of fourteen, en- 
 tered the enqiloy of J. B. Michca, a jnirveyor of 
 general merchandise. .\t first a clerk, lu' rapidl\ 
 niasteri'd every detail of the business, and hi-
 
 rORTRAir .Wni niOGRAPHICAL RFXORD. 
 
 74 f 
 
 conscientious application of the principles of 
 honesty and correct business methods fountl 
 tlieir fitting reward in 1893, when he became a 
 memlier of the firm of C. R. Alichca & Co. 
 
 Air. Arh.allo's rise in life from a comparativelv 
 small beginning has enabletl him to amass con- 
 siderable of this world's goods, and in addition 
 to owning the store and stock which forms the 
 basis of the merchandise business, he is the pos- 
 sessor of local and country real estate. He finds 
 time amid the stress of business worries to act- 
 ively engage in many of the enterprises which 
 have been instrumental in advancing the best 
 interests of the city, and his large-heartedness 
 and generosity to all good causes are never ques- 
 tioned. In a Democratic community he firmly 
 adheres to Republican principles, and has been 
 prominent in local affairs. At the present time 
 he is one of the city councilmen. Fraternally he 
 is associated with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen, and is a member of the Spanish- 
 American Alliance. 
 
 J. KNOX CORBETT. 
 
 Success is the just reward of persistent and 
 well-directed effort, and in the case of J. Knox 
 Corbctt it is plain that he has won prosperity 
 and a position of influence in his conuiiunitv by 
 the exercise of the essential cjualities of a busi- 
 ness man. Beginning his commercial career 
 without means or extraneous assistance of any 
 kinfl, he sturdily pressed his way forward until 
 he arrived at his present honorable place, as one 
 (if the leading business men of Tucson. Alore- 
 (jver, he is intensely patriotic and has been an 
 effective worker in the ranks of the Republican 
 party, being the secretary of the Arizona terri- 
 torial central conuiiittee from i8t)8 to igoo. hav- 
 ing been cliairman of the city Republican com- 
 mittee and for a long time connected with the 
 county central committee. 
 
 Mr. Corbett is of Scotch-French extraction, 
 his grandfather, James Corbett, having been a 
 native of Scotland, and his maternal ancestors 
 having been subjects of the French crown, 
 though his grandfather, James J. Britton, was a 
 native of Sumter, S. C, and some of the family 
 fought for American independence in the war 
 of the Revolution. James Corbctt was a Scot- 
 
 tish refugee who became a prominent manufac- 
 turer of linen in Charleston, S. C. His son, J. 
 X., father of our subject, was born in Sumter, 
 S. C, and lived in that place until 1899, when, 
 well along in years, and accompanied bv his wife, 
 he came to make his home with his son in Tuc- 
 son. He was a hardware merchant during his 
 active life, and his eldest son, W. J., is engaged 
 in the same lousiness in Tucson. Harry D., the 
 next son, is a member of the Heermann Station- 
 ery Companx-, of Tucson; Dr. George Corbett is 
 a physician of Ogdensburg, N. Y., and L. W. is 
 a furniture merchant of Santa Paula, Cal. Mrs. 
 Lizzie Mimnis, Mrs. Susan L. Hood and Mrs. 
 Emma Roland, the daughters, live in Sumter, 
 S. C. The mother, whose maiden name was 
 Gulie Britton, was born and has always lived 
 in Sumter. Both she and her husband are strong 
 Presbyterians. While he was in thorough sym- 
 pathy with the Union during the Civil war and 
 as long as possible kept out of the Confederate 
 army, he was at last pressed into tlie service, but 
 managed to be appointed to the non-aggressive 
 position of assistant quartermaster. 
 
 J. Knox Corbett was born June 20, 1861, in 
 Sumter, S. C, and was reared in that place. 
 When a mere boy he commenced learning the 
 lumber business, and was in the employ of Sam- 
 uel Graham from the time he was fourteen until 
 he was eighteen years of age. In January, 1880, 
 he came to Tucson, making the journev from 
 Albiup.iertiue, X. M., by stage coach. For about 
 three years thereafter he was a clerk in the post- 
 office under Dr. Lord, the postmaster, and, after 
 an interval of about a year when he ran a stage 
 line between Tucson and Silver Bell, he became 
 assistant postmaster to J\L P. Freeman, and con- 
 tinued in that position for four years. 
 
 In the mean time, in 1883, Mr. Corbett had 
 embarked in the cattle business and had estab- 
 lished a ranch in the Rincon mountains, and at 
 the end of his term in the postofifice located on 
 his property. .\t intervals, however, his family 
 resided in Tucson. Subsequently he became the 
 owner of another ranch, this one situated abqut 
 four miles from the other, across the line in Co- 
 chise county. Tt was not until 1898 that he sold 
 all of his cattle, but his home has been in Tuc- 
 son since 1880. In February, 1890, he was ap- 
 pointed postmaster of Tucson by President FTar-
 
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 rison, and efficiently served for four years. Re- 
 tiring from the office in 1894, he embarked in 
 the kmiber business, built large sheds, and now 
 is the proprietor of the most extensive yards in 
 southern Arizona, a whole block being devoted 
 to the same, and a fine stock of building material 
 of all kinds being kept on hand. He was one 
 of the organizers and is a director of the Citi- 
 zens' Building & Loan Association and is a 
 member of the lodge and club of the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks. As a representative 
 Republican, he is well known throughout Ari- 
 zona. 
 
 A few years ago Mr. Corbett built a hand- 
 some modern residence on Eighth street. In 
 1885 he married Miss Lizzie Hughes, one of 
 Tucson's native-born daughters, and a daughter 
 of Samuel Hughes, one of the oldest and most 
 [iromincnt American pioneers of southern Ari- 
 zona. She possesses an excellent education, 
 having pursued the higher branches of knowl- 
 edge at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence. 
 Two children bless the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Corbett, namely: Hiram Stevens and Gulie. 
 
 JOHN C. HARRIS. 
 
 To Mr. Harris belongs the distinction of be- 
 ing the oldest inhabitant of Florence in point of 
 years of residence. Long before this prosperous 
 little town was even dimly outlined in the minds 
 of men he came from Lassen county, Cal., and 
 settled at old Adamsville on the Gila river in the 
 fall of 1869. Here he was for several years em- 
 ployed in the Richard & Company's flour mill 
 constructing concern, and in time became a mas- 
 ter of the trade, starting a mill for them in the 
 Salt River valley. Since the days of the flour 
 mill association he has lived in this part of the 
 territory, and covering a period of more than 
 twenty years has been engaged in contracting 
 and building, having accomplished more in that 
 line than any one other man. Nor have his 
 efforts been confined to the work of building, for 
 he has availed himself of several of the oppor- 
 tunities for the acquisition of wealth afforded by 
 this versatile part of the west. 
 
 Although born in Harford county, Md., in 
 1848, Mr. Han-is was reared in Pennsylvania, 
 whilher his pnents hr!(l, in the mean time, re- 
 
 moved when he was a mere child. In the vicinity 
 of Harrisburg he was educated in the public 
 schools, and at the Bryant & Stratton Business 
 College in Harrisburg. With the breaking out 
 of the war he entered the service of the Union 
 army in 1864 and was discharged in 1865. The 
 following year he crossed the plains to Cali- 
 fornia with wagons and teams, working his way 
 along with the constructors of the Union Pacific 
 Railroad, and arrived eventually in Lassen coun- 
 ty, Cal. As a means of livelihood he engaged 
 in farming, and put up feed for the wintering of 
 stock, and in 1869 took up his permanent resi- 
 dence in Arizona. 
 
 The mining experiences of Mr. Harris have 
 continued over many years, and have been 
 fraught with much success. It is doubtful if 
 there are many in the vicinity more familiar with 
 the histories of the different mines and their 
 ratio of productiveness than is he. Among his 
 other interests in mining was his location of the 
 famous Half Moon mine, which was later dis- 
 posed of at a reasonable figure. In 1899 he sold 
 to George B. Chittendon what is known as a 
 group of four claims for $5,000. but he still owns 
 several good copper claims, among them being- 
 two claims east of Horence which show a high 
 grade of red oxide ore containing both gold and 
 silver. In the Riverside district also he has some 
 fine prospects in copper, gold and silver. In 
 fact, at the present time Mr. Harris spends the 
 greater part of his time in the mountains, in 
 prospecting and in practical mining, and is one 
 of the best authorities on ores in the territory. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Harris married Rose Ramires, 
 who became the mother of seven children and 
 died in 1893. The surviving children are Eliza- 
 beth, the wife of Taylor Brannaman, and living 
 at Florence; Mrs. J. E. McGee, of Florence; 
 Sophia, Caroline, Sarah and Edna. In national 
 politics a Democrat, Mr. Harris has been promi- 
 nent in local affairs, but has of late years been 
 affiliated with the Republican party. He ren- 
 dered valuable service to the cause of education 
 as a trustee of the school district, and was coun- 
 ty coroner for four years, and administrator for 
 the san-ic length of time. Fraternally he is asso- 
 ciated with the (~iila Valley Masonic Lodge No. 
 (). ;md w ith the Ancient Order of United Work- 
 nun, of which he has been a nienil)er for seven-
 
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 745 
 
 teen years. In addition to considerable property 
 in Florence Mr. Harris also owns considerable 
 real estate in Tucson, in which city he is well and 
 favorably known. 
 
 WILLIAM ARMBRUSTER. 
 
 For twenty-three years this sterling citizen of 
 Holbrook has been a resident of Arizona, and 
 in many substantial ways has assisted in its up- 
 building and progress. A native of Germany, 
 he lived in the fatherland until 1872, when he 
 came to the United States. During the si.x 
 years which followed he lived in Ohio, at Cob- 
 den, Union county, 111., and St. Louis, Mo., 
 devoting a portion of this period to agricultural 
 pursuits and the remainder of the time working 
 at his newl}--acquired trade of blacksmithing. 
 
 When in the prime of early manhood, in 1878, 
 Mr. Armbruster yielded to the desire for a taste 
 of military life, so common among the robust, 
 stalwart sons of Germany, enlisting for five years 
 in the LTnited States regulars. Being assigned 
 to the cavalry troops stationed at Fort Mc- 
 Dowell, Ariz., he spent five years there, his 
 trade coming into play, as he was appointed 
 company blacksmith, his duty being to keep all 
 of the horses well shod. In addition to this, 
 when the Indians were on the warpath, as they 
 were a number of times during that period, he 
 took part in the active campaigns against the red 
 men. In 1883, when he had been honorably 
 discharged, owing to the expiration of his term 
 of enlistment, he came to Fort Apache, where 
 he was employed as a blacksmith in the cpiar- 
 termaster's department some three years. 
 
 Altogether Mr. Armbruster looks back upon 
 his army life on this frontier with some pleasant 
 recollections, in spite of the monotonous routine 
 of drills and petty duties, relieved only by a 
 lively campaign with the Indians, almost hailed 
 as a boon, though full of peril. He formed 
 some friendships, strong as only common 
 hopes and dangers can ever make. In 1886, 
 almost reluctantly leaving the military circles, 
 he came to Holbrook, and having purchased the 
 shop of H. FI. Scorse, began carrying on a gen- 
 eral blacksmithing business, making a specality 
 of all kinds of repairing. By diligence and 
 application to business he has amassed a snug 
 little competency and to-day owns considerable 
 
 real estate in Holbrook, and several dwellings 
 which he leases. For a time he was financially 
 interested in the cattle business at Fort Mc- 
 Dowell, but sold out his cattle interests in 1898. 
 As an instance of his public spirit, it may be 
 stated that he was one of the enterprising men 
 who built the dam across the Little Colorado, 
 for irrigation purposes, a fact that redounds 
 none the less to his credit because of its unfor- 
 tunate climax, when it was destroyed by the 
 great flood of 1888. In political standing he is 
 an ardent Republican, and for a number of years 
 was affiliated with the Odd Fellows' fraternity 
 in the east. 
 
 CONRAD MEYER. 
 
 Of the many sons of Germany who have asso- 
 ciated their best days and most earnest efforts 
 with the promise and prosperity of the Salt 
 River valley, none is held in higher esteem, nor 
 have any turned their abilities and opportuni- 
 ties to better account than has Mr. Meyer. Fle 
 first came to the territory in May, 1870, when 
 the country was unsettled and most tmpromis- 
 ing in aspect,, and pre-empted one hundred and 
 sixty acres of land from the government. At 
 the present time he owns one hundred and forty 
 acres, having sold twenty acres. By his neigh- 
 bors he is accounted one of the most prosperous 
 in the locality, and his farm is conducted on 
 model lines and to the best possible advantage. 
 
 A native of Prussia. Germany, Mr. Meyer was 
 born in 1844, and is a son of Henry and Fred- 
 ericka Meyer, who were born in Germany. The 
 youth Conrad was reared to man's estate in his 
 native land, and received, as do most German 
 boys, a good common-school education. While 
 still quite young he learned the trade of brush- 
 maker, serving an apprenticeship of four years, 
 after which he followed his trade for several 
 years as journeyman brushmaker. In 1866 he 
 immigrated to America, sailing on the ship 
 Bremen from the city of Bremen, and after a 
 seventeen days' voyage landed in New York 
 City. For some time he followed his trade of 
 journeyman brushmaker, and continued the 
 same after removing to California in 1869. In 
 the spring of the following year he located in 
 Prescott, .Ariz., for a few months, and canie 
 to the Salt River vallev in the fall.
 
 746 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 In May, 1888, Mr. Meyer married Minnie Pen- 
 dleton, a native of Massachusetts, and a daugh- 
 ter of Harry Pendleton. To Mr. and Mrs. Meyer 
 have been born eight children, of whom these are 
 living: Mabel. Harry, Carl, Albert and Clifford. 
 Lucv and Nellie are deceased, also Margaret. Mr. 
 Meyer has lived so long in the locality that he 
 seems a part of its growth, and his labors will 
 be always associated with its enterprise and 
 development. He has been greatly interested 
 in the matter of water supply, and aided in the 
 construction of the Tempe canal, from wdiich he 
 receives the water for irrigating his land. In 
 national politics he is a Republican, and though 
 interested in the undertakings of that party has 
 never had a desire for political office. The 
 thorough education acquired in his native land 
 has aided him in readily picking up the English 
 language, and in appreciating the benefits of a 
 residence in this wonderful territory in the far 
 west. 
 
 DANIEL 2\IcDERMOTT. 
 
 The well-known and efficient superintendent 
 of the Arizona Water Company, Mr. McDer- 
 mott, of Phoenix, has charge of all of the canals 
 on that side of Salt river, namely: the Arizona, 
 Grand, Maricopa and Salt River Valley canals. 
 He is an energetic and enterprising business 
 man of known reliability, and has met with well- 
 deserved success during his residence in the 
 territory. 
 
 Mr. McDermott was born in Fairbury, Liv- 
 ingston county, III, on the 27th of February, 
 1 86 1, and is a son of Lawrence and Ann (Maher) 
 McDermott, natives of County Kildare and 
 County Tipperary, Ireland, respectively. The 
 family is of Scotch origin, his ancestors having 
 removed with Bruce from Scotland to Ireland. 
 While in his teens the father came to America, 
 and first settled in Indiana, where he followed 
 fanning. Subsequently he engaged in the same 
 pursuit in Livingston county. 111. In 1880 he 
 removed to Nebraska, and eight years later be- 
 came a resident of Rawlins county, Kans., where 
 he has since engaged in the stock business. He 
 and his wife have a family of seven children, of 
 whom Daniel is third in order of birth. 
 
 Our subject spent the first nineteen years of 
 
 his life in his native state and is indebted to its 
 public schools for his educational advantages. In 
 1880 he removed to Seward, Neb., where he was 
 engaged in farming and stock raising for three 
 years, and for the same length of time was en- 
 gaged in agricultural pursuits in Clay county, 
 that state. In 1886 he entered the employ of 
 Rhinehart & Mehan, railroad contractors, and 
 served as foreman on the construction of the 
 Rock Island Railroad in Nebraska, Kansas and 
 Colorado for one year each. He then went to 
 New Mexico as a canal builder, and was en- 
 gaged in the construction of the canal through 
 the J^Iaxwell grant of land. In 1889 he went to 
 Bisbee, where, in the employ of the same com- 
 pany, he built the railroad for the Copper Queen 
 Mining Company from Fairbank to their mines. 
 In the spring of 1890 Mr. McDermott came to 
 Phoeni.x as zanjero in the employ of the Ari- 
 zona Canal Company and remained with them 
 until he received his present appointment as 
 superintendent of the Arizona Water Company, 
 in January, 1899. He has since most capably 
 and satisfactorily filled that responsible posi- 
 tion, and has the entire confidence and good will 
 of the company. He now owns some city prop- 
 erty in Phoenix, and also has a farm of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres five miles west of the city, 
 on which he is engaged in raising alfalfa and 
 feeding cattle. 
 
 Mr. McDermott was married in Phoenix to 
 Miss Florence Kay, a native of Illinois, and a 
 daughter of P. L. and Mary E. (Smith) Kay. 
 Her father was born near Payson, Adams 
 county, 111., and was a. son of Robert G. Kay 
 and grandson of James Kay, both natives of 
 Culpeper county, Va., and representatives of an 
 old family of that state. Mrs. McDermott's father 
 was reared in Illinois and completed his edu- 
 cation at Shurtlifif College. He engaged in 
 farming near the old homestead until the fall 
 of 1888, when he came to .\rizona, and, together 
 with his son, purchased a ranch of two hundred 
 and forty acres nine miles northwest of Phoenix, 
 but in 1889 he sold that property and embarked 
 in the real-estate business in Phoeni.x. He was 
 ]5resident of the Western Investment & Banking 
 Company until 1899, when he resigned that posi- 
 tion. He has four children: George R., a ranch- 
 man living six miles west of Phoenix; Florence,
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 749 
 
 wife of our subject; Edith M., at huuie; and A. 
 Woodie, who is attending Berkeley University. 
 Mr. and Mrs. McDermott have two children, 
 Ethel and Mary. Our subject is a member of the 
 Board of Trade and a stanch supporter of the 
 Republican party, having served as a member of 
 the county central committee ten years, and tak- 
 ing an active part in its work. 
 
 DAVID CLARK. 
 
 Throughout his mature life, and, indeed, even 
 from the time he was thirteen years of age, 
 David Clark has been associated with railroad- 
 ing and mechanical enterprises, and is an expert 
 in everything pertaining to machinery. His 
 birth took place in Montreal, Canada, forty-two 
 years ago, and until he was seventeen he re- 
 mained under the parental roof, attending the 
 common and high schools. Having served an 
 apprenticeship as a machinist in the shops of the 
 Grand Trunk Railroad at Montreal he was given 
 a position as a fireman on a locomotive, and con- 
 tinued to act in that capacity for two years, with 
 the same corporation. Subsecpiently, he worked 
 in the shops at Port Huron for six months. 
 
 In 1879 Mr. Clark came to the west and for 
 some time was with the Central Pacific Railroad, 
 first at Sacramento and later at Carlin. Next we 
 find him in Denver, as a machinist with the South 
 Park Railroad Company; six months afterwards 
 in Leadville, Colo., as engineer of the Little 
 Pittsburg Mining Company. In 1882 he entered 
 upon a year's service with the Southern Pacific, 
 as a machinist in the Tucson shops, after which 
 he lived at Albuquerque, N. M., for a like period, 
 employed as an engineer and machinist in the 
 -Vtlantic & Pacific Railroad shops. His next ex- 
 perience was in old Mexico; having been offered 
 a paying position as a master mechanic by the 
 Mexican Central Railway, he accepted the place 
 and was stationed at Santa Rosalia and at Jim- 
 inez. Four years having thus rolled away, he 
 returned to Tucson and to the Southern Pacific, 
 running a locomotive from that point for four 
 months. Then, coming to Clifton in 1887, he 
 worked in the machine-shops three months, and 
 during the ensuing six years was an engineer on 
 the railroad line. Resigning, he then wont to 
 South McAlester, I. T., and was the first machin- 
 
 ist and extra engineer uf the newly-completed 
 Choctaw Railroad, at that place. When his year 
 was finished he again went to Tucson, and after 
 a short period of service with the Southern 
 Pacific resigned and became an engineer on the 
 Globe, Gila X'alley & Northern. Only four 
 months later, he came to Clifton for the second 
 time and for two years was foreman in the rail- 
 road shops. In March, 1897, he was promoted, 
 being installed as master mechanic of the Ari- 
 zona & New Mexico Railroad, and, in addition to 
 this, he holds the same position with the Arizona 
 Copper Company. As is well known, the 20- 
 inch gauge railroad running from Qifton to the 
 Company's mines, up in the mountains, in itself 
 is an excellent specimen of engineering, with its 
 steep grades and abrupt curves, necessitated by 
 the peculiarities of the canon and cliffs. 
 
 For just one decade Mr. Clark has been a nat- 
 uralized citizen of the United States, his papers 
 having been made out in Tucson. He now votes 
 the straight Republican ticket and loyally up- 
 holds all measures and institutions of his chosen 
 country. Eight years ago he was initiated into 
 Masonry in Clifton and seven years ago was 
 raised to the Royal Arch degree at Deniing, 
 N. M. 
 
 In December, 1894, Mr. Clark married Miss 
 Mollie AIcDonald of New Mexico. They are the 
 parents of three children, two sons and a daugh- 
 ter, named respectively in order of age, Roy, 
 Annie L., and Alexander. 
 
 NIELS MORTEN. 
 
 Of the many sons of Denmark who have 
 brought their excellent national characteristics 
 of thrift and industry to bear upon the develop- 
 ment of Salt River valley, none is more worthy 
 of the confidence and esteem of their fellow- 
 men than is Mr. i\Iorten. His success here is 
 entirely the result of his own ability and enter- 
 prise, which has jjrought him from a small be- 
 ginning to a position of conii)arative aflluence. 
 
 Mr. Morten was born in Denmark, March 25, 
 1835. and his parents were both natives of that 
 country. In his native land he received a good 
 common-school education, and when old enough 
 to realize the advantages of life in .America, de- 
 termined to avail himself of the conditions there
 
 750 
 
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 existing. In the spring of 1862 he set sail from 
 Hamburg, and after a journey covering seven 
 weeks of storms and delaying calms, landed in 
 New York City. He went direct to Utah, where 
 he engaged in farming and stock-raising until 
 1876, when he located in the Salt River valley, in 
 Arizona, which has since been the scene of his 
 enterprising efforts. 
 
 Mr. Morten originally took up from the gov- 
 ernment two quarter sections of land in the vi- 
 cinity of Phoenix, and of the three hundred and 
 twenty acres he now owns one hundred and 
 sixty. No one in the valley has witnessed greater 
 changes than has Mr. Morten, for his land was 
 in the midst of a wilderness of unpromising as- 
 pect, and his neighbors few and far between. 
 For a number of years he suffered the usual 
 privations of pioneer life, and received his rec- 
 ompense therefor yyhen the soil began to give 
 forth its abundant harvests, under his watchful 
 care and untiring industr}-. For a number of 
 years the family lived in an adobe house, and 
 finally erected the frame structure which has 
 since been their home. His farm is ilevoted to 
 farming and stock-raising, which is carried on in 
 the most approved and enterprising manner. 
 
 While living in Denmark Mr. Morten was 
 united in marriage with Carrie Oleson, a native 
 of Denmark, and of this union there are five 
 children living, viz.: Mrs. Peter Neilson; Mrs. 
 J. D. Marlar; Mrs. Oliver Isaac; Peter N.; and 
 Nellie. There are two deceased, Peter and 
 Hiram. Mr. Morten is variously interested in 
 the affairs of the community, and as a stanch 
 member of the Republican party has served as 
 a member of the school board of his district. 
 Since coming to America Mr. Morten has ac- 
 quired a fair knowledge of the English language, 
 and has in all ways identified himself with the in- 
 terests of his adopted country. He is recognized 
 as one of the typical pioneers of this wonderful 
 valley, whose benefits he has enjoyed, and whose 
 resources he has helped to develop. 
 
 WILLIAM M. NEWELL. 
 
 The first house built at Mesa was erected of 
 adobe by William M. Newell, and thus it is an 
 obvious fact that he has been a witness of the 
 entire development of this section of the Salt 
 
 River valley. Not only has he witnessed it, but 
 has himself aided in the great work of transfor- 
 mation whereby the desert has become a garden- 
 spot. Since February 22, 1900, he has been act- 
 ing in the capacity of postmaster of Mesa, and 
 is a justly popular official. For several years he 
 was a justice of the peace, and for a long period 
 has been connected with the board of education 
 of Mesa, at the present time being the treasurer 
 of that body. In matters relating to national pol- 
 itics, he is a Republican, and in fraternal circles 
 is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the 
 Woodmen of the World. It is a fact worthy of 
 note that years ago he was the only Republican 
 voter in Mesa. 
 
 The nativity of William M. Newell occurred 
 February 2^, 1850, in Wapello county, Iowa. His 
 parents, William M. and Jemima (Foster) New- 
 ell were natives of Indiana and were early set- 
 tlers of Wapello county, whither they went in 
 1845. Reared on the farm and educated in the 
 conunon schools of the district, our subject was 
 well prepared for the battles of life by the time 
 that he had arrived at his majority. Though 
 a mere lad when the Civil war had come to a 
 close, he was deeply patriotic, and ere the strug- 
 gle was over volunteered his services to the de- 
 fense of the Stars and Stripes. One of the young- 
 est members of Company K, Forty-seventh Iowa 
 Infantry, which was enlisted for one hundred 
 days, he served, all told, about six months, be- 
 ing stationed chiefly at the Helena (Ark.) garri- 
 son. After lie had been honorably discharged he 
 returned to his Iowa home, and stibsequently 
 attended Birmingham College in Van Buren 
 county. In 1873 he w^ent to Cftah, where he 
 taught school for a short time, and then engaged 
 in mining. In 1878 he came to Mesa, and now 
 is the owner of a well cultivated farm of forty 
 acres, not far from this place. His public duties 
 have occupied a large share of his time, and he 
 has made it a point of honor to neglect no de- 
 tail of his official work, however pressing his pri- 
 vate affairs might happen to be. His strict at- 
 tention to the interests of the public largely ac- 
 counts for his undoubted popularity. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Newell and Miss Irene 
 Pomeroy, who was born in Utah, was solemnized 
 in that state. Four daughters were born 
 to them, namely: Blanche Irene, Lulu Fay,
 
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 753 
 
 Grace J. ami Sibyl. The lady who now bears 
 the name of our subject was fornierl\- Miss Ele- 
 anor Brizzee, of Mesa. They are the parents 
 of two sons and two daughters, named as fol- 
 lows: Lottie, William \L, Jr., Thomas S. and 
 Eleanor M. 
 
 FRED E. CADWliLL. 
 
 It is doubtful if any of the citizens of W'illcox 
 have contributed a larger share toward the 
 modernizing and upbuilding of their prosperous 
 little settlement than has Mr. Cadwell. In all 
 of the comparatively new communities which 
 have arisen in the midst of the hitherto unsus- 
 pected fertility and promise of .\rizona, a few- 
 have taken the lead in the introduction of 
 advanced methods of improvement, and which 
 contribute to the pleasure, comfort and general 
 well-being of the citizens. 
 
 In various capacities Mr. Cadwell has been 
 for years associated with the opening up of the 
 west. A native of Racine county. Wis., he was 
 born in 1857, and is a son of Erasmus and Clara 
 (Moe) Cadwell, natives respectively of New 
 York and Ohio. Interesting to note is the fact 
 that he was the first child born at Union Grove, 
 a small station on the southwest division of the 
 Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, where his 
 parents lived and of which they were among 
 the enterprising and industrious farmers. In 
 the midst of this fine agricultural region he re- 
 ceived his early training and education, and in 
 preparation for the future learned the trades of 
 carpenter and millwright, which he subsequently 
 followed in the home district for four years. 
 Into his peaceful life came the rumors of the 
 vast fortunes to be found in the Black Hills, 
 and following the inclination of thousands of 
 others he hastened thither in the spring of 1877, 
 and for a year e.xperienced the exaltation and 
 disappoinments of the average fortune seeker. 
 .'\ later venture w'as along the Union Pacific 
 Railroad to Wyoming, as superintendent of 
 building for the railroad, and in 1879 ^^ again 
 yielded to the popular excitement which 
 emanated from Leadville, and was interested in 
 mining and prospecting in this great camp until 
 1881. Between the years 1881 and 1884 he 
 located at Lake \'alley, N. M., where he worked 
 
 at his trade and was fairly successful as a builder 
 and contractor. 
 
 Mr. Cadwell came to .\rizona in 1884, settling 
 in the Sulphur Spring valley and going into 
 the cattle business on quite a large scale. In 
 1887 he sold his interests in this line and settled 
 in \\'illcox, which afforded, as the nucleus for 
 a town, an excellent field for a skilled contractor 
 and builder. In the time intervening between 
 his arrival on the scene and 1893 he erected 
 practically all of the business houses of the 
 place, and a large number of the residences, 
 thus enrolling himself as one of the benefactors 
 and most earnest workers for the advancement 
 of the locality. A subsequent occupation was 
 taking charge of the wheelwright shop con- 
 nected with the Government Indian School, and 
 in 1895 he was appointed under sheriff with 
 Sheriff Fly, during which time of service he 
 was located at Tombstone. In 1897 he went 
 to Pearce, Ariz., a large and flourishing mining 
 settlement, and started a lumber yard and en- 
 gaged in building and contracting. 
 
 One of the most appreciated and up-to-date 
 enterprises of which the town of Willcox boasts 
 was started by Mr. Cadwell in 1899, ^vlic" lie 
 located here permanently and, in partnership 
 with D. T. Swatling, built the electric li.ght 
 plant, which supjilies the whole town with light. 
 The citizens are also indebted to these gentle- 
 men for the luxury of an ice plant and cold 
 storage warehouse, which, during the heat of 
 the summer, is the means of supplying points 
 all along the railroad and the surrounding min- 
 ing camps with ice and bottled beer by the car- 
 load lots. The advantage of this industry can 
 only be appreciated by those who suffer from 
 the almost intolerable heat which visits the 
 region for a portion of each year. The same 
 firm are at present engaged in putting in a sys- 
 tem of waterworks for the city, the water being 
 derived from a well two hundred and seventy 
 feet deep, and the supply of one hundred gal- 
 lons a minute is derived through four-inch mains 
 and sixtv feet of stand pipe. The firm will thus 
 furnish for the city electric light, ice, cold stor- 
 age and water, four of the most pressing neces- 
 sities of all modern localities. 
 
 In 1886 occurred the marriage of Mr. Cad- 
 well and Margaret Fowler, a native of Logans-
 
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 port, Intl. Of this union there is one son, 
 Ralph Fowler, who is being educated at tlie 
 University in Tucson. In politics a Repuljlican, 
 Mr. Cadwell has lieen nominated for sheriff 
 and supervisor, and was defeated by but seven- 
 teen and twenty-three votes respectively. He 
 is fraternally associated with the Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen, and is a charter member 
 of the lodge at Willcox, besides wdiich he is con- 
 nected with the Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 
 20, at Willcox. 
 
 LEONARD D. REDFIELD. 
 
 Leonard D. Redfield, the popular postmas- 
 ter at Benson, was born in Olean, Cattarau- 
 gus county, N. Y., December 6, 1867, and 
 is a son of H. T. and Malvina (Pierce) Redfield, 
 who were also born in New York state. When 
 quite young the scene of his training and educa- 
 tion was shifted to Tulare county, Cal., whither 
 his parents removed in 1868. They were indus- 
 trious and progressive farmers, and successful in 
 the land of perpetual sunshine and flowers. In 
 the hope, however, of still further bettering their 
 condition they removed to Arizona in 1876, set- 
 tling on the present site of Redington, forty 
 miles below Benson on the river. They were 
 among the very early comers to that locality and 
 endured all of the hardships and deprivations 
 w'hich are the necessary heritage of those cour- 
 ageous people who settle in wild countries. At 
 first their state was indeed desolate, for the near- 
 est neighbor was thirty miles distant, and the in- 
 tervening territory alive with hostile Indians. 
 The river farm was their home until 1883, and in 
 1886 the father died. The mother is living with 
 her son, Leonard D., at Benson. 
 
 In 1883 L. D. Redfield accompanied his father 
 and the rest of the family to Benson, where he 
 finished the education which had been imperfect- 
 ly begun on the farm. The elder Redfield en- 
 gaged in the livery business until his death, and 
 his son attended the public schools, and fitted 
 himself in general for earning an independent 
 livelihood. When fifteen years of age he went 
 to work in a smelter, and after a few months 
 turned to the more agreeable occupation of 
 clerking. With the experience thus acquired he 
 engaged in a general merchandise business in 
 Benson with G. W. Bryan, an unfortunate ven- 
 
 ture, for a devastating fire wiped out all that he 
 had in the world. Nothing daunted, he started a 
 fruit stand as a small means of getting ahead, and 
 little by little managed to save enough money to 
 start the general merchandise business in which 
 he is at present engaged. 
 
 A Republican in politics, Mr. Redfield is 
 among the influential men in his party in the 
 county. He has been prominent in the local un- 
 dertakings of a political nature in his town, and 
 received the appointment as postmaster in 1896 
 from President Cleveland and reappointed by 
 President McKinley, having held the same 
 continuously since. He is interested in mining 
 and is the possessor of some valuable properties. 
 Fraternally Mr. Redfield is a Mason, having 
 joined that organization at Willcox; he is a mem- 
 ber of the Chapter at Tombstone and of the 
 Commandery at Tucson. x-\s a Knight of P)th- 
 ias he is connected with Benson Post No. 5, and 
 is past chancellor. 
 
 JAMES PEARCE. 
 
 From out a mining experience covering many 
 years and extending throughout England, Scot- 
 land and the United States, Mr. Pearce numbers 
 among his undertakings an achievement which 
 will inseparably associate his name with the large 
 mineral developers of the territory, viz.: the 
 finding of the Pearce mine in 1895. This valua- 
 l)le claim is located about four miles from the 
 Pearce ranch, at the foot of the Dragoon moun- 
 tains on the northeast side, and its value was 
 made apparent by breaking a piece of the ledge 
 which betrayed the presence of gold. A little 
 later a shaft was sunk and gold found in the ledge 
 four feet above the ground, and eight months 
 later they sunk a shaft fifty feet deep, and sold 
 out to the Commonwealth company for $275,000. 
 During the next six months the company took 
 out enough gold to pay for the mine, and the 
 output since then has more than realized the ex- 
 pectations of the promoters and stockholders. 
 The mine is known all over Arizona as the 
 Pearce mine, and is among the most famous of 
 the many gold producers in the territory. Also 
 Mr. Pearce and sons at present own the Horn 
 Spoon mine, located just back of the Pearce 
 group, and they have another mine called the 
 Blue Bell. These are promising properties and
 
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 755 
 
 will doubtless hriiiL; iiirtlKT reward fur paticnec 
 to their persistent owners. lUue Ik'H i.s about 
 a mile from the original mine, and in this the 
 sons-in-law of Mr. Pearce are also interested. 
 
 Mr. Pearce was born in England July 27^, 1844, 
 and is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Auther) 
 Pearce, also natives of England. Mis first re- 
 membered aspirations were centered on mining, 
 and in pursuit of the wealth of the earth he 
 visited difTerent parts of his native land and 
 Scotland. In the hope of reaching a more prolific 
 field of activity he emigrated to America in 1868, 
 arriving in New York May 10, and after spend- 
 ing two years in the east, went to Colorado in 
 1870. Three years later he removed to Idaho, 
 and in 1876 settled in the Grass valley, in Cali- 
 fornia, removing in 1880 to Montana, from 
 which he returned to Nevada. January 8 he be- 
 came identified with Arizona, settling in Sulphur 
 Springs valley, which has since been his home. 
 
 In 1864 Mr. Pearce married Maria Curnow 
 in England, and of this union there are four 
 children: Anna Maria, wife of John Hartrey; 
 John J., who is also married; Elizabeth, wife of 
 Richard Kinsman, and William, who resides with 
 his parents. The daughters are living in Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 AUGUSTUS C. BRICHTA. 
 
 A veteran of the Mexican war and one of the 
 early settlers of Arizona, Augustus Brichta is 
 one of the best known .and most highly honored 
 citizens of Tucson. Aloreover, to him is due the 
 credit of having taught the first school in Tuc- 
 son, if not the first in the territory, as is generally 
 believed. His history, could it be given in all 
 of its interesting details, would prove attractive 
 reading to the general public, and even in out- 
 line testifies to his efficiency as a business man 
 and his value as a citizen. 
 
 The parents of our subject were Francis and 
 Amelia (Rudolphus) Brichta. natives of Schles- 
 wig and Hamburg, Germany, respectively. When 
 a young man the father settled in New York City 
 and was occupied in mercantile pursuits there 
 for a ])eriod. Subsequently, going to Havana, 
 Cuba, he made his home there for some time 
 and as manager took the first Italian opera com- 
 pany from Italy to Havana. About that time 
 General Tacon, then governor, built the old Ha- 
 
 vana theater, w liich is yet standing. Later in life 
 Mr. Brichta removed to New Orleans and then 
 to Texas. His last years were spent in the Cres- 
 cent City, where he was a commission merchant. 
 His wife departed this life in .Kustin, Texas, and 
 two of their four children are yet living. 
 
 Augustus Brichta was born in New York City 
 September 2, 1821, and was educated in the Jes- 
 uit College in Havana and in the St. Louis Uni- 
 versity, in which institution he was graduated. 
 Then he was associated in business with his fa- 
 ther in Nacogdoches county, Texas, and when 
 the war with Mexico came on enlisted in the Sec- 
 ond Texas Mounted Volunteers. From 1846 to 
 1847 hs ^^'ss actively engaged at the front, and 
 participated in the battle of Monterey. For many 
 years he has been a member of the Society of 
 Mexican Veterans, having joined that order in 
 San Francisco. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Brichta went to California and for 
 some years engaged in mining on the American, 
 Feather and Yuba rivers. About 1865 he came 
 to Arizona and, locating on Walker creek, in Ya- 
 vapai county, was occupied in placer mining 
 there until three years after Arizona was organ- 
 ized as a territory. Then, coming to Tucson, as 
 previously stated, he taught the first English- 
 speaking school here, and for a few months man- 
 aged a private school. For a period he was in 
 business with the old firm of Lord & Williams, 
 and served as deputy postmaster for some time. 
 When Mr. De Long was mayor he was an as- 
 sistant clerk in the commissary department, and 
 for one term was the county recorder of Pima 
 county. Mining enterprises have occupied the 
 major portion of his attention for years, and with 
 his son, I5ernabe C, he owns three fine claims 
 in the cojjper region of the Tucson mountains. 
 He has built two residences in this city and has 
 lovally aided in local undertakings. .Active in the 
 ranks of the Democratic party, he was freciuently 
 called upon by his political friends to fill ])ublic 
 offices of more or less importance, and always 
 acquitted himself with credit. He was clerk of 
 the second legislature held in Arizona and also 
 was clerk of the third general assembly, both 
 held in Prescott. 
 
 In Tucson the marriage of Mr. Brichta and 
 Miss Jesus Franco, a native of Santa Cruz, Mex- 
 ico, was solemnized. She is the daughter of
 
 756 
 
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 Alexander Franco. B. C. Brichta, their eldest 
 son, is a merchant of Tucson and is mentioned 
 elsewhere in this volume. Manuel F. is employed 
 by the Southern Pacific Railroad, and Peter 
 F. is connected with the mining interests above 
 referred to. 
 
 NEIL P. McCALLUM. 
 
 Sound judgment, combined with fine ability in 
 mechanical lines, has enabled the subject o'f this 
 biography, now a well-known resident of Phoe- 
 nix, to obtain a suljstantial success in life, and 
 his history is of especial interest. He is proprie- 
 tor of the Phoenix Foundry & Machine Works 
 at Nos. 25-33 North Second street, manufactur- 
 ing machinery, supplies and castings and doing 
 all kinds of work in the mechanical line. 
 
 Mr. McCallum was born in Cinciimati, Ohio, 
 July 27, i860, and belongs to an old and promi- 
 nent Scotch family. His paternal great-grandfa- 
 ther was a Scotch baron, who brought the fam- 
 ily to America and located in Canada. The 
 grandfather became a resident of Indiana, of 
 which state he was .a pioneer. By occupation 
 he was a farmer. The father, John McCallum, 
 was born near Veva, Ind., and was for some 
 time engaged in the commission business in 
 Memphis, Tenn., but later lived in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, where he died during the Civil war. In 
 religious belief he was a Presbyterian and was 
 a man highly respected and esteemed by all who 
 knew him. He married Ellen Andrew, who also 
 died in Cincinnati. She was a native of that city 
 and a daughter of William Andrew, who located 
 there on his emigration from Scotland, and was 
 there engaged in mechanical work, being a fine 
 machinist. Our subject is the youngest in a fam- 
 ily of five children, three of whom are now liv- 
 ing. His brother, William A., is a manufacturer 
 of electrical goods in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Reared in the city of his birth, Neil P. Mc- 
 Callum attended its public and high schools, and 
 when his education was completed entered the 
 employ of William Kirkup & Son. machinists 
 and brass founders, for whom he worked seven 
 years. In 1S83 he came to Arizona, and em- 
 barked in the cattle business near Willcox, Co- 
 chise county, having a ranch in the Chiricahua 
 mountains, thirty-five miles south of Willcox, 
 where he lived for ten vears. During that time he 
 
 was also interested in mining, and was manager 
 of the Aravaipa Mining Company's store at the 
 camp. Selling out in 1893 he came to Phoenix, 
 and, the follow'ing year became assistant territo- 
 rial auditor, which position he held for eighteen 
 months. At the end of that time he embarked 
 in his present business, and is now enjoying 
 an excellent trade both as a manufacturer and 
 repairer of machinery. He has also built a cold 
 storage plant, and has a street system of re- 
 frigeration, by which his customers are furnished 
 with refrigeration. His ice machine has a capacity 
 of about fifteen tons per day, and his cold storage 
 plant is quite large. Wide-awake, energetic and 
 progressive, he has prospered in his undertak- 
 ings thus far, his excellent success being but the 
 logical result of his careful and correct busi- 
 ness methods. By his ballot he supports the men 
 and measures of the Republican party, and he 
 takes an active interest in all enterprises which 
 he believes calculated to prove of public benefit. 
 
 FREEMAN T. POWERS. 
 
 In addition to filling the ofifice of president of 
 the Utah Canal Enlargement & Extension Com- 
 pany, Mr. Powers operates a well-improved 
 claim seven miles southeast of Tempe. After 
 coming to the territory in 1 881, he remained 
 for a number of years on the upper Salt river, 
 in the Gila country, and in 1892 located on the 
 ranch which is his present home. He has one 
 hundred and twenty acres under a high state of 
 cultivation, and" devotes the greater part of his 
 land to the raising of cattle. 
 
 A native of Susquehamia county. Pa., Mr. 
 Powers was born i\ugust 30, 1841, and is a son 
 of Hazard and Philcna (Tiftgley) Powers, natives 
 respectively of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. 
 He was reared to farming and stock-raising, and 
 surrounded by the influence that usually predom- 
 in.ates in the average country home. At the dis- 
 trict schools of his native county he received a 
 fair education, and in later life devoted much 
 time to research along many lines. He was mar- 
 ried in Pennsylvania to Prudence Bailey, a native 
 of Susquehanna county, that state, who died after 
 a few years. Mr. Powers later married Mrs. 
 Amanda Collins, formerly of Grand Junction, 
 Tenn., and the mother of three children by her
 
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 759 
 
 former husband, Henry, Dixie and Lafayette 
 Collins. To Mr. and Mrs. Powers have been 
 bom three children, two of whom are living: 
 Lulu A. and Tingley K. 
 
 Mr. Powers is greatly interested in the cause 
 of education, and is now serving as a trustee 
 of the Jordan school district No. 26, a position 
 which he has hekl for several years. Although 
 independent in politics, he has held several local 
 positions within the gift of the people, and while 
 living in Gila county served as county super- 
 visor for several years. He is progressive and 
 enterprising and has materially aided in the 
 growth of the localities in which he has resided. 
 In Gila county he rendered a lasting service to 
 the residents by digging a ditch from the upper 
 Salt river which furnished abundant water for 
 irrigating purposes. He has since given manv 
 practical evidences of his interest in the general 
 welfare, and is accounted one of the reliable and 
 substantial citizens and farmers of the valley. 
 Mrs. Powers is a member of the Church of God 
 of the Abrahamic faith. 
 
 BISHOP JOHN TAYLOR. 
 
 This large-hearted and progressive church- 
 nip.n at Pima was born in Salt Lake City Oc- 
 tober 25, 1850. He comes of a family who have 
 for years been intimately associated with the 
 undertakings of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter-day Saints, and who have exerted a 
 wide influence toward moral and commercial 
 development. His parents were Allen and Han- 
 nah (Egbert) Taylor. His father was born in 
 Kentucky and was a close companion of Joseph 
 Smith, often being a member of his bodyguard. 
 In the very e-rly days of the century he brought 
 two wagon trains across the desert and took up 
 his residence in Utah, where his high moral 
 character and ability gained for him readv 
 recognition. For ten years he was bishop of 
 Kaysville, Davis county, LUah, and subse- 
 quently, at the age of seventy-seven years, he 
 died in the service of his church at Raljhit val- 
 ley, v.-here he is buried. 
 
 The youth of John Taylor was passc<l. until 
 his eleventh year, at Tvaysville, at which time 
 he removed to south L^tah, where he lived un- 
 til twentv vears of age. At the age of nine- 
 
 teen he married Mary Kelsey, a- daughter of 
 Easton and Mary Jane (Cox) Kelsey, and the 
 following year he aided in the colonization plan 
 of the church by establishing a colony at Pan- 
 guitch, Utah. In 1880 he brought his family 
 to Arizona, settling in Pima within a few yards 
 of where he now lives. He helped to lay out 
 the town, and aided in its growth and prosper- 
 ity, and in 1885 was ordained bishop of Pima 
 ward, St. Joseph stake. Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter-day Saints, which position he still 
 holds. The congregation has a good brick 
 church and the membership is large. 
 
 To Bishop and Mrs. Taylor have been born 
 twelve children: Mary, John E., Joseph A., 
 William C, Franklin R., who filled a mission 
 in the southwestern states in 1898 and 1899; 
 Sarah L., Edith R., Marion A. and Myrtle 
 (twins): Jessie K., George A., and Era, who 
 is six years of age. All of the children are 
 living in Pima, and five are married, and have, 
 according to the habit of their generous and 
 helpful father, homes of their own which they 
 received at the time of their marriage. The 
 Bishop has seven living grandchildren, and an 
 event of rejoicing was when the entire family 
 ate Christmas dinner together. The sons and 
 daughters are all members of the church to 
 which their father has ever given his allegiance, 
 and the oldest son is first assistant superinten- 
 dent of the Sunday school. About a mile from 
 Pima Bishop Taylor has eighty acres of land 
 under cultivation. He is a member of the Dem- 
 ocratic party, as are his sons. 
 
 C. C. McEWEN. 
 
 The Pioneer & City Transfer Company, of 
 which Mr. McEwen is vice-president, is meeting 
 with a high degree of success, and receives the 
 patronage of a large share of the residents of 
 Phoenix and vicinity. The company is the re- 
 sult of the consolidation, in 1899, of the City 
 Transfer, which was started by Mr. McEwen in 
 1891, and the Pioneer Transfer. The president 
 is J. D. Reed, of Tucson, and the secretary and 
 treasurer Clinton Lauvcr. The office of the con- 
 cern is located at 10 South Center street. The 
 firm does a large storage business, and have two 
 storehouses on the corner of Jackson and First
 
 760 
 
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 streets, one of which is 40x40 in dimensions and 
 the other 50x50 feet. They also conduct a gen- 
 eral moving business. Their reliable business 
 methods .and extreme care in the matter of trans- 
 fer of valuable articles and house furnishings 
 have won for them the confidence of the com- 
 munit\-, and by far the largest patronage of any 
 firm in the valley. 
 
 A native of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., Mr. 
 McEwen was born December 20, 1856, and is 
 a son of George and Eliza (Bohannan) McEwen, 
 natives respectively of St. Lawrence and Oswe- 
 go counties, N. Y. George McEwen was a 
 farmer during his lifetime, and in 1866 removed 
 to Shelby county, 'Mo., where he eventually died. 
 The paternal grandfather, Daniel, was born in 
 \'ermont, and was later a farmer in St. Law- 
 rence county. He was of Scotch descent. C. C. 
 ]\IcEwen remained at home on his father's farm 
 until about twenty years of age, and in 1876 re- 
 moved to Missouri, where he became interested 
 in general farming and in the horse business. In 
 1884 he settled in Gainesville, Texas, and en- 
 gaged in the cattle business, and later went to 
 the Indian territory. In 1884 he located in Phoe- 
 nix, and for eighteen months w-as in the employ 
 of J. B. Montgomery's dairy concern. He then 
 turned his attention to farming for three years, 
 later engaging in the management of a wood and 
 coal yard, on the present site of the O'Xeill 
 building, which was later removed to East Madi- 
 son street, and was conducted by Mr. AIcEwen 
 until his change of occupation to the transfer 
 business. 
 
 In Palmyra, N. Y., occurred the marriage of 
 ^Ir. McEwen and Elizabeth Schallar, a native of 
 Illinois, and of German descent. Of this union 
 there have been three children: Clarice, Sidney 
 and Arizona. ]\Ir. McEwen is a very public- 
 spirited man, and interested in all that pertains 
 to the development of his locality. He still has 
 an interest in the City Wood Yard, on West 
 Washington street, between Third and Fourth 
 avenues. The residence constructed by him at 
 No. 505 South Third street is a commodious 
 and comfortable structure, and a credit to the 
 surrounding homes. In national politics he is a 
 Democrat, and with his family is connected with 
 the Lutheran Church. Fraternally he is asso- 
 ciated with the Woodmen of the World. Mr. 
 
 iMcEwen has gieat faith in the prospects of his 
 adopted territory, and is particularly pleased 
 with the climate and general conditions. When 
 he first came here a five years' illness had re- 
 duced his weight to one hundred and seven- 
 teen pounds, and six months later he weighed 
 one hundred and forty pounds. He has since 
 enjoyed perfect health, and attributes the change 
 to the wonderful climate of this most wonderful 
 territory. 
 
 CHRISTIAN MILLER. 
 
 The record of the life of Mr. Miller, a farmer 
 of the Salt River valley, shows that he is a native 
 of Baltimore, Md., born February 26, 1837. His 
 parents. Christian S. and Catherine R. (Luke) 
 Miller, were natives of Germany, the former of 
 Prussia and the latter of Wurtemburg. Their 
 son was reared in ISahiniore until his fourteenth 
 year, at which time he removed with his parents 
 to Springfield, III., and in 1857 they changed 
 their location to Harrison county. Mo. There the 
 parents died. He received an excellent educa- 
 tion in the public schools of Springfield and Mis- 
 souri, and was well equipped by education and 
 practical home-training for the future responsi- 
 bilities of life. 
 
 While living in Harrison county, Mo., Mr. 
 Miller became a prominent member of the com- 
 nnmity, and e.xerted a wide influence in all of the 
 afifairs of the county. He held various responsi- 
 ble local of^ces within the gift of the people, in- 
 cluding that of treasurer of Dallas township. His 
 harmonious existence was somewhat broken in 
 upon at the outbreak of the Civil war, when 
 he enlisted in the Union army and served for 
 three years and two months in Company G, 
 Sixth Missouri Volunteer C?ivalry. He was sta- 
 tioned mostly in Arkansas and Missouri, and 
 participated in many of the important battles 
 of the war, among which were Wilson's Creek. 
 Cross Hollow, Forbes River, and in several mi- 
 nor skirmishes. During the course of the serv- 
 ice his command was a part of the army that 
 fought Price and Marmaduke. and run them 
 out of Missouri. 
 
 In 1865, while still living in Missouri, ]Mr. Mil- 
 ler married Emily Reaksecker, a native of \'ir- 
 ginia and a daughter of Frederick and Christena 
 (King) Reaksecker. Of this miion there were
 
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 six children, of whom the eldest, Ida Alav, died 
 at the age of twenty-one. Those now living are: 
 Edward; Julia; Lizzie, who is the wife of John 
 A. Elvey, a rancher and miner of ]\Iaricopa 
 county; J. Frank; Ralph E., and Lillie B. In Mis- 
 souri Mr. ^liller successfully carried on large 
 general farming and stock-raiting interests and 
 continued the same until his removal to .Arizona 
 in 1893. 
 
 In the Salt River valley, the farm of Mr. Aliller 
 has many natural advantages and is located on 
 the Maricopa canal. He owns one hundred and 
 twenty-eight and a cjuarter acres of land, forty 
 acres comprising the home claim. It is under a 
 high state of cultivation, and is a credit to the en- 
 terprising owner and to the locality in which it is 
 situated. He is thoroughly in touch with the 
 enterprises instituted for the upbuilding of the 
 valley, and is regarded as an acquisition to the 
 agriculturists there residing. Politically he has 
 always been a Republican and cast his first vote 
 for Abraham Lincoln. He and his wife are mem- 
 bers of the Methodist Church. 
 
 JOHN R. NORTON. 
 
 Success is determined by one's ability to rec- 
 ognize ojiportunity, and to pursue this with a 
 resolute and unflagging energy. It results from 
 continued labor, and the man who thus accom- 
 plishes his purpose usually becomes an import- 
 ant factor in the business circles of the com- 
 numitv with which he is connected. Through 
 such means Mr. Norton has attained a leading 
 place among the representative men of Phoenix, 
 and his well-spent and honorable life commands 
 the respect of all who know him. 
 
 He was born at Sulphur Well, Metcalfe 
 county, Ky., h"el)ruary 28, 1854, a son of Robert 
 and Annie (Hunter) Norton, the former of 
 Scotch-Irish, the latter of English descent. The 
 ])aternal grandfather, George Washington Nor- 
 ton, was a native of Virginia, from which state 
 he removed to Kentucky at an early day, and 
 about 1856 took up his residence near Lexing- 
 ton, La Fayette county. Mo., where his death 
 occurred. He was a farmer by occupation. ( )ur 
 subject's father was a native of Kentucky, and 
 became a farmer, machinist and inventor, con- 
 structing man)- appliances for woolen mills. He 
 
 built the woolen mills at Nicholasville, Ky., 
 which he operated until they were destroyed by 
 fire, and then removed to Lexington, Mo., where 
 he engaged in business as a hemp dealer until his 
 death in i860. His wife was born near Nicholas- 
 \ille, Ky., and was a daughter of John Hunter, 
 a native of Virginia and an early settler of Ken- 
 tucky, who followed the occupation of farming 
 and served as captain in the war of 1812, in 
 which he was wounded. Our subject is second 
 in order of birth in a family of three children, 
 the others being Mrs. Lavina Shearer and Mrs. 
 Lucy Bickers, both residents of Kentucky. 
 
 John R. Norton was three years old when the 
 faiuily removed to Lexington, i\Io., but in tlie 
 fall of i860 he returned to Kentucky and made 
 his home with an uncle, Mr. Hurst, on a farm 
 near Richmond, Madison county, until thirteen 
 >ears of age, when he went to Centralia, J\Io., 
 where he was employed on a farm for five years. 
 During the last year he also traded in stock. 
 In 1876 he removed to Ford county. 111., and em- 
 barked in farming on his own account near Gib- 
 son City. He planted a large amount of corn, 
 but the season being wet his crop proved a 
 failure. 
 
 In 188 1 j\lr. N(.irton concluded to come to a 
 jilace where it never rains, and entered the cm- 
 l)loyofthe Atlantic & Pacific Railroad as foreman 
 tor W. ^lurphy, a construction contractor. ( )u 
 the 5th of May, 1883, he came with Mr. Alurphy 
 to Phoeni.x as foreman on the construction of the 
 .Vrizona canal, and held that position three years. 
 In 1887 he had charge of the grading of thirtv- 
 four miles of the Maricopa road for the .same 
 gentleman, and was then made superintendent 
 of the -Vrizona Improvement Company's Works, 
 serving as such about five years. Subsetiucnth- 
 he was superintendent of all of the canals on the 
 north side of Salt river, namely: the Arizona, 
 Grand, Maricopa and Salt river, and during the 
 seven x'ears he held th;U position he worked 
 about eighteen hours a day. He resigned in 
 i8ij8. Five years before this he became interest- 
 ed in the cattle business, and bought and im- 
 proxed a ranch noith of the city, which he sold 
 in n;oo, and ])urchased his present ranch of three 
 Inuulred and sixty acres on the Buckeye, twenty- 
 seven miles west of I'hoenix. This is one of the 
 linest alfalfa r.Muchos in Arizona. .\s a dealer
 
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 and feeder, Mr. Norton handles from fifteen Inm- 
 dred to two thousand head of cattle annually, 
 and keeps some standard bred horses and mules. 
 He organized the Phoenix Hay & Grain Com- 
 pany, now located at the corner of Jefferson and 
 First streets, and is a stockholder, director and 
 president of the same. 
 
 In Phoenix Mr. N^orton was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Etta W. Wright, who was born 
 near Yuma, Ariz., while her parents, J. C. and 
 IVIary Wright, were en route to California, 
 though they now live near Phoenix. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Norton have two children, Fred W. and 
 Edith M. The family have a pleasant residence 
 on Ninth avenue, near the Yuma road. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Norton affiliates with the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen 
 of the \\'orld, the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and the Benevolent Protective Order 
 of Elks. Politically lie is prominently identified 
 with the Democratic party, always attending its 
 conventions, and frequently serving as a mem- 
 ber of the county committee. In 1896 he was 
 elected supervisor of Maricopa county, receiving 
 a higher number of votes than any other super- 
 visor, and he has since filled that office with 
 credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction 
 of bis constituents. He takes an active interest 
 in the forest reserve scheme to preserve the for- 
 est for a watershed, and he owns a third interest 
 in the mouth of the \'erde, which has been 
 tendered the reservoir committee at what it cost 
 the company. He is pre-eminently public-spirit- 
 ed and progressive, and takes a deep interest in 
 all enterprises tending to advance the welfare 
 of his community. 
 
 THOMAS M. BROCKMAN. 
 
 Great changes have taken place in Arizona 
 since Mr. Brockman came here in 1874, From 
 a wild and desert condition of unpromising as- 
 pect the Salt River valley has developed under 
 the untiring industry of the well-to-do farmers 
 into one of the garden spots of the extreme 
 west. Although at first associated with Pres- 
 cott, where he remained until 1878, Mr. Brock- 
 man finally settled u]ion the land which has 
 since been tlie nbjcct n\ his ptTsistcnt efforts and 
 improvement. L'nder the homestead act he took 
 up one hundred and sixty acres, which at the 
 
 present time bears scarcely a trace of resem- 
 blance to its former sterile condition. While 
 tilling bis land Mr. Brockman has become popu- 
 lar with all who arc privileged to know him, and 
 he is recognized as a typical pioneer of the early 
 days, who is large of heart and generously dis- 
 posed towards everything that improves his lo- 
 cality. He is a stanch Democrat, but not an 
 otifice-seekcr, although often induced to accept 
 positions of responsibility and trust. For some 
 time, however, he served as a member of the 
 school board, and thereby rendered valuable 
 assistance to the community. 
 
 In very early life Mr. Brockman was inured 
 to the serious and responsible side of existence, 
 for when quite young he lost both his father and 
 mother by death. A native of Sonoma county, 
 Cal., he was born Alarch 14, 1858. and is a son 
 of Israel E. and Mary J. (Carriger) Brockman, 
 natives respectively of Kentucky and Tennessee. 
 When but a small boy Israel E. Brockman re- 
 moved from Kentucky to Missouri, where he 
 lived imtil his nineteenth year. He was early 
 ambitious for independence, and in 1846 under- 
 took a trip to the far west, crossing the plains 
 by means of ox teams. Upon arriving in Cali- 
 fornia he became identified with the earlv pio- 
 neer days of Sonoma county. In time he was 
 prominent in the locality both as farmer and citi- 
 zen, and was honored with the election to of- 
 fice of first Democratic sheriff of Sonoma county. 
 He died in San Diego county, Cal., when his 
 son Thomas was eleven years of age. The lad 
 had previously lost his mother when but five 
 years of age. Thrown thus early upon himself 
 be lived until his sixteenth year with relatives 
 in California, and then, accompanied by an elder 
 brother, Joseph E., left California for Arizona. 
 He subsequently settled in Maricopa county, his 
 brother Joseph locating in Yavapai county. 
 
 Though practically self-educated, Mr. Brock- 
 man has studied along many lines, and is a well- 
 informed man. He has many of the substantial 
 traits of mind and character which go to make 
 up the successful citizen, and the ability to im- 
 prove his opportimities to the utmost. Mrs. 
 Brockman was formerly Perline A. Cartwright, 
 a native of Illinois, and subsequently a resident 
 of Salt River valley. To Mr. and Mrs. Brock- 
 man have been born ciglit children, viz.: Emory
 
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 765 
 
 C, Ernest J., Lawrence H.. Bessie. Dora. Clif- 
 ton M., Mabel and Israel M. In the religious 
 world Mr. Brockman wields an extended influ- 
 ence, and is a member of the Christian Church. 
 
 PEDRO MICHELENA. 
 
 Many public honors have been bestowed upon 
 the subject of this sketch, who undoubtedly is 
 a prime favorite in the ranks of the Democratic 
 party, for he has labored assiduously in the pro- 
 motion of its interests. At intervals, ever since 
 he reached mature years, he has been called 
 upon to officiate in positions of responsibility 
 and trust, and always, without exception, dis- 
 charged his duties so well that he added fresh 
 laurels to those already earned. In addition to 
 all this he is one of the pioneers of Graham 
 county, and has assisted in innumerable ways in 
 the great work of making it a rich and progres- 
 sive part of the territory. 
 
 Thus, doubly entitled to representation in the 
 annals of this future state, the following facts 
 in regard to the life of Mr. Michelena have been 
 gathered. He is a native of Sonora, Mexico, 
 born March 14, 1858, and at the age of five years 
 he removed with his parents to Tubac, Ariz. 
 Four years later they located in Tucson, where 
 the lad obtained a public school education, and 
 in 1875 the family removed to the Gila valley. 
 His mother died in 1874 and his father in 1877, 
 and then he was left entirely upon his own re- 
 sources. 
 
 -Vfter clerking in a general merchandise store 
 in Tucson for two years, Mr. Michelena came to 
 Graham county, and for a quarter of a century 
 has been associated with its history. Devoting 
 his energy- to the development of a farm until 
 he was made deputy county recorder, he then 
 so faithfully performed his duties that in 1886 
 he was elected to the post of county recorder 
 and served two years. From 1885 to 1888 he 
 was clerk of the district court, and upon the 
 expiration of his term resumed his agricultural 
 labors, succeeding in making a fine homestead. 
 In 1894 he was again brought before the public 
 as a candidate for the oilfice of county assessor, 
 and was duly elected, sening acceptably for two 
 years. In 1896 he was again called to fill the 
 position of recorder of Graham county, and his 
 
 tenure of the post continued until the first day 
 of 1901. Since retiring from ofifice he has been 
 giving his attention to his mining interests, for 
 he has disposed of the well-improved farm which 
 he formerly owned. He resides in a commo- 
 dious home and thoroughly enjoys the privileges 
 of the county seat. He is an honored member of 
 the Territorial Association of .\rizona Pioneers 
 and belongs to the Spanish-American Alliance. 
 
 HENRY BRINKMEYER. 
 
 What may be accomplished within even a few 
 years by a man of industry and perseverance 
 may be plainly seen in the case of Henry Brink- 
 meyer, who today is the proprietor of the 
 Brinkmeyer Hotel and a flourishing bakery, and 
 who, a few years ago, arrived in Prescott with 
 no capital save a thorough knowledge of his 
 trade. Success has been won by him in the 
 legitimate channels of business enterprise, and 
 he is eminently deserving of commendation. 
 
 One of seven children, Henry Brinkmeyer 
 was born in Osnabrock, Hanover, Germany, in 
 1866. His father, in whose honor he is named, 
 is still living on the old homestead in Hanover, 
 but the mother is deceased. A brother, Her- 
 man, also resides in Prescott. The earlv vears 
 of the two were passed upon the farm in their 
 native land, and their education was such as is 
 afforded by the national schools. When four- 
 teen years of age. our subject was apprenticed to 
 the trade of a baker and confectioner, and three 
 years of his life were passed in mastering the 
 business. 
 
 In July, 1884, the young man came to Amer- 
 ica, proceeding toward the setting sun until he 
 arrived in Prescott. Here he was employed at 
 his trade for three years, in the meantime be- 
 coming well acc|uainted with the intricacies of 
 the English language. In 1887 he opened a 
 bakery and confectionery store, with a restaurant 
 in connection, his location being on Montezuma 
 street. In 1890 he started in another and more 
 ambitious enterprise, as he purchased the Brink- 
 mcver Hotel, and this he continued to run until 
 the large building was destroyed by fire. July 
 14, 1900. He inuncdiatcly rebuilt the hotel, and 
 three days after the fire again opened his bakery 
 business, for he had not given it u\> even while
 
 766 
 
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 managing the hotel. In October the hotel was 
 ready for the entertainment of the public, and 
 now another addition to it is in process of con- 
 struction. \Mien completed, the building will 
 be 50x150 feet in dimensions, and two stories 
 and ba.'sement in height. It is centrally situated 
 on Montezuma street, and receives a large share 
 of the local patronage, as well as of the traveling 
 public. 
 
 In 1899 Mr. Brinkmeyer erected a large and 
 modern residence on West Gurley street, and, 
 with his family, occupies it. He was married 
 in this city to Miss Ina Mucik, who was born in 
 Hutchinson, Minn. They are the parents of two 
 promising children, Henry, Jr., and Marcella. 
 
 An honored member of the Odd Fellows' 
 order, Mr. Brinkmeyer is a past officer of the 
 Prescott Lodge and is past chief patriarch of 
 the Encampment. He also is identified with the 
 Rebekahs and with the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks. In religion he is a Lutheran and 
 in politics is a Democrat, and is now serving as 
 a member of the city council of Prescott. 
 
 JOHN F. MAHONY. 
 
 Since 1866 this worthy pioneer of Prescott 
 has been actively associated with the upbuilding 
 of these southwestern territories, and for the 
 past thirty-two years has looked upon this 
 county as his home place. Indeed, he has wit- 
 nessed almost its entire development, and in 
 the early years of his residence here experienced 
 serious discomforts, not the least of his trials 
 being the troublesome Indians. 
 
 The birth of J. F. Mahony occurred in County 
 Cork, Ireland, August 13, 1850, he being one 
 of six children, three of whom were sons, and 
 two brothers and two sisters are today in Amer- 
 ica. The parents were Maurice and Eliza (Shep- 
 herd) Mahony. The father and his father and 
 grandfather were architects, and followed that 
 calling with success in the Emerald Isle. 
 
 The boyhood of John F. Mahony passed 
 cjuietly in his native land, his studies being pur- 
 sued in the public schools. Having marked me- 
 chanical ability, he spent some time in the shops 
 and thoroughly mastered the trade of a machin- 
 ist. Coming to the United States at the close of 
 the Civil war, he enlisted in the regular army. 
 
 though only fifteen years of age, and was as- 
 signed to Company G, Third United States Cav- 
 alry. At first he was stationed at Fort Union, 
 but in 1866 was sent to New Mexico, where he 
 took part in the memorable campaigns against 
 the Utes, Comanches and Navajos, only once, 
 however, being wounded, and that only slightly. 
 At the end of a service which extended over 
 three years and nine months, he was honorably 
 discharged, by special order. 
 
 Coming to Yavapai county in 1869, Mr. Ma- 
 hony started in the restaurant business at Wick- 
 enburg. and at the end of six or eight months 
 gave up that enterprise, devoting his attention to 
 mining. Later he kept a stage at Date creek, 
 four miles from Congress, and during the nine 
 months of his residence at that point his place 
 was raided by the Apaches, who made away 
 with all of his live stock and whatever else they 
 desired. Again he went to the mines, and re- 
 mained in the Weaver district until 1874, when 
 he proceeded to Nye county, Nev., and there 
 passed about two years, engaged in quartz mill- 
 ing. Then, going to Kern county, Cal., he 
 spent one season in the silver mills. Returning 
 to Arizona in the autumn of 1876, he was con- 
 nected with mining enterprises for the next dec- 
 ade, latterly being located at Placerita, in Yava- 
 pai county. 
 
 Having been tendered the position of city 
 engineer of Prescott, Mr. Mahony accepted it, 
 and was in charge of the entire water system 
 here, putting up the Goose Flat Water-Works 
 and managing them until 1895. Altogether, he 
 was city engineer for nine years, after which he 
 became superintendent of the quartz mills of 
 the Tonto Basin, and in 1898 assumed the duties 
 of engineer at the Crystal Ice plant, in which 
 capacity he is yet acting. ' He thoroughly under- 
 stands machinery. 
 
 For his family Mr. Mahony built a comforta- 
 ble modern residence on Granite street, Pres- 
 cott. In the Centennial year he made a trip 
 back to his old home in Ireland, and again, in 
 1880, made the long journey to the scenes of 
 his youth. He did not return alone, however, 
 that time, for he was accompanied by his bride, 
 formerly Miss Eliza Abbott. They are the par- 
 ents of three daughters, namely: Lizzie, Maggie 
 and Susan.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 767 
 
 In the CWd Fellows' order Mr. Mahony stands 
 high, and is past noble grand of the Prescott 
 Lodge and past chief patriarch of the Encamp- 
 ment, also belonging to the Daughters of Re- 
 bekah. For six years he was district deputy 
 grand master, representing Arizona District No. 
 I, and for three years was grand representative 
 to the grand lodge of the territory. Politically 
 he is independent. 
 
 WILLIAM REID. 
 
 The proprietor of the Park \'ie\v Hotel of 
 Tucson has been numbered among our business 
 men since 1879, and thus has been a participant 
 in the events which have marked our progress 
 as a city, as within this period it has been trans- 
 formed from an unattractive town into a thor- 
 oughly desirable modern place of residence and 
 mercantile undertakings. He has been a very 
 active factor in local politics, using his influence 
 on behalf of the platform and noininces of the 
 Republican party. For six years he was a luem- 
 ber of the city council, and for a short time, 
 during a vacancy in the office, filled the mayor's 
 chair. 
 
 A sou of Richard .and Margaret (Forsythe) 
 Reid, who were born in the highlands of Scot- 
 land, William Reid is the youngest and only 
 one living of their six children. The father was 
 born and reared in Roxburgshire and was a 
 contractor and builder by occupation. The birth 
 of our subject took place in Glasgow, Scotland, 
 July 3, 1849, snd his youth was passed in that 
 city. He attended the Free Trade school in 
 Glasgow and when arrived at a suitable age went 
 to Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, where he com- 
 menced learning the business of a florist and 
 gardener. 
 
 In 1871 William Reid bade adieu to his na- 
 tive land and crossed the Atlantic, proceeding 
 westward to Chicago, 111., and in the fall of the 
 same year went to Marysville, Cal. Later he 
 became a citizen of San Francisco, but for about 
 a year suffered with chills and fever, and, be- 
 lieving a change of climate might prove benefi- 
 cial, went to San Jose, Cal., where a luarked 
 change for the better was observed. There he 
 was employed in the San Jose Hotel, and finally, 
 returning to .'■^an Francisco, he obtained a pay- 
 
 ing position as head cook in the Brooklyn Hotel, 
 and remained there tmtil 1879. That year wit- 
 nessed his arrival in Tucson, and his installa- 
 tion as head cook in the Palace Hotel, a position 
 which he held for three and a half years. For a 
 short time he then was engaged in the liquor 
 business on his own account, but in 1883, leasing 
 a building, he converted it into an opera-house, 
 and subse(|ueutly bought the property. In 1886 
 he !)uill tin- Reid Opera-house, which had a 
 capacity of six hundred, and w-as a model little 
 theater. He continued to operate this until 
 1898, when he commenced its reconstruction, 
 and today the Pari; View Hotel is the result 
 of his labors. The hotel has a pleasant rotunda 
 and large, airy rooms, well equipped with mod- 
 ern conveniences. The hotel is conducted on 
 the European plan, and an extensive business is 
 justifying the proprietor's sagacity and energetic 
 efforts to please the public. 
 
 Like most of the live business men of Arizona, 
 Mr. Reid has made investments in mining prop- 
 erty from time to time, his interests being in 
 the Dragoon Mountains, in the Santa Catalina 
 district, and in the Helvetia district. He is a 
 past officer of the Tucson lodges of the Odd Fel- 
 lows, the Red Men, Knights of Pythias and 
 .\ncient Order of United Workmen. Religiously 
 he is a Presbyterian, but as there is no church 
 here of that denomination, he holds membership 
 with the Congregational Church. He was mar- 
 ried in San Francisco to Miss Lena Duber, a 
 native of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and her 
 death occurred in this city in 1892. 
 
 JAMES C. ROBINSON. 
 
 Much of the prosperity of the flourishing lit- 
 tle town of Safford is due to the successful ma- 
 nipulations of Mr. Robinson, one of the sound 
 commercial forces of the town and county. A 
 native of Marshfield, Mo., he was born in 1854, 
 and is a son of C. W. and Elizabeth Robinson. 
 The father was a veteran of the Civil war. and 
 was crippled during his service with the army 
 of the Confederacy, from which he never recov- 
 ered. After the war, in 1866, he removed with 
 his family to Texas, and here his son James be- 
 came interested in stock-raising and general 
 merchandise, continuing the same until 1892.
 
 768 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 While living in Texas Mr. Robinson married, 
 in 1879, Louise M. Porter, a daughter of R. S. 
 and Louise Porter, the former a veteran stock- 
 man and merchant. Of this union there have 
 been four children: Angie, who is attending 
 school in Kansas City; J. N., who is studying 
 at the university at Tucson; Maggie, who is a 
 student at SafTord, and Zona. Mr. Robinson 
 became identified with Arizona in 1892, and set- 
 tled at Fort Thomas. Like the majority, he 
 was not drawn here by the animating desire for 
 weahh, but was rather following a doctor's or- 
 ders in the hope of regaining lost health. In 
 this connection he has a most exalted idea of 
 Arizona, for he is today a man of remarkably 
 strong constitution, and not a trace remains of 
 his former disability. In Fort Thomas and 
 Geronimo he engaged in general merchandise 
 for five years, and upon selling out in 1897 took 
 up his residence in SafTord. 
 
 In Saflford Mr. Robinson has been variously 
 engaged, principally in real-estate and stock 
 speculating. He has mining properties in the 
 Yavapai district, in the Trumbull mountains, 
 from which he hopes for large returns. He is 
 in national politics a Democrat, and although 
 interested in all of the undertakings of his party, 
 has never been an office-seeker. Fraternally he 
 is associated with the Masonic order, and is a 
 Master Mason and charter member of the lodge 
 at Safford. Although reared in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, he now attends the Baptist 
 Church, of which his wife and children are mem- 
 bers. Mr. Robinson has a beautiful home in 
 Saf?ord, where are gathered a happy family cir- 
 cle, and which is the scene of a widespread and 
 gracious hospitality. To no one of her citizens 
 does SafFord accord a larger degree of esteem 
 and appreciation than is merited and received by 
 this amiable and large-hearted member of the 
 community. 
 
 HARRINGTON BLAUVELT. 
 
 The superintendent of the Monte Cristo and 
 Cash mines, near Prescott, Yavapai county, is a 
 member of the American Institute of Mining 
 Engineers. Having thoroughly fitted himself for 
 his chosen field of endeavor, he has devoted 
 about two decades to mining and metallurgical 
 
 work, and is considered an expert in his line. 
 Mr. Blauvelt is a native of New York state and 
 for eighteen years has been actively associated 
 with the west, giving his time to mining en- 
 gineering and metallurgy. About ten years ago 
 he came to Prescott, and since has been em- 
 ployed in the development of mines of this dis- 
 trict. In the past he has held important and 
 remunerative positions with different companies 
 of this territory. 
 
 The two groups of mines in which Mr. Blau- 
 velt is now especially interested are the Monte 
 Cristo, of the Groom Creek district, and the 
 Cash mine, situated at the head of Maple Gulch, 
 neither far from Prescott. Two different syndi- 
 cates are developing these groups. Phoenix, 
 Chicago and New England capitalists composing 
 the companies. The Cash mine was located by 
 David Grubb in the latter part of the '70s, and 
 through many disheartening seasons he held on 
 to his property, which is now yielding excel- 
 lently. The work is progressing, the shaft hav- 
 ing been sunk to a depth of three hundred and 
 thirty-five feet, and the ore extracted containing 
 heavy deposits of lead, with a good percentage 
 of gold and silver metals. A ten-stamp mill is 
 now in course of erection. The Monte Cristo 
 group, comprising seven claims, was located 
 about ten or twelve years ago by John Hutchins. 
 Some rich native silver has been taken out, and 
 the shaft has now reached a depth of ninety feet. 
 Some gold is found in the iron pyrites, and oc- 
 casional pockets, while native silver occurs in 
 leafs and wires. A five-stamp mill is about to be 
 placed on this property. 
 
 JAMES D. MARLAR. 
 
 The mining for copper, one of the boimdless 
 resources of Arizona, has an enthusiastic advo- 
 cate in Mr.' Marlar, of Phoenix, who, as secre- 
 tary and manager of the Lime Creek Copper 
 Company, is developing a great and remunera- 
 tive property. 
 
 A native of Crawford county, .Ark.. Mr. Marlar 
 was born February 8, 1859, ^nd is a son of W. 
 E. Marlar, who was born in middle Tennessee. 
 The paternal grandfather, John, was also born 
 in Tennessee, and removed with liis family to 
 .Arkansas, where he eventually died. He was a
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 771 
 
 planter on a large scale, and served with conr- 
 age and distinction in the war of 1812. W. E. 
 Marlar was a successful raiser of stock in Arkan- 
 sas, and in 1859 settled in California, going 
 hence by way of the plains, which were crossed 
 with wagons and ox teams. The route chosen 
 was by way of Santa Fe to Yuma, and across the 
 desert to Los Angeles. In those early days the 
 journey was full of peril to the little family of 
 father, mother and two children, for the Indi- 
 ans still regarded the land as their undisputed 
 heritage, and to them the paleface was a menace 
 and intrusion. Arriving in \'isalia, Tulare 
 county, Mr. Marlar became interested in stock- 
 raising and died in March of 1899. His grand- 
 father, John Marlar, was born in Tennessee, and 
 was a captain in the Revolutionary war. The 
 mother of J. D. Marlar was formerly Cynthia 
 Hinds, and was born in Arkansas. Her father, 
 James Hinds, was also a native of Arkansas, 
 and was, during the years of his activity, a large 
 planter in Arkansas. He served during the war 
 of 1812. Mrs. Marlar became the mother of 
 three children, and died in California. 
 
 J. D. Marlar was the second of the children in 
 his father's family, and was only six weeks old 
 when his parents made the memorable journey 
 to California. He was reared on a farm in Cali- 
 fornia, and necessarily at that time received but 
 a limited education. In 1877 he started out in 
 the world to make his own living, and farmed for 
 a year in California, going in 1878 to Prescott, 
 Ariz. Here he was employed for a year as a 
 vaquero, and in 1879 went to the Salt River val- 
 ley, and was interested in farming near Phoenix. 
 In 1880 he removed to Tombstone, Ariz., and 
 worked in a mine, and in 1881 returned to Phoe- 
 nix, and subsequently settled on a farm of one 
 hundred and sixty acres five and a half miles 
 from the city. This farm has been improved to 
 the utmost and is still in the possession of Mr. 
 Marlar. It is devoted to the raising of alfalfa, 
 grain and stock, and a specialty is made of high- 
 class Durhams. For a time after coming to the 
 territory Mr. Marlar ran a steam-threshing ma- 
 chine, which was the first Minnesota Chief intro- 
 duced in the comity. He was obliged to mort- 
 gage eighty acres of land to secure $500 for the 
 freight, wliich more than repaid him for the trou- 
 ble, for during the first year (three months' 
 
 work) he cleared $10,000. He then sold out to 
 good advantage and started a grocery business. 
 This proved a discouraging venture, for fire de- 
 stroyed the greater part of his goods, and the 
 loss sustained was very heavy. Mr. Marlar after- 
 wards rebuilt his store in brick, and in 1895 re- 
 turned for a time to the operation of his farm. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. Marlar engaged in mining in con- 
 nection with his farm work, and in the course of 
 prospecting located the mines on the line be- 
 tween Maricopa and Yavapai counties, on Lime 
 creek. This mine covers about four hundred 
 acres, and has proved to be one of the best 
 mines in the country, with an abundance of wood 
 and water. Eventually, Mr. Marlar organized 
 the Lime Creek Copper Company, which is do- 
 ing a large business, and is one of the important 
 mining organizations in the country. 
 
 In Phoenix in 1879 Mr. Alarlar was united in 
 marriage with Fannie C. Morten, a native of 
 Salt Lake City, Utah. Of this union there were 
 ten children, of whom seven are living, viz.: 
 William E., wdio is at present attending the Uni- 
 versity of Arizona at Tucson; Carrie B., who is 
 attending the high school; Fannie L. ; James 
 Floyd; Thomas; Cynthia, and Harry. In na- 
 tional politics Mr. Marlar is identified with the 
 Democratic party, but has no desire for political 
 office. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen and the Uniform Rank, Knights of 
 Pythias. Mrs. Marlar is a member of and a large 
 contributor to the Christian Church. 
 
 JOHN J. MEYER. 
 
 A citizen from other shores who has made 
 a name for himself as a rancher in the Salt River 
 valley, Mr. Meyer was born in Alsace-Lorraine, 
 near Strasburg, on the Rhine, April 13, 1865. 
 His parents, John and Margaret (Houser) 
 Meyer, were agriculturists during the years of 
 their activity. The father is now deceased, and 
 tlie mother is living in Illinois. 
 
 When nine years of age a change came into 
 the life of John J. Meyer, for his parents had 
 decided to avail themselves of the larger possi- 
 bilities of the United States, and set sail for 
 .America. Almost immediately they located in 
 Lake county. 111., where their son was reared
 
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 to man's estate, and educated in the district 
 schools. While prosecuting the peaceful occu- 
 pation of farming the family fortunes were 
 materially affected by the death of the father. 
 In 1884. the son, John, evinced an independent 
 disposition, and started out in the world to earn 
 his own living. Upon leaving Illinois he wan- 
 dered through several of the northwestern states 
 in search of a desirable permanent location, and 
 eventually settled in Wyoming, where for sev- 
 eral years he was variously occupied, according 
 to the location and time of year. 
 
 Mr. Meyer became identified with the promis- 
 ing conditions of Arizona in 1893, and has since 
 had cause to congratulate himself upon his 
 choice of location. He is one of the successful 
 men of the valley, and is continually progress- 
 ing along the lines of his chosen occupation. 
 
 Mrs. Meyer was formerly Clara E. Wilky, 
 daughter of Henry H. and Sophia (Lutgerding) 
 Wilky, pioneers of the Salt River valley. Mr. 
 Wilky died December 21, 1900. His widow is 
 still living on the old homestead. A sketcTi of 
 the Wilky family appears elsewhere in this work. 
 Of Mr. Meyer's marriage there is one daughter, 
 Edna M. Personally he is a progressive citizen 
 and capable farmer, and has won the esteem of 
 all who have in any way associated with him. 
 He has great faith in the latent qualities of the 
 soil in his adopted locality, and is ever ready 
 to contribute time and money towards all im- 
 provements and development of the surround- 
 ing resources. Politically he is a Democrat. 
 
 REV. THOMAS M. CONNOLLY. 
 
 One of the rnost earnest moral agencies in 
 Winslow is Father Connolly, rector of the Cath- 
 olic Church. His work among the people of this 
 thriving little town has been characterized by 
 unflagging zeal, and an inexhaustible sympathy 
 for all who suffer or are in need of help. He 
 came here in 1896, when but a few settlers had 
 availed themselves of the excellence of location, 
 and the manifold opportunities for money-get- 
 ting. With the enthusiasm which everywhere 
 seems to animate the disciples of the great 
 church in which he is a worker, he continued 
 the work of construction begun by his predeces- 
 sor, and after two years had completed the plas- 
 
 tering, furnishing and frescoing, and a creditable 
 structure was the result, at a cost of $1,200. 
 Since then the work has progressed with gratify- 
 ing results, the membership has grown to sixty- 
 five families and four hundred members, who 
 work in harmony with the pastor, whose counsels 
 they follow, and in whose judgment they have 
 the utmost confidence. 
 
 Father Connolly was born in Miurayville, 111., 
 and was educated at St. Francis Seminary, Mil- 
 waukee, Wis., from which he was graduated in 
 June of 1 89 1. June 21, of the same year, he 
 was ordained by Archbishop Katzer, of Milwau-' 
 kee, and his first charge was at Carlinville, Ma- 
 coupin county. 111., as rector of St. Mary's 
 Church. .After a year he went to Alton, 111., as 
 assistant in the Alton Cathedral, but owing to 
 failing health was obliged to relinquish his 
 charge when a year had passed. In the hope 
 of benefiting by a change of climate and sur- 
 roundings, he came to Arizona in 1894, remain- 
 ing for a short time in Flagstaff, and removing 
 to Winslow in December of 1896. Father Con- 
 nolly belongs to the secular clergy, and devotes 
 his entire time to religious work. 
 
 GORHAM A. BRAY. 
 
 Just when the Bray family was first repre- 
 sented in America is not definitely known, but at 
 any rate some remote scion of the house crossed 
 the seas from England many years ago and set- 
 tled at Cape Cod, Mass. Later bearers of the 
 name were closely associated with the quaint and 
 picturesque village of Yarmouth, on the coast, 
 and here, where the fishermen so industriously 
 ply their trade, and where so many millions of 
 the plebeian cod are smoked every year, the pa- 
 ternal grandfather, William, was born, and in 
 time became a ship builder by occupation. His 
 grandson, G. A. Bray, was born at Yamiouth 
 February 11, 1848, and his father, Gorham, was 
 a native of the same town, and a prosperous 
 farmer and speculator of the cape. The ship 
 builder's son died near the scene of his birth 
 in 1895, at the age of sixty-three years. In his 
 early manhood he had married Nancy Thatcher, 
 also a native of Cape Cod, and a daughter of 
 Deacon Samuel Thatcher, a prominent man in 
 the Congregational Church. Mrs. Bray, who
 
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 was the mother of six children, died when sixty 
 years of age. Five of the children attained ma- 
 turity, three sons and two daughters, of whom 
 G. A. is second. 
 
 After completing an education begun in the 
 public schools, Mr. Bray began to earn his own 
 living at the age of sixteen as a clerk at North 
 Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass. When 
 twenty-one years of age, he engaged with his 
 father in the gents' clothing and furnishing busi- 
 ness at Lynn, Essex county, Mass., and in 1875 
 sold out and returned to his old home at Yar- 
 mouth. In May of 1876 he went to San Fran- 
 cisco by way of Panama, and there assumed 
 charge of the furnishing goods department of 
 Davis Brothers. From San Francisco he went 
 to Soledad, Monterey county, Cal., and then to 
 Gonzales, where he became foreman of a mer- 
 cantile concern, eventually returning to the em- 
 ploy of Davis Brothers in San Francisco. Upon 
 resigning from his position in 1878 he became 
 associated with T. C. Bray, a cousin, in Prescott, 
 with whom he continued in the general mer- 
 chandise business until March of 1888. He then 
 removed to Flagstaff and started in business for 
 himself, and during the seven years of his resi- 
 dence in that place became prominent in the 
 affairs of the town. He was the first mayor 
 of Flagstaff and took an active part in its incor- 
 poration. 
 
 In November of 1894 Mr. Bray returned to 
 Prescott, and at once became interested in the 
 B. B. Company, with which he has since asso- 
 ciated his fortunes, and of which he is now a 
 director. The greater part of his time is now 
 spent in looking after the affairs of this large 
 concern, one of the largest in the county, and 
 indeed in the w^est. The concern carries a gen- 
 eral line of necessities, and it would be difficult to 
 mention anything between a cambric needle and 
 a threshing machine that may not be purchased 
 at their establishment. The building is 75x130 in 
 ground dimensions and is three stories high. In 
 addition there are warehouses and the most com- 
 plete arrangements for carrying on an exten- 
 sive and comprehensive business. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Bray and Desdemnna 
 E. Grandy occurred June 4. 1882. Mrs. Bray 
 w^as born in St. Paris, Ohio, and is a daughter of 
 Rev. I. B. Grandv, a native of New York, and 
 
 Julia (Lee) Grandy, a native of Troy, Ohio, and 
 daughter of Benjamin Lee. The paternal grand- 
 father lives in Cleveland, N. Y., and is of En- 
 glish descent. Rev. I. B. Grandy is a Universal- 
 ist minister, now living at Indianapolis, Ind. He 
 served during the Civil war in the Seventy-first 
 Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was wounded dur- 
 ing the war. He is a Mason of high degree. In 
 politics he is a stanch Republican and has been 
 active in sustaining the best principles and is- 
 sues of the party. For many years he has been 
 a member of the city council. During the exist- 
 ence of the Mining Exchange he was one of the 
 moving forces and was the treasurer for this 
 widely-known organization. 
 
 PATRICK J. DELAHANTY. 
 
 Though at the present time conducting a 
 large livery enterprise in Benson, Mr. Delahanty 
 has been variously identified with the growth of 
 his adopted town, and is one of its most enter- 
 prising and prosperous citizens. A native of 
 County Waterford, Ireland, he received his edu- 
 cation and early training in his island home, and 
 immigrated to America in 1872. After a year 
 spent in Massachusetts he went to Michigan and 
 became interested in iron mining in the Lake 
 Superior region for a year and a half, and was 
 successful in this first attempt to gain a liveli- 
 hood from the earth's hidden resources. In Utah 
 he later engaged in silver mining, and met with 
 equal success, and after eighteen months tried 
 his luck in Nevada in the same line of occupa- 
 tion. He later spent about two years in Inyo 
 county, Cal., which was followed by a residence 
 in San Francisco of several years. 
 
 Mr. Delahanty became associated with Ari- 
 zona in 1880, and at first lived in Tombstone for 
 a couple of years, going then to Dos Cabezos for 
 a year, where he was engaged in mining. For a 
 couple of years he mined in Pima county, and 
 then located in Benson which has since been 
 his home. In addition to his livery business he 
 is interested in a saloon and in the cattle indus- 
 try, and erected the buildings in which the first 
 uyr> industries are carried on. }^c 1- n 
 
 o-.i.;.^ t^.....-, <»i.^i a,iu ^,,iio \ajuab.c uuning 
 claims. In Benson he owns sixteen lots besides
 
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 those on which his business is conducted, six of 
 which are improved and located on Main street. 
 Mr. Dolahanty is one of those men who has 
 known how to avail himself of opportunities, 
 and his numerous possessions and the esteem 
 W'hich is accorded him by the citizens of Benson 
 bear testimony to his success. 
 
 Ill politics Mr. Delahanty is an uncompromis- 
 ing Democrat, and has for years been an influ- 
 ential leader of his party in Cochise county. 
 In 1900 he was elected to the office of supervisor 
 of Cochise county. He has from the first of his 
 residence here been interested in all of the local 
 political undertakings, and has exerted an influ- 
 ence for advancement along political and other 
 lines. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias, 
 and past chancellor of Benson Lodge No. 5. 
 
 A. L. PECK. 
 
 A. L. Peck, who is conducting mining and 
 livery interests at Nogales, has purchased his suc- 
 cess in the territory by experiences unusually dis- 
 couraging and terrible. A native of Chautauqua 
 county, N. Y., he was born March 21, 1849, and 
 was reared in the west. Of an enterprising and 
 industrious disposition, he early availed himself 
 of all the opportunities that came his way, and 
 found himself in Nevada in 1872. Then followed 
 a season of prospecting in different parts of the 
 southwest and in Sonora, Mexico, which termi- 
 nated in 1884, when he settled on a ranch ten 
 miles from Calabasas, in what is now Santa Cruz 
 county. Upon this ranch he carried on large cat- 
 tle and horse interests, and at the end of two 
 years his wife and infant child were killed by 
 Apache Indians, and himself and wife's niece 
 taken prisoners. After being robbed of every- 
 thing of value which he possessed, his house 
 burned, forty head of cattle and ten horses 
 stolen, and general destruction cast abroad, he 
 was turned loose in the mountains, and left to 
 a loneliness and desolation truly heartrending. 
 He finally sold out his land and returned to 
 Mexico, where he worked in the mines in lieu 
 of other occupation. The niece captured with 
 him was recaptured six weeks later in the moun- 
 tains by Lawton's troops. She is now married 
 and lives in Naco, Ariz. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Peck came to Nogales and for a 
 
 time worked in the Promontory mines in Sonora. 
 and also bought property on the international 
 line valued at $5,000. There he carried on a 
 boarding house until 1898, when the buildings 
 were ordered removed by the United States 
 government. In 1888 he went into partnership 
 with Joe Carbon in the livery business, the lat- 
 ter soon after being substituted by Maurice 
 Ilreen, with whom the business is still carried on. 
 The firm engages in all kinds of livery and team- 
 ing business, and has been very successful in 
 its line. Mr. Peck is also engaged in ranching 
 in the Santa Cruz valley, where he makes a spe- 
 cialty of cattle and horses. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Peck is a Republican, 
 and was appointed a member of the first board of 
 supervisors of the new county, having been .act- 
 ive in sectiring the separation of Santa Cruz from 
 Pima county. Fraternally he is a member of the 
 Nogales Lodge of ^Masons at Sonora, Mexico, 
 Nogales Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F., at Nogales, 
 Ariz., and the Knights of Pythias Lodge at 
 Nogales, Ariz. In 1888 he was united in mar- 
 riage with Carman Alontina, and of this second 
 union there are four children : May, Arthur, Luly 
 and Malathia. Mr. Peck owns considerable 
 residence property in Nogales, and has a fine 
 and commodious residence on West Hill, in this 
 city. 
 
 JOSEPH S. BIRCHETT. 
 
 From practically the termination of the Civil 
 war Mr. Birchett has made his home in the far 
 west, and has, as do most who are in touch with 
 its promise and possibility, remained here since. 
 In the primitive and time-honored way of the 
 early travelers through the western wilderness, 
 he came from Texas in 1865, crossing the plains 
 by means of ox teams and wagons, in a train of 
 emigrants, locating in Los Angeles county, Cal. 
 In the vicinity of Downey he carried on farming 
 enterprises for some time, and subsecjuently en- 
 gaged in a mercantile business at Modoc, Inyo 
 county, Cal., for several years. In 1881 he re- 
 moved to Arizona, and carried on a mercantile 
 venture for a short time, and later engaged in 
 mining in the Tonto Basin, Ariz. In 1888 he 
 came to the Salt River valley, and has since 
 made this section of the countv his home.
 
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 The first farm upon which Mr. Birchett set- 
 tled in the valley was located about ten miles 
 southwest of Phoenix, on the south side of the 
 Salt river. In 1891 he removed to the farm near 
 Tempe which has since been the object of his 
 care, and which is one hundred and ninety acres 
 in extent. The home place of thirty acres com- 
 prises the original land purchased by Mr. Birch- 
 ett, and which was in a very crude and unprom- 
 ising condition. As the various enterprises 
 sprang into existence as the result of the march 
 of progress, Mr. Birchett became ])rominently 
 interested in their upbuilding. In 1895 he be- 
 came identified with the Tempe-Mesa Produce 
 Company, and served for one year as a director 
 in the same. In 1900 he was elected superin- 
 tendent of the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company, 
 anil had, previous to that, been in charge of the 
 mercantile department of the Tempe-Mesa Prod- 
 uce Company at their plant near Tempe. 
 
 A native of Carroll county, .\rk., Mr. Birchett 
 was born October 6, 1843, and is a son of John 
 and Mary (Cole) Birchett, natives respectively 
 of the south and of Illinois. The family is said to 
 be of Scotch extraction. When a small boy 
 Joseph S. removed with his parents to Burleson 
 county, Tex., where he spent the greater part of 
 his childhood and early manhood. His parents 
 believed in educating their children, and he was 
 fortiniate in being able to attend school regu- 
 larly, at least during the winter months. When 
 old enough he assisted his father in the man- 
 agement of the home farm, and at the time of the 
 removal of the family to California in 1865 was 
 a practical and experienced farmer. 
 
 December 10, 1871, in Los Angeles county, 
 Cal., Mr. Birchett married Alattie Morrow, who 
 was born in Texas. Her father, John Xorris 
 Morrow, was a native of Kentucky, and settled 
 in Texas, afterwards removing to California. Of 
 the union of Mr. and Airs. Birchett there have 
 been four children: Mary, who is the wife of 
 George Rufifner, a resident of the vicinity of 
 Prescott and ex-sheriiif of Yavajiai county: 
 Jeanie, who is married to Andrew J. Houston, 
 residing south of Tempe; John K., who is a 
 farmer near Tempe: and Joseph T., who is man- 
 ager of the mercantile department of the Tempe- 
 Mesa Produce Company. In national ]jolitics 
 Mr. Birchett is a believer in the principles and 
 
 issues of the Democratic party, and has held 
 several local offices. While living in Gila county, 
 Ariz., he served for some time as probate judge 
 of the county. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with 
 the United Moderns at Tempe. He has con- 
 tributed his share towards the development of his 
 adopted section of the country, and is regarded 
 as one of the most substanti'd and reliable of the 
 dwellers of the vallev. 
 
 HARRISON JEWELL. 
 
 The distinction of being one of the earliest 
 inhabitants of the prosperous mining town of 
 Globe, Gila county, belongs to Mr. Jewell, 
 whose residence at this point dates from 1878. 
 When he arrived in the town, it contained but 
 a rude aggregation of huts and tents, with prac- 
 tically no substantial dwellings or business 
 blocks. 
 
 Born in Tamworth. X. II., July 22, 1839, Mr. 
 Jewell is a son of Mark and Annie (Sinclair) 
 Jewell. While he was still a boy, death deprived 
 him of his parents. Until 1853 ^^c continued 
 to reside in New Hampshire, but in that year 
 removed to Medford, Mass., where he devoted 
 twelve months to learning the ship carpenter's 
 trade. From 1854 to 1858 he was employed at 
 the same calling in the East Boston shipyard, 
 where he became proficient in the trade. In 
 1859 he started for the west. At Nebraska City. 
 Neb., he purchased a team, and, joining a party 
 bound overland, he traveled through Nebraska. 
 Colorado and Utah to Nevada, locating in \'ir- 
 ginia City, where he engaged in contracting 
 and carpentering until 1862. 
 
 The following three years were devoted to 
 the pursuit of the same calling at Austin, Nev., 
 after which he settled in Eureka. Nev. In 1875 
 he removed to California, remaining in Oakland 
 and San Francisco until 1878, when he located 
 in Globe. This place has since been his home, 
 and here, with the exception of the past two 
 \ears, he has been engaged at his trade and in 
 l)rospecting and mining. In 1899 he sold to the 
 ( )ld Dominion Mining Company the copper 
 mines he owned in the Globe district, since 
 which time he has been living in practical retire- 
 ment by reason of poor health. Among the
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 buildings be erected or assisted in erecting- in 
 Globe may be mentioned the Gila county court- 
 house (on which he did the carpenter work). 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Baptist 
 (now the Roman Catholic) Church, the Buffalo 
 smelter building, and several residences and 
 business blocks. 
 
 Though a stanch Republican, Mr. Jewell has 
 never sought nor consented to fill public office, 
 with the single exception of the position of 
 school trustee, which he tilled for a period of 
 thirteen years. In the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, of which he is a member, he fills the 
 office of trustee. In Odd Fellowship he has 
 passed all the chairs in the lodge and encamp- 
 ment at Globe. Among his real-estate interests, 
 which are considerable and important, may be 
 mentioned four houses which he owns in Globe. 
 He has never married. 
 
 ELMER E. PASCOE. 
 
 Now successfully engaged in the real-estate 
 business at Phoenix, Mr. Pascoe was born in 
 Indianapolis, Ind., November 3, 1861. His 
 father, James Pascoe, was born in Cornwall, 
 England, and at the age of- seven years came 
 with his parents to America, and located at 
 Galena, 111., where his father engaged in mining. 
 He died at Dubuque, Iowa. James Pascoe went 
 to Missouri when old enough to look out for 
 himself, and, following his father's example, 
 interested himself in lead mining. He later con- 
 tinued the same occupation in the Lehigh \'al- 
 ley, Pennsylvania, and in 1855 located in Indi- 
 anapolis and occupied himself with boiler mak- 
 ing in the railroad shops. He died in 1891. His 
 wife, formerly Louisa Snyder, was born in Read- 
 ing, Pa., and is a daughter of an old Pennsyl- 
 vania family. She is now residing in Phoenix. 
 Of the four children composing this family, one 
 sister resides in Indianapolis, and a brother, Eu- 
 gene, is a railroad engineer in Mexico. 
 
 The youth of E. E. Pascoe was passed in In- 
 dianapolis, where he received an excellent educa- 
 tion in the public schools, and graduated from 
 the high school. Following the ambitious in- 
 clination to be self-supporting he removed, m 
 1879, to New Orleans, where he was connected 
 with a wholesale dry-goods firm for two years. 
 
 Upon returning to Indianapolis he was em- 
 ployed by a hardware house, and in 1882 re- 
 moved to Colorado, where he was engaged in 
 the hardware business first in Buena \'ista, and 
 later at Pueblo; resided for a time at Fort Col- 
 lins, and during the excitement at Creed, Colo., 
 availed himself of the demand for general mer- 
 chandise and started a store. In 1892 Mr. Pas- 
 coe took up his permanent residence in Phoenix, 
 and at once engaged in the loan and real-estate 
 lousiness, so prolific of good returns in all com- 
 paratively new and promising localities. His 
 efforts have met with gratifying success, and he 
 does a large business in farm and city property, 
 and makes a specialty of loans. The headquar- 
 ters of this enterprise are No. 1 10 North Center 
 street. Mr. Pascoe has added to the appearance 
 of his locality and to the comfort of himself and 
 family by erecting a pleasant and commodious 
 residence. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Pascoe and Marguerite 
 Bell, a native of Jasper county, Mo., and a 
 daughter of Benton Bell, occurred in Phoenix. 
 Of this union there is one daughter. Ruby. In 
 national politics Mr. Pascoe is independent, and 
 usually votes for the man best qualified to fill the 
 position. He is enterprising and popular, and 
 appreciated for his many sterling qualities of 
 mind and heart. 
 
 JESSE PEARCE. 
 
 Since 1878 Jesse Pearce, a representative citi- 
 zen of Mesa, has resided in Arizona, and thus 
 is a pioneer of this future state. Within his rec- 
 ollection nearly all of the development of Mesa 
 and locality has taken place, and his own pros- 
 perity has kept pace with that of the community 
 where he cast his lot a score of years ago. His 
 birth occurred in Wayne county, Miss., August 
 4, 1852. His parents, Zebulon and Rebecca 
 (Cud) Pearce, likewise were natives of the 
 South, and his step-grandfather, John May, who 
 attained the advanced age of one hundred and 
 four years, was a soldier of the Revolutionary 
 war. 
 
 With the exception of a short time spent in 
 Perry county, 111., Jesse Pearce lived in his na- 
 tive county until he had arrived at maturity. His 
 educational advantages during the years of his
 
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 78. 
 
 boyhood, when the national strife was at its 
 height, were, of necessity, very hmited, and thus 
 in several senses he has been obliged to rely upon 
 his independent eiTorts to make his way in the 
 world. 
 
 In 1877, with his wife and one child, Jesse 
 Pearce went to Utah, but within a short time de- 
 cided to remove to Arizona. In the spring of 
 1878 he settled in .\pache county, where he car- 
 ried on agricultural jMirsuits until i88[, then 
 coming to Maricojja county. Here he iiomc- 
 stcaded a quarter section of land, of which he 
 yet retains seventy acres. At the time of his 
 coming to this region the tcjwn of Mesa com- 
 prised only a few adobe houses, and bore little 
 resemblance to the present city. With his cus- 
 tomary energy, he commenced making improve- 
 ments upon his property, and today has a vah;- 
 able and well-cultivated farm. In politics he uses 
 his franchise in favor of the Democratic platform 
 and nominees. Socially he is connected with the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with 
 the Knights of Pythias of Mesa. 
 
 Twenty-six years ago the marriage of Mr. 
 Pearce and Miss Eliza Downing was solemnized 
 in Mississippi, their native state. Seven chil- 
 dren were born to them, and two of the num- 
 ber have been taken by the angel of death. Three 
 sons and two daughters remain to cheer their 
 parents' hearts, namely: Zebulon, Flora S., Jesse 
 R., George W. and Zetty M. 
 
 P. T. HURLEY. 
 
 By exceptional business ability and persever- 
 ance in his undertakings until he has brought 
 them to a marked measure of prosperity, P. T. 
 Hurley, of Phoenix, is deserving of great credit 
 In all affairs pertaining to the growth and wel- 
 fare of this city he is actively interested, loyally 
 aiding in the work of improvements and good 
 civil government. Believing that his numerous 
 friends and business associates will be interested 
 in a review of his career, the following facts 
 have been gathered in regard to him. 
 
 One of the six children of Timothy and Mag- 
 gie (Casey) Hurley, he was born in St. Lawrence 
 county, N. Y., near the village of Potsdam, Janu- 
 ary 8, 1861. His father, now arrived at a ven- 
 erable age, has been numbered among the farm- 
 
 ers of Xew "S'ork state since his youth, and is 
 highly respected in his community. His wife 
 departed this life fully a quarter of a century ago. 
 and his children are far away frorn him. Cor- 
 nelius, Mrs. Maggie Long, P. T., and John liv- 
 ing in or near Phoenix, while Mrs. Nellie Long 
 resides in Buckeye, this county, and Michael 
 is in South Africa. 
 
 During his boyhood and until he w-as twenty 
 \ears of age P. T. Hurley lived with his father 
 upon the old homestead in St. Lawrence county, 
 .\. Y. In i88i he came to Phoenix, being the 
 first of the family to locate here, and for ten 
 years his attention was given to the task of im- 
 proving and cultivating a farm. After living for 
 about a year on one ranch, he removed to an- 
 other place, situated about ten miles west of 
 Phoenix. There he made substantial improve- 
 ments, including ditches and canals for irriga- 
 tion, and at the end of about three years sold 
 the place. In the meantime he had also been 
 engaged in the raising of cattle, the Gila bot- 
 toms affording rich pasture lands. He then 
 bought and still owns eighty acres in the Salt 
 River valley, in the Mesquite district, and there, 
 as formerly, made a great success of raising cat- 
 tle. Later he purchased a quarter section of 
 land two miles from Phoenix, and there now 
 has his packing-houses, with cold storage de- 
 partments of large capacity, the plant being lo- 
 cated in the packing-houses. He has continued 
 to raise cattle up to the present time, and for 
 the past decade has been the proprietor of a 
 meat market in Phoenix. By degrees he built 
 up a large trade, and each year it is being widely 
 extended. At this writing he carries on three 
 large markets, the leading one at No. 5 West 
 Washington street. Of late years he has made 
 a specialty of packing and shipping meats to 
 points outside this city, both near and far, 
 north and south, and to places on the Southern 
 Pacific. About eight years ago a soap factory 
 was started here by his brother, and after it had 
 grown to large proportions our subject bought 
 the plant, and since that time has been the sole 
 owner of the Arizona Soap Works, located in 
 I'hoenix. being the only soap factory in Phoe- 
 ni.x. 
 
 Mr. Hurley is a member of the Phoenix Board 
 of Trade, and is connected with the local lodge
 
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 of the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of 
 the World. In political matters he is a Demo- 
 crat. His marriage to Miss Maggie Sullivan was 
 celebrated in Phoenix thirteen years ago. They 
 are the parents of four children, namely: Harry 
 Lee, Hettie May, Emory Joseph and Norman. 
 Mrs. Hurley is a native of Potsdam, St. Law- 
 rence county, N. Y., the old home of our sub- 
 ject, and, like him, received good educational 
 advantages in her youth. 
 
 A. J. BRADLEY. 
 
 The leading undertaker of Phoenix has dem- 
 onstrated the true meaning of the word success 
 as the full accomplishment of an honorable pur- 
 pose. Energy, close application, perseverance 
 and good management — these are the elements 
 which have entered into his business career and 
 crowned his efforts with prosperity. 
 
 Mr. Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada, 
 May 7, 1852, and is the only child of Robert and 
 Alice (Boyd) Bradley, both natives of Armagh, 
 Ireland, and the latter a daughter of Joseph 
 Boyd, who v^'as also born on the Emerald Isle, 
 but spent his last days in Canada, where he lived 
 a retired life. On their emigration to America 
 the parents of our subject located in Toronto, 
 Canada, where the father engaged in the boot 
 and shoe business. There both he and his wife 
 died. 
 
 During his boyhood A. J. Bradley acquired a 
 good knowledge of the common English 
 branches of learning in the public schools of 
 Toronto, and at the age of thirteen began learn- 
 ing the cabinetmaker's trade in that city, where 
 he worked at the same for seven years. In 1880 
 he removed to Missoula, Mont., and embarked 
 in the furniture and undertaking business on his 
 own account. He also served as coroner of 
 Missoula county for two years. In 1895 he re- 
 moved to Butte, Mont., where he continued to 
 engage in the undertaking business, and July 1 1, 
 1896, came to Phoeni.K, Ariz. He was grad- 
 uated from the Chicago College of Embalming 
 in 1888, and as a funeral director has no superior 
 in this territory. He has fine undertaking rooms 
 at No. 216 West Washington street, and is well 
 equipped in every way to carry on his business. 
 
 At Bolivar, N. Y., Mr. Bradley was united in 
 
 marriage with Miss Lila Walker, a native of On- 
 tario, Canada, and to them has been born one 
 child, Edna. Mr. Bradley is a prominent Mason, 
 having been initiated into the mysteries of that 
 order at Missoula, Mont. He now holds mem- 
 bership in Arizona Lodge No. 2, F. & A. M.; 
 Phoenix Chapter, R. A. M.; Phoenix Com- 
 mandery No. 3, K. T., and El Zaribah Temple, 
 A. A. 6. N. M. S. He also belongs to the Be- 
 nevolent Protective Order of Elks, Knights of 
 Pythias, and the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, and is past noble grand in the last named 
 fraternity. In his political affiliations he is an 
 ardent Republican. Both in business and social 
 circles he stands deservedly high, and has the 
 entire confidence and respect of his fellow-citi- 
 zens. 
 
 F. W. NELSON. 
 
 The junior member of the firm of Burbage & 
 Nelson, attorneys-at-law, and dealers in real- 
 estate and insurance at Winslow, was born in 
 Manchester, N. H., in 1857, and was reared and 
 educated in New York. In 1870 he removed 
 to Chicago, and was employed in that city until 
 1883, when he took up his residence in Springer- 
 ville, Ariz. Upon being appointed under sheriff 
 of Apache county in 1S91, he removed to St. 
 Johns, the county seat, and creditably discharged 
 the arduous duties of the office until 1894. In 
 1892 he was elected county recorder and held 
 both offices at the same time. 
 
 In 1895 he became associated with Winslow, 
 and at once took an active interest in the creat- 
 ing of Navajo county, and exerted an influence 
 in the legislature to secure the passage of the 
 bill separting Apache from Navajo county. His 
 services were rewarded by his appointment as 
 first county recorder and clerk of the board of 
 supervisors of Navajo county, which positions he 
 filled during 1895 and 1896. In 1895 he was ad- 
 mitted to practice at the bar in Holbrook, and 
 the same year formed a partnership with W. H. 
 Burbage, in the real-estate and insurance busi- 
 ness. The firm do a large business, and have, 
 besides lucrative law practices, the agency for 
 twenty-one British and American insurance 
 companies. 
 
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 the organization of the Navajo County Bank, the 
 officers being: W. H. P)Urbage, president; F. W. 
 Nelson, vice-president, and George A. Lane, 
 cashier. The institution is capitalized for $25,000 
 and is considered one of the solid financial in- 
 stitutions of the county. As proof of his suc- 
 cess Mr. Nelson has accumulated property in 
 Winslow and other parts of the territory, and 
 has a large interest in the opera house. He is 
 one of the substantial and reliable business men 
 of the place, and has rendered conspicuous serv- 
 ice to his fellow-townsmen as city attorney. He 
 is fraternally connected with the Elks, and with 
 many of the social and other interests of his 
 adopted town. 
 
 GEORGE W. MARTIN. 
 
 Unlike the majority of the residents of Wil- 
 liams, Mr. Martin, the proprietor of the Palace 
 meat market, has but a faint remembrance of 
 any part of the country but Arizona. He was 
 practically reared and educated in Yavapai 
 county, and residence and training have made 
 of him a typical western man. He was born at 
 Bentonville, Ark., May 18, 1863, and is a son 
 of Lowry Ogden Martin, for many years one of 
 the largest stock-raisers of eastern Arizona. 
 
 The elder Martin is a native of Dover, Stewart 
 county, Tenn., and was born in 1824. Until the 
 age of twenty-one he lived on his father's farm, 
 and then removed to northwest Missouri, where 
 he engaged in farming and stock-raising for 
 seven years. In 1852 he removed to Benton 
 county, .-\rk., and settled on the land which is 
 the present town site of Rogers. This was his 
 home for thirty-four years, until, in 1876, he 
 came to Prescott, Ariz., and went into the cattle 
 business in Skull valley. During his residence 
 in Yavapai coimty he engaged to some extent 
 in teaming and freighting, besides caring for a 
 herd of cattle that numbered about a thousand 
 head. In 1890 he crossed over to what is now 
 Coconino county, taking with him his herd of 
 cattle and settled near Williams, when that town 
 was in its infancy and had but two hundred set- 
 tlers. During this time his sons had been in 
 partnership with him, and in 1895 the firm sold 
 their cattle and established the Palace meat mar- 
 ket. 
 
 In his young days L. O. Martin married Miss 
 Stringfield, and of this union there are four 
 children, of whom John R., George W'. and A. 
 L. are members of the firm, and Emily is the wife 
 of Joe Akard. In his seventy-seventh year, after 
 a long and useful career, L. O. Martin passed 
 away at his home in Williams, May 9, 1901. His 
 wife, whose demise occurred April 10, 1901, had 
 passed her sixty-eighth year. 
 
 George W. Martin, who has assumed charge 
 of the firm's business, received a common- 
 school education in Yavapai county, and was for 
 many years with his father in the cattle business. 
 For the carrying on of the extensive enterprise 
 of which he is the head he uses about fifty head 
 of cattle a month, and a proportionately large 
 number of sheep and hogs. He has a small 
 ranch upon which the fatted cattle are kept and 
 butchered, and he has made of the business a 
 success in every sense of the word. In the 
 meantime he has purchased his own home, and 
 owns as well the shop in which the business is 
 conducted. 
 
 Mr. Martin married Lizzie Isom, in i8y8, and 
 they have one daughter. Ruby. Fraternally Mr. 
 Martin is associated with the Odd Fellows at 
 Williams. He is one of the reliable and sub- 
 stantial citizens of the town. 
 
 "WOLF SACHS. 
 
 Wolf Sachs, for twenty-three years a resident 
 of .\rizona and an active factor in its develop- 
 ment, is a native of Russia, his birth having oc- 
 curred in one of the Baltic provinces June 15. 
 1853. His father, Isaac Sachs, likewise a Rus- 
 sian, is deceased, and the mother, Leba, a na- 
 tive of the same province, is now making her 
 home in New York City. Until he was in his 
 nineteenth year. Wolf Sachs lived in his home 
 neighborhood and then went to Germany, where 
 he lived for something more than a year. 
 
 Having learned nnich of the United States, 
 our sul)ject determined to come to these hos- 
 pitable shores, and in the fall of 1873 crossed the 
 Atlantic. Going to Philadelphia he conducted 
 a department in the Union Market of that city, 
 and then went to Texas, where he spent a short 
 time. In the spring of 1878 he started on horse- 
 l)ack from the Lone Star State to .\rizona. the
 
 786 
 
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 journey at that time requiring marked courage 
 and resolution, for aside from the discomforts 
 and difificuUies of the almost untraveled, lonely 
 trails, the Indians were especially troublesome. 
 
 For some time after his arrival in Cochise 
 county, Ariz., Mr. Sachs was engaged in mining 
 and prospecting, and then turned his attention 
 to freighting goods. In 1886 he became inter- 
 ested in the cattle industry, and for si.x years 
 lived near Willco.x. In the meantime he served 
 as a territorial inspector of brands on cattle. 
 Since 1892 he has lived in the Salt River valley, 
 and now owns a valuable farm of six hundred and 
 forty acres, situated near Tempe. Here, as for- 
 merly, he conducts an extensive cattle business, 
 and also raises grain and hay. By his own well- 
 applied energy and determination he has become 
 rich and influential, and is deserving of great 
 credit. 
 
 Public-spirited and liberal to worthv enter- 
 prises, Mr. Sachs has won the genuine regard of 
 all associated with him. For one term he served 
 as a member of the city council of Tempe, hav- 
 ing been elected by his Repul)lican friends, for he 
 is an ardent advocate of that party. At the 
 present time he is serving as noble grand of the 
 Odd Fellows Lodge of Tempe, and is connected 
 with the order of United Moderns. 
 
 WILLIAM C. SMITH. 
 
 As a merchant, miner and ranchman, Mr. 
 Smith has been identified with the fortunes of 
 Casa Grande since 1883. Coming to the United 
 States in 1870, from Edinburgh, Scotland, where 
 he was born May 12, 1850, he brought with him 
 the sterling and persevering traits of character 
 which we are wont to associate with the sturdy 
 sons of Scotland, and which invariably tend to 
 the strength of the communities in which they 
 locate. After a year of residence in Washing- 
 ton, D. C, he came west overland from St. 
 Louis, and reached Florence, Ariz., in 1875. 
 The town was then at the height of its pride 
 and productiveness, and remote from the deso- 
 late visitation of later years. Having in his na- 
 tive land learned the trade of mechanical engi- 
 neer, he here found it a ready means of livelihood 
 and prosecuted the same for a number of years. 
 
 In time Mr. Smith engaged in the general 
 
 merchandise business in Florence, under the 
 firm name of Smith & Watzlavzick. .\fter a few 
 years the junior partner sold his interest to H. 
 B. Murray, the enterprise being then conducted 
 under the name of Smith & Murray. In 1883 
 Mr. Smith moved to Casa Grande, in the hope 
 of improving his prospects, and in this inter- 
 esting little town ciintinucd his former occupa- 
 tion of general merchant under the firm name of 
 W. C. Smith & Co. This arrangement was 
 continued until 1892, when Mr. Smith sold his 
 business to I". B. Maldonado, who formed the 
 ]\Ialdonado Commercial Company, with Mr. 
 Smith as manager and resident agent. The store 
 comprises .a full line of the articles required by 
 the citizens, who are glad to avail themselves 
 of the honest ami reliable business methods 
 adopted by the firm. 
 
 In the general development of his adopted 
 town Mr. Smith has taken an active part, and 
 has been associated with all that has tended to 
 the well-being of all who reside within its bound- 
 aries. In 1889 he constructed the large brick 
 block at Florence now occupied by Shields & 
 Price, and has been interested in other building 
 projects in the town. In the mining world he 
 is well and widely known, and has shipped thou- 
 sands of dollars' worth of ore from the Jack 
 Rabbit gold and silver mine, of which he is the 
 owner. Another intlustry which calls for a great 
 deal of his time and attention is the ranch on 
 the Florence canal, where are raised large num- 
 bers of stock and quantities of feed for the 
 same. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Smith married Jessie Robertson, 
 who also is a native of Scotland, and of this 
 union there is one daughter, Aggie. Mr. Smith 
 is greatly interested in the cause of education, 
 and has been one of the foremost citizens of the 
 town and locality in perfecting the prevailing 
 system. He served for several years as one of 
 the school trustees, and he, more than any other, 
 was instrumental in securing the erection of the 
 school, as well as the Pinal county courthouse. 
 During the construction of the buildings he was 
 chairman of the board of construction, and con- 
 tributed both time and money to enforce these 
 necessary constructions. As a stanch and lib- 
 eral-minded member of the Democratic party 
 he has contributed not a little to the various
 
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 local undertakings of the party, and has served 
 as county supervisor for four years. Frater- 
 nally he is associated with the Masonic lodge 
 at Florence, the chapter .at Tucson, has taken 
 the thirty-second degree, and is also a member 
 of the Scottish Rites. The Ancient Order 
 of United Workmen at Florence numbers him 
 among its members. Mr. Smith has jjeen and 
 is one of the most influential factors of growth 
 in the locality in which he lives, and is re- 
 spected and liked by all who know him. 
 
 GEORGE HAUGH SMITH. 
 
 The leading landscape gardener of Arizona. 
 Mr. Smith is today the efficient superintendent 
 of the capitol grounds at Phoenix, which he laid 
 out in 1889, and of which he has had charge 
 the greater part of the inten'ening time. He 
 was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, Eng- 
 land, October 20, 1843, and is the youngest in 
 a family of seven children, four sons and three 
 daughters, of whom three sons and one daugh- 
 ter are still living. His brother, William, is a 
 resident of Philadelphia, Pa. His father, George 
 Smith, was a native of Carlisle, Cumberland, 
 England, and belonged to an old borderland 
 family. He served a seven years' apprenticeship 
 to the tanner and currier's trade in Carlisle, 
 and became an expert workman in that line. He 
 married Ellen Haugh, a native of Dumfries, 
 England, and a representative of an old Scotch 
 familv, being a lineal descendant of the Cam- 
 crons. She died when our subject was only 
 seven years old, and the father also died in 
 England. 
 
 George H. Smith was educated in the national 
 schools of his native land, where, in connection 
 with the conunon English branches of learning, 
 he was also taught gardening. For a time he 
 engaged in teaching and in woolen manufacture, 
 and later served for four years as government 
 secretary to the Kendall School of Science & 
 Art, which was connected with the South Ken- 
 sington Museum. Owing to ill hcaltii, hi- was 
 forced to resign that position in 1883. Crossing 
 the Atlantic, he came to Salt River valley, .Ari- 
 zona, and first located at Tempe, where lie 
 bought land and began its improvement. lie 
 began to improve in healtli almost iinnu-diatels . 
 
 and the strength and vigor which he has since 
 accjuired show conclusively what the Arizona 
 climate can do for one who is seriously ill. As 
 a landscape gardener he has done considerable 
 work throughout the territory, and the capitol 
 grounds stand as a monument to his skill and 
 ability along that line. 
 
 Ill England Mr. Smith married Aliss Mary 
 .A. Ridding, who was born in Westmoreland 
 and belongs to an old Yorkshire family. Since 
 coniiiig to tins country he has made two trips 
 to liis native land, at one time spending fifteen 
 months, and at tlie other three months. While 
 living in England he ni.ade a special study of 
 botany and chemistry, and was the first to man- 
 ufacture water from fire and utilize the same in 
 heating conservatories, greenhouses and other 
 buildings. In his botanical researches he gave 
 special attention to the study of British ferns, 
 and produced several new varieties. He also 
 won many prizes on his fern exhibits. Frater- 
 nally he was formerly connected with the Inde- 
 pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and religiously 
 is a member of the Episcopal Church. He is a 
 man of artistic taste and temperament and is 
 thus well fitted for the profession which he is 
 making his life work. 
 
 CHARLES G. SHILL. 
 
 A venerable and highly-honored citizen of his 
 community is Charles G. Shill, now four-score 
 years of age, and since 1849 an elder in the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. 
 One of the representative pioneers of Lehi pre- 
 cinct, he has been intimately associated with the 
 development of this locality for twenty-one 
 years, and probably no one here is more rever- 
 enced and looked up to as an authority on mat- 
 ters of practical l)usiness. as well as of ecclesi- 
 astical afifairs. 
 
 Born in Gloucestershire, England, February 
 12, 1821, Mr. Shill is a son of Robert and Pru- 
 dence (Goulding) Shill. both likewise of that 
 country. The mother died in 1854 and in the 
 following year the father and son came to the 
 Cnited States. They lived in St. Louis for a 
 short time, but the father died ere the year had 
 run its course. In 1857 our subject went to Salt 
 Lake Citv, L'tah. where he was employed as a
 
 788 
 
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 carpenter for six years, having previously mas- 
 tered the trade in his native land. Then settling 
 in Morgan county, Utah, he devoted his atten- 
 tion chiefly to the cultivation of his farm and 
 to the raising of live stock, in which undertak- 
 ings he was very successful. In his locality he 
 served as a road supervisor. 
 
 In 1845 Ml"- Shill and Harriet Webb, a native 
 of England, were married in that country. Their 
 only daughter, Rosa H.. is the wife of William 
 H. Bachellor, of Summit county. Utah. In 1867 
 Mr. Shill married Harriet Stronach, whose birth- 
 place also was in England. Of the eleven chil- 
 dren born to this union only one (George) is 
 deceased. The others are: Ella D., wife of 
 Thomas P. Biggs; Mile G.; Victor C. ; Orson; 
 Wright P.; Ralph P.; Renus; Frank; Harry S., 
 and Otto S. 
 
 In 1880 Mr. Shill removed with his family to 
 Lehi precinct, Maricopa county, where he pro- 
 ceeded to develop a fine farm from a fifty-acre 
 tract of wild land. That he has accomplished 
 his desire, a visit to his homestead confirms, for 
 everything about the place gives evidence of his 
 thrift and labor. In political affairs he uses 
 his ballot on behalf of the Democratic platform. 
 For eight successive years he has served as a 
 school trustee of Lehi district No. 10. and in all 
 public matters he takes great interest. 
 
 WILLIAM MOODY. 
 
 It has so happened that William Moody, of 
 Thatcher, has never lived within a state, but al- 
 ways in a territory, on the frontier. In his youth 
 he used to rest at night with his gun within 
 reach, for it was necessary in those unsettled 
 times to have means of protection from Indians 
 at hand, and frequently the herds of cattle which 
 he was watching were threatened by the red 
 men. C)n one occasion, at a point near the place 
 where he was stationed, three Indians were 
 killed in a hot fight between them and some 
 ivliite settlers. After coining to Graham county 
 he often hunted in the mes(|uitc undergrowth 
 on the ver)' site of Thatcher, and thus has wit- 
 nessed its entire upbuilding. 
 
 Born in St. J()hn, Utah, in 1864, William 
 Moody is a son of Jolm and Elizabeth Moody, 
 the former a very early settler in that state. The 
 
 family was identified with the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter-Day Saints during the early his- 
 tory of Utah, and now is active in all of its un- 
 dertakings. William Moody was in his seven- 
 teenth year when he became a resident of this 
 locality, and for several years he was engaged 
 in peddling merchandise far and near, through 
 the valley. Being economical and industrious, 
 he finally had accumulated sufScient capital to 
 buy a small stock of goods which he placed in a 
 limited space in a storeroom. Gradually he 
 won the patronage of the people and within the 
 six years which have elapsed he succeeded in 
 building up a large and representative trade. At 
 length he built a fine brick store building in 
 Thatcher, and sold it to his cousin. Judge Moody, 
 and other parties. Again he is engaged in the 
 construction of a large brick store, and thus, in 
 addition to the one already occupied by him on 
 Main street, he owns two good brick residences 
 and ten acres of land adjoining the town. His 
 financial success has been truly remarkable, and 
 at the same time he has maintained a high stand- 
 ard of square-dealing with the public, and has 
 not stooped to underhanded methods in order to 
 win prosperity. 
 
 In 1890 Mr. Moody married Miss Mabel Clufif, 
 daughter of Moses and Jane Clufif, the first 
 white settlers in this region. Three children 
 bless the home of this sterling couple, namely: 
 Joseph, Blanche and Alphonso. Politically Mr. 
 Moody is affiliated with the Democratic party. 
 He stands well in the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of Latter-day Saints, at present serving in the 
 capacity of an elder. 
 
 R. L. HAYDEN. 
 
 The blacksmith shop which is the scene of the 
 every-day activity of Mr. Hayden. and over 
 which this genial and enthusiastic manipulator 
 of the anvil and hammer presides to the satis- 
 faction of all who profit by his skill, is one of the 
 popular meeting places in Willcox. Hither come 
 residents of the town and country who have 
 aught in the line of wagon and general repair to 
 be inspected by the critical eye of the mechani- 
 cal physician, confident that they will meet with 
 prompt attention, and that the work here turned 
 out will insure their return should other bolts
 
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 and breaks or shoeless mares interfere with the 
 working of the wheels of commerce. Day in and 
 dav out. in rain and shine, and sunnncr and win- 
 ter, there is the merry ring of the resonnding 
 iron and tlie wheeze of the bellows, and the gen- 
 eral hum of industry which accompanies the 
 gossip of the neighborhood as n.jrrated b\- the 
 visiting customers. 
 
 Up to about six years ago Mr. Harden lived 
 in Texas, where he was born in \N'^ilson county 
 in 1867, a son of L. and .\rtemesa Hayden. na- 
 tives respectivelv of Missouri and .Arkansas. He 
 received a common school education and was 
 reared to agricultural pursuits. Subsequently 
 he engaged in independent farming in the west- 
 ern part of the state for about three }ears, and 
 in 1894 came to Arizona. .At first settling in 
 Fort Thomas, he later removed to the Sulphur 
 Spring valley, and worked on different ranches 
 in the locality until 1898, when he came to Will- 
 cox and opened the blacksmith and general re- 
 pair shop that is still the object of his care. Con- 
 trary to precedent Mr. Hayden did not regularly 
 learn the trade of blacksmith, but picked it up .at 
 odd times from a blacksmith in his employ. To- 
 day his reputation extends for miles around and 
 the patronage accorded him is far in excess of 
 his original expectations. 
 
 In national politics Mr. Hayden is a Democrat, 
 and he never deviates from the straight and 
 narrow path of voting the Democratic ticket. 
 He is a charter member of Willcox Lodge No. 
 20, K. P., and is a member of the Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 MAJOR JAMES M. WATTS. 
 
 A special place of honor is accorded to the de- 
 fenders of the Union in the Civil war in the 
 hearts of patriotic citizens of this great and 
 prosperous republic. Major J. M. \\'atts made 
 a thoroughly creditable record in that terrible 
 strife, and won the commendation and respect 
 of his superior officers. The following sketch 
 of his life has been prepared, with the belief that 
 it will be perused with great interest by the 
 numerous friends he has made in Prescott and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 Though he was one of the very first to re- 
 spond to the call of his country when the Union 
 
 30 
 
 was threatened, the major comes of old south- 
 ern stock, and both of his grandfathers were 
 soldiers in the war of 1812, his paternal grand- 
 father also participating in the Blackhawk war. 
 The latter, Samuel Watts, of Scotch descent, 
 was a planter in North Carolina, later of Ten- 
 nessee, and still later of Kentucky. George 
 Piper, the maternal grandfather, was of German 
 extraction, and at an early day removed from 
 \N'est \'irginia to Tippecanoe county. Ind., 
 where he carried on a farm. 
 
 The Major's parents were Andrew and Dru- 
 silla (Piper) \\'atts, the former a native of Ten- 
 nessee, and the latter of Clarksburg, W. Va. 
 The early years of the father were spent in the 
 Blue Grass state, and when Indiana was yet but 
 little developed, he became a resident of the 
 state By trade he was a cabinet-maker, but in 
 the Hoosier state he was chiefly engaged in 
 merchandising and farming. He departed this 
 life at Delphi, Ind., and his wife also died in 
 that state. 
 
 The only one of their six children who lived 
 to maturity is the subject of this review, born 
 in Carroll county, Ind., July 2, 1839. He lived 
 on the farm until he was fifteen, and completed 
 his education in Battle Ground Institute. 
 At eighteen he obtained a position as a clerk 
 with William Bolles & Co., at Delphi, Ind. Then 
 came the firing upon Fort Sumter, and a few 
 days later, April 20, 1861, young Watts enlisted 
 at Indianapolis in the Ninth Indiana, the first 
 regiment which left the state for the front. Pro- 
 ceeding to West Virginia, it took part in the 
 first regular battle of the war, Phillippi. At the 
 expiration of his three months' term of enlist- 
 ment Mr. Watts was honorably discharged and 
 returned home. In October, 1861, he re-en- 
 listed, becoming second lieutenant of Company 
 A, Forty-sixth Indiana A'olunteer Infantry, and 
 in the following May was commissioned as first 
 lieutenant ; in October, of the same year was 
 promoted to adjutant of his regiment, with the 
 rank of first lieutenant. .Among the engaTe- 
 ments in which he took part are inc'uded Ne 
 Madrid, Island No. 10, Fort Pillow, Alemphis 
 Helena f.Ark.), Clarendon, Duval's Bluffs and 
 Grand Gulf. His was the first regiment which 
 crossed the Mississippi below A'icksburg, and 
 later it was active in the siege of that city, at
 
 792 
 
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 Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, and Champion 
 Hill. At Port Gibson he was wounded, a minie 
 ball passing through his body, but, owing to his 
 splendid constitution, he recovered in an in- 
 credibly short time. In the summer of 1863 
 his regiment was called from the siege of \'icks- 
 burg and that campaign to New Orleans, and 
 thence went on an expedition through Louisi- 
 ana, taking part in the battle of Carrion Crow- 
 Bayou and others. In January, 1864, he veter- 
 anized and re-enlisted, then being sent on the 
 Red River campaign, in which occurred the 
 battles of Pleasant Hill and Sabine Cross Roads. 
 In June of that year he returned home on a 
 veteran's furlough, but in a short time was back 
 in the ranks in Kentucky. Thence his regiment 
 was called into West X'irginia to aid in destroy- 
 ing the salt works, and in March, 1865, Mr. 
 Watts was transferred to the One Hundred and 
 Fiftieth Indiana, being commissioned as a 
 major. His next military operations were in 
 the Shenandoah valley, and at length, the war 
 happily having been terminated, he was must- 
 ered out of the service at Indianapolis, in Aug- 
 ust, 1865. 
 
 Subsequent to the close of the war. Major 
 Watts was engaged in mercantile pursuits in 
 Delphi, Ind., until 1890. In the meantime he 
 took a leading part in Republican party politics, 
 and for several terms served on the Indiana state 
 central committee. In the year mentioned, he 
 came to Prescott, and soon was appointed clerk 
 of the United States and district courts of the 
 fourth judicial district, serving until the change 
 of administration, in 1893. Then he was clerk 
 in the county recorder's office for about a year, 
 and in 1895 was county assessor, under appoint- 
 ment of the board of supervisors. During the 
 following year he devoted his attention to min- 
 ing and conveyancing. Since 1897 he has been 
 clerk of the fourth judicial district court, having 
 been appointed by Judge Sloan, and, as hereto- 
 fore, in all public positions which he has held, 
 is justifying the confidence reposed in him. 
 
 Initiated into Masonry in Delphi, Ind., the 
 major served as master of the lodge there sev- 
 eral terms. He also belongs to the chapter, of 
 which he is past high priest, and was identified 
 with Raper Commandery, of Indianapolis, and 
 with the Consistory of that city, having taken 
 
 the thirty-second decree. In Grand Army circles 
 he is very popular, and is past commander of 
 Boothroyd Post, of Delphi, Ind., with which 
 post he has been connected since its organiza- 
 tion. For a period he also was a member of 
 the council of administration in the Indiana de- 
 partment of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
 To-day he is one of the trustees of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church of Prescott. 
 
 The marriage of Major Watts and Miss Cor- 
 nelia Blanchard took place in Delphi, Ind., in his 
 early manhood. She was a native of the town 
 and died at her home there a number of years 
 ago. The second marriage of the major was 
 solemnized in Delphi, Airs. Amelia (Coster) 
 Gonzales, who was born in Massachusetts, be- 
 coming his bride. They have an attractive home 
 and enjoy the friendship of most of our repre- 
 sentative citizens. 
 
 JOHN V. SPAINHOWER. 
 
 From a commercial and agricultural standpoint 
 Mr. Spainhower is among the most substantial 
 and reliable of the residents of the Salt River 
 valley. As one of the first directors and now the 
 vice-president of the Tempe-Mesa Produce Com- 
 pany, he has rendered valuable service to the 
 company, and confirmed the impression of his 
 fellow-citizens as to his pronounced ]:)usiness 
 ability. An additional source of revenue for Mr. 
 Spainhower is the Mesa Milling Compau)', in 
 which he is actively interested and one of the 
 principal stockholders. His farm in the vicinity 
 of the thriving little town of Mesa is eighty acres 
 in extent, and while devoted in the main to 
 general farming, is also utilized for a large stock- 
 raising industry. 
 
 In Stokes count}-, N. C, Mr. Spainhower was 
 born January 29, 1849, ^i'"' 's a son of John W. 
 and Lydia (Miller) Spainhower, who were born 
 in North Carolina. The ancestry of the family ' 
 on both sides is German, and the first repre- 
 sentatives to come to America settled in the 
 Carolinas. John A", was reared on his father's 
 farm, and early developed habits of industry and 
 thrift. In the public schools of his native county 
 he received a good education, and as time went 
 on obtained considerable business experience. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. -Spainhower and Char-
 
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 lotte E. Crouse took place February 13, 1868. 
 Mrs. Spainhower was born in North Carolina, 
 and is a daug-hter of the late Henry Crouse, of 
 Snirry county, N. C. Of this union there are 
 ttiliTee clflldren, viz.: Lydia E., who is the wife of 
 -^Tank U'illiams, of Welis^tcr county. Iowa; John 
 -H,^ who is livings; in Maricopa county, Ariz.; and 
 Luther P., also in Maricop.i county. In March, 
 1868, I\lr. .S]iainho\ver and wic removed to Web- 
 ster county, Iowa, and there he engaged in gen- 
 eral farming and stock-raising until his removal 
 to .Arizona in 1894. While a resident of Web- 
 ster county he served as assessor .and was other- 
 wise identified with the best interests of the 
 county. In Arizona he is one of the most pro- 
 gressive of the residents of his locality, and has 
 materially assisted in the development of the 
 vicinity in which he lives. In politics he is a 
 Democrat, but entertains liberal views regarding 
 the politics of ofttceholders. Fraternally he is 
 •associated with the Woodmen of the World at 
 Mesa. Mrs. Spainhower is a member of the 
 Baptist Church, 
 
 JOHN L. MUNDS. 
 
 A westerner both by birth and training, Air. 
 Munds is thoroughly interested in the lines of 
 occupation which have specially engaged the 
 attention of frontiersmen. The scliool of life m 
 which he has been reared is calculated to 
 develop the strength of character, the self- 
 reliance and courage which are essential qual- 
 ities in one to whom is entrusted the mainte- 
 nance of law and order, and thus he is well fitted 
 for his office of sherifT. In January, 1899, he 
 entered upon his duties and is discharging them 
 with fidelity and ability^ 
 
 Our subject comes of pioneer stock, for his 
 paternal grandfather was one of the early set- 
 tlers in Iowa, and his maternal grandfather, 
 John Cox, born in the east, was a pioneer ranch- 
 man on the Pacific coast. His father, William 
 N. Munds, was a pioneer of California and later 
 of Oregon. His birth occurred in Iowa and 
 when young he was orphaned. In 1852 he 
 crossed the plains to the Pacific slope and for 
 some time was a miner on the .American and 
 Feather rivers, in California. Then, going to 
 Oregon, he became a stockman of Douglas 
 
 county, remaining there until 1876, when he 
 came to Arizona and established a ranch on the 
 Upper Verde, here, as formerly, keeping large 
 herds of cattle. Now retired, he makes his home 
 in Jerome and merely looks after his property 
 and mining investments. His wife, Sarah (Cert) 
 Munds, was born in Oregon, and of their three 
 sons and two daughters only two survive. W. 
 C. Munds was accidentally killed on the ranch 
 in the \'erde valley by one of his horses, and J. 
 T. Munds also met death by a deplorable acci- 
 dent, the premature discharge of a gun which he 
 was holding. 
 
 J. L. Munds was born in Douglas county. 
 Ore., October 4, 1868, and was reared in his 
 native state, in Cahfornia and .Arizona. Coming 
 to Yavapai county in the Centennial year, he 
 attended the schools of \'erde and Prescott, and 
 later fitted- himself for his business career by a 
 course in the Stockton (Cal.) Commercial Col- 
 lege. With his father and brothers he was 
 engaged in the cattle business on the Verde val- 
 ley ranch until he lost his last brother. He still 
 owns some cattle, making a specialty of raising 
 high-grade Herefords, and his herds arouse 
 great admiration. He has three ranges along 
 the A'erde. and his brand is the well-known 
 "T — T" (a double "T" with a dash between). 
 He is a member of the Yavapai County Stock 
 Growers' Association. 
 
 In January, 1895, J. L. Munds was appointed 
 deputy sheriff by G. C. Ruffner, and served in 
 that capacity for three years. In 1898 he was 
 made county assessor by the board of county 
 ■■:e vi:-~or- :nd be'd that o<"'^ce unt:l th° fa" of 
 t' e following yep.r, when he resigned, owing to 
 -he fact that he had been nominated for sheriff. 
 He was duly elected by his numerous Demo- 
 cratic friends, and in 1900 was again elected. 
 Politically a strong Democrat, he served for 
 some time on the countv central committee. 
 Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Aztlan 
 Lodge No. I, F. & .A. M. In addition to this he 
 is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the 
 .Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Wood- 
 men of the World, the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks and the Order of Red Men. 
 
 In this county, March 4, 1890, Mr. Alunds 
 married Fannie L. Willard, who was born in 
 Nevada. Her father, John Willard, was a
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 pioneer of California and of Nevada, and later 
 came to Arizona, where he became a well-known 
 cattleman. Two children bless the home of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Munds, named respectively Harold 
 and Sadie. 
 
 IVY W STEWART. 
 
 As a director in the Tempe Irrigating Can:d 
 Company and the owner of a well-conducted 
 and remunerative farm about eight miles from 
 Tempe, Mr. Stewart is known to many of the 
 residents of this part of Arizona. On his place 
 are conducted large general farming and stock- 
 raising enterprises, to the successful carrying out 
 of which he brings a wide previous experience, 
 and a general knowledge of the best way to con- 
 duct a farm. For .a time, after coming to the 
 territory in 1894, he resided in the vicinity of 
 Mesa, but later decided in favor of the condi- 
 tions existing around Tempe, and removed to 
 his present ranch in 1897. 
 
 The Stewart family is of Scotch descent. I. 
 \'. Stewart was born February i, 1854, and is 
 a son of Robert G. and Nancy (Vandervort) 
 Stewart, natives of Ohio. The maternal grand- 
 father, Jonah Vandervort, was a courageous sol- 
 dier in the second war with England, and his 
 descendants have been conspicuous for their 
 success in life, the result of habits of industry 
 and economy. Robert G. Stewart was a farmer 
 during the greater part of the years of his ac- 
 tivity, and (lied in 1895. His wife is still living 
 at Paola, Kans., and is more than eighty years 
 of age. 
 
 In 1869 Ivy V. Stewart was taken by his par- 
 ents to Miami county, Kans., where he grew to 
 be a man, and was admirably fitted by early train- 
 ing for the future responsibilities of life. After 
 attending the public school.'; at Paola, Kans., 
 he was graduated from the high school of that 
 place, and later supplemented this rudimentary 
 knowledge by research along many lines. While 
 living in Miami coimty, he was united in mar- 
 riage with Annie P)radbur}-, a native of Kansas, 
 and a daughter of John and Eda (Heald) Brad- 
 bury. Of this union there are seven children, viz.: 
 Leslie A., Merton W., A. Maude, J. Benjamin, 
 Marie, Robert I. and Harry. 
 
 Mr. Stewart is a representative dweller of .Salt 
 
 River valley, and is interested in water and other 
 developments of the locality. In October of 
 1900 he was elected president of the southern 
 extension of the Tempe canal, A Republican 
 in politics, he has been prominently connected 
 with the undertakings of his pnrty, and has held 
 several local offices within the gift of the peo- 
 ple. While living in Paola, Kans , he served as 
 justice of the peace of Aliami county, and he is 
 at present a school trustee of the district in 
 which he lives. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Independent Order of (Jdd Fellows at 
 Tempe and with the Ancient Order of United 
 Workmen at Paola, Kans. With his family, Mr. 
 Stewart is a member of the Baptist Church, and 
 contributes generously towards the support of 
 the same. He is enterprising and progressive, 
 and though, practically speaking, a new comer 
 in the territory, has so far identified himself with 
 its promise and prosperity as to seem a part of 
 its growth and development. 
 
 ALOIS L. CUBER. 
 
 Sixty-two years ago Alois L. Cuber, of Mesa, 
 was born in Bohemia, Austria, the date of his 
 nativity being Jime 14, 1839. His parents, An- 
 ton and Barbara Cuber, were born in the same 
 province, and in 1851 the family sailed for the 
 shores oi the New World. After living in 
 Freeport, 111., for about two years, they removed 
 to Jackson county. Wis., where the father en- 
 gaged in farming and also gave a portion of his 
 time to his trade, that of harness and saddle- 
 maker. 
 
 As related above, Alois L. Cuber was a lad 
 of some twelve years when he bade adieu to his 
 native land, and it was not until ten years later 
 that he left his parental home to seek his inde- 
 pejident fortune. Cjoing then to Iowa City, 
 Iowa, he learned the trade of manufacturing har- 
 ness and saildles with his brother, and remained 
 in that place until 1S66. At that time he re- 
 turned to Wisconsin and established himself in 
 the same line of business at Black River Falls. 
 There he won his way into the esteem of his 
 fellow-citizens and for a number of }ears served 
 as chief engineer and treasurer of Albion Hose 
 Company No. i, of which lie was a cliarter mem- 
 ber, as \yell.
 
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 In 1888 Mr, Cuber made a decided change in 
 business and place of residence, for at tliat time 
 he cast in his lot with the people of Arizona, 
 becoming;- a citizen of the IMesa district. In a 
 small way he engaged at once in the same indus- 
 try that occupies his attention today, the man- 
 ufacture of wine, and as the years rolled away 
 was enabled to greatly enlarge his facilities and 
 possessions. His fine vineyard, twenty-five acres 
 in extent, is planted with wine grapevines, used 
 in the three special kinds of sweet wines for 
 which his establishment is noted, Angelica, port 
 and sherry. He also manufactures two varieties 
 of dry wines, namely: claret and riesling, and 
 in addition to these makes a good grade of grape 
 brandy. 
 
 By strict attention to his business and the 
 demands of the trade, Mr. Cuber has succeeded 
 even beyond his sanguine expectations. He is 
 practically self-made, educationally speaking, as 
 well as from a financial point of view. In his 
 political faith he is a Republican. 
 
 For a wife Mr. Cuber chose Miss Barljara 
 C. Holub, who was born and reared in Iowa. 
 Of the nine chiUlren born to them seven are 
 yet living, and are receiving good advantages. 
 The famil)- is identified with the Roman Catholic 
 Church. 
 
 JAMES P. STORM. 
 
 James P. Storm, the present county treasurer 
 of Yavapai county, is a native of Tennessee, 
 born in Perry county, November 20, 1852. His 
 parents were Wilh'am II. and Martha W. 
 (Thomas) Storm, the latter born in North Caro- 
 lina. The former was a native of Tennessee, 
 where he followed the occupation of a surveyor. 
 The paternal grandfather, Jacob Storm, was 
 born in Germany and emigrated from that coun- 
 try to the United States in his early manhood, 
 settling on the Tennessee river in the state of 
 the same name. Securing land, he began the 
 life of a planter, in which he continued in the 
 same place until his tleath. 
 
 In his native county William H. Storm grew 
 to manhood, w.as educated and married. In the 
 year 1854, accompanie<l by his family, he re- 
 moved to Coryell connt>-, Tex. After a brief 
 residence there he settled in Lampasas county. 
 
 same state, where he became the owner of a 
 large tract of land and engaged extensively in 
 the cattle business. He was also the owner of 
 the town site and sulphur springs at Lampasas. 
 For several terms he filled the office of county 
 judge, and, politically, he was a local leader in 
 the Democratic party. During 1869 he settled 
 in California, establishing his home in San 
 Diego county, where his death occurred in 1889. 
 His widow is still living in the same county. 
 They had a family of eight children, only three 
 of whom are living, viz.: Susan E., wife of C. 
 L. Evans, of San Diego; James P., of this 
 sketch; and Frank R., who resides in Escondido, 
 San Diego county, his mother making her home 
 with him. 
 
 In the schools of Texas and California James 
 P. Storm received his education, .\fter com- 
 ing to this state he was engaged with his father 
 in ranching and the stock business. November 
 4, 1880, he married Ella A., daughter of Will- 
 iam and Susan (White) Bunton. Her father 
 was a native of Kentucky and went from Mis- 
 souri to Placer county, Cal., later removing to 
 San Diego county. During his residence in 
 Placer county Mrs. Storm was born, but she 
 was reared principally in San Diego county. 
 Born of this union are six children, viz.: Will- 
 iam B., Mattie W., James C, Nellie K., Jesse 
 T., and May N. The children have had the 
 advantages of good educational privileges. Mat- 
 tie W. is a graduate of the San Diego Business 
 College. 
 
 Mr. Storm's residence in Arizona dates from 
 1883, when he settled in Chino valley, Yavapai 
 county. On a stock farm in this valley he suc- 
 cessfully conducted a ranch and engaged in the 
 cattle business until December, 1900. Mean 
 time, for eight years he was postmaster at 
 Storm, which office was located at his residence 
 and named in his honor. Ever since he became 
 a resident of the county he has taken an active 
 interest in politics, generally in the interests of 
 his friends. A stanch supporter of Democratic 
 principles, he is a leader in the local ranks of 
 his i^arty. In the fall of 19QO he was nominated. 
 as the Democratic candidate, for the office of 
 county treasurer, and was duly elected. Since 
 iiis election he has given his attention to the 
 care of his office and the supervision of all of
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 its (Iclails. Through liis conscientious discharge 
 of every duty, he has won the approval of the 
 people, and proved beyond a question his fit- 
 ness for the office lie occupies. Fraternally, he 
 is connected with the Odd Fellows, the Elks 
 and also with the Improved Order of Red Men, 
 in Prescott. 
 
 PETER CORPSTEIX. 
 
 From the date of his nativity, July 31, 1857, 
 Peter Corpstein has been closely associated with 
 the I'acific slope, and since arriNins; at niaturit\ 
 he has contributed not a little towards its de- 
 velopment. For the past five years he has made 
 his home in Phoeni.x, of which ])lace he is a 
 highly esteemed business man. 
 
 The paternal grandparents of our subject were 
 natives of Germany, ami were pioneers of Iowa. 
 The father of Peter Corpstein bore the Christian 
 n.ame of John, and Dubuque, Iowa, was his 
 birthplace. In the early gold fever period in 
 California he crossed the plains with ox-teams 
 and devoted some time to mining on the Amer- 
 ican, Feather and Yulia rivers. At length, ar- 
 riving at the conclusion that Mother Nature 
 most surely rewarded with golden returns the 
 tillers of the soil, he bought a farm in the fertile 
 Santa Clara valley, Cal., and, having made good 
 improvements, devoted the rest of his years to 
 the cultivation of the place. His death occurred 
 in 1885, and his widow is yet living on the old 
 homestead. Her maiden name w'as Mary Strief, 
 and of the six children born to this worthy 
 couple five are living, of whom John, Katie, 
 Mary and Louisa still reside in Santa Clara 
 county, Cal. Willirm departed this life at Tomb- 
 stone, Ariz. The maternal grandfather, A. Strief, 
 of Pennsylvania, took his family to Iowa at an 
 early day, and thence they went to the Pacific 
 coast by way of the plains. He died in Cali- 
 fornia, where many of his descendants have per- 
 petuated his name. 
 
 The birth of Peter Corpstein occurred in Pine 
 Grove, Cal.. and his boyhood passed uncventfullv 
 upon a farm in Santa Clara county, Cal. After 
 completing his public school education he pur- 
 sued a course of study in Santa Clara College. 
 In May, 1881, he embarked in the business 
 wor}d by entering the employ of Harwood & 
 
 Morse, lumber merchants of Tombstone, Ariz. 
 At the close of a year he identified himself with 
 the Blinn Lumber Company, of the same place, 
 and for several years continued with that well- 
 known firm. In 1887 he was chosen to locate 
 a branch lumber yard for the company at Tempe, 
 Ariz., and for about three years he was the man- 
 ager of the same. In 1S90, when the great trade 
 in Los Angeles and many towns of that region 
 demanded men of unusual .abilitv in meeting 
 the requirements of builders and the retail lum- 
 ber trade, Mr. Corpstein was sent by his firm to 
 San Pedro, where the flourishing wholesale lum- 
 ber yard of the company is situated. Two years 
 later he returned to Tempe, where he managed 
 the local lumber yard of the same house for 
 some four years. In 1896 he came to Phoenix, 
 where he acted in a like capacity for the firm 
 until .\ugust, 1898. At that time the \'alley 
 Lumber Company was organized, largely 
 through his own efforts, and since then he has 
 been the president and manager of the concern 
 The plant occupies about one-third of a block, 
 at the corner of Madison and Center streets. 
 The sheds are 100x300 feet in dimensions, and 
 a fine line of lumber and building material is 
 always kept in stock. The success which has 
 been achieved, even in so short a period, is 
 largely attributed to the enterprise of the pres- 
 ident, and the outlook is decidedly gratifying. 
 He is a member of the Board of Trade. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Corpstein and Miss Anna 
 Johnson, a native of Massachusetts, and the 
 daughter of Honestus Hervey and Anna M. 
 Johnson, was solemnized in Phoenix, April 4, 
 1887. Two children liless their union, namely: 
 William and Avery. Mrs. Corpstein was reared 
 in the faith of her New England ancestors, 
 Congregationalism. In the fraternities, Mr. 
 Corpstein is associated with the Woodmen of 
 the World. 
 
 S. W. SITTHERLAND. 
 
 This genial and highly popular citizen of Tuc- 
 son, the proprietor of the Ocidental Hotel, has 
 been associated w-ith Sonora, Mexico, and south- 
 ern Arizona for the past twenty-three years, and 
 thus is thoroughly acquainted with the prevail- 
 ing conditions of our rapidly increasing civili-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 zation. Tucson, for instance, has made wonder- 
 ful strides in the direction of progress since he 
 first beheld the straggling village of 1878. 
 
 In 1896 he became the proprietor of the Occi- 
 dental Hotel, which is conducted on the Euro- 
 pean plan. The hotel is large and well furnished, 
 affording every convenience to its guests. It is 
 centrally situated on Meyer street, and comprises 
 sixty-five rooms, all of good size. 
 
 PATRICK J. FARLEY. 
 
 It would be difficult to fintl a more efficient, 
 reliable and popular holder of public trust than 
 is found in P. J. Farley, county recorder of 
 Yavapai county. A native of County Meath, 
 Ireland, he was born ]\Iarch 17, 1865, and is a 
 son of Michael Farley, also a native of Ireland. 
 The father, who came to the United States in 
 1868, settled near Florida, Monroe county, Mo., 
 and engaged in farming until his death in 1888. 
 Our subject came with his parents in 1868, but 
 returned to Ireland with his aunt in the winter 
 of 1870 and was educated at the national school 
 at Moyaugher. In 1883 he came back to Amer- 
 ica and with his father engaged in the stock busi- 
 ness for several years. Subsec|uently he spent a 
 short time in Kansas City and in the spring of 
 1888 came to Prescott and became interested in 
 mining in different parts of Yavapai county. He 
 also contracted to some extent and in January 
 of 1897 was appointed deputy county recorder 
 imdcr W. I. Johnson and served in this capacity 
 for two terms. In 1900 he w'as nominated on 
 the Democratic ticket for the office of county 
 recorder and was elected by a majority of eight 
 hundred and sixty-two votes; the second highest 
 majority on the ticket. 
 
 Those who have seen the books of Mr. Farley 
 pronounce them marvels of penmanship and 
 neatness, exactness and uniformity, and he has 
 completed an index, than which there could be 
 no superior. That the position holds greater 
 tasks than drawing one's salary is evinced by 
 the number of books manipulated by this expert 
 accountant and detailist. For example : there 
 arc fifty-seven books which contain records of 
 mines; records of deeds, fifty-four; mill sites and 
 water rights, four; promiscuous records, nine; 
 agreements, five ; mining lionds, three ; official 
 
 oath and bonds, six ; mortgages, seventeen ; 
 losses, four ; townsites, one ; corporations, one ; 
 homesteads, two ; powers of attorney, four ; be- 
 sides numerous other records interesting only 
 to a few. The office of the recorder contains 
 fine filing cabinets and a vault for the custody of 
 the same. 
 
 In Prescott, February 24, 1892, Mr. Farley 
 married Mary Carr, a native of Ireland. Of 
 this union there were born five children, Edward 
 C, James \'., Rose Mary, John (deceased), and 
 Niall Patrick. Mr. Farley is fraternally associ- 
 ated with the .\ncient Order of United Work- 
 men, the Woodmen of the World, and the Red 
 Men. He is also a member of the Prescott vol- 
 unteer fire department. 
 
 JUDGE J. A. LOGAN. 
 
 The life record of the honored subject of this 
 memoir is the record of one whose entire career 
 has been on the frontier, and who has experi- 
 enced and shared the vicissitudes of the pioneer 
 of civilization and prosperity. One of the oldest 
 residents of Mohave county, in years of continu- 
 ous residence, he is entitled to representation in 
 this volume, if for no other reason; and aside 
 from that fact he is eminently deserving of an 
 honored place in the annals of Arizona, with 
 whose interests his own have been intimately 
 connected for more than a quarter of a cen- 
 tury. 
 
 Born in Wayne county. Mo., in 1821, then 
 looked upon as the "far west." Judge Logan 
 was reared in that state and in .\rkansas, his 
 advantages being cjuite limited. However, he 
 was by nature a great student, and by his own 
 efforts he educated himself, preparing for his 
 future profession by a diligent perusal of the 
 great legal authorities, .\dmitted to the bar 
 before the supreme court of Arkansas in 1845. 
 he embarked in practice. The great excite- 
 ment of 1849 ^^'' ''^ 'lis joining the pilgrimage 
 across the plains, his being the southerly route, 
 via Tucson, Ariz., then a tiny Mexican hamlet. 
 Crossing the Colorado river at Yuma on a raft, 
 he proceeded to Trinity river (Cal.), where he 
 was occupied in placer mining, and for some 
 lime conducted a general merchandise business. 
 While on his way to California in 1849, '"-' ^"J
 
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 the members of his company constructed the 
 first boat ever biiiU in New Mexico, employing 
 it for crossing the Rio Grande. In 1855 he re- 
 turned on a visit to his old home in Arkansas, 
 but in 1857 again started for the Pacific slope, 
 this time driving a herd of cattle across the 
 plains. He was quite fortunate in this great 
 undertaking, as he lost only a few head of cat- 
 llv. and was traversing Utah on the northern 
 side of Salt Lake at the time the dreadful 
 JMountain Meadow massacre occurred at the 
 southern end of that body of water. He did not 
 entirely escape molestation, for he had several 
 exciting experiences with the Indians and Alor- 
 mons. Locating in Tehama county, Cal., he 
 devoted several years to the cattle business. 
 
 The spirit of adventure which has animated all 
 discoverers in all ages then took possession of 
 the Judge more completely than ever before, 
 for, when he had completed his four years' 
 term in the state legislature of California, as a 
 senator representing Tehama county district, 
 he refused renomination and went to the state 
 of Sonera, Mexico, where for two years he 
 mined and prospected. Then he returned to 
 California and continued his way northward, re- 
 siding in eastern Oregon and Idaho for a period, 
 in the meantime making some of the first dis- 
 coveries of valuable gold deposits in Canon 
 creek and Granite creek in the Blue mountains. 
 Though he located some fine claims and had 
 started to develop them, he found that the cli- 
 mate was seriously affecting his health, and for 
 that reason he left the region, allowing others 
 to reap the rich reward which he might have 
 garnered under more favorable conditions. Re- 
 turning to Tehama county, he devoted himself 
 to diilferent undertakings, with varying success. 
 
 In the spring of 1875 Judge Logan came to 
 Mohave county and, settling in the Big Sandy 
 Creek district, gave his attention to the manage- 
 ment of a ranch and to mining enterprises for 
 a number of years. In the autumn of 1892 he 
 was elected to the probate judgeship on the 
 Democratic ticket, and took up his residence 
 in Kingman, and since that time has officiated 
 in this capacity, being chosen as his own suc- 
 cessor at each election, excepting one election— 
 1894 — receiving a two-thirds majority vote in 
 1896, 1898 and 1900, a fact which jilainly indi- 
 
 cates his popularity and the confidence which 
 the people repose in him. Included in his duties 
 is the supervision of the schools of the county, 
 the office of superintendent not yet having been 
 created here, though in force in many of the 
 counties of the territory. He owns mines in 
 the McCracken district, and retains his deep 
 interest in the mineral wealth of Arizona. The 
 secret of his success in all of his undertakings is 
 his energy and foresight, his concentration of 
 purpose and sterling integrity. 
 
 WALTER S. JOHNSTON. 
 
 Walter S. Johnston, a leading business man 
 of Tempe, and local manager of the lumber in- 
 terests of H. W. Ryder, the pioneer in this 
 line in Arizona, is well and favorably known 
 throughout the southern part of the territory. 
 A native of Scotland, he was born March 11, 
 1859, in the vicinity of Glasgow, a son of John 
 (j. and Janet (Lowrie) Johnston, both likewise 
 of the land of the "thistle and heather." When 
 he was about eleven years of age the family re- 
 moved to the United States, and, locating in 
 Chicago, the lad received excellent educational 
 advantages in the public schools of that city. 
 
 In 1882 W. S. Johnston came to Arizona, and 
 for several years thereafter made his home in 
 Phoenix, being chiefly employed by H. W. Ryder, 
 with whom his business relations have extended 
 over a long period. In 1887 he came to Tempe 
 and since that time has conducted a large lum- 
 ber yard, dealing in all kinds of building mate- 
 rial, and, in addition to this, carries a full line 
 of agricultural implements, hardware, wagons and 
 buggies. By sterling integrity and correct busi- 
 ness methods, he has won the high regard of the 
 general public, and neglects none of his duties 
 as a citizen. 
 
 From his youth Mr. Johnston has been a 
 stanch friend to education, and. knowing his 
 sentiments upon the subject, the public chose 
 wisely when he was called to serve in the local 
 school Ijoard. At that time, when he was offi- 
 ciating as secretary of the board, the handsome 
 modern public school building was in process 
 of construction, and, needless to say, the work 
 was carried to a successful end. In the Tempe 
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 he is a prominent member, having held all of 
 the official positions therein twice, and having 
 been one of the prime movers in the building 
 of the Odd Fellows Block, one of the most 
 substantial structures in the place. Though in 
 no wise a politician, he is a loyal friend to the 
 Republican party, believing thoroughly in its 
 policy and wisdom. 
 
 Ten years ago the marriage of Mr. Johnston 
 and Miss Ida L. Empey, a native of Canada, 
 took place in Florence, Ariz. ( )f the four chil- 
 dren born to this estimable couple one has been 
 called from their midst, little Mvian E. Three 
 daughters remain to bless their happy home, 
 namelv: Helen I., Dorothv and Janet. 
 
 WALLACE B. WILLARD. 
 
 The assessor of Yavapai county, W. B. W'il- 
 lard, a well-known citizen of Prescott, was born 
 in Sacramento county, Cal., August 14, 1869, 
 and is a son of Lewis A. and Frances (BuUard) 
 Willard. The Willartl family traces its lineage 
 to England, but has been represented in 
 America ever since the colonial period. A 
 native of Wisconsin, Lewis A. Willard became 
 a pioneer of 1850 in California, where he 
 engaged in general farming and also raised and 
 sold fine race horses. About 1874 he removed 
 his family to Elko county, Nev., and ten years 
 later brought them to Arizona, settling in the 
 Verde valley, nine miles south of Jerome, in 
 Yavapai county, where he still resides, giving 
 his attention to the management of his farm and 
 the raising of stock. In politics he has always 
 been a stanch Democrat. By his first marriage 
 he had five children, only two of whom are now 
 living, viz. : Flora, wife of J. K. Mason, of Cot- 
 tonwood, in the \'erde valley ; and Wallace B., 
 of Prescott. Mrs. Frances Willard died in Cali- 
 fornia in 1872, and eight years afterward Mr. 
 Willard married Julia Frost, by whom he has 
 four children : Olga, W. Edna, Lewis, and 
 Alexander. 
 
 The common schools furnished Wallace B. 
 Willard with the rudiments of his education. In 
 1888 he became a student in the Stockton Busi- 
 ness College at Stockton, Cal., where he 
 remained during much of two years. Having 
 always been a careful reader and a student of 
 
 current events, we to-day find him to be a man 
 well posted »in general history and national 
 problems. For some years after leaving school 
 his time was occupied on his father's ranch, and 
 engaging in the cattle business as a cowboy, and 
 his friends say of him that he was one of the 
 most e.xpert riders in the territory. His next 
 enterprise was the erection of a mill and the con- 
 ducting of a mine in the state of Chihuahua, 
 Mexico, where he remained for six months. On 
 his return to Arizona he became interested in 
 the mines of Yavapai county. 
 
 On the opening of the Spanish-American war 
 Mr. Willard at once offered his services as a sol- 
 dier. April 30, 1898, he enlisted in Capt. Wil- 
 liam O. O'Xeill's company of Rough Riders, 
 which formed a part of the famous command 
 under Theodore Roosevelt. He participated in 
 the memorable battles of El Caney, San Juan 
 Hill and the siege and surrender of Santiago. 
 Although at the front of battle and often in the 
 midst of a fire of shot and shell, he escaped 
 being wounded. With the command he went to 
 Montauk Point, where he was mustered out 
 September 14, 1898. Owing to the hardships 
 incident to the campaign he was for six months 
 unable to engage in work or business of any 
 nature. On regaining his health he resumed 
 mining at McCabe. In the fall of igoo he was 
 nominated, on the Democratic ticket, for county 
 assessor of Yavapai county, and was the victor 
 at the ensuing election, with the distinction of 
 being the only Rough Rider ever elected in the 
 county. His views are in accord with the 
 Democratic part)-, and he has always been firm 
 in his advocacy of the party principles. Frater- 
 nally he is connected with the Benevolent Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks and with the United 
 Moderns, and he is also a member of the Pres- 
 cott fire department. 
 
 THOMAS X. SHEFFIELD. 
 
 The livery facilities of Jerome are equal to 
 those of other towns in the territory, one of the 
 largest and most successful enterprises of the 
 kind being conducted by Thomas N. Sheffield. 
 This enterprising citizen was born in Benton 
 county. Ark., and is a son of George W. and 
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 of Benton county. The greater part of his edu- 
 cation was acquired in Arkansas, iind under his 
 father's able instruction he became a model 
 farmer and good business man. 
 
 At the age of nineteen, Mr. Sheffield started 
 out in the world to make his own living, com- 
 ing immediately to Jerome, where he worked 
 for the United \'erde Mining Company for four 
 years, and for the following two years was en- 
 gaged in business with David Connor. He be- 
 came independently engaged in September of 
 1899, when he bought out L. L. Budworth, and 
 has since carried on a successful livery and trans- 
 fer business. He is well equipped for his work, 
 and makes a specialty of commercial trade. In 
 1898 he was badly crippled financially by the 
 disastrous fire that swept over the city, but soon 
 regained his old trade, and has been prosperous 
 ever since. An emphatic .aid in his business is 
 the mail contract from the postoffice to the depot 
 at Jerome. His honest business methods and 
 general reliability have done much to influence 
 the general public in his favor, and he is exten- 
 sively patronized by all classes of people in the 
 town. 
 
 In the upbuilding of the town Mr. Sheffield 
 has ever shown an active interest, and he is ready 
 to aid in every reasonable advance in that direc- 
 tion. Fraternally he is associated with the Je- 
 rome Lodge No. 18, K. of P., and is an active 
 member of the lodge. 
 
 HENRY E. SHELDON. 
 
 During the eight years of his connection with 
 the Tucson Electric Light & Power Company, 
 in the capacity of chief engineer, Henry E. 
 Sheldon has been faithfulness itself, and his 
 efficiency in the discharge of his duties has won 
 the high commendations of the public. Alto- 
 gether he is considered one of our leading and 
 most popular young men, ever foremost in the 
 advocacy of public improvements and enter- 
 prises calculated to benefit the community. 
 
 The grandfather of our subject, John Pitts 
 Sheldon, is remembered as the founder of the 
 Detroit "Free Press," which achieved an almost 
 world-wide reputation. He was a pioneer of 
 Detroit, Michi, and of Wisconsin, in which 
 state he took up a large tract of land and en- 
 
 gaged in its cultivation for a period. For a num- 
 ber of years he held an office in one of the gov- 
 ernment departments at Washington, D. C. He 
 departed this life at Willow Springs, Wis., Jan- 
 uary 22, 1873. 
 
 Hon. Thomas H. Sheldon, the father of H. 
 E. Sheldon, was born in Utica, N. Y., seventy- 
 six years ago. For many years he has resided 
 on a farm near Darlington, Wis., where he owns 
 three hundred and twenty acres. Twice he has 
 represented his district in the state legislature, 
 being elected on the Republican ticket. His 
 wife, also living, bore the maiden name of Mary 
 Pilling. She was born in Wisconsin, in which 
 state her father, Elias Pilling, was a very early 
 settler, as he located near Darlington in 1830, 
 and for several years was engaged in mining 
 and in managing a smelter at Willow Springs, 
 later giving his attention to farming. He was a 
 native of Yorkshire, England, married a lady 
 of the same locality — Miss Elizabeth Haigh — 
 and came to America in 1827. 
 
 Of the five children bom to his parents, and 
 all yet living, H. E. Sheldon is next to the eld- 
 est. Born June 5, 1868, in Darlington, Wis., he 
 was reared upon the old homestead, and com- 
 pleted his education in the high school. In De- 
 cember, 1886, he located in Tucson, as an em- 
 ploye of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and for 
 three years was a fireman on a locomotive. Then 
 being promoted to engineer, he servetl as such 
 from 1889 to January I, 1893, his run being be- 
 tween Yuma and El Paso. At the close of his 
 seven years' service with the company, he ten- 
 dered his resignation, in order to accept his 
 present position. The electric light plant here 
 was then in process of construction, and since 
 that time it has been enlarged three times. The 
 three engines now used have a combined capac- 
 ity of three hundred and fifty horse-power, and 
 six dynamos are in operation. In 1894 the part- 
 nership of Russell & Sheldon, of this city, was 
 formed, and in their establishment a full line of 
 electrical supplies, bicycles and bicycle sundries 
 may be found in stock. 
 
 At different times, Mr. Sheldon has evinced 
 his confidence in the prosperity of Tucson by 
 investing in local real estate. He is a member of 
 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and 
 is the foreman and engineer of the Chemical
 
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 Knginc C(inii)any o{ tlic Tucson N'ohmlccr I'irc 
 Department. In his political .-tandin.n' he is a 
 Democrat, though his lather, as hel'ore slated, 
 is an ardent Re|juljlican. 
 
 In Madison. Wis.. Mr. Sheldon married Miss 
 Jessie Estes, who is a native of Stoughton, Wis., 
 and was graduated in the high school at M.adi- 
 son. Two children have heen born to the young 
 couple, named, respectively, Bessie and Fred. 
 Mrs. Sheldon is a member of the Congrega- 
 tional Church, and is very popular in this citv, 
 as in her former home. 
 
 GEORGE H. CAMPBELL. 
 
 Although Mr. Campbell's success as an agri- 
 culturist is largely due to his own perseverance, 
 it is the occupation which he would naturally be 
 expected to follow, his father and ancestors hav- 
 ing been enthusiastic tillers of the soil, and ap- 
 preciators of the dignity and usefulness of a 
 farmer's life. Although not one of the earliest 
 settlers in the Salt River valley, having arrived 
 here in 1891. Mr. Campbell is well known as an 
 industrious and worthy citizen, and as a suc- 
 cessful cultivator of his land. His home ranch, 
 which is located five and a half miles south of 
 Tempe, is one hundred and sixty acres in extent, 
 and devoted to farming and stock-raising. 
 
 A native of De Kalb county. 111., Mr. Camp- 
 bell was born March 21, 1868, and is a son of 
 James H. and Louisa (L'Hommedieu) Camp- 
 bell, the former a native of New York state. 
 The Campbell family is of Scotch extraction, 
 and on the maternal side the ancestors lived in 
 France. James H. Campbell is now a resident 
 of the Salt River valley, where he owns one 
 hundred and sixty acres of land, and where, at 
 the age of sixty years, he is still interested in 
 developing the soil. A veteran of the Civil 
 war, he served his country and humanity faith- 
 fully as a nurse, in which capacity he displayed 
 great proficiency. He is the father of six chil- 
 dren, viz.: Robert H., who is living in Phoenix: 
 George H.; William H., who is in the state of 
 Washington; Lester H., who is at home; Min- 
 nie E., wife of M. L. DuiTey, who resides on 
 his ranch near the Campbell homestead in Mari- 
 copa county, and Fannie M., who is at home. 
 
 When a year old, George H. Campbell was 
 
 taken by his parents to Xemaha county, Kans., 
 w here he grew to manhood and received the ed- 
 ucation to be derived at the public schools. As 
 time went on he obtained a fair knowledge of 
 general business, and learned to be a practical 
 and model farmer. The first decided change in 
 his life was in 1891, at which time the whole 
 family removed to Arizona and settled in the 
 .Salt River valley. 
 
 Mr. Campbell holds exceedingly liberal ideas 
 regarding politics, anrl believes m voting for 
 the best man, regardless of his political affilia- 
 tions. In religion he is associated with the Con- 
 gregational Church at Tempe, and contributes 
 generously towards the support of the same. 
 He is deserving of credit for the progress made 
 in his life, and his future is thought by those 
 who know him to hold bright possibilities. 
 
 EDGAR ALONZO SPAULDING. 
 
 The ancestry of this real-estate dealer and 
 orange grower of Phoenix is traced back to an 
 old New England family. The first to come 
 to America was Edward Spaulding. who braved 
 the dangers of an ocean voyage about 1630 or 
 1633, and first settled in Braintree, Mass. Later 
 he became a prominent resident of Chelmsford, 
 that state, and bore an important part in its 
 earlv growth and development. The descend- 
 ants of this honored pioneer are now scattered 
 throughout the United States, and many have 
 become prominent in both professional and 
 business circles. His second son, Lieut. Edward 
 Spaulding, was born about 1633. and died in 
 January, 1708. He and his brother, John, were 
 made freemen March 11, i6yo, and in iCkji 
 he was a representative to the general court. 
 His son, Ebenezer Spaulding, was born in 
 Chelmsford, Mass., January 13, 1638, and from 
 there removed to what is now Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 Stephen Spaulding, the son of Ebenezer, was 
 also born in Chelmsford, March 28, 1717, and 
 removed with the family to Hudson, N. Y. He 
 married Martha Foster, and in their family was 
 Ebenezer Spaulding. who was born at Not- 
 tingham, now Hudson. N. Y.. March 27. 1750, 
 and died in Lempster, N. H., July i, 1808. He 
 was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and par- 
 ticipated in the battles of J5unker Hill and Ticon-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 deroga. He married Amy Roundy, wlio was 
 born in Windham, Conn., and lived to be over 
 one hundred years of age. Her parents were 
 Samuel and Anna (Huntington) Roundy. The 
 next in direct descent to our subject is his 
 grandfather, Ira Spaulding, who was born March 
 4, 1787. In 1831 he became a resident of Crown 
 Point, N. Y., and in 1843 removed to Jackson 
 county, Iowa. His death occurred at Maquo- 
 keta, that county, July 21, 1855. His wife was 
 Ruth Taft, who was born in Uxbridge, Mass., 
 and belonged to a prominent old family of that 
 state. 
 
 Ira Alonzo Spaulding, the father of our sub- 
 ject, was born in Washington, N. H., July 30, 
 1824, and in March, 1831, removed with his 
 parents to Crown Point, Essex county, N. Y., 
 and to Jackson county, Iowa, in October, 1843. 
 In 1859 he became a resident of Anamosa, that 
 state, from which place he subsequently removed 
 to Dubuque. He died in Wisconsin. He was 
 a contractor of railroad and road bridge, was 
 a Congregationalist in religious belief, and a 
 member of the Masonic fraternity. For his first 
 wife he married Mary Lanison, who died in 
 Anamosa, Iowa. By that union he had five 
 children: James Lamson, a graduate of West 
 Point, and now a resident of Omaha, Neb.; Ada- 
 line Brown, who married James E. Smith, and 
 died in Cedar Falls, Iowa, in 1878; Mary, who 
 died at the age of eleven years; Edgar Alonzo, 
 our subject, and Merritt C, who died young. 
 For his second wife the father married Mrs. Ann 
 Judd Fall, by whom he had one daughter, Lena 
 Kelmond, now Mrs. F. Wurzbacher, of Skag- 
 way, Alaska. 
 
 Mr. Spaulding, of this review, was born in 
 Anamosa, Iowa, June 23, i860, and was six 
 years old when the family removed to Cedar 
 Falls. He was educated in the public schools 
 of that city and Dubuque, and began his busi- 
 ness career at the age of eighteen years as his 
 father's assistant, remaining with him until the 
 latter's death in 1882. Fle continued to engage 
 in bridge building and for many years repre- 
 sented the Shififler Bridge Company of Pitts- 
 burg, putting up many bridges in Iowa, Illinois, 
 W^isconsin. Tennessee and Georgia. On discon- 
 tinuing that business in 1893, he returned to 
 Cedar Falls, Iowa, and became district agent 
 
 for the Northwestern Insurance Company of 
 Milwaukee. In 1895 he came to Phoenix, Ariz., 
 and has since been interested in fruit culture. 
 He has improved about one hundred acres of 
 land, planting thereon an orchard, mostly 
 oranges, and still has charge of fifty-five acres, 
 some of which he owns. This property is located 
 about six miles northeast of Phoenix, and he 
 makes his home thereon. Since 1899 he has also 
 engaged in the real-estate business with ofifice 
 on Adams street in Phoenix, and handles Ijoth 
 city and farm property, and does a general loan 
 business. During his residence here he has met 
 with success and has property in the city, besides 
 his fruit farm. 
 
 At Cedar Falls, Iowa, Mr. Spaulding was 
 united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Sheerer, 
 a native of Lockport, N. Y., and a graduate of 
 the Cedar Falls high school. Prior to her mar- 
 riage she successfully engaged in teaching. C)ur 
 subject and his wife have three children, namely: 
 Charles Edgar, born April 12, 1885; Garence 
 Arthur, born September 24, 1886; and George 
 Frederick, born June 2},, 1890. 
 
 In his political affiliations Mr. Spaulding is 
 an ardent Republican, and in his social rela- 
 tions is a member of the Knights of Pythias fra- 
 ternity. While a resident of Dubuque he served 
 as deacon of the First Congregational Church 
 and as treasurer of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association for many years. There being no 
 church of that denomination in Phoenix, he 
 united with the Presbyterian Church, and takes 
 an active part in its work. His life has been 
 an upright, honorable and useful one,' and he 
 has tlie confidence and respect of all with whom 
 he comes in contact, either in business or social 
 affairs. 
 
 HARRY CLIFFORD. 
 
 In the center of the Gila valley, between Solo- 
 monville and SafTord, Mr. Clifford has a well- 
 cultivated and paying farm of forty acres. With 
 careful forethought, he has erected one of the 
 fine rural homes of the valley, in wdiich his 
 family are comfortably housed. The land is 
 well fenced and watered, and a small orchard 
 yields an abundance of fruit. 
 
 Previous to coming to Arizona, Air. Clifford
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 had years of experience as a farmer, and was 
 familiar with every detail of the duties of a suc- 
 cessful agriculturist. He was born in White 
 county, Ind., in 1847, and continued to live in 
 the Hoosier state until his eighteenth vear, ac- 
 . quiring an education in tlie meantime at the 
 public schools. In Texas he began to fight the 
 independent Ixiitlc of life, and engaged in the 
 cattle business there and in Colorado and Wy- 
 oming. In 1876 he came into Arizona with 
 freighting learns, locating near Tombstone, in 
 the Sulphur Spring valley, and proceeded to 
 raise and ship cattle. At the end of three years 
 he sold out and returned to Texas, and at the 
 end of eighteen months was again in Arizona, 
 and in the vicinity of Wilcox continued to raise 
 cattle. After three years he came to Graham 
 county, his herd of cattle accompanying him 
 hither, and in 1891 he sold the stock and moved 
 on the farm which is still his honie, and where 
 he has met with well-deserved success. 
 
 Mrs. Clifford was formerly Amanda Talley, 
 of the Gila valley, and her marriage with Mr. 
 Clififord occurred in 1891. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Clifford have been born four children: \'erna 
 A., Glenn, Hazel and Call. Although a stanch 
 Democrat, Mr. Clififord has liberal ideas regard- 
 ing the political inclinations of officeholders, 
 and believes that principle rather than party 
 should win. He is one of the respected and in- 
 dustrious developers of his locality, and has 
 made many friends since taking up his abode in 
 the midst of this vallev. 
 
 JOHN P.. DONER. 
 
 The tlonrishing and pr(_>mising town of Glen- 
 dale knows no more enthusiastic advocate of its 
 resources and general excellencies than is found 
 in the genial and successful contractor and build- 
 er, and hardware merchant, John B. Doner. 
 Though practically speaking a new comer in the 
 territory, having arrived in 18174, he has 
 thoroughly identified himself with the spirit and 
 enterprise of the place, and is accounted a valu- 
 able and reliable citizen. 
 
 Many of the sons of Canada have associated 
 their strong and sterling national characteristics 
 with the developement of the west, and are i\p- 
 preciated for the steady conservatism wliicli re- 
 
 tards too rapid, and therefore insecure growth. 
 Mr. Doner was born in York county, Ontario. 
 May 14, 1855, and is a son of John and Effie 
 (Schell) Doner, also born in Ontario, Canada. 
 The paternal ancestry of the family is Scotch, 
 and that on the maternal side is Scotch-German. 
 The parents arc now living in Simcoe county, 
 Ontario, and have lived a remarkable number of 
 years, the father being now nearly ninetv, and 
 the mother over eighty-five. The father was, 
 ilnring the years of his activity, a prominent and 
 successful builder and contractor in York countv. 
 
 John U. Doner passed his youth and earlv 
 manhood in York county, and received an excel- 
 lent education in the public schools. Under the 
 capable and thorough instruction of his father he 
 learned to be a carpenter, contractor, and 
 builder, and w^as thus fitted for any emergencv 
 that might arise. In his twenty-second year he 
 entered upon an independent aj^plication of his 
 trade in York county, and then decided to avail 
 himself of the larger possibilities of the states. 
 In Brown county, Kans., he successfully coped 
 with the new conditions, and engaged as a con- 
 tractor and builder from the fall of 1876 until 
 the spring of 1879. He then went to Falls City, 
 Xeb., and continued his former occupation until 
 the spring of 1882, when he removed to Morris 
 county, Kans., and engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness, in addition to the practice of his trade. He 
 was remarkably successful in Nebraska, and 
 carried on large enterprises in his line. As a 
 permanent location however, the state did not 
 hold sufficient intlucement, and in 1894 he came 
 to Glendalc, .Ariz., which has since been his 
 home. 
 
 After working at contracting and building for 
 four years, Mr. Doner became interested in the 
 hardware business, and his afTairs in the line are 
 carried t)n under the firm name of the Glendalc 
 Hardware & Lumber Company. He makes a 
 s]iecialty of the .Aermotor wind mills, and carries 
 a large and complete slock of general hardware 
 supplies. .Aside from his business responsibili- 
 ties, he is variously interested in the affairs of 
 ihe tow n, and is an ardent promoter of its growth 
 and enterprises. In national politics he is a be- 
 liever in the principles and issues of the Repub- 
 lican partv. but entertains very liberal ideas re- 
 garding the ])()litics of the administration. Fra-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ternally, he is associated with the Woodmen of 
 the World, at Glendale, and the Modern Wood- 
 men of America, at Wilsey, Kans. 
 
 \\'hile living in Canada, Mr. Doner was united 
 in marriage with Mary E. Heise, a native of 
 (Jntario. Of this imion there is one child, 
 Louise L. The second Mrs. Doner was formerly 
 Sadie A. Myers, a native of Lanark, 111., and to 
 Mr. and Mrs. Doner have been horn three 
 children. Delta A., Hattie L., and Harry A. With 
 his family he is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Cliurch at (ilcndalc, and is a trustee in the 
 same. 
 
 CHARLES W. SLAYTON. 
 
 A prominent business man of Phoenix, where 
 he has made his home since February, 1892, Mr. 
 Slayton was born in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., 
 August 24, 1835, and is a worthy representative 
 of an old and honored Xew England family. On 
 the paternal side he traces his ancestrv back to 
 Capt. Thomas Slayton, who was born in Eng- 
 land, September 2, 1682, and was the founder 
 of the family in the New World. In 1707 he 
 married Hannah Culwood, and they had three 
 children, Phineas, Thomas and Hannah. The 
 captain was a descendant of Sir James Scott, 
 and he in turn was a descendant of Scott, the 
 Wizard, so called from his experiments in 
 physics. James Scott, the son of Sir James, 
 married Margaret Sleighton, a daughter of Pat- 
 rick Sleighton. Their son was born in 1623, 
 and died in 1690, and his only son, Thomas 
 Sl.ayton, was killed by his uncles in order that 
 they might obtain his fortune. Thomas Slayton, 
 Jr., the son of the captain, was born June 15, 
 1709, in Braintree, Mass., and was married in 
 Watertown, that state, September 20, 1731, to 
 Abigail Harrington, of that place. In 1739 he 
 removed to Berkshire county, Mass., where he 
 died in 1778. His son, who also bore the name 
 of Thomas, was born in Weston, Mass., Feb- 
 ruary 20, 1733, anrl became a successful New 
 England farmer. He joined Capt. Obediah 
 Cooley's company, September 20, 1756, during 
 the French and Indian war, and assisted in cap- 
 turing Crown Point, and on the 24th of Novem- 
 ber, 1757, joined Capt. Jabez Upham's company, 
 formed for the relief of Fort William Henrv, 
 
 but it surrendered before they reached the scene 
 of operations. He was married June 13, 1759. 
 to Judith White, who was born in 1739, and 
 died .\ugust 26, T822. His death occurred on 
 the old homestead in Berkshire county, Mass., 
 December 28, 1822, when he was nearly ninety 
 years of age. 
 
 The next in line of descent was Asa Slayton, 
 the grandfather of our subject. He was born 
 in I'.rookfield, Mass., March 2~ . 1766, and was 
 a member of the militia in his vounger days, 
 being comniissiuned lieutenant in 1792 and cap- 
 tain in 1804. At one time he owned a large 
 tannery and shoe shop in Brookfield and was 
 considered very wealthy. After manufacturing 
 a large quantity of goods, his son Charles would 
 carry them in a wagon to Canada, where the 
 stock was sokl. Imt during the war of 1812 his 
 goods were confiscated by the British, and as 
 he had borrowed money to complete his outfit, 
 he had to sell his plant in order to meet his 
 obligations. He heard of the cheap lands in 
 St. Lawrence county, K. Y., from a Mr. Lane, 
 who had been in that part of the country during 
 his services in the war of 1812, and Mr. Slayton 
 decided to remove thither. With his family in 
 a two-horse wagon, and his household goods 
 and tools in an ox cart, he started for the Em- 
 pire State, and in due time reached Potsdam, 
 St. Lawrence county. On the i8th of July, 1815, 
 he purchased one hundred acres of land on Plum 
 brook, of E. Hurlburt, for $675. .\ log house 
 had previously been built upon the place, and 
 into this the family moved. The grandfather 
 turned his attention to the raising of wheat, and 
 in 1816 had the largest wheat field ever seen 
 in New York up to that time. Having no barn 
 in which to store his grain, he invited all the 
 neighbors for miles around to assist in the "rais- 
 ing," and one hundred responded to the call. 
 Early in the morning they began their work, 
 and while some cut the trees for the timbers 
 of the barn, others manufactured shingles. The 
 boards were sawed at a mill he had built on Plum 
 brook, and before night a barn 30x40 feet was 
 built, and two loads of his wheat stowed in the 
 same. Teams were on hand to haul all of the 
 grain, but a rain came up and spoiled that part 
 of the program. Twenty-five years ago this 
 buildinjr was taken down and reconstructed in
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 8l! 
 
 the village of Potsdam, where it now stands as 
 an evidence of what our pioneer forefathers 
 could accomplish in one day wiiliout the facili- 
 ties of the present time. In connection with his 
 farming operations Mr. Slayton engaged in the 
 manufacture of pot.ish. He possessed remarka- 
 ble strength and could lift a IkutcI cif jioiash 
 from the ground over the i)ox into the wagon. 
 He had double teeth all around and cnulil bend 
 a ten-penny nail between them. lie built a 
 large tamiery mi his property and engaged in 
 the manufacture ni leather in addition to his 
 other business. In religious belief he was a 
 L'niversalist. This energetic, enterprising and 
 useful citizen passed away September 20, 1852, 
 at the age of eighty-six years. On the 14th of 
 April, 1791, in Chester, Mass., he married Su- 
 saimah Anderson, who was born b'ebruary 18, 
 1770, and died July 2, 1848. In their family were 
 eight children. 
 
 Thomas Anderson Slayton, father of our sub- 
 ject, was born in Chester, Mass., March 7, 1804. 
 On reaching manhood he purchased a part of 
 the old homestead farm in St. Lawrence county, 
 N. Y., and engaged in the manufacture of lum- 
 ber at the old mill on Plum brook. He helped 
 l)iiild the first nail factory in Keeseville, N. Y., 
 and also erected the iron works and first rolling 
 mill at that place. He served as captain in the 
 New York militia. In 1855 '''^ removed with his 
 famil\- to Derlin, Wis., where he engaged in 
 farming throughout the remainder of his life. 
 He died January 29, 1879, and his wife, who 
 bore the maiden name of Sophronia Hale, de- 
 parted this life at Oshkosh, Wis., July 31, 1882. 
 She was a native of Grand Isle. \'t., and a repre- 
 sentative of an old family of that state. Their 
 family mnnbeied eight children, namely: Al- 
 vira, wife of 1). Tuttle. of Montello, Wis.; Cur- 
 tis 11.. ri nianiifacturer, who died in I'lerlin, Wis.; 
 Lyilia, who died at the age of five years: Charles 
 \\'., of this review; Div.an Pierry, who died in 
 Central City, Colo., June 11, 1865; Edward .\., 
 who died at the age of two years; Sylvester M., 
 wdio was drowned by falling from a raft near 
 Necedah, Juneau county. Wis., April 25, i86(j; 
 and Edward Thoin:is, a real-estate dealer of St. 
 Paul, Minn. 
 
 Charles W. Slayton, our subject, began his 
 education in the public schools of South Pots- 
 
 dam, N. Y.. and later attended a select school. 
 In May, 1855, he removed with the family to 
 Marquette county, Wis., at which time that state 
 had only twelve miles of railroad. There he 
 taught school one term, and began the improve- 
 ment of a farm, but soon discontinued his agri- 
 cultural labors. In 1863 he started a tannery 
 in llerlin. Wis., and engaged in the manufacture 
 of boot and shoe leather and whips. He also 
 conducted an express route, and purchased the 
 Montello, a steamboat, of which he was captain 
 for three years. Subsequently he was exten- 
 sively engaged in the niantifactuie of furniture 
 and spring beds, having from thirty to forty 
 men in his employ. He had two men upon the 
 road traveling between Denver and Ihiffalo, 
 while his trade extended from the Atlantic to 
 the Pacific. Later Mr. Slayton organized the 
 I'erlin Coffin & Casket Company, which pros- 
 pered, but he sold his interest in that business 
 in 1878, and removed to St. Paul, Minn., to take 
 charge of large tracts of land in the southwestern 
 part of that state and northwestern Iowa, 
 amounting to about one million acres. The fol- 
 lowing year he was made general agent of the 
 company, and in connection with his real-estate 
 business he also ran a railroad express. In 188 1 
 he laid out the village of Slayton, Murray county, 
 Minn., graded the streets, set out shade trees 
 on both sides of the same, erected a hotel and 
 other buildings, started a newsjiaper, and se- 
 cured the county seat. That fall he sent an 
 agent to Europe to induce immigration to his 
 lands, and in January following he himself went 
 to England, returning in April with sixty-seven 
 people, most of whom settled near Slayton. He 
 acciuired twenty-one farms near that place and 
 owned one-half the town site. In 1882 he be- 
 came interested in .gold and silver mining in 
 Xew Mexico, with two bankers, the company 
 owning eleven mining claims, on which they 
 l)Ut two thou.sand feet of development work. 
 Thev were nearly ready for the machinery when 
 the two bankers failed, involving Mr. Slayton, 
 who. through no fault of his own, lost all his 
 l)ro])erty, amounting to over $300,000. He tried 
 to regain a footing in St. Paul, but the great 
 depression which always follows a great boom 
 prevailed at that place, and he decided to seek 
 a new field of labor, (hi the 2nd of I'ebruary.
 
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 1892, he came to Phoenix, Ariz., and, having 
 always had an inclination toward the medical 
 profession, he embarked in the manufacture of 
 special remedies, becoming sole proprietor of 
 what is known as The Family ^Medicine Com- 
 jianx'. Mis medicines are carefully compounded 
 from roots and herbs, and, being of a superior 
 (|ualit\, find a ready sale in the market. The 
 office of the company is at No. 29 West .\dams 
 street. Phoenix. Mr. Slayton now gives most 
 of his attention to this business, though he is 
 also interested in mining in Arizona. 
 
 In Masonic circles he stands high, having 
 taken the thirty-third degree at St. Paul in 1891. 
 He was made a Mason at Berlin, Wis., and has 
 always taken an active interest in the work of 
 the order. He is also identified with the Odd 
 Fellows Society, and in politics is independent. 
 His life has been an upright, honorable and use- 
 ful one, and he justly deserves the high regard 
 in which he is uniformly held by his fellow- 
 citizens. 
 
 H. PERCY SCOVILLE. 
 
 The proprietor of the Scoville Plumbing Com- 
 pany is one of the most progressive and enter- 
 prising business men of Phoenix, where he has 
 made his home since 1894. A young man of 
 superior executive ability and sound judgment, 
 he alre.ady occupies an enviable position in the 
 commercial world, and has a fine prospect of 
 reaching the tojimost refund of the ladder of 
 prosperity. 
 
 Mr. Scoville was born in Silver, Creek, Chau- 
 tauqua county, N. Y., on the i8th of April, 1868. 
 His paternal grandfather, who was a wagon and 
 carriage manufacturer, spent his entire life in 
 the Empire State. The father, Tyler Scoville, 
 was also born in Chautauqua county, N. Y., and 
 was nianied in Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss Eunice 
 Percival, a native of that state. In 1867 they re- 
 moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where Mrs. Sco- 
 ville still resides. The father died there in April, 
 1900, at the age of sixty-five years. At one 
 time he was engaged in the manufacture of 
 school furniture, but later was interested in the 
 real-est.ate business. .Ml of the six children of 
 the family are living, namely: William P., a 
 farmer of Polk countv, Iowa; Melvin T-, man- 
 
 ager of a lumber yard in Mnton, Iowa; H. 
 Percy, our subject; Tyler, who is engaged in 
 the life insurance business in Des Moines; and 
 Ella and Fay, both at home with their mother. 
 
 Reared in Des Moines, our subject is indebted 
 to the public schools of that city for his educa- 
 tional privileges. When his school days were 
 o\er he served an apprenticeship to the plumb- 
 er's trade with the Scoville Plumbing Company, 
 in Des Moines, Iowa, and during the five years 
 spent with them thoroughly mastered all 
 Ijranches of the business, including gas, steam 
 and hot-water fitting. In 1894 he came to Phoe- 
 nix, Ariz., on account of his health, and for 
 three years served as manager of the plumbing 
 department of the Phoenix Plumbing Company. 
 In the spring of 1898 he embarked in business 
 for himself, under the name of the Scoville 
 Plumbing Comp.any, and it was not long ere he 
 had built up a good trade. He is located at 
 Nos. 1 14-6 West Adams street, where he occu- 
 pies both floors of a building 25x138 feet, while 
 the basement is used for storage. In the front 
 part of the building are the show and sales 
 rooms, and back of these is the workshop. It is 
 considered the finest establishment of the kind 
 between Denver .and San Francisco. Mr. Sco- 
 ville does both a wholesale and retail business 
 in all kinds of electric, gas, steam and hot-water 
 fixtures, and enjoys an excellent trade. Among 
 the important contracts which he has filled is 
 the plumbing in the O'Neill, Dennis, Sherman 
 and old Opera-house blocks, .and the Holmes 
 building of Phoenix; the plumbing for the water 
 and sewer system at the United States Industrial 
 School, costing $14,000: the water and sewer 
 system at the Pima Indian agency, costing $11,- 
 000; territorial capitol lanilding, costing $8,000; 
 and the Bartlett ranch, two miles north of Glen- 
 dale, costing $3,500, which has the finest plumb- 
 ing of any ranch in the territory. Mr. Scoville 
 is now at work on the plumbing of the school 
 building in the Pima Indian agency. He has in 
 his employ from twelve to sixteen skilled work- 
 men, and always conscientiously fulfils his part 
 of everv contract. 
 
 Mr. Scoville was married in Phoenix to Miss 
 Marv Adams, who was born in New York City, 
 but was reared and educated in Des Moines, 
 Iowa. Thcv have had two children, Melvin,
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 819 
 
 who died at the age of two years, and P\Tcy, 
 born December 11, kjod. In poHtical sentiment 
 "Sir. Scoviho is a stanch Repnlilican. He is a 
 member of the i'i(}ard nf rr;ide, the Maricopa 
 and .\thk-tic Chil)S. Ancient Order nf L"iiited 
 Workmen, L'nited Moderns, and the ISenevok'nt 
 Protective ( )r(k'r of Elks. He is a mend)er of 
 the board of trnstees of tlie lodge Ijelonging to 
 the last-named order. 
 
 GP:()RGE W. .^l.VES. 
 
 Although Mr. Sines is chiell\- known as one 
 of the prominent builders and contractors of 
 Prescott, and a member of the firm of Maxwell 
 & Sines, he has nevertheless crowded man\ 
 creditable achievements into his life, not the 
 least of which is a splendid record as a soldier 
 and defender of his country's honor. He was 
 born in IMontgomery county, Pa., January 21, 
 1848, and is a son of Charles and L\dia 
 (Jones) Sines, the father native of the same 
 county and state, while the mother was born in 
 I'rankford, within the city limits of Philadelphia. 
 The father was a manufacturer of shoes and a 
 farmer for a number of years. He is now living 
 in Philadelphia, and has reached the advanced 
 age of nearly ninety. The family is of (jerman. 
 ilescent, and some of the ancestors came to 
 .America during the last century. The grand- 
 father, George, was a farmer in Montgomery 
 county, and served in the war of 1812. He lived 
 to be eighty years of age. Lydia (Jones) Sines 
 is of Welsh descent, and became the mother of 
 five children, of whom George W. is the second. 
 
 In 1861 George W. Sines was apprenticed as 
 a wheelwright and carriage.huilder. In October, 
 1864, he volunteered in the Two Hundred and 
 I'ourteenth Pennsylvania \'olunteer Infantry, 
 which was the Eighth Union League Regiment 
 of Phila(lel])hia, Company C, and served in the 
 Shenandoah valley until the close of the war. 
 He then worked at his trade for a year, and in 
 1867 volunteered in the First Cnited States 
 Cavalry, and came through and joined the regi- 
 ment at Fort Klamath, Ore. There the company 
 remained for two years in active warfare against 
 the Indians, and then spent two years at h'ort 
 r.idwell, Cak. still fighting the Indians. In 1871 
 he came with a jarivate detachiuent of sixteen 
 
 31 
 
 men as escort to CJeneral Crook, to Fort Mc- 
 Dowell, and then on to Prescott. Being a 
 mechanic, he was delegated to help build the 
 govcrnmciU saw-mill on (irooni creek, and was 
 honorably discharged from the service at I'ort 
 Whipple, Prescott, in .\pril, 1872. Subsequently 
 he remained at Fort Whipple for three years as 
 sui)erintendent of construction and during that 
 time built up nearly the whole of the jjlace. 
 
 Upon first locating in Prescott Mr. Sines be- 
 came interested in carpentering and mining. Init 
 has latterly devoted his entire tiiue to building 
 and contracting, .\mong the numerous sub- 
 stantial and artistic buildings which have been 
 erected bv the firm of which he is a member 
 niav be mentioned the Courier office, the Brecht 
 building, the Parker building, the Bashford and 
 Wilson blocks, besides numerous residences in 
 different parts of the city. 
 
 Mr. Sines has erected for himself and family 
 a comfortable and conuuodious residence, .\fter 
 coming to Prescott he married Josephine Lead- 
 endorff, who was born in Laramie, Wyo. Of 
 the children born to this couple five are living: 
 George, Mary, Joseph. Lyda and Edwin. As a 
 member of the Republican party, Mr. Sines has 
 served in the city council for four years, and has 
 been otherwise interested in the local politics of 
 the citv. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Knights of Pythias, of which he is past supreme 
 representative, and he is also past captain of 
 rank of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias. 
 He is an honored member of Barrett Post No. 
 3, G. A. R., at Prescott. 
 
 JAMES C. MAXWELL. 
 As one of the pioneer builders and contractors 
 of Prescott, Mr. Maxwell lias made a substan- 
 tial impression upon the building interests of 
 the city, and is widely known for his skill in con- 
 struction and style in design. Upon arriving 
 liere in 1874 he at once became interested in 
 his trade, and turned his attention principally 
 to the construction of .sawmills, being thus em- 
 ployed for eight years. He was later a carpenter 
 and contractor, and aside from putting up many 
 of the important buildings in the town, has since 
 extended his usefulness into all parts of the 
 county, a number of stamp mills being among
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his other undertakings. At present his affairs 
 are conducted under the firm name of Maxwell 
 & Sines, this association having been brought 
 about in 1897, and continued amicably ever 
 since. The firm are also interested in running 
 a planing mill in Prescott, and manufacture 
 mouldings and other mill work. 
 
 The youth of Mr. Maxwell was spent in Mis- 
 souri, and he was born in Bowling Green, Pike 
 county, December 25, 1847. The family had 
 long been identified with Missouri, the paternal 
 grandfather having settled there at an early 
 day. The parents of Mr. Maxwell were James 
 and Julia (Green) Maxwell, and were born 
 respectively in Virginia and Indiana. They 
 were successful farmers in Missouri, and eventu- 
 ally died in that state. Of their eight children 
 seven are now living, James C. being the fourth. 
 One of the sons served all through the Civil 
 war in a Missouri regiment, and is now living 
 at Kansas City. 
 
 Mr. Maxwell was reared to the life of a farmer, 
 and incidentally learned all that there was to 
 know about tools in general, his father being 
 a cooper by trade and also a carpenter. From 
 his earliest youth he was familiar with the bench 
 and drill and chisel, and it was but natural that 
 his mature years should be devoted to work 
 along this line. In August, 1864, he volunteered 
 in Company B, Forty-Ninth Missouri Volunteer 
 Infantry, at Warrenton, Mo., Col. D. P. Dyer 
 commanding, and was sent against Price. In 
 January of 1865 the regiment joined the Six- 
 teenth Army Corps and went to Mobile, Ala., 
 and participated in the siege of Mobile, the bat- 
 tles of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, and the 
 capture of Mobile. He was discharged at Ben- 
 ton Barracks, Mo., in August of 1865. 
 
 After the war Mr. Maxwell returned to his 
 home in Missouri, and went to school for a 
 year. In 1868 he went to Kansas and for a time 
 contracted on the Union Pacific Railroad, and 
 in 1869 went to Elko, Nev., where for a year he 
 engaged in the wood business. He then went 
 to Cape, on the Idaho line, and engaged in min- 
 ing for five years. In 1874 he came to Prescott, 
 where he has since lived. In politics he is a 
 member of the Republican partw and is frater- 
 nally associated with the Woodmen of the 
 World. He is also a member of liarrett Pnst X(_i. 
 
 3, G. A. R., and is past connnander of the post 
 at Prescott. 
 
 In Prescott, Ariz., September, 1881, Mr. Max- 
 well married Etta Densmore, who was born in 
 Denver, Colo. Of this union there are four 
 children : Clarence, Burt, Roy and Elva. 
 
 F. W. HAYES. 
 
 The farming experiences of Mr. Hayes in 
 Ciraham county have been attended with marked 
 success, and there is probably no one in the 
 vicinitv of his home who has given the subject 
 of climate, soil and general advantages more 
 thorough study, or is better prepared to enu ■ 
 merate the many excellencies which await the 
 settler in this particular part of Arizona. Ar- 
 riving in the territor}- in the early "70s, he was 
 for a time interested in milling in Mohave 
 county, and during the boom in Tombstone he 
 was one of the most enthusiastic of the seekers 
 after a competence in this wild and, at the time, 
 remote camp. He subsequently became a miner 
 for the Philadelphia Company near Crittenden, 
 Santa Cruz county, later removing to Willcox, 
 where. for about twelve years, he was successfully 
 occupied with the cattle business. In 1884 he 
 was elected supervisor of Graham county, and 
 served in that capacity for four years. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Hayes came to Safiford an<l pur- 
 chased the farm of forty acres upon which he has 
 since lived, and which is adjacent to the town. 
 This property is under a high state of cultiva- 
 tion, is well fenced, and has a large and comfort- 
 able brick house. A fine orchard is planted 
 with a variety of fruit-bearing trees, but the 
 remainder of the land is largely given over to 
 the cultivation of alfalfa, besides about a hun- 
 dred and fifty tons of hay. ' The pasture land is 
 devoted to feeding about thirty head of stock. 
 Mr. Hayes has arrived at the conclusion that the 
 average yield of wheat per acre in the valley is 
 between forty and fifty bushels, and of corn sixty 
 bushels. Of corn and wheat two crops are 
 raised a year, while of alfalfa the average num- 
 ber of crops is five. Fruit in general is fine 
 and the average good, the quality and flavor 
 being equal if not in many instances superior 
 to that raised in California. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 821 
 
 tiers in Ohio, the paternal grandfather having 
 gone there before the Revolutionary war, in 
 which he was a valiant and courageous soldier. 
 F. W. Hayes was born in Ashland countv, Ohio, 
 in 1846, and is a son of J. W. and Eliza Jane 
 Hayes, natives respectively of Ohio and Penn- 
 sylvania. His youth was spent on his father's 
 farm, where he mastered every detail of the work 
 there required, and at the same time attended 
 the iniblic schools. An otherwise uneventful 
 life was interrupted by the breaking out of the 
 war. when he enlisted as a private in Company 
 I>, One Hundred and Second Ohio Infantry, 
 and was in time promoted to the position of 
 first sergeant. .\t the battle of Decatur, Ala., 
 he was wounded, and was discharged from the 
 service June 7, 1865, at Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 .\fter the war Mr. Hayes completed his educa- 
 ticin by attending college for two years, and 
 tlien decided to avail himself of the undevel- 
 oped west as a future field of effort. In t868 
 he settled in ( )regon for a )ear, and then went 
 to Nevada, where he engaged as a coal con- 
 tractor for a smelting company for three years. 
 Then followed his coming to Arizona, in 1884, 
 where he has since so successfully profited by 
 the opportunities here presented. 
 
 In August of 1897, Mr. Hayes married Bell 
 Conway, of Hagerstown, \\'ayne county. Ind. 
 In national jjolitics he is .a Republican, but has 
 never desired to devote much time to local 
 office. He has, however, served as supervisor 
 of the county. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Knights of Pythias, of Soloinonville, and is, 
 with his wife, a member and worker in the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. They are the par- 
 ents of one son, hrank Conway, born January 4, 
 1901. 
 
 WARREN L. SIRRINE. 
 
 Too much credit cannot be given to the little 
 band of peojjle who, with true heroism, endured 
 the dangers and hardships of a five months' 
 journey across the deserts and mountains of 
 Utah and Arizona, and then for several years 
 thereafter labored unceasingly in the great work 
 of deveIo]5ing the Salt River valley — all this be- 
 fore they entered their "promised land" of peace 
 ;ind plent\' .Xs is well known, one of the lead- 
 
 ing spirits in the enterprise of the little colony 
 was and is Warren L. Sirrine, who came here 
 almost a (luarter of a century ago. Believing 
 that a synopsis of his career will prove of interest 
 to the general public, the following facts have 
 been compiled : 
 
 A son of George W. and Esther A. (Crismon) 
 Sirrine, he was born in San Bernardino, Cal., 
 December 23, 1855, and was about three years 
 old when his parents removed to Salt Lake City, 
 Utah. At the end of five years' residence there 
 the famil}- settled in Bear Lake valley, Idaho, 
 and in the subscription schools of his district 
 the lad received his education. The father, who 
 is a native of Putnam county, N. Y., and served 
 ?n apprenticeship in a machine shop at West 
 Point, is a venerable citizen and pioneer of 
 Mesa, now in his eighty-third year. The wife 
 and mother departed this life seven years ago. 
 h'or a number of years George W. Sirrine was 
 known far and near as the president of the Mesa 
 Canal, which has accomplished so much for 
 this section of the county. 
 
 In 1877 Warren L. Sirrine married Seretta 
 Daley, like himself a native of California. They 
 have six living children, namely: Mrs. E. H. 
 Johnson, Seretta, Annie, Warren L., Jr., Maud 
 and Ethel M. One is deceased — Bertha Belle, 
 an infant. 
 
 The same year that witnessed his marriage 
 saw the departure of W. L. Sirrine and wife, 
 with a party of relatives and friends, from Utah 
 to Arizona. After their long and exceedingly 
 wearisome journey they encamped in the Salt 
 River valley for nine months. During that pe- 
 riod the men were employed in the construction 
 of the Mesa Canal, and it was not until the 
 autumn of 1878 that our subject located upon 
 his farm and engaged in regular agricultural 
 pursuits and stock-raising. He still owns eighty 
 acres, and has converted the tract of wild land 
 into a productive and valuable farm. 
 
 I'^or the past decade Mr. Sirrine has been 
 financially interested in mercantile enterprises of 
 different kinds, and now is the president of the 
 Zcnos Co-operative Mercantile & Manufacturing 
 Institution. In 1895 he was active in the organ- 
 ization of the Mesa Co-operative Milling Com- 
 pany, and is the general manager of that suc- 
 cessful concern, which has a fine steam-power
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 plant and modern machinery. In the past he 
 has served in the capacity of president of the 
 Mesa Canal Company, and at present is a mem- 
 ber of its board of directors. In political mat- 
 ters he is afifiliated with the Democratic party, 
 and for some time was a member of the city 
 council of Mesa. Religiously he is a zealous 
 member of the Church of Jesus Christ of the 
 Latter-day Saints, with which denomination his 
 father also has long !)een prominently identi- 
 fied. 
 
 JOHN CLARK. 
 
 While ]Mr. Clark is known chiefly as one of the 
 largest and most successful sheep-growers of 
 Coconino county, he has also had an extended 
 mercantile experience in the territory, and is 
 one of the oldest residents of Flagstaff, having 
 arrived .in Arizona December 7, 1875. Until 
 his tenth year Mr. Clark lived eight miles east 
 of .Augusta, Me., where he was born in 1839. 
 In 1849 he went to Lowell, Mass., and lived 
 with his sister, Mrs. Parker, until his twentieth 
 year. At that time he decided to settle in the 
 west, and went to California, via the Isthmus of 
 Panama, the same year that the railroad was 
 built across. For two \ears he lived on a dairy 
 farm near San Jose, Cal, and thence went to 
 Merced county and began to handle sheep on 
 his own responsibility. He accjuired in time 
 about five thousand head, and, in order to better 
 care for them, drove them, in 1871, to Kern 
 county, twenty miles east of Bakersfield. 
 
 Here, on the open range, his flock multiplied 
 and prospered exceedingly, and in 1875 he 
 started with five thousand of them across the 
 desert, headed for .Arizona. Between Soda Lake 
 and Mail Springs the flock encountered a severe 
 storm, in which three thousand of the sheep per- 
 ished. In the winter time, December 7, 1875, 
 he crossed the Colorado at Harderville, and 
 passed the remaining time until spring on Sandy 
 creek. In the spring of 1876 he removed to 
 I'ill Williams, remaining there until Mav 15, 
 1877. In the mean time he had been looking 
 around for a suitable range for his sheep, and 
 finally selected a valley between the Graham 
 rn(juntains and tin- .Mormon mountains, which 
 was evcntualK' named Clark's vallc\. in his 
 
 honor. In this excellent grazing district he 
 began to prepare for an indefinite residence, and 
 built a good log house, corral and barn, and was 
 comfortably located until 1887. This ranch was 
 in the vicinity of what is now known as Clark- 
 ville. His sheep did remarkably well, and in 
 the fall of 1883 he sold five thousand of them 
 for $4 a head. 
 
 In 1883 Mr. Clark purchased his present 
 ranch and home just outside of the cit\- limits of 
 Flagstafi', and although since engaged in han- 
 dling cattle, has practically retired from active 
 business life. The ranch is composed of three 
 Inmdred and twenty acres of land, and the house 
 has no superior for miles around, being connno- 
 dious and airy, and having in all twelve rooms. 
 Sixty acres of the land are under cultivation, 
 and the remainder is used for grazing. Mr. 
 Clark has been interested in several enterprises 
 in Flagstaff, among them being the Flagstaff 
 Commercial Company, with which he was asso- 
 ciated for four years, and he was also engaged 
 in the butcher Ijusiness during 1883-4. 
 
 Although a Republican of uncompromising 
 mien, Mr. Clark has been lo:ith to accept political 
 office. In the fall of igoo he was persuaded to 
 accept 1''? nomination for supervisor, hut was 
 defeated. He was married January 8, 1888, to 
 Elizabeth M. Cook, who was born in Maine and 
 educated in Massachusetts. Mr. Clark has been 
 successful in both his sheep and cattle industrv, 
 although his efforts have been overtaken on 
 several occasions by disaster. He has had the 
 determination to push ahead and make the most 
 of inevitable loss, and has been well rewarded 
 for his persistent effort. He is one of the 
 town's most reliable citizens, and one of Ari- 
 zona's most deserving and helpfid jnoneers. 
 
 JOHN F. CROWLEY. 
 
 .\s manager for Judge Nichols, and an enter- 
 prising citizen of Willco.x, Mr. Crowley has a 
 warm place in the eslecm of his fellow-citizens. 
 -V native of Lowell, Mass., he was born January 
 26, 1850, and is a son of John D. and Mary Eliz- 
 abeth Crowley, natives of Ireland. John D. 
 Crowley was an ambitious man. and in scarcli 
 of a fortune went to California in llie gcildcn 
 davs of "41). When his efforts were rew rdcd
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 825 
 
 with a moderate success he sent for his family, 
 who journe\ecl from the east by way of Panama 
 and jokied him in San Francisco in 1854. With 
 the exception of several years spent in Sacra- 
 mento, the family lived in San Francisco imtil 
 1883, at which time John F. came to Arizona, 
 and in Willcox opened up a liquor business, 
 which he continued until 1886. He then sold 
 out, having become deputy sheriff in 1884, under 
 Sheriff J. L. Ward, and also served as deputy 
 assessor and deputy tax collector. He then filled 
 a similar position under Sheriff Bob Hatch for 
 two years, and during his terms of service expe- 
 rienced some narrow escapes and exciting ad- 
 ventures witli the unruly element which ter- 
 rorized the neighborhood. He was in the 
 sheriff's office at the time of the robbery of Cas- 
 taneda's store at Bisbee, when many were killed 
 in the street, and the greatest pandemonium pre- 
 vailed. In search for the robbers, Mr. Crowley 
 brought in Red Sample and Texas Howard, and 
 Sheriff Ward brought in Kelly, alias Yorky. 
 The desperadoes were all hanged March 4, 1884, 
 Mr. Crowley hanging Kelly at the robber's re- 
 (juest. Great credit is due the district attorney, 
 Mark A. Smith, for securing the speedy convic- 
 tion of these marauders, thus freeing the country 
 from ever-present danger and terror. 
 
 Following his term as sheriff, Mr. Crowley 
 became employed by the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road Company, and was under Agent E. A. 
 Xichols as clerk, and after three years returned 
 to the liquor business, in which he continued 
 until 1893. He then became general manager 
 for Judge Xichols, which position he still holds. 
 He is also a notary public, having been ap- 
 pointed by Governor McCord in 1898. Mr. 
 Crowley is affiliated with the Republican party, 
 and has always taken an active part in local 
 and territorial politics. His only near relative 
 is Timothy J. Crowley, of San Francisco, who is 
 a lawyer of that town, with an office in the 
 Chronicle Iniildini''. 
 
 HON. JAMES W. WOOLF. 
 
 As president of the Tcm])e Irrigating Canal 
 Company, president of the Tempe-Mesa Produce 
 Company, a director of the Tempe National 
 Bank, and former member of the territorial 
 
 assembly, Mr. Woolf has a wide acquaintance 
 throughout Arizona. He was born in Caldwell 
 county, Ky., November 25, 1847. The ancestral 
 home of the family is said to have been in Eng- 
 land, and the first members to immigrate to 
 .\merica presumably came at a very early day. 
 Their descendants are numerously distributed 
 through the southeast, and have been active par- 
 ticipators in the best undertakings of the locali- 
 ties in which they have lived. The paternal 
 great-grandfather served with courage and dis- 
 tinction in the Revolutionary war. The parents 
 of Mr. Woolf, William and Louisa J. (Baker) 
 Woolf, were born in Kentucky, and were farm- 
 ers during their active and industrious lives. 
 
 When four years of age James W. was taken 
 by his parents to Crittenden county, Ky., and 
 there spent the greater part of his youth and 
 earlv manhood. The surrounding influences 
 were akin to those which mould the lives and 
 character of the average farm-reared youth, and, 
 like many another who has attained to promi- 
 nence in the affairs of his locality, his first step- 
 ping stone toward independence was through 
 ihe medium of educational work, for which he 
 was fitted by attendance at the public schools, 
 and at a seminary in Caldwell county, 
 Ky. While living in Kentucky he was 
 united in marriage in February of 1870, with 
 Mary A. McConnell, a native of Crittenden 
 county, Ky., and a daughter of John N. 
 ^ilcConnell, who was of Scotch-Irish extrac- 
 tion. To Mr. and Mrs. Woolf have been 
 born nine children, eight of whom are living: 
 Charles C, who is a lawyer in Tempe; Ida F., 
 who is engaged in educational work in Maricopa 
 county; John W., who is in the cattle business 
 in Gila county; William H., who is studying at 
 the Territorial Normal School at Tempe; James 
 O.; Robert A., who is also a student at the 
 Tempe Normal; Mabel; and Irene. 
 
 In 1874 Mr. Woolf departed from Kentucky 
 and settled with his family in Los Animas coun- 
 ty. Colo., subsequently removing to Colfax coun- 
 ty, N. M., where he lived until taking up his 
 residence in .\rizona in 1889. Like most of the 
 residents of the valley, Mr. Woolf is interested 
 in the pursuit for which the land here is espe- 
 ciallv adapted, his land being chiefly devoted to 
 the cattle-raising business. He owns a ranch of
 
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 three hundred and twenty acres about three 
 miles southeast of Tempe. which offers not only 
 a pleasant and comfortable home, but which 
 serves as a relaxation from the arduous and 
 numerous duties which command the time and 
 ability of its owner. To enumerate the many 
 enterprises of note in which Mr. Woolf is a rul- 
 ing and progressive influence is to chronicle the 
 rise and subsequent growth of nearly all of the 
 undertakings which have built up this section of 
 the valley. The financial ability of which he is 
 master, the large-hearted and undiminishing in- 
 terest in the best public welfare of which he so 
 often gives evidence, and the popularity which 
 arises from an unchallenged moral character and 
 high business principles, have made him in con- 
 stant demand as a promoter, and a safe reposi- 
 tory of public trust. 
 
 In November of 1896 Mr, Woolf was elected 
 to the nineteenth territorial legislature of Ari- 
 zona, as the candidate of the Democratic party, 
 and during his term of service were enacted 
 many important reforms. He was especially in- 
 terested in securing the re-codification of the 
 live stock law of the territory, and he also draft- 
 ed and secured the passage of what is known 
 as the school land rental law. The completion 
 of the normal school at Tempe was made pos- 
 sible through the efforts of Mr. Woolf in secur- 
 ing the requisite appropriation. He is now serv- 
 ing as a director and president of the Tempe 
 Irrigating Canal Company, and had, previous 
 to his election aS' president, served for three 
 years as a director. For several years he has 
 been a director and president of the Tempe- 
 Mesa Produce Company, of which he w.as one 
 of the original organizers. In 1900 he was fur- 
 ther honored by his political constituents in 
 the Democratic party by being again nominated 
 for legislative service, but declined the distinc- 
 tion because of the already too numerous de- 
 mands upon his time and exertions. 
 
 In the development of the water supply for 
 artificial irrigation Mr. Woolf has shown de- 
 cided interest, and in this connection is presi- 
 dent of the Western Branch of the Tempe Irri- 
 gating Canal Company. Fraternally he is asso- 
 ciated with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, the Woodmen of the World and the United 
 Moderns, at Tempe. In the religious world he 
 
 exerts a wicle influence for good, and is a mem- 
 ber, active worker and generous contributor to- 
 ward the support and charities of the Baptist 
 Church. Mr. Woolf is also a deacon in the 
 church at Tempe. 
 
 C. W. STEVENS. 
 
 The proprietor of the Palo Alto stables at 
 Phoenix is one of the leading business men of 
 that thriving city, and his ability, enterprise and 
 upright methods have established for him an 
 enviable reputation. Although he is compara- 
 tively a young man, his popularity is established 
 on a firm basis — that of his own well-tested 
 merit. 
 
 Mr. Stevens was born in Prince Edward Isle, 
 ( )ctober 12, 1870, his parents being John and 
 Amelia (Scott) Stevens. His paternal grand- 
 father, Jacob Stevens, spent his entire life as 
 a farmer at Forest Glen, Colchester county. 
 Nova Scotia, and- belonged to an old and hon- 
 ored family of that locality. The father was also 
 born at Forest Glen, and there he is still liv- 
 ing, engaged in agricultural pursuits, owning 
 and operating two good farms at that place. 
 He is an active and prominent member of 
 the Baptist Church, and is a man highly re- 
 spected and esteemed by all who know him. His 
 wife is now deceased. She was a native of 
 Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, and the daughter 
 of an Englishman. Of their nine children only 
 three are now living, these being C. W., our 
 subject; Burpee, who lives on the okl hoiue- 
 stead; and Mrs. Moore, of Montana. 
 
 The subject of this review passed the days 
 of his boyhood and youth on the home farm, and 
 was educated in the public schools of the neigh- 
 borhood. At the age of twelve he went to New 
 England, and for a time was engaged in farming 
 at Woonsocket, R. I., where he later served as 
 manager of an ice-cream establishment until 
 1880, when he came to Florence, Ariz. Buying 
 an outfit, he engaged in freighting between Casa 
 (irande and Silver King, a distance of seventy- 
 five miles, it requiring fourteen days to make 
 the round trip. He had twenty-two mule teams 
 with four wagons carrying about five tons each. 
 He continued this business very successfully for 
 three years, and then sold out. He then went
 
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 to Clover valley, Nev., on horseback, but after 
 looking over that country for about two weeks, 
 he returned to Arizona, being gone three months. 
 In 1883 he embarked in the transfer business at 
 Phoenix, in partnership with C. M. Hewdett, 
 and for four years conducted a successful busi- 
 ness, running three busses and four transfer 
 wagons. On disposing of that enterprise, Mr. 
 Stevens went to California, but two months 
 later returned to Phoenix and opened a livery 
 stable as a member of the firm of Albright & 
 Stevens. They carried on the business together 
 in dififerent places for four years, when, in 1890, 
 our subject bought out his partner and has 
 since been alone. In 1898 he built a large brick 
 barn at No. 228 East Adams street, the main 
 building being 50x138 feet, with an L 50x100 
 feet, where he can acconuuodate seventy-five 
 head of horses. He keeps a fine line of vehicles 
 of all kinds, including three hacks and a seven- 
 seated tally-ho coach, which is the largest rig 
 in the territory, and to which he drives two or 
 three teams. 
 
 At Phoenix occurred the marriage of Mr. Ste- 
 vens and Miss Minnie .Mice Magnctt, a native 
 of Oregon, and a daughter of I-'rank Magnett, 
 one of the early settlers of Phoenix. By this 
 union have been born two children, Jennie and 
 Ursal. In politics Mr. Stevens is a stanch Dem- 
 ocrat, and in his social relations is a member of 
 the Independent Order of C)dd Fellows and the 
 Rebekah Ijranch of that fraternity. In 1886 he 
 ]iarticipated in the Geronimo campaign, being 
 master of transportation for the government. 
 His success in life is due entirely to his own 
 industry, enterprise and well-directed efforts, for 
 from an early age he has been dependent upon 
 his own resources, and he certainly deserves 
 great credit for what he has achieved. 
 
 GEORGE W. NICHOLS. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Nichols, who is one of 
 the large land owners and agriculturists of the 
 Salt River valley, was of a particularly interest- 
 ing nature, and is evidence of an untiring per- 
 severance and ability to cope with vicissitudes 
 and obstacles. While still young he was de- 
 prived of the care and affectionate interest of 
 his parents, and grew to manhood in the 
 
 shadow of the great loss and its attendant re- 
 sponsibilities. 
 
 A native of Kerr county, Tex., Mr. Nichols 
 was born June 12, 1851, and is a son of Row- 
 land and Jane (Harrison) Nichols. Rowland 
 Nichols was a native of Tennessee, and 
 migrated to Texas in 1849. The country was 
 at the time very wild and inhospitable, and the 
 pioneers who sought to till the soil and intro- 
 duce the ways of civilization were seriously 
 handicapped bv the obstacles that came their 
 way. The neighbors were widely separated by 
 perilous tracts of land, whereon the roaming red 
 man still hurled defiance at the invading pale 
 face. There the father met the fate of many 
 courageous early settlers, and was killed by the 
 Comanclie Indians in 1859. This sorrow to a 
 large family was augmented in 1865, when the 
 mother died, and they were left alone on the 
 homestead in the wilds of Te.xas. 
 
 George W. lived on the home farm until he had 
 attained years of discretion, and as may well be 
 imagined, his responsibilities in connection with 
 the farm permitted of but limited opportunities 
 for acquiring an education. This deficiency has 
 been supplemented by the application of later 
 years, and nuich reading along interesting and 
 developing lines. He married in Kerr county, 
 Tex., March 7, 1872, Mary C. Corbell, a native 
 of Texas and a daughter of Tillmon and Mary 
 (Nolen) Corbell. Her parents were natives of 
 Arkansas and Mississippi respectively, and were 
 married in the state of Texas. Of the union of 
 Air. and Mrs. Nichols there have been eight chil- 
 dren, seven of whom are living; Ivan N. ; Julia 
 R. ; Rowland T., who is in the United States 
 army, and is at present serving in the Philippine 
 Islands; Guy W. ; Grace M.; Jennie and Warren 
 W. George is deceased. 
 
 In 1876, with his wife and two children, Mr. 
 Nichols started with others of like inclination for 
 the far west, and crossed the plains with wagons 
 and mule teams. They were fifty-seven days on 
 the journey, and terminated their wanderings at 
 Tempe, Ariz. In the same year Mr. Nichols 
 homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land, to which he has added by subsequent pur- 
 chase, until he now owns three hundred and 
 twenty acres. The land is devoted to general 
 farming and stock-raising, in which the enter-
 
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 prising owner has been very successful. Like so 
 many dwellers in lands requiring artificial irri- 
 gation, Mr. Nichols is greatly interested in the 
 subject of water promotion, and has assisted in 
 extending the Tempe canal. From the aridity 
 of the desert his land has been induced to pro- 
 duce abundantly, and more than repays the 
 arduous labor of years. Politically he is a 
 Democrat. In the fraternal world he is asso- 
 ciated with the .\ncient Order of United Work- 
 men and the Woodmen of the XN'orld. Mrs. 
 Nichols is a member of the Church of God. He 
 is interested in all that pertains to the upbuild- 
 ing of his community, and has contributed his 
 share towards the noble pioneer work of the 
 valley. 
 
 HARVEY J. HARPER. 
 
 The high place which Mr. Harper holds in 
 his community is partially indicated by the re- 
 si)ansible positions to which he has been called, 
 and by the fine executive ability he has displayed 
 in meeting his obligations as an official. Now 
 serving as a liigh councilor of the Maricopa 
 Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Lat- 
 ter-day Saints, and iince 1883 superintendent 
 of the Sunday-school of the Lehi ward, his 
 activity in the advancement of his denomination 
 is plainly demonstrated. His general business 
 ability has been manifested in many practical 
 v^'ays, and to his influence is attributed much 
 of the prosperity of the Zenos Co-operative 
 Mercantile & Manufacturing Institution at 
 Mesa, of which he lias been a director for sev- 
 eral years; the Utah Irrigating Canal Company, 
 in which he was formerly a director; and the 
 Mesa Milling Company, in which he is a stock- 
 holder. 
 
 Harvey J. Harper, a leading pioneer of the 
 Salt River valley, now living near Lehi, 
 Maricopa county, was born in Hancock county, 
 111., in 1842. His parents, Charles A. and La- 
 vina (Dilworth) Harper, were natives of Mont- 
 gomery county, 111., and in 1848 removed to 
 Salt Lake county, Utah, thus being very early 
 settlers there. The father, who was a graduate 
 of Evergreen College, of Peoria, was a man 
 of culture and good business ability. At the 
 venerable age of eighty-three years, he was 
 called to his reward, dying in June, 1900. 
 
 The educational advantages of Harvey J. Har- 
 per in the new country of Utah were not equal 
 to those which his father had enjoyed, but his 
 natural talents overcame many of his obstacles 
 as a student. In 1866 he married Louise Park, 
 whose birthplace was in Nebraska, and who 
 was reared in Provo City, Utah, where her fam- 
 ily located in 1847. Oi the seven children born 
 to our subject and wife, the three sons, Harvey 
 J., Jr., Alfred P. and Albert, live near Lehi. 
 Louise U., wife of Joseph Rogers; Alberta J., 
 wife of Niels Pedersen; and Eleanor, wife of 
 Orlando Merrill, live at Mesa; while Lavina, 
 Mrs. Frank J. Davis, is a resident of Lehi, Ariz. 
 
 In the spring of 1870 the subject of this article 
 removed from Salt Lake county to Rich county, 
 Utah, where he became an extensive stock-raiser 
 and lumberman. After spending aJKiut seven 
 vears there, he returned to Salt Lake county, 
 and some three years later came to .\rizona. 
 In Januar\, 1881, he arrived in the Salt River 
 valley and homesteaded one hunched and twenty 
 acres of land, of which he now retains forty 
 acres. Of the Maricopa stake board of school 
 directors he is serving as a member, and in pub- 
 lic elections votes for the men and measures 
 of the Democratic party. When the great work 
 of constructing the Maricopa stake tabernacle, 
 at Mesa, was contemplated, he was one of the 
 foremost in the undertaking, and besides per- 
 forming much of the actual work of the Ijuikl- 
 ing, superintending the enterprise from first to 
 last. 
 
 ALEXANDER SIL\'A. 
 
 The promise and fertility of the Salt River 
 valley have not only drawn people from all parts 
 of the United States, but have also served as 
 a Mecca for searchers after pleasant and profita- 
 ble places, who have fatherlands across the seas. 
 One of the sons of Portugal has so far identi- 
 fied himself with the conditions existing in this 
 widely different country as to now seem an in- 
 tegral ])art of her growth and prosperity. 
 
 Mr. Silva was born in Portugal, May 10, i860, 
 and is a son of Emanuel and Mariana Silva, both 
 natives of Portugal. He was reared in his 
 native country, where he remained until he 
 had attained his twenty-first year. Being of an
 
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 ambitious nature, he longed for Ijroader fields in 
 whicli to carry out the occupations «f his life. 
 Upon emigrating to America he proceeded at 
 once to California, and resided for some time 
 near San Francisco. Subsequentl\ he journevod 
 to Mexico, and after a short sojourn returned to 
 the States. In 1884 he settled in Arizona. The 
 following year he ])re-empted and later settled 
 upon his present ranch of one hundred and sixty 
 acres, situated about seven miles northwest of 
 Phoenix. .\t the time of its purchase the land 
 was in its primitive condition, and through his 
 efforts it has been transformed into a first-class 
 ranch. He is a pioneer of his locality and is well 
 known as an enterprising agriculturist. In the 
 growth and development of his neighborhood 
 he lias been an active participant. Here he has 
 successfully conducted stock-raising and farm- 
 ing enterprises. During his residence in the 
 -Salt Kiver valley he has seen the sterility of 
 the desert rejilaced by the well-improved farms 
 of the surrounding tillers of the soil, and the 
 busy hum of industry increase from year to 
 year. In addition to the management of his 
 farms, he has added to his revenue and to the 
 convenience of his fellow farmers by operating a 
 threshing machine, for which he has a complete 
 and modern outfit. 
 
 All movements for advancement in matters of 
 education, agricultme and general business re- 
 ceive the co-operation of Mr. Silva. In all of 
 these lines he. strives after the best results. In 
 national politics he is independent, and believes 
 in voting for the man best qualified in principle 
 and attainment for the position. He was united 
 in marriage with Mary Alveres, a native of Mex- 
 ico, who was reared and educated iii Yuma, Ariz. 
 She was but five years of age when she left the 
 land of her birth atid came with her parents to 
 Arizona. 
 
 REV. DANIEL KLOSS, A. M., D. D. 
 
 It seems eminently fitting that one who, like 
 .\lr. Kloss, has for so many years devoted heart 
 and brain to the loftv service of humanity, 
 should, in the after time, become associated with 
 the peace and tranquillity found alone by asso- 
 ciation with nature and her marvelous trans- 
 formations. It thus happens that at the end of 
 
 three-score \ears and ten this eminent preacher, 
 first of the Lutheran faith and later in the Con- 
 gregational work, is enjoying the promise and 
 jirosperity of the Salt River valley, and though 
 a resident of the town of Tempe, is enthusias- 
 tically interested in horticulture, as developed 
 upon the soil so recently awakened from the 
 sleep of centuries. L'pon his two ranches, cum- 
 prising about forty acres, are grown many varie- 
 ties of fruit, including navel oranges, lenions, 
 Hartlett pears, almonds, figs, pomegranates, 
 olives, plums and other tropical fruits. .\11 re- 
 ceive the constant care of their owner, who 
 studies their interests as does one who cherishes 
 and loves all things thai in growing are l)eauti- 
 ful or of use to man. 
 
 A native of Cnion county, Pa., Mr. Kloss was 
 born March 18, 1830, and is a son of Daniel and 
 Elizabeth (Steininger) Kloss, who were born in 
 Pennsylvania. The paternal great-grandfather 
 came to America from Germany at an early day, 
 as did also the maternal ancestors. When a boy 
 Mr. Kloss received his education in the Mitflin- 
 burg (Pa.) Academy, at the Airy View Academy, 
 at Perryville, of the same state, and subsequentlv 
 was griiduated from the classical course in the 
 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. From 
 earliest youth he cherished a desire to enter the 
 ministry, and in following this inclination en- 
 tered the theological seminary at Gettysburg, 
 Pa., and after a year attended the Union Theo- 
 logical Seminary, of New York City. Mav 13, 
 i860, he was ordained a minister in the Evan- 
 gelical Lutheran Church, of the general synod, 
 and for seventeen years following ministered 
 to the necessities of congregations in New Ber- 
 lin, Union county, and in Lykens, Dauphin 
 county. Pa. In 1877 he removed to Highland, 
 Kans., where for fourteen years he ]ireached 
 the Gospel of kindliness and go(jd-will, and be- 
 came identified with the intellectual and moral 
 growth of the locality. During ten years of the 
 time that he was ])astor of the C'ongregational 
 Church at Highland he also filled the chair 
 of (German and French at Highland College, of 
 which institution he was for fourteen years a 
 regent, and which later conferred upon him the 
 degree of Doctor of Divinity. 
 
 In 1891 Mr. Kloss came to .\rizona, and in 
 :8y2 organized the first Congregational Church
 
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 in Tenipe, over whose interests he presided as 
 pastor until September i, 1900. He then re- 
 tired from active participation in church affairs, 
 and in the change to a partially rural life, is en- 
 joying a well-earned rest. 
 
 May 24, i860, Mr. Kloss married Rebecca J. 
 Kloss, a native of Juniata county. Pa., and a 
 daughter of David and Margaret (Kantz) Kloss, 
 likewise natives of Pennsylvania. Of this union 
 there are two children : Charles L., who is pas- 
 tor of the First Congregational Church at Web- 
 ster Groves, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis: and 
 Annie L., wife of P. P. Daggs, of Tempe. Air. 
 Kloss is a Republican in national politics, and 
 has strong prohibition tendencies. As an advo- 
 cate of the highest possible standards of educa- 
 tion he stands very high and has ever wielded 
 a wide influence in the direction of educational 
 work, F"or four years he has served as a mem- 
 ber of the territorial normal school board, and 
 has been president of the board part of the time, 
 having received the appointment from Governor 
 Hughes. In this capacity he was actively inter- 
 ested in the construction of the normal school 
 building at Tempe. In connection with the other 
 responsibilities that have engaged his attention 
 he has shared the conmion interest in the devel- 
 opment of water, and has been a director of the 
 Tempe Irrigating Canal Company. In all ways 
 he is a valued and nuich esteemed citizen, and 
 his genial, kindly personality, and high human- 
 itarian life have drawn to him hearts and good 
 wishes in abundance. 
 
 C. M. STEARNS. 
 
 This well-known horseman has been a great 
 lover of fine horses since his boyhood and has 
 been exceptionally fortunate in handling them. 
 He is now a member of the firm of Waddell & 
 Stearns, owners of the popular Club Stables, of 
 Tucson. His acquaintanceship is extended in 
 the east as well as in the west, and he bears the 
 reputation of being a master in the art of devel- 
 oping latent good qualities in fine horses and in 
 training them in speed. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject, 
 Manny Stearns, was born in New England, and 
 at an early day settled in Ohio, where he car- 
 ried on building enterprises. In the '50s he 
 
 removed to Oskaloosa, Iowa, and spent his last 
 years in that state. C. M. Stearns comes justly 
 by his love for horses, as his father, William 
 M. Stearns, also has given his chief attention 
 to this calling, dealing in excellent roadsters and 
 racers, and at different times owning noted ani- 
 mals, among them "Honest John." His busi- 
 ness made him well acquainted with the leading 
 horsemen of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Misstiuri 
 and Illinois. He was born in the vicinity of 
 Columbus, Ohio, and when the Civil war came 
 on enlisted in the defense of the Union, serving 
 in a Missouri regiment and being mustered out 
 as a sergeant. He now resides in Russell, Iowa. 
 His wife, also living, was Angeline Comstock 
 ]5rior to their marriage and their children com- 
 ]irise two sons and a daughter. She was born 
 in Iowa, of which state her father, Daniel F. 
 Comstock, was a pioneer, though Indiana was 
 his native state. After living in Iowa for a 
 period, he went to Missouri, but eventually re- 
 turned to southern Iowa and departed this life 
 at his home in Russell. He was extensively 
 engaged in the buying and selling of grain and 
 cattle. 
 
 The eldest of the parental family, C. M. 
 Stearns, was born November 8, 1868, in Mon- 
 ticello. Mo., and was reared in Oskaloosa, Iowa, 
 receiving a public school education. When only 
 eleven and twelve years of age he rode race- 
 horses in all parts of the country, and this he 
 continued until 1884. He then entered the em- 
 ploy of W. J. Harris, with whom he remained 
 for about three and a half years, driving and 
 training trotting horses. Then, going to Des 
 Moines, he handled standard-bred horses, and 
 later lived in Missouri Valley, Omaha and Coun- 
 cil Bluffs while similarly occupied. During this 
 time he was interested in races in Iowa, Illi- 
 nois, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Dakota, Min- 
 nesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, and won a 
 flattering reputation among horsemen. 
 
 In the fall of 1890 Mr. Stearns came to Ari- 
 zona in the interests of M. H. Porter, bringing 
 with him Durango Chief, with a record of 2:34-!: 
 Iowa Chief, with a record of 2:22^, and Harry 
 F. and a number of standard-bred fillies. For 
 about three years he had charge of these fine 
 animals, his headquarters being in Phoenix, 
 though he went to different parts of the terri-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 S35 
 
 lory. In 18^3 he returned with them tu the east, 
 and in the aulnnni nf that year ag^ain became a 
 citizen of Phoeni.x, where he conducted train- 
 ing stables for about a year. During the next 
 two and a half years he operated the (irand 
 Avenue dairy, owning a dairy farm near the city. 
 Then, selling his route, he located on a ranch 
 situated on the Arizona ditch, and devoted liis 
 attention to its iniproveiuent for eighteen 
 months. The great Klondike craze of i8o<S led 
 him to tr\' his fortune in that gold field, and he 
 proceeded to Kotzebue Sound. He and his three 
 companions were the first white men, as far as 
 known, who ever traversed that trail, the trip 
 taking twenty-eight days. After eighteen 
 months' absence from Phoenix he returned, and 
 during the following ten months lived at Mesa. 
 Xovember 19, 1900, lie came to Tucson and en- 
 tered into his present partnership and enterprise. 
 The firm put in a new equipment of carriages 
 and roadcarts and keep a good grade of horses, 
 making a specialty of training and selling good 
 animals. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Stearns and Miss Carrie 
 Porter, daughter of M. H. Porter, before men- 
 tioned, took place in this city. She is a native of 
 Minnesota, and by her marriage is the mother of 
 three children, namely: Stanley, Kate and Ruth. 
 Mr. Stearns is a member of the Knights of Pyth- 
 ias, and in his political affiliations is a Democrat. 
 
 WILLIAM H. STRONG. 
 
 One of the familiar and respected figures of 
 Tempe and vicinity is that of Mr. Strong, who 
 is ever foremost in all that pertains to the de- 
 velopment and upbuilding of his locality, and 
 who exercises an influence in the manage- 
 ment of local affairs. A native of Fayette county. 
 Pa., Mr. Strong was born April 17, 1866, and is 
 a son of Robert and Mary (Gaddis) Strong, na- 
 tives of Pennsylvania, and now residents of Os- 
 kaloosa, Iowa. When nine years of age William 
 H. removed with his parents to Mahaska county, 
 Iowa, where he was reared to farming pursuits 
 and to an industrious and thrifty life. At the 
 district schools of his locality he received a fair 
 education, and in 1885 started out on his own 
 responsibility. After a short sojourn in Kansas, 
 which he visited in 1885, he came to Arizona in 
 
 1886, and has since resided in the territory. I'or 
 several years Mr. Strong was engaged in the 
 livery business in Phoenix, and in 1890 came to 
 the vicinity of Tempe, where he has since lived, 
 lie is the possessor of a fine ranch of one hun- 
 dred and sixty acres near Mesa, and in addition 
 to carrying on a large general farming and stock 
 business, derives considerable revenue from bal- 
 ing hay, which is extensively entered into. 
 
 I'ebruary 9, 1895, Mr. Strong married Melissa 
 Lane, a native of California. Of this union there 
 are two children, Rhoda and George A. Mr. 
 Strong is a firm believer in the principles and 
 issues of the Republican party, and interested 
 in all of the undertakings of his party. He is 
 now serving his first term as a member of the 
 city council of Tempe. Fraternally he is a mem- 
 ber of the Woodmen of the World. 
 
 M.\RTIX D. SCRIBNER. 
 
 The county treasurer of Cochise county and 
 agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Company 
 at Tombstone is a native of Louisiana, and was 
 born one hundred and forty miles from New 
 Orleans. At the age of seventeen he migrated 
 to San Francisco, Cal., and bought out the local 
 express company between San Jose and San 
 Francisco, and in 1877 entered the employ of 
 the Wells-Fargo Ex])ress Company, as messen- 
 ger on the Oregon short line. He subsequently 
 served on the San Francisco & Los Angeles, and 
 the San Francisco & Sacramento lines, and was 
 the first messenger into Martinez, Contra Costa 
 county, Cal. 
 
 Mr. Scribner's present position as agent was 
 not gained by any royal ro.ad to favor, but by 
 constant hard work and application to business. 
 From a messenger up he laboriously mastered 
 every detail of the work, and remained on the 
 Pacific coast until 1883. For the following two 
 vears he attended to the company's interests in 
 Santa Fe, N. M., and on May 19, 1885, took up 
 his location in Tombstone. 
 
 .\s do most of the residents of this once re- 
 markable town, Mr. Scribner at once became 
 interested in a possible future of equal pros- 
 peritv, and substantiated his belief in the same 
 by identifying himself with the various upbuild- 
 ing enterprises. He purchased considerable
 
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 real estate and some mining properties, among 
 others becoming a stockliolder in the Conten- 
 tion Mining Company, of which lie is at present 
 the agent. He is also a stockholder and opera- 
 tor of the Telephone mine. In 1887 he associ- 
 ated himself with one of the necessary and inter- 
 esting institutions of the wild and undeveloped 
 west, starting the mail and stage coach line be- 
 tween Fairbank and Toml)stone, which carries 
 the United States mail. 
 
 During 1890 and the four following years he 
 was a member of the Southwestern Ice Com- 
 pany, whose plant had a capacity of five tons 
 per day, and manufactured sufficient ice to sup- 
 ply several of the surrounding towns. In 1802 
 he was elected county treasurer on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket, and during his term of service 
 organized the present system of accounts. In 
 the fall of Ttjoo he was again elected county 
 treasurer. Fraternally he is associated with 
 King Solomon's Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M., and 
 Cochise Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. 
 
 GE0R(;E IT. HORNMEYFR. 
 
 During the last decade of his life, and withal, 
 the happiest and most useful period of his career, 
 George IT. Hornmeyer was numbered among the 
 citizens of Clifton. He possessed the genuine 
 esteem and friendship of all who knew him and 
 his real kindliness of disposition endeared him to 
 a multitude. With that feeling of brotherhood 
 which is at the foundation of all acts of generos- 
 ity and helpfulness towards humanitv, he took 
 pleasure in alleviating the ills of those much less 
 fortunate than himself, and his memorv long 
 will be cherished. 
 
 A native of Germany, born March 25, 1844, 
 Mr. Hornmeyer came to the United States when 
 a child, and was reared in St. Louis, Mo. There 
 he attended the high school and subsequently 
 was successfully engaged in the grocery business 
 for several years. He then removed to Clinton, 
 Mo., where he was occupied in mercantile pur- 
 suits until May i, 1889, by which date he had 
 sold out and disposed of all of liis financial inter- 
 ests there. 
 
 At that time he and his wife came to Arizona, 
 for he had accepted a position which had been 
 tendered him — that of superintendent of the 
 
 Gold Bullion ^Milling & Mining Company. For 
 three years he continued with that concern, and 
 then was in the employ of the Arizona Copper 
 Company for a year. In 1892 he purchased the 
 Central Hotel, which he greatly enlarged^ add- 
 ing another stor)-, with sixteen guest-rooms. It 
 is a well-constructed stone building, and is yet 
 being carried on as a hotel by Mrs. Julia Horn- 
 meyer, a lady of excellent business ability and 
 good judgment. Many other projects were en- 
 gaged in by Mr. Hornmeyer, among them being 
 his bank, which was opened for business in 
 April, 1900, in one of the storerooms adjacent 
 to the hotel. Charles P. Rosecrans is now the 
 cashier of this reliable banking institution. From 
 time to time Mr. Hornmeyer made investments 
 in mining property and local real estate, his in- 
 terests always being confined to Graham county, 
 however, for his faith in its future was un- 
 bounded. The large general brokerage business 
 which he transacted for several years led to his 
 founding the bank, as the neetl for the same 
 was apparent. 
 
 In the years of his residence here Mr. Horn- 
 meyer often was called upon to serve in public 
 capacities, and once was asked to run for the 
 territorial legislature, but declined the nomina- 
 tion. For one term he served as a justice of the 
 peace by appointment, after which he was elected 
 and acted for two terms more in the same ofifice, 
 and besides he was a notary public for twelve 
 years. Politically he gave his allegiance to the 
 Democratic party. In Clinton, Mo., he joined 
 the Masonic order, and after his arrival in Clif- 
 ton was identified with Coronado Lodge No. 8, 
 F". & A. M. In the fraternity as well as in busi- 
 ness and social circles, he was popular with our 
 citizens, and his loss is deeply felt everywhere. 
 
 April 23, 1889, Mr. Hornmeyer married Miss 
 Julia, daughter of George and Julia A. Kalk- 
 brenner, a native of Baden-Baden, Gerniany. 
 Both of her parents have been summoned to the 
 silent land, and thus she is left with few near 
 relatives. Her father, George Kalkbrenner, was 
 for vears a successful business man of St. Louis, 
 owning a large bakery in that city. Both Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hornmeyer were reared in the faith of 
 the Catholic Church. Their home was a source 
 of much pleasure to them, and small wonder, in 
 view of its attractiveness. Situated in North
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 839 
 
 Clifton, the residence is a{ handsome design and 
 finish, and furnished with true euUure-luxuries 
 as well as essential comforts, contributing to the 
 general effect. A perfect bower of fine shade 
 trees, rose bushes and other tlowers and plants 
 surround the house. This property was sold in 
 i8(j8 to the .\rizona C(jp]ier L'ompany. 
 
 F.RXST (]. FRAXKl-.XI'.F.RC. 
 
 In llic death of lirnst Ci. I'rankenberg the 
 Salt River valley suffered a severe loss, for Jie 
 had been one of its most public spirited citizens 
 for more than a decade, and was actively con- 
 nected with many of its enterprises. Himself 
 one who had experienced many vicissitudes of 
 fortune, though he achieved success in the end. 
 his heart was kind and sympathetic, and his time- 
 Iv assistance helped many a fellow-man over a 
 trying period in his history. His influence was 
 ever felt upon the side of the right and just, the 
 progressive and useful, and all who knew him 
 have only high words of praise for him. 
 
 The parents of the above-named were Ernst 
 C, and .Amelia (Beta) Frankenberg, na- 
 tives of Germany. In the early part of the ^^os 
 they came to the United States and settled upon 
 a farm near Columbus. Ohio, and there oc- 
 curred the birth of Ernst G., Jr., April 30, 1837. 
 His boyhood passed in the quiet pursuits of a 
 country life, and his education was gathered in 
 the c(jmmon schools. For several years after 
 reaching his majority he continued to carry on 
 agriculture in the county of his birth. Then 
 going to .McLean county. III., he engaged in 
 farming there with success for some nineteen 
 years. I lis next step was a removal to Crawford 
 county, Kans., where he resided for several 
 years, and in December, 1888, the family came 
 to .Arizona Settling u])on a tract of wild land 
 near Tein])e. a portion of the large homestead 
 which cunstitutetl liis estate at death, he ])ro- 
 cceded to improve the property, and from time 
 to time extended his possessions until they com- 
 prised si.x hundred and thirty-five acres in land. 
 .As a general farmer and as a stock raiser he met 
 with almost uniform success. 
 
 Early realizing the im])ortance of irrigation 
 in this region, .Mr. I-'"rankenberg strongly advo- 
 cated more ami better systems, and ff>r some 
 
 time served as a director of the Tempe Irrigating 
 Canal Company. He also was the president of 
 the Farmers & Merchants' Bank at Tempe and 
 for a period w-as a director of the Bank of Tempe, 
 now no longer in existence. Fraternally he 
 was connected with the Independent Order of 
 ( )dd I'ellows, and in political affiliation was a 
 Republican. IHs useful life of three-score and 
 two years came to a close June 20, 1899, but his 
 memory is treasured in the hearts of his family, 
 neighbors and many friends. 
 
 I"i>r nearly four decades Mr. Frankenberg"s 
 joys and sorrows were shared by his faithful wife, 
 who survives him. She bore the maiden name 
 of Eulalia Rickley. .Auglaize county, (^hio, being 
 the place of her birth. Her parents, John J. 
 and -Ann M. (Ebert) Rickley, were natives of 
 Switzerland and Germany, respectively, and at 
 an early day they became pioneers of Auglaize 
 county, Ohio. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Frankenberg was solemnized January 24, 1861. 
 Their son Leo is in Yuma county. .Ariz.: Jose- 
 phine, a graduate of the Arizona Normal at 
 Tempe, .and also of the Illinois Training School 
 for Nurses, is at home; .Austin S. and Ira H. are 
 attending to the actual management of the home 
 farm: Don J., a graduate of the Arizona Nor- 
 mal, is now studying law in the University of 
 Ohio: Hortense is the wife of C. G. Jones, of 
 Maricopa county. .Vriz., president of the Na- 
 tional Bank of Teiupe: and Roy, who was grad- 
 uated from the Territorial Normal School, is at 
 home. The voung people have been provided 
 with liberal educations, and with sound com- 
 niiin-sense have availed themselves of their op- 
 portunities. Their father has left to them an 
 unblemished name and a record of which they 
 ha\'e just cause to be proud, and their mother. 
 I)v her wise counsel and inlluence is exerting a 
 far-reaching ])ower over their lives. 
 
 WILLIAM SI DOW. 
 
 The vouthful aspirations and undertakings of 
 Mr. Sidow were centered in Wisconsin, although 
 he was born in Saginaw . .Mich., August 23, 1844. 
 He was educated in the public schools, and un- 
 der his father's able instruction learned much of 
 business and the routine of a busy man's life. 
 He spent several years in Milwaukee. Wis., with
 
 840 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 his father, and eventually purchased a farm on 
 the old plank road, which for years was the spe- 
 cial pride of the residents living between Mil- 
 waukee and La Crosse. Until 1859 father and 
 son tilled the soil of their new possession, and 
 then sought improved conditions in the purchase 
 of a farm near Watertown, of the same state. In 
 i860, the son started out for himself and worked 
 by the month until the ])eace of a tranquil coun- 
 try existence was interrupted by the breaking 
 out of the Civil war. 
 
 JNIr. Sidow enlisted in 1862 in Company D, 
 Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, and served un- 
 til the termination of hostilities. At first a pri- 
 vate, he was advanced to the grade of corporal, 
 and was discharged at Madison, Wis., in July, 
 1865. He suffered many of the vicissitudes of 
 war, and was for nine months a prisoner of war 
 in Texas. Upon returning to his home he worked 
 for a few months, and then went to California 
 and farmed for two years. In 1868 he settled in 
 New Mexico, conducted a meat market at Santa 
 I-"e for two vears, and then took a government 
 c(.)!itract for beef at P'ort lieard, N. M. Subse- 
 quently for seven years he lived in the vicinity of 
 Silver City, engaging in the cattle business and 
 in farming. 
 
 As far back as 1877 Mr. Sidow became inter- 
 ested in Arizona, settling first at McMillen, 
 where he was engaged until 1881 in the stock 
 Inisiness. In 1881 he came to Globe and has 
 since been the partner of her steady improve- 
 ment and continually strengthened prestige. 
 Until 1895 he continued his stock enterprise, and 
 for the three following years was engaged in 
 copjier mining. This proved a successful and 
 wise venture, which was, however, disposed of in 
 1898, at which time he opened the meat market 
 which is still the object of his care and earnest 
 efforts. He is still interested in mining and in 
 the various means of improvement which have 
 developed with the growth of the town. He 
 has housed his family in a comfortable residence 
 built by himself, and has a pleasant and hospit- 
 able home. 
 
 In 1878 occurred the marriage of Mr. Sidow 
 and Rafela Sanclicz, of AIcMillen, and of this 
 union there is nnc child, George, who is now 
 twenty years olil. .Mthough an unyielding Re- 
 publican, Mr. .Sidow has never sought political 
 
 recognition, preferring to devote all of his time 
 to his business. Fraternally he is associated with 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks at 
 Globe. 
 
 A. C. CORDINER. 
 
 As one of the owners and proprietors of The 
 Fashion in Jerome, Mr. Cordiner has placed him- 
 self in touch with the commercial and social pub- 
 lic, and has won a host of friends by reason 
 of his good judgment, honest dealings and un- 
 tiring desire to please. In the establishment the 
 greatest good fellowship prevails, and all who 
 are fair and square are welcomed within its hos- 
 pitable doors. 
 
 The birthplace of Mr. Cordiner is a long way 
 from his present home, at Cape Breton, Canada, 
 that bleak little island at the east of Nova Scotia, 
 renowned for its marble quarries, forests and 
 ship-building enter]irises, and for the innumera- 
 ble fishermen who push out to sea at the dawn of 
 every day and depend upon the size of the catch 
 for the sustenance of themselves and families. 
 There Mr. Cordiner was born in 1858, and in 
 time received a good education at the public 
 schools and the necessary general training which 
 enabled him to start out in the world for himself. 
 For two years he was engaged in business in Sid- 
 ney, the capital of the cape, and in 1879 came to 
 the States and located in Denver, Colo. He sub- 
 secpiently traveled over different parts of the 
 state, and in 1882 located at Hackberry, Ariz., 
 where he remained for two years. In 1884 he 
 removed to Daggett, San Bernardino county, 
 Cal., and went into business with Mr. Falconer. 
 Locating in Prescott, Ariz., in 1891, he became a 
 member of the firm of Belcher & Smith, the firm 
 name then being changed to Belcher, Cordiner 
 (.t Smith. This association was amicably con- 
 tinued until 1895, when he became a partner 
 in business with J. B. Hoover, and purchased 
 the Stoney property. This acquisition upon be- 
 ing improved and placed on a paying basis went 
 up in flame and smoke, and the firm then con- 
 structed The P'ashion, which met a similar fate 
 before its completion, the walls alone remaining. 
 The building is now one of the show places of the 
 tow'n, and no expense has been spared to make 
 it one of the finest and most complete in the 
 territory.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 The home of Mr. Cordiner is presided over by 
 !\Irs. Cordiner, who was, before her marriage 
 ill 1886, Amiie Meddlin, of Cahfornia. To Mr. 
 and Mrs. Cordiner have been liorn two children: 
 Maggie and Alexander. In the Republican poli- 
 tics of Jerome Mr. Cordiner has evinced great 
 interest, and he served for a term as a member 
 of the city council. He is one of the substantial 
 men of the town, and is enthusiastic over the 
 prospects and o]5i)orlunities of .Arizona and ^ n- 
 vapai countx'. 
 
 WTLLI.VM CREIGIITON. 
 
 Aside from participating in the many changes 
 which have come over the Salt River valley since 
 1885, Mr. Creighton had previously experienced 
 a large amount of adventure in different parts of 
 the country, and engaged in various occupa- 
 tions. Like many of his -surrounding neighbors, 
 he is a native of New Brunswick, where he was 
 born in Northumberland county December 8, 
 i860. His parents, David and Euphemia (Mil- 
 ler) Creighton, were born respectively in Scot- 
 land and New Brunswick, the latter, however, 
 being of Scotch descent. The parents, who are 
 now deceased, were successful farmers in North- 
 umberland county, and reared their son as to the 
 best knowledge of agricultural pursuits. In the 
 public schools he diligently applied himself to the 
 acquisition of knowledge, and, in anticipation 
 of a future independent livelihood, learned the 
 harness-maker's trade. 
 
 In his twentieth year William Creighton left 
 his northern home and migrated to Denver, 
 Colo., going thence to Georgetown of the same 
 state, in which two places he spent about three 
 vears. diligenth- pl\ ing his trade of harness- 
 maker and engaging in such other occupation as 
 came readily to hand. From Colorado he made 
 It sliort journey to Arizona, and from there went 
 t(i ."^an I-'rancisco, Cal., and later to British Co- 
 hniil)ia. where he stayed for about a year. After 
 anuiher sojourn in California he settled in 1885 
 in the Salt River valley. The ranch a few miles 
 distant from Phoenix upon which Mr. Creigh- 
 ton is carrying on a large dairy enterprise com- 
 prises seventy-eight acres, which the industri- 
 ous owner has redeemed from the .aridity of the 
 desert, and turnecl to the best ])ossil)le account. 
 I'or a muTdier of \ears, also, he engaged in 
 
 threshing the grain of the farmers throughout 
 the valley, and at different times has been in- 
 terested in various enterprises for the advance- 
 ment of his locality. Though a stanch Repub- 
 lican in politics, he is liberal-minded, and believes 
 in voting for the best man. He is associated 
 with the Woodmen of the World, and is a mem- 
 ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 September 2, 1891, Mr. Creighton was united 
 in marriage with Minnie Stoddard, who was born 
 in .\'ew I'.runswick. To Mr. and Mrs. Creighton 
 have been born two children, Allen M. and 
 Ruth. Mr. Creighton is regarded as one of the 
 most substantial and reliable of the pioneers who 
 have helped to develop this promising section of 
 the territory, and he has won by his exertions 
 and devotion to sound business principles the re- 
 spect and esteem of all who know him. 
 
 HON. EUGENE J. TRIPPED. 
 
 His efforts restricted to no special line of en- 
 deavor, Eugene J. Trippel is a good example of 
 a well-rounded man, one who might easily attain 
 prominence in almost any direction, and whose 
 interests in all of the enterprises of progress are 
 far-reaching. While his achievements as a states- 
 man and public officer, as a sagacious business 
 man and politician, are well known, it may be 
 said that in the field of current literature also 
 has he made himself felt as a power. 
 
 A full sketch of the life of his father. Dr. Al- 
 exander Trippel, appears elsewhere in this vol- 
 ume; suffice it here to say that the Doctor was 
 a native of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, received 
 an exceptionally hue education in the continental 
 universities, and for two-score years was a loyal 
 citizen of the United States, celebrated, especially 
 throughout the west, as one of the ablest expert 
 mining engineers and chemists of this land. The 
 eldest of three children born to Dr. Alexander 
 and Mathilda (Gaussoni) Trippel, Eugene J. 
 Trippel's birth took place in Ducktown, Tenn., 
 .\pril 15, 1862. Chiefly educated in private 
 .schools. ht» was a student at Nazareth (Pa.) Hall, 
 and later attended Columbia College, in New 
 ^■ork. In 1880 he went to Morey, Nev., where 
 he engaged in mining and as.saying for a couple 
 of vears. and then devoted a like period to jour- 
 nalistic work, being associated with the "Times,"
 
 842 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 publislied in Bristol, Lincoln county, Nev. Then, 
 going to Belmont, same state, he commenced 
 the study of law in the office of D. S. Truman, 
 district attorney. Before he had been admitted 
 to the bar, however, an urgent call from his fa- 
 ther led him to ( llobe, .\riz., where he was in the 
 eni])lov of the ( )1(1 Dominion Copper Mining- 
 Company until 1887. 
 
 In that year Eugene J- Trip])el, though only 
 twentv-four years of age, was elected on the 
 Democratic ticket to represent (iila county in the 
 fourteenth session of the territorial legislature. 
 He won the sincere commendation (if all con- 
 cerned, and abundantly proved the wisdom of 
 his party's choice. As chairman of the appro- 
 priation committee, and as a member of the com- 
 mittees on judiciary, irrigation and county 
 boundaries he labored faithfully, and had the sat- 
 isfaction of helping to save the l)ond issue for 
 the territorial university (in which measure his 
 own and Pima county were especially active). 
 He was appointe<l deputy collector of customs 
 at Yuma, /\riz., in 1887. As such he served until 
 November, 1890, under the jurisdiction of Judge 
 Josejih Magofifin, of El Paso, and then, tender- 
 ing his resignation, it was accepted. At once 
 establishing the Yuma "Times," he conducted 
 it for nearly a year, after which he went to Globe, 
 and became chemist for the Huiifalo Mining 
 Company, a position he held until July, 1892. 
 Then going to San Francisco, he served as a re- 
 porter for several of the city journals, and finally 
 became editor of the coast news department of 
 the "Chronicle." .\s such he remained until 
 April, 1893, when he returned to Yuma, and 
 was appointed by Gov. L. C. Hughes to the post 
 of secretary of the territorial penitentiary situ- 
 ated there. President Cleveland appointed the 
 young man as register of the land ofifice at Tuc- 
 son September 24, 1894 (his jurisdiction embrac- 
 ing the southern half of Arizona), and it was 
 not until November, 1898, that the change of ad- 
 ministration piU an end to his tenure of the 
 office. Prior to this he was one of the school 
 trustees of Yuma, and subsequently was a trus- 
 tee of the free public library of Tucson. The 
 splendid almond orchard near Mesa, which was 
 established by his father, and which is the pio- 
 neer enterprise in this section of the territorv , 
 is owned and managed bv him, and each year a 
 
 large income is realized by the possessor. In 
 addition to this, he has valuable mining invest- 
 ments and other interests in Tucson and vi- 
 cinity. During the twentieth session of the ter- 
 ritorial legislatiux he was chief clerk of the upper 
 house or senate. 
 
 In fraternal circles Mr. Trippel ranks high, 
 being the first exalted ruler of Tucson Lodge 
 No. 385, B. P. O. E.; is one of the board of di- 
 rectors of the Elks' Club, and since October 11, 
 1900, grand recorder oi the grand lodge of the 
 -Vncient ( )rder oi I'nitcd Workmen of Arizona 
 and New Mexico. -\ past master workman of 
 .\rizona Lodge No. i, .A. (). U. W., he has been 
 a member of the grand lodge for several years, 
 and introduced the resolution at Cripple Creek, 
 Colo., April 13, 1899, providing for the segre- 
 gation of Arizona and New Mexico from Col- 
 orado, and this measure was duly adopted. Be- 
 sides, he was one of the organizers of the A. O. 
 U. \V. Hall Association, nnder whose auspices 
 the hall building of the order was erected in Tuc- 
 son. In his religious belief he is an Episcopalian. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Trippel and Miss Kath- 
 ryn Rice was solenniized in Sacramento, Cal., 
 November 2y, 1884, of which city she is a native. 
 A son and daughter bless this union, namely: 
 Alfred Alexander and Amy Irene. 
 
 JAMES ROBERT LOWRY. 
 
 James Robert Lowry is a tall, well-built man 
 who commands favorable notice in any assem- 
 blage. He is six feet four inches in height, and 
 is broad-shouldered and finely proportioned. 
 Little wonder that his admiring friends thought 
 him just the one for the responsible position of 
 sheriff, and their discrimination w'as fully justi- 
 fied, for he made a thoroughly creditable record. 
 Doubtless he inherited his splendid physiqnt 
 from a long line of sturdy Scottish ancestors, for 
 on both sides of his family he is a descendant 
 of old Celtic clans, there being one line of Welsh, 
 also, among his progenitors. 
 
 James Robert Lowry is a son of Col. J. Marion 
 Lowry, a planter of North Carolina, ui which 
 state he is a native. He participated in the Civil 
 war and won his title as commanding officer of 
 the Twenty-ninth North Carolina \'olunteers 
 in the Confederate service. His old home-place
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 845 
 
 is in the vicinity of Ashcville, and he is still livini; 
 there, honored and intlucntial in liis connnunity. 
 His wife, Harriet, was a danghter of James Mc- 
 Kee, a planter, and for twenty-ei^ht \ears shcritif 
 of Haywood connt)-. X. C. lloth fatlu-r and 
 dan,<>liter were natives of Xorth Carolina. 
 
 I'he eldest of six sons and two daus;liters. all 
 but one of whom lived to maturit\-, James R. 
 Lowry was born on the old plantation near .\she- 
 ville August 10, 1852. He supplemented his 
 early education by a course in Peabody schools 
 and then attended Weaverville College three 
 years. In 1877 he came to the west and for a 
 year or more was engaged in lumbering in So- 
 noma county, Cal. In 1878 he went to Lakeville 
 and thence to Donahue Landing, Cal.. where he 
 was occupied on ranches. In Septem!)er, 1879, 
 he came to Yavapai county as far as Maricojja 
 \\'ells on the railroad, and then by stage to Big 
 Bug. During the next three winters he devoted 
 his entire attention to mining in that district, and 
 in the Tij) Top region, and in the mean time ali-o 
 had become interested financially in the cattle 
 l)usiness, his live stock being located on the 
 Agua Fria river. He continued in these lines 
 of occupation until called upon to serve in a 
 public capacity. 
 
 In the fall of i8tp Mr. Lowr\- was nominated 
 and elected on the Democratic ticket to the 
 ofifice of sheriff, and two years later was again 
 elected, receiving a much larger majority. Thus 
 he occupied the position from January 1, 1891, 
 to Januar\' i, 1895, and it was not until the year 
 last named that he disposed of most of his cat- 
 tle. The remainder he sold in October, 1898, 
 and since that time has conducted the business 
 now well known as the Prescott Transfer Com- 
 pany, his partner being J. S. Merritt. They are 
 transacting a large business in freighting and 
 transferring supplies, and have won the good 
 will of the public. 
 
 For six years Air. Lowry held the office of 
 deputy United States marshal. He is a stalwart 
 worker in the Democratic party, and is an ex- 
 member of the county central committee and of 
 the territorial central committee. In 1888 he 
 was connected with the territorial board of equal- 
 ization. In the fraternities he is identified with 
 the yVncient Order of I'nited Workmen and with 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. 
 
 In 1893 Mr. Lowry built a handsome residence 
 on Grove avenue. He was married in this city 
 to Miss Lilly Ranta, a native of Indiana, and at 
 the time of her marriage active in educational 
 work here. This sterling couple have two chil- 
 dren, namely: James R., Jr., and Malcolm G. 
 
 JOIIX A. LUTGERDING. 
 
 The life of an upright and public-spirited citi- 
 zen has much of inspiration to his fellow-men, 
 and thus John .X. Lutgerding's memory is cher- 
 ished by a multitude of his former associates 
 and friends. I'"or just a score of years he was 
 actively connected with the upbuilding of Phoe- 
 nix, and within that period he was an interested 
 witness of remarkable changes for the better 
 here. 
 
 This honored pioneer of Phoeni.x was born 
 in Hanover, Germany, September i. 1843. His 
 parents. George and Elizabeth (Rump) Lut- 
 gerding, also were natives of Hanover. The 
 father, who served in the governmental army 
 in his early manhood, was a farmer by occupa- 
 tion, and in 1850 brought his family to the 
 L.'nitcd States. Proceeding to New Orleans, 
 they went up the Mississippi river to Illinois, 
 and settled upon a farm located about nine miles 
 from Ouincy. Tlicre the mother died and the 
 father continued to live until he retired from 
 active labors. Then coming to Phoenix, in 
 1893, he spent the rest of his life with his chil- 
 dren, dying in 1897. Of his eight children only 
 three lived to maturity, and the only representa- 
 tive of his inmiediate family is Henry Lutgerd- 
 ing, a farmer of the Salt River valley. A daugh- 
 ter, Mrs. Sophia Wilky, also resides in that 
 valley. 
 
 John .A. Lutgerding, the youngest of the 
 familv, received a public school education and 
 was reared on the Illinois farm. His mother 
 died when he was fifteen and soon afterw^ards 
 he commenced learning the trade of a black- 
 smith in Ouincy, 111. On .•\pril 20, 1864, he 
 started upon the then long journey across the 
 western plains, proceeding along the Platte river 
 and by way of Salt Lake, Utah. .'Kt South Pass 
 and other points the party experienced some 
 trouble with the Indians, and mountain torrents 
 and other dangers were conquered with diffi-
 
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 culty. Locating at San Bernardino, Cal., he 
 worked at his calling there until 1866, when he 
 went to La Paz, Ariz., and. building a shop, 
 soon established a flourishing trade, receiving 
 $6 for shoeing horses and $20 for setting wagon- 
 tires. In 1870 he became a partner of J. M. 
 Bryan, of VVickenburg, and engaged in hauling 
 quartz from the \"ulture mines to the quartz 
 mill. Unfortunately Mr. Bryan turned, out to 
 be dishonest, for through him our subject lost 
 $21,000, the returns of three years of hard labor 
 on his part. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Lutgerding came to Phoenix, 
 where he built a shop on the site of the present 
 O'Neill block, and later he carried on business 
 as a blacksmith and carriage maker on the site 
 of the Commercial Hotel, the firm to which he 
 then belonged being Lutgerding & Herrick. 
 While this enterprise was growing he invested 
 in many local industries, in most of which he 
 met with success. For years he was the pro- 
 prietor of the largest butcher shop in the city, 
 and was numbered among the most extensive 
 stock raisers of the territory. Besides he was 
 the vice-president of the Western Investment 
 Bank, and owned and improved about twelve 
 hundred acres of land near this city. One ranch, 
 comprising an entire section of land, was located 
 thirteen miles west of Phoenix, and this prop- 
 erty he disposed of at a good figure. The other 
 ranch in which he was specially interested re- 
 mains in the possession of his family. It com- 
 prises four hundred and eighty acres, three and 
 a half miles west of Phoeni.x on the Yuma road, 
 and. being highly improved, is an extremely 
 valuable tract. Sagacity and unusual business 
 ability marked all of his transactions, and his 
 word was truly deemed as good as his bond. 
 His earthly labors came to a close March 3, 
 1897, and his loss has been felt as a public one. 
 Religiously he was a Lutheran, while in politics 
 he was a Democrat. .\ Christian in practice, 
 rather than in profession, he exemplified his high 
 principles in his daily life and quietly performed 
 many an act of kindness and love which forever 
 endeared him to the recipient of his favor. 
 
 The first brick dewlling house in Phoenix was 
 built by Mr. Lutgerding on a lot adjoining the 
 old postoffice. His marriage, March 13, 1879. 
 lo ^liss Ruzilla J. Linville, took place in this 
 
 city. His bride was born in Santa Rosa, Cal., 
 and accompanied her parents, Hiram and 
 Rebecca S. (Mothersead) Linville, to Phoenix 
 in 1876. Hiram, son of Thomas Linville, came 
 of an old \'irginia family, early settlers near St. 
 Joseph, Mo. In 1852 he crossed the plains with 
 ox-teams, driving some cattle to the Pacific 
 coast. For some time he engaged in mining 
 and stock-raising at Rough and Ready, and 
 later became a fruit-grower in Santa Rosa, Cal., 
 and still later was a farmer of Salinas for a year. 
 Nine years were then spent at Santa Barbara, 
 Cal., where lie became a well-to-do farmer, and 
 in the Centennial year he settled in the Salt 
 River valley, buying a quarter section of land 
 adjoining Phoeni.x. After several years profit- 
 ably spent in farming and stock-raising here he 
 laid out Linville, the first addition to Phoenix, 
 and from that time until his death, in July, 1893, 
 continued in the real estate business. Several 
 terms he filled the office of county supervisor, 
 and in every way nobly met the obligations of 
 citizenship. He was identified with the Chris- 
 tian Church and with the Masonic order. His 
 wife, a native of Kentucky, departed this life in 
 Phoenix, in November, 1891, and of their eleven 
 children eight survive, namely : Mrs. Lucy 
 Williams, Mrs. Mary E. Naylor, Mrs. Josephine 
 C. Monihan, Mrs. Lutgerding, Mrs. \'irginia (). 
 Cobb, Robert E. and Thomas N., all residents 
 of Phoenix; and George H.. whose home is in 
 California. Mrs. \'iolet J. McCamley died in 
 this city ; .-\calthia died in childhood, and an in- 
 fant died unnamed. The father of Mrs. Hiram 
 Linville, Nathaniel Mothersead, an early settler 
 of Kentucky and Missouri, was a hero of the 
 Mexican war, dying while actively engaged in 
 the strife. 
 
 Since the death of her luisbanil .Mrs. Lutgeril- 
 ing has continued to reside in her pleasant home 
 at No. 641 South Center street. Their two 
 manly sons, George H. and R. Linville, are re- 
 ceiving thorough preparation for life's duties, 
 the elder, a graduate of the Phoenix high school, 
 now pursuing his studies in Leland Stanford 
 University, being a member of the class of 1903. 
 Mrs. Lutgerding is attending to the business 
 matters devolving upon her with real ability. 
 .She has an interest in the Investment Bank and 
 owns valuable city property. The second aildi-
 
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 tion to Phoenix, wliich was laid out in 1895 by 
 her husband, is proving a profitable enterprise, 
 and the city is raiudly extending in that direc- 
 tion. 
 
 L. C. SHATTL'CK. 
 
 As one of the very early settlers of Cochise 
 coimty. Mr. Shattuck is more familiar than most 
 men with the growth of this great copper 
 mining locality, with whose manv-sided interests 
 he has l)een intimately associated. .\ native 
 of Erie. Pa., he was born January 3. 1866, and 
 ■was reared and educated in the neighborhood 
 of his birth until his twentieth year. His father. 
 Henry .Shattuck, was born and lived all his life 
 in Pennsylvania, where he was a prominent 
 stockman and operated a grist-mill. He was 
 also a large grain dealer, and was well and 
 favorably known in his locality, where his death 
 occurred at the age of eighty-four years. 
 
 The Shattuck ancestors immigrated to Amer- 
 ica at a very early day and became associated 
 with the history of Massachusetts and later went 
 to Connecticut, from which state the paternal 
 great-great-grandfather removed to Pennsylva- 
 nia. The different people who- bore the name 
 were successful in the line of occupation to 
 which they devoted their energies, and were 
 invariably influences for progress and enterprise. 
 The maternal ancestors came originnlly from 
 Holland, and were among the well-known Penn- 
 sylvania-Dutch families. The mother, who w'as 
 formerly Phoebe Coover, was the mother of 
 three children, of whom L. C. Shattuck is the 
 only one living. Mrs. Shattuck is now making 
 her home in Erie. Pa. 
 
 .\t the age of twenty years Mr. .Shattuck 
 started out in the world to win an independent 
 livelihood, and far from his Pennsylvania home 
 settled on a ranch in what is now Cochise 
 county, .Ariz. During the Indian outbreaks in 
 the early "Bos he participated in the putting 
 down of the Indians, and assisted the United 
 States troops under Generals Crook and Miles, 
 as a scout and guide. Being familiar with the 
 country, his services were in ready demand. 
 For several vcars he lived on the plains and 
 in the mountains, handling c:ittle, dealing in 
 water rights and selling ranches. He also de- 
 
 V(jtcd considerable time to prospecting over the 
 south and northwest, principally through New 
 Mexico and .Arizona. 
 
 Mr. .'^hattuck became associated with Bisbee 
 in 1888, having walked three hundred miles in 
 order to work in the great Copper Queen mine, 
 with which concern he remained for a year. In 
 1890 he changed his line of occupation to that 
 of lumberman, in which he is at present engaged 
 to a large extent. He furnished the lumber for 
 ninety per cent of the houses in the camp, and 
 also did a great deal of building and contract- 
 ing. He is also the local agent for the .An- 
 heuser-Busch I'lrewing Companv, has a good 
 cold-storage |)lant, and handles all liquors at 
 wholesale and retail. Mr. Shattuck was one of 
 the organizers of the Cochise Mining Company, 
 Hnd is president of the same; he is also the 
 owner of twenty-five mining claims scattered 
 throughout the vicinity of Bisbee in the Mule 
 mountains. .At the present time he is operating 
 the old Juricopa silver mine in Sonora, Mexico. 
 
 In i8yo Air. Shattuck w-as united in marriage 
 with Isabella (irandfell, and of this union there 
 are three children, viz.: Henry, Warner and 
 Mark. .A Democrat in politics, Mr. Shattuck 
 has held some of the local offices, among others 
 being that of supervisor of Cochise county, 
 which he held for a term. Fraternally he is asso- 
 ciated with the Bisbee Lodge of Red Alen, and 
 was keeper of the wampum for two terms. 
 
 L. W. JIMMIE. 
 
 The enterprising manager and proprietor of 
 the Jinmiie Fruit Company, at Nogales, was 
 born in San Francisco in 1871. He received 
 the education afforded at the public schools, and 
 early evinced habits of industry and thrift. Upon 
 starting out in the world to earn his ow-n living 
 he was for a number of years engaged in the 
 hotel business, which w-as conducted in Phoenix, 
 -Ariz., for two years in connection with the 
 Lemon Hotel, in Tempe for five years, at Globe 
 for two years, at the South Gila Canal for one 
 year, and at Tucson for one year, where he had 
 an eating-house or restaurant. In 1896 Mr. 
 Jimmie came to Nogales and established the 
 Jinnnie Fruit Company. In the whole city there 
 is no neater or more up-to-date s.tore, nor is
 
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 there a more enterprising fruit dealer. • Nor is 
 the stock hniited to fruits, for an appreciative 
 public here purchases fancy groceries, produce, 
 cigars, confections, turkeys, geese, ducks and 
 chickens. So excellent are the materials offered 
 for sale that Mr. Jinimie receives a large part 
 of the patronage of the best families in the 
 town. In connection with the retail is also a 
 wholesale department, and large sales are made 
 to smaller store,? in many of the outlying towns, 
 in both Arizon.a and Mexico. 
 
 PHILIP J. MYERS. 
 
 The foresight and energy of the true frontiers- 
 man is strongly exemplified in Philip J. Myers, 
 a well-known agriculturist of the beautiful Salt 
 River valley. His history is unusually interest- 
 ing, and, as he is essentially self-made finan- 
 cially, his posterity can do no better than to fol- 
 low in his footsteps. Though he was -born in 
 Prussia May 30, 1835, he was only six months 
 old when he was brought to the United States. 
 His parents, Jacob and Margaret (Julius) My- 
 ers, likewise natives of Prussia, removed to Wis- 
 consin after living in Albany, N. Y., four years, 
 and the remainder of their lives was spent in the 
 wilds of Kenosha county. 
 
 Philip J. Myers had limited educational ad- 
 vantages in his youth, but by individual effort 
 became the well-posted man that he is today. 
 In early manhood he went to Gage county. Neb., 
 where he continued to reside for almost a quar- 
 ter of a century. Indeed, he was a pioneer of 
 that locality, and there introduced an industry 
 w hich has been the source of a large share of the 
 county's wealth. Seeing the natural adaptability 
 of that region for the raising of sheep, he en- 
 gaged in the business for himself, and, after 
 having thoroughly tested the matter, proceeded 
 to ship shee]i there from Wisconsin and Mich- 
 igan. In looking over his accounts he finds that 
 altogether he nuist have shipped fully 50,000 
 sheep into that section, and thus the magnitude 
 of the business transacted by him may be plainly 
 seen. 
 
 Though he has been so successful in Ne- 
 braska, Mr. Myers, for various reasons decided 
 to try the milder climate of Southern ,\rizona, 
 and in i8yo made his first investments hei'c. It 
 
 was not until 1892 that he permanently located 
 here, and he still retains a finely improved farm of 
 two hundred and forty acres, situated near Bea- 
 trice, Neb. Here he lives on a quarter section of 
 land six miles southeast of Tempe, .and is carry- 
 ing forward marked improvements. For some 
 time he served as a director of the Tempe Irrigat- 
 ing Canal Company, and every local industry is 
 looked upon with keen interest by him. When 
 in Nebraska he was one of the county commis- 
 sioners of Gage county for six vears, and was 
 the president of the Gage County Agricultural 
 Society for eight years. Politically he has al- 
 ways been a stanch Republican. 
 
 In Wisconsin Mr. Myers married Mary Biehn, 
 a native of Germany. Their daughter Sophia 
 is the wife of Dr. B. B. Davis, a leading physician 
 and surgeon of Omaha, Neb.; Julia is the wife of 
 J. W. Mayer, of Beatrice, Neb., and Frank H. 
 resides in Omaha. The second wife of our sub- 
 ject bore the maiden name of Anna Slater, Eng- 
 land being her native place. Of their seven chil- 
 dren, three are living, namely: Mary, wife of El- 
 mer Rousch, of Wymore, Neb.; Ada, wife of C. 
 B. Yates, a mining engineer at Leads, S. Dak., 
 and Kirk, who is employed as a railroad engi- 
 neer, his home being in Deadwood, S. Dak. 
 
 PROF. JOHN F. NASH. 
 
 One of the members of the faculty of the Lat- 
 ter-day Saints' Academy, at Thatcher, Prof. John 
 F. Nash is deserving of special mention in this 
 work. Not only in educational fields has he 
 won a foremost place, but also in ecclesiastical 
 and political circles his influence is felt to be a 
 power. In November, 1900, he was honored 
 by election to the responsible post of county 
 surveyor of Graham county, and at the begin- 
 ning of the twentieth century entered upon his 
 new duties. In the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 Latter-day Saints he is president of the quorum 
 of high priests of this stake, and in addition to 
 this is a teacher in the theological department 
 of the Sunday-school of Thatcher. 
 
 A son of Robert and Mary Nash, now resi- 
 dents of the Gila valley. Prof. J. F. Nash was 
 born in Yuba county, Cal., in 1865. When nine 
 years of age he came to .\rizona :md here re- 
 cei\'ed a large share of liis training in the ele-
 
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 mentary branches of learning. Then for seven 
 years he was engaged in teaching in the district 
 schools of Graham county, but, becoming more 
 ambitious, he determined to qualify himself for 
 a higher sphere. Then, going to Provo, Utah, 
 lie pursued a special course in mathematics, and 
 also devoted some time to normal work in Brig- 
 ham Young's Academy, in which institution 
 Prof. Emil Maeser, principal of the Latter-day 
 Saints' Academy, of Thatcher, also received his 
 iiigher education. At the end of a two years' 
 course Prof. Nash was graduated in the Provo 
 College of Mathematics, .a member of the class 
 of 1895. During- the next two years he held the 
 position of principal of the high school at Pima, 
 after which he entered upon his duties as profes- 
 sor of mathematics in the Thatcher Academy. 
 It is in a flourishing condition and over two hun- 
 dred [(upils have been enrolled here each year 
 for some time. Under its present efficient corps 
 of teachers, rapid progress is being made by the 
 students. Since becoming a voter. Prof. Nash 
 has used his franchise in favor of the Repub- 
 lican party platform, and though this county is 
 distinctly Democratic, he was elected as county 
 surveyor on that ticket, a fact which attests to 
 his personal popularity and recognized ability. 
 In 1889 the marriage of Prof. Nash and Hen- 
 rietta Preston, daughter of Thomas and Hannah 
 Preston, of Pima, was solemnized. The young 
 couple are the parents of three daughters, 
 named, respectively, Nellie M., Anna L. and 
 1-lorence. 
 
 HON. CHARLES L. CUMMINGS. 
 
 As an illustration of what a man njay become 
 through persistent hard work and a good knowl- 
 edge of business and general information, Mr. 
 Ciuiimings has no superior in the city of Tomb- 
 stone. Upon first coming to Cochise county he 
 was the possessor of the sum of $9.75, with which 
 to shape his future life in the midst of strange 
 and uncertain conditions. He is now the suc- 
 cessful manager and owner of the only meat 
 market in the town, and one of the largest stock- 
 dealers in the county. His political aspirations 
 have been in a measure realized, and as a miner 
 he has proved a true prospector, with justifiable 
 faith in the output of his properties. 
 
 To the many sons of New York who have 
 
 made their subsctjuent homes and fortunes in 
 the rich mining country of the west, must be 
 added the name of Mr. Cummings. A native of 
 Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y., he was bom in 
 1855. and attained maturity and received his ed- 
 ucation within the borders of his native state. 
 In 1880 he started out in the world for himself, 
 and located in Tombstone May 25, of the same 
 year. For the first four years he was connected 
 with the Tombstone Mill & Mine Company, and 
 for the following three and a half years was fore- 
 man of the waterworks at Charleston. In 1885 
 he engaged in the meat market business at Bis- 
 bee, in partnership with John Dufifey, and after 
 the expiration of a year returned to Tombstone, 
 his shop having been burned down by a disas- 
 trous fire. With renewed courage he again 
 took up the burden of making a livelihood under 
 discouraging circumstances, and continued his 
 former occupation as a meat merchant in Tomb- 
 stone. In 1896 he conducted his affairs in con- 
 nection with C. A. Overlock, and also had 
 Messrs. Metcalf and Herbert Gage as partners 
 in the butchering business. 
 
 Since 1886 Mr. Cummings has been interested 
 in the stock-raising business, and in 1897 bought 
 a half interest in the Overlock ranch, in the 
 Sulphur Spring valley, where are raised at least 
 seven hundred head of stock. He is the owner 
 of another ranch known as the Box Caiion 
 ranch in the Cherry Cow mountains, and here are 
 raised about five hundred head of cattle. In the 
 raising of stock he has been remarkably suc- 
 cessful, for it is well known that in Cochise 
 county there is a large level area, whereon grows 
 a crop of succulent grasses upon which stock 
 thrive unusually well. 
 
 In order to avail himself of every possible 
 means afforded in the district in which he lives, 
 Mr. Cummings is also interested in mining in 
 the Swisshelms mountains, which has proved a 
 reasonable source of revenue. He is interested 
 in the Building & Loan Association at Tucson 
 and at Los Angeles, Cal., and owns a grape 
 ranch in Fresno county, Cal. He also owns the 
 building and stock of the Tombstone Pharmacy 
 which is one of the finest business corners in the 
 city. In national politics a Republican, he has 
 been actively identifietl with the political under- 
 takings of his town, and in 1894 was nominated
 
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 for assemblyman, and elected by a large major- 
 ity. During his two years of service he was chair- 
 man of the stock committee, and was largely in- 
 strumental in preventing the division of the 
 county. In 1896 he was a candidate for county 
 treasurer of Cochise county, but was defeated, 
 and in 1898 was defeated for assemblyman, but 
 at the same election was made councilman for 
 the third ward. He also served for two years as 
 city treasurer. In 1900 he was a candidate for 
 county treasurer, but was defeated in the midst 
 of a Democratic county. Fraternally he is asso- 
 ciated with the Odd Fellows, and is vice grand of 
 Cochise Lodge No. 5. 
 
 Mr. Cummings was united in marriage with 
 Ida Padfield of Los Angeles in 1900, and they 
 have one son. He and his family have a pleasant 
 and comfortable home in Tombstone. He is 
 one of the most esteemed of the citizens whose 
 untiring efforts have placed the city on a reliable 
 basis, and he has many friends in this far western 
 and somewhat remote city of his adoption. 
 
 QUINTUS MONIER. 
 
 In all of the ages of the past, since the period 
 when mankind dwelt in tents, lofty, imposing 
 buildings have inspired a feeling of wonder and 
 almost reverence in the minds of men, for 
 plainly they bespeak genius, and in themselves 
 constitute the best monument to the builder and 
 architect that could be reared to his memory. 
 Quintus Monier, whose name is well known in 
 at least these two southwestern territories, needs 
 no eulogy, for the great work which he has ac- 
 complished speaks in terms of eloquence of his 
 ability and high talent. 
 
 The Monier family is an old and honored one 
 in Clermont, France, and for several generations 
 this particular branch has been devoted to build- 
 ing and contracting. Grandfather Louis, and 
 Claude, the father of Quintus Monier, stood at 
 the head of a large and paying business and exe- 
 cuted works of considerable importance in. their 
 day. The father, Claude Monier, served as a 
 non-commissioned officer in the French army 
 under the leadership of Napoleon III. His en- 
 tire life was spent in his native land, and in fact, 
 the only representative of the family ever living 
 in the United States is the subject of this article. 
 
 The mother, Frances, was the daughter of Quin- 
 tus Jobert, the owner of large landed estates 
 near Clermont, France, and both were natives 
 of that locality. Claude and Frances Monier had 
 two children, Quintus and Frank, but the latter 
 is deceased. 
 
 Quintus Monier was born October 23, 1855, 
 in Clermont, France, and in his youth pursued 
 his studies in the public schools, completing his 
 education in Christian Brothers' College. Sub- 
 secjuently he commenced learning his father's 
 Ijusiness under his instructions, and systemat- 
 ically mastered brick and stone laying and stone 
 cutting. In 1877 the young man decided to 
 come to the United States, and, proceeding to 
 Santa Fe, N. M., engaged in building and con- 
 tracting. Under his auspices the great sand- 
 stone quarries in that vicinity were opened, and, 
 having won the respect of the entire community 
 by his faithfulness in the execution of all work 
 entrvisted to him, he commenced the building of 
 the beautiful cathedral, one of the largest and 
 finest in the west. Built at a cost of $120,000, 
 the magnificent stone temple stands as a fitting 
 specimen of the skill of the builder. In addition 
 to this, he erected the Christian Brothers' Col- 
 lege, the Loretto Academy, St. Michael's Col- 
 lege, the United States courtliouse and post- 
 ofifice, and numerous business blocks and private 
 residences. 
 
 Though only five years have elapsed since 
 Mr. Monier came to Tucson, his fame had al- 
 ready preceded him, and more work than he 
 could properly manage always has been awaiting 
 his attention here. The special reason for his 
 coming was that he had been awarded the con- 
 tract for the building of the Tucson Cathedra!, 
 the first large brick structure erected in the place. 
 Having completed it to the satisfaction of all 
 concerned, he then engaged in other enter- 
 prises, and, among others, built the St. Joseph's 
 Academy, the Eagle Mills, St. Mary's Sanita- 
 rium, and many private residences, including a 
 handsome brick dwelling for his own family. 
 Feeling the need of a good brick plant, he pur- 
 chased twenty-five acres of land adjoining the 
 city on the west, put up buildings and equipped 
 them with machinery, and in 1900 embarked in 
 the manufacture of a good grade of brick. The 
 plant, which is operated by steam power, cost
 
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 upwards of $15,000, and has .a capacity of 30,000 
 brick per day. The clay used is of superior 
 quality, and a ready market for these goods is 
 found in this vicinity, shipment often being made 
 to Bisbee and other points at a distance. Ex- 
 periments with cream-colored brick are now 
 being conducted. 
 
 While thoroughly interested in every move- 
 ment which bears upon the prosperity of Tucson, 
 Mr. Monier is not a politician, and is perfectly 
 independent in his views, giving his support to 
 the men and party which he deems worthy. He 
 is a member of the city board of trade and is 
 identified with the Tucson Lodge of the Ancient 
 Order of United Workmen. 
 
 February 14, 1901, Mr. Monier married Edith 
 Siewert, of Tucson, a native of Kansas City, Mo., 
 and a daughter of William Siewert, of Tucson, a 
 retired business man. They reside at No. 322 
 South Stone avenue. 
 
 CAP. P. SMITH. 
 
 It is difficult to estimate the magnitude of the 
 services which Mr. Smith has rendered Ari- 
 zona, and particularly to Williams, of which he 
 has been a resident since 1890. His ideas and 
 enterprises are conducted on such large and 
 liberal scales that he has come to be known as 
 one of the influential and substantial men of the 
 place. As a stock-raiser, politician, miner, real 
 estate owner, and all-around financier, he has 
 made a fine success of his residence in the ter- 
 ritor)-, and has risen from comparative obscurity 
 and limited means to a position of affluence and 
 prominence. 
 
 From his earliest youth Mr. Smith has been 
 associated with ranches and cattle. He was 
 born in Cooper county. Mo., but was reared at 
 Seguin, Guadaloupe county, Tex. When six- 
 teen years of age he started on an extended 
 jaunt as a cowboy, tending cattle on the ranges 
 of Colorado, Montana. Indian Territory, and 
 Dakota, and for many years led the free and 
 unthinking and irresponsible life of a saddle 
 genius of the ])lains. In 1880 he settled at 
 Coolidgc, N. M., and started a mercantile busi- 
 ness, which had an uncertain career for eigh- 
 teen months, and snbsequentlv removed to Gal- 
 lup, N. M., where he lived lor eight years. In 
 
 1890 he came to W'illiams, and has since been 
 dealing in sheep, being one of the largest raisers 
 in the county. In 1898 he formed a partnership 
 with J. H. Stirling, and in 1900 bought out 
 that gentleman's share of the stock. At the 
 present time he is a partner of J. T. Evans, who 
 lives on the sheep ranch, and superintends the 
 management of the six thousand sheep. The 
 ranch is located near W^illiams, and is one hun- 
 dred and twenty acres in e.xtent. 
 
 In 1900 Mr. Smith purchased a half interest 
 in the Black Tank cattle ranch, where is raised 
 a high grade of stock, the farm being entirely 
 devoted to Herefords, among which are some 
 registered stock. The mining claims of Mr. 
 Smith are located for the most part in the 
 Grand Canon district, and include the New York 
 mine, which has already a wealth-producing 
 reputation, the owners having taken out and 
 shipped three carloads of ore which average 
 eighteen per cent of copper. He has also a 
 third interest in the Coconino and the Berry 
 Picker, and has fifty shares in the Dos Cabezos 
 mine in southern Arizona. These properties are 
 all promising, and great expectations are enter- 
 tained of a large future output. Among the 
 property holdings of Mr. Smith may be men- 
 tioned real estate in (iallup, N. M., and many 
 lots and buildings in Williams. In fact he is 
 one of the largest owners of land in the city, and 
 has perhaps built more houses and buildings 
 here than any one else in the town. 
 
 The political undertakings of Mr. Smith have 
 placed him in the front ranks as a reliable and 
 broad-minded politician, and stanch upholder 
 of the Democratic party. His political tenden- 
 cies were firmly established while living in 
 Texas, and in Gallup, N. M., he was deputy 
 sheriff for tw'O years, and was United States 
 deputy marshal under Cleveland's administra- 
 tion. In Arizona he has been a delegate to all 
 of the congressional and county conventions, 
 and in the campaign of November, 1900, was 
 very active in electing Mark Smith for congress. 
 For the political services rendered he has re- 
 ceived many letters of appreciation and good 
 will, and has increased his hold on the esteem 
 and good will of his many political and other 
 friends. 
 
 November 13, 1896, Mr. Smith married .\nnie
 
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 Bruce Henderson, daughter of Alexander Hen- 
 derson, of Texas, formerly of Tennessee. Gov- 
 ernor Henderson, of Texas, was a relative of 
 her father, who was a veteran of the Mexican 
 war. 
 
 SAMUEL W. PRICE. 
 
 As a speculator, farmer, large real-estate 
 owner, and enterprising citizen of Safiford, Mr. 
 Price has been intimately connected with the 
 best growth of the town, and is one of the re- 
 liable and much-esteemed residents. A native 
 of Salt Lake City, he was born in 1859, and is a 
 son of S. M. and Mary Price, natives respectively 
 of New Jersey and Texas. When a baby one 
 year old he was taken by his parents to Cache 
 \'alley, Utah, where he grew to manhood and 
 received his education in the public schools. 
 Subsequently he spent some years in Idaho, and 
 for a time was employed in Oregon. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. Price became identifietl with Ari- 
 zona, and for a few months remained in Central, 
 removing later to Thatcher. Here he found a 
 paying and pleasant occupation in supplying 
 the mining camps at Bisbee, Tombstone and 
 Clifton with garden produce, which he purchased 
 of a farmer in the Gila valley, and sold all along 
 the route between the camps. In 1894 he was for- 
 tunate in securing the mail route between Clif- 
 ton and Morenci, which was operated until 1900, 
 in connection with a livery conducted at Clifton 
 and a merchandise business, which was in time 
 disposed of to Mr. Forbes. He also undertook 
 the management of a hotel at Clifton with con- 
 siderable success, and dipped into various paying 
 ventures. 
 
 The real estate holdings of Mr. Price include 
 the store in which Mr. Forbes' mercantile busi- 
 ness is conducted, and he also owns the corral 
 of Mr. Webster. July 2"], 1900, he added to his 
 possessions by the purchase of a quarter of a 
 block in the center of the town of Safford, upon 
 which he erected four brick stores for renting 
 purposes, and a large apartment house. He also 
 owns farm lands in the artesian well district of 
 one hundred and sixty acres in extent. 
 
 In 1878 Mr. Price married Mary A. Haws, and 
 of this union there are five children: Earl, Jean- 
 nettc, Mary, James and Lucia, all of whom are 
 
 living in the territory. In 1900 Mr. Price mar- 
 ried Maud McClellan, of Los Angeles. In na- 
 tional politics Mr. Price is a Democrat, and is an 
 uncompromising believer in the principles and 
 issues of that party. For two years he success- 
 fully served as road overseer, and has held sev- 
 eral important local political positions. He is a 
 charter member of the Clifton Lodge, K. P., and 
 is identified with the Good Templars. 
 
 HENRY RENAUD. 
 
 Of French extraction, Mr. Renaud was born 
 in Montreal, Canada, in March, i860. His par- 
 ents, Charles and Seraphina (Logue) Renaud, 
 were also natives of Montreal, and both were 
 of French descent. Henry lived until his twenty- 
 first year in his native province, and from there 
 came to the United States, going first to Cali- 
 fornia, but three years later coming to the Salt 
 River valley of Arizona. Pending a permanent 
 and congenial occupation, he was for a time 
 engaged in the livery business, in which con- 
 nection he kept a horse corral at Phoenix. Later 
 he was interested in the cattle business on Syca- 
 more creek, Yavapai county, and in 1890 settled 
 on his present ranch in Maricopa county, near 
 Phoenix. 
 
 In 1893 occurred the marriage of Mr. Renaud 
 and Mary Lyon, of Michigan, and of this union 
 there are two children, Mary L. and Seraphina. 
 Mr. Renaud has devoted his entire time to the 
 care and management of his farm, which is used 
 exclusively for the stock-raising business, and 
 is headquarters of a very fine and well-patron- 
 ized dairy. In this connection he is meeting 
 with a high degree of appreciation, for his 
 strictly honest and upright methods of conduct- 
 ing- his affairs are such as to commend him to 
 the people of his accjuaintance. He has reason 
 to congratulate himself upon his choice of loca- 
 tion, for his success has been as great as it is 
 deserved. From an arid and seemingly useless 
 claim he has redeemed the land and caused it 
 to produce abundantly. He is one of the men 
 to whom credit should be given for reclaiming 
 this part of Arizona from the desert, and bringing 
 it under a high state of cultivation. Honorable 
 in all of his dealings, he retains the respect of 
 associates, and whatever of financial success the
 
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 future niav briiit; him will be deserved and mer- 
 ited by his life of industr_\' and uprightness. 
 
 A Democrat in national politics, Mr. Kenaud 
 is interested in the undertakings of his party. 
 He has served as .a member of the school board 
 since coming to Maricopa county, in which posi- 
 tion he has endeavored to promote the welfare 
 of the schools of his district. He is one of the 
 representative farmers of the valley and has 
 unlimited faith in its resources and possibili- 
 ties. 
 
 WILBUR ABELL. 
 
 The San Pedro River valley, with its level 
 |)lains, canals, numerous artesian wells and 
 thrifty agriculturists, has among its residents 
 some of the most enterprising citizens from the 
 east, who, with the hope of benefiting their 
 condition, have settled in the midst of its prom- 
 ise and present fertility. The early life of Mr. 
 Abell was spent in Pennsylvania, for the greater 
 part in Crawford county, although he was born 
 in Erie county. He was reared to the life of a 
 farmer, and in 1894 married Frances Blackstock, 
 a daughter of Henry and Mary (McGrayne) 
 lUackstock, and a native of Brockport, N. Y., 
 being descended from a long line of Scotch- 
 Irish ancestry. The same year, owing to his 
 wife's failing health, he settled in the Salt River 
 valley in Arizona, where he remained for four 
 years. In 1899 he became identified with the 
 San Pedro valley, of which he has since been 
 an enterprising and industrious farmer. His 
 property is located about nine miles southeast of 
 Benson, on two lines of railroad, with two sta- 
 tions adjoining the farm. A postoffice named 
 Blackstock is soon to be established on the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad at this point. 
 
 It is doubtful if any farm land in the valley 
 is under a higher state of cultivation than the 
 ranch "La Xormandie," owned by Mr. Abel!. 
 Although at the present time a portion of the 
 property is rented, the owner is contemplating 
 putting in forty acres of grain, and will have 
 twenty acres remaining for his own use. The 
 farm is covered with grass and fenced with one 
 and one-half miles of web fencing, which is 
 rabbit-proof. There will be fifteen acres of 
 garden produce — crops of cabbage, turnips, 
 sweet corn, and all kinds of vegetables. From 
 
 the \ielding of two acres alone was sold last 
 year (1900J more than $600 worth of melons. 
 The irrigating facilities are unequaled and are 
 derived from artesian wells which produce two 
 hundred gallons a minute, one well altine pro- 
 ducing one hundred and fifty gallons a minute, 
 while the other two average about fifty. The 
 water is collected in a reservoir covering an 
 acre, five feet deep, and containing sixty-acre 
 inches, of water. The farm constitutes a beauti- 
 ful and verdant plat of ground, and the house 
 stands at an elevation of three thousand eight 
 hundred and seventy-five feet above the level 
 of the sea. In this ideal retreat the owner is 
 peacefully pursuing his agricultural enterprises, 
 and while amassing considerable of this world's 
 goods has won the respect and good-will of 
 neighboring farmers. He is a strong Prohibi- 
 tionist, but li.as never been an office-seeker, pre- 
 ferring to devote all of his time and energies to 
 the tilling of his land. To himself and wife 
 have been born two children, Xorman H. B. .\. 
 and Helen D. Mrs. Abell is a graduate of the 
 Brockport (X. Y.) Normal School, where she 
 completed the classical course; and Mr. Abell 
 was educated in .a German college at Berea, 
 Ohio, They and two children by a former mar- 
 riage, J. Lawrence and Rebecca M., are mem- 
 bers of the Congregational Church, with which 
 they united at Allegan, Mich. 
 
 MRS. ANNA BOWERS. 
 
 For more than twenty years Mrs. Anna Bow- 
 ers has lived in Tucson and thus has seen its 
 wonderful growth and progress, handsome and 
 imposing buildings taking the place of small 
 and humble ones, and modern public improve- 
 ments, which we now enjoy, proclaiming the 
 spirit of progress which animates our citizens. 
 
 The father of Mrs. Anna Bowers was Adam 
 Buchheit, a life-long resident of the town of 
 Hohnulbach, Bavaria. For twenty-seven years 
 he acted as mayor of that place, and was promi- 
 nent and highly respected by his fellow-citizens 
 and all who knew him. He was considered quite 
 wealthy for that day and locality, as he owned 
 large farms and a thriving distillery. Moreover, 
 he was a man of excellent education, and in his 
 youth had been graduated from a well-known
 
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 European college. Deeply religious by nature, 
 he was a devout adherent of the work of the 
 Catholic Church and was a liberal contributor 
 to its work. His zeal and generosity made him 
 one of tl^ leading members of the church, and 
 whenever an extra amount was needed for the 
 ■ poor he never was appealed to in vain for as- 
 sistance. He lived to the good age of seventy- 
 two years, dying at his old home, where he was 
 so well known and beloved. His faithful wife, 
 the mother of Mrs. Anna Bowers, bore the 
 maiden name of .Anna Elizabeth Stuppe. She 
 was a native of the village of Beidershaus, and 
 died when abotit forty years old. 
 
 The youngest of seven brothers and sisters, 
 all of whom lived to maturity, Mrs. Anna Bow- 
 ers is the only survivor of the parental family. 
 She decided to try her fortune in the United 
 States when she was a young lady, and in 1854 
 took passage in a sailing vessel at Havre, 
 France, reaching New York City after a voyage 
 of thirty-three days. Then she went to Phil- 
 adelphia, where she formed the acquaintance of 
 John Bowers, to whom she was married in St. 
 Peter's Cathedral in 1857. 
 
 John Bowers, who died at his home in Tuc- 
 son, in March, 1897, w'as a native of Mosvveiler, 
 Bavaria. Both he and his father, Adam Bowers, 
 were farmers in that locality for many years, 
 but after coming to the United States John 
 Bowers devoted his attention to business of dif- 
 ferent kinds. He crossed the Atlantic in 1855 
 and was engaged in the transfer business in 
 Philadelphia for seven years. Then, with his 
 young wife, he removed to San Francisco, where 
 he was interested in the management of a hotel 
 and other enterprises for eighteen years. In 
 1880 the family came to Tucson, where they have 
 since made their home. At the end of about six- 
 teen years Mr. Bowers died in 1897, but is well 
 remembered by his numerous friends, here and 
 elsewhere. He was a member of the Indepen- 
 dent Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 By the marriage of John and Anna Bowers, 
 seven children were born, but five of the num- 
 ber died ere reaching maturity. The only sur- 
 viving son, John, is a citizen of Tucson, and 
 the only daughter. Mrs. .\nna Hogan, lives in 
 New York City. The wife and mother, who was 
 reared in the faith of the Catholic Church, has 
 
 been very liberal in the great work of building 
 the handsome cathedral in this city, and is deeply 
 interested in everything which affects the wel- 
 fare of the church of her forefathers. 
 
 J. B. HOOVER. 
 
 The Fashion, in Jerome, is one of the success- 
 ful and popular enterprises of the town, and re- 
 ceives an extended patronage, not only from the 
 residents, but from the many mining camps and 
 smaller towns in the vicinity. It is a neat, or- 
 derly and even elegantly furnished place, and in 
 many ways has no superior in northern Arizona. 
 The proprietors, J. B. Hoover and A. C. Cor- 
 diner, are men of long experience in their partic- 
 idar line of business, and understand the art of 
 successfully catering to the multiplicity of tastes 
 which gather within the walls of their building. 
 
 No one would think of accusing Mr. Hoover 
 of a want of enterprise or attribute to him a 
 scarcity of the true and unadulterated western 
 grit. To all appearances he has complacently 
 smiled in the face of disaster and rebounded with 
 alacrity from the various setbacks which have 
 bestrewn his path. Two disastrous conflagra- 
 tions have but served to kindle anew his faith 
 in an ultimate good fortune bound to come his 
 way, and have not materially affected his prog- 
 ress toward the present successful position 
 which he now occupies. His parents were resi- 
 dents of Milwaukee, Wis., where he was born in 
 1854. He has but a dim recollection of a long 
 and perilous journey undertaken about 1861, 
 when he was but seven years of age, when they 
 crossed the plains to Nevada, and settled in Car- 
 son City. There he was educated in the public 
 schools, which study was supplemented by spe- 
 cial training in the schools of Sacramento, Cal. 
 
 In Inyo county, Southern California, Mr. 
 Hoover began to make his living as a cattle man. 
 and in partnership with a brother, George, was 
 for eight years engaged in the raising, buying and 
 selling of cattle on Bishop creek and other parts 
 of the county. Subsequently for several years he 
 traveled over different i>arts of the west, visiting 
 about all of the states and territories, and for a 
 few weeks investigated the conditions in the 
 Sandwich Islands. In 1882 he came to Prescott, 
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 ing in mines, stocks, etc. In i8(j2 he located in 
 Jerome, where he has since livetl. In partnership 
 with W. O. Harrell he erected a larj:;e building 
 and conducted a growing business under the firm 
 name of Harrell & Hoover. A devastating tire 
 temporarily interfered with the workings of the 
 wheels of commerce, and in the hope of retriev- 
 ing the loss Mr. Hoover returned to the Pacific 
 coast. In 1895 he came back to Jerome, and 
 with Mr. Cordiner purchased the old Stoney 
 property, and started up business, but in Sep- 
 tember of 1898 another fire worked more de- 
 struction, the lot alone remaining as evidence. 
 Nothing daunted, the erection of the present 
 building was begun during the same year, great 
 precautions being taken against the fire fiend. 
 The building was of concrete, and was 25x100 
 feet in dimensions. The usual luck, however, 
 was on the trail of the builders, and before the 
 completion of the structure fire resumed its 
 deadly progress, and the inside of the building 
 was completely gutted. The walls being of con- 
 crete withstood the ravages of the flames, and 
 so much was gained towards building up again. 
 By the fall of 1899 everything connected with the 
 Hoover-Cordiner combination was in good 
 working order, and has since progressed to the 
 satisfaction of all concerned. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Hoover married Freda Miller, and 
 of this union there is one child, Delia. In na- 
 tional politics Mr. Hoover is a stanch Repub- 
 lican, and takes great interest in local and terri- 
 torial political matters. Fraternally he is a mem- 
 ber of the Masonic order and is a Master Mason 
 of Verda Lodge No. 14. 
 
 I. BRUCE STONE. 
 
 In attaining to his present position among the 
 large mine owners of the Dragoon mountains. 
 Mr. Stone has surmounted many obstacles and 
 overcome discouragements that would have per- 
 manently dampened the enthusiasm of men of 
 less persistence. While an excellent early train- 
 ing undoubtedly has been of assistance to him, 
 more is to be ascribed to the inherent push and 
 determination and to a far-sighted grasp of op- 
 portunities. 
 
 The sturdiness which accompanies the Cana- 
 dians has found an abundant outlet in various 
 
 ])ans of the I'nited States, and nowhere are 
 their reliable traits more appreciated than in the 
 far west. Mr. Stone was born in Brownsville, 
 ( )ntario, in 1855, and is a son of Henry and 
 Edith (Brown) Stone, natives respectively of 
 West Gwillimburv and King township, Ontario. 
 His paternal grandfather, Solomon, was born 
 in Pennsylvania, and was one of the first white 
 men to settle on the Scotch line in Canada. The 
 father was born in 1825, and when a young 
 man began to clerk for George Hughes in 
 Schomberg; thence going to Penville and engag- 
 ing in the mercantile business. On giving up 
 business, he embarked in farming near Pen- 
 ville, and also farmed on the Seventh line, Te- 
 cumseh. In 1865 he settled in Tottenham, 
 where he was clerU for John Wilson in a large 
 mercantile establishment. Later he dealt largely 
 in insurance and carried on a general office 
 business. His life covered seventy-six years, ex- 
 actly one-half of which he passed as clerk of 
 Tecumseh. At the time of his death a local pa- 
 per, in presenting his biography, states that he 
 "was a conscientious member and ardent worker 
 in the Methodist Church, and will be much 
 missed. A lifelong reformer, he never allowed 
 his political opinions to interfere with his offi- 
 cial duties. A good neighbor, a suicere Chris- 
 tian, a kind husband, a loving father and a 
 warm-hearted friend, he was always at the front 
 when the deserving needy required his assist- 
 ance. Besides his widow, there survive him 
 three sons and three daughters: I. B. Stone, J. 
 E. Stone, Joseph Stone, Mrs. Stephens, Mrs. 
 Wolfe and Mrs. Robertson, all occupying very 
 respectable positions in society." He died Janu- 
 ary 29, 1901. 
 
 I. Bruce Stone was favored with excellent 
 educational advantages. For many years he was 
 associated with his father, and during that time 
 gained a thorough knowledge of the abstract 
 business. In 1886 he went to Florida and specu- 
 lated in town property at Seffner. Hillsboro 
 county, his efforts meeting with gratifying suc- 
 cess and accumulation of considerable property. 
 However, that state has many drawbacks, as in- 
 vestors have ascertained, and his experience was 
 the experience of many. The devastating frost 
 of 1888 was the prelude to a terrible yellow fever 
 scourge and the consequent depreciation of prop-
 
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 erty. In the face of the combined disaster, Mr. 
 Stone went back to Canada, setthng at Sault Ste. 
 Marie, district of Algona, where for two years 
 he engaged in the real-estate business. After re- 
 moving to West Superior, Wis., he was equall\ 
 fortunate in the same line of occupation until 
 1893, when, with the collapse of the town at that 
 time, his own fortunes were seriously impaired. 
 Xothing daunted, he went to Mobile, Ala. 
 where he completed a set of abstract books for 
 the Southern Abstract and Guarantee Company 
 He also originated a new abstract system, which 
 was copyrighted, under the name of Stone's 
 Tract Index and Ledger Book and Tablet Sys- 
 tem of Land Titles. He also compiled and copy- 
 righted Stone's \'est Pocket Record of Prop- 
 erties For Sale, which is used to great advan- 
 tage by real-estate men. During his residence in 
 Alobile he organized the I. B. Stone Abstract 
 System Company of Alabama, which enjoyed a 
 brief season of prosperity, that was terminated 
 by the appearance on the scene of a mine agita- 
 tor. With sublime confidence in the existence 
 of a certain wealth-producing property in Ari- 
 zona, a company was formed of which Mr. Stone 
 was assistant secretary. With nine of the stock 
 owners, he made a trip to Cochise county, where 
 the mine was supposed to be located, but after 
 expending time and patience in a fruitless search, 
 the expedition returned to Alabama, with the 
 exception of Mr. Stone and one other. Subse- 
 quently he alone was left. While prospecting 
 in Cochise county he came upon a gold and 
 copper producing property, which promised 
 large returns. He also staked four other mines, 
 but the stockholders, being incredulous con- 
 cerning prospects, failed to contribute toward 
 their development. 
 
 Owing to his unaided and persistent efforts, 
 Mr. Stone is now the possessor of numerous pav- 
 ing claims in the Dragoon mountains, which are 
 just beginning to be appreciated. The moun- 
 tains are situated just west of the center of Co- 
 chise county and run from the Southern Pacific 
 road south, bearing a little to the east. Among 
 the valuable properties is the Commonwealth 
 mine, on the east side of the mountains, twelve 
 luiles from Dragoon Station. This mine was 
 discovered by a cowboy, John Pierce, who, about 
 eighteen months ago, sold it to the Common- 
 
 wealth Company for $275,000. During the first 
 sixty days of operation $150,000 in gold was 
 taken out of the mine. Eight miles north of the 
 Pierce mine is Mr. Stone's mine, which bears in 
 its general aspect exceedingly promising results. 
 He is also the owner of some valuable copper 
 mines, which are in the same strata as the Rus- 
 sellville, Peabody, Dixey and Dragoon Mining 
 Company's mines. His gold mine is one mile 
 southeast of the famous Golden Rule, and indi- 
 cations point to a similarity of conditions in the 
 quartz stones. To facilitate the handling and 
 shipping of ore, Mr. Stone has opened an office 
 in El Paso, Tex., where he is known as a mem- 
 ber of the Chamber of Commerce and Southwest 
 International Miners' Association, and sole 
 owner of the International Mining Investment 
 Company, a close corporation, formed for the 
 purpose of developing mining prospects. Prob- 
 ably no mine owner in Cochise county has more 
 alluring prospects for the acquisition of wealth 
 in the future than has he, and certainly better 
 understands the different phases of the develop- 
 ment and disposition of the ore. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Stone married Elizabeth Good- 
 win, by whom he has two children: Henry Bruce, 
 born in 1886, and now attending school in Can- 
 ada, and Sarah Edith, born in 1888, and now 
 attending school in Canada. In religion Mr. 
 Stone favors the doctrines of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, in which he was reared. Fra- 
 ternally he is a Master Mason in the lodge at 
 Beeton, Canada, and is connected with the Odd 
 Fellows, Brampton Lodg'e, Canada, and with 
 the Knights of Pythias at Mobile, Ala. 
 
 E. B. GAGE. 
 
 In the history of Arizona there are few names 
 more indissolubly associated with the progress 
 of the territory and the development of its re- 
 sources than the name of Mr. Gage, of Prescott. 
 To an unusual degree he is the possessor of the 
 t|ualities that bring success. With the keen dis- 
 crimination and wise foresight that have always 
 characterized him, he has fostered movements 
 for the benefit of this region, and while his sound 
 judgment has brought him financial prosperity, 
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 ing increased prosperity to Arizona and attract- 
 ing hither a desirable class of residents. 
 
 The high standing of the Phoenix National 
 P)ank is largely due to the wise oversight of Mr. 
 (Jage, who is its president. This institution was 
 organized April 20, 1892. with James A. Ilcni- 
 ing as ]5resident. The slock was largely ])ur- 
 chased by some Michigan gentlemen Julv 25, 
 1895, and C. J. 1 1 all, formerly a banker of Char- 
 lotte, Mich., was elected cashier. In April. 1897, 
 .Mr. ( iage, at that time president of the Congress 
 ( iold tdmpany, was elected president, and he lia> 
 since officiated in tliat capacit\, his co-laborers 
 on the board of directors being J. .\. Fleming. 
 G. B. Richmond, T. \V. Pemberton, F. M. Mur- 
 phy. D. M. I'^erry, 15. Heyman, .•\. N. Gage and 
 C. J. Hall, this board having direct and entire 
 control of the bank. 
 
 The Santa Fe. Prescott & Phocni.x Railroad, 
 one of the most important enterprises ever in- 
 augurated for the development of -\rizona, num- 
 bers Mr. Gage among its directors, and he holds 
 a similar position in connection with the Pres- 
 cott National Bank as well as with \arious min- 
 ing properties now in process of development. 
 For a period of years he has been president of 
 the Congress Gold Company, one of the most 
 influential concerns of its kind in the south- 
 west. .\t this writing he is also president of the 
 Territorial Canitol Commission. 
 
 JOHN R. HULET. 
 
 John R. Hulet, superintendent of the Arizona 
 Co-oi)crative Mercantile Institution, at Hol- 
 bro(5k, has lived in the northeastern part of this 
 territory for twenty-two years, or since he ar- 
 rived at maturity. For more than two decades 
 he has been successfully occupied in mercantile 
 pursuits, and to his genius is due the high meas- 
 ure of jjrosperity his company has attained. 
 ^^'ithin his recollection the towns of Holbrook 
 and Snowllake have grown from hamlets com- 
 ])rising a few scattered houses, and few, if any, 
 of their citizens have taken a more active part 
 in promoting their welfare. 
 
 Now in the prime of life, Mr. Hulet was born 
 two-score and ten vears ago in Springville, I 'tab, 
 b'ebruary 2/. 1831. He was reared and educated 
 in that localitv and when about to start forth 
 
 to make his own way independently he con- 
 cluded to try his fortunes in the then new coun- 
 try of .Arizona. He went to Snowffake. then in 
 .\pache county, where, in 1880. he organized 
 the Snnwflake Co-operative Store, of which he 
 officiated as manager until 1885. In the mean 
 time he assisted in founding the Arizona Co- 
 operative Mercantile Institution, which was 
 locatetl at the old town of Holbrook (now \\'oo<l- 
 rull). In 1885 he became the manager of the 
 l\\i> cnteri)rises, and in the following vear they 
 were combined in one stock companx . In 1888 
 the ])resent site of its bu>iness location at Hol- 
 brook was purchased, and the company was duly 
 incorporated inuler the title it now bears. The 
 store at Snowflake is still carried on ; a flour mil! 
 at Shumway is owned and controlled by the 
 company, and a ranch southwest of Holbrook 
 also belongs to it. The stockholders of the in- 
 stitution are all residents of Navajo county, the 
 officers being Jesse N. Smith, president; J. W. 
 Freeman, vice-president; and Mr. Hulet, secre- 
 tary, treasurer and superintendent. He is the 
 largest stockholder in the concern, and has been 
 by far the most active in the task of carrying it 
 forward to success. In 1896 he had charge of 
 the construction of the flour mill at Shumway, 
 where a fine roller system and modern methods 
 are employed. Silver creek furnishes water, and 
 the mill, which has a capacity of thirty barrels 
 a day, is now- taxed to its limit most of the time. 
 
 In every possible manner Mr. Hulet has 
 striven to advance Navajo county's interests 
 since he took up his permanent residence here. 
 .\t the time of its organization he was especially 
 active in the work, and to this day is an enthu- 
 siastic advocate of progress along all lines. .\t 
 Snowflake, where his family resides, he owns 
 considerable real estate, and at intervals has 
 made investments in different enterprises. In 
 order to thoroughly merit the trade of the ]nib- 
 lic he makes a point of carrying an extensive 
 and well-selected stock of goods, which he dis- 
 poses of at a small, fair margin of profit. 
 
 In (October. 1875. Mr. Hulet married Miss 
 Josephine Smith, of Utah, daughter of Jesse 
 X. Smith, i^resident of the Co-operative Institu- 
 tion, and also ])resi(lent of the branch of the 
 .Mormon Clnu\-li. residing in Navajo county. 
 Mr. Hulet's son, Charles F., a promising student.
 
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 has attended Brigham Young College at Provo 
 City, Utah, and is well qualified for the duties 
 of life. Jesse resides at the family home at 
 Snowtlake. Mrs. Hulet died in December, 1894, 
 and in -\pril. 1896. Mr. Hulet married his pres- 
 ent wife, Dena Smith, a sister of his first wife. 
 They have two children, Sadie and Ernest. Mr. 
 Hulet and family are members of the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly 
 known as the jMormon Church. Politically he 
 is a Democrat. 
 
 T. A. RIORDAN. 
 
 One of the representative men of the territory 
 of Arizona, one who has grown with her growth, 
 whose interests are identical with her own, and 
 whom all are glad to honor, is the prosperous 
 and successful president of the Arizona Lumber 
 & Timber Company at Flagstaff, T. A. Riordan. 
 Without doubt one of the foremost business men 
 in this part of the west, his high character, per- 
 sistency of purpose, good judgment and ability, 
 have enabled him to accomplish great results 
 for himself and the comnuniity of which he is a 
 valued citizen. 
 
 Coming from one of the principal cities in the 
 Union, Mr. Riordan brought with him to Ari- 
 zona the enter]irise and imflagging zeal so char- 
 acteristic of the residents of Chicago, where he 
 was born in 1858. His education was received at 
 the Jesuit parochial school in the Lake City, and 
 he also accjuired in the busy marts and teeming 
 thoroughfares of the active metropolis a consid- 
 erable knowledge of mercantile finance. His 
 first real responsibility, however, w.as assvuiied 
 when he came to Magstaff in 1886. at which time 
 the town had assumed fair proportions of 
 growth, and was expectantly hopeful of its un- 
 bounded possibilities and resources. He at once 
 l)ecame associated with the Ayer Lumber Com- 
 pany, remaining with them until the business 
 passed into the hands of his brother, D. M. Rior- 
 dan, and he became manager of the .Arizona 
 Lumber Company. So valuable were his services 
 and so minute and broad his knowledge of the 
 business, that in 1897 he became president of 
 the same organizatitm under the name of the 
 .Arizona Linnber & Timlier Companv. 
 
 Aside from the i)osition which engages the 
 
 greater part of his time, Mr. Riordan has been 
 called on, by reason of his splendid ability, to fill 
 important and responsible positions with other 
 concerns, and to liranch out into the most praise- 
 worthy and de\'cl<ii:)ing enterprises instituted for 
 the good of Coconino county. He is president of 
 the Central .Arizon.a Railroad Company, a road 
 which extends for twenty-four miles into the 
 heart of the timber belt, and president of the 
 Flagstafif Electric Light Company, which he 
 helped to organize in 1894. He is also one of the 
 principal stockholders of the Howard Sheep 
 Company, which organization has about thirty 
 thousand sheep roaming over the San Francisco 
 mountains. For some time he was interested 
 in the development of copper mines in the Grand ^ 
 Canon district, and was a stockholder in the 
 Tuysan Mining Company. In more recent years 
 he has become interested in the development of 
 oil in the Cespi district of California, and is a 
 stockholder in the Cespi Oil Company and the 
 FlagstafT ( )il Company. In all of his enterprises 
 Mr. Riordan is ably assisted by his brother, M. 
 J. Riordan, who acts as secretary, and F. W. Sis- 
 son, who is the treasurer of the Arizona Lum- 
 ber & Timber Company; also treasurer of the 
 Arizona Central Railroad, the Flagstafif Electric 
 Light I'lant and the Howard Sheep Company. 
 The histor_\' of the enterprise out of which has 
 emerged the Arizona Lumljer & Timlier Corn- 
 pan}- is the history of Flagstafif. In the luidst of 
 a primeval w-ood, the largest pine forest in the 
 world, Edward E. Ayer. of Chicago, began, in 
 the fall of 1882, to build a mill on the site of the 
 present structure, and to saw ties for the Mexi- 
 can Central Railroad, and for general building 
 and other ]nu"poses. From the first he formed a 
 company known as the Ayer Lumber Company, 
 and the plant erected by tliem was of the most 
 approved kind, and doubtless had no superior 
 in the southwest. The daring .and magnitude 
 of the undertaking are understood only when it 
 is known that there were no towns of any size 
 nearer than Prescott; that the mining industries 
 were not develo]ied. and there was no railroad 
 outlet to the west. The ponderous machinery 
 for the first sawmill in .Arizona was necessarily 
 hauled from Winslow, .a distance of fifty-four 
 miles, the railroad at that time reaching only as 
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 867 
 
 by the company in furthering their plans, and 
 when all was in working order and the hum of 
 influstry was heard in the forest, others not di- 
 rectly interested were drawn towards the scene 
 of animation, and a little town grew up around 
 the buzzing saws and busy workmen. Mr. Ayer, 
 who had large interests in Michigan and Wis- 
 consin, which claimed his time and attention, 
 decided to dispose of his mill to D. M. Riordan, 
 who took up the business and carried it on under 
 the name of the .\rizona Lumber Company. 
 
 In July of 1887 the mill originally built in the 
 wilderness was destroyed by fire, but the capital 
 and enterprise behind the new management was 
 soon manifest when a new and in every wav im- 
 proved structure materialized on the old site, af- 
 ter which the title of the company was changed 
 to the -Arizona Lumber & Timber Company, by 
 which name it is still known. Since then the 
 business of the mill has continued to extend 
 in many directions, manufacturing almost every- 
 thing which can be made of timber, from railroad 
 cross ties and bridge timbers to building mate- 
 rials, orange boxes, moldings, piling and wood- 
 work of every kind that is marketable in the 
 west. The trade extends throughout Arizona, 
 Southern California. Xew Mexico and Old Mex- 
 ico, ^'et another calamity visited this lumber 
 enterprise during the busiest season of 1898, 
 when, on August 2, the second plant was burned. 
 In the direct wake of this retarding calamity 
 plans were at once negotiated for the construc- 
 tion of the finest sawmill in the west, and one 
 of the most complete in the world. Work was 
 begun on the new plant in October, and sawing 
 was resumed in I'ebruarx , 1899. In the construc- 
 tion of the plant every precaution has been taken 
 against a repetition of future inroads by fire, and 
 a brick power house, with seventeen-inch walls 
 and 68x103 feet in dimensions, is built between 
 the sawmill and planing mill, the planing mill 
 being twenty-two feet from the power house 
 and ninety feet from the sawmill. Eighty-five 
 feet from the sawmill building is a refuse burner 
 thirty feet in diameter and one hundred feet 
 high. The buildings are painted inside and out 
 with asbestos paint, and there are two-and-one- 
 half-inch fire plugs inside of each building, with 
 sufficient hose attachment to reach to any part 
 of the building. Outside there are two-and-a- 
 
 half-inch plugs with sufficient hose to reach any 
 part of the plant. The refuse burner is built of 
 steel and firebrick, and into it is automatically 
 carried and burned all the waste from the two 
 mills. 
 
 The sawmill itself is a new departure in saw- 
 mills, and is the first band saw in Arizona and the 
 second of its kind in the United States. The 
 planing mill and box factory is fitted with all the 
 IrUest and finest machinery, and though not as 
 large as some, has no equal for completeness 
 anywhere. I'esides this lumbering plant, the 
 company owns and operates, under contract, a 
 sawmill eighteen miles from town, which has a 
 capacity of sixty thousand feet a day. The com- 
 pany operating this mill is known as the Green- 
 l.HW Lumber Company, but its officers and di- 
 rectors are the same as are those of the Arizona 
 Lumber & Timber Company, and its entire 
 stock is owned by them. The company also 
 owns and controls the Central Arizona Railroad 
 Company, and the stock is all held by the stock- 
 holders of the .\rizona Lumber & Timber Com- 
 pany. They have twenty-four miles of standard 
 gauge track, three locomotives and sixty-four 
 logging cars. The company also owns between 
 forty and fifty houses, varying in size from one- 
 room cabins to ten-room dwellings, all of which 
 are occupied b_\- its emplo\'es. The plant is lo- 
 cated a mile from FlagstafT, and is supplied with 
 water from the town. No liquor is sold on the 
 premises, and the camp is orderly and peaceful 
 in all of its departments. The number of men 
 employed averages the year round about three 
 hundred. 
 
 HIRAM I!. MORRIS, JR. 
 
 Hiram B. Morris, a director of the Mesa Irri- 
 gating Canal Company, and a successful farmer 
 and stock-raiser of the Salt River valley, has 
 been a resident in the neighborhood of Mesa 
 since 1883. One of the four surviving children 
 of Hiram 11. and l^leanor C. (Roberts') Morris, 
 the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of 
 Illinois, the subject of this sketch is of Welsh 
 descent. His paternal grandfather was a soldier 
 in the war of 1812. Hiram P.. Morris, Sr.. was 
 reare<l in Illinois and was an early settler in 
 Washington county, L'tah. where he was a suc- 
 cessful farmer and stock-raiser for many years.
 
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 In 1883 he removed with his family to Mesa, 
 where he is still living, now about four-score 
 vears of age, while his respected wife has passed 
 her seventieth anniversary. Their daughters, 
 Mrs. Frank Rapplcye and Mrs. Frank T. Pome- 
 roy, are residents of this vicinity, while Mrs, 
 (leorge A. Smith lives in Sevier county. Utah. 
 
 Hiram V,. Morris, Jr., was born in Washing- 
 ton county, Utah, February 14, 1863, and thus 
 was twenty years old when he came to this ter- 
 ritorv. h'or two or more years he was engaged 
 in freighting, liut since 1885 has devoted his 
 entire attention to the cultivation of the soil 
 and to the raising of cattle. His ranch, compris- 
 ing eightv acres, is now well improved, plainly 
 showing the enterprise and care of the owner. 
 
 In all of his efforts as a pioneer of this val- 
 ley, Mr. Morris has found a true helpmate in 
 his wife, whose maiden name was Eliza Smith, 
 and whose birthplace likewise was in Utah. The 
 eight children born to them are named as fol- 
 lows: Hiram C, George E.. Joseph A., Myron, 
 Genevieve, Laurence, Manilla and Mabel. 
 
 For two years Mr. Morris served as a justice 
 of the peace in .\lma precinct, his own ncighbor- 
 liood. and besides this he has officiated as a di- 
 rector of the Farmers' Exchange at Mesa and 
 for several vears has been a trustee of Alma 
 school district, No. 9, of Maricopa county. A 
 life-long member of the Church of Jesus Christ 
 of the Latter-day Saints, to which his parents 
 belong, he now is acting in the capacity of 
 counselor to Rishoji .Mexander Hunsaker, of 
 Alma precinct. 
 
 SAM KORRICK. 
 
 While reviewing the leading business men and 
 public-spirited citizens of Phoenix, the name of 
 Sam Korrick cannot justly be omitted, for, as is 
 well known, he occupies a position of influence 
 in this community. His success has been re- 
 markable, but has been well earned, and his 
 numerous friends take great interest in his rise 
 in the world of commerce. 
 
 The proprietor of the popular New York 
 store in Phoeni.x was born in Europe and came 
 to the United States twelve years ago, in 1889. 
 In his youth he recei\cil a liberal education and 
 a substantial training as a business man. For 
 two vears after he reached New York Citv he 
 
 was employed as a clerk, and in 1891 went to 
 El Paso, Tex., where he was similarly employed 
 until 1895. That year witnessed his arrival in 
 Phoenix, and, as his capital was limited, he was 
 forced to embark in business in a small way. 
 His uprightness and square dealings with the 
 pulilic soon won the favor of his customers, and 
 year b\' vear his trade has increased. In order to 
 meet the demands of his growing business, he 
 has continually been adding to the stock of 
 goods carried in his establishment, until to-day 
 he has what is probably the most extensive line 
 of dry-goods and notions in the city. He also 
 carries a well-selected stock of millinery, cloth- 
 ing and men's furnishing goods. On the first 
 floor a space 50x80 feet is occupied, while on the 
 second floor an area of 75x80 feet is required 
 fur the different departments of the store. 
 
 Sociallv Mr. Korrick is a member of the Mari- 
 copa Club of Phoenix, and he is a trustee of the 
 local lodge. Benevolent Protective Order of 
 Elks. -Ml measures relating to the improve- 
 ment and progress of the city of Phoenix and 
 territory of .\rizona are warmly supported by 
 him, and thus he has doubly proved his value 
 as a citizen. 
 
 HON. J. M. W. MOORE. 
 
 Known as legislator, justice of the peace, mi- 
 ner, real-estate and insurance man, Mr. Moore, 
 of Prescott, was born in Preble county, Ohio, 
 November 6, 1846, and is a son of Hon. Na- 
 thaniel Moore, also born in Ohio. The paternal 
 grandfather, David, was a native of Trenton, 
 N. J., and was one of the pioneer settlers in the 
 woods of Ohio. He was a man of great good- 
 ness of character, and was a member of the So- 
 ciety of Friends. In the pioneer days of Ohio 
 he exerted a wide influence for progress, his 
 useful life extending to within a few months of 
 the century mark. 
 
 Hon. Nathaniel Moore was a merchant in 
 Ohio, and in 1855 removed to Illinois and car- 
 ried on a mercantile undertaking al Winona. 
 Marshall county. He was later interested in 
 farming, and subsequently retired from active 
 business affairs, and located in Chicago, 111., 
 where he died in 1898, at the age of eighty years. 
 He was twice a member of the state legislature
 
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 8-1 
 
 and was sheriff df Marshall count \ for two 
 terms. Tn his young; manhood he married Julia 
 Banta, who was horn in ( )hio. and her father 
 was one of the pioneers of linliana. She is the 
 mother of nine children, eight sons and one 
 daughter, of wliom five children aie living, j. M. 
 W. being second oldest and the onlv one in .\ri- 
 zona. The oldest son, (leorge, w.as an attorney 
 in Chicago, 111., where he finallv died: F.dward E. 
 is a physician at .\rg-yle Park; l'"rank .\. 1'. is a 
 druggist of .\rgyle Park ; Willis is a physician in 
 Chicago; Charles and Henr\- dieil when young, 
 as did also James, and Mary E. is living in Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 Mr. Moore lived in Marshall county imtil 
 1877, and during that time he devoted consider- 
 able time to farming. In 1866 he entered Knox 
 College at (ialesburg. 111., from which he was 
 graduated in the class of 1872 with the degree 
 of -\. 1').. the institution later conferring upon 
 him the degree of .A. 'SI. While his father was 
 in ]>ublic life and serving in the legislature, he 
 assumed charge of the mercantile business in 
 Marshall count}-, and in 1877 went to Chicago, 
 and studied law under his brother, George. In 
 1879 he came to .\rizona on mining business 
 and located for a time at Bigbug, and was en- 
 gaged in mining .and prospecting until 1889, 
 when he located in Prescott. The previous year 
 he had been nominated on the Republican ticket 
 to the fifteenth territorial council, and was 
 elected by a good showing in 1889. He ren- 
 dered service during the sessions as a member 
 of the judiciary committee and the committee 
 on county and county boundaries, and as chair- 
 man of t!ie enrolling and engrossing committee. 
 
 Soon after locating in Prescott, Mr. Moore 
 became one of the organizers of the Arizona 
 Ore Compan}-, in the nffairs of wdiich he still 
 retains an interest, and he has since been in- 
 terested in real-estate and the insurance busi- 
 ness. On his ranch in the Salt River valley, 
 near Mesa, he raises cattle, and he is at present 
 operating the .Amulet silver mine, twelve miles 
 from Prescott, on Lynch Creek. In 1893 he 
 was elected justice of the peace, has been re- 
 elected every two years since then, and in 1899 
 was the only Re])ublican who pulled through on 
 that ticket, lie is a member of the territorial 
 Republican cnnimiftoe, clfiirman of the county 
 2?, 
 
 central conmiittee, district court comissioner, 
 Cnited States court commissioner and e.x-ofificio 
 county coroner. Fraternally he is associated 
 with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and 
 is chairman of the board of trustees of the Meth- 
 odist I'lpiscopal Church. He has one son, Fred 
 C., who is in tlie cashier's department of Wilson 
 Tirol hers, of Chicago. 
 
 ril ARLFS TRUMBULL HAYDEN. 
 
 In many respects the most remarkable of the 
 early jiionecrs of .\rizona, whose hopes have 
 materialized in the wake of their tireless efTorts, 
 Cliarlcs Trumbull Hayden, the founder of 
 Temiie. is remeiubered as the ])ersonification of 
 New luigland's best and noblest citizenship. 
 .-Arriving in the territory at practically the close 
 of the Civil war. when, above the ruin and gen- 
 eral dej)ression of the country new faith awoke 
 in men's hearts, there were those in search of 
 homes \\ho had a dim conscientiousness that in 
 this vast desert, abandoned untold centuries ago 
 by the oldest civilization the world has known, 
 there still existed a field of resource, awaiting 
 the touch of a latter-day enterprise. And in the 
 now famous Salt River valley there developed a 
 sublime faith in the possibilities of a resurrected 
 fertility, upon the thousands of acres once trod 
 by the nameless people who have left so many 
 evidences of an exalted culture, and inhabited 
 during the sixteenth century by a hardy priest- 
 hood, lured hither by Alonte Cristo tales of un- 
 limited wealth. But the semblance of activity 
 created by the monastic orders terminated in the 
 dawn of the nineteenth century, when the Mexi- 
 cans devastated the land, and laid low the mis- 
 sions and churches. From then on the red men 
 came into their erstw'hile possessions, and were 
 again undisturbed by the menacing intrusion of 
 the hated pale face. And not until the '60s was 
 there any appreciable awakening, at which time 
 the miners and stock-breeders penetrated the 
 sterile heaths made terrible by the alert 
 .\paches, and among the miners and stockmen 
 was to be found nuich of the braw^n and splendid 
 mentality from the east, with their years of mer- 
 cantile and other experiences. Among these 
 trying and almost hopeless conditions, and from 
 sm;dl anil insignificant beginnings, those daring
 
 S72 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 travelers builder! their enterprises, and turned to 
 the cloudless sky the stored fertility of the soil 
 which had lain from beyond the history and 
 memory of man in fettered uninterrupted sleep, 
 and had become parched and baked and arid 
 from the beating down of the sun, and the pass- 
 ing of the wailing desert wind. 
 
 Mr. Hayden was one of the first of the ventur- 
 ers. He was born in Hartford county, Conn., 
 April 4, 1825, and was a son of James T. and 
 Mary (Hanks) Hayden, also born in Connecti- 
 cut, and representatives of a family numerously 
 distributed throughout Connecticut, and widely 
 known for their devotion to the public good. 
 Coming from that part of the east which in the 
 early days ofifered the best educational advan- 
 tages, their son qualified while yet a youth as a 
 professional teacher, and, following an ambition 
 which led into the vvideness of the western plains, 
 worked his way west, teaching school at inter- 
 vals in Oliio, Indiana, and Missouri, and finally 
 embarking in commercial pursuits at Independ- 
 ence, Mo. There for a number of years he en- 
 gaged as a shipping clerk, and later conducted 
 an independent general merchandise business at 
 Santa Fe, N. M. As may well be imagined, the 
 moving of goods through the country was at 
 that time an arduous task, and the first stock for 
 the Santa Fe store was taken overland to that 
 point by means of wagons and ox-teams. 
 
 From New Mexico Mr. Hayden made another 
 journey across the plains, wdiich was replete with 
 adventure, and danger from delaying storms, 
 swollen rivers, and attacks from the vigilant In- 
 dians. The emigration terminated in California 
 in the days of gold, which land was the original 
 mecca for so many of Arizona's early settlers. 
 In due time he came to Tucson, .\riz., and here 
 anticipated the needs of the small hamlet by en- 
 gaging, as in Santa Fe, in a general merchandise 
 business. He was thus associated with the two 
 cities on the American continent which claim the 
 oldest European settlement. Tucson being en- 
 titled to the preference. While in Tucson Mr. 
 Hayden was apjiointed judge, and by reason of 
 this appointtr.ent was, for the remainder of his 
 life, familiarly known as Judge Hayden. In 
 1871 he left Tucson and settled on the present 
 site of Tcmpe, establishing the grist mill which 
 is one of the landmarks in the valley, and which 
 
 was the first of its kind in the territory. All 
 through the years up to the present time the mill 
 has continued its ceaseless grind, tlie motive 
 power being the time-honored water-wheel, 
 turned by the flow of a canal, taken from the 
 river above. In connection with the gri.st-mill 
 was started a country store, and while the mill 
 ground into flour the wheat of the farmers, and 
 the meager happenings of the enthusiastic but 
 sparcely settled locality were narrated in the 
 little store, there grew up a village then officially 
 known as Hayden's I'"crry, later changed to 
 Tempe. 
 
 In the subsequent growth of Tempe and of 
 the surrounding territory Mr. Hayden was a 
 forceful and progressive iniluence. During the 
 years of his undiminished activity he saw the 
 gradual unfolding of the plans of the early pio- 
 neers, the opening of new mines rich in gold and 
 silver and copper, the l)uilding of mills in the 
 lumbering districts, the growth of sheep and 
 stock interests, the reclaiming of acres of new 
 lands, the construction of miles of irrigating 
 ditches, the establishment of thousands of new 
 farms, and tlie Iniilding of railroads in all direc- 
 tions. As one of the most earnest students of 
 the physical features of this part of the country, 
 he was early confronted by the perplexing prob- 
 lem of artificial irrigation, which has proved 
 to be the redemption of the desert, and in this 
 connection he himself built one or two of the 
 smaller canals, and materially aided in the con- 
 struction of the larger ones. Like most of the 
 early comers, he was interested in farming, and 
 the ranch near Tempe upon which his family 
 now live became, under his wise management, 
 one of the best in the neighborhood. At differ- 
 ent times during his life some of the most valu- 
 able properties in the twvn and country came 
 into his possession, and with the shifting course 
 of events passed on into other hands. The null 
 which was his particular pride, has been, during 
 the last few years, fitted with modern roller ma- 
 chinery, which, used in connection with the 
 water power, constitutes one of the most valu- 
 able enterprises of the kind in the west. The 
 mill, the store and the farm are conducted under 
 the firm name of the C. T. Hayden Company, 
 and under the control and management of Carl 
 T. Havden, as head. The son of Mr. Hayden
 
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 has proved himself a worthy follower of his 
 father, and exercises the same care anrl sound 
 judgment which characterized the business 
 methods of the older man. 
 
 ( )ctober 4. 1876, Mr. TIaydcn married Sallie 
 Davis, who was born in .Arkansas, and is a 
 dauj,ditcr of Cornelius and Klizn I Hallert I 
 r^avis, natives of Kentucky. Of this union there 
 iiave been four cliiidren : Carl T., who is at the 
 head of the C. 1 . Hayden Comjiany. and who 
 was eilucated at the Leland Stanford I'niversity ; 
 Sallie D., who is now a student at the Leland 
 Stanford I'niversity; Annie S., deceased, and 
 Mary C, who is attending the Territorial Xor- 
 mal School at Tcmiie. A man of fine education, 
 assisted by a retentive memory and a keen 
 power of observation, Mr. Hayden was one of 
 the chief promoters of education in the territory, 
 and appreciated the benefits of a trained and 
 concentrated intelligence, whether applied to the 
 management of a farm or used onh' in ptirelv 
 commercial undertakings. He was for years a 
 member of the board of trustees of the schools 
 of Maricopa county, and was one of the building 
 committee which constructed the normal school 
 at Tempe, substantially evincing his belief in 
 mental training by presenting to the city the 
 ground upon wdiich the school is erected. 
 Though independent in politics, he served for 
 \ears as a supervisor of Maricopa county, and 
 was othenvise interested in the local iiol'tical 
 affairs. 
 
 Like all strong and dominating personalities, 
 Mr. Hayden had his opponents, but no one ever 
 questioned his integrity, or the sincerity of the 
 high humanity and moralit}- which guided his 
 footsteps. A free thinker bis whole life long. 
 and outspoken in bis views, he yet commanded 
 the respect and confidence of the various relig- 
 ious sects which grew up around him. who be- 
 lieved above all things in his absolute sincerity. 
 One of the most lieartfCt tribtites spoken at bis 
 funeral was that of a Mormon Ijislmp whose peo- 
 ple he had befriended when they were homeless 
 in the wilderness. .'\nd the story was told of an 
 Indian who had become his follower and de- 
 fender because of the care and tender nursing 
 which bad rescued him from the great hunting 
 ground. Hi> high tuc^ral cliaracter was borne 
 out in bis appearance. ( 'f splendid physical 
 
 proportions, he was large and of commanding 
 stature, and straight as an arrow flies. His 
 manner was unostentatious but forceful withal, 
 and he possessed a resistless magnetism. His 
 advice, money, and encouragement were ever 
 (in the side of jirogress, education, and munici- 
 pal i)urity, and, living in the light of a permeat- 
 ing optimism, he believed that something of a 
 paradise might be evolved out of man's sur- 
 roundings and opi)ortunities here below. Of all 
 those who have watched and labored in the in- 
 terval between the inactivity of the desert and 
 the prosperity which has astonished even the 
 dwellers of the Salt River valley themselves, no 
 one is more sincerely mourned or more grate- 
 fully remembered than the late Charles T. Hay- 
 den. 
 
 CAPT. JAMES W. COUGHRAN. 
 
 Ca]Hain Coughran, who is successfully carry- 
 ing on a fruit growing and dairying enterprise 
 adjoining Tempe, was born in Sevier county, 
 .\rk., January 17, 1833. His parents, James and 
 Luvina ( Pierce) Coughran, were natives respect- 
 ively of Kentucky and Tennessee. George 
 Coughran, the paternal grandfather, was a na- 
 tive of Ireland, and is said to have been a soldier 
 in the war of 1812. On the maternal side, the 
 Pierce family are of Scotch descent. 
 
 On his father's farm James Coughran was 
 rearetl to industrious ways, and availed him- 
 self of the limited opportunities to be found in 
 the early subscription schools. This training 
 ])roved to be the foundation for later acquisi- 
 tion in an educational way, and for a pronounced 
 liking for reading to which he still devotes him- 
 self. Later he attended the McKenzie Institute, 
 at Clarksville, Te.x., for two years, and subse- 
 quently taught school in Arkansas for eight 
 \ears. During the Civil war he served in the 
 cause of the Confederacy for four years, and 
 enlisted in Companv G. Second Arkansas Vol- 
 imtecr Infantry, in .\pril of 1861. His first ser- 
 vice in the army was in northern Arkansas and 
 southern Missouri, under Generals Price and 
 McCulIough. The regiment was under General 
 l^ragg, and later served tmder General Joseph 
 R. Johnston, in what is known as the middle or 
 Tennessee department of the Confederate army.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 He participated in the battles of Wilson's Creek, 
 Mo., Pea Ridge, Ark., Murfreesboro, Tenn., 
 Chickamauga, Ga., and many others of minor 
 importance. At the battles of Murfreesboro and 
 Chickamauga he was wounded, but not seriously, 
 and soon rejoined his regiment. Enlisting as a 
 private, at the expiration of a year he was elected 
 captain of his company, and served as such for 
 two years, after which he was promoted to the 
 rank of major. Shortly after the battle of Chitka- 
 mauga, he was captured at Egg's Point, on the 
 Mississippi river, while on the way home on a 
 furlough, and was detained in various Federal 
 prisons until a few weeks before the surrender 
 of Lee at Appomattox. 
 
 Some years after the civil war. Captain 
 Coughran crossed the plains in 1869, making 
 the journey in a company of emigrants, with 
 ox-teams and wagons. After a perilous trip of 
 six months the little band came out at San 
 Diego, Cal.. and he located in Kern county, 
 that state, in 1870, where he engaged in stock- 
 raising until 1879. Locating in Arizona in the 
 fall of the latter year, he was among the very 
 earliest settlers in the Williamson valley, Yavapai 
 county, and developed his crude land of one 
 hundred and sixty acres, until it was among the 
 liest properties in the county. This was dis- 
 posed of in 1896, at which time he came to 
 Tcnipe, which has since been his home. He is 
 the owner of thirty-nine acres of land which 
 is devoted to the raising of alfalfa and to a large 
 fruit culture, and to an enterprising and success- 
 fully conducted dairy. 
 
 In Arkansas, January 28, 1868, Qaptain 
 Coughran was united in marriage with Nannie 
 G. Brown, .a native of Arkansas and a daughter 
 of William J. Brown. Of this union there have 
 been nine children, eight of whom are living, 
 viz: Katie A., who is teaching school in Yava- 
 pai county; Edward H.; Wilbur W.; Robert: 
 Lena, who is the wife of Marion Sears of Teinpe, 
 Ariz.: Wiley, who is living at home: Carrie C, 
 and Charles E., both at home. Anna E. is de- 
 ceased. Edward, Wilbur and Robert are stock- 
 raisers in Yavapai county. In politics Captain 
 Coughran is affiliated with the Democratic party, 
 but has ilo inclination for public office. In 1866 
 he was made a Mason. He is a member of the 
 Methodist r*".piscijpal Church Sniith. and iMutrib 
 
 utes generously towards its support. He i.s re- 
 garded as one of the most substantial of the 
 pioneers whose efforts have brought about the 
 present prosperity, and is worthy of the universal 
 respect which he has ever inspired in those who 
 are privileged to know him. 
 
 C. M. BERKHOLTER. 
 
 One of the long-established residents of Tuc- 
 son, more than a score of years ago Mr. T.erk- 
 liolter first saw this then small hamlet on the 
 Southern Pacific, and thus, within his recnllec- 
 tion, most of the wonderful changes for the bet- 
 ter, which we now enjoy, have been made. Dur- 
 ing this same period he has worked his way 
 upward in railroad circles to his present respon- 
 sible position, as local passenger and freight 
 agent of the Southern Pacific. 
 
 Born in Chittenango, Madison county, N. Y., 
 April 17, 1859, C. M. Berkholter comes of an 
 old and early pioneer family of Lehigh county. 
 Pa., his ]Daternal grandfather, Peter Berkhol- 
 ter, being a farmer in that region. His father, 
 Nathan Berkholter, was born near Allentown, 
 Pa., and lived to the ripe age of eighty-five years, 
 his death occurring in Los Angeles, Cal., in 
 1898. For many years he had dwelt in Chitte- 
 nango, N. Y., and there conducted the largest 
 distillery of the locality. For a wife he chose 
 Margaret Hogan, a native of Waterloo, N. Y., 
 and her death took place in that state. Of their 
 three sons and three daughters, Dennis served 
 throughout the Civil war in a New York bat- 
 tery, and now resides in ]5akersficld, Cal., where 
 he is the division superintendeiU ol the Southern 
 Pacific railroad. M. II., the other son, also is 
 in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 
 at present being roadma§ter at Hornbrook, Cal. 
 
 LTntil he was about seventeen years of age, C. 
 M. Berkholter attended the common and high 
 schools of his native place, and in the Centen- 
 nial year entered the employ of the First Na- 
 tional liank (if Chittenango, remaining in that 
 establishment fur three years. Then, going to' 
 New York City, he was employed as a clerk 
 until 1880, when he came to Tucson and for a 
 vear was baggage-master of the Southern l^a- 
 cific at Tucson. Tlien he was priimoted [n the 
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 which he was made agent at Benson, one of 
 the most southern points on this railroad in 
 Arizona. At the end of three years spent in 
 that place he returned to Tucson and since 1886 
 has been agent at this point, the duties of pas- 
 senger and freight agent being discharged by 
 him. 
 
 Having looked upon Tucson as his home for 
 about a score of years, Mr. Berkholter natur- 
 ally takes great interest in everything pertain- 
 ing to its progress. He is a director in the city 
 Building and Loan Association, was one of the 
 organizers of the Tucson Electric Light and 
 Power company, and was connected with its 
 hoard of directors until he sold his stock in 
 the same. For six years he served as a mem- 
 ber of the city council as alderman-at-large, and 
 at the present time is .a member of that body. 
 Politically he is a strong Democrat and fre- 
 quently has served on the county central com- 
 mittee. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias 
 and belongs to the lodge and club of the Benev- 
 olent Protective Order of Elks. A valued mem- 
 ber of the Episcopal church, he is one of the 
 vestrymen and a liberal contributor to its sup- 
 port. Some time ago he built a commodious 
 modern residence at No. 227 South Fifth av- 
 enue, and the lady who presides over the hos- 
 ])italities of this pleasant home formerly was 
 Miss Jennie Wagy, California being the place of 
 her l)irth. 
 
 HON. BURT DUNLAP. 
 
 There is no industry of greater importance to 
 the present well-being and future prosperity of 
 .\rizona than that of mining, and Mr. Dunlap is 
 one of those who have given considerable 
 thought and attention to the development of 
 mines. Now a resident of Tucson, where he 
 expects to make his permanent home, he was 
 imtil recently a citizen of W'illcox and the owner 
 of valuable cattle interests in Cochise county. 
 In addition to his mining interests are his stock- 
 raising enterprises. He is the owner of a ranch 
 in the Colorado valley, six miles from Yuma, 
 with fine water privileges, and this place he has 
 stocked with thoroughbred hogs of the Poland- 
 China and Duroc breeds, these being the finest 
 collection of swine in the territory and of the 
 purest strain. 
 
 In Niles, Ohio, where he was born in 1858. 
 Mr. Dunlap grew to manhood, meantime at- 
 tending the public schools. At the age of six- 
 teen he entered Thiel College at Greenville. 
 Pa., where he completed the regular course of 
 study, graduating in 1879, with the degree of 
 A. B. Later the degree of A. M. was conferred 
 upon him. For a time he studied law in Green- 
 ville, Pa., but, not being attracted to the pro- 
 fesssion, he decided to map out for hiinself a 
 dilTerent future. January, 1882, found him in 
 Arizona, where he embarked in the cattle busi- 
 ness near Fort Grant, in the Aravaipa valley. 
 Finding the occupation congenial and profit- 
 able, he gave considerable attention to it, the 
 result being that he was prospered financially, 
 while at the same time he gained a reputation 
 for his knowledge of the industry. For a time 
 he was engaged as government contractor, sup- 
 plying the post at San Carlos with provisions. 
 Later he established his home in Willcox, but 
 after little more than a year he took up his abode 
 in Tucson. The headquarters for his cattle were 
 in the Sulphur Springs valley, between Cochise 
 and Pearce. 
 
 The mine in which Mr. Dunlap is particu- 
 larly interested and from the development of 
 which he hopes for good results, is known as 
 the Goodhope mine and is situated ten miles 
 southwest of Cochise. The ore contains copper, 
 lead and silver, and is therefore particularly 
 valuable. Having purchased the mine from its 
 discoverer, John Miller, he expects to devote his 
 time closely to the operation of the same. Dur- 
 ing 1900 he shipped ten carloads of ore, which 
 assayed an average of seven to ten copper, 
 twenty-four to thirty lead, and fifteen ounces 
 silver per ton. In addition to this mine, he 
 owns seven claims in the same localitv', in 
 the Dragoon mountains. Twelve men are em- 
 ployed in the mine in getting out ore. While 
 managing his mine, he at the same time oversees 
 his ranch in the same neighborhood, and also 
 superintenils his property near Yuma. 
 
 The Republican party receives the support 
 of Mr. Dunlap. Twice he served as a member 
 of the territorial council, once served as a mem- 
 ber of the board of county commissioners, and 
 is now chairman of the live stock sanitary board 
 of Arizona. In 1896 he was a delegate to the
 
 8/8 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 national convention at St. Loni.s tiiat nominated 
 William McKinley for president. Fraternally 
 he is connected with the Elks at Tucson. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Dunlap took place 
 August 4, 1896, and united him with Miss 
 Jessie Ballance, a daughter of Charles and Fan- 
 nie (Greene) Ballance, of Peoria, 111. In relig- 
 ious connections Mr. Dunlap is an Episcopalian, 
 while his wife holds membership in the Presby- 
 terian church. They are the parents of two 
 children, Gordon B. and Stuart B. 
 
 Mrs. Dunlap descends from a long line of 
 patriotic ancestors, some of wlioiu were distin- 
 guished .soldiers in the war of the Revolution, 
 among them being Gen. Xathaniel (irccne. .\t 
 the breaking out of the Civil war lier father 
 resigned his naval cadetshii) in order to enter the 
 army. Her grandfather. Judge Charles Ballance, 
 raised the first regiment of Peoria volunteers for 
 the Civil war and was elected colonel, Ijut being 
 advanced in years and a sufiferer from rheuma- 
 tism, he resigned his commission. He was one 
 of the men who assisted in the formation of the 
 Republican party. I'or years he was a personal 
 friend of Abraham Lincoln, whom he often en- 
 tertained, and in the memorable debate between 
 Lincoln and Douglas he had both of these dis- 
 tinguished men as guests in his lionic. An imcle 
 of Mrs. Dunlap, Gen. John Ballance, has been 
 an officer in the regular army for the past thirty 
 _\ears and has distinguished himself in many 
 of the Indian campaigns. In recognition of the 
 illustrious part he has borne in the war in the 
 Philippines he has recently been commissioned 
 a brigadier-general, and at this writing is gov- 
 ernor of the northern provinces of Luzon. 
 
 WILLIAM ROHRIG. 
 
 Of all the occupations which the delightful 
 climate and resourceful soil of the Salt River 
 valley render possible of success, none is more 
 interesting than the work to which Mr. Rohrig 
 has devoted so much careful thought and study. 
 Indeed, no one in the valley can speak with 
 greater authority on the subject of bee culture 
 than this popular vice-president of the Salt River 
 \'alley Honey Producers' Association, and in- 
 spector of bees of Maricopa county. Apiarism 
 has long been recognized as a science, and he 
 
 who would attain the best results must be un- 
 ceasing in work and study, and must keep pace 
 with the progress of his work as developed in 
 the principal centers of activity. Mr. Rohrig's 
 extended experience has ably fitted him for the 
 confidence which is reposed in his skill, and he 
 is perhaps the most scientific student on bee 
 manipulation in the entire valley. 
 
 The earliest associations of Mr. Rohrig are 
 with the west, for he was born in Sierra county. 
 Cal., March 28, 1866. The ancestral home of the 
 family is Germany, where his parents, Frederick 
 and Mary Rohrig, were born. Frederick Rohrig 
 had a disposition for adventure, and in search 
 of a fortune went to California in the days of 
 gold, and was among the most enthusiastic of 
 the forty-niners. For many years he sought the 
 precious metal in California, and especially in 
 Sierra coiuitv. The mother, who is over seventy 
 \e,:irs of age, resides with her son in the .Salt 
 River valley. When about nine years of age, 
 William Rohrig settled with his parents in Har- 
 mony, Clay county, Ind. In the public schools 
 of Clay county he received a good education, and 
 at times had considerable business experience. 
 When fourteen years of age he lost his father 1)y 
 death, after which he made his home witli his 
 mother and the other members of the family 
 until he started out in the world for himself. 
 
 Going to Kern county. Cal, in 1888, Mr. Roh- 
 rig remained there for a year, an<l during that 
 time had charge of .about five hundred colonies 
 of bees for William Dougherty, a well-known 
 apiarist of California. Upon subsequently re- 
 moving to New Mexico, he engaged in mining 
 for a time. The spring of 1891 found him in 
 Arizona. In the vicinity of Tempe, he has a 
 ranch of twenty acres, eight acres of which 
 are under almonds, plums and other orchard 
 products. He owns about one thousand colonies 
 of bees, which are located at four different places 
 in the valley. 
 
 January i, 1893, Mr. Rohrig married Ella 
 Stokes, who was born in Indiana. Of this union 
 there are five children, viz.: Anna L., Edith M., 
 Ethel H., Nora E. and W. Niles. Although en- 
 tertaining liberal views in regard to the politics 
 of the administration, ^Ir. Rohrig has Repub- 
 lican inclinations, but has never been an office- 
 seeker. Fraternallv he is associated with the
 
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 IndependeiU Order of Odd Fellows and with 
 the Woodmen of the World at Tenipe. lie is 
 one of the substantial residents of the valley, 
 and renders great service in his especial line by 
 reason of his personal aptitude and easy mastery 
 of an interestinsj occuiiation. 
 
 JOHN T. BRICKWOOD. 
 
 John T. Brickwood is the oldest settler now- 
 living in Nogales, having arrived here in 
 1882, when the tow'n had but one frame 
 and one adobe house, together with a few 
 tents, that formed the abiding places of the 
 ten or twelve persons then living in the 
 liamlet. From that year to the present time he 
 has taken a prominent ])art in the gradual devel- 
 opment of the village, has erected a number of 
 buildings, and has succeeded in the majority of 
 his enterprises. In 1899 he erected the Brick- 
 wood block, which he still owns and which is 
 by far the finest business block in the city. In 
 addition, he owns a ranch on the Santa Cruz 
 river and is the possessor of valuable mining 
 jjroperties in Sonora, Mexico. 
 
 Near Vandalia, Fayette county. III., Mr. 
 Brickwood was born December 19, 1849, being 
 a son of John and Maria (Bennett) Brickwood, 
 early settlers of Fayette county. In that county 
 he was reared to manhood and educated in pub- 
 lic schools. From there, in 1867, he removed 
 to Colorado, and engaged in mining around 
 Blackhawk, Georgetown and Central City. In 
 1869 he started overland for Arizona, via Albu- 
 querque. Arriving in Prescott in January of 
 1870, -he became interested in mining, and was 
 very successful as a freighter, owning his own 
 outfit, and receiving several government con- 
 tracts to carry supplies to the forts in the ter- 
 ritory. In the Bradshaw mountains he engaged 
 in prospecting, and was one of the men who 
 broke the trails into the mountains. In 1879 he 
 located in Tucson, and was for a time interested 
 in a liquor business. Subsequently he made his 
 home in Hcrshaw and Tombstone, and was en- 
 gaged in business in the former place. 
 
 In July of 1882 Mr. Brickwood came to No- 
 gales and was variously engaged in business. 
 chiefl_\" in mining and stock-raising, until 1898. 
 when his place of business was destroyed by the 
 
 widening of International street (which separates 
 the United States from Mexico) by a proclama- 
 tion of President McKinley declaring it a reser- 
 vation. At the present time he is engaged in 
 mining, is a successful stockman and deals con- 
 siderably in real estate. In politics he is a Re- 
 publican, and has served for two terms as coun- 
 cilman. In securing the division of Pima county, 
 which resulted in the creation of Santa Cruz 
 county, he bore an active part. In 1874 he 
 joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
 with which he has since been connected. He 
 assisted in organizing the lodge at Nogales, of 
 which he is past noble grand and which he twice 
 represented as a delegate to the grand lodge, 
 besides this being also a member of the en- 
 campment at Tucson. The Nogales lodge of the 
 Knights of Pythias numbers him among its 
 members. 
 
 In .\pril, 1884, Mr. Brickwood married Miss 
 Gaudalupe Canes, a native of Guayamas, Sonora, 
 Mexico, and a member of a prominent family of 
 that section. Of this imion nine children are 
 living, namely : Frances, John T., Jr., Marga- 
 rita, Guadalupe, Lola, Ellen, Luiza, Elize and 
 Mary. Two children are deceased. 
 
 CASSIUS N. STEWART. 
 
 One of the successful farmers and stock-rais- 
 ers of the Salt River valley is Cassius Stewart, 
 who has a well-conducted ranch six miles south- 
 east of Tempe. The one hundred and sixty acres 
 comprising the property are under a high state 
 of cultivation, and under the watchful care and 
 hard work of the owner have been made to pro- 
 duce abundantly! 
 
 On the paternal side the Stewart family is of 
 Scotch descent, and the maternal ancestry is 
 Dutch. The paternal grandfather, Alexander, 
 was born in North Carolina, and went to War- 
 ren county, Ohio, in 1803. When the war of 
 t8i2 was in progress he was yet a very young 
 man, and was employed to haul provisions for 
 the army. The maternal grandfather, Jonah 
 \'an(lervort, was also a farmer, and was a sol- 
 dier in the war of 181 2. Cassius N. Stewart was 
 born in Warren county, Ohio, July 11, 1845, 
 and is a son of Robert G. and Nancy (Vander- 
 vort) Stewart, natives of Warren county, Ohio.
 
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 Robert Stewart is deceased, and his wife is now 
 living at Paola, Kans., at an advanced age. 
 
 Cassias N. Stewart was reared in liis native 
 county, and received the training which falla 
 to the lot of the average farm-reared youth. 
 When twenty-one years of age he started out 
 in the world to carve his own fortune, and in 
 Miami county. Kans.. engaged in fanning and 
 stock-raising for over twenty years. He was 
 married in Ohio, February 25, 1873, to Mary 
 v.. Kersey, who was born in Ohio, a daughter 
 (if [Ienr\' and Mary Jane (Chamberlain) Kersey, 
 the family originating in North Carolina and 
 New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have two 
 children, .Xnna R., a graduate of the Territorial 
 Normal School at Tenipe, and now a teacher in 
 Maricopa county, and Clyde A., who is living 
 at home, and is also a graduate of the Normal 
 School at Tempe. From Kansas, in 1890, Mr. 
 Stewart came to Arizona, and has since been 
 a developer of the exhaustless fertility of the 
 Salt River valley. The ranch, which is the ob- 
 ject of his care at the present time, was taken 
 possession of in 1897, and has proved a profita- 
 ble and paying venture. 
 
 Mr. Stewart is one of the substantial and 
 highly respected residents of this part of the 
 county, and is essentially a man who has risen 
 upon his own unaided efforts. He is interested 
 in the undertakings of the Republican party, 
 but has never entertained political aspirations. 
 For one year he served as a director in the Utah 
 Canal Enlargement & Extension Company, and 
 has been variously interested in the enterprises 
 for the growth of his locality. Fraternally he 
 is associated with the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows at Tempe. He and his wife are 
 members of the Baptist Church at Tempe. 
 
 MICHAEL HERMANN. 
 
 The year after that which witnessed the close 
 of the Civil war, Mr. Hermann cast in his lot 
 with that of Arizona, and at the present time 
 lives on Groom creek, si.x miles from Prescott. 
 Within his experience here great changes have 
 taken place, and not the least is that which has 
 occurred in Prescott, then a tiny mining ham- 
 let, and to-day a prosperous little city of over 
 four thousand inhabitants. 
 
 The birth of our subject took place in Ger- 
 many January 24, 1840, and with his parents he 
 crossed the Atlantic and became a resident of 
 Erie, Pa., in 1852. Four years later he went 
 to Hardin county, Ohio, where he was occupied 
 in .agricultural pursuits until the outbreak of the 
 war. Then enlisting in Company G, Fourth 
 C)hio \'olunteer Infantry, he went to the front 
 and participated in all of the campaigns and bat- 
 tles in which his regiment was concerned until 
 the great battle of Gettysburg, where he was 
 seriously wounded. Having been honorably dis- 
 charged from the service on account of his dis- 
 ability, he returned home, but his sympathies 
 were so strongly with the Union that he con- 
 tinually meditated re-enlistment as soon as he 
 had sufficiently recovered to be received into the 
 army. In 1864, when the fate of the nation was 
 at about its darkest hour, he went to Missouri 
 and there volunteered as a soldier in the Second 
 Missouri Cavalry, serving throughout the re- 
 mainder of the war, and participating in numer- 
 ous important battles, including that of Chan- 
 cellorsville. 
 
 In 1866 Mr. Hermann set out for the west, in- 
 tending to go to the mining district of Montana 
 by the southwestern route, then considered the 
 most practicable. However, he altered his plans 
 and came to Prescott, where he was employed 
 m placer mining. In the following spring he 
 went to California and thence proceeded to Ne- 
 vada, but eventually returned to Arizona, which 
 he preferred for many reasons. He had been 
 absent about two years, but since 1869 has dwelt 
 in Yavapai county. For twenty-two years he 
 prospected and mined, working at placer mining 
 chiefly, and meeting with varying success. In 
 1891, while thus employed in the Hassayampa 
 district he met with a great misfortune, a boulder 
 falling upon his right leg. The injury sustained 
 necessitated amputation, though for three 
 months the physician strove nobly to save the 
 member. In the following year Mr. Hermann 
 bought the business and small store situated on 
 the main road at Groom creek, about six miles 
 south of Prescott. He is well known and is 
 popular with the miners of this region and is 
 making a good living, having only himself to 
 provide for, as he has no one dependent upon 
 him.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 SS:; 
 
 Since coming to Arizona he has made several 
 trips back to his old Ohio home. The boys who 
 wore the blue have ever been dear to his heart, 
 and for years he has held membership in Piarrett 
 I'ost, G. A. R., of Prcscott. In his political 
 faith he is an unconi|)roniisini; Republicui. thor- 
 oughly endorsing the wide and far-reaching pol- 
 icy of the present administration. 
 
 GEORGE W. ATklNSOX. 
 
 Many experiences have fallen to the lot of 
 Mr. .\tkinson since he took up his residence in 
 the far west. From a comparatively insignificant 
 beginning, and in the face of discouraging ob- 
 stacles, he has fought his way to the front, and 
 is now one of the successful farmers, stock-rais- 
 ers and brick manufacturers in the vicinity of 
 Calabasas, as well as a leading politician of Santa 
 Cruz county. 
 
 In Peoria, 111., Mr. .\tkinson was born De- 
 cember 14. 1844. His ])arents, John and Sarah 
 tLargent) .\tkiiison, natives respectively of 
 Yorkshire, England, and \ irginia, became ac- 
 quainted in Illinois and were there married, after 
 which tlie father continued to follow his trade 
 of a brick mason and contractor. Twice mar- 
 ried, he reared a family of eleven children. Un- 
 til his sixteenth year, George W. Atkinson 
 remained in Illinois. His opportunities for ac- 
 cjuiring an education were limited and the 
 greater part of his knowledge on various sub- 
 jects is a matter of mcTe recent acquirement. 
 \\'hen his parents removed to Denver, Colo., he 
 learned the brick-maker's trade under his 
 father and was thus prepared for the inde- 
 pendent life of the future. For a time he worked 
 with the firm of Atkinson & Baker, of which 
 his father was the senior member. 
 
 During the spring of 1877 George W. Atkin- 
 son made a trip through the Dakotas to Dead- 
 wood, returning to Denver in the fall of the 
 same year, after which he immediately ]iro- 
 ceeded to Globe, Ariz. Here he started a brick 
 yard and was the first man in the place to manu- 
 facture brick from the native soil. On the 4th 
 of July, 1878, he went to San Francisco. On 
 his return to Arizona he spent a short time in 
 the southern part of Pima county, and then came 
 to Calabasas January i, 1879, bringing with him 
 
 the contract to build the brick hotel here, and 
 the brick for which he manufactured from native 
 soil. While superintending work on the hotel, 
 he settled on a ranch near the town and about 
 1880 began general farming and stock-raising. 
 I he ranch is a finely im])r(ived ])lace on open 
 range, and contains one hundred and sixty 
 acres. Near by is the junction of the Santa Cruz 
 and Sonoiata rivers, and the excellent water 
 l)rivileges make the rancli a very desirable prop- 
 erty. The improvements are first-class and the 
 house, in which the famil\- have lived for twent\- 
 one years, is comfortable and commodious. The 
 system of irrigation from the Sonoiata river has 
 been perfected by Mr. .Vikinson. The soil is of 
 such a nature that he manufactures a liiuited 
 amount of brick on the jilace. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. .\tkinson married .Miss lulia 
 Jordan. Thev have two adopted children, Sam- 
 Tiel .Atkinson -and Joseph Deegan. In politics 
 Mr. ,\tkinson is a member of the Republican 
 party, and has held several important local posi- 
 tions. In 1888 he was elected supervisor and 
 served for two years. At the time of the forma- 
 tion of Santa Cruz county in March of 1899, '^^ 
 was appointed supervisor of the new county 
 by Governor Murphy, but resigned after thirty 
 days. In the election of 1900 he received the 
 nomination for the same position, but was de- 
 feated at the election. For several years he 
 served as trustee of the school district, and has 
 acted as chairman of the Calabasas Protective 
 Association. For some years after coming here, 
 Mr. .Atkinson was a member of the firm of L. 
 Zeckendorf & Co., who dealt in cattle, handling 
 al)out forty thousand head. 
 
 For the success w hich has risen above discour- 
 agement Air. Atkinson deserves great credit. 
 .Some of his early Arizona experiences will long 
 be remembered by him, more especially those in 
 connection with the Indians and Mexicans. In 
 1879 he started one day for the ranch of P. Kit- 
 chen, on the road to Calabasas, and on his re- 
 turn trip was waylaid by five Mexicans, who pro- 
 ceeded to rob him of his saddle and $40 in 
 money. Returning to Tuscon, he bought a gun 
 and replenished his finances. Two weeks later, 
 w liile making brick, he' was again waylaid and 
 treated even more brutally than before. The 
 robbers took him prisoner, escorted him to his
 
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 own lionie, made him cook their dinner, and 
 then demanded $500. Upon his refusal to give 
 them the money, tliey put a rope around his neck 
 and pulled him up a few times, and at the end 
 of the proceedings got $30. Two weeks later 
 they were captured in Sonora, Mexico, and with 
 them were found Mr. Atkinson's saddle and 
 overcoat. During the Indian outbreak of 1886 
 the Indians came to his ranch and helped them- 
 selves to his stock, hut since then he has been 
 unmolested. 
 
 WILLIAM H. KAY. 
 
 As an agriculturist of the Salt River valley 
 and a member of the Live Stock and Sanitary 
 Board of Arizona, Mr. Kay is the possessor of 
 many acquaintances throughout the territory. 
 He was born in Keokuk, Iowa, June 17, 1861, 
 and w'hen lie was a year old the family moved to 
 Adams county, 111. His parents, Charles W. 
 and Rebecca (Ilewcsj Kay, were natives respec- 
 tively of Kentucky and Hancock county. 111. In 
 Adams county. 111., Charles \V. Kay was for 
 years successfully engaged in the nursery busi- 
 ness, and subsequently turned his attention to 
 general farming and stock-raising. He became 
 identified with the important happenings of the 
 county, and was well known, and esteemed for 
 his many excellent traits of mind and character. 
 He removed from Illinois to Maricopa county,. 
 Ariz., in 1887, and for eleven years was interested 
 in horticulture in the vicinity of AUianibra. In 
 1898 he and his wife removed to Los .\ngeles, 
 Cal., where they now reside. He is a Republican 
 in national politics, a member of the Baptist 
 church, and a man of high moral character. Of 
 his children the following survive: William H., 
 Frank G., in Los Angeles county, Cal.; Harry, 
 living near Phoenix; Mrs. Sanuicl Green, living 
 in Maricopa county; Stella, at Los Angeles, and 
 Stanley, also of Los .Vngeles. 
 
 William H. Kay was educated in the public 
 schools of Adams county. 111., and subsequentl\- 
 graduated from the Gem City Business college, 
 at Quincy, 111. Under his father's able instruc- 
 tion he became an excellent farmer, and for a 
 time engaged in independent farming enterprises 
 in Adams county. His association with the west 
 began in 1887, when he accompanied his father 
 
 and family to Maricopa county, Ariz., and re- 
 mained behind when they determined to settle in 
 Los Angeles, Cal. His enterprises in the valley 
 are conducted in partnership with his brother, 
 under the firm name of Kay Bros., and they 
 carry on large cattle-raising and grain-growing 
 interests. The claim of Mr. Kay is located eight 
 luiles northwest of Phoenix, and consists of four 
 lumdred and eighty acres under a high state of 
 cidtivation. The partnership of the brothers 
 was dissolved in 1898, and since that time Wil- 
 liam Kay has been sole proprietor of the busi- 
 ness. 
 
 December 14, 1893, occurred his marriage 
 with Maud J. Grove, a native of Adams county, 
 111., and a daughter of Hon. Isaac Grove, a 
 l)r(Muinent farmer and stock-raiser of Adams 
 coimty. He has served as supervisor of Payson 
 township, Adams county, and has also been a 
 mendjer of the Illinois state legislature. A Re- 
 publican in politics, Mr. Kay takes an active in- 
 terest in the undertakings of his party, but has 
 never been an office seeker. In 1899 he was ap- 
 pointed by Governor Murjihy a member of the 
 live stock and sanitary board of Arizona. Mr. 
 Kay is a progressive .and helpful luember of the 
 community which is honored by his ability and 
 excellent citizenship, and is regarded as an ac- 
 quisition to this wonderful] \' iironlising garden 
 spot of the far west. 
 
 JOEL E. JOHNSON. 
 
 An enterprising tiller of the soil in the vicinity 
 of Mesa, Mr. Johnson was born in I'ottawat- 
 tamie county, Iowa, July 14, 1853. His parents, 
 Joseph E. and Harriet (Snider) Johnson, were 
 born respectively in New York state and in 
 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Air. Johnson is de- 
 ceased, and his wife is now living near Mesa, and 
 is in her seventy-eighth year. 
 
 At the age of nine years Mr. Johnson was 
 taken by his parents to ,Salt Lake City, where 
 they remained for a short time, subsequently 
 settling in Washington county, of the same state. 
 Here he received a good education in a private 
 school in Washington county. The elder John- 
 son was an experienced horticulturist and nur- 
 seryman at St. George, Washington county, and 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAI. RECORD. 
 
 887 
 
 published an horticultural paper called the "Utah 
 Pomologist." He was also interested in the drug 
 business, and in addition to the management of 
 his drug store was the manufacturer of the well- 
 known remedies called Johnson's Remedies. 
 Joseph Johnson was a prominent man in the 
 affairs of the connnunity in which he lived, and 
 served for two terms as a member of the I 'tali 
 legislature. 
 
 I'nder his father's able instruction, Joel F.. 
 Johnson learned the nurserv and horticulture 
 business, and was tor a time manager of the 
 periodical published by his father. During De- 
 cember, 1881, he married Mary E. Hastings, of 
 Utah, and of this union tliere have been born 
 ten children, seven of whom are living, viz.: Har- 
 riet E., J. Elmer, Joseph \\'., Edgar L., Emily 
 M., Rosemary and Charles E. In 1882 he set- 
 tled in the Salt River valley, and has since been 
 identified with its prosperity and promise. 
 .•\mong the many responsibilities assumed by 
 Mr. Johnson may be mentioned his former di- 
 rectorship in the Mesa Cheese Factory, and his 
 present association as stockholder in the Tempe- 
 Mesa Produce Company, and in the Zenos Co- 
 operative Mercantile & Mamifacturing Institu- 
 tion at Mesa. 
 
 The ranch u]ic)n which Mr. Johnson conducts 
 his farming and stock-raising enterprises was 
 formerly in a raw and sterile condition, and has 
 developed under tlie patience and care of the 
 owner into a condition of utility and resource. 
 In politics a Deniocra-t. he has never entertained 
 political aspirations, but is nevertheless inter- 
 ested in the undertakings of his party. He is 
 a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 
 ter-day I^aints. 
 
 IGNACIO MACMANUS. 
 
 The men of Mexico are more and more enter- 
 ing into the great connnercial activities which 
 have been, and are, working out the destinx of 
 the United States, their northern neighbor. 
 Today they are reaching forward to nnitual alli- 
 ances for advancement and the benefits of ever- 
 increasing civilization, .\mong these wide- 
 awake, ambitious Mexicans, Mr. Macmanus is 
 prominent and well known. 
 
 A native of Chihuahua and reared to maturity 
 in that state, our subject received a liberal edu- 
 
 cation and early manifested an aptitude for com- 
 mercial pursuits. I'lecoming connected with a 
 banking institution, he gradually worked his 
 way u|iward from one position to another until 
 he became the manager of the Commercial Bank 
 of Chihuahua. In fact, he was one of the organ- 
 izers and incor])orators of that estaljlisbment, 
 ;ind remained in its employ for several years, 
 winning the complete confidence and good-will 
 of all of its officers. In i8(/) lie went to Enscn- 
 ada. Lower California, where he was influential 
 in founding the bank owned by the Lower Cali- 
 fornia Develo])inent Companx . and as manager 
 of this bank continued until 1897, when he sev- 
 ered his relations with the same in order to ac- 
 ce])t his ]iresent ])osilion — that of cashier of 
 ilie P. Sandoval iv Co. I'..ank, of \ogales, Ariz. 
 His ex[)erience as a banker has l)cen extensive. 
 Tliori-iughly familiar with the United States 
 methods of handling financial affairs, and at the 
 same time acquainted with special Mexican busi- 
 ness systems, he is suited for his important posi- 
 tion, and is justifving the conlidence rejiosed 
 in him. 
 
 Mr. Maciiiaiiiis married Miss Silveri.a ( )liva- 
 res, of an fild and highly respected familv of 
 Chihuahua. They have five children, viz.: 
 .Maria, now a student at the College of Notre 
 Dame, San Jose, Cal.: .Sara, Ignacio, Jr., .\nna, 
 and Alicia, who are at home. Mr. Macmanus 
 and family cjccupy a handsome home in .Vogales, 
 
 .\riz., where they <lis])ense 
 lo their many friends. 
 
 a gracious hospitality 
 
 JOSEPH .\. STEWART. 
 
 One of the ])ioneers of the Salt River valley 
 is Joseph A. Stewart, who has been associated 
 with its develojiment for nearly a score of years, 
 lie was born in Missouri. September 21. 1848, 
 and is a son of Alvin I", and Camera (Owen) 
 .Stewart. The Stewarts were of Scotch extrac- 
 tion, and our subject's father was a native of 
 (ieorgetown, X. ^'. In 1852 the family removed 
 to Utah count), Utah, and later lo Richmond, 
 Cache county, where the mother, who was a 
 native of Indiana, died in 1867. The father now 
 resides in Mesa, .Vriz., and has reached the age 
 of eighty-two years. 
 
 The boyhood of Joseph A. Stewart was spent
 
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 in the pursuits of the farm, his ideas on the sub- 
 ject of agriculture being thoroughly practical. 
 After reaching man's estate he continued to live 
 in Cache county for several years, and at last, 
 in 1882, concluded to cast in his fortunes with 
 the little colony near Mesa. M.aking the long 
 and tiresome journey here, he proceeded with 
 his usual energy to cultivate the farm upon 
 which he settled, and within a few years wrought 
 wonderful changes. The land, an unimproved 
 strip of the desert, as it might have been called, 
 was rendered very productive by his well- 
 directed labors, and today is a valuable farm, 
 some sixty acres in extent. 
 
 Mr. Stewart is a director in the Tempe-Mesa 
 Produce Company; is a director of the Mesa 
 Canal Company and of the Zenos Co-operativi- 
 Mercantile & Manufacturing Company of Mesa. 
 For a number of years he served as a trustee 
 of Alma school district No. 19, Maricopa county 
 In his political faith he is a Democrat. An ac- 
 tive member of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
 the Latter-day Saints, he is now serving as 
 first counselor to the bishop of Alma Ward, and 
 is looked up to and consulted as an authority in 
 ecclesiastical matters. 
 
 In 1877 Mr. Stewart married Julia C. Hobson, 
 who was born and reared in Utah county, LTtah. 
 They have seven living children, namely : Joseph 
 A., Jr.; Jesse H., Catherine H., Leroy H., Lydia 
 H., Ethel H. and Grantley H. Four children 
 died when young. Those who survive are being 
 given good educations and in practical ways 
 are being qualified to meet the battles of life. 
 The parents are highly esteemed by all who 
 know them, and arc devoted to the interests of 
 their family and to their friends and neighbors 
 as well. 
 
 BEN HENEY. 
 
 The life of Mr. Heney is a record of the in- 
 teresting and successful undertakings of a man 
 who has known how to avail himself of oppor- 
 tunities. Associated through the whole of his 
 matured life with the conditions of the wild and 
 undeveloped west, where there are perhaps 
 greater chances for loss and gain than in any 
 other part of the country, he has grown to be a 
 power and influence in the political and financial 
 world of Arizona, as well as an enterprising and 
 
 popular citizen of Fairbank. Though engaged 
 at the present time in conducting a general 
 merchandise store in his adopted town, this is 
 but of comparative unimportance when placed 
 beside the large real estate and mining interests 
 which demand his time and attention. 
 
 A native of Lima, near Rochester, N. Y., Mr. 
 Heney was born in 1861, and is a son of Richard 
 and Julia (Scrieber) Heney. The greater part 
 of his education was acquired in San Francisco, 
 Cal., whither his parents had removed in 1863. 
 .\fter finishing at the high school, he entered, 
 with the highest honors, the University of Cali- 
 fornia, in the class of 1879. Two years later he 
 entered upon an independent career, and upon 
 locating in Tucson, Ariz., became connected 
 with the banking house of Hudson & Co., sever- 
 ing the association at the end of three years. 
 Armed with this excellent commercial experi- 
 ence, Mr. Heney became interested in the cattle 
 business, on a ranch on the San Pedro river, be- 
 low Benson, and in time he purchased another 
 ranch near Pantano, upon which he carried on 
 large stock interests, handling at times several 
 thousand head. In the meantime, during the 
 twelve years of experience in the stock business, 
 he had resided in Tucson, where he attained to 
 prominence in political and other afifairs, and 
 was appointed chief deputy county treasurer and 
 ta.x collector under Thomas Hughes in 1885. 
 In 1889 he was elected county treasurer and tax 
 collector, and held the positions for two terms. 
 In 1892 he was elected president of the Republi- 
 can league of Arizona. For eight years he ac- 
 ceptably filled the position of secretary of the 
 territorial board of equalization, and was chair- 
 man of the Pima county Republican committee 
 for the two years 1898-9. In Tucson he invested 
 heavily in real estate, which- is still among his 
 numerous possessions in that line in different 
 parts of the territory. 
 
 In 18(^5 Mr. Heney disposed of the ranches 
 upon which his stock business was carried on, 
 and became interested in the mines of Arizona 
 and lands of the Gulf Coast of Texas, which 
 have since furnished such a gratifying source of 
 revenue. At the present time he owns the cop- 
 per mine in the Pima district, called Pandora, 
 which is by far the richest district in Arizona. 
 He is also a stockholder in many other mines
 
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 89 1 
 
 throughout southern Arizona, and owns an in- 
 terest in a land grant in Sonora. Mexico. In 
 lyoo he became still further identified with Ari- 
 zona interests by purchasing the general mer- 
 chandise store, warehouses and business in Fair- 
 l)ank, which stock and concern have been 
 greatly increased, and now supph- the nianv- 
 sided necessities of the dwellers of this flourish- 
 ing junction town and surrounding country. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Hency married F.rminia Roca, of 
 Tucson, and of this union there are tlirce chil- 
 dren : Ruth, r.en, Jr., and Carlvle. 
 
 LOUIS E. DIVELBESS. 
 
 Louis E. Divelbess, postmaster of Holbrook, 
 and chairman of the board of supervisors of 
 Xavajo couiUy, is a native of Steuben county. 
 Ind., born January 13. 1851. I'pon arriv- 
 ing at man's estate he left home to seek 
 his livelihood in the west. In the autunui 
 of 1870 he stopped at Leavenworth county, 
 Kans., but in the following winter pro- 
 ceeded to Trego county, that state, where he 
 remained until May, 1872. His next place of 
 residence was Ottawa county, Kans. In Febru- 
 ary, 1875, he went to Santa Cruz county, Cal., 
 where he devoted the next three years to lum- 
 bering and various other enterprises. From 
 1878 to 1880 he lived in Santa Clara county, 
 Cal., while in 1880 and 1881 he was a resident 
 of Bent county, Colo., and later, until 1884, was 
 engaged in merchandising at Liberty, N, M, 
 
 Entering the employ of the .Atlantic & Pacific 
 Railroad in the early part of 1884, Mr. Divel- 
 bess came to Holbrook and for twelve years re- 
 mained in charge of the pumping station at this 
 point. Having received the recognition of his 
 fellow-citizens as a patriot and sincere supporter 
 of local enterprises, he was honored with public 
 offices. I'elieving that the separation of the 
 present Xavajo county from that of Ajjache 
 would prove of lasting benefit to this commu- 
 nity, he strongly advocated the measure, and at 
 last was made ha]ip>' by witnessing the consum- 
 mation of the plan. In 1896, at the first general 
 election held in the newdy created couiUy, he 
 was elected one of its supervisors, receiving the 
 highest number of votes of any Repubhcan 
 jioniinee. During the three years of his service 
 
 as chairman of the board the substantial brick 
 courthouse and jail was built, and he gave per- 
 sonal attention to the work. In the fall of 1900, 
 so well satisfied was the public with his adminis- 
 tration of affairs that he was again elected to the 
 board of county supervisors, his term to be of 
 four years' duration. .\t this writing he is still 
 chairman of the board. In October, 1897, the 
 postmaster-general appointed him postmaster of 
 llcdbrook, in which capacity he is giving 
 efticient service. 
 
 It is well known that .Mr. Divelbess has been 
 one of the influential factors in the local ranks 
 of the Republican party, for tliough not a poli- 
 tician, in the usual sense of the term, he is an 
 earnest advocate of the policy of his party. The 
 cause of education finds in him a sincere friend, 
 and for years he has been connected with the 
 school board of Holbrook. Fraternally he is 
 identified with the local lodge of the Masonic 
 order, and at this writing is acting as its secre- 
 tary. He also belongs to the Winslow lodge of 
 the' Elks. 
 
 In February, 1881, he married Mrs. Daisy C, 
 Stickney, who was born in .St. Paul, Minn., and 
 at the time of her marriage was a resident of 
 Junction City, Kans., although their wedding 
 was solenmized in Las Animas, Bent county, 
 Colo. Born of that union were four children : 
 Louis Daniel, John Howell, Rebecca Pearl and 
 Henry Ezra. Mrs. Divelbess died at the family 
 residence in Holbrook .August 22, 1893. 
 
 L. \". McCt)URT. 
 
 ( If Irish birth and ancestry, Mr. AlcCourt was 
 born in 1868, and is a son of John and Margaret 
 McCourt, also born in Ireland. .\t the earlv age 
 of twelve years he emigrated to the Ignited 
 States, and after visiting New York City. Buf- 
 falo and St. Louis, came to I'ort Thomas, .\riz., 
 where he accejjted a clerkship with F. E. Mc- 
 (juiimess, one of the post traders, for two and 
 a half \ears. .\ subse(|uent undertaking was 
 a general merchandise business at Solomon- 
 ville, and a later return to Fort Thomas, wdiere 
 he purchased an interest in a mercantile con- 
 cern, and was associated therewith for two years. 
 While living at Solomonville Mr. McCourt was 
 united in m.'UM'iage with Mar\- E. Leahey, of
 
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 Kingston, Canada, and he was visited with a 
 great loss upon returning to Fort Thomas in the 
 death of his wife. He took all that was mortal of 
 his former comrade and helpmate back to her old 
 home in the east, and remained there for about 
 eight months. 
 
 In the meantime he had sold his interests at 
 Fort Thomas, and upon returning to Arizona 
 was employed bj- the Arizona Copper Company 
 as chief clerk at Clifton for a period covering 
 three years. While pursuing a later occupation 
 as traveling salesman for C. H. Fargo, of Chi- 
 cago, he had an opportunity to see considerable 
 of a hitherto unfamiliar part of the country, his 
 route including the greater part of Arizona, 
 New Mexico and Southern California. He then 
 resigned and became chief clerk for the John 
 H. Norton Company at Willcox for four years, 
 and, following a long-existing inclination, then 
 returned to the scene of his birth and boyhood 
 associations in Ireland. At the conclusion of 
 this visit he returned to Arizona and to his for- 
 mer position in Willcox, and after a few months 
 went into business for himself, in partnership 
 with Samuel J. Geddes, the mercantile business 
 being conducted under the firm name of Mc- 
 Court & Geddes. 
 
 In 1896 Mr. McCourt married Isabelle Lea- 
 hey. The first Mrs, McCourt left a daughter. 
 May, who is now being educated at a convent 
 in Las Cruces, N. M. 
 
 HON. CHARLES D. POSTON. 
 
 The first delegate to congress from .Arizona 
 was C. D. Poston. a pioneer of the territory, 
 now residing in Phoenix. He was born in 
 Hardin county. Ky., April 20. 1825. When 
 twelve years of age he was left motherless. Soon 
 afterward he was placed in the county clerk's of- 
 fice, where he served an apprenticeship of seven 
 years. During the next three years he was in 
 the office of the supreme court of Tennessee, at 
 Nashville, where he also studied law and was 
 admitted to the bar. L'pon the acquisition of 
 California he decided to seek a home in the west, 
 and received an apjjointment in the custom- 
 house at San Francisco. Upon the conclusion of 
 the treaty with Mexico for the purchase of Ari- 
 zona, he embarked with an exploring party of 
 
 perhaps thirty men. bent on exploring the new- 
 possessions. .After examining the territory, he 
 returned to Californii, and thence, via the isth- 
 mus, to New York. Kentucky and W'ashington, 
 where he spent a yenr in interesting capital in 
 the new territory. 
 
 With funds for opening silver mines, in 1856 
 Mr. Poston returned to Arizona, where he en- 
 gaged in developing nu'nes for a New York 
 company, .\fterward he was transferred to the 
 New York office of the company. In 1S63 he 
 was appointed supL-rintendeut of Indian atTairs 
 for Arizona. When civil government was insti- 
 tuted in Arizona. l;e was elected the first dele- 
 gate to congress. At the conclusion of his term 
 he made a tour of Europe and visited the Paris 
 exposition of 1867. the results of his travels 
 being a little book ca'led "Europe in Summer 
 Time." Returning to Washington, he resumed 
 the practice of law there. When the news of 
 the Burlingame Chinese embassy came over the 
 wire, it aroused an old ambition to see the 
 splendor and havoc of Asia, and, in company 
 with Ross Brown, an old friend, and the then 
 minister to China, he crossed the ocean, bear- 
 ing with him a commission from Mr. Seward to 
 visit Asia in the interests of immigration and 
 irrigation, also was commissioned bearer of dis- 
 patches from the Chinese embassy to the Em- 
 peror of China. 
 
 Before the inauguration of President Hayes, 
 Mr. Poston was appointed by President Grant 
 register of the L'nited States land ofifice of Ari- 
 zona, and he also served as consular agent at 
 Nogales, Mexico, and military agent at El Paso, 
 Tex. Five subsequent years were spent in 
 Washington, where he promoted the interests of 
 government irrigation, a measure that has pro- 
 duced more good results tlikn any other enter- 
 prise since the construction of the Pacific Rail- 
 road. At one time he ser\'ed as president of the 
 Arizona Historical Societv. 
 
 MAJOR L. W. COGGINS. 
 
 Major Coggins was born in Lamoine, Me., 
 January 15. 1869. a descendant of an old family 
 of that state. His father, Luther D., a native 
 of Maine, was a son of Capt. A. C. Coggins, 
 who engaged in the coasting trade and com-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 893 
 
 manded a vessel of his own. During the war 
 of 1812 the captain's service."; were so constant 
 and so persistent in the aid of the .\niericans 
 that the British set a price upon his head and 
 his hfc was in daily peril. Indeed, on one oc- 
 casion he narrowly escaped in time to save him- 
 self, but his vessel was lost. In early life Luther 
 D. Coggins was a sailor, but in 1874 lie settled 
 in Greeley, Colo., where he engaged in the cat- 
 tle business for many years. In 1892 he came 
 to Arizona and accepted a position as foreman of 
 a lumber business in Phoenix. His wife bore 
 the maiden name of Mary C. Durfee, and was 
 born in Connecticut, being a daughter of Wil- 
 liam C. Durfee. 
 
 In the grammar and public schools of Greeley 
 our subject received his education. For a time 
 he was bookkeeper in a lumber yard, after which 
 he served as deputy county clerk and recorder 
 for three years. In January, 1892, he came to 
 Phoenix, and started a set of abstract books, 
 with Z. O. Brown. On the formation of the 
 Phoenix Title Guarantee & Abstract Company, 
 he was chosen vice-president, and still fills that 
 position. In 1898 the Republicans nominated 
 him to the office of county assessor, and he was 
 duly elected, taking the oath of office in Janu- 
 ary, 1899, to serve until January, 1901. He is 
 a member of the Woodmen of the World and 
 the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In 
 the Baptist Church he is president of the board 
 of trustees, has been chorister for years, and acts 
 as Sunday-school superintendent. His mar- 
 riage took place in Greeley, Colo., and united 
 him with Miss Sarah M. Mason, who was born 
 in Kpworth, Iowa, and was reared in Greeley. 
 They have three children, Ruth M., May .\. 
 and Ralph L. 
 
 May 19, 1893, Mr. Coggins enlisted in Com- 
 pany B, First Arizona Regiment, Xational 
 Guard. He was made sergeant November 16, 
 1893; commissioned first lieutenant October 18, 
 1894; captain, April 11, 1896; but resigned 
 April 19, 1897, on account of lack of interest 
 shown by the legislature in the National Gu.^.rd. 
 -August II, 1898, he was commissioned major 
 and inspector of small-arms practice. In the 
 organization of the Arizona Society Sons of 
 the .'\merican Revolution he bore an active part 
 and is now officiating as one of the directors in 
 
 the same. His right to membership in this or- 
 ganization comes from his great-great-grand- 
 father. Sergeant Asa Lawrence, who was an offi- 
 cer in Joseph Cady's company, Eleventh Con- 
 necticut Regiment, and bore a part in the relief 
 of Boston and Lexington. 
 
 DAVID T. HIBBERT. 
 
 Many of the "waste places" of the west have 
 been made to "bloom and blossom as the rose" 
 through the efforts of the members of the 
 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 
 This fact is admitted even by those who are at 
 variance with their religious belief. The per- 
 .';everance they have shown, under the most dis- 
 couraging surroundings, has won the admira- 
 tion of all. A notable example of their enter- 
 prise is the Mesa district, and the Mesa canal 
 might also be mentioned. Mr. Hibbert has 
 been associated with this particular locality for 
 the past twenty-two years, and is well known 
 here. 
 
 One of the eight children of John and Eliza- 
 beth (Davis) Hibbert, David T. was born in 
 Provo City, Utah, June 12, 1858. Four of the 
 family are now deceased ; the others are : David 
 T,, John D., Elizabeth A., wife of C. S. Sellers, 
 a nurseryman of Mesa, and Daniel, of Mesa. 
 The father came from England in 1849, and the 
 mother emigrated from the same country in 
 1855. For some time the former was employed 
 as a fireman on a Mississippi river steamboat, 
 after which he worked in lead mines near St. 
 Louis. Tn 1853 he went to Utah, and after liv- 
 ing in different parts of that state, settled in 
 Bear Lake Valley, Idaho, in April, 1863, where 
 he engaged in farming and stock-raising. In 
 1878, with his family, he removed to Mesa, his 
 ])resent place of residence. 
 
 David T. Hibbert's childhood and youth were 
 passed in Utah and Idaho, and after accjuiring 
 the rudiments of general knowledge in a private 
 .subscription school, he attended Brigham 
 Young's Academy at Provo City, Utah. With 
 his parents and other relatives he came to Mesa. 
 Ever since his arrival he has devoted his atten- 
 tion to the improvement of his ranch and the 
 raising of live stock. He is an active member 
 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
 
 894 
 
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 Saints, serves a-s assistant superintendent of the 
 Alma Sunday-school and as a member of the 
 council of the Ninetieth Quorum of the Seven- 
 ties. In politics he is a Republican. 
 
 By his marriage to Miss Delia C. Sirrine, 
 daughter of George W. Sirrine, of Mesa, Mr. 
 Hihhcrt has seven children, namely: David L., 
 Maude E., George \\'. (deceased), Elorence, 
 Alice I., Delia M., Esther .\., and George W. 
 All are living exce])t the third child, George W., 
 who would liave Itcen ten years old at the pres- 
 ent time. 
 
 HULBERT B. CROUCH. 
 
 The fertile Salt River valley has few more 
 successful agriculturists than Mr. Crouch, and 
 few more enthusiastic advocates of its possibili- 
 ties and resources. Nor has any dweller within 
 reach of its abundant harvests and delightful 
 climate labored more faithfully in the unfolding 
 of the present prosperity. With the institutions 
 which are indigenous to this part of the country, 
 and the result of the peculiar soil and climatic 
 conditions he has had much to do. He has in- 
 terested himself in the qttestion of irrigation and 
 water supply. The necessity for irrigation, the 
 only tangii)le fault to be foimd with a residence 
 here or in Calif(jrnia, has been met in a partially 
 satisfactory manner by the exertions of men 
 like Air. Crouch, who have given the subject 
 profound and long continued consideration. At 
 this writing he is president and a director of the 
 Leon Canal & Irrigation Company, and was one 
 of its organizers and incorporators. 
 
 The association of Mr. Crouch with the terri- 
 tory began in 1877, and has continued to the 
 present time. For several years he was located 
 in the vicinity of Prescott, in Skull valley, where 
 he engaged in the peaceful occupation of farm- 
 ing and cattle-raising. A later venture was in 
 Pleasant valley, where he turned his attention 
 exclusively to stock-raising. In 1893 '^^ came 
 to Salt River valley and settled on the lower 
 south side of Salt river, eleven miles southwest 
 of Phoenix. He is one of the large land owners 
 of the vicinity, and is the possessor of over eight 
 hundred acres, five hundred of which comjirise 
 the home ranch. Here is conducted general 
 fanning and stock-raising, the meth(5ds em- 
 
 ployed being on the most advanced and scientific 
 order. 
 
 The boyhood days of Mr. Crouch were spent 
 in his native St. Lawrence county, N. Y., where 
 he was born May I, 1851. His parents, William 
 1!. and Martha (Ireland) Crouch, were natives 
 of New York state. The maternal grandfather 
 was ;i soldier in the war of 1S12. When a child 
 of tender years Hulbert 1'.. removed with his 
 ]5arents from St. Lawrence county, N. Y., to 
 ( Iswego county, of the same state, where he 
 attained to years of discretion, and received a 
 good education in the pid)lic schools of the 
 county. When seventeen years of age he pre- 
 pared for future independence by learning the 
 painter's trade, in which he engaged for a num- 
 ber of years. In 1875 he changed his location 
 to the west, and located in Denver, Colo., going 
 later to Virginia City, Nev., and there remain- 
 ing until 1877, when he removed to Arizona. 
 
 Mrs. Crouch was formerly Mrs. Olive Bowers, 
 and her marriage with Mr. Crouch occurred in 
 1879. By her marriage with Mr. Bowers she 
 became the mother of four children, three of 
 whom are living: Mrs. Richard J. Hambrook, 
 of Phoenix, Ariz.; Charles H., also of Arizona; 
 and Edward P., who is living at home. To Mr. 
 and Mrs. Crouch have been born two daughters, 
 Ellen L. and Mary A. Mr. Crouch is a member 
 of the Republican party, and is interested in all 
 of the undertakings of that organization. Fra- 
 ternally he is associated with the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows. 
 
 (;eorCtE scherrer. 
 
 To the conduct of the various enterprises in 
 which he is interested in Cochise county, and of 
 which he has made a success, principally in the 
 line of stock-raising and mining, Mr. Scherrer 
 has brought the persevering and determined 
 traits of character which are the birthright of the 
 average German youth. He was born in Ger- 
 man}- December 30, 1854, and is a son of Frank 
 and Margaret (Schwab) Scherrer, also natives 
 of the fatherland, where eventually terminated 
 their useful and industrious lives. He received 
 a substantial home training, and was educated 
 in the public schools, and like most sons of 
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 897 
 
 while yet young. .Anued with a knowledge of 
 tailoring, which he liad learned at lUirg, he 
 started out to face the future in a new and un- 
 tried land, and upon immigrating to America 
 located in New Orleans, wliere he worked at his 
 trade. Upon going later to Wesson, Copiah 
 county. Miss., he ijecanie foreman for a few 
 months in a big shop, and then returned to New 
 Orleans. Subsequently he worked at his trade 
 for three \ears in Te.xas, spending two years at 
 Dallas, and one year at Fort Worth. 
 
 In Te.xas Mr. .Scherrcr became ambitious in 
 regard to the west, and purchased teams with 
 which he crossed the ]5lains, arriving finally on 
 the Gila river at Fort Tliomas, since wliich time 
 he has lived continuously in .\rizona. .\s here- 
 tofore, a knowledge of tailoring was a conven- 
 ient acquisition, and he made the clothes of the 
 soldiers located at Forts Thomas and Grant. 
 Naturally he soon became imbued with the spirit 
 of mining, and prospected in the Dragoon 
 mountains, and in time owned interests in some 
 very valuable mining properties. Perhaps his 
 largest shares have been in the Peabody mine, 
 which originally sold for $350,000, later sold 
 for $10,000 to W. D. Hubbard, and was finally 
 abandoned. About a year ago there was a re- 
 newed interest in this mining proposition, the 
 merits of which were bound to come to the sur- 
 face, and which sold at the time for $75,000. 
 Things have since been booming in the old Pea- 
 body, and ore is being shipped by the thousands 
 of dollars' worth, the output in four months 
 alone being $100,000. In connection with this 
 mine, about 1885, Mr. Scherrer helped to put in 
 a smelter, and for two years furnished the w^ater 
 to operate the same. A\ hen the price of copper 
 went down six or seven cents the smelter no 
 longer seemed a remunerative addition to the 
 works, and was consequently removed to John- 
 son, the water being piped there from here. Mr. 
 Scherrer is also interested in the Republic, 
 .Mammoth, Golden Shield, and Southern, all of 
 which are copper mines. Another possession, 
 the St. George copper mine, in wdiich he had 
 one-third interest, has recently lieen disposed of 
 for $8,000, but he still owns the Mayflower, an 
 extension of the Republic. 
 
 In the line of stock-raising Mr. Scherrer has 
 important interest^. His life Ikt- not been de- 
 
 31 
 
 void of discouraging happenings, as has been 
 the experience of most early settlers of this 
 ccnmty, and there is nothing particularly exhil- 
 arating about having one's cattle appropriated 
 by Indian marauilers. He had this experience 
 in 1878. at which time two horses were taken, 
 and the four other men which comprised the 
 neighborhood residents organized themselves 
 into a posse and started out in search of the 
 robbers. They came up with a company of sol- 
 diers and followed their eight government pack 
 mules over the Dragoon mountains, but never 
 succeeded in getting track of Indians or stock. 
 The soldiers, however, captured a few Indians, 
 which served as examples, and the robberies 
 were forthwith discontinued. 
 
 March 11, 1S90, Mr. Scherrer married Anna, 
 a daughter of John and Julia (W'eise) Marta, of 
 St. Louis, Mo. To Mr. and Mrs. Scherrer have 
 been l)orn three children : .Anna, Harry and Al- 
 i)crt. who arc attending school. Mr. Scherrer 
 is intlependent in politics, and believes in voting 
 for the best man. He has served as school trus- 
 tee for one term. With his wife and family he 
 is a member of the Catholic Church. 
 
 H. GERWIEN. 
 
 The peaceful, progressive and law-abiding 
 town of Benson is indebted to none of its citizens 
 in a greater degree than to Mr. Gerwien. An 
 expert contractor and builder, and fine cabinet- 
 maker, he has erected nearly all of the buildings 
 witliin the limits of the town, and the surround- 
 ing ranches and mining camps also have profited 
 l)y his skill in construction. But it is not alone 
 as a builder that Mr. Gerwien is known for 
 nianv miles around. His m.emory of Benson 
 goes back to the time when it was probably the 
 most lawless town on the map, and when eternal 
 vigilance was the watchword of the more orderly 
 citizens. .As foreman of the grand jury five times, 
 and as a juryman on the United States jury on 
 several different occasions, he was thoroughly in 
 touch with the unruly condition of affairs, and 
 exerted an influence on the side of peaceful but 
 forceful administration. It is really remarkable 
 that through all these years, and while taking 
 part in most of the enterprises that have been 
 developed from time to time, he ha? never had
 
 898 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 a lawsuit, nor has he ever resorted to other than 
 the most kindly means of adjustment. During 
 his residence in Benson, the fluctuating fortunes 
 of the town have been carefully studied and con- 
 sidered ; he has watched men come and go ; lie 
 has seen their enthusiasm rewarded, or their 
 fortunes vanish in a day. A profound student 
 of men and events, he has gauged his conduct 
 accordingly, and is everywhere known as an 
 optimist, and as a reliable member of an enter- 
 prising commonwealth. To-day the settlement 
 is as orderly and law-abiding as any in the re- 
 gion, and its location renders it not only a desir- 
 able place of residence, but also an excellent 
 point at which to start new enterprises. 
 
 In his native land of Prussia, Germany, Mr. 
 Gerwien received the substantial training ac- 
 corded the children of German parents. While 
 still a boy, he prepared for the future by learn- 
 ing the trade of a cabinetmaker, and he also be- 
 came familiar with carpentering. In 1864 he 
 came to America, and for four years lived in the 
 east. In 1868 he undertook a memorable jour- 
 ney across the plains, settling in San Francisco, 
 where he worked at his trade at first, and later 
 became president of a large furniture manufac- 
 turing company. On coming to Arizona in 1879 
 his first stop was at Casa Grande, then the ter- 
 minus of the Southern Pacific Railroad from the 
 west. By stage he continued his journey to 
 Tucson, where he secured a government con- 
 tract. By the time he had filled the contract 
 the railroad had been built through, and he came 
 to what is now Benson, erecting the first house 
 on the town site, and putting in a lumber yard 
 to facilitate future building enterprises. Since 
 then he has erected almost every building in 
 the place, and has become known throughout 
 the whole surrounding country. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Gerwien took place in 
 1895, and of this union there is one daughter, 
 Gertrude, who is the pride and sunshine of the 
 home, and a chilrl of remarkal^le beauty as well 
 as mental endowments. Mrs. Gerwien is a 
 woman of amiable dis])osition and noble char- 
 acter, and is a worker in the Roman Catholic 
 Church. In politics Mr. Gerwien is a strict Re- 
 publican. Although not a seeker after positions, 
 he is now serving as a member of the school 
 hoard. However, as a rule, lie refuses to neglect 
 
 his personal interests for local offices, and leaves 
 to others the manipulation of the political 
 wheels. Besides his other enterprises, he is 
 largely interested in mining in tjiis part of tiic 
 county, and is a heavy owner uf stock which 
 promises good returns for capital invested. 
 
 ADOLPH SCHUSTER. 
 
 The firm of A. & D. Schuster, general mer- 
 chants, have stores at Holbrook, St. Johns and 
 I'ort Apache. Within a comparatively short 
 period these brothers have built up a large 
 wholesale business in Navajo and Apache coun- 
 ties and Northeastern Arizona, and year by year 
 they are greatly extending their business oper- 
 ations. Their enterprise and continuous efforts 
 to meet the demands of the public and their 
 strict integrity and reliability are among the 
 secrets of their success. 
 
 The birthplace of Adolpli Schuster is in Ger- 
 many, where he was born February 24, 1862. He 
 immigrated to the I'nited States twenty-two 
 years ago. Immediately proceeding to the west, 
 he lived at Santa Fe, N. M., about two years, 
 after which he was employed by B. Schuster & 
 Co. in business at El Paso, Tex., for some time, 
 then crossed the boundary into Old Mexico, 
 and was in charge of a large store in Chihuahua 
 for the same firm, remaining there until the 
 spring of 1885, he then came to Holbrook, and, 
 having entered into partnership with his brother 
 Benjamin, opened a general store in this then 
 infant town. Five years later they started a 
 branch establishment at St. Johns, county-seat 
 of Apache county, the senior member of the 
 firm taking charge of the same. In 1896 the 
 enterprising brothers embarked in another un- 
 dertaking, and since that time have been the 
 proprietors of the flourishing trading-post on 
 White river on the White mountain Apache In- 
 dian reservation. For the past thirteen years they 
 have been the forwarding agents for the interior 
 and the war departments, supplying I<"ort 
 Apache with necessary provisions for the sol- 
 diers stationed there. A wholesale and retail 
 business is carried on at the main stores and 
 u.nquestionably the firm commands tlie major 
 portion of the local trade at the three points 
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 The brothers have made investments in man)- 
 directions, and are meeting with remarkable suc- 
 cess in every instance, having a good ranch du 
 the Little Colorado near St. Johns, where they 
 keep several thousand head of live sttjck, making 
 a specialty of sheep, and having an extensive 
 trade annually in wool and mutton. In llolhrook 
 they have l)uilt a number of struciures, and at 
 the present time own two substantial store build- 
 ings and several warehouses. In poHtics they 
 are firm adherents to the Re]5ublican party, lien- 
 jamin having been elected by his friends to the 
 important office of treasurer of .\pache cnuntv 
 for two terms. In the local -Masonic lodge our 
 subject is a leading member, and is now serving 
 as its junior warden. He is looked upon, gen- 
 erally, as one of our most progressive citizens, 
 and numbers a host of friends both here and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 Adolph Schuster was married, in August, 
 1890, to Miss Hedw-ig Buchholz, a native of 
 Germany. They have four children, viz.: Rich- 
 ard P., Edna, ^^'alter and Helen. 
 
 ZACHARY T. \'AIL. 
 
 One of the finest cattle raising industries in 
 the territory is that which is owned and con- 
 ducted by Mr. Vail in the Santa Catalina moun- 
 tains. Although his interest in stock dates back 
 to 1883, it was not until 1892 that he seriously 
 planned devoting the rest of his life to this line 
 of occupation, at which time he came to Tucson 
 and purchased a ranch near the San Pedro river. 
 In time the increase in trade demanded more 
 land, and he came into possession of three other 
 ranches, also in the Catalina mountains. Though 
 residing in Tucson on South Eourth avenue, Mr. 
 Vail personally supervises all matters in connec- 
 tion with his business, and has been gratifyingly 
 successful. 
 
 In Saratoga comity, X. V., Mr. \"ail was born, 
 July 15, 1849: his father, R. S., liis mother Eliza 
 (Hunter) Vail, and his grandfather, Harney, w^ere 
 also natives of Saratoga county. X. Y. The 
 father was a railroad man for many years, and 
 was connected with the (ialcna & Chicago (now 
 the Northwestern) railroad, with headquarters at 
 Elgin, 111., to \\-1u'cli place he iemo\-ed in the 
 
 early '50s, and where he eventually died. His 
 wife was a daughter of James Hunter, who set- 
 tled in Elgin in 1849, ^nd later died in his adopt- 
 ed town. Mrs. \'ail, who died in Elgin, was the 
 mother of eight children, four now living. 
 
 Z. r. Nail was educated in the public schools 
 of Elgin. 111., and at the Elgin academy. In 
 1866 his father was a conductor on the Union 
 Pacific Railroad, and in 1867 he himself entered 
 railroad work as brakeman on the same road. 
 He was then baggageman from North Platte 
 west to Rawlins, and in 1869 went to California, 
 his run being between Oakland and Sacramento 
 on the Central Pacific. In 1874 he became yard- 
 master at Carson for the A'irginia & Truckee 
 Railroad, remaining in the position for one year, 
 and then for a time had charge of the wharves 
 on the Pacific coast at Alameda. Ijetween 1880 
 and 1886 he w.as with the Southern Pacific as a 
 conductor between Yuma and Deming, with 
 head(]uarters at Tucson, and at the expiration of 
 the service again returned to California and was 
 with the California Southern as a conductor, with 
 a run between Los Angeles and San Diego. In 
 1890 he went to Mexico and was a conductor for 
 the Mexican Central for one year, and then ran 
 between Fort Worth, Tex., and Texarkana, on 
 the Texas Pacific for six months, settling in Tuc- 
 son in 1892. 
 
 In Alameda, Alameda county, Cal., Mr. \'ail 
 married Carrie Pendleton, who was born in St. 
 Joseph, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Vail have five chil- 
 dren: Maude Z., Robert W., George M., Thirza 
 J., and Hattie E. Mr. Vail is a Democrat in 
 ];)olitics, and has served as county supervisor for 
 two years. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Woodmen of the World, with the Order of Rail- 
 road Conductors, and with the .'Vncient Order of 
 L'nited Workmen. 
 
 WILLIAM E. BARRY. 
 
 Like many of the sons of other lands who 
 have come to settle in the midst of the promise 
 and prosperity of the Salt River valley, Mr. 
 liarrv was first drawn to the far west by the 
 l)rospects of a comfortable competence from the 
 mines. Like many another who has followed 
 this exceedingly uncertain path to fortune, he
 
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 has eventually renewed his allegiance to the 
 fields and nature's kindly soil, wherein one may 
 produce all things that are necessary for the 
 comfort and use of man. 
 
 A native of Westmoreland county, New 
 Brunswick, Mr. Barry was born March i, 1866, 
 and is a son of William and Catherine (Lane) 
 Barry, whose ancestors came from Ireland, and 
 who were born in New Brunswick. Through a 
 practically uneventful childhood their son 
 William was reared to an appreciation of the 
 usefulness of an agricultural life, and was edu- 
 cated in the district schools of his native county. 
 In 1890 he started out to face the responsibiH- 
 ties of life, and in the distant territory of Mon- 
 tana engaged in mining for two years. In 1892 
 he took up his residence in Arizona, and in 1894 
 located on the ranch which lias since been the 
 object of his successful care. The land com- 
 prises ninetv acres, and is devoted to the man- 
 agement of a well-conducted dairy. 
 
 Mr. Barry was united in marriage with Lizzie 
 F. Hill, who was born in Kansas, and of this 
 union there have been born four children : 
 Mary F., Joseph H., Nannie, and Elizabeth R. 
 Mr. Barry is a progressive and enterprising citi- 
 zen as well as excellent dairyman, and is inter- 
 ested in many of the undertakings for the im- 
 provement of his locality. He is a believer in 
 the best possible educational methods, and is 
 now serving his second term as a clerk of the 
 board of trustees in his school district. In na- 
 tional politics he is affiliated with the Demo- 
 cratic party, but believes nevertheless in voting 
 for the man best qualified to hold the official 
 position. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Knights of Pythias at Phoenix. 
 
 HON. FRANCIS H. HEREFORD. 
 
 One of the ablest lawyers practicing at the 
 Tucson bar; a man of sound judgment, manag- 
 ing his cases wHth masterly skill and tact: a log- 
 ical reasoner. possessing a ready command of 
 English, Mr. Hereford has a wide acquaintance 
 among the attorneys of Arizona. He is a west- 
 ern man by birth and training, and possesses the 
 progressive and enterprising spirit that domin- 
 ates this section of the country. 
 
 Mr. Hereford was born in Sacramento. Cal.. 
 
 November 21, 1861, a son of Hon. Benjamin H. 
 Hereford, for many years a prominent attorney 
 and business man of the west. The progenitor 
 of the Hereford family in America came from 
 England about two hundred and eighty-five 
 years ago, and settled in Virginia. Among the 
 ancestors of our subject was Col. Jack Hereford, 
 who served with distinction as an officer in the 
 Revolutionary war. Other members of the 
 family were in the colonial and Indian wars. 
 Our subject's paternal grandfather, Francis 
 Henry Hereford, spent most of his life in the 
 Old Dominion, of w hich he was a native. There 
 the father grew to manhood, and studied law 
 under his brother, Francis H. Hereford, Jr., of 
 Union, W. Va. Later he crossed the plains with 
 ox teams, following the Santa Fe trail, and spent 
 about two years in Chihuahua, Mexico. In 1855 
 he went to Sacramento, Cal., where he engaged 
 in the practice of law two years, and subse- 
 quently followed the same pursuit in connection 
 with mining at Virginia City, Nev. Later he 
 removed to Hamilton, ^^'hite Pine county, that 
 state, where he practiced his profession and 
 served as county clerk, ^^'e next find him in 
 Pioche, Lincoln county, Nev., and from there 
 he removed to San Francisco, where he spent 
 one year. 
 
 Becoming a resident of Tucson, Ariz., in 1875, 
 B. H. Hereford continued to be attorney of the 
 city until called from this life in July, 1890, at 
 the age of sixty-one years. He served as dis- 
 trict attorney several terms, and was still hold- 
 ing that office at the time of his death. He was 
 also a member of both the territorial legislature 
 and council several terms, and was one of the 
 most popular and influential men of his com- 
 munity. He was generous almost to a fault, and 
 was held in high regard by a large circle of 
 friends and acquaintances on account of his 
 genuine worth. Fraternally he was a member 
 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 
 early manhood he married Miss Mary Jewell, 
 who was born in southern \'irginia, and 
 belonged to an old and honored family of that 
 state. She removed to California with her 
 parents, who were among the pioneers of the 
 Golden state, her father engaging in farming 
 seven miles from Sacramento. ^Irs. Hereford 
 died in Nevada in 1866. when our subject was
 
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 only five years old. She was the mother of two 
 children, but the other died young. 
 
 During his childhood Francis H. Hereford 
 lived in Virginia City, Nev., and in 1869 entered 
 McClure's Academy at Oakland, Cal. Later he 
 attended the City College in San Francisco, 
 Santa Clara College and the University of 
 Pacific near San Jose. On leaving the latter 
 institution he came to Tucson, Ariz., in 1876, 
 and studied law for four months. He was then 
 employed in the mercantile establishment of 
 Lord & Williams for two years, at the end of 
 which time he went to Tombstone and was gen- 
 eral agent for several stage lines. He served as 
 deputy sheriff under John H. Behan for 
 eighteen months, and then went to Prescott tu 
 become private secretary for his uncle. Gover- 
 nor Tritle. Eight months later he became 
 bookkeeper for the United Verde Copper Com- 
 pany, owned principally by his uncle, and held 
 that position eighteen months, when the mines 
 closed. Returning to Tucson he completed his 
 law studies under his father's direction, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1886. He engaged in 
 practice alone for three years, and then formed 
 a partnership with his father, which connection 
 continued until the latter's death. The board of 
 county supervisors then appointed him to suc- 
 ceed his father as district attorney, he having 
 previously served as deputy under him. In the 
 fall of 1892 he was elected to that office on the 
 Democratic ticket, and served from the follow- 
 ing January until January, 1895, since which 
 time he has successfully engaged in private 
 practice. He is also interested in mining 
 throughout the southern portion of this terri- 
 tory, and owns several ranches, including the 
 Babo Qui Vari, a large ranch forty miles south- 
 west of Tucson. He has considerable city 
 property here and in other places, and is inter- 
 ested in a number of different enterprises, which 
 have done much to promote the welfare of 
 Tucson. 
 
 As a Democrat Mr. Hereford has taken a 
 very active and prominent part in political 
 affairs; has served as secretary and chairman of 
 the county central committee, of which he has 
 been a member several times; and has also been 
 a member of the territorial committee. In 1891 
 he was elected member of the territorial constitu- 
 
 tional convention from Pima county, and took 
 an active part in its work. He is a member of 
 the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Spanish 
 .Alliance, the Owl Club, and the Territorial Bar 
 .Association. He is emphatically a man of enter- 
 prise, positive character, indomitable energy and 
 liberal views, and is thoroughly identified in 
 thought and feeling with the growth and pros- 
 perity of his adopted city and territory. 
 
 JOSE MIGUEL CASTANEDA. 
 
 The conditions of the great west in the early 
 days, and even up to the present time, have de- 
 veloped among its residents a strong, fearless 
 and picturesque personality, with the freedom of 
 the great plains in mind and action, and possess- 
 ing a spirit of adventure, reckless daring and 
 unbounded good fellowship. The frontiersman 
 has been a benefactor in opening up the great 
 mineral and agricultural resources of the west. 
 In this connection the history of the west has 
 shown no frontiersman more typical of locality 
 and race than Jose M. Castaiieda, a successful 
 miner, land owner, and proprietor of the Vir- 
 ginia Hotel at Benson. 
 
 1 hough now living a comparatively peaceful 
 and uneventful life, to which his past activity 
 justly entitles him, Mr. Castaiieda has passed 
 through experiences which would be a credit- 
 able addition to the adventures narrated by 
 Cooper, and worthy to be read by future genera- 
 tions. His early years were spent at Chihuahua, 
 Mexico, where he was born March 18, 1836. 
 When but a youth his life was diverted from its 
 anticipated channel by the death of his parents, 
 J. M. and Rayo Castaiieda, who were of Spanish 
 birth. His grandparents were subjects of the 
 Spanish crown, and upon emigrating to America 
 at a very early day, settled in the Sierra Madre 
 country, where the grandfather engaged in min- 
 ing, and discovered the rich Santa Juliana mine, 
 one of the most celebrated in the Jesus Maria 
 district. 
 
 In Chihuahua lived Ben Riddles, the Ameri- 
 can consul, who had married the widow of an 
 uncle of our subject. John Able, a partner of 
 Mr. Riddles in the general mercantile business, 
 in 1855, had cliarge of an expedition to Cali-
 
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 fornia which was composed of one hundred men, 
 ten thousand sheep, fifty head of cattle, and five 
 wagons with provisions. Jose Castatieda accom- 
 panied this expedition in the capacity of master 
 of ceremonies of the commissary department. 
 The journey was for him a never-to-be-forgotten 
 one. Arriving in Arizona, they camped for 
 about six weeks sixty miles southeast of Bisbee, 
 upon land now owned by John Slaughter, and 
 best known as the San Bernardino ranch. From 
 I he first they were disturbed by the encroach- 
 ments of the Indians, who appeared in camp one 
 dav with their chief, Miguel Alanjas Coloradas, 
 and evinced every indication of friendliness. 
 There were about three hundred of them, men, 
 women and children, and their principal desire 
 was powder. The campers gave them clothes 
 and ten sheep. The next day they had a feast 
 in the camp, after which thev departed in a sup- 
 posedly good frame of mind. .Xt the end of a 
 week twenty-five voung bucks and two chiefs 
 appeared with a revived appetite for mutton, and 
 upon receiving only two sheep were highly dis- 
 pleased. Two days later, when the sheep were 
 found in a near-by canon poisoned, the campers 
 knew something was wrong, and began to look 
 for trouble. At daylight one morning, about 
 two weeks later, when Mr. Castaneda was on 
 |)icket duty, five Indians sneaked into the corral, 
 jumped on the horses, stampeded the flock, and 
 drove them about ten miles distant. The alarm 
 being given by the [ncket, the camp started in 
 pursuit and regained all the sheep, their loss be- 
 ing confined to the five horses, which the red- 
 skins rode away, .\fter that experience they 
 proceeded to Santa Cruz, where they found a 
 white settlement south of Tucson, thence went 
 to Ytima, where they crossed the river by ferry, 
 driving the sheep before them. The line was 
 crossed at Santa Cruz, west of Yuma, and upon 
 arriving at Carrio creek they lost one thousand 
 sheep, which were poisoned by an herb growing 
 on the banks of the stream. They reached Los 
 Angeles with eight thousand and five hundred 
 sheep, some of which were disposed of at from $8 
 to $io in that city, the price in Chihuahua having 
 been fifty cents a head. They also sold all wag- 
 ons, horses and mules that were not needed for 
 the return trip. The three thousand remaining 
 sheep were taken to San Francisco and sold at 
 
 a good figure. However, being passionately 
 fond of gambling, John Able risked and lost all 
 he had made, and returned to Mexico no better 
 ofif than when he left. 
 
 Remaining in Los Angeles, J. M. Castaiieda 
 was for six years connected with a large mer- 
 cantile business. Next he was foreman for Abel 
 Stearns, with headquarters at Alamitos ranch, 
 near Los Angeles, where he remained for two 
 years. He then started a large mercantile busi- 
 ness at San Juan Capistrano, in California, and 
 until 1860 was fairly successful as a trader in 
 cattle, horses and hides. The next year he came 
 to La Paz on the Colorado river, where he 
 opened up business and helped to build the lit- 
 tle town. He also engaged in business at Tubac, 
 seven miles from Calabasas, his chief customers 
 lieing the soldiers from the fort, .\fter nine 
 months he was obliged to leave on account of ill 
 health. Locating in Tucson, he, in partnership 
 with Henry Lavine, purchased for $10,000 what 
 is now the Orendorf hotel, and for eighteen 
 months they engaged in the manufacture of 
 beer. However, owing to continued ill-health, 
 he was obliged to abandon this enterprise, and, 
 selling his interest, he returned to La Paz, 
 where he carried on a general mercantile busi- 
 ness for two years. In the early spring an over- 
 flow of the Colorado river drowned out the 
 town, so he was forced to seek other quarters. 
 Later he was interested in building up the town 
 of Ehrenberg, and while there married Amparo 
 Arvizo, of Sonora, Mexico. His ne.xt place of 
 residence was at the McCracken mine, where 
 he carried on a store for three years. Going to 
 Phoenix, he was engaged in merchandising. A 
 like venture was equally successful at the Con- 
 tention mills for one and one-half years. Then 
 he moved to Fairbank, .\riz., where he was a 
 partner of J. Goldwater and Joe Guindani. later 
 taking charge of a wholesale and retail business 
 the firm started in Bisbee. 
 
 .\n experience with robbers while in Bisbee 
 (lami)ene(l whatever ardor and enthusiasm Mr. 
 Castaneda might have had for a residence in 
 that town. In 1885 Red Tack and his gang en- 
 tered the store, where Mr. Castaneda was lying 
 ill on a bed in the rear of the building. One of 
 the men, whom he knew, held two pistols to his 
 head, and took a bag containing $600 in gold
 
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 ivoiu unclcr the pillow. Mr. Goldvvater was then 
 forced to open the safe, from which the robbers 
 took $500 in gold and $200 in silver. They car- 
 ried off an old Spanish coin marked with the 
 initials of Mr. Castaneda, and this was found in 
 the possession of one of the robbers when he 
 was later captured. It was fortunate that the 
 robbery occurred when it did, as ten minutes 
 later the stage arrived with $18,000 in cash, w-ith 
 which the firm was to honor the checks of the 
 employes of the Copper Queen mine. This 
 gang wa.s one of the worst that ever terrorized 
 a mining locality, and there was universal relief 
 when its members were executed in Tombstone. 
 Their leader, on the day he was to depart for 
 "i'uma, was taken in hand and lynched by an in- 
 furiated mob. Mr. Castaiieda remained for ten 
 years in Bisbee, and finally left because of a dev- 
 astating fire which destroyed his store and con- 
 tents, causing a loss of $85,000. In i8go he pur- 
 chased the Virginia hotel in Benson, which he 
 operates. In 1894 he embarked in the mercan- 
 tile business here, and this he still conducts, the 
 active management of the store being in the 
 hands of his eldest son, AI. F. Castaiieda. He 
 also owns a store originally belonging to his 
 partner, Mr. Goldwater, besides some lots in 
 Benson and one hundred and sixty acres adjoin- 
 ing the town. The hotel is the best in town, 
 and is conducted on wholesome and up-to-date 
 lines. The rates are $2.50 a day, the service ex- 
 cellent, and the house well patronized. 
 
 Although a Republican in politics, Mr. Casta- 
 iieda has never been active in public affairs; 
 and, having always lived under territorial gov- 
 ernment, has not yet had the privilege of voting 
 for a president of the United States. Himself 
 and family are members of the Roman Catholic 
 Church. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Workmen in New Mexico and Arizona, and is a 
 charter member of Tombstone Lodge No. 3. 
 He and his wife had ten children : Miguel, Ed- 
 ward, Rudolph, Josephine, Henry, Ida, Carlos, 
 Aurelia, Alphonso and Louis, the latter of whom 
 died at Tomljstone. The children have had the 
 benefit of good educations. The two eldest 
 sons are graduates of San Miguel College, at 
 Santa Fe, N. M. ; Josephine is a graduate of the 
 Sisters of Mercy College, Phoenix, Ariz. ; Ru- 
 dolph and Henry will graduate in the class of 
 
 lyor from the Arizona University at Tucson; 
 Ida is now a student in the Sisters of Mercy Col- 
 lege at Phoenix ; and Carlos, Aurelia and .A.1- 
 ])honso attend the public school in Benson. 
 
 W. Y. PRICE. 
 
 The shade-embowered town of Florence, sit- 
 uated in the heart of a magnificent section of 
 grazing country, and within a half mile of the 
 Gila river, numbers among its favorite citizens 
 and best business men one who has made a name 
 for himself in various directions of activity. As 
 a former treasurer of Pinal county, as mer- 
 chant, stockman, owner of country and city 
 lands, and promoter of the best interests of the 
 town, "Mr. Price is appreciated as one of the 
 principal factors of growth in this portion of 
 Arizona. 
 
 A native of Independence, Jackson county. 
 Mo., Mr. Price was born March 7, 1862. As 
 early as thirteen years of age he left Missouri 
 and gradually drifted toward the far west. Hav- 
 ing worked at different occupations until 1884, 
 in Kansas and Missouri as well as the further 
 ■ west, he was then enabled to purchase cattle and 
 a ranch at Picacho, on the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road in Arizona, where he was extensively en- 
 gaged in raising live stock for five years. In 
 1889 he entered the meat business in Florence 
 and continued the same for several years, also 
 was interested in contracting, and in this ca- 
 pacity helped to build the Gila Bend canal in 
 1881-82. In 1896 he purchased the Kenilworth 
 ranch, comprising one thousand and seven hun- 
 dred acres, and to this he has added from time 
 to time until his holdings aggregate two thou- 
 sand acres. Kenilworth ranch is situated about 
 seven miles southwest of Florence, the county 
 seat of Pinal county, and is devoted almost ex- 
 clusively to raising alfalfa and feeding cattle. 
 Those who are familiar with the agricultural 
 conditions in Arizona state that the ranch has 
 no superior in the territory. 
 
 Since the purchase of the ranch Mr. Price has 
 devoted a great deal of his time to the raising of 
 cattle, which he ships to the Pacific coast, this 
 having proved a profitable venture. March 20, 
 1 901, Mr. Price succeeded W. H. Benson as 
 superintendent of Casa Grande Valley Canal
 
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 Company and the company's lands contiguous 
 to canals. Another of Mr. Price's undertakings 
 is in the mercantile business, as a member of 
 the firm of Shields & Price, which was incor- 
 porated in 1897. His partner, F. Shields, is also 
 familiar with the conditions of the west, having 
 for years been a ranchman. The firm have the 
 largest general merchandise store in the town 
 and carry an excellent line of goods. In addi- 
 tion, they are engaged in the cattle business, 
 also do considerable freighting, and incidentally 
 deal in hay, grain and general farm produce. 
 
 A stanch rtiember of the Democratic party. 
 Mr. Price has been prominent in local affairs. 
 In 1898 he was elected treasurer of Pinal county, 
 which ofTice he satisfactorily filled for one term 
 of two years. Fraternally he is a member of 
 Gila Valley Lodge No. 9, F. & A. M., and the 
 .\ncient Order of United Workmen at Flor- 
 ence. He has great faith in the return of his 
 adopted town to its old position of thrift and 
 enterprise, and to substantiate that faith has pur- 
 chased real estate in Florence. In addition, he 
 owns property in Tucson and other points in the 
 territory. W'hh very little assistance save that 
 of his own courage and natural energy he has 
 accumulated a competence in his business enter- 
 jirises, and in so doing has also maintained the 
 esteem of all who know him. 
 
 JACK NIELSEN. 
 
 Jack Nielsen, the efficient superintendent of 
 the warehouses of the Phoenix Short Line, was 
 born in Tondern, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 
 on the 27th of October, 1871, and is the sixth in 
 order of birth in a family of eight children, five 
 of whom are now living, three being residents of 
 Denmark, while Andrew makes his home in 
 New York City. The parents were Hans and 
 Mary (Engle) Nielsen. The father was born in 
 Denmark, and is now engaged in farming in 
 Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where the birth 
 of the mother occurred. She died at an 
 early age. Her father, Louis Engle, was a 
 farmer of Schleswig-Holstein. 
 
 Mr. Nielsen was reared on a farm and edu- 
 cated in the public schools of his native land. 
 In 1886 he came to America and attended a pri- 
 vate school in New York City for about a year. 
 
 During the following two years he worked in 
 Brooklyn, and for seven years was employed at 
 ■ Great Neck Grove, Long Island. On first com- 
 ing to Phoenix in 1894 he was engaged in the 
 grocery business one year, and in 1895 became 
 connected with the Phoenix Short Line, being 
 employed in the yards for three years, at the 
 end of which time he was made superintendent 
 of the warehouses at Phoenix. That responsi- 
 ble position he has since filled in a most capable 
 and satisfactory manner, and has the entire con- 
 fidence and respect of the company. He is 
 ujiright and reliable, and his pleasant, genial 
 manner makes him many friends. In political 
 scnlimenl he is a Democrat. Mr. Nielsen was 
 iiiarrii'(l in New York to Miss Viola Wreed, who 
 was brjrn in that city of German ]iarenlage. and 
 llu'\- have one child, Lila. 
 
 WILLIAM BACON. 
 
 The most enterprising and progressive of the 
 dwellers in the Salt River valley have a worthy 
 representative in Mr. Bacon, who is carrying on 
 large stock-raising enterprises in the vicinity of 
 Phoenix. .V native of Little Rock, Ark., he was 
 born June 6, 1856, and is a son of William and 
 Parmelia Bacon, who claimed Missouri as their 
 native state. In the fall of 1859 the father re- 
 moved with his family to Arizona, and resided 
 at Tucson until the fall of 1861, when he settled 
 in Mariposa county, Cal. There he was inter- 
 ested in general farming for a number of years, 
 and later went to Fresno county, where he died 
 in 1885. He was an industrious and successful 
 man, and was one of the early settlers of both 
 Tucson and the part of California in which he 
 lived. 
 
 ^Villiam Bacon followetl the fortunes of his 
 parents from Arkansas to California, and aside 
 from receiving the training which fitted him for 
 tilt' future occupation of farming and stock-rais- 
 ing, he (lualified for general business life by dili- 
 gently studying at the pulilic schools, .\fter 
 leaving the paternal roof and starting out in the 
 world to shift for himself he farmed for several 
 years in Fresno county, Cal.. and was fairly 
 successful as a general farmer and stock-raiser. 
 His permanent association with Arizona began 
 in 1874, at which time he settled in the William-
 
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 911 
 
 son valley, Yavapai county, and continued his 
 occupation of farming and stock-raising, and 
 also did considerable teaming. His next field of 
 effort was in Cochise county, Ariz., where he de- 
 voted himself principally to the raising of horses 
 and cattle, and later for a nmuber of years lived 
 at Wickenburg, and at the \ulture mine. In the 
 fall of 1899 he came to the Salt River valley and 
 settled on the ranch which has since been his 
 home. 
 
 .Mrs. Bacon was formerly Mary Poque, a na- 
 tive of Nevada, and of Scotch extraction. To 
 .\lr. and Mrs. Bacon have been born six chil- 
 dren : James E. ; Sadie P., who is the wife of 
 .\rtlun- Heath, of the Salt River valley; Mattic 
 L., who is married to William J. Roarkc, also 
 living in the valley; Laura M.; William, and 
 Frank E. In politics Mr. Bacon has been quite 
 prominent, and while residing in Wickenburg 
 served as a trustee of the school district. He 
 is commenclably interested in all that pertains to 
 the upbuilding of his locality, and his advice is 
 alw avs on the side of progress. 
 
 JUDGE JOHN M. MURPHY. 
 
 The name of this gentleman has been associ- 
 ;ilod with Arizona about three decades, as he 
 first came to this territory in 1871, and from 
 that time to the present has been actively con- 
 nected with the development of its mineral re- 
 sources, at the same time continuing in legal 
 practice. For eighteen years he has made his 
 home in Kingman, whose prosperity he has lost 
 no opportunity for advancing since he became 
 a permanent resident of the thriving little city. 
 
 Accompanying his parents from Ireland to 
 America in his childhood, Judge Murphy lived 
 with them in Canada, later in New York state, 
 and in 1850 came with them to the west, settling 
 in San I'rancisco, where he attended school. Be- 
 ing an aj)t student and ambitious, he concluded 
 to enter the legal profession, and for some time 
 pursued his researches along this line in the 
 office of Sharp & McDougal, of San Francisco. 
 Later he completed his studies in Nevada and 
 was admitted to the bar in 1868. During the 
 next three years he was engaged in practice at 
 Pioche, Nev., and by strict attention to, the in- 
 terests of his clients, built uf) a good business. 
 
 Thirty years ago he came to Arizona, and until 
 1876 dwelt in Chloride and Mineral Park and 
 that district. Then, returning to California, he 
 practiced law and engaged in mining in Inyo 
 county for a short time. In the fall of 1876 he 
 went to Deadwood, S. D., where he became a 
 part owner in the famous Caledonia mine, and 
 also had other mining interests. Finally, dispos- 
 ing of these, he devoted himself more ex- 
 clusively to his profession, and it was not until 
 he had lived in Deadwood four years that he 
 decided to return to .\rizona, then coming into 
 prominence as a producer of mineral wealth. 
 For years he has made a special studv of the 
 laws pertaining to mines and mining, and long 
 has been considered an authoritv in matters per- 
 taining to this subject. 
 
 \\ ith a deep interest in mines that has never 
 llagged, he has been a prospector and developer 
 of several paying mines. ,\t present he is the 
 owner of the Pay Roll mine at Chloride, on 
 which, under his direction, the amount of .$40,- 
 000 has been expended in development work. 
 The Twins and Blue Lode mines, two of the 
 best in the Cerbat district, were developed by 
 him largely, and their value is shown by the 
 official reports, the average yield being $40 in 
 gold, silver and lead to each ton of ore extracted. 
 
 The year 1880 was an o\-c-ntful one to Judge 
 Alurphw as it not only witnessed his marriage 
 to Mrs. Mary O'Connell, of .Amador county, 
 Cal., but also his |)ermanent settlement in .Ari- 
 zona. Becoming a resident of Tombstone, he 
 soon identified himself with several mining com- 
 panies of that district, also being attorney for 
 the Contention .Mining Company and a number 
 of other local firms. In 1883 he came to King- 
 man, where he now owns several valuable lots 
 and houses. Here, as formerly, he has devoted 
 his chief attention to mining law, and has been 
 the attorney for several representative mining 
 comj^anies of this region. In 1S85 Governor 
 Tritle appointed him judge of the county court 
 of Mohave county, which position he filled for 
 two years. In 1886 lie was honored by election 
 as district attorney, and after an interval of two 
 years, between 1888 and 1890, he was re-elected 
 to that responsible position. In 1898 he was 
 elected to the territorial legislature and repre- 
 sented Mohave county in the council, where he
 
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 ilistinguisheil himself by drawiiiff up and secur- 
 ing the passage of the present territorial mining 
 law. By both mining experts and the legal fra- 
 ternity this law i.s regarded as one of the most 
 perfect in existence in the United States, and its 
 enactment has accomplished much toward plac- 
 ing the great business of mining on a safe basis. 
 From early manhood Judge Murphy has been 
 a stanch Democrat, and for fully fifteen years 
 served as chairman of the central Democratic 
 committee of Mohave county. He was chair- 
 man of the senatorial committee, and held 
 a similar position in the committee on mines and 
 mining, besides being a member of the judiciary 
 committee in the council, in the twentieth terri- 
 torial legislature. He is regarded as one of the 
 leading residents of Kingman, where, for years 
 past, he has done everything in his power to ad- 
 vance local prosperity. 
 
 ANDREW J. HOUSTON. 
 
 The association of Mr. Houston with the ter- 
 ritory of Arizona began in 1876, but after a short 
 time he returned to his former home in Cali- 
 fornia. In 1878 he again took up his residence 
 in this region and has since carried on farming 
 and stock-raising enterprises with a gratifying 
 degree of success. 
 
 When two years of age Mr. Houston was taken 
 from his native state of Arkansas, where he was 
 born March 15, 1858, to California, his family 
 crossing the plains in a train of emigrants with 
 ox and mule-teams. The journey was replete 
 with adventure and even danger, and consumed 
 nearly six months. The long journey termi- 
 nated at Placerville, Cal., where they remained 
 for a short time, and subsequently removed to 
 \'isalia, Tulare county, where they were among 
 the very early settlers. The father of Mr. Hous- 
 ton, James by name, is a native of Tennessee, 
 and is related to the famous General Sam Hous- 
 ton, of Texas. The mother, formerly Fannie 
 Black, was born in Arkansas. The parents are 
 still living in Tulare county, Cal, where they 
 have been very successful as farmers and stock- 
 raisers, and prominent as industrious and 
 worthy citizens. At the present time they are 
 retired from active affairs, and are aged respect- 
 ively ninety and eighty years. 
 
 In the public schools of Visalia Andrew J. 
 Houston received a good education, which was 
 supplemented by attendance at the normal 
 school of the same town. His permanent de- 
 parture from home was in 1878, when he came 
 to Arizona, and for many years was an extensive 
 cattle-raiser in the Salt River valley. He home- 
 steaded one hundred and sixty acres of land 
 from the government, which was, as may well be 
 imagined, in a very barren and unpromising 
 state, but which has been made to produce in a 
 satisfactory manner, and to repay the untiring 
 patience and hard work of the owner. The farm 
 is located five miles southwest of Mesa, and is 
 one of the improved and valuable estates in the 
 neighborhood. 
 
 For his first wife Mr. Houston married 
 Mamie Fuller, who became the mother of one 
 son, Celeste, now deceased. In after years Mr. 
 Houston was united in marriage with Janie Bir- 
 chett, a daughter of Joseph S. Birchett, superin- 
 tendent of the Tempe canal. Of this union there 
 is one son, Kenneth. Mr. Houston is a Demo- 
 crat in national politics, and is fraternally asso- 
 ciated with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
 lows, and with the Woodmen of the World. He 
 is one of the early settlers of the valley to whom 
 the present prosperity is in a degree due, and 
 he is esteemed for his many excellent traits as 
 friend and citizen. 
 
 JOHN T. HUGHES. 
 
 Though not one of the earliest settlers in the 
 Salt River valley, Mr. Hughes has contributed 
 his share towards the development of the re- 
 sources of this wonderful part of the country. 
 His association with the Riverside district, where 
 his ranch is located, seven land a half miles from 
 Phoenix, began in 1888, and he has since been 
 gratifyingly successful in the various interests 
 that have engaged his attention. Mr. Hughes 
 came to Arizona in 1882, and for a few years 
 followed his trade of blacksmithing in Phoenix. 
 He then spent two years in the Gila valley, suc- 
 cessfully engaged in the raising of cattle. His 
 ranch contains one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land, and has developed into a remunerative 
 venture, through the unceasing toil of its owner. 
 
 A native of New York state, Mr. Hughes was
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 913 
 
 horn in St. Lawrence county. December it, 
 1855, and is a son of Thomas and Llizabeth 
 (W'iUiamson) Hughes, who were born in Ire- 
 land, and upon coming to the United States 
 settled in St. Lawrence count}-. The early life 
 of their son was spent on the home farm, where 
 he was trained to an appreciation of the dignity 
 and usefulness of an agricidtural life. In the dis- 
 trict schools he received a good education, and 
 later learned nuich from observation and read- 
 ing. .\s a preparation for the necessities of the 
 future he learned the blacksmith's trade at 
 Madrid, N. Y.. and after serving the apprentice- 
 ship, engaged in blacksmithiiig in Madrid f(jr 
 about ten years. 
 
 The general enterjjrise and good fellowship 
 iif .Mr. Hughes have been many times manifest, 
 and his interest in the general welfare of the 
 conununity is never questioned. .X Democrat 
 in politics, lie is yet liberal minded as to the 
 politics of the administration, and believes in 
 voting for the man best qualified to fill the posi- 
 tion. At present he is a member of the school 
 board of Riverside district No. 2, and is serving 
 his second term as member and clerk of the 
 board of trustees. He was united in marriage 
 with Ellen V. Nowland. a native of Franklin 
 comit). N. Y.. and of this union there are five 
 children, viz: George L., Henry B., John H., 
 Julia F.., and Bertha J. The family are members 
 of the Catholic Church. 
 
 GEORGE J. SMITH. 
 
 .\n enthusiastic developer of the resources of 
 Maricopa county, Mr. Smith represents the 
 most advanced element among the agricultur- 
 ists of the Salt River valley. Of Scotch extrac- 
 tion on the paternal side, and German maternal 
 ancestry. .\lr. Smith w^as born in Bates county, 
 Mo.. November 24, 1837. His parents, Enos 
 and -Krvilla (Miller) Smith, were born respec- 
 tively in A'irginia and New York, and were very 
 early settlers in Bates county. On his father's 
 farm George J. was reared to farming pursuits, 
 which satisfying and peaceful occupation has en- 
 gaged the greater part of his life. The education 
 of the public schools was the stepping stone for 
 continued reading and research in later life, so 
 tliat todav Mr. Smith is an unusuallv well-in- 
 
 formed man. In i8fio he was united in marriage 
 in Missouri with Emma Heyley, of Bates 
 county, and of this tmion there is one daughter, 
 .Mary J., who is now the wife of George W. 
 Sears, of Los .Angeles, Cal. Mrs. .Smith died in 
 
 During the Civil war Mr. Smith was a cour- 
 ageous soldier in the Confederate army, and 
 during the four years of his service was engaged 
 in some of the inqiortant battles of the war. In 
 addition to many minor skirmishes, he was in 
 the battle of Little Rock. .\rk.. Helena. .\rk.. 
 and Camden, (jf the same state; also W'estport. 
 -Mo. In Bates county. Mo., he was taken 
 l)risoner, an<l for ten months, lacking four days, 
 was confined in three ditTerent federal prisons. 
 .After the restoration of peace .Mr. Smith sought 
 a new field of endeavor, and in Denton county, 
 Te.x., carried on large farming and stock-raising" 
 interests until the fall of 1870. .\t this time he 
 returned to I'.ates county. Mo., and remained 
 until the spring of 1875. Still in search of an 
 imjiroved and [)ermanent!y satisfactory location, 
 he traveled to the far west, and in Los .\ngeles 
 county, Cal, continued his former occupatioti of 
 farming and stock raising until 1879. 
 
 Cpon coming to .Arizona in 1879, Mr. Smith 
 still continued his business of farming, and in 
 1880 settled on the ranch wdiich has since been 
 the field for his unceasing toil. Upon the 
 seventv-two acres now in his ])ossession he car- 
 ries on stock-raising and a dairy enterprise and 
 has been gratifyingly successful in the manage- 
 ment of both interests. In 1880 occurred the 
 marriage of Mr. Smith and Mrs. Edna Morrell, 
 nee Teel, the widow of William Morrell, one of 
 the very early settlers of Salt River valley. She 
 is a native of Illinois, and a daughter of Peter 
 and Sarah (Krooks) Teel, who removed to Texas 
 w hen their daughter was four years old, and sub- 
 se(]uently drifted to .Arizona in 1870. By her 
 marriage to Mr. Morrell she became the mother 
 of eight children, seven of whom are living: 
 lunma, the w ife of W. L. Teel ; Julia C, who is 
 married to Joseph Wilson ; Lindsay B. ; Mat- 
 thew R.: Laura F. (deceased); Ada, the wife of 
 1. 1'. Silliman: William B., and Sarah A. To 
 .Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born two 
 children, Perley E. and Ernest T. 
 
 Mr. Smith has been conspicuously identified
 
 914 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 with the best and most substantial growth of liis 
 locality. For a number of years he served as a 
 trustee of his school district, and was one of the 
 organizers of the district. A Democrat in poli- 
 tics, he is an ardent upholder of the principles 
 and issues of his party. Mr. and Mrs. Smith 
 are recognized as valuable acquisitions to the 
 social life of their home district, and in the reli- 
 gious world exert a wide influence for moral 
 growth. In the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 South, they have been interested workers and 
 generous subscribers, and were largely indenti- 
 fied with the organization and erection of the 
 Bethel Church, which is situated on a portion of 
 Mr. Smith's laud. P'or years he has been a stew- 
 ard in the church, and is foremost in all of its 
 efforts towards the general good. His home is 
 the scene of good fellowship and kindly hospital- 
 ity, and the genial members of the family have 
 hosts of friends among the residents of the sur- 
 rounding country. 
 
 EDWARD E. JONES. 
 
 For more than a score of years the subject of 
 this sketch has been a resident of Lehi precinct, 
 in the Salt River valley, and in many ways has 
 been instrumental in promoting the develop- 
 ment of this region's resources. Among his 
 neighbors and acquaintances he bears an envi- 
 able record as an upright and patriotic citizen, 
 loyally upholding law and order. 
 
 A native of Montgomeryshire, Wales, Edward 
 E. Jones was born May 13, 1842, and with his 
 parents, Edward and Mary (Evans) Jones, immi- 
 grated to the United States in 1856. He was 
 reared to manhood in Johnson county, Iowa, 
 and in March, 1864, w-ent to Central City, Colo., 
 where he was engaged in mining until the 
 autumn of the following year. For the next 
 twelve years he lived in Utah, in the meantime 
 engaging in mining and hunbering, and also 
 assisting in the construction of the local branch 
 of the Union Pacific Railroad. 
 
 In the summer of 1877 E. E. Jones came to 
 Arizona and spent a year and a half in Mojave 
 and vicinity. He became a permanent settler 
 of the Salt River valley in the spring of 1879. 
 Pre-empting eighty acres of government land, 
 entirely unimproved, he proceeded to cultivate 
 
 the place and soon had everything in a fine con- 
 dition. He now owns ninety acres of well-tilled 
 land provided with substantial farm buildings, a 
 thrifty orchard and other accessories to a model 
 country home. 
 
 Since 1880 Mr. Jones has been a director in 
 the Utah Irrigating Canal Company and now is 
 serving his second year as president of the 
 board of directors. Of this very important en- 
 terprise he has been a leading spirit for years, 
 much of the time as an official, he having been 
 secretary of the board for some time. For one 
 term he served as a justice of the peace and he 
 also has been one of the trustees of the school 
 district No. 10. A typical western pioneer, he 
 has e.xjjerienced the hardships and privations 
 wliich are the lot of the forerunner of civiliza- 
 tion, and yet has been noted at all times for his 
 pluck anfl perseverance in his undertakings. In 
 political affairs he uses his influence in behalf 
 of the Democratic party. 
 
 While an early resident of Utah, Mr. Jones 
 married Catherine \'aughan, likewise a native 
 of Wales, and the two children born to them are 
 deceased. The present wife of our subject, 
 formerly Letitia W'heatley, was born in Eng- 
 land, and by her marriage became the mother of 
 ten children, namely: Edward W., David H., 
 Letitia R. (deceased), Caroline M., Levina J., 
 Clarence, Thatcher, Enos, Oren D., and Wil- 
 ford. The family is connected with the Church 
 of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Mr. 
 Jones now occupies the office of first counsellor 
 to the bishop, S. C. Sorenson, of Lehi Ward, 
 Marico])a Stake. 
 
 ALEXANDER BROTHERS. 
 
 F'ort Thomas has no citizens more highly re- 
 spected and enterprising than A. C. and John 
 L. .Xlexander, who are associated in a number 
 of important undertakings and are meeting with 
 marked success. They are pre-eminently self- 
 made men, liaving come to this territory oidy 
 fifteen years ago, without means, and in the in- 
 tervening period have become wealthy and influ- 
 ential. 
 
 Born in Indianapolis, Ind.. A. C. in 1862. and 
 J. L. in 1864. the brothers grew to manhood in 
 Indiana's beautiful capital city, where they re-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 917 
 
 ceived good educational advantages. With faith 
 in Arizona, they came to this territory in 1886, 
 and after clerking for two years at Fort Thomas, 
 embarked in business on their own account, for 
 they had been carefully hus!)anding their re- 
 sources with this end in view. On a small scale 
 ihcy entered the field, and gradually added to 
 their stock of goods, until today they carry a 
 splendid line of general merchandise, hardware, 
 farm implements and supplies for miners, farmers 
 and stock dealers. The present commodious store, 
 which was erected by the firm, is 40x120 feet in 
 dimensions, and every foot of space is taxed to 
 its utmost. After the completion of the railroad 
 the firm commenced doing a wholesale business 
 as well, and now handle an immense trade. 
 Branch stores at Geronimo, Spenazuma, Gloljc 
 and Black Rock are also maintained. 
 
 Two fine ranches, comprising four hundred 
 and eighty acres, are owned by the brothers, both 
 tracts of land being thoroughly irrigated by pri- 
 vate ditches and canals. In Graham county they 
 have upwards of six hundred cattle. Among 
 their possessions are two hundred acres near Fort 
 Thomas, known as the Indian Hot Springs. 
 There they have erected a good hotel, with ac- 
 commodations for twenty-five guests. The waters 
 of the springs have been found beneficial for 
 many of the ills to which flesh is heir, such as 
 rheumatism, blood and skin diseases, stomach 
 and other troubles. The grounds surrounding 
 the hotel are beautiful. Provisions are made 
 for lawn tennis, croquet and other outdoor games 
 and a crystal-clear lake afifords fine boating op- 
 f)ortunities. A regular stage traverses the five- 
 mile road between the hotel and Fort Thomas 
 dail}-, and thus the mails arrive without delay. 
 The wonderful curative properties of these hot 
 springs (the water of which varies from no to 
 140 degrees) is becoming widely known through- 
 out the wesl, and the bathrooms and plunge are 
 A\-ell planned. The hot water is pijied into the 
 hotel and every facility for deriving advantage 
 from it is given to guests. In the spring of 1901 
 a large addition was built to the IidIcI, with facil- 
 ities for accommodating sixty persons. 
 
 Among the other interests of the l)rothers may 
 be mentioned a group of mining claims, well de- 
 veloped, and situated in the Mount Turnlnill 
 district, about fifteen miles irom I'ort Thomas. 
 
 In these claims both gold and copper have been 
 found. Politically the brothers are stanch Repul)- 
 licans, but have never aspired to official dis- 
 tinction. They are cliarter meinbers of Glolie 
 Lodge Xo. 489, F. & A. M. Reared in the faith 
 of the Presbyterian Church, they adhere to its 
 tenets. All worthy religious and charitable or- 
 ganizations meet with their assistance or ap- 
 pro\al. 
 
 A. C. Alexander was married in 1880 and has 
 three sons, Charles, Albert and William, of whom 
 the two elder are students in the Arizrjna I'ni- 
 versity at Tucson. J. L. Alexander was married 
 in 1896, and has two daughters, Grace and Bes- 
 sie. The brothers have beautiful residences at 
 I-"ort Thomas and take great pride in the beauti- 
 fving of their homes. 
 
 GEORGE ULMER COLLINS. 
 
 The early jnoneer days of the Salt River val- 
 le\ knew no more enthusiastic developer of its 
 resources than Mr. Collins, who came from the 
 east as early as 1875, and with a large fund of 
 general business and other experience, coupled 
 his energies with the promising conditions of 
 Arizona. Within his memory of this part of the 
 country there have been great and startling 
 changes, in which he himself has taken a con- 
 spicuous part. At the present time he is one of 
 the largest cattle-raisers in the valley. His 
 ranch, four and one-half miles southwest of 
 Phoenix, comprises eleven hundred and twenty 
 acres, some of which lies parallel with the banks 
 of the Salt river. On the place is a well 60x100 
 feet and twenty-nine feet deep, which is the larg- 
 est well in the territory, and was built at a cost 
 of $12,000. By means of a steam engine, a per- 
 petual flow of five hundred miners' inches may 
 be raised. This gives an abundant supply of 
 water with which to irrigate the entire tract, and 
 the .sjjlendid water facilities easily make the es- 
 tate one of the finest in .Arizona. On the land 
 cattle are raised, there usually being a herd of 
 one thousand head, manv of which are fine 
 graded Shorthorns. 
 
 A native of Waldo county. .\ic., -Mr. Collins 
 was born March 10. 1833. and is a son of 
 Thomas R. and Lucy I I'lmer) Collins, both born 
 in Maine. The paternal grandfather, .\aron Col-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 lins, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and fol- 
 lowed agricultural pursuits during the years of 
 his activity. Likewise was Thomas R. Collins 
 a tiller of the soil. George U. Collins was reared 
 to an appreciation of the dignity and usefulness 
 of a fanner's life, and was educated in the 
 schools of Maine. This training, of a neces- 
 sarily limited nature, has been supplemented by 
 the studious application of later years, and by 
 keen and intelligent observation of men and 
 events. (Jf an ambitious nature, he early saw 
 beyond the confines of his father's farm, and 
 when of age began to learn the ship-carpenter's 
 trade at Boston, Mass. This engaged his atten- 
 tion during the summers of four years, and in 
 the winters he went south tn procure the ship 
 timber. 
 
 Early in i860 Mr. Collins undertook the long 
 journey to California, via the Isthmus of 
 Panama, and by way of San Francisco to Santa 
 Cruz county, where he began to be interested 
 in the lumber business, and also turned his atten- 
 tion to the building of toll roads. Later he en- 
 gaged in general farming in the Salinas valley in 
 California, and met with success in this land of 
 flowers and almost perpetual sunshine. In more 
 ways than one he recalls his residence there with 
 feelings of satisfaction and pride, for, aside from 
 the remuneration attending his efforts, he was 
 enabled to employ a large amount of labor, and 
 at one time required the assistance of about 
 seventy-five men the year around. 
 
 In 187s l\Ir. Collins came to Arizona, and after 
 spending a few months at Prescott, came to his 
 present location near Phoenix. A subject which 
 has received his thoughtful attention and pro- 
 longed study is that of the development of water. 
 He has served as a director in the Salt River 
 Valley canal and has also been a director of the 
 Farmers' canal and the Monterey ditch. In the 
 development of these various waterways he has 
 been actively interested. He aided in the estab- 
 lishment of the Maricopa creamery, and is one 
 of its directors. .Mthough a stanch adherent of 
 the Democratic party, and often solicited to ac- 
 cept positions of responsibility and trust, he 
 has declined all such honors, having no political 
 aspirations. However, he is greatly interested in 
 education, and has rendered useful service as a 
 school director. I'"raterna11v he is connected 
 
 with the Knights Templar and Mystic Shrine of 
 Masonry. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Collins and Mary K. 
 I'^endcrson, of ()ldtown. Me., look place at 
 Santa Cruz, Cal., in 1861. Mrs. Collins died in 
 .August of 1897, leaving three sons : Willard E. ; 
 Lewis W., who is the owner of the Phoenix and 
 Tempe stage line : and Rolla. 
 
 JAMES S. \\'ATROUS. 
 
 To the well directed efiforts of Mr. W'atrons, 
 who is an extensive stockman, and secretary and 
 treasurer of the Utah Canal Enlargement and 
 Extension Company, is due a large share of the 
 prosperity which now prevails in his locality. 
 He is not only a success in the work which has 
 engaged his daily attention since coming to the 
 territory but his influence for good has pene- 
 trated to all of the enterprises which have had to 
 do with the genera! welfare of this part of the 
 country. 
 
 In Broome county, N. Y., Mr. Watrous was 
 born May 4, 1826. His parents, William and 
 Eliza (Smith) Watrous, were natives respectively 
 of Connecticut and New York. The paternal 
 ancestrv of the family is English, and the great- 
 grandfather Watrous is said to have been a 
 soldier in the Revolutionary war. William 
 Watrous was a large land owner and lumber- 
 man, and liis son was reared to farming pursuits, 
 and also accjuired a useful knowledge of the lum- 
 ber business. He studied diligently at the pub- 
 lic schools of Broome county, and also had the 
 advantage of attendance at a private school for 
 several years. More fortunate than the average 
 farm-reared youth, he was prepared for any 
 emergencv that the future might hold, by virtue 
 of exemplary home training, an excellent educa- 
 tion and a fair knowledge of business. 
 
 Cpon attaining 'years of discretion, Mr. Wat- 
 rous was at once ushered into the responsibility 
 of life, owing to his father's failing health, and 
 in order to take up his business went to Tioga 
 county. Pa., where the lumber interests were 
 located. Later he engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness for himself in Tioga counts-, and became 
 prominent in the affairs of the locality during the 
 several gears' residence there. For one term he 
 served as auditor of Tioga county, and for the
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 same length of time was treasurer of the countv. 
 In 1869 Mr. Watroiis removed to McHenry 
 county. 111., and became interested in the dairy 
 business and in general farming. There he was 
 quite successful, but his ambition reached bcyoufl 
 the borders of Illinois, and in 1887 he sought the 
 more promising conditions and undeveloped re- 
 sources of .Arizona. The farm of one hundred 
 and sixty acres of which he is the possessor has 
 been developed from a desert waste, and is ]"irin- 
 cipall}- devoted to the raising of stock. 
 
 In 1859, in Pennsylvania, Mr. Watrous mar- 
 ried Catherine Hill, a native of Pennsylvania. 
 ( )f this union there are two children, Kate, who 
 is the wife of Edward A. Murphy, and lives in 
 Tem[)e, and Sarah E., who is married to C. H. 
 Pratt, and lives in Phoeni.x. In national politics 
 Mr. ^^'atrous is inclined to the Republican party, 
 but entertains broad ideas regarding the holders 
 of office. With his wife he is a member of and 
 liberal contributor to the Congregational Church 
 and takes a deep interest in its work. 
 
 JOHN NOBLE. 
 
 The life of this well-known citizen of WinsUnv 
 illustrates what may be accomplished in a coun- 
 try fraught with such resources as are to be 
 found in Arizona by a man possessing powers of 
 physical endurance, together with energy, 
 economy and a determination to succeed. L'n- 
 like most of the successful men of this territory, 
 Mr. Noble owes his start in life to a lucky strike 
 in mining in Alaska, though most of the capital 
 acquired in that venture he spent before finally 
 engaging in the industry which has brought 
 him wealth beyond all his possible needs. 
 
 In Lockhaven, I'a., John Noble was born 
 October 18, 1854. .\t the age of seven he was 
 taken by his parents to Grand Rapids, Mich., 
 where he was reared and educated until his nine- 
 teenth \ear. .\t that time he went to Washing- 
 ton Territory and secured temporary em|)loy- 
 ment in lumber camps, (ioing thence to Sitka, 
 .Alaska, he devoted three months to prospecting 
 and mining, his efforts yielding him $8,000 in 
 that time. The following two years he remained 
 in San I''rancisco. h'rom that time until 1885 he 
 traveled extensively through the United States 
 and Canada, visiting, among other places, De- 
 
 troit, Port Huron, Guelph, Quebec and North- 
 ern Ontario, Saginaw, Duluth, Minneapolis, St. 
 Paul, Idaho and Oregon. 
 
 During December, 1885, Mr. Noble came to 
 .\ri/.ona and secured employment as a sheep- 
 herder in .Apache (now Navajo) county, at which 
 "ccupation he was employed for two years. For 
 the ne.xt two years he raised sheep on the shares, 
 and for a similar period was a partner of J. W. 
 ( arl. whose interest he purchased for ^2/, 000 
 cash. .Since that time he has devoted himself 
 til the same industry exclusively, accumulating a 
 foriime in the business. .About fortv-five miles 
 south of W'inslow he has seven patented ranches, 
 w ith an abundance of fine spring water, the bulk 
 of which comes from a tunnel two hundred and 
 seventy-five feet long. Besides these ranches 
 and about twenty-two thou.sand sheep now graz- 
 ing upon them, he owns real estate in Phoenix 
 and W'inslow, and is now (June, igoi), erecting 
 a sul)stantial brick Inisiness block in the latter 
 town. 
 
 Though a stanch Republican, .Mr. Noble has 
 never cared for public office. He is a modest, 
 unassuming man, living quietly, and doing good 
 with his means whenever an opportunity pre- 
 sents itself. Alovements for the benefit of his 
 home town receive his cordial support from 
 their inception until their realization, and W'in- 
 slow owes much to his progressive spirit and 
 high character of citizenship. 
 
 JOSIAH S. P.ASSETT. 
 
 Ihat Air. Bassett is one of the most enterpris- 
 ing farmers of the (iila valley is a distinct evi- 
 dence of his indomitable {>erserverance. .Manv 
 tliscouraging trials have come his way, and many 
 obstacles presented themselves, the surmounting 
 of which would have formed to the average a bar 
 to any kind of headway. The faniilv of which 
 he is a member were for years identified with the 
 best agricultural interests of .Arkansas, in which 
 state he was born .\])ril 18, i8_:^8. His j)arenis. 
 T. J. and .Sarah llassett, were also born in .Arkan- 
 sas, and the father eventually died wilhin t'.\enl\' 
 miles oi the scene of his birth. The mother 
 subsecpiently removed to Texas, and after a long 
 and useful life died in \'<iv[ W'orth. Josiah .S. 
 was about sixteen when ln' went to Texas and be-
 
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 came interested in farming, and for a long period 
 was engaged in the same occupation. In order to 
 better his condition he resolved upon an overland 
 journey to Arizona, and the expedition remains 
 to this day a memory replete with horror anil 
 ever-present danger and death. The Indians still 
 regarded the plains and mountains as their un- 
 disputed possession, and gave the pale-faced in- 
 truders anything Init a hearty welcome. Every 
 day witnessed the murder of travelers, and the 
 little expedition came upon many bodies of the 
 slain. Some were burned and some were not, 
 but the whole way was a terrible reminder of a 
 possible ignominious fate. 
 
 Arriving at SafYord, Ariz., Mr. Bassett found 
 but two white families there, and verv little 
 improvement as yet effected. He began to till 
 the soil with moderate success, and then removed 
 to Dos Cabezos, where he engaged in the cattle 
 business, and also had the mail route Ijetween 
 Fort Bowie and the Cherry Cow mountains. In 
 the former occupation he was interested for four 
 years, and was mail carrier for six vears. Upon 
 selling out his interests at Dos Cabezos he re- 
 moved thirty-five miles southwest to the Hot 
 Springs, where he farmed, and then located sixt\- 
 miles below Phoenix. There he engaged in an 
 unfortunate undertaking, the constrtiction of the 
 Bassett ditch, which consume<l four \ears of time 
 and all the money he had, but was swept away by 
 floods. 
 
 Following this discouraging experience Mr. 
 Bassett went to Phoenix, where he lived for five 
 years, during which time he was in poor health, 
 and labored at a disadvantage. Nevertheless he 
 took the mail contract from Phoenix to Pnickeye, 
 and continued in that capacity for four years. 
 At the end of that time he came to the Gila val- 
 ley, which has since been bis home. For a year 
 he rented a farm, and then bought fortv acres 
 half way between Solomonville and Satiford, 
 Avhere he still lives, although the place has since 
 been sold to his son. He has since purchased 
 what is known as the Olney ranch, one-half mile 
 north of Solomonville on the river. 
 
 Interested in mining, Mr. Bassett owns claims 
 in the Clarke and Lone Star district. He also 
 owns one of the largest marble mines that has 
 ever been located, at Dos Cabezos. He was dis- 
 appointed in >\ liat seemed a luckv disposition of 
 
 the property in 1899 ^or $100,000. which deal 
 fell through owing to the failure of a bank. 
 
 In 1842 Mr. Bassett married Susie (libbs, and 
 of this union there arc six children: Mrs. I'lliza- 
 beth Teal : Charles H.. who lives at Dos Cabe- 
 zos ; Josiah, who is a farmer near Phoenix ; 
 Mrs. .Susan L. Coojkt; Mrs. George Na=h ; and 
 Alice, who is living at home. In national pol- 
 itics Mr. Bassett is a firm lielicver in the princi- 
 ples and issues of the DemcTcratic party, and has 
 served lor several years as a school trustee. 
 During the Civil war he enlisted in Gould's Regi- 
 ment, Twenty-third Cavalry, C. S. A., hut served 
 only three months, owing to the bite of a rattle- 
 snake. As a reminder of his short war service he 
 was troubled for sixteen years with a running 
 sore. 
 
 MARTIN TULLGREN. 
 
 Martin Tullgren, superintendent of the Storm 
 Cloud Gold Mining Company, whose claims are 
 located in Maple Gulch, on the Crown King road, 
 about eleven miles southeast of Prescott, has been 
 a resident of Arizona only five years, but is 
 thoroughly interested in the territory. He is a 
 native of Sweden and came to the United States 
 in 1878, first living in Chicago, 111., and then 
 going to the Black Hills of South Dakota. In 
 his native land he had qualified himself as an 
 architect, and his knowledge served him in good 
 stead during his employment with the Homestake 
 Mining Company, for his work was that of build- 
 ing and assisting in the timijering and supporting 
 of the galleries of the mines. Returning to Chi- 
 cago in 1883 he resumed the more regular 
 branches of his profession, and received con- 
 tracts from Chief Justice Fuller, ^ilontgomery 
 Ward & Co., and other leading firms of that city. 
 He furnished the plans and 1>uilt the handsome 
 Press block, at the corner of Lexington avenue 
 and Sixty-second street and has left other lasting 
 memorials of his skill in the thriving metropolis. 
 
 Having been associated with W. G. Press, of 
 Chicago, Mr. Tullgren went to Baker City, Ore., 
 in his interest, in 1896. That gentleman owns 
 mines in the locality mentioned, and our subject 
 had charge of their opcratiovi until May, 1897, 
 when he came tn Prescott. With characteristic 
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 developing the Storm Cloud iiiines, in the capac- 
 ity of superintendent, and great results have re- 
 warded his efforts. The fourteen claims compri.s- 
 ing this group are yielding a free-milling ore of 
 good quality. 
 
 Mr. Tullgren has traveled extensively in the 
 west, and is well acquainted in the mining cir- 
 cles of various localities. He is 1 practical as- 
 sayer, and serves his company well in that 
 capacity. On his own account, he has done some 
 prospecting and mining in this region, and owns 
 some good claims. Many interests still bind him 
 to his old home in Chicago, and there he still 
 owns considerable real estate. In the suburb of 
 Englewood he took thirty-two degrees in Ma- 
 sonry, belonging to the local lodge, chapter and 
 commandery. He also is yet connected with the 
 Englewood lodge of Odd Fellows. His family 
 comprises his wife and their two sons. 
 
 HON. CHARLES R. DRAKE. 
 
 P'or thirty years, the most eventful period in 
 the history of Arizona, has Hon. Charles R. 
 Drake looked upon Tucson as his home, and 
 in many ways has indissolubly linked his name 
 with this future state. He who sen'ed as presi- 
 dent of the senate of the fifteenth legislative 
 assembly of this territory, and is a member of 
 the board of regents of the L^^niversity of .Ari- 
 zona, in whose behalf he has always valiantly 
 labored, is a worthy representative of that fine 
 old English family whence sprang Sir Francis 
 Drake. His grandfather. Rivers Drake, who 
 served in the colonial \'irginian army during the 
 war of 181 2, as a non-commissioned officer, was 
 born in the neighborhood of London, England, 
 and at an early day took up his abode in Rich- 
 mond, Va., where he was a prosperous merchant, 
 and a member of the firm of Kirby, Drake tS: 
 Taylor. About 1828 he went to the new countrv 
 of Illinois, and took up .a tract of government 
 land in Clark county. 
 
 Charles Drake, father of tlie subject of this 
 sketch, was born in Richnmnd, \'a., in 181 1, and 
 died at the age of seventy-eight years at tiic 
 home of his namesake in Tucson, where he 
 spent the last eight years of his life. At the age 
 of seventeen ho had gone to lllintii-;, and in hi-^ 
 35 
 
 mature years became a prosperous business man. 
 For many years he carried on mercantile enter- 
 prises in Shelbyville, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn., 
 but after the war period was practically retired. 
 His wife, whose maiden name was Mahala Jane 
 Jeter, was born in Louisville, Ky., coming of 
 an old family of that region, she being a sister 
 of the father of Hon. William T. Jeter, of Santa 
 Cruz, Cal., who was lieutenant-governor of Cali- 
 fornia from 1894 to 1898. She died in Tennes- 
 see, leaving five children. 
 
 The birth of Hon. Charles R. Drake took 
 ])lace in Walnut Prairie, ' Clark county, 111., in 
 1843. _ Entering the navy when young, he served 
 during the Civil war under the gallant leader Ad- 
 miral Porter, his office being that of master's 
 mate for two and a half years. Some of the im- 
 ]X)rtant campaigns of the war were participated 
 in by him in the Mississippi squadron, including 
 the famous Red river expedition under Admiral 
 D. D. Porter, and his vessel was at the bombard- 
 ment of several of the fortified towns on the 
 Mississippi, Red and Washita rivers, and in the 
 engagement at Trinity, on the Washita river, he 
 was wounded in the left arm. 
 
 When the storm-clouds of war had rolled 
 away, Mr. Drake re-engaged in the drug busi- 
 ness, which had been his occupation before the 
 war, and in 187 1 came to Tucson in the govern- 
 ment employ, serving as a hospital steward. In 
 1876 he was made assistant postmaster of this 
 place, and at the same time until 1881 was as- 
 sistant L'nited States depository, paying all of 
 the government troops here and handling large 
 amounts of money. At the end of five years of 
 service in that capacity he was elected county 
 recorder of Pima county, then including all of 
 Cochise and .Santa Cruz, most of Graham and 
 (iila .and part of Pinal counties. That position 
 he continued to fill from January, 1881, to Janu- 
 ary, 1885, at the expiration of which period he 
 turned his attention to his own affairs, conduct- 
 ing a general brokerage and commission busi- 
 ness. In 1889 he was appointed by President 
 Harrison receiver of the land office at Tucson, 
 and in 1893 became a member of the firm of 
 Norton-Drake Company, labor contractors for 
 the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. 
 
 In Jimc, 1900, Mr. Drake retired from the 
 Sonthrni Pacific contracts, and is giving hi^
 
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 time to other enterprises, of which he has many. 
 Among them is the Tucson Building & Loan 
 Association, of which he is the president. For 
 a number of years he was a member of the city 
 council of Tucson, for several terms was a school 
 trustee and also was the president of the board, 
 more than once. Elected on the Republican 
 ticket to the fourteenth and fifteenth general 
 assemblies of Arizona, he rendered effective ser- 
 vice for the progressive people. In the Four- 
 teenth sessions he made a good fight in pre- 
 venting the repealing of the university bill, 
 which had been passed' in the previous assembly, 
 and later was vigorously assailed. Thus it^was a 
 matter of poetical justice when, in 1889, he was 
 appointed a member of the board of regents 
 of the now thriving institution. From 1898 to 
 1900 he was chairman of the territorial central 
 Republican committee, and in the year last 
 named was sent as a delegate to the Philadelphia 
 national convention of the party. That great 
 body appointed him to represent Arizona in the 
 notification committee which was sent to convey 
 the news of his nomination to Colonel Roosevelt, 
 at Oyster Bay. In the fraternities, Mr. Drake 
 is connected with the Odd Fellows, the Knights 
 of Pythias, the Order of Elks and the Ancient 
 Order of LTnited Workmen. 
 
 Mr. Drake is now (1901) living in Los An- 
 geles, Cal.j and has just succeeded in organizing 
 and successfully managing an enterprise of great 
 magnitude, the Seaside Water Company, a cor- 
 poration composed of wealthy capitalists who 
 have bought out and consolidated all the water 
 companies and their plants at Long Beach, Ter- 
 minal Island and San Pedro; the Seaside Water 
 Company will supply water for domestic uses 
 for these seaside resorts, as well as furnishing 
 water for irrigation for some twenty thousand 
 acres of land. 
 
 WILLIAM H. BENSON. 
 
 From the time that lie came to Arizona iti 1S77 
 until shortly before his death, Mr. Benson was 
 identified with the development and progress of 
 this territory. He was among the most intelli- 
 gent and helpful pioneers of Florence, and as 
 farmer, miner, insurance agent, land owner, and 
 progressive citizen, he was eslpeme*! hv Imsiness 
 
 associates, and received the recognition due to 
 one who was ever mindful of the best interests of 
 his adopted town. The early part of his youth 
 was spent in Saco, Me., ^^•here he was born in 
 1856, a son of William S. and Hannah (Russell) 
 Benson. His boyhood experiences did not differ 
 from those of the average boy, and his education 
 was obtained in public schools. In the first flush 
 of enthusiasm for a life work he turned his at- 
 tention to the study of medicine, but this was 
 later abandoned in favor of a commercial life in 
 the far west. 
 
 By way of diversion i\Ir. Benson accompanied 
 Charles G. Mason on a trip to Arizona in 1877. 
 After arriving here and practically demonstrat- 
 ing the worth of the country as a place of busi- 
 ness, he determined to remain in the west. While 
 associated for six years with the Silver King 
 Mining Company as bookkeeper, he also en- 
 gaged in teaching school, and during that time 
 became somewhat prominent in a political way. 
 In 1878 he was appointed justice of the peace 
 and was afterward elected to the position, which 
 he filled for twenty-two years altogether. In 
 1886 he was elected probate judge of Pinal 
 county on the Republican ticket and served in 
 that capacity two years. In 1888 he became 
 clerk of the United States district court of the 
 second judicial district, and served as postmas- 
 ter under Postmaster-General Key. From 1879 
 until his death he acted as local representative for 
 several well-known insurance companies in Eu- 
 rope and the United States, and placed many 
 policies in his own and surrounding towns. 
 
 In August of 1897 Mr. Benson was appointed 
 by Judge George R. Davis receiver for the Flor- 
 ence Canal Company, for which he had previ- 
 ously been bookkeeper for three years. Later 
 he acted as local manage^r for the Casa Grande 
 Valley Canal Company. In all matters pertain- 
 ing to water development he showed keen interest 
 and intelligent oversight. He also engaged in 
 farming on the Gila bottom, and owns a ranch 
 of three hundred and fifty acres, which is de- 
 voted to general farming and stock-raising. In 
 the course of all the years of his residence in 
 the territory, he marked his success by investing 
 in real estate at different points, and at the time 
 of his death owned property in Florence and 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 925 
 
 account of failing health he resigned his interests 
 in Florence April i, 1901, and went to Los An- 
 geles, Cal., where he soon afterward died. The 
 following is quoted from the Los Angeles Times 
 of April 6: "W. II. Ik-nson, who died at the 
 California hospital and was huried ^■csterda\• 
 from his home on ^\'est Thirty-third street, was 
 one of the best-known citizens of Arizona, where 
 he was generally known as 'Judge' Benson. In 
 the palmy days of the great Silver King niiiie. 
 between 1880 and 1885, Mr. Benson was justice 
 of the peace at I'inal City, where the Silver King 
 mine was located. \\'hen the mine and mill were 
 shut down, and Pinal City became a thing of the 
 past, he removed to Florence, the countv-seat of 
 Pinal county, where he resided until he came Ui 
 Los Angeles for medical treatment. Mr. Ben- 
 son, who was a native of ]\Iaine, was a man of 
 high character, whose word was as good as his 
 bond, and he was highly thinigbt of throughout 
 the territory." 
 
 Fr.iternally Mr. Benson was associated with 
 the Ancient Order nf I'nited \\'orkmen and the 
 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Saco, Me. 
 At the time he left Florence he held the offices of 
 justice of the peace, school trustee, notary public 
 and referee in bankruptcy. In 1878 he was 
 united in marriage with Emma D. Foreman, of 
 San Luis Obisp>o county, Cal.. daughter of Solo- 
 mon W. Foreman, one of the most prominent 
 pioneers of Arizona. Of this union five children 
 were born: William A., Abbie M.. Fdith M., 
 S. F. A., and Anna Doan. 
 
 HON. J. W. P.RUCE. 
 
 It fell to the lot of J. W. Bruce to be the engi- 
 neer on the first train which ran into Tucscm on 
 the Southern Pacific Railroad a score of years 
 ago, and from that time to the present he has 
 guided the "fiery horse" to and from tliis city 
 across the lonely plains of southern Arizona. For 
 more than three decades he has been engaged in 
 railroading, and for more than a quarter of a 
 century has been connected with the corporation 
 above mentioned, b'iilelity and promptness in the 
 discharge of his <luties have won for him the 
 regard of all who know him, and he has many 
 friends all along the line of his route. 
 
 As his surname intplie^. .Mr. Bruce comes of 
 
 the sterling Scotch family which has played so 
 important a part in history. His paternal grand- 
 father, who was a native of the land of the thistle 
 and heather, came to the United States at an 
 early period and engaged in farming in Penn- 
 sylvania. William, father of J. W. Bruce, was 
 born in that state and in his young manhood de- 
 voted his attention to railroading, running from 
 Hollidaysburg, Pa., on the old Portage road. In 
 1S69 he went to Reno, Leavenworth county, 
 Kans.. and there engaged in farming. During 
 the Mexican war he served in a Pennsylvania 
 regiiuent, under General Scott, and when the 
 Civil war l>roke out, again enlisted in the defense 
 of his country, being with troops of the Key- 
 stone state. He is about eighty years of age, and 
 his wife is a year his junior. She was Sarah 
 McConnell prior to their marriage, and with her 
 father, Francis McConnell, was a native of Penn- 
 sylvania and of Scotch-Irish extraction. He was 
 a blacksiuith by trade and died at Reno, Kans. 
 ( )f the five sons and five daughters born to Wil- 
 liam and .Sarah Bruce, all are living but two 
 daughters. 
 
 J- ^^'• Bruce was born in Altoona, Pa., April 
 6, 1854, and was educated in the public schools 
 of that city. In 1869 he went to Kansas, and 
 after spending a year on the farm entered the 
 railroad service as an employe of the Kansas 
 Pacific. Soon he was made fireman on a switch 
 engine and then went on the road in the same 
 capacity. At the end of eighteen months he be- 
 came a fireman for the Missouri Pacific. In 1874 
 he went to Latham, Cal., and for three years was 
 fireman on the Southern Pacific. In 1877 he 
 was made an engineer, with his run to Yuma, and 
 in 1880 came to Tucson with the first train that 
 pulled into this city. Since then he has been 
 one of the most trusted engineers on this divi- 
 sion, and has been thoroughly identified with the 
 progress of Tucson. He has built several resi- 
 dences here and has been an interested witness 
 of local improvements. 
 
 In 1892 Mr. Bruce was nominated on the Dem- 
 ix-ratic ticket to the territorial legislature, and, 
 being elected, represented this district in the sev- 
 enteenth general assembly, taking an active part 
 in the proceedings. In 1880 he assisted in organ- 
 izing Division No. 28, Brotherhood of Locomo- 
 tive Engineers, and servcil as chief of the same
 
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 five terms. In 1886 he was sent as a delegate to 
 the twenty-fifth annual convention of this body, 
 which convened at Richmond, \'a. The South- 
 ern Pacific Library .Vssociation received material 
 assistance from Mr. Bruce at the time of its 
 organization, and everything which pertains to 
 the interests of the brotherhood is of deep con- 
 cern to him. Fraternally he also belongs to the 
 Knights of Pythias. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Bruce and Miss -Maggie 
 McDowell, a native of St. Joseph, Mo., too'< 
 place in Los Angeles, Gal, December 20, 1881. 
 Of the children bom to them five are living, 
 namely: Ella, who is a graduate of the Tucson 
 high school and of the L'niversity of Arizona ; 
 George G, Kittle B., Allan and Glory Martha. 
 
 BIRDNO BROTHERS. 
 
 In September of 1885 six ambitious and indus- 
 trious boys accompanied their parents, N. W. and 
 Mary B. Birdno, to Pima, Graham county, Ariz., 
 and took up one hundred and sixty acres of bar- 
 ren desert land. With the practical and tireless 
 resources developed by the Mormon settlers 
 wherever they cast their lot, they at once began 
 the improvement of their land, digging ditches 
 for irrigation, building a house wherein to dwell, 
 and fencing the land to prevent the invasion of 
 other cattle or the escape of their own stock. In 
 time there developed, in place of the once appar- 
 ently worthless tract of land, a farm which had 
 few equals in the neighborhood, and the output 
 of which furnished sufficient means to start in 
 good shape the later Inisiness enterprises of the 
 deserving sons. 
 
 The brothers claim a common liirthplace in 
 Logan City, Iltah. J. J. and George H. received 
 their education in the Brigham Young Academx;,, 
 at Provo City, I'tah county, Utah, and the other 
 sons received a high-school education in Ari- 
 zona. The parents, who are aged respectively 
 seventy-eight and sixt\'-eight years, settled in 
 Utah over fifty years ago, and are still living. 
 making their home with their sons. The family 
 is happily situated and its meniljcrs dwell to- 
 gether in unity. 
 
 At the end of thirteen years the farming rela- 
 tions were interrupted by the withdrawal into 
 •other business of fmir of the brnthcrs, Gcorce TT.. 
 
 D. W., E. L. and L. F., who took in exchange 
 for their shares in the farm the general merchan- 
 dise property of J. T. Owens, of Safford. Under 
 their capable management this enterprise has 
 developed into one of the sound commercial con- 
 cerns of the town, and includes among its stock 
 of general supplies, hardware, agricultural im- 
 plements, furniture and mining necessities. The 
 store is constructed of brick, and is 30x100 feet 
 in dimensions, and two stories high. The build- 
 ing, lot, stock, and everything in connection with 
 the business, were purchased outright from the 
 previous owner, Mr. Owens. 
 
 The remaining two brothers, John J. and C. N., 
 though still retaining their interests in the home- 
 stead, have branched out in different lines of 
 occupation. John J. is the editor of the "Graham 
 County Guardian" and lives in Safford, while C. 
 N.' is engaged in the lumber and shingle business 
 at Pima. The brothers who are merchants at 
 present own a farm of one hundred and sixty 
 acres two and one-half miles south of Safford 
 in the artesian belt, and are preparing to sink 
 wells on their property. In religion the entire 
 family are members of the Monnon Church and 
 in politics they are strict advocates of Demo- 
 cratic principles. 
 
 In 1892 George H. Birdno married Ella C. 
 Cluif, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary E. Cluff , 
 of Provo City. Of this union there are three 
 children : Jessie, who is eight years old : Belva 
 A., seven ; and George H., Jr. 
 
 August 26, 1893, D. W. Birdno married Millie 
 M. Haws, of Provo, and they now have three 
 children, Willie, Lyle and Rcva. E. L. was 
 united in marriage, March 21. 1897, with Sadie 
 .Sheppard, of California. 
 
 SAMUEL S. CAMPBELL. 
 
 The vast mining interests of Cochise county 
 have been materially augmented by the discov- 
 eries and developments of Mr. Campbell, at pres- 
 ent a resident of Pottstown, Pa. Some of the 
 most valuable and pa}ing ijrripcrties in the terri- 
 tory have at times passed through his hands, and 
 his successful prospecting has resulted in the 
 exchange of many thousands of dollars, and has 
 created many fortunes for the seekers after 
 wealth. .'\s one of those who know hnw \n ,Tvaii
 
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 themselves of opportunities he stands pre-eminent 
 among the many who have found in Arizona a 
 field for the exercise of their special aptitude. 
 
 The youth of Mr. Campbell was passed in 
 Pennsylvania, and he was born in Philadelphia in 
 1829. He received a common-school education 
 in Pittsburg, and when comparatively young was 
 face to face with the serious and responsible side 
 lif life. As a preliminary means of livelihood 
 he was employed for five years on the lower Mis- 
 sissippi river, and after a year's residence in his 
 old home in Pennsylvania went to California, 
 where he became interested in mining. In 1857 
 he returned to Philadelphia, and was there en- 
 gaged in a mercantile venture until 1878, when 
 he went to Leadville, Colo., and renewed his 
 interest in mining for a year. 
 
 The association of Mr. Campbell with Cochise 
 county was prolific of almost immediate good 
 results, for his mining and prospecting led to 
 the discovery of the great Peabody mine. He 
 was the first white man in the locality, and his 
 courage in facing the dangers of a locality hith- 
 erto infested with murderous Apaches and unruly- 
 Mexicans was worthy of the reward of just such 
 a find. There was an abundance of water upon 
 the claim and throughout the whole valley, and 
 Mr. Campbell named the place Russell. He also 
 organized a company known as the Russell Cop- 
 per Mining Company, and in 1881 shipped a 
 smelter from San Francisco, which was placed at 
 the foot of the Dragoon mountains, five miles 
 north of Dragoon, at what is now Russellville. 
 The company formed had as president Alfred 
 C. Harmer, of Philadelphia, Mr. Campbell being 
 vice-president and manager. In 1882 Mr. Camp- 
 bell disposed of the Peabody mine for $350,000 
 in cash, and later copper decreased in value, the 
 smelter was sold, and all operations in the great 
 mine ceased. 
 
 The Russell Copper Mining Company had, 
 however, a large group of mines, among them 
 being some that were available as wealth pro- 
 ducers, and that have more than realized the 
 expectations of stockholders. Of the original 
 twelve stockholders, Mr. Campbell is the only one 
 now living. J. H. Gendell, of Philadelphia, is 
 now trustee for the company, and Mr. Camp- 
 bell is manager and controller of one group of 
 mines known as the Mammoth group, which pro- 
 
 duce a very rich ore, of which thirty-one cars 
 have been shipped. The Republic is among this 
 group, and contains a large body of fine ore. 
 Another mine in the neighborhood is the Pea- 
 body, which is now shipping fourteen cars a 
 week. A singular feature of most of these prop- 
 erties is the fact that the ore is found near or on 
 top of the ground. 
 
 In 1858 Mr. Campbell married Mary A. Bach- 
 man, of Philadelphia, and of this union there are 
 five children, Harry S., George M., Mary A., 
 .•\nna C, and S. Morris. Mrs. Campbell died 
 in 1879. Her children are all in the east, with 
 the exception of George M., who is in the far 
 west. In 188 1 Mr. Campbell married Caroline 
 G. Brook, a sister of Major-General J. R. Brook, 
 of the United States army, and who is now com- 
 mander of the department of the east. At pres- 
 ent Mr. Campbell is living in the old Brook 
 homestead, a mile and a half below Pottstown, 
 Pa. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and 
 has ever given his allegiance to this party. As 
 a Mason he has taken the thirty-second degree, 
 and as an Odd Fellow he has filled every office 
 in the organization. 
 
 FRANK E, RUSSELL. 
 
 .\s one who shouldered the responsibilities of 
 life when less than twelve years of age and who 
 by his own energy worked his way upward 
 to an honored place in the world's broad field 
 of battle, Frank E. Russell of Tucson is emi- 
 nently deserving of mention in the territorial an- 
 nals. Today he is superintendent of the Tucson 
 Electric Light & Power Company, whose thor- 
 oughly modern and unrivaled plant was erected 
 under his direction nine years ago and has since 
 been enlarged, as necessity demanded. In addi- 
 tion to this, he is chief of the city fire depart- 
 ment, and for six years has rendered Tucson 
 effective service in the city council. Many enter- 
 prises of a more personal nature share his atten- 
 tion, but paramount to everything he holds the 
 interests of the public, and thus is rightly con- 
 sidered an invaluable citizen. 
 
 In Dover, England, Frank E. Russell was 
 born June 29, 1863. His parents, John and 
 Selina (Taylor) Russell, were natives of Eng- 
 land, the former being a contractor in Dover,
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Kent, for many years prior to his death. Of 
 their four children, two sons, Frank E. and 
 Louis, are now in Tticson. In 1874 he began to 
 be employed in the coasting trade, and soon went 
 to distant shores. Within the seven years of 
 his life before the mast he rounded Cape Horn 
 four or five times and once passed the Cape of 
 Ciood Hope. In the course of his voyages he 
 was engaged in the northern Atlantic, South 
 .\merican, California and East India trade, 
 touching at many of the leading seaports of the 
 world. Twice he was shipwrecked, the first time 
 when on the ship "Elizabeth Kelner" in the Eng- 
 lish channel, and the second time in 1879, when 
 the sailing vessel "Kingsport" was dismantled 
 in a storm ofT the coast of Mexico in the Pacific 
 ocean. He was picked up by a vessel bound for 
 San Francisco, and, once more on terra firma, 
 he decided that it had more attractions for him 
 than the unstable ocean. 
 
 During the following thirteen \ears Mr. Rus- 
 sell was in the employ of the Western Union 
 Telegraph Company, in the line service, in the 
 mean time becoming thoroughly acquainted 
 with the business. In 1885 he came to Tucson, 
 liaving charge of the district lines in this locality, 
 and it was not until i8ij6 that he resigned from 
 the company's employ. As previously stated, 
 he had superintended the erection of the city 
 electric light plant, now one of the largest and 
 most complete in Arizona. Both gas and elec- 
 tricity are supplied from this concern, engines of 
 four hundred horse power being used, and six 
 dynamos of large capacity and the latest and 
 best machinery of every kind. Fifty arc lights 
 of the first power and three thousand incandes- 
 cent lights are furnished under the present con- 
 tracts. In 1894 Mr. Russell became a member 
 of the firm of Russell & Sheldon, dealers in elec- 
 trical supplies, bicycles and bicycle sundries. 
 Having earned the reputation of being an ex- 
 pert electrician, he was called upon to fit out the 
 largest buildings here, among them the cathe- 
 dral, the opera house and the chief business 
 blocks and residences. He is one of the direc- 
 tors of the electric light companv, and also be- 
 longs to the board of trade. 
 
 A great worker in the Democratic party, Mr. 
 Russell has rendered efficient service as repre- 
 sentative of the first ward in the citv council. 
 
 At the city election of 1900 he was urgently re- 
 quested to become a candidate for the office of 
 mayor, on the Democratic ticket, at the expira- 
 tion of his third temi as councilman, but pre- 
 ferred to accept the renomination for election as 
 councilman, so that if elected he could take a 
 more active part as a worker toward the com- 
 pletion of the various municipal enterprises 
 which he had been largely instrumental in pro- 
 moting. He was re-elected for another term of 
 two years, and at this writing has the satisfaction 
 of seeing the moneys derived from the sale of 
 tlie old Military Plaza subdivision being used in 
 the construction of sewers and parks for the city, 
 thus giving to Tucson a system of sewers with- 
 out a bond issue, and public parks for the peo- 
 I)le, and thereby furnishing the only requisites 
 necessary for making Tucson the sanitarium of 
 the world. In the council Mr. Russell is chair- 
 man of the committees on building and land, and 
 on streets, and is a member of the water and 
 sewerage committee and of the library commis- 
 sion which has in charge the building of the 
 Carnegie library. Numerous public works, in- 
 cluding the present water system, were stanchly 
 supported by him in the council. Since the reor- 
 ganization of the fire department in 1898, he has 
 served as its chief. He is a member of the 
 Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the 
 Hall Association. In religious faith he is an 
 Episcopalian. 
 
 Tvv'ice since becoming a permanent resident 
 of the United States Mr. Russell has returned 
 to England on visits, and on one of these trips, 
 in 1888, he married Miss Annie Stone, a native 
 of the village of Coomb, near Dover. They 
 have four children, Ernest, Selina, Francis and 
 Ellen. 
 
 EDWARD H. COOK. 
 
 Mr. Cook enjoys the distinction of being one 
 of the best informed men on mining and mines in 
 the territory. His present responsible position 
 as superintendent of the United Globe mines, to 
 wiiich he was appointed in 1891, would argue a 
 Avidespread confidence in his judgment and abil- 
 ity, not only as an expert miner, but as a pre- 
 server of order and a leader of men. 
 
 The entire life of Mr. Cook has been passed
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 933 
 
 in the extreme west. A native of San Fran- 
 cisco, he was born in 1859, and is a son of E. J. 
 and Carrie Cook. The father was born in Ala- 
 bama, and in 1849 followed the tide of emigration 
 to California, in the days when fortunes were 
 easily made and as easily lost. The family re- 
 moved to Arizona in the end of the Civil war in 
 1865, locating at Prescott Falls, then a bustling 
 mining camp. The father devoted many years to 
 mining, and his son, under the inspiration of his 
 enthusiasm and periods of success, also acquired 
 a fondness for that occupation. In 1869 he snp- 
 jilemented his education in the public school by 
 further study in San Francisco, and is a univer- 
 sity graduate. Subsequently, for three years, he 
 was employed as a pay clerk in Nevada, and in 
 1885 returned to Arizona, locating in Globe in 
 1887. 
 
 In 1 89 1 Mr. Cook entered upon his duties as 
 superintendent of the United Globe mines, and 
 in this capacity has charge of about two hundred 
 men, all white. The property over which he 
 has control is located on Buffalo hill, where the 
 company has over forty claims, mostly patented. 
 The silver mined is of a very high grade, and 
 averages about one ounce of silver to the ton. 
 On account of the absence of flux for smelting, 
 the smelter has been closed for the past year, 
 the ore being shipped away. There is a large 
 body of ore, and the owners anticipate continued 
 large returns from their property. An average 
 of six million pounds a year is the output. 
 
 The first wife o.f Mr. Cook, at her death, left 
 three children : Carrie, Nena and Louis, who are 
 attending school in Los Angeles, where the fam- 
 ily have a pleasant home. In 1899 Mr. Cook 
 married Lorena Jay, of Illinois. In politics Mr. 
 Cook is a Republican, but has never been an 
 ofifice-seeker. He is fraternally connected with 
 the Masons at Los Angeles, and with the Scot- 
 tish Rites in Globe. 
 
 J. J. COTTRELL. 
 
 To Mr, Cottrell is due the credit of having 
 established a great brick industry in Arizona, 
 which is the pioneer of its kind in the territory, 
 and which has but one equal and no superior 
 in the southwest. The plant is located at Al- 
 hambra, and was started in 1887, the brick at 
 
 that time being made by hand. As the country 
 grew in importance under the developing hand 
 of the farmer, the mechanic and the tradesman, 
 and beckoned to the east and south and west 
 with the confidence of a rejuvenated youth, the 
 response was the signal for a new and increasing 
 demand for all things of utility and necessity, 
 and an enlarged capacity in all directions of sup- 
 ply. As man must first be housed in comfort 
 before he is master of his best abilities, and as 
 he must have covering for the carrying on of 
 all of his industries, in such proportion is he a 
 far-sighted member of society who has antici- 
 pated and prepared himself to meet the impera- 
 tive demand. So it happened that the making 
 of bricks by hand was rapidly succeeded by their 
 manufacture according to the most rapid meth- 
 ods, and by the introduction by the enterprising 
 manager of the latest and most approved ma- 
 chinery. As a result the plant is one of the 
 best equipped in the country, and when in full 
 operation has a daily capacity of 36,500 brick 
 in a day, in eight hours' work. The burning 
 capacity is twenty-four thousand per day of 
 twenty-four hours, and the number of men em- 
 ployed when in full operation is between thirty- 
 five and forty. In April of 1900, the business 
 was merged into the Alhambra Brick Company, 
 with B. L. Clark of Phoenix as president, and 
 Mr. Cottrell as general manager. 
 
 A native of Greene county, Ohio, Mr. Cottrell 
 was born August 15, 1858, and is a son of Wil- 
 liam and Margaret (Tliomas) Cottrell, natives 
 of Ohio, and pioneers of Greene county. William 
 Cottrell was a clergyman during the course of 
 his long and useful life, and preached the gospel 
 of good-will and kindliness from his twenty- 
 third year until his death in 1899. The early life 
 of their son was shadowed by the death of his 
 mother when he was thirteen years of age. At 
 this time he removed with his father to Licking 
 county, of the same state, where they lived until 
 his sixteenth year. In the meantime his educa- 
 tion was acquired in the public schools of Greene 
 and Licking counties, and at the age of sixteen 
 he entered upon extended wanderings in search 
 of a desirable permanent location, visiting Wis- 
 consin, Montana, Washington, Oregon and Cali- 
 fornia. During the several years of his indefi- 
 nite sojourn, he became interested in the manu-
 
 934 
 
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 facture of brick, and engaged in its manufacture 
 in the states through wliich he traveled, from 
 the time of his nineteenth year. The wisdom 
 of his choice in setthng permanently in Phoenix 
 has never been questioned by Mr. Cottrell, than 
 whom there is no greater enthusiast over the 
 possibilities and resources of his adopted local- 
 ity in Arizona. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Cuttrell and Lovinia F. 
 Price, a daughter of William N. Price, of the 
 Salt River valley, occurred in June of 1896. Of 
 this union there are two children, Harvey J. 
 and Etta B. Mr. Cottrell is a Democrat, but 
 entertains liberal ideas regarding the politics of 
 the administration. He is regarded as one of 
 the best authorities on tlu- manufacture of brick 
 in the west, and is widely known as a man of 
 sterling traits of mind, character and attainment. 
 
 DAVID BARIUTT. 
 
 The commercial interests of Flagstaff have 
 been materially strengthened by the successful 
 stock and mercantile operations of the Babbitt 
 brothers, of whom there are four, David, George, 
 William and Charles. Like the majority of those 
 who come to Coconino county, they were at first 
 interested in the cattle business exclusively, which 
 was started upon their arrival in Arizona in 
 1886. Upon the surrounding mountains they 
 raised large numbers of fine stock, to the extent 
 of between six and eight thousand head, and for 
 three years were remarkalily successful in their 
 chosen line of work. 
 
 In 1888 David Babbitt, the senior member of 
 the cattle firm, opened a hardware store in Flag- 
 staff. Beginning in a small way, he had worked 
 up quite a business by the end of two years. 
 In 1890 the brothers bought out the store and 
 stock of Emerson & Gibbons, general merchants, 
 and formed the mercantile company of Babbitt 
 Brothers. The trade accorded them was so sat- 
 isfactory that David l.abbitt erected a portion 
 of the present building. Since then from time 
 to time additions have been made to accommo- 
 date an ever-increasing trade, and there are now 
 two floors, with an exhibition space of 130x120 
 feet. A general department store is the result, 
 the five departments being each under a different 
 manager. In addition to a complete line of gen- 
 
 eral necessities, the firm deals largely in Navajo 
 Indian l^lankets, secured from the posts on the 
 reservations, and shipped from here to all parts 
 of the LTnited States. Other items of revenue 
 are the large quantities of Indian baskets and 
 curios which pass through their hands and find 
 a ready sale among all classes of people who are 
 sensible of the gradual passing away of these 
 picturesque almrigines. 
 
 The Babbitt Brothers are also interested in the 
 cattle business in Kansas, with headquarters 
 at Dodge City, near which they have an enclosure 
 covering thirty sections of land. In connection 
 with their mercantile enterprise they have a 
 commissary at the Arizona LuiTiIjer & Timber 
 Company's mill and a branch at U'inslow. They 
 also have trading posts for the Indians at Wil- 
 low Springs, Red Lake and Wolf's Post Coconino 
 county. 
 
 Besides his other interests, David Babbitt has 
 mine holdings, and is developing a copper mine 
 in the Grand canon. He is a stockholder in the 
 Copper King mine, belonging to the Ohio Copper 
 Company, which secures from the nn'ne an ore 
 with an output of twenty-five per cent copper. 
 At one time he officiated as mayor of Flagstaff, 
 and at this w'riting he is a member of the city 
 council, as well as one of the most pronn'nent 
 men of the entire county. Fie is one of those 
 men who possess the true western grit and deter- 
 mination and who are of incalculable value in 
 the building up of localities and towns. 
 
 JOHN EVANS. 
 
 John Evans, member of the general mercantile 
 firm of Evans, Ellsworth & Co., of Safford, was 
 born in Desarc, Prairie county. Ark., August 6, 
 1870. His parents, John H. and Margaret Evans, 
 were natives respectively of Missouri and Ten- 
 nessee, and were early settlers in Arkansas, re- 
 moving thence in 1877 to New Mexico, and from 
 there in 1883 coming to Arizona. Their first 
 home in the territory was at .Snowflake, Apache 
 county. In 1886 they removed to Safiford, and 
 availed themselves of the excellent farming lam I 
 in the vicinity of the town, where the father w as 
 extensively engaged in general farming and 
 stock-raising until 1894. They still make Saf- 
 ford their home.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 937 
 
 The education of John Evans was acquired 
 under difficulties, and for the most part has been 
 the resuh of his own independent apphcation. 
 In Arkansas and New Mexico he availed himself 
 of every opportunity that presented itself for 
 the acquiring of knowledge, nor has this habit 
 been less noticeable since he removed to Arizona. 
 His first work was undertaken as a clerk, in 
 which capacity he identified himself witli several 
 different firms. Eventually, in November of 
 1898, he bought out the firm with which he was 
 clerking, and he has since continued to be inter- 
 ested in the same business. The title of the firm 
 is now Evans, Ellsworth & Co., and as general 
 merchandise purveyors they are widely known. 
 Their store is well slocked with necessities, and 
 the residents of the town and surrounding coun- 
 try are sure of fair treatment and reasonable 
 prices. Their position as one of the large and 
 successful commercial concerns of the town is 
 largely due to the energy and wise judgment of 
 the senior member. 
 
 In September of 1900 Mr. Evans married Min- 
 nie Lloyd, daughter of Jones and Dr. Mary 
 Lloyd, the latter of whom owns fine residence 
 property in the central part of Safi^ord. In pol- 
 itics Mr. Evans believes in principle rather than 
 party, and invariably votes for the men he deems 
 i)est qualified to represent the people in office. 
 He has numerous interests in Safford and vicin- 
 ity, among others being a well-improved farm of 
 one hundred and sixty acres situated a mile south 
 of the town. On this land is a good house, and 
 the owner is preparing to sink several artesian 
 wells, in order that the property may be provided 
 with ample facilities for irrigation. 
 
 WILLIAM N. CUMMINGS. 
 
 The former recorder of Santa Cruz county 
 and ex-officio clerk of the board of supervisors, 
 Mr. Cunnnings, is a native of Ontario, Canada, 
 and was born May i, 1829. His early life was 
 spent in his native land, where he received a 
 good education in the public schools, and 
 acquired the habits of thrift and industry which 
 have characterized his more mature years. In 
 1850 he went to California and settled in what 
 is now Eldorado county, that state. In the 
 course of time he removed to Santa Cruz county, 
 
 and there engaged in farming and in the prod- 
 uce business from 1853 to 1858. In a subse- 
 quent mercantile venture at Watsonville he 
 successfully catered to the inhabitants of the 
 town for a period covering three years. 
 
 For the following nine years Mr. Cummings 
 lived in Nevada, and was there interested in 
 the general merchandise business and in mining, 
 and in 1868 went to London, England, in the 
 interest of a mining company, whose cause he 
 championed until 1870, when he returned to the 
 United States. Amid the sunshine and under 
 the cloudless skies of California Mr. Cummings 
 engaged in the hotel business and ran a line of 
 stages between Santa Cruz and San Jose for 
 nearly ten years. He came to Nogales January 
 3. 18S6. This bi-national city w'as then on the 
 verge of the prosperity which has since visited 
 it, and held out special inducements to travelers 
 from afar. lUit few of the buildings are now 
 standing which then housed the enthusiastic 
 early settlers, and few of the evidences remain 
 that individualized this from any of the other 
 mining and grazing towns. He soon became 
 interested in mines, real estate and loans in 
 Pima county, and for twelve years applied him- 
 self to these branches of industry. During that 
 time he served for two years as United States 
 court commissioner. 
 
 When Santa Cruz became a county indepen- 
 dent of its northern neighbor Pima, Mr. Cum- 
 mings was appointed by Governor Murphy first 
 county recorder and ex-officio clerk of the board 
 of supervisors. In the fall of 1890 he was nom- 
 inated on the Republican ticket for representa- 
 tive, but shared the fate of the other Republicans 
 on the ticket and was defeated, the county being 
 strongly Democratic. For years he has been 
 recognized as one of the prominent Republicans 
 of the territory. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Cunnnings was united in mar- 
 riage with Prudence Wahnsley. They adopted 
 William Nelson Cummings, a nephew. Ry a 
 former marriage Mr. Cunnnings has a daughter, 
 Alice, who was graduated with the highest 
 honors at the University of California, and who 
 is now the wife of Bruce Stanley, of Xogales. 
 IVaternally Mr. Cunmiings is associated with 
 the Odd Fellows at Nogales, and is a charter 
 member of the Encampment at Santa Cruz, Cal.
 
 938 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 For some time he lias been a member of the 
 Red Men at Nogales. He is a thirty-second 
 degree Mason in the Scottish Rite Consistory 
 at San Francisco, Cal.; also belongs to Nogales 
 Lodge No. 9, F. & A. M. ; and Santa Cruz Chap- 
 ter No. 7, R. A. M. He is a past master of the 
 lodge in California, and representative member 
 of the Territorial Grand Lodge. 
 
 HENRY EDWARD CREPIN, M. D. 
 
 Many specialists and physicians of marked 
 ability have located in southern Arizona, to whose 
 sunny clime and dry atmosphere thousands of 
 patients and health-seekers from the north ami 
 east are resorting more and more as the benefits 
 derived here are becoming widely known. Hav- 
 ing thoroughly prepared himself for his chosen 
 work, Dr. Henry E. Crepin came to Tucson as 
 early as 1886. and from that year until 188S 
 served as a health officer of the city. 
 
 The Doctor's father, Henry Crepin, M. D., was 
 born in Valencia, France, and accompanied his 
 father and the family to Dubuque, Iowa, when 
 he was young. Our subject's grandfather, who 
 was a successful merchant of Dubuque, died in 
 that city. For some years Dr. Henry Crepin was 
 engaged in practice in Dubuque, and later was 
 occupied in professional labors in Montana and 
 California. The year subsequent to the comple- 
 tion of the Southern Pacific Railroad through 
 Arizona he came to Tucson, and later, going to 
 Los Angeles, Cal., passed his last years there. 
 His widow, who lives in Tucson, was Miss Han- 
 nah Cox in her girlhood. A native of England, 
 she is a daughter of Isaac Cox, who was an early 
 settler and farmer in the vicinity of Dubuque, in 
 which locality he was a resident when called to 
 his reward. Four children were born to Dr. 
 Henry and Hannah Crepin, two sons and two 
 daughters. The other son, A. E., is the manager 
 of the Patagonia Commercial Company, of Santa 
 Cruz county, Ariz. 
 
 Born July 14, 1862, in Dubuque, Dr. Henry 
 Edward Crepin crossed the plains with his par- 
 ents in his infancy, and lived in Deer Lodge and 
 Virginia City, Mont. His elementary education 
 was obtained in private and public schools, and 
 in Christian Brothers' College, at Prairie du 
 Chien, Wis. In 1878 he went to California, and 
 
 there continued his studies in the high school 
 of Hollister. After being graduated there, he 
 entered the medical department of the University 
 of California, and after spending two years there 
 went to Chicago and was graduated in the Col- 
 lege of Physicians & Surgeons, in the class of 
 1886. The same year witnessed his establishing 
 himself in practice in Tucson, as mentioned be- 
 fore, but in 1888 a better field opened to him, 
 and accordingly he went to San Diego, Cal., and 
 for three years was physician in charge of the 
 city and county hospital. Then he located in 
 Humboldt county, Cal., but on account of illness 
 returned to Tucson in June, 1898. His office 
 is centrally situated in the Ancient Order of 
 I'nited Workmen Hall Building. A great stu- 
 dent, he keeps quite abreast of the times, and 
 employs electricity to some extent in his cases. 
 He is the owner of the only "X-ray" machine in 
 the territory, as far as known, and has all modern 
 appliances and instruments used by advanced 
 physicians and surgeons. 
 
 While in San Diego the Doctor joined the In- 
 dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and now is con- 
 nected with the Tucson Lodge. He also belongs 
 to the Order of Foresters and to the Woodmen 
 of the World. The policy of the Republican party 
 is strongly favored by him, and under no cir- 
 cumstances does he fail to discharge the duties 
 of citizenship. 
 
 WILLIAM A. GILLESPIE. 
 
 Prominent among the prosperous farmers of 
 Graham county is William A. Gillespie, who has 
 been active in the development of the Gila val- 
 ley for many years. The highest market price 
 for all of the products of his farm is always 
 paid, as the standard of his crops is above the 
 average. His business ability goes without say- 
 ing, for within a few years after his arrival, a 
 poor man, he had become well-to-do and re- 
 spected. 
 
 The parents of our subject were Thomas S. 
 and Nancy M. Gillespie, and his birthplace is in 
 eastern Tennessee. Born February 19, 1854, 
 he was reared at home and was given excellent 
 educational advantages. With the impatience 
 and adventurous spirit quite common to young 
 men, he chafed under the confinement of the
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, 
 
 930 
 
 schoolroom and longed for the freedom of the 
 west. At length he ran away from Washington 
 College, where he was a student, and here it 
 may be said that he often has been sorry that 
 he was so hasty in action. .-\t any rate, he went 
 to Colorado. It had been his original intention 
 to proceed to the northern part of New Mexico, 
 but the railroad extended only as far as Kit 
 Carson. He obtained employment with Messrs. 
 Colman & Lacy, cattlemen who owned a ranch 
 on the Cimarron and with them he remained for 
 a year, according to agreement. Then his par- 
 ents joined him, and by his assistance settled 
 upon a farm, and soon had everything in good 
 order. Three years later they removed to .Ari- 
 zona. 
 
 As some people would state it, "circumstance^ 
 over which he had no control" were the means 
 of his settlement in this region, the circum- 
 stances in question being, primarily, his horses, 
 which gave out while he was on his way to 
 Texas. Coming to the Ciila valley, of which 
 he had heard reports somewhat favorable, he 
 decided to remain here, and for twenty years 
 thereafter he did not cross the boundaries of 
 this territory. Buying a farm, he engaged in 
 its cultivation and also devoted considerable at- 
 tention to the raising of cattle. I-"or eighteen 
 years he was in the live-stock business near 
 Stockton Pass, twelve miles from Fort (irant. 
 Tlien. moving to Solomonville, he bought a 
 farm and now owns over two hundred acres of 
 beautiful valley land to the west and north of 
 this city. The property is finely irrigated and 
 large crops of wheat, barley, corn and alfalfa 
 are raised each year. An item may here be 
 quoted from the supplement to the "Arizona 
 Bulletin," published in January, 1900: "W. A. 
 Gillespie sold last year from sixty acres a mile 
 below Solomonville, more than $1,700 worth 
 of hay and grain, over and above the consump- 
 tion of the ranch for the year." In 1900 his 
 wheat crop averaged sixty-three bushels to the 
 acre; he refused $11 a ton for hay, and after 
 harvesting his wheat cut three crops of Johnson 
 grass, grown on the same land, and disposed of 
 this at .$8 a ton. All of the irrigating ditches 
 here are in the hands of the farmers, and Mr. 
 Gillespie is the largest shareholder in the chief 
 canal of this valley. In general, he favors the 
 
 Democratic platform and free trade, and at the 
 same time believes m expansion. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Gillespie and Miss Fan- 
 nie Williamson of California, took place in 1879. 
 She de]3arted this life March 30, 1895. Of the 
 nine children born to this union, all but two are 
 living. In October, 1898, Mr. Gillespie married 
 Edith I'aulkner. who was reared in L'tah. 
 
 WALTER T. FIFE. 
 
 Tile ftirm of t\V(_i hundred and si.\ty-five acres 
 in the viciiiity of St. David. Cochise county, 
 which is owned aiul managed by Mr. Fife, is 
 one of the promising properties in the neighbor- 
 Iiood, and bids fair to be a source of large rev- 
 enue to this early and influential pioneer. LTp 
 to the present time the land has been exclusively 
 devoted to the raising of cattle, and the subject 
 of irrigation has been but recently- put on a prac- 
 tical footing. At this writing the land is sup- 
 ])lied with necessary inoisture from four artesian 
 wells, which have an average flow of forty gal- 
 lons a minute. This, it is expected, will convert 
 the land into a fine agricultural section. \Vhile 
 Mr. Fife still owns many head of cattle and 
 horses left from a hitherto extensive stock l)usi- 
 ness, he intends in the future to give his attention 
 to farming rather than stock-raising. It is the 
 aim of the surrounding farmers to give continued 
 study to the subject of artificial irrigation, in 
 the hope that within a few years the entire .San 
 Pedro valley will develop into a garden spot, 
 such as the efforts of the settlers have producc<l 
 in other parts of the once desert jjlains of Ari- 
 zona. Upon his farm Mr. Fife has many modern 
 improvements, and his family are housed in a 
 comfortable residence erected by himself. 
 
 A native of Ogden City, L^tah, Mr. Fife was 
 born August 17, 1866, and is a son of William 
 N. and Diana (Davies) Fife. His father was 
 born in Scotland and upon emigrating to Amer- 
 ica, about 1852, settled in L'tah. I'rom there in 
 1880 he removed the family to the southeastern 
 [jart of Cochise county, where they lived upiin a 
 ranch for nearly nine years. Their otherwise un- 
 eventful existence was terrorized at times by the 
 Indians and Mexicans, and a heavy calamity be- 
 fell the little household when the mother was 
 murdered, September 1 1, 1884, l)y a Mexican on
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the old ranch. The perpetrator of this dastardly 
 crime made a desperate attempt to escape, but 
 was overtaken by a mob after running thirteen 
 miles and was at once summarily lynched. The 
 father now lives at Salt Lake City, Utah. One 
 of the sons, John D., was in 1882 shot three 
 times by Indians si.x miles from the homestead, 
 Init managed to escape and eventually he recov- 
 ered from the attack upon his life ; at this writing 
 he is a dealer in agricultural implements at Salt 
 Lake Citv, where he is prominent in local affairs 
 and recognized as the possessor of business abil- 
 ity and wise judgment. 
 
 The education and early training of Walter T. 
 Fife were received in Cochise county. In 1888 
 he came to the vicinity of St. David. December 
 3, 1889, he married .\iary Merrill, oldest daugh- 
 ter of John S. Merrill, of St. David. Of this 
 imion there are four sons, Ralph, Lorin, James 
 M. and Miles M. The two eldest children are 
 attending school. Mr. Fife is a stanch Democrat 
 and has held several important local offices. For 
 two years he was deputy sheriff, for the same 
 length of time served as justice of the peace, 
 which latter office he still holds. In November, 
 1900, he was elected assessor of Cochise county 
 for a temi of two years. He is a worker for good 
 educational facilities, and with others was instru- 
 mental in securing the erection and equipment 
 of the present school building at St. David. 
 
 ALEXANDER J. COULD, M. D. 
 
 The Gould family is of English descent and 
 those bearing the name in the original country, 
 and after taking up their residence in Ireland, 
 were identified rather with military than civic 
 affairs. A race of soldiers, they were ever ready 
 to shoulder arms in defense of any just and 
 noble cause, and they thus participated in some 
 of the wars which have turned the tide in the 
 affairs of men, and brought to Great P.ritain 
 the jurisdiction over almost countless liuman 
 souls. The paternal great-grandfather Gould 
 was an officer in the English army, and sub- 
 sequently located in County Fermanagh, where 
 his son, William B., was born. William Gould 
 was also a soldier, and a member of the Ennis- 
 killen Dragoons, with the rank of captain. Dur- 
 ing the Crimean war he distinguished himself. 
 
 and his country testified its appreciation of his 
 dauntless courage by conferring upon him the 
 Victoria Cross. In the Crimea he served under 
 Lord Raglan and was in the thick of tlie fight 
 at Balaklava, October 25, 1854; at the battle 
 of Inkerman November 5, 1854, and at the siege 
 of Sebastopol in 1855. He suffered many of 
 the vicissitudes of war, and was wounded at the 
 battle of .\lma, September 20, 1854. In the 
 later years of his life he emigrated with his 
 family to Canada, where he was a magistrate 
 until his death. He was prominent in fraternal 
 circles, was a thirty-second degree Mason, and 
 a devoted member af the Episcopal Church. 
 
 Dr. Gould's father, George, who was born 
 in Enniskillen, Ireland, was but a youth when 
 the family removed to Canada. He became 
 prominent in city and county affairs, and was 
 county clerk of Bruce county for thirty-one 
 years, or until his death at the age of seventy- 
 six. He was a Knight of Pythias, and an influ- 
 ential member of the Masonic order having, 
 like his father, taken the thirty-second degree. 
 His wife, who was formerly Elizabeth .Snowden. 
 was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, 
 Ireland, was a daughter of John Snowden, also 
 l)orn in County Fermanagh, and was an officer 
 in the English army. After bringing his family 
 to Canada, he engaged in tilling the soil, and 
 was thus employed at the time of his death. The 
 Snowden family is of Welsh descent. Mrs. 
 Gould, who is now living in Canada, is the 
 mother of six children, of whom two sons and 
 two daughters are living, A. J. being the young- 
 est and the only one residing out of Ontario. 
 
 A. J. Gould was born in Ontario, July 28, 
 1868, and at the age of ten years went to New 
 Orleans, La., and there lived with an aunt, under 
 whose kindly protection tlie days of his youth 
 were passed. After graduating as a university 
 student in 1887, he migrated to Colorado, and 
 was employed in Pueblo, in the telegraphic de- 
 partment of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. 
 Having decided to devote his future energies to 
 the profession of medicine, he returned to Louis- 
 iana in 1892, and entered the medical depart- 
 ment of the university that was his alma mater, 
 and from this institution he was graduated in 
 the class of 1895. Through his excellent show- 
 ing in the competitive examination he became
 
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 943 
 
 entitled to the advantages accorded an interne 
 at the Charity hospital in New Orleans his 
 term of service extending over eighteen month?. 
 In 1895 he began to practice medicine in old 
 Mexico, and wa.s there appointed assistant sur- 
 geon at the Central Railroad hospital, with head- 
 quarters at Agna Calicnte and Tampico. The 
 following year he came to Tucson and engaged 
 in a general medical anrl surgical ]>ractice, and in 
 1898 was apjiointed assistant division surgerm 
 for the .'southern Pacific Railroad. 
 
 Dr. Gould is variously interested in the pro- 
 fessional, political, fraternal, and social organ- 
 izations in which Tucson abounds, and is ac- 
 corded the esteem and appreciation merited by 
 his numerous excellent personal and profes- 
 sional qualifications. In Texas he became asso- 
 ciated with the Masons, and is now a member 
 of Tucson Lodge No. 4, F. & .\. M., Royal 
 -\rch Chapter No. 4, and the Commandery No. 
 I, K. T. He is identified w'ith the Benevolent 
 Protective Order of Elks and is a member and 
 medical examiner of the Knights of I'vthias and 
 the Foresters. He is also connected with th-.- 
 Eastern Star. Professionally he is associated 
 with the Arizona Medical .Association. In pol- 
 itics he is a stanch believer in the principles and 
 issues of the Democratic party. 
 
 GEORGE H. GALLAGHER. 
 
 The building interests of Phoenix have been 
 materially aided through the excellent work 
 accomplished by the firm of I'ifield & Gallagher. 
 Many of the important buildings and residences 
 in and near the town arc monuments to their 
 skill and ingenuity, and include the O'Neill 
 block, the manual training school, the Academy 
 of the Sisters of ]\lercy, the addition to the high 
 school, Horner block, Sherman building, Dennis 
 building, Talbot building, and the Sacaton 
 agency buildings. 
 
 Mr. Gallagher is a native of Sterling, 111., and 
 was born June 18. i860. To a degree he inherits 
 his special ajititude for his chuseii work, hi^ 
 father, Michael Gallagher, having devoted the 
 greater part of his life to contracting and build- 
 ing. Michael Gallagher was born in Ireland. 
 and reared to the occujiation of farming. .\t 
 an earlv age the necessity arose for an indepen- 
 
 dent livelihood, and he courageously started out 
 in the world to face whatever the future might 
 have in store. On Christmas day of 1842 he 
 found himself in Chicago, where he at once 
 began to learn the business of mason and con- 
 tractor. After a time he secured the position 
 of contractor on the Northwestern railroad, with 
 luad(|uarters at Sterling, and constructed the 
 bridges and culverts between Chicago and Clin- 
 tDU. He died at the age of sixty years. Mrs. 
 ( iaiiagher was formerly Mary Morris, and w-as 
 born in Ireland. She is the mother of four sons 
 and four daughters, and is at present living in 
 Chicago, where reside all of the children but 
 George H. 
 
 In the public schools of Sterling. 111., George 
 H. Ciallagher received an education which fitted 
 him for the future responsibilities of life. In 
 1875, when fifteen years of age, he was appren- 
 ticed out to learn the trade of carpenter under 
 Harvey French, and subsequently practiced his 
 trade in .Sterling for seven years. In 1884 he 
 removed to Chicago, and for eleven years was 
 engaged as a contractor and bnililer. Here his 
 efiforts were not confined to any particular part 
 of the city, nor to any kind of building. One 
 of his efforts was the construction of Madison 
 hall, six stories high, and with a frontage of 
 one hundred feet. 
 
 In searching for a desirable permanent loca- 
 tion, Mr. Gallagher naturally turned his inclina- 
 tion to the west, and in 1895 settled in Phoeni.x, 
 to which city he has since claimetl allegiance. 
 He at once began to work at his trade, and one 
 of his most important early undertakings was 
 the superintending of the construction of the 
 Adams Hotel. This occupied the greater part 
 of eight months, and he then turned his atten- 
 tiiin to the erection of two cyanide plants, one 
 at r.radshaw and the other at the old \'ulture 
 mini-. .\t the present time he is conducting his 
 affairs in partnership with J. S. I'ifield. He 
 has accunuilated considerable residence pro])- 
 ertv in Phoenix, and is variously interested in 
 the different enterprises for the tipbuilding nf 
 the town. 
 
 In Chicago, 111., .Mr. Gallagher was united in 
 marriage with Hannah Desmond, a native of 
 Wilmington, Will county. III, and a descendant 
 of an old New England family. When quit':'
 
 944 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 young Mrs. Gallagher was left an orphan, and 
 was educated in Chicago under the care of the 
 Catholic sisters. To Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher 
 have been born three children: ^larie, Nellie, 
 and George H., jr., who died in Chicago Octo- 
 ber lo, 1900. During his residence in Chicago 
 Mr. Gallagher was for one term building 
 inspector. As one of his most important con- 
 tracts, he was associated with his partner in 
 superintending the construction of the new cap- 
 itol at Phoenix. In national politics lie is a 
 Democrat, but has no political aspirations. He 
 is a member of the Board of Trade, and is 
 fraternally associated with the Foresters. 
 
 F. M. FRENCH. 
 
 The ability of Mr. French has materially aided 
 in the growth of Winslow and has lieen utilized 
 in various directions with gratifying results. Es- 
 sentially a western man, he was born in Tulare 
 county, Cal., in 1865, and was reared on a large 
 stock and grain ranch in the vicinity of Tulare. 
 His parents, Franklia M. H. and Julia E. (Van 
 Home) French, were natives of the east, the 
 former having been born in Boston. As early as 
 1852 the father was led to seek his fortune in 
 the west by reason of the reports concerning the 
 discovery of gold in that state. For years he 
 identified himself with the mines of the Pacific 
 coast, and much of his prospecting was success- 
 fully done. At the present time he is prospect- 
 ing in the western part of Arizona. During the 
 Civil war he served in Company E, Second Cali- 
 fornia Cavalrv, and during his entire term of 
 service acted in the capacity of hospital steward. 
 At the battle of -Shiloh he was wounded in the 
 head and as a result has since worn a silver 
 plate on the side of his skull. 
 
 May 10, 1887, was the date of Mr. French's 
 arrival in Winslow, and inunediatel}- afterward 
 he began building a dam on Clear creek, in 
 preparation for the work of the Clear Creek 
 Irrigating Company, which he organized in 1887 
 and incorporated in 1897 with a capital stock of 
 $100,000. At the present time he owns two 
 thousand shares in this undertaking and also 
 acts as treasurer of the company. In the incor- 
 poration of Winslow^ and the creation of Navajo 
 county he was an important factor. At all limes 
 
 he has worked for the development of local re- 
 sources and the promotion of native industries. 
 He is the possessor of one of the finest farms 
 in the vicinity of Winslow, which is a modern 
 property, and upon which he makes his home 
 with his family. The land is principally devoted 
 to the raising of stock (cattle, horses and hogs), 
 from the sale of which a large income is re- 
 ceived. There is also a market garden that 
 would delight the most fastidious housewife, 
 and from which are sold all kinds of vegetables 
 and fruit. On the ranch are raised annually 
 about two hundred tons of hay. Among the 
 valuable improvements on the property is the 
 comfortable residence. The land is fenced and 
 cross-fenced, and watered from the Clear Creek 
 Irrigation Company's system. 
 
 In 1899 Mr. French added to his responsibil- 
 ities by purchasing the livery barn of F. T. La 
 Prade, since which time he has carried on a 
 general livery and transfer business, also deal- 
 ing in coal, hay, grain and wood. Among his 
 holdings in town are some buildings and a num- 
 ber of lots. For the past two years he has 
 reported the weather and crops to the depart- 
 ment of agriculture at Tucson, and has been 
 road overseer for the same length of tini.e. In 
 politics he is affiliated with the Republican party, 
 and takes an active interest in elections and con- 
 ventions. The marriage of Mr. French and 
 Lillie Mae Swift occurred in 1886, and they 
 are the parents of five children, namely: Ella, 
 Lester, Ada, Elsie and Frederick C, all at home. 
 
 HENDERSON & HOUL.VHAN. 
 
 This firm conducts a large contracting and 
 plastering enterprise in Phoenix, and is among 
 the most reliable and progressive in their line 
 in the city. Since locating here, the members of 
 the firm have received a gratifying degree of 
 appreciation and the i)atronage of a large class 
 who are glad to avail themselves of their tact- 
 ful and conscientiou'> methods of conducting 
 business. 
 
 The senior member of the firm, Mr. Hender- 
 son, was born on Prince F.dward Island in 1S56. 
 His vouth was an uneventful one. and his edu- 
 cation was derived from the public schools. ;\s 
 a means of future livelihood he Icarnrd the
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 945 
 
 trade of a plasterer at Charlottetown, and later 
 made a practical application of his trade at Win- 
 nipeg in 1881. Two years later he removed to 
 St. Paul, Minn., where lie engaged in the plas- 
 tering business until 1887, and then removed to 
 the far west, sojourning for a time in Sau 
 Diego, Cal., later spending short periods in Los 
 .\ngeles and San Francisco. Subsec[nently he 
 settled in Seattle, Wash., where he engaged in 
 plastering and contracting. Upon his return 
 to Los .\ngelcs, his work was carried on in con- 
 nection with that of Mr. iloulahan. The two 
 men are now associated in business at Phoenix, 
 where they reside. 
 
 W. T. Houlahan was born in London, Eng- 
 land. His father, Michael, was a native of Ire- 
 land, and carried on a general mercantile busi- 
 ness in London, whence he came to America 
 in 1873, settling at St. Catherines, ( )ntario. In 
 1879 he changed his place of residence to Mani- 
 toba. In 1886 he settled in Los .Vngeles, Cal., 
 where he died in Jul\ of the following year. His 
 wife, formerly Margaret Tuohy, was born in 
 Limerick, Ireland, and died in Winnipeg. .She 
 had been previously married, and was the 
 mother, by both marriages, of eight children. 
 The youngest of the family was W. T., who was 
 born November 5, 1861. He spent the greater 
 part of his youth in London, where he was edu- 
 cated in public schools and received a careful 
 home training. Upon coming to .\merica with 
 his parents, he continued his etlucation in the 
 ]niblic schools, and also grailuate<l from a busi- 
 ness college in Winnipeg. In 1876 he 
 began to qualif\- for future independence 
 by undertaking to learn the ])lasterer's trade 
 in Wiimipeg, where he continued until 1884. 
 Later he worked at his trade in St. Paul, 
 Minn. In 1886 he removed to Los Angeles, 
 Cal., where he won a reputation as a relia- 
 ble and efficient workman. I'rom there he went 
 lo San Francisc(5 in 188X, but returned to Los 
 .\ngeles in 1894. and eventually settled in Phoe- 
 nix, where he applied himself to plastering, con- 
 tracting and cement work. 
 
 In the fall of 1897 Mr. Houlahan decided to 
 establish his permanent home in Phoenix, and 
 has since found all that he could do in his par- 
 ticular line of work, .\mong the important 
 btiildings of which hi"- firm ha\e had charge ma} 
 
 be mentioned the Capitol building, the O'Neill 
 block, as well as many of the finest residences 
 in the city, and some of the most substantial and 
 imposing business blocks. The firm was espe- 
 cially successful in its share of the construction 
 (if the buildings which comprise the Indian 
 school, there being seven of these buildings. 
 .\'or are its undertakings confined to Phoenix, 
 for the excellence of its work is known through- 
 out all of this part of .\ri7.0na. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Iloulahan tijok place in 
 ."^an I'rancisco, Cal., and of his union there are 
 two children. In national ])olitics he is a Re- 
 publican. Fraternally he is associated with the 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
 REV. ALFRED OUETU. 
 
 The pastor of the Catholic Church of the 
 Sacred Heart, of Prescott. is in the prime of life 
 and activity, and is carrying on a great and am- 
 bitious work in Yavapai county. He is very 
 popular with, his congregation and is universally 
 well liked, the general public, of other creeds, 
 uniting in pronouncing him a scholar and court- 
 eous, thoroughly interesting gentleman. 
 
 It is no surprise to those who meet him ami 
 note his polished, kindly manner, when they are 
 informed that I'ather Ouetu is a native of 
 France. Like his parents. Jules and Hermance 
 (.'>ockeel) Quetu, he was born in the department 
 I'as-De-Calais, near the city of Calais, hrance. 
 The father, who died in 1899, followed agricul- 
 tural i)ursuits, as had his ancestors for several 
 generations, large estates being in the posses- 
 sion of the family. Some of his relatives at one 
 time or another served as officers in the I'Tench 
 army. The wife and mother, who is yet living in 
 F'rance, is of Flemish descent. -Ml but three of 
 her fifteen children grew to maturity and are 
 still living. One son, an ordained priest, known 
 as I'"atlur Hippolyte, is in charge of a jjarisli in 
 h'rance, and a daughter. Sister .Mary Xavier, a 
 lady of marked musical ability, is principal of 
 the department devoted to music in the 
 .\cademy of Sisters of Mercy, of Phoenix. .\riz.. 
 and teaches not only the piano and stringed in- 
 struments, but also is a teacher of the I'"rcnch 
 language. 
 
 The carl}- years in the life of I'ather Quetu
 
 946 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 were quietly spent upon his father's farm, but 
 when he was quite young it became apparent 
 that he was destined to become a scholar. De- 
 voting much attention to the sciences and class- 
 ics, he later entered the theological college at 
 Arras, and was ordained to the priesthood in 
 that city in December, 1887. His initial \\ork 
 was as assistant pastor of a church in Calais, 
 France, and in July of the same year it was his 
 great privilege to make an extended trip 
 through Italy, the beautiful, where he was re- 
 ceived at the \'atican and had audience with the 
 Pope, and thence proceeded to the Holy Land, 
 spending fully a month in the environs of Jeru- 
 salem. 
 
 Resuming his duties in his home city. Father 
 Quetu remained there until September. 1888. 
 when he came to the L^nited States. Desiring 
 to further acquaint himself with the English 
 language, he spent three months at St. Mary's 
 Seminary, in Baltimore, and in December pro- 
 ceeded to Tucson, Ariz. Then, for a few 
 months, he served as pastor of the Silver City 
 (N. M.) Church. In September, 1889, he was 
 appointed priest in charge of the Prescott par- 
 ish, a small congregation having been organizecl 
 here. 
 
 Entering upon this field of effort, I-'ather 
 Quetu soon instituted material changes for the 
 better, and, having purchased some land, com- 
 menced the building of a handsome church edi- 
 fice, in 1891. The plans for the same were made 
 by him, and throughout the work lie carefully 
 superintended it. Tlie cost of the Sacred Heart 
 Church was $18,000, and so judiciously was the 
 amount expended that the structure, to all ap- 
 pearances, might have cost much more. Since 
 September, 1889, he has been the real head of all 
 the church work in this county, and, indeed, for 
 a long time attended missions in Flagstaff and 
 other points along the Santa Fe Railroad, from 
 the New Mexico line to Mojave, Cal. 
 
 Always sympathetic and with a heart open to 
 the needs of the sick and suffering, he cared for 
 many in his own residence, and when the rail- 
 road was being built through this section, often 
 had from twenty to twenty-eight patients under 
 his roof. Through his earnest efforts was 
 erected the Sisters of Mercy Hospital, a fine 
 brick structure situated in the wc;! part of the 
 
 city. When he had made the preliminary plans 
 he turned the matter over to the Sisters, as on 
 account of his health a voyage across the ocean 
 and a rest amid the scenes of his youth, in 
 France, became necessary. He had previousl} , 
 in 1892, made a similar trip, and for several 
 years it was difficult for him to become accli- 
 mated to -Arizona. The chief reason, however, 
 was his indefatigable labors on behalf of hi'; 
 church and people, for he never has accustomed 
 himself to any economy of strength or zeal, and 
 always has scores of ambitious plans on hand. 
 Among his numerous interests is St. Joseph's 
 .\cademy, which over one hundred students arc 
 now attending, and which is in charge of the 
 Sisters of St. Joseph. One of his more impor- 
 tant charges is the Jerome parish, where he suc- 
 ceeded in building the Church of the Holy Fam- 
 ily. It unfortunately was destroyed by fire, but 
 a new stone and brick structure was erected bv 
 him in 1899 at a cost of $14,000. The parish 
 at Congress was organized by him, and in 1900 
 a new church edifice was reared. Besides attend- 
 ing these missions, he holds religious services al 
 different mining camps throughout the county, 
 and is deeply loved for his devotion and spirit 
 of self-sacrifice. In 1898 he was appointed 
 executor of the Barlow-Massick estate, and 
 many other large responsibilities have been re- 
 posed in him, as he has excellent financial 
 ability, in addition to the manifold (jualitics of 
 heart and mind which have so endeared him to 
 his parishioners. 
 
 E. B. HOGAX. 
 
 This blacksmith and wagon-maker, stage line 
 manager and enter])rising citizen of \ogales 
 was horn in Louisville, Ky., in 1855. He re- 
 ceived an excellent h.nne 'training and was edu- 
 cated in the public schools. In 1868 he removed 
 to .Salt Lake City, I'tah, and during the several 
 vears of his residence there K'arncd the trade cif 
 blacksmith and wagon-maker, and practiced the 
 same until removing to Leadville, Colo., in 1878. 
 .\ change of occupation was there undertaken. 
 and he worked in the mines and also pms- 
 pected, later serving as superintendent of tin- 
 Empire mine. 
 
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 PORTRAIT AND 1!K JGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 95' 
 
 in 18S5, at which time Xogales offered scarcely a 
 suggestion of its jiresent condition of promise. 
 In connection with the blacksmith shop which. 
 he started at this time he established a wagon 
 and carriage-making concern, where anything 
 short of an automobile is capable of reproduc- 
 tion. -\ large business is done in the general 
 repair line, and .Mr. llogan contracts for all 
 kinds of building. .\t the pre-^enl time he is 
 interested in constructing the road from Xo- 
 gales to Washington Camp, a distance of twenty 
 miles. This is in connection with the stage line 
 established by him in igoo, which has ])roved 
 (|uite a successful imdcrtaking. .\ daily stage 
 runs to Washington camp, carrying passengers 
 and the mails. 
 
 Tn 1884 .Mr. llogan married l\le-mor Stewart, 
 and of tin's union iIktc are two children. Tvl- 
 ward and Catherine. .Mr. llogan is a Repub- 
 lican in politics ami has taken active interest 
 in all local affairs, bor four \ears he served. 
 as a school trustee, and was town councilman 
 for one term. .\t the time oi the separation <>! 
 .Santa Cruz from IMnal county he took a promi- 
 nent ijart in the affairs leading U]) to it, and was 
 also instrumental in retaining the county-scat 
 at Xogales. He is a member of the .\ncient 
 Order of United Workmen, and is past grand 
 master of the local lodge. 
 
 In all the enterprises which .abound to the 
 growth of Xogales Mr. Hogan takes an ardent 
 interest, and these he has aided by his assistance 
 and good counsel, which never fails when called, 
 upon. Among his other interests is the wood 
 and coal yard of I logan & Co.. of which he was 
 the originat(3r and is now the chief owner. 
 
 JAMES & AD.A.M A. SMirif. 
 
 The thriving town of Clifton presents numer- 
 ous features to tlie visitor which elicit his ad- 
 miration and wonder, and not the least is the 
 large and well-conducted store owned and man- 
 aged by the firm w hose name forms the heading 
 of this sketch. They arc energetic, ambitious 
 young men, of excellent education and consid- 
 erable business experience, and contribute their 
 due share to the general prosperity of the com- 
 numitv. 
 
 Sons of \\ illian\ and Isabella fArihnn Smith, 
 
 M 
 
 they were born in Scotland, and in the public 
 schools of that country received liberal educa- 
 tions. In 1887, when twenty-five and twenty- 
 one years of age, respectively, they crossed the 
 .Atlantic, and came direct to Clifton, where a 
 half-brother, Laurence Russell, was holding the 
 res])ons!ble position of superintendent of the 
 .\rizona Copper Company. For two years James 
 Smith was in the cinploy of that great concern, 
 and then, in partnership with Mr. Torrence, he 
 embarked in the general mercantile business. 
 The brother was in California at the time, but 
 soon returned and bought out Mr. Torrence, the 
 firm name becoming as at present. 
 
 ( )w ing more to the uncertainty of the dura- 
 tion of most merchants' residence in Clifton 
 than to any other reason, the Arizona Copper 
 Mining Comjiany's great general store had been 
 organized and maintained, and enjoyed much of 
 the local patronage. It is a point worthy of 
 note that the firm of J. (!<: .A. Smith are the only 
 owners of real estate, with a jierfect title, in Clif- 
 ton, excepting the .Arizona Copper Mining Com- 
 pan\ . which secured ])racticallv all the land cov- 
 ered by the present town site by mining claim 
 location. The firm has built u]) a large and pay- 
 ing business and carries a splendid stock of 
 goods, to which new lines arc constantly being 
 added. In addition to their mercantile business, 
 they represent the Si^ringfield (Mass.) Fire In- 
 surance ("(Miipany, the National Fire Insurance 
 ("omiKuiy of Hartford, and the Union Mutual 
 Life Insurance Company of Portland, Ale., and 
 are meeting with great success in this line, as 
 well as in general business. 
 
 James Smith was married in Clasgow in 1893, 
 10 Miss Maggie R. Dick, of Rothesey, Scotland, 
 and two j^romising sons bless their union, 
 namely; William .A., now six years old; and 
 Laurence .A., four years of age. The family 
 occupv one of the most attractive residences in 
 the town of Clifton. It is of brick, constructed 
 in modern style, and the surrounding yard is a 
 refreshing spot of green, with beautiful shade 
 trees. 
 
 .Adam .Arthur Smith's niarriage took place ten 
 vears ago, his wife being Miss Hallie Jones, 
 daughter of .Mrs. Martha .\braham, of the Clif- 
 ton Hotel. The young couple are the parents 
 of one son, Laurence, now in his eighth year. 
 
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 952 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Thev also have a pleasant home and number 
 many friends in this locahty. Both families are 
 connected with the Presbyterian church and are 
 active and valued workers in the noble cause. 
 The brothers are identified with the Masonic 
 order, and were prime movers in the establish- 
 ment of Coronado Lodge No. 8, F. & A. M., of 
 Clifton, of which each in turn has officiated as 
 treasurer. 
 
 S. S. JONES. 
 
 The Empire Gold Mining & Milling Com- 
 pany is fortunate in having so competent and 
 faithful a superintendent as S. S. Jones in the 
 field of action. A practical and thoroughly effi- 
 cient assayer and mining engineer, he also pos- 
 sesses rare business and executive ability, and 
 is devoted to the interests of the company, hav- 
 ing his place of abode at the mines, where he 
 can be found readily at any hour of the day or 
 night, the stamp-mill being kept in operation all 
 the time. 
 
 Mr. Jones is a native of Alabama, where he 
 was reared .and educated. In the state univer- 
 sity he pursued a special course in mining and 
 engineering, also devoting considerable time to 
 mineralogy and assaying. In 1894 he went to 
 California where he was occupied in mining and 
 prospecting in various counties for about three 
 years. Then, having severed all of his connec- 
 tions there, he came to Groom creek in the 
 interests of the company with which he is today. 
 At first he was employed as an assayer, and 
 when the result of his researches became known, 
 the company decided to continue operations 
 here, and have proceeded in a conservative man- 
 ner, enlarging the works as it appeared advisa- 
 ble. Since 1898 Mr. Jones has been the super- 
 intendent of the mines, which comprise the Em- 
 pire, Union, Cincinnati, Black Jack and Belle- 
 vue, all gold-bearing. A ten-stamp mill was 
 erected under the direction of the superintend- 
 ent, its capacity being forty tons per day, and 
 the bullion is shipped direct to the San Fran- 
 cisco (Cal.) mini. The main vein is about ver- 
 tical, and averages from eighteen inches to five 
 feet in thickness. The main body of ore has 
 been reached recently at a depth of some three 
 hundred feet, and as the work advances the 
 
 showing is growing better, the ore being as eas- 
 ily handled .as was that near the surface. It 
 is hoisted to the level and thence run out in 
 tunnels into the mill, thus necessitating no extra 
 handling after it leaves the shaft. For the first 
 six months a Huntington mill was used, and 
 when it became evident that the ore was to hold 
 out and warrant the expense, improvements were 
 gradually added. The present modern plant cost 
 upwards of $50,000, one feature being the light- 
 ing system, which is thoroughly up-to-date. As 
 the company owns oil lands in California, the use 
 of the crude kerosene in the furnaces instead of 
 refined oil, is contemplated, about ten barrels 
 a day being consumed. This would be a new 
 and interesting departure, as the company thus 
 would be pioneers in that direction, and the re- 
 sults are looked forward to with deep concern, 
 both by mining operators in .\rizona and by oil 
 companies in California. Employment to thirty- 
 five men, chiefly of Prescott, is afforded by the 
 Empire Gold Mining & Milling Company. Dr. 
 W. A. Hendryx is president and treasurer; E. 
 H. Tomlinson, vice-president ; W. M. Jones, sec- 
 retary, and S. S. Jones superintendent and agent 
 at Prescott. 
 
 \\'hile a resident of California, S. S. Jones was 
 connected with an Odd h'ellows lodge. In na- 
 tional affairs he uses his ballot in behalf of the 
 nominees of the Republican party. Heartily in- 
 terested in his work, he neglects none of its 
 details, and thus to him may be justly attributed 
 a large share of the company's success. 
 
 SAMUEL BARCLAY CLAYPOOL, M. D. 
 
 In the estimation of those who know him Dr. 
 Claypool is one of the most promising and 
 capable physicians in southern Arizona. A na- 
 tive of Kentucky, he was born ( )ctober 3, 1865, 
 and is a son of W. M. and Hetty B. Claypool, 
 the former born in Kentucky, and a practicing 
 physician of wide experience and extejisive 
 knowledge. His son, S. 11., was educated in 
 Kentucky at the public schools and at Ogden 
 college, subsequently graduating from the medi-' 
 cal department of the University of Nashville, 
 Tenn., in the class of 1897. For the three year.s 
 preceding his graduation he received sound 
 practical training in the lios])ital at Nasli\-illc
 
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 and started out in the world fully equipped with 
 the requisite fjrasp of his profession. 
 
 In the meantime the elder Claypool had 
 located in Globe, in 1896. and found the field for 
 practice so satisfactory that his son joined him 
 here, since which their joint efTorts have met 
 with gratifying success. Dr. ClayiJool was ap- 
 pointed county physician in 189S and at the 
 present time is surgeon for the Gila \'alley. 
 Globe & Xorthcrn Railroad, his term of service 
 to e.xtend over two years. .\s an evidence of his 
 prosperity the doctor has erected one of the fine 
 houses of the town, which has an unrivaled loca- 
 tion near the heart of the business interests, his 
 ofifice being erected i>n the same lot. 
 
 June 28. ]8g8. Dr. Claypoul married W'ilhel- 
 mina L. Kellner, a daughter of K. V. Kellner 
 of Plioenix. Of this union there is one child. 
 Dulaney K. In politics a stanch Democrat, the 
 doctor has been prominent in local and terri- 
 torial afifairs and was elected to the territorial 
 council November 6. 1900. Fraternally he is 
 associated with the ( )dd hellows, the Knights of 
 P}thias and the Elks, of which latter organiza- 
 tion he is a charter member. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Presbyterian Church at Bowling 
 Green. 
 
 LEONIDAS HOLLAD.W. 
 
 One of the oldest engineers in the employ of 
 the Southern Pacific, in years of active service, 
 is he who is popularly known as "Lon" HoUa- 
 day. His high standing with tlie "knights of 
 the rail" is shown by the fact that he was elected 
 to the responsible office of chief of Division 
 Xo. 28, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. 
 and is now acting in that capacity. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of our subject was 
 born in England, and settled u])on a ])lantation 
 in Tennessee at an early day. T. 1).. father 
 of Leonidas Holladay, was born in Tennessee, 
 and, upon arriving at nian"s estate, carried on 
 a plantation until earl\ in the '50s he removed 
 to Austin, Tex. Ihcre he lived upon a ranch 
 for several years, but in 1871 went to California 
 and conducted a ranch near San Bernardino until 
 recently, when he retired and ncnv makes his 
 home in Los .\ngcles. He was the prime mover 
 in the cnter|irisc of obtaining street cars for 
 Pomona, and to some extent was interested in 
 
 real estate. The mother of our subject bore 
 the maiden name of Sarah Backman. and her 
 death occurred when he was young, in Tennes- 
 see. Her parents were natives of that state, but 
 her ancestors were from England. 
 
 "Lon" Holladay was born in Overtdn county, 
 lenn.. .\pril 10, 1854. He is an only son, and 
 his tw(j sisters died in girlhood. After the war 
 he accompanied his father to Texas, and there 
 attended the subscription school of the period. 
 I'roni :866 to 1869 he lived upon his father's 
 ranch near .Austin, and at the early age of fif- 
 teen entered up(jn his railroad career. The Aus- 
 tin branch of the ffouston Texas Central was 
 in process of construction, and the youth was 
 em])loyed chiefly as fireman on an engine used 
 in the work. Later he made regular runs along 
 the completed line and in 1874 was promoted to 
 the post of engineer. At the end of three 
 months, however, he resigned on account of fail- 
 ing health and went to California, where he was 
 inunediatel}' benefited. 
 
 ( )ctober 13. 1874, Mr. Holladay entered the 
 em]jli)y of the Southern Pacific, and ran betvyecn 
 Los -\ngeles and Spadra as a fireman. The 
 road was gradually extended and he continued 
 with the corporation, being promoted to engi- 
 neer in 1880. Going to Benson, he was in 
 charge of machinery there for a period, and then 
 returned to the road. Since the line was com- 
 pleted as far as El Paso he has. lived in Tucson 
 and been engaged in making regular runs be- 
 tween that point and Yuma. While really quite 
 fortunate, considering the many years of his 
 active service, Mr. Holladay has had a few nar- 
 row escapes. Once, when about twenty-five 
 miles east of Yuma, a cow on the track ditched 
 the engine: the fireman was killed, but, though 
 Mr. Holladay had three ribs broken and was 
 badly injured, he recovered. March 11, 1899, 
 another accident resulted in serious injuries to 
 him. but. on the whole, he enjoys excellent 
 health. 
 
 The pleasant home of Mr. Holladay. at X^o. 
 2T,j South Fourth avenue, was built by him. His 
 marriage to Miss Mary Susan Wright, a native 
 of .Arkansas, took place in California. Their 
 eldest daughter. Mrs. Lulu Maude Garland, re- 
 sides in Tucson. The younger children, Elsie. 
 Grace, Maurice and Lester, are at home. Mrs.
 
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 Holladay is a member of tlie Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. 
 
 For one year Mr. Holladay officiated as pres- 
 ident of the Tucson board of school trustees, 
 and is now serving his second term as a member 
 of that body. Politically he is affiliated with the 
 Democratic party. Under the appointment of 
 Governor Hughes he served on the board of 
 railroad commissioners until he, in company 
 with his colleagues, feeling that their power was 
 so limited that the commission really was an 
 unnecessary expense to the territon,-, recom- 
 mended its abolishment, and the next legisla- 
 ture acted upon the suggestion and dismissed 
 the board. I'"raternally he is a member of the 
 Lodge and Hall Association of the .-Xncient 
 Order of L-nited W^orkmen. 
 
 EDWIN J. PARKINSON. 
 
 Though practicallv a newcomer in Jerome, 
 having arrived here in 1898, Mr. Parkinson has 
 met with a higli degree of appreciation, un- 
 questionably merited by his understanding of 
 the profession of law. augmented by years of 
 practical experience. Though a resident of the 
 far west for the greater part of his life, he was 
 born in Elgin, 111., in 1864, and in 1875 his par- 
 ents, impressed with the superior opportuni- 
 ties and splendid climate of California, removed 
 to San Francisco. He was educated in the pub- 
 lic schools and the I'niversity of the Pacific at 
 San Jose. 
 
 In response tr) an impelling conviction that the 
 science of law offered the largest and most con- 
 genial field for the exercise of his al)ility, he 
 entered the law office of J. N. Nolan, and was 
 later with M. C. Chapman, of Oakland, subse- 
 quently finishing the law course at Hastings 
 College. August 17, 1886, he was admitted to 
 practice in the superior court of California, and 
 for two years |)racticed in San Francisco anri 
 San Diego though while in the latter place he 
 turned his attention principally to real estate 
 and speculating. Dining 1888 he was in the of- 
 fice of Judge Hanlyn, of San Francisco. In the 
 fall of i88c) he went to Monterey county, Cal., 
 and, aside from engaging in the practice of law. 
 became interested with W. .\. Stewart in land 
 flcals in the southern part of the count\ . In 
 
 1892 lie located in San Miguel, San Luis Obispo 
 county, Cal., and there worked up a large prac- 
 tice, and became a prominent factor in the com- 
 munity. In 1892 he entered the political cam- 
 paign and was elected district attorney of 
 Monterey in w^hich capacity he served for two 
 years. In the fall of 1895 he returned to San 
 Francisco, going, in the winter of 1896, to Los 
 Angeles, and later to Pomona, where he con- 
 tinued to build up an enviable reputation as a 
 lawyer. 
 
 In Jerome Mr. Parkinson has engaged in 
 general practice. He is a member of a firm 
 whose services are retained by the \entura Hill 
 Mining Company, the \'erde Consolidated Cop- 
 per Company and several other large mining 
 companies and corporations. The firm also at- 
 tend to the legal work of the Jerome Power 
 Company, which furnishes electric and water 
 power for the city of Jerome. The organization 
 of this company was brought about by Mr. 
 Parkinson, and he is its secretary and chief pro- 
 moter. Numerous other interests have received 
 his attention, all of which are praiseworthy, and 
 are thought out with due regard to the benefit 
 of the cominunitv. 
 
 S. S. MARSHALL. 
 
 The traveling public through Graham county 
 are hospitably and comfortably entertained at 
 the Marshall house, a neat and well-managed 
 hostelry under the supervision and ownership 
 of one of the most progressive citizens of Pima, 
 who is none other than S. S. ^Marshall. Like so 
 many of the residents of this center of & vigor- 
 ous wheat-raising section, he was born in Utah, 
 his birth occurring near Salt Lake City, in 1864. 
 His parents, George -and Esther (Steel) Mar- 
 shall, were born across the ocean, the former in 
 Ireland, and the latter in England. They were 
 industrious and worthy farmers, and though they 
 gave their son a good education in the public 
 schools, they were luiahlc to materially aid him 
 in starting out in the world for himself. Thus, 
 when he came to Pima, in 1885, he had scarcely 
 a dollar with which to purchase the success of 
 the world, and was dependent upon his own 
 perseverance and ability to carry him through. 
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 to his friends and of personal satisfaction to 
 himself. 
 
 On the outskirts of Pima Mr. Marshall pur- 
 chased a farm upon first coming here, and de- 
 voted his best energies to its cultivation, with 
 the result that it is today one of the best im- 
 [iroved farming properties in the county. Though 
 ytill in his possession, tlie greater part of his 
 time is devoted to the management of the town 
 hotel, a large brick structure. 50x60 "feet in di- 
 mensions, and two stories in height. In connec- 
 tion with the hotel is conducted a livery and 
 blacksmith slio]). the combined interests consti- 
 tuting a renuuicrative business for their owner. 
 He is also tlie owner of mining properties in 
 the Lone Star and Montezuma districts, and 
 entertains hopes of their generous output. 
 
 The union uf Mr. Marshall and Johanna Mer- 
 rill occurretl in 1890. and in 1892 Mrs. Marshall 
 died, leaving one child, Cieorge, who is now- 
 attending school in I'tah. Mr. Marshall was 
 married in 1897 to Luella ]\Iiller, and of this 
 union there is one child, Delia. 
 
 HENRY LOVIN. 
 
 The efificient sheriff and assessor of Mohave 
 county, Mr. Lovin, a respected citizen of King- 
 man, is a native of North Carolina, his birth 
 having occurred in Rockingham, Riclmiond 
 county, in 1866. He was reared and educated 
 in the south, and for several years after reach- 
 ing manhood was connected with the fruit-rais- 
 ing industry in Florida as superintendent of the 
 famous Monarch orange orchard belonging to 
 the Monarch Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and 
 situated near the town of Ocala. 
 
 In 1885 Mr. Lovin came to Arizona, and in 
 company with W. M. Ward was occupied in the 
 business of raising oranges and lemons, their 
 orchard comprising thirty acres, and located in 
 the fertile and finely irrigated Salt River valley 
 in the vicinity of Phoenix. At the end of three 
 years Mr. Lovin turned his attention to mining 
 interests, and was connected with the Commer- 
 cial Mining Company, whose claims are not far 
 from the Senator mine near Prescott. In 1890 
 he came to Mohave county, and during the fol- 
 lowing four years was employed by the Taggart 
 Mercantile Company of Kingman. 
 
 In the meantime Mr. Lovin devoted consider- 
 able time and capital to mining and prospecting, 
 chiefly along the course of the Colorado river. 
 He located several good claims, among them 
 the placer mine now- in the possession of the 
 Santa Ana Mining Company, and with others 
 he discovered the group now operated by a min- 
 ing company composed of Boston capitalists. 
 With his characteristic speculative spirit, one 
 day he grubstaked a wandering Mexican pros- 
 pector named Jose Jerres to the amount of 
 $[2.8o. Within forty-eight hours the Mexican 
 had located the claims now known as the Gold 
 Road mines, the outcroppings from which 
 assayed forty-eight ounces of gold to the ton. 
 This property was sold at once to a Los Angeles 
 syndicate, and its development shows it to be, 
 beyond question, one of the great gold proper- 
 ties of the territory. Besides his interest in that 
 mine, he owned shares in several others. At 
 present he is part-owner of the Hillside mine, 
 an excellent producer of gold-bearing ore. In 
 his various mining ventures he has met with 
 marked success, and for several years he has 
 employed from six to eight men, experts in 
 mineral values, to stake out claims for him in 
 promising localities. 
 
 Always an active worker in the ranks of the 
 Democratic party, Mr. Lovin is recognized as 
 an influential factor in the same, and several 
 times has been a delegate to conventions. For 
 two years he served efficiently as under-sheriff, 
 and at the end of that period, in the fall of 1900, 
 was elected to the superior position, receiving 
 the largest majority vote of any sheriff ever 
 elected in Mohave county. The office is com- 
 bined with that of county assessor. In the 
 fraternal organizations he is identified with the 
 Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of 
 Odd Fellows, and the Benevolent Protective 
 Order of Elks. 
 
 D. E. HL'RLFV. 
 
 D. E. Hurley, who is now serving as freight 
 agent for the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Rail- 
 road at Phoenix, was born January 22, 1870, 
 in Northfield, \'t. His father, D. II. Hurley, is 
 a native of the same state, and in early life 
 learned the machinist's trade in the St. .\lbans
 
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 PORTKAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 machine works, beconiiiii; an expert mechanic. 
 For some time he worked at his trade in the Cen- 
 tral Vermont Raih-oaii shops, and later went as 
 an engineer upon the road. Going to Mexico 
 in 1882, he was employed as superintendent of 
 construction during the building of the Mexican 
 Central Railroad, and became an expert layer 
 of steel rails. 
 
 In l88y he entered the service oi the .\lhintic 
 & Pacific Railroad, which has since become a 
 part of the Santa h'e system, .and was the first 
 roadmaster of the fourth district between Peach 
 Springs, .Ariz., and Uarstow, Cal., for one year, 
 at the end of which time he was made road- 
 master of the first district between .Albuquerque 
 and Navajo Springs, holding that position until 
 i8c)i;, when he resigned .and returned to his old 
 home in Northfield, \'t., where he now resides. 
 He has interests in I'nlia that occupy a i)art of 
 his time. In early life he married Mary llur 
 ley, who, though bearing the same name, was 
 no relative. She is a native of Canada, and a 
 daughter of Cornelius Hurley, who was born 
 in A'ermont, and went to Canada in the employ 
 of the Grand Trunk Railroad, but afterward re- 
 turned to \'ermont and became connected with 
 the Central \'ermunt Railroad. He was first a 
 surveyor and later sujieriiUendent of construc- 
 tion. 
 
 Of the si.K children l)()rn to Mr. and Mrs. Hiu'- 
 ley, five are still living, namelv : D. E., our sub- 
 ject; Cornelius C, a locomotive engineer on the 
 Boston & Maine Railroad; Mrs. Lizzie Ralii- 
 don, of Ontario, Canada; William H., who is 
 attending medical ci)llege at llurlington, \'t.; 
 and Harriet, at home with her parents. 
 
 During his boyhood and youth 1). E. Hurley 
 pursued his studies in the public schools of his 
 native town and was graduated from the North- 
 field high school in Jime, 1886. The following 
 three years were spent as a clerk in a wholesale 
 grocery house in Boston, and he then went to 
 Eldorado, Tex., and entered the employ of the 
 Mexican National Railroad, serving as brake- 
 man about a year during the building of that 
 rn.id as far as Monterev. (joing to Galluii, 
 .\". M., he accepted a position as clerk in the 
 freight department of the Atlantic & Pacific 
 Railroad, now the Santa I'e, and remained there 
 from 1890 to 1896, being relief agent the latter 
 
 |);irt oi the time, lie was next passenger and 
 freight agent at Ash I-'ork until September, 1898, 
 when he was made freight agent at Phoenix, and 
 has since filled that position to the entire satis- 
 faction of the company and all concerned. He 
 is a wide-awake, energetic young business man, 
 and is one of the most enterprising citizens of 
 Pli.oenix. 
 
 .\t Ash I'ork, ,Vriz., Mr. llurle)- married Miss 
 Kate Rode\', a native of St. Joseph, Mo., and t(j 
 them has been born a son, Frank Edward. In 
 religious belief Mr.i. Hurley is a Catholic. In 
 politics oiu" subject is independent. He was 
 initiated into the Odd Fellows' Society while a 
 resident of Boston, and now holds membership 
 in the lodge at Gallup, X. .M. lie alscj belongs 
 t(j the Encampment and Rebekah branch of the 
 same order; and is a member of the Knights 
 (jf Pythias lodge at Phoenix, and L'nited Work- 
 men Lodge No. 2. at .Mbucinerqnc. He is 
 tpiite popular sociall)', and all who know him 
 hold hnn in the highest esteem. 
 
 E. L. Tl DWELL. 
 
 Recognizing the superior natural advantages 
 of the Gila River vallex', the subject of this sketch 
 wisely decided to try his hand at agriculture in 
 this district, and is proving his foresight to his 
 entire satisfaction. Of all of the many sys- 
 tematic and thrift}' methods of irrigation, with 
 special reference to the expenditure necessary, 
 the canals of this locality surpass those of other 
 sections of the so-called arid zone, the chief 
 reason being that they are owned aand managed 
 bv the parties most interested — the farmers — 
 and it is stated on good authority that the av- 
 erage cost of water to the consumer is not over 
 one-third of what is charged in many other val- 
 leys. 
 
 Mr. Tidwell was born in Parker county, Te.x., 
 in 1857. He can hardl\ remember the time 
 when he was considered too young to ride a 
 pony or to assist in herding cattle (jn the plains, 
 and this pursuit has been, practically, his life oc- 
 cupation. When in his nineteenth year he em 
 barked in business on his own account, and for 
 the ensuing eight )'ears was engaged in the 
 raising of cattle in the Lone Star state. Then 
 sellin"- out, he came to .Arizona, and locating
 
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 in VVillcox, looked upon that place as his hoiii':' 
 and headquarters for the next few years, in 
 the nieiintinie, as formerly, he devoted his en- 
 ergy to the cattle business, and it was not until 
 1899 that he disposed of his last live stock. 
 
 In 1894 Mr. Tidwell invested some means in 
 an eighty-acre farm, located about half way be- 
 tween Solomonvillc and SafTord. Here he has 
 built a comfortable adobe house, has put up 
 fences and is continually making improvements 
 which arc greatly increasing the value and de- 
 sirability of the homestead. In addition to this 
 place, he owns a quarter section of land at a 
 point on the Gila river libout seven miles east 
 of Solomonville. When it is remembered that 
 land in this innnediate localit} is worth upwards 
 of ^100 an acre, it may be seen that our subject 
 is rapidly amassing a snug little fortune. 
 
 In all of his jo\s and sorrows for the past 
 score of years Mr. Titlwell has found a true 
 helpmate in his wife. It was in 1881 that their 
 marriage took place. The wife formerly bore 
 the name of Henrietta Taylor, her old home 
 being in W'ichiia I'"alls, Tex. They have five 
 promising children. Politically Mr. Tidwell 
 uses his franchise on behalf of Democratic nom- 
 inees. .\t one time he served as deputy sheriff. 
 He has officiated as a school trustee, giving 
 his ardent support to the cause of education 
 and to all progressive enterprises. 
 
 J. ERNEST WALKER. 
 
 Standing in the front ranks of successful busi- 
 ness men of Phoenix is J. Ernest Walker, who 
 within some five years has achieved this distinc- 
 tion, and is constantly adding to his laurels. 
 Piut not alone in the world of commerce is he 
 a power, for in public and social circles his in- 
 fluence is recognized for good, and religious and 
 benevolent institutions and all worthy enter- 
 prises receive his generous support. He is a 
 member and one of the directors of the Phoenix 
 P>oard of Trade and is the second vice-president 
 of the Phoenix Library .Association. One of the 
 organizers of the .Arizona Society of the Sons 
 of the American Revolution, he is a director and 
 registrar of the same : is connected with the 
 .■\ncient Order of United Workmen, in which he 
 is past master workman ; and is a popular mem- 
 
 ber of the Maricopa Club. His ballot is used in 
 favor of the Democratic platform, but he is not 
 an aspirant to public honors, having refused to 
 allow his name to appear as a candidate for the 
 legislature. 
 
 The eldest child of Prof. George W. and 
 Emma (Wysor) Walker, our subject comes of 
 fine old colonial \'irginia families. His father 
 was born in Martinsljurg, \\'. \'a., the son of 
 James W. Walker, a wealthy planter, of Scotch- 
 Irish extraction. .\ graduate of Ilampden-Sid- 
 ney College, where he received the degree of 
 Master of Arts, Prof. George W. Walker is a 
 scholarly man and now is occupying the chair of 
 Latin in the X'irginia Polytechnic Institute at 
 Blacksburg. During the Civil war he served in 
 a \'irginia regiment in the capacity of an officer. 
 His wife, who was born in Pulaski county, Va.. 
 is a daughter of George \\'.and a granddaughter 
 of Capt. Henry Wysor, natives of Mrginia, and 
 substantial planters. George W. Wysor, who 
 died while serving in a X'irginia regiment in the 
 Civil war, came of a race of military heroes. His 
 father held the rank of captain in the war of 
 1812; his grandfather, Capt. Henry \\'ysor, Sr., 
 was in command of a company during the Revo- 
 lution, and his great-grandfather, Capt. Adam 
 Wysor, won his title by his conspicuous service 
 in some of the early colonial wars of the Old 
 Dominion. The \\'ysor family is traced back to 
 the tw-elfth century, when some of the name 
 (then spelled Wisiser) emigrated from their an- 
 cient home in Germany to England, whence 
 they came to America. Capt. Henry Wysor. 
 of war of 1812 fame, married a Miss Charlton of 
 \'irginia, whose family, of the old nobility, date- 
 from the days of William the Conqueror, as 
 accompanying him from Normandy, large es- 
 tates and rights were accorded them in Ireland. 
 The mother of Mrs. George W. Walker, nee 
 Wysor, was a Miss Miller, also of an old \'ir- 
 ginia family and of Revolutionary stock. 
 
 Born May 12, 1873, I. Ernest Walker is the 
 eldest of the eleven children which constitute the 
 parental family. .Ml are living, and with the 
 exception of himself and sister. Miss Emma 
 Clay Walker, who is now making her home 
 w'ith him, continue to dwell in \'irginia. Thev 
 are named as follows : Lida, Mrs. M. W. Cole- 
 man, James \X'., Margaret \\'., Lucy Stearnes,
 
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 Nellie Lemon, Lillie Wilson, ( icorsc Lnthcr, 
 Robert Ware and Charles Martin. 
 
 The youth of our subject was passed in the 
 beautiful valley of the Shenandoah, his birth- 
 place being in Pulaski county, \'a. After com- 
 pleting his education he embarked in business at 
 the early age of fifteen, and until 1895 was lo- 
 cated at Salem, Va., where he was interested in 
 real estate and insurance, being connected with 
 several land improvement companies. On ac- 
 count of his health he decided to settle in the 
 west, and after spending some time in traveling 
 took up his residence in Phoenix: Here, in 
 1897, he embarked in the real estate and insur- 
 ance business, representing many of the old- 
 line companies. Personally, he now owns a 
 number of finely improved farms in the Salt 
 River valley and elsewhere, and is branching out 
 into many other enterprises. 
 
 In 1900 the Buckeye Canal & Land Company 
 was incorporated, with a paid-up capital stock of 
 $100,000, and Mr. Walker was made secretary, 
 treasurer and manager of the same. Under his 
 auspices it is meeting with remarkable success, 
 whereas it had hitherto been a glaring failure. 
 He also is the secretary and treasurer of the 
 Sixth Avenue Hotel Company, incorporated. 
 
 The marriage of Mr. Walker and Miss Flor- 
 ence Williscroft was solemnized in Phoenix, 
 October 28, 1896. .\ daughter of George R. 
 Williscroft, of this city, she was a native of 
 Smith Falls, Canada, and was summoned to the 
 silent land in June, 1890, leaving one child, Flor- 
 ence Emma. April 30, 1901, he married Helena 
 Harning, of Castile, Wyoming county, N. \ . 
 She is a daughter of Duane D. and Mary 
 (Snell) Harning, natives of New York State, 
 who are now residing in Phoenix. The beauti- 
 ful modern residence of the family, at the cor- 
 ner of Fourth and Monroe, is owned by Mr. 
 Walker. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
 Church, and is highly honored and esteemed by 
 all who know him. 
 
 C. M. STURGES. 
 
 C. M. Sturges is a leading representative of 
 the business interests of Phoenix, where, in 
 partnership wdth A. L. Stephens, he is now suc- 
 cessfully conducting the Golden Eagle livery. 
 
 feed anil sale stable. He has won success by 
 his well-directed and energetic efforts, and the 
 prosperity that has come to him is certainly 
 well deserved. 
 
 Mr. Sturges was born in St. Louis, Mo., No- 
 vember 19, 1864, and on the paternal side is de- 
 scended from a good old New England family 
 of English origin. His grandfather, William 
 .Sturges, spent his entire life as a farmer in Fair- 
 held, Conn., and died in 1894. at the advanced 
 age of ninety-four years. The father, John A. 
 Sturges, is a native of that place. When a young- 
 man he removed to Missouri, becoming one of 
 the early settlers of Marshall, where he was. 
 engaged in the manufacture of lumljer for a 
 time, and later he was interested in the whole- 
 sale commission business in St. Louis imtil com- 
 ing to Phoenix, .Ariz., in 1887. Here he followed 
 farming for some time, but now, at the age of 
 seventv-six years he is living retired, enjoying 
 a well-earned rest. W hen a yoimg man he mar- 
 ried Miss Augusta Zimmerman, a native of 
 Cialesburg, Hi., and a daughter of John Zimmer- 
 man, who was engaged in farming in that state. 
 I!y this union were born five children, all of 
 w'hom reside in or near Phoenix. 
 
 The early education of our subject, acquired in 
 the public and high schools of St. Louis, of 
 wliich he is a graduate, was supplemented by 
 a course at Drury College, Springfield, Mo. He 
 left school, however, in 1885 to come west, being 
 the first of the family to locate in Phoenix. For 
 one \ear he engaged in farming, and for four 
 \ ears was employed as clerk in the grocery store 
 of Farley & Grant. In 1890 he purchased a 
 liver\- stable on Third street and embarked in 
 the business which he has since carried on suc- 
 cessfully. In 1895 ''^ built a fine brick barn, 
 50x138 feet, and two stories in height, it being 
 the largest establishment of the kind in the city. 
 In 1894 he formed a partnership with A. L. 
 Stephens, a native of Lowville, Lewis county, 
 N. Y., and a son of Rufus and Clarissa (Rich- 
 ards) Stephens, both of New York state. In 
 1863 he went to Ripon, Fond du Lac count)-. 
 Wis., and in 1878 removed to Fargo, N. D., 
 where he was engaged in the livery business 
 until coming to Phoenix in 1894. Here busi- 
 ness is conducted under the firm name of C. M. 
 -Sturges & Co. They have hacks which meet all
 
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 trams, and do an (.'xtciisivi- traiislt-r l)iisincss. 
 '\'hc\ also make a specialty of lakini;' picnic par- 
 lies to ail ])oints of interest for manv miles 
 around, and have an elegant talK-lio for this 
 purpose. i>esicies his city properly, Mr. Sturges 
 f)\vns a ranch of one hundred and sixt\ acres 
 on .St. John's canal, tifteen utiles west of I'hoe- 
 ni.\, 
 
 lie was married at ( )akdale, I'al.. to Miss 
 Clara Mitchener, who was horn in I'etaluma, 
 ("al.. her father, John Mitchener, heitig a ])ioneer 
 of that state. ( )ue child blesses this union, 
 I'.Ka. r.\ his halhH .\lr. Sttn-ges supports the 
 men and measures of the Republican ])art\, and 
 he has taken quite an active and proniiueiU pan 
 in ])ublic affairs. lie has served as county com- 
 missioner, and is now acceptably fillinsj the of- 
 fices of city commissioner and treasurer, liaving 
 served in the latter position for several vears 
 to the entire satisfaction of all concerned, lie 
 is a member of the Coard of Trade and afifili- 
 ates with the Knijjhts of I'ythias and the W'ood- 
 I7ien of the World. In religious belief he is a 
 rreslnterian. 
 
 (iEORCE L. WILKY. 
 
 The agricultural interests of the Salt Ri\er 
 valley have materially benefited by the presence 
 in their midst of Mr. Wilky, who represents the 
 best farming element of the region that has wit- 
 nessed his successful efforts for advancement. 
 He is the owner of two hundred and seventy 
 acres of land, one hundred and ten acres of 
 which are in the liome ranch. Though not one 
 of the very earl_\ pioneers of the valley, he has 
 iin])ressed his worth and ability upon his fellow- 
 townsmen and has shown an unusual and com- 
 mendable interest in all that pertains to the 
 general growth of his adopted localit\ . lie 
 came to this jiroiuising corner of the world in 
 188 1 and has since made it his home. 
 
 The parents of Mr. W'ilky, Henry and .Sophia 
 (Lutgerding) W'ilk)', were born in ( iermany aiid 
 became jirominent residents of the Salt River 
 valley. The earlv boyhood of their son (let)rge 
 was passed in .\dains c(junty. 111., where he was 
 born September 21, 1862. When two years of 
 age he removed with his parents to Marion 
 county, Mo., where the faiTiil\- lived for several 
 
 years. subsei|uently going to Shelby couni\. 
 Mo., where they remained until 18S1. .Vt that 
 time (leorge L. removed to .\rizona. He re- 
 ceived the early ir.iining that falls to the lot of 
 the average farm-reared boy. and was sur- 
 rt)un(lcd by intlnences calculated to develop 
 traits of induslrv and thrift. 
 
 I'pou starting out in the world for himself 
 yiv. Wilky naturall}' followed the inclinatiim 
 fostered by his parents and developed while re- 
 siding on the home farm. .\s a general farmer 
 and stock-raiser he has been very successful, 
 and the good results attained are largely due to 
 his special aptitude for the work at hand and his 
 faith in the ]jossibilities of the soil which he so 
 diligently cultivates. 
 
 .Mr. Wilky's first wife was Mrs. lunma Mitts. 
 I'lorn of that union is one daughter, Sophie R., 
 whose mother died when she was onlv font 
 mouths old. and since that time she has made 
 her home with her grandparents W'ilkv. 
 
 Mr. \\'ilk\- married for his second wife .Martha 
 Cartwright, of the Salt River valley, a daughter 
 of Jasjjer and Sarah E. (Riggins) Cartwright. 
 ( )f this union there are two children. Louis R. 
 and Harold C. .\ Democrat in national politics, 
 Mr. Wilky has no political ambitions, and pre- 
 fers to leave to others the offices within the 
 gift of the i)eo])le. He is public-s]iirited and 
 enterprising, and a t\pical pi(.)ncer farmer of 
 Salt River valley. 
 
 Mrs. Wilky is a member of the Christian 
 Church. She was born in California, and when 
 about three years of age was brought by her par- 
 eiUs to Prescott. .\riz. .Mr. ami Mrs. Cartwright 
 live si.x miles west of Rhoenix on the Maricopa 
 road, and are amting the honored pioneers of 
 the territor\'. 
 
 ALE.\AXI)I-:R I". Mc.XLT.T.STER. 
 
 .Mr. .McAllister was born in the shadow of old 
 lnde])endeuce Hall on .South .Sixth street in the 
 city of Rhiladel]ihia. l-"ebruary 17. 1840. His 
 grandfather, an Cnited Irishman, took ]iart in 
 the struggle of the Irish ])eople in the rebellion 
 of 1798, with Henry and John .McCracken. the 
 I'resbyterian leaders in .\ntrini. relatives of 
 President McKinley, and after its failure escaped 
 to this country^ serving afterwards with Col.
 
 g66 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Winfiekl Scott in flu- war .if iSij at tlic battle 
 of Lnndy's Lane, and through the Canadian 
 campaign. He was for many years an alderman 
 of the city. His father was an old sea captain, 
 sailing out of I'hiladelphia, and was lost with his 
 vessel in 1852. He had served on the old I'nitcd 
 States sloop-of-war Cyane at the ca])ture of 
 \'era Cruz during the Mexican war. the fleet co- 
 operating with the land forces under General 
 Scott, showing three generations of fighters 
 serving inider the same officer. 
 
 Mr. McAllister attended the public schools of 
 his native city, and was a classmate of Samuel 
 J. Randall, Ignatius Donnelly, Governor Robert 
 E. Pattison and other distinguished Philadel- 
 phians. He made several sea voyages to Liver- 
 pool, England, and La Guarra, South America, 
 but not liking the hardships of a cabin-boy's life 
 in the merchant service, despite the glamour of 
 romance thrown on it by R. H. Dana and Cap- 
 tain Maryatt, he concluded to settle down with 
 the old folks and as a law student entered the 
 ofifice of Benjamin H. Brewster, afterward attor- 
 ney-general under President Arthur one month 
 prior to the breaking out of the war. His associ- 
 ations and traditions were identified with the is- 
 sues and i)rinciples of the Democratic party, 
 casting his maiden vote for Stephen A. Douglas, 
 and he was chosen delegate to the Congressional 
 convention, electing his life-long friend and 
 former school-fellow Sam. J. Randall to the first 
 of his many terms in Congress. 
 
 At the first call for seventy-five thousand men 
 l)y the president, at the breaking out of the war, 
 he enlisted in an organization known as the 
 Moyamensing Rangers, commanded by the 
 noted "Squire" McMullin, and served with Gen- 
 eral Patterson's command in the Shenandoah 
 valley. At the call for three years' men he en- 
 listed in the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania, com- 
 manded by Col. Joshua T. Owens and known 
 throughout the Potomac Army as "Paddy 
 Owens' Regulars," in the old Philadelphia 
 Brigade commanded by the fearless Senator 
 Baker ; he received a charge of "buck and ball" 
 in the right leg. October 25, 1861, at Balls' 
 Bluff, where General Baker was killed. C)n re- 
 covering from this wound he rejoined his regi- 
 ment in front of Yorktown and took part in all 
 the battles of the Peninsular campaign under 
 
 (ieneral McClellan. On the organization of the 
 grand army corps his brigade formed the Second 
 brigade, Second division of the Second army 
 corps, and commanded by Maj.-Gen. E. \'. 
 Sumner. I'romotions were not slow in those 
 days where wounds and death created vacancies 
 in rapid succession, and Mr. McAllister rose 
 from a high private in the rear rank to brevet 
 corporal, sergeant, lieutenant and captain. At 
 .\ntietam he was assigned as aide on General 
 Hancock's staff, where he served until McClellan 
 was superseded by Burnside. At Fredericks- 
 burg his regiment was one of the first to cross 
 the pontoon bridge thrown across the Rappa- 
 hannock river below the Lacy House, General 
 liurnside's headquarters, through the streets of 
 that historic old town in the face of a murderous 
 fire to Mary's heights. The result of that ill- 
 fated assault is a matter of history. His corps 
 in the following movement against the Confeder- 
 ate forces under General Hooker, covered the 
 retreat of his defeated, panic-stricken army and 
 saved it frotii total annihilation. At Gettysbufg 
 the second army under Hancock held the left 
 center against the flower of the army of North- 
 ern Mrginia, and beat back the repeated and 
 fearless charges of Pickett and his picked veter- 
 ans, and a larger percentage of killed and 
 wounded was suffered by his regiment than by 
 any other regiment engaged in that battle, and 
 in it Captain McAllister received his coup de 
 grace by the loss of his left hand, rendering him 
 henceforth unable to seek the bubble reputation 
 at the cannon's mouth. Having outlived his 
 usefulness in the field, he was employed in the 
 quartermaster's and commissary departments of 
 the army at Washington until the close of the 
 war. 
 
 In 1865-66 he was connected with a number 
 of his old comrades in the Fenian movement of 
 that time, and after its failure he was perforce 
 compelled to adopt the ways of peace, and again 
 in 1866 he entered the government service as 
 quartermaster's clerk, employed at Forts Mc- 
 Pherson, Sedgwick and Laramie, in the Platte 
 valley, when the Sioux and Cheyennes were 
 rampant for scalps ; and ad interim taught school 
 with unique experiences in that supposedly 
 peaceful avocation, which was not always be- 
 yond the danger line, as learning to shoot
 
 PORTRAIT AND RIOGRAPHTCAT. RECORD. 
 
 f/'/ 
 
 golden appk-s from llic irce of kiiowlcilge had a 
 broader and more dangerous api)lication in those 
 days, to be compelled to take a shot at a prowl- 
 ing savage, with the routine of interesting study 
 brokenly interrupted by a cautious survey 
 through the loojj-holes of the log school house 
 for a red marauder. With one eye on the gun 
 and the other on the jnipil. Mr. McAllister says 
 that the conditions were not very favorable or 
 gratifying to accomplish to a moderate extent 
 successful results on educational lines or re- 
 dound nutch to his credit as an educator. In 
 1872 he occu])ied a clerical position at the head- 
 {piarters of his old general, W. S. Hancock, 
 then commanding the department of Dacotah at 
 St. Paul, Minn. Disliking sedentary desk work, 
 the captain had General Hancock send him to 
 I'ort .\bercrombie on the Red river of the north 
 to take charge of the army transportation for the 
 expedition to the Yellowstone country under 
 Custer and his famous and fated Seventh cav- 
 alry, the infantry column being commanded by 
 (ien. David Stanley. These troops acted as 
 guard and escort for the survey and construction 
 of the Northern Pacific Railroad under the su- 
 pervision of Custer's old-time cavalry opponent, 
 (!en. T. J. Rosser, of the Confederate army, 
 and they fought their battles over again with the 
 zest of old-time foes and gallant men. 
 
 In 1873 he was appointed by Gen. Stewart 
 \ an \ liet chief quartermaster of the depart- 
 ment 1)1 the .Missouri, as quartermaster's store- 
 keeper, and was assigned to duly at Fort Dodge, 
 Cam]) .Supply and Fort Elliott. In 1876 he ac- 
 cepted a position under Col. C. .\. Reynolds, 
 chief quartermaster of the military district of 
 .\rizona at Fort Whiiiple. .Ariz., and en route 
 at Fort W'ingate, .\. .M.. learned that Colonel 
 Reynolds had been assigned to duty at Portland. 
 Ore. Mr. McAllister's chronically financial em- 
 barrassments would not permit his making that 
 long journey, and in those days the walking was 
 very bad, so he concluded to remain at Fort 
 W'ingate, near where he was employed as clerk 
 by a Navajo Indian trader, and afterwards ob- 
 tained the position of issue clerk at Fort Defi- 
 ance, the Navajo Indian .Agency, where his old- 
 est daughter was born. 
 
 With the varying vicissitudes and environ- 
 ments of the erstwhile frontiers of the unsettled 
 
 west, .\lr. .McAlli^ler ad:iplt'd and filled himself 
 Id \n> surroundings, herded shee]), laughl 
 school, in the callle and dairy business, trading 
 with Indians, engaged in the railroad service and 
 other employments, and for the want of a belter 
 and with the natural proclivities of his Celtic 
 origin, drifted into politics. .Settling in Wins- 
 low, .Ariz., in i8S(;. he was appointed postmaster, 
 and elected justice of the peace, a member of 
 the board of school trustees, and conmiissioned 
 three terms as notary public, occupying, as it 
 were, the position of public functionary in iiis 
 conniumit). .\t the breaking out of the S])an- 
 ish-.American war the old s])iril of "61 was 
 again ram])ant. lie was authorized to open a 
 recruiting office antl enrolled the quota of his 
 coutUy for troop .\ of the Rough Riders com- 
 niandetl b_\- his old friend Capt. W. ( ). ()'Niell, 
 and also the cpiota for (jov. M. H. McCord's 
 regiment of .\rizona volunteers. During the 
 fall of 1898 he was elected 'county recorder and 
 was re-elected in igoo by an increased majority, 
 1 eceiving the supi)ort of Republicans and Demo- 
 crats alike, though always known as a stanch, 
 outspoken sup]wrler of the issues and principles 
 of the latter. 
 
 .Vugust 21, 1875, he was married at Leaven- 
 worth. Kans., to Miss Lucy Kaulz. of Wheeling. 
 W . \ a., a descendant of good old Irisli-( lerman 
 stock of the earliest settlers of the Ohio valley; 
 her grandfather. Gen. Sam Black, a veteran of 
 the Mexican war. and who was killed at the 
 battle of Gaines' .Mill in 1862, was a well-known 
 lawyer among many of the same name and pro- 
 fession of western Pennsylvania. They became 
 the ]);',rents of five children, twt) of whom are 
 li\ing. namel_\' : I'aith, the wife of ( ). W. Sanii)- 
 -KU. of I. OS .\ngeles, l_'al.: and .Mercy, aged 
 eighteen, at home. The deceased, (irace. aged 
 ten, W. .'^. Hancock, eight, and Alexander I'"., 
 five, died of dii)htheria within ten days of each 
 other, and are buried at W'inslow. 
 
 Mr. .\lc--\llister has not laid up any earthly 
 .-lores where moths and rust corrupt and thieves 
 break into. l)ut is content with pleasant home 
 >nrroundings, blessed with the com])anionship 
 of a loving helpmate who faced sorrow and ])ri- 
 v;itions with him for twenty-five years and more, 
 a true wife and loving mother. To maintain his 
 prestige of good fellowship, he is a charter mem-
 
 968 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 ln-r of W'insliiw Lodge No. 536, B. }'. O. E.. and 
 a meinber of the Loyal Legion, and of the So- 
 ciety of the Army of the Potomac. As an 
 optimist of the future of Arizona, he is most 
 sanguine witii voice and pen, and feels that the 
 trials and hardships of the pioneer will be real- 
 ized in the building up of another mighty com- 
 monwealth in the galaxy of sovereign states as- 
 sured by the enterprise and spirit of its sturdy 
 people in the development of its vast storehouses 
 of mineral wealth, its fertile valleys and the 
 mighty forests of this great future state of Ari- 
 zona. 
 
 WILLIAM ( )11NKS()RGEN. 
 
 Born in (jermany in 1849, Mr. ( )hnesorgen 
 came with his parents to America in 1833, set- 
 tling in San .\ntonio, Tex. There he grew to 
 manhood, and received his education in the pub- 
 lic schools, subsequently learning the trade oi 
 carpenter and builder from his father, who wa-- 
 an expert in that line both in Cierniany and 
 America. The son early evinced an independ 
 ence of spirit and determination which led him 
 in 1867 to the larger possibilities and cruder 
 conditions of the far west, and after a short so- 
 journ in New Mexico he located in 'I'ucson in 
 1868. For a time he was employed as a clerk 
 and later turned his attention to carpentering 
 and building, in which he met with great suc- 
 cess. Many of the modern American buildings 
 of Tucson are due to his capability, and among 
 others that emerged under his guidance and 
 practical assistance was the governor's mansion 
 on the hill, and several of the large store build- 
 ings. In 1871 he came down the San Pedro river 
 to within three-quarters of a mile of where Ben- 
 son is now located, but of which there was no 
 sign in those days. Here he kept the govern- 
 ment forage agency, supplying the United States 
 troops with provisions. This occupation came 
 to an end when the Indians were placed on the 
 reservations, but in the mean time he had seen 
 a great deal of the Indians and their ways, and 
 became well aware of the hostility of some of 
 them to the whites. 
 
 From 1875 until 1880 Mr.Ohnesorgen was en- 
 gaged in the sheep-raising business in the Co- 
 chise valley, and in 1879 established the stage 
 
 line Ijctween Tucson and Tonibslone, operating 
 ihe same imlil tlie shriek of the iron horse awoke 
 the s!ee])ing shades of the county. Since he 
 disposed of his stage interests many thrilling 
 robberies have occurred on the line, worthy of 
 the recital of Cooper, and the absorbing interest 
 of the American youth. .\s a later venture Mr. 
 ( )hnesorgen built a barn and ran a livery there 
 for three years, later selling out, and again en- 
 gaging in his former trade nf building. Since 
 then he has erected many of the buildings of the 
 town. He has disjxjsed of his farm property, 
 and is now principally interested in matters that 
 directly concern the town of I'enson. Mr. Ohne- 
 sorgen was married in 1880 and now has six 
 chiUlren: Conche, who is eighteen years of age; 
 Eliza, fourteen; William, eleven; Frederick, 
 seven; Beatrice, five; and Jasper, two years old 
 In politics Mr. ( )hnesorgen is a Republican, and 
 has been a justice of the peace for the past eight 
 years. He has never aided in the selecting of a 
 president, never having had an opportunity to 
 vole. 
 
 J. W. RANSOM. 
 
 From out the rough and law-ignoring element 
 which permeated the very early days of Globe 
 there stand out a few of those fine, steady, and 
 reliable characters which diverted the chaotic 
 and headstrong stream of impetuosity into chan- 
 nels of order and balance. Such an one is Mr. 
 Ransom, who came here m 1875, and was one 
 of the first white men to wrest from h'urtune he'" 
 firmly imbedded treasures. 
 
 The early memories of Mr. Ransom are asso- 
 ciated with New York state, where he was born 
 at Mount Morris, Livingston county, in 1830. 
 Of English, and Scotch ancestry, he is a son of 
 George W. and Mary Ransom, who were born 
 respectivelv in England and Scotland, and who 
 were married in Canada. Though a carjienter 
 by trade, the elder Ransom had a farm in Liv- 
 ingston county, N. \'.. upon which he lived, 
 and where he died in 1894. His son was rearcl 
 at Mount Morris, and when but five years of 
 age suffered the loss of his mother by death. 
 He was educated at the public schools, and the 
 first eventful occurrence in his life was the 
 breaking out of the Civil v,ar, at which time he
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 971 
 
 enlisted in the First Xcw York Dragoons, and 
 served his country [or throe- vcars. He was 
 discharged from the service in 1S63. at Roches- 
 ter. N. V. 
 
 \\ itli the return of peace Mr. Ransom came 
 west to Colorado, s^oinij later to New Mexico, 
 where he ^\•o^ked at the machinist's trade. In 
 the effort to find a suitable, desirable location he 
 lived for a time on the present site of .Silver 
 City, before cuminy; lo (llobe in 1875. .\fter 
 prospecting and mining for a couple of years, lie 
 accepted a clerkship willi Morrell Ketchani. 
 The latter's interests were later purchased by 
 E. F. Kelhier, who has since been so prominently 
 identified with the large undertakings of the 
 territory. Mr. I-lansom continued his posi- 
 tion untler the new management, and with .Mr. 
 Kellner started a general merchandise store at 
 ^lc]\Iillan, which was not, however, a success, 
 and was soon abandoned. Tlie iwo men then 
 started the store at Globe, which has for so 
 many years catered to the necessities of the 
 inhabitants, and wdiich is today iMie of the most 
 substantial of the commercial interests of the 
 town. After an amicable association of twenty- 
 two years, Mr. Ransom disposed of his share in 
 the business, in 1900, to Mr. Kellner, and is at 
 the present time practically retired from active 
 participation in commercial affairs. 
 
 Though a man of more than the allotted three 
 score and ten years, Mr. Ransom gives the im- 
 pression of one who is scarcely a half century 
 on tlie way. .\ delightful companion he has 
 tlrawn to him hosts of friends, who believe in 
 his sincerity and rejoice in his optimism, lie 
 has never indulged in the cup that inebriates 
 nor has he ever participated in games of chance. 
 In the estimation of his friends, some woman i-; 
 the loser by his having never marrie<l. lie is 
 of late years a traveler, s])endiug the greater 
 part of his sununers with a sister in liuffalo, 
 X. v., and his wiiUers in (llobe and Lalifornia. 
 
 .V !\e])ublican in national ])oli;ics. .Mr. Ran- 
 snm cast liis two presidential \'otes fur .\bra- 
 ham I,inc(jln and L'lysscs (irant. which were the 
 only elections he had a chance to participate 
 in. For twenty years he has been a Mason, and 
 is a chartir nicniljcr of the lodge at (ilobe. He 
 is also a charter member of the Odd h"ellow> 
 Lodge Xo. 12, at (ilobe, having joined thai 
 
 organisation ten years ago. and he is a meiuber 
 of the Klks and the F.astern -Star. For three 
 \ears he has l)ccn associated with the Grand 
 .\rniy of the Republic in (ilobe as commander. 
 
 LV.M.VX W. WAKEl'll'.LD. 
 
 ( )f Knglish descent. Mr. Wakefield was born 
 in Malone, I'ranklin comity. X. Y., October 5. 
 1855. The earlier members of the faiuily lived 
 in Connecticut, and the paternal grandfather. 
 V.\)cn. was born at Windham. He married S;i- 
 linda llennett. a native of Connecticut, and sub- 
 se(|uently settled in bVanklin county. .\. Y.. 
 where he eventually died. His son. James Mad- 
 ison, the father of L. W. Wakefield, was born 
 in Franklin county, and later becaiue a farmer 
 near Malone, X. Y., going thence in 1863 to 
 the vicinity of Rochester, Olmstead county, 
 Minn. During the Civil war he volunteered in 
 the northern arm.y, but was rejected on account 
 of disability, lie died in .Minnesota October 5. 
 1884. Mrs. Wakefield, formerly Clarinda 
 llrown. was born in Malone, .\. Y., Decem- 
 ber 15, 1820, and was a daughter of -Samuel 
 llrown, a native of Hero Island, Lake Cham 
 plain. The Brown family history is interestingly 
 inlerwcnen with that of the vicinity of Lake 
 Chaiuplain. to which the paternal great-grand- 
 father came u])on eiuigrating from luigland 
 witii his nine sons. He bought nine of the isl- 
 ands in the lake, called Hero Islands, where he 
 located, anil where he eveiUually died. The pa- 
 ternal grandfather, Solomon Brown, lived near 
 .\ew Haven, \t.. where he carried on gen- 
 eral t.M-niing and there died. He married Miss 
 Marina Laiub. Samuel Brown married Han- 
 nah Heath, who was born in \ermont, a daugh- 
 ter of Sanuicl C. Heath, who was a soldier in the 
 war of the Revolution, and who married Leah 
 Tracv, of an old -Xew luigland family. Mrs. 
 Wakefield, who is now living with her daughter, 
 .Mrs. !■". X. ImsIi. of I'ucson, is the mother of 
 six sons and three daughters, viz: Maria, 
 who is the wife of F. X. I'ish of Tucson; Har- 
 ve\-. now in Texas, and who was a member of 
 tlie .Minnesota Riegiment Heavy .\rtillery: 
 .\chsa M.. who married J. C. Craymond of 
 Rugby, N. D.: .Mfred J., who is the superin-
 
 972 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tendent of the Santa Cruz ^lilHng Company, at 
 Santa Cruz, Ariz.; William L., who is in the cat- 
 tle business at Tucson; Frank X., who is a mine 
 operator in Missouri; Lyman ^^'.. who is living 
 in Tucson; Clara E., who is the widow of A. J. 
 Knapp of Langdon, X. D.. and Julius A., who is 
 living in Kasson, Minn. 
 
 The early life of Mr. Wakefield was on the 
 uneventful order, and was devoted to a mastery 
 of the details of farming and tn ac(|uiring the 
 education of the public schools. When twenty- 
 two years of age he started out to face alone the 
 conditions in a new and strange part of the coun- 
 try, and in Tucson, started in the cattle business. 
 In 1878 he removed to Pantano, Pima county, 
 forty miles east of Tucson, and started a general 
 merchandise business, and was also interested in 
 mining, conducting his affairs in partnership 
 with his brother William. He was also made 
 postmaster of the place, and was the first to 
 hold the position, ITpon removing to the 
 Wlietstone mountains, Pima county, where he 
 established a fine ranch, which was plentifully 
 supplied with water, and had a fine corral, the 
 Indians were very numerous and troublesome, 
 and some of the surrovmding neighbors were 
 killed by the treacherous and ever alert Apaches. 
 When they were surrounded by special danger 
 he traveled at night to the railroad, and carried 
 his wife and babies to the safety of the town. 
 
 The present ranch of Mr. Wakefield is situ- 
 ated twenty-five miles west of Tucson, and is 
 given over almost entirely to the cattle indus- 
 try. To this branch of work Mr. Wakefield 
 brings a wide range of knowledge, and is one of 
 the best informed men in the county. His cat- 
 tle are fattened from the seeds of flowers and on 
 Indian wheat, and he finds that as an article of 
 diet they are quite as satisfactory as the usual 
 feed of corn. He is one of the most successful 
 cattle men in the county, and is otherwise widely 
 interested in the affairs of the locality. He is 
 a member of and was formerly director in the 
 Arizona Stockmen's Association. A Republican 
 in politics, he is an ex-member of the ter- 
 ritorial conmiittee on organization, and in i8y8 
 was nominated county sheriff of what is now Pima 
 and Santa Cruz counties, and elected by a majori- 
 ty of one hun<lrcd and fifty, the term of office ex- 
 tending from jann;iry. i8yy. utiiil J;uuiar\-. njoi. 
 
 It is doubtful if any who have held a like positirm 
 in the territory more acceptably filled the va- 
 rious and arduous duties incident to their re- 
 sponsible position than difl Mr. Wakefield, or 
 exercised more tact in the adjustment of often 
 complicated and annoying situations, .\ssisted 
 bv a profound knowledge of luniian nature and 
 its workings under favorable and unfavorable 
 circumstances, he knew how to avoid the ex- 
 ercise of the gentle art of making enemies, and 
 has instead won the ap]:)roval of even those who 
 were his political antagonists. 
 
 In rucsoti, in May. i8<.)i. Mr. Wakefield mar- 
 ried .\nna Patrick, who was born in ^Missouri 
 and reared in California. Of this union there 
 are five children: Walter. William II.. Ivlith, 
 Clarence and Marguerite. Walter is attending 
 the L'niversity of .\rizona. and the other chil- 
 dren are students at the public schools of Tuc- 
 son. Fraternalh ^. Ir. Wakefield is associated 
 with the Ilenevolent Protective Order of Elks, 
 the Keel Men and the Knights of Pythias. He is 
 one of the esteemed and reliable citizens of 
 Tucson, and has aided materially in bringing 
 about the renewed high state of affairs in this 
 old-new section of the countrv. 
 
 E. A. POWERS. 
 
 There are few men in .Vriztjna. or, in fact, 
 anywhere in the P'nited States, who have the 
 wide knowledge of mines and mining in general 
 possessed by Mr. Powers, the superintendent 
 and general manager of the I'nited \ erde Ex- 
 tension Gold, Silver and Copper Mining Com- 
 pany. X'^or is this able authorit\- content witli 
 wliat he has already found out. for he is con- 
 tinuall}' studying for new light from everv avail- 
 able scjurce, and neglects no o])])orttinit \ lo keen 
 in touch with the advancement in all the large 
 mining centers of the world. Xo other could 
 assume the large responsibility which he so 
 creditablv fills, as manager of one of the largesi 
 and richest mining properties in the world. The 
 companv's propcrt}- consists of ninett-en claims, 
 and the ore is copjjcr. carrying also a heavy 
 percentage of gold and silver. .\ny one of these 
 metals exists in sufficieni (|uantil\ to mal^e the 
 nnnr pr.'filalile if 'i'jIIi the others were absent.
 
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 The company pay roll contains belween seven 
 hundred and eight hmulred men, and the claims 
 are located abont twenty-eight mile:, from Pres- 
 cott. Mr. Powers has under him twenty-five 
 or thirty men as assistant managers which gives 
 one a fair idea oi the w<Trk invulved in the dis- 
 charge of his dnt\'. 
 
 With all of llie aihantages of eastern hirih 
 and training, Mr. Powers was arlmirahly fitted 
 in his youth lor any opportunity that might conic 
 his way. Ho was born in Xcw Haven, Conn . 
 in 1853, and received the substantial education 
 (if the public schools. It was not imtil 1880 
 that he left the familiar surroundings of his lioy- 
 hood days and sought to make a name and rep- 
 utation for himself amid untried and strange 
 conditions. .\s a possibly desirable field he 
 located in Chihuahua, Mexico, and for several 
 vears was manager for a mining company there. 
 but in i8(;3 went to Colorado to inspect mines 
 there for eastern parties. In i8y8 he undertook 
 the management of a gold mining company in 
 .\ew Mexico, remaining there until the fall of 
 1899, and in December of the same year came 
 to Jerome as general manager of the Ignited 
 Verde Extension Gold, Silver and Copper Min- 
 ing Company. 
 
 Although an all-around well in funned man. 
 Mr. Powers devotes all of his time to mining 
 matters, and in this singleness of purpose lies 
 the secret of much of his success. He is polit- 
 ically a Republican, but has never sought or 
 desired office. 
 
 DR. ALl'.X.\.\"l)b:R TRIPPEL. 
 
 !'or half a century the labors of Dr. .\lexander 
 Trip])el. who died at tlie .Astor House, Xew 
 N'ork City, November 26, 1806, contributed nru- 
 terialK- to wealth and knowledge in the realms 
 of niineralogy and clieniistry. and his name and 
 fame will long live, more es])ecially in the an- 
 nals of -Arizona, where his last years were spent, 
 and where the ri])e experience of a long and 
 useful career was exercised in its fullest extent. 
 To his genius .\rizona is tleejily indebted, for 
 through his agency her innnense mineralogical 
 wealth became more thoroughly established 
 than e\er before, and until the messenger of 
 
 death came to him he enthusiasticall}- endeav- 
 ored to forward all of the interests of the terri- 
 tory. 
 
 Dr. Alexander Trippel was named in lionor 
 of a distinguisheil relative — Alexander Trippel. 
 a celebrated sculptor of Switzerland. The great 
 artist's bust of his old friend. Goethe, w^as char- 
 acterized by Bayard Taylor as the most perfect 
 work of sculpture extant. The subject of this 
 article was born January 25. 1827, at Schaff- 
 hausen, Switzerland, and while yet a mere child 
 hail shown marked talents in the direction of 
 geolog\-. mineralogy, chemistry and allied 
 branches. Methodical in all his habits, he kept 
 a complete record of events in which he par- 
 ticipated throughout life. but. most unfortunate- 
 ly, these diaries and accounts were accidentally 
 destroyed by fire a few years ago, and thus much 
 valuable information in regard to him and his 
 work has been placed beyond the reach oi the 
 ])ublic. Having completed .a severe course in 
 the renowned universities of Germany, and hav- 
 ing received the degree of doctor of philosophy, 
 he came to the United States about the time of 
 the gold discoveries in California. .As soon as 
 possible, he became a naturalized citizen of this 
 republic, and thenceforth used his franchise on 
 behalf of the Democratic party. 
 
 For a number of years Dr. Tiippel had his 
 office and headc|uarters in Xew York City, and 
 frecjuently a visitor to his rooms was confronted 
 with the simple legend, written upon a card and 
 tacked to the door, "Gone to South America" 
 (or some other remote locality), "will soon re- 
 turn." ("Soon" — perha])s within a month or a 
 _\-ear. as the case might be.) For S(Mne time he 
 was associated with the l'>elgian chemist and 
 geol(5gist, I'rof. luigene (iaussoin. Enii)loyed 
 ti> superintend the erection of works at P>ergen 
 I'oint. X. }.. he there put into operation his im- 
 I)roved methods for the manufacturing of flour 
 of sidplnu'. which made his name known far and 
 wide, r.etween the years of 1858 and 1863 he 
 was connected with the great enterprise of 
 smelting the cojiper-ores oi the Ducktown 
 (Tenn.) region. The prrticularly refractory sul- 
 phides with which he had to deal, and his pro- 
 nounced success, brought fresh honors to his 
 feet, and thus. ye.':r i)y year, he steadily advanced 
 in his chosen field of effort. In 1864 he built
 
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 zinc-rolling mills at P>ethlchem, Pa., and there 
 introduced valuable improvements. 
 
 At length Dr. Trippel came to the west, and, 
 after spending a period in iron and zinc mining 
 in Arkansas and Missouri, began his researches 
 and labors in the trans-Rocky mountain region. 
 In Idaho and lone, Xev., he erected silver mills, 
 in the last-named place employing the system of 
 the lixiviation of silver ores, in the interests of 
 the Knickerbocker Alining Compau). Dating 
 from 1872 he was superintendent of the Manhat- 
 tan Silver mills, at .\ustin, Nev., and in T878 was 
 placed at the head of the Danville (Xev.) silver 
 mills. From 1879 to 1881 he was the metallur- 
 gist of the IMorey mines, of the same state; then 
 was sent to Lower California, where he made in- 
 vestigations in the copper district near Boleo, 
 and made a comprehensive report upon the sub- 
 ject. In 1882 he went to Santa Clara, Cuba, 
 where he was the general manager of copper 
 mines for a short time. 
 
 Coming to Arizona in 1883, Dr. Trippel be- 
 came the metallurgist of the Old Dominion Cop- 
 per Mining Company, at Globe, and was made 
 superintendent of the same in 1884. Cnder his 
 able management that concern retrieved its for- 
 tunes, for immense sums of money had been ex- 
 pended, to little purpose. He discovered rich 
 treasures of the valued ore. and in spite of the 
 great cost of transportation of coke and the 
 products of the mill, placed the company on a 
 paying financial basis. In 1888 he resigned his 
 position, in order to embark in mining opera- 
 tions, but within a year took charge of the de- 
 velopment of the Arivaipa silver-lead mines, in 
 Graham county, Ariz., and later was induced to 
 accept the superintendency of the BufTalo Cop- 
 per Mining Company at Globe, whose afifairs 
 were in a depressed condition, owing to the 
 limited amount and refractory nature of the ores 
 with which they were dealing. Quite as a mat- 
 ter of course, the Doctor soon discovered greater 
 and much better ore deposits, and brought the 
 company's affairs into a sound condition. In 
 1893 he became superintendent of the Phoenix 
 Gold Mining Company, at Cave Creek. Alari- 
 copa county, but soon resigned in order to em- 
 bark in a distinct departure. Having become 
 convinced of tlic great natural wealth of the Salt 
 River valley, in the realm nf hdrticnlturc. he 
 
 planted an extensive almond orchard, near Mesa, 
 and planned to devote the remainder of his life 
 to the quiet routine of a country existence. The 
 habits of more than half a centur\-, however, 
 proved too binding, and with renewed enthu- 
 siasm he returned to them, becoming superinten- 
 dent (jf the Rosemont Copper Company, in Pinal 
 county. .\riz.. and continuing with the same un- 
 til his death, directly occasioned by a severe cold 
 and consequent pneumonia, ci^ntracted while in 
 Xew "^'ork City on a business errand for his 
 company. 
 
 liy all of his associates Dr. Trippel w.as 
 deemed genial, generous and upright. In 1883 
 he was made a member of the board of experts 
 of the liureau of Mines, of Xcvv York Citv, and 
 the fact that he was chosen as a trustee of this 
 organization was, in itself, a sincere tribute to 
 his aliility, as numbered among the society were 
 men famous in the science of minerals and min- 
 ing. From time to time his systematic reports 
 of his researches and discoveries, rendered to 
 the director of the United States Mint, and to 
 various societies and journals in which he was 
 interested, increased his faiue. I'Anv of his ac- 
 quaintances knew of the accomplishments and 
 scholarly attainments of this c|uiet, unassuming 
 scientist. Master of several languages and a 
 true lover of literature and music, the genius of 
 his great sculptor-uncle was manifested none 
 the less truly in him that it appeared in another 
 form. While a resident of Nevada he and a 
 musical friend discovered the talent of Miss 
 Enmia Wixom (now the celebrated Emma Ne- 
 vada), organized for her the first concert in 
 which she participated (at Austin, Xev.) and per- 
 suaded her father to send her abroad for the 
 musical education which resulted in her success- 
 ful operatic career. In his religious faith the 
 Doctor was an Fpiscopalian. His mortal re- 
 mains were consigned to their last repose in the 
 Moravian cemetery, at Xew Dor]j. Staten Island. 
 
 Besides the hosts of friends who mourn his 
 loss are the three children of the Doctor. His 
 wife, who is now li\-ing in .Siaten Island, X. Y., 
 bore llic maiden name of Matilda Gaussoin, and 
 in her youth received a liberal education in lui- 
 voiic. Her father, .\uguste Gaussoin. was born 
 in I'.russels. Piclgiuni. and is noted as the com- 
 poser of ihe music for the iioeuT^ of Laniarline
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIO(~,RAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 and P.crangcr. After liis ileath. his laniily came 
 to the United States, and for some years dwelt 
 in Georgia. (See sketch of lion. F.ugene I. 
 Trippel.) 
 
 SOREN C. SORENSOX. 
 
 Sorcn C. Sorenson, bishop of the Lehi ward 
 of the Maricopa stake of the Church of Jesus 
 Christ of Latter-day Saints, is held in high es- 
 teem and possesses the confidence of his peo- 
 ple to a marked degree. One of the pioneers 
 of the Salt River valley, he has contributed 
 much to its development, earnestly aiding in 
 every enterprise calculated to benefit his com- 
 munity. 
 
 The birth of Bishop Sorenson took place in 
 Denmark, February i6, 1859. Mis parents, 
 IMads and Kirstin Sorenson, also natives of Den- 
 mark, removed to Utah many years ago, where 
 tile father died and the mother still resides. 
 When he was twelve years old our subject ac- 
 companied an uncle to Salt Lake county, Utah, 
 and not long afterwards his parents made the 
 same long journey. l*'rom his early vouth he has 
 been a very hard-working man, and until he was 
 seventeen he gave his earnings to his father. 
 P'or a number of years he was employed at log- 
 ging, and even after coming to Arizona he was 
 similarly occupied for six summer seasons in 
 succession. Thus working in the vicinity of 
 Clobe, he haule<l most of the timber from 
 which the Pioneer Mill at Pioneer. Ariz., was 
 constructed. L'ntil 18Q4, when he came to Lehi 
 ward, he made his home in the neighborhood of 
 ]\Iesa. and in b(ith localities has been an influ- 
 ential factor in the great work oi transforming 
 the desert into a productive land. 
 
 His general efficiency and zeal for the prog- 
 ress of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter- 
 day Saints, with which he has been identified 
 since boyhood, led the chin-ch authorities to 
 choose Mr. Sorenson to discharge an ecclesi- 
 astical mission in Europe in 1801. He remained 
 abroad for over two years, and u[)on his return 
 to the United States visited the Columbian Ex- 
 ])osition in Chica.go. Though he neglects no 
 ])art of iiis labors as a bishop of this precinct, he 
 carries on the cultivation of his forty-eight-acrc 
 rancli, and is rcaiiiug excellent harvests each sca- 
 
 S7 
 
 son. He also is a successful cattle raiser, and 
 liis industry and energy in everything which he 
 undertakes is an example to his associates, well 
 worthy of emulation. 
 
 I"or a wife Dishop Sorenson chose Margaret 
 A. Macdonald, a native of Provo, Utah, daugh- 
 ter of A. F. Macdonald, now a resident of the 
 state of Cliihuahua, Mexico, but formerly a lead- 
 ing citizen of Mesa, and the first president of the 
 Maricopa stake of the church to which our sub- 
 ject belongs. The latter has four children, name- 
 ly: Joseph .\., Soren \V., Maud, and Charles 
 Irvin, all of whom are receiving good educational 
 advantages. 
 
 W. S. PRATT. 
 
 The iiassenger and freight agent of the Santa 
 l"e, Prescott & Phoenix Railroad at Prescott 
 is unc|uestional)!y one of the most popular em- 
 ployes of the company. Indeed, it is a pleasure 
 to have dealings with him. and all of his asso- 
 ciates speak of him in flattering terms. At the 
 same time, he is thoroughly business-like, active 
 and energetic, and devoted to the best interests 
 of the public, as well as to those of his com- 
 pany. 
 
 The Pratt family is an old and respected one 
 in Connecticut, and both W. S. and William J. 
 Pratt, his father, are natives of New Haven. 
 The mother, also, was born in that beautifid 
 city, and her entire life was spent in Comiect- 
 icut. She bore tlie maiden name of Charlotte 
 Kimball, l-'our of the si.x children of this ster- 
 ling couple grew to maturity and one has since 
 ])assed away. 
 
 The birth of W. S. Pratt took place August 
 JS. i84(; and his boyhood and youth were spent 
 in .\'ew Haven. .After completing his common- 
 school course he attended Sheffield Scientific 
 .\cademy, the department of Yale College de- 
 voted s])ecially to the sciences. He was grad- 
 uated in 1874. and then began to prepare him- 
 self as a civil engineer in \ew Haven. Having 
 spent two years in that work, he went to Salt 
 Lake City, l^tah, and soon was offered a i)osi- 
 tion as an office clerk at Sandy, Utah, with the 
 I'lagstafif Mining Company. Subsequently, he 
 was employed by Mather & Geist Smelting 
 Company, and continued with them there mitil
 
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 1878, when the\ removed to Pueblo, Colo., and 
 he then also changed his residence, remaining 
 in their emplo> until 1881, when he resigned. 
 Then going to Socorro, X. M., he held a posi- 
 tion as mineral and mining surveyor for two 
 years. 
 
 Since 1883 Mr. Pratt has been engaged in 
 railroading, first at Socorro with the Santa Fe, 
 in the freight department, and in 188" as chief 
 clerk to the freight agent at Deming. X. M. 
 Soon afterward he was made agent at Rincon, 
 XT. M., and a few months later was installed as 
 agent at Deming, where he officiated until 1892. 
 Resigning, he then became connected with an 
 extract company, to which concern he devoted 
 about three years. In February, 1895. he re- 
 turned to railroading, and since that time has 
 been with the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix 
 line. At first he was chief clerk with the ad- 
 vance agent at Marinette, then was located in 
 Glendale and in March, 1895, was sent to Phoe- 
 nix. Since April i, of the same year, he has 
 been in Prescott, being chief clerk of the freight 
 and passenger agent here until August i, 1895, 
 when he was promoted to the office of the 
 agent. His companies have found him a thor- 
 oughly reliable official, and he spares no effort 
 in the advancemejit of their interests. 
 
 At Deming, N. M., Mr. Pratt was initiated 
 into the Masonic order. In political matters, he 
 favors the policy of the Republican party. An 
 Episcopalian in religious faith, he is connected 
 with the Prescott Church membership and is 
 one of the officials. In Socorro, N. M., the mar- 
 riage of Mr. Pratt and Miss Mary E. Rodgers 
 was solemnized. They have three promising 
 children. Mrs. Pratt was born in Bellefonte, 
 Pa., and is a lady of liberal education and social 
 attainments. 
 
 HON. M. A. SMITH. 
 
 The bar of Arizona is ably represented by 
 Hon. M. A. Smith, who, as a general practi- 
 tioner, and a legislator of more than ordinary 
 erudition and devotion to the general welfare, 
 has established a reputation of which any one 
 should be proud. The members of this particu- 
 lar Smith family are the scions of an old and 
 distinguished \'irginia branch, who were promi- 
 
 nently identified with the aristocratic life of that 
 state. The gre.at-great-grandfather was born in 
 Culpeper, \'a., and in time became a pioneer of 
 Harrison county, Ky. He traced his ancestry 
 back to Raleigh Chinn, who married the oldest 
 daughter of Colonel Ball, Augustin Washington 
 having married the youngest daughter. The 
 Chinn family ancestors came from Maxwelton, 
 Scotland. The grandfather, John, a native of 
 Kentuckv, was a farmer and merchant, and 
 served as high sheriff of Harrison county. 
 
 The father of Hon. M. .\. Smith, Frederick C, 
 was born in Kentucky, and was a farmer and 
 stockman in the heart of the blue grass region, 
 his farm being the one formerly granted 
 to the great-grandfather liy Henry Polk. 
 He was a strong Union man and lived to be 
 seventy-three years of age. His wife, formerly 
 Agnes (Ball) Chinn. was born in Kentucky, 
 a daughter of John Chinn, also a descendant of 
 Raleigh Chinn, of Scotland. The great-grand- 
 father, Charles, was born in Virginia. Mrs. 
 Smith died in 1886. Her oldest brother, Rich- 
 ard, known as "Dick" Chinn, was for years a 
 partner of Henry Clay, and was one of the 
 great lawyers of the south. To Mr. and Mrs. 
 Smith were born seven sons, six of whom grew 
 to manhood. John died after taking the first 
 honors upon graduating at Georgetown, Ky., 
 when but twenty-one years of age; Samuel M. 
 married a sister of General Withers, a Wall 
 street broker, and died soon after removing to 
 X'^ew York in 1895: Frank Ball is living on the 
 old homestead; Dr. Higgins Chinn resides near 
 Cvnthiana, Ky.. and is a prominent politician 
 and stockman; Marcus -V. lives in Tucson; and 
 James G. is sergeant-at-arms of the supreme 
 court of Kentucky. 
 
 Hon. Marcus A. Smith was born near Cynthi- 
 ana,Ky., January 24, 1852. His education was de- 
 rived at a private school, where he was prepared 
 for college, and in 1868 entered the Transylvania 
 University, from which he was graduated in 
 1872 with the degree of .\. V>. He then entered 
 the law department of the same university and 
 was graduated in 1876, taking the fir.sl honors of 
 the class. Until 1879 he practiced law at Lex- 
 ington, Ky., and while there was prosecuting 
 attorncv for two years. In 1S79 he went to 
 ."^an I'ranciscn, and practiced his profession until
 
 PORTRAIT AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 9R1 
 
 (8??o, when he located in Tombstone. .\riz. In 
 partnership with Benjamin doodrich. now of Los 
 .\ngeles, he entered upon a t):cncral practice of 
 law, and in 1882 was elected district attorney 
 for one term. Under his strict enforcement of 
 the laws of the state during the tw^o years (jf 
 his service five men guilty of murder were 
 hung. L'pon resuming :i private practice, Mr. 
 Smith steadily gained in the confidence of the 
 community, and was employed on some of the 
 most important cases that came \\\i for adjust- 
 ment, many of them being connected with the 
 mining companies. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. .'^mith was nominated on the 
 Democratic ticket as delegate to congress, and 
 was elected by a majority of eighteen hundred 
 votes over Col. C. C. Bean, then the delegate 
 to congress. In 1888 he was elected to the 
 fifty-first congress, and in 1890 and 1802 he was 
 again elected, and in 1894 declined the nomi- 
 nation to the fifty-fourth congress. In i8</> 
 he was again nominated and elected over 
 "Buckie" O'Neill, Populist, and A. J. Doran, 
 Republican, and in 1898 refusetl the nomination 
 to the fifty-sixth congress. In ujro he was 
 again nominated land elected by a majority of 
 eleven hundred votes, in spite of a division in 
 the convention. \Miile in congress Mr. Smith 
 made one of the best records, or, rather, series 
 of records of any Democratic representative in 
 the west. He supplied a vigorous protest 
 against the Mexican land grants, and defeated 
 the Reaves Perallo land grant, thus saving mil- 
 lions of acres for the territory. He established 
 the fourth judicial district, also made Arizona a 
 separate port of entry, and secured the first ap- 
 propriation ever obtained for the reclamation of 
 the arid lands of the desert. He forced the 
 government to stand the expense of imprison- 
 ment and trial of all Indians arrested on the 
 reservations, and reduced the San Carlos reser- 
 vation, cutting out the McMillan mining district. 
 To protect the town of Yuma from storms and 
 floods, he secured the erection of the levee at 
 that place and secured a donation of one tliou- 
 sand acres as a farm in connection with the 
 state penitentiary at Yuma. -Scores of other 
 measures were passed by this enthusiastic advo- 
 cate of the wonderful resources of the terri- 
 tory, and to him, more than to any other, is due 
 
 some of the greatest forward movements for 
 the advancement of Arizona. In the effort to 
 secure statehood for the territory he was the 
 only reiMCsentative that ever succeeded in pass- 
 ing the statehood bill through the house two 
 times; on one of these occasions, under sus- 
 pension of the rules, it went through with .-i 
 two-thirds majority, but was not allowed to 
 come to a vote on account of the persistent op- 
 position of Senator Piatt. 
 
 After his retirement from the senate, Mr. 
 Smith engaged in the practice of law in Tuc- 
 son and has also been extensively interested in 
 mining, owning properties in both Arizona and 
 Sonora, Mexico. Pie is fraternally a Mason, and 
 is associated with the order and club of the 
 lienevolent Protective Order of Elks. Senator 
 -Smith was married in Tucson to Elizabeth Rath- 
 bone, a nati\e of California, and who died in 
 1899. Mrs. -Smith was a daughter of Erskine 
 Rj'.thbone, a native of Kentuckv. 
 
 HENRY H. TIFFT. 
 
 There is no man in Solomonville to whom 
 nv.ire credit is due for the substantial position 
 which he occupies in the community, and for 
 the competence which has followed in the wake 
 of his unceasing toil and strict attention to busi- 
 ness, than the genial blacksmith, machinist and 
 wagon-maker. Henry H. TiiTt. 
 
 The early life, efforts, surroundings and in- 
 fluences which mould the character and future 
 (jf her citizens are of interest to the large- 
 hearted residents of Solomonville; the more so 
 when they have overcome many obstacles in 
 their search for a home and position. Mr. Tifft 
 was born in Tennessee in 1851, and is a -son 
 of D. and Sarah (Brimer) Tifft, the former a 
 native of Scotland, and one of the first settlers 
 of Tennessee. The father removed to Rens- 
 selaer county, N. Y., when his son was about six 
 years of age. and here the youth received the 
 training and education in the public schools 
 which fitted him for the future requirements of 
 life. As a means of independence he served an 
 apprenticeship of seven years at Providence, R. 
 I., and learned the trade of machinist and forger. 
 .\t the expiration of that time he secured a posi-
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tion as machine forger with the Indianapohs 
 Railroad Company, in whose employ he re- 
 mained for three years. He then removed to 
 Omaha, Neb., and was there master machinist 
 for the Union Pacific Railroad in the black- 
 smith department for four years. 
 
 During the Civil war Mr. Tifft enlisted in 
 1864 in the Twenty-third Nebraska Infantry at 
 Omaha, and served for five years .as govern- 
 ment blacksmith. A part of this time he was de- 
 tailed at Fort Leavenworth, and was then sent 
 to other forts, and was duly discharged when 
 his labors were completed. Following a long 
 cherished inclination he went to Colorado, and 
 at Leadville worked for the Evening Star Min- 
 ing Company for nineteen months as master 
 blacksmith, and then went to New Mexico, 
 where he was identified with the Humboldt 
 Mining Company in the same capacity. Twelve 
 years ago next January he came to Solomon- 
 ville, and at the time but a few houses and 
 families were here to build up the present pros- 
 perity. At the time he had no capital save 
 willing hands and a large heart that went out in 
 sympathy and longing to a sick wife and child 
 whom he desired to place above want, and give 
 every comfort and convenience. In order to 
 start in business he entailed an indebtedness of 
 $180, which seemed a small amount to repay 
 when once the little blacksmith shop was in 
 running order. For so successful was he from 
 the start, and so persistent have been his efforts 
 at success, that he is out of debt, has bought 
 himself and family a little home, with two and 
 two-thirds acres of land, and now has the con- 
 sciousness of having done the best he could in 
 the shortest possible time. He is at present 
 building a shop of his own on a lot purchased 
 for the purpose, and intends to occupy it in the 
 near future. On the home place one acre of the 
 ground is converted into a reservoir for fish. 
 
 With the instinct which animates all true mas- 
 ter mechanics Mr. Tifift is interested in continual 
 advancement along the lines of his chosen work, 
 and is possessed of the ability of the inventor 
 to a large degree. He is now working on a 
 ■new hay press which will soon be patented, 
 and which will work a decided reform in this 
 connection, 'ihc capacity of the press will be 
 sixtv tons an linnr. or one ton a minute, thus 
 
 doing better and more rapid work than any ma- 
 chine of the kind now on the market. 
 
 In 1886 Mr. Tiiift married Mary Adams, of 
 Beeville, Tex., and of this union there are four 
 children: Clara A. T., wdio is tw-elve years of 
 age; William L., who is ten; Lena, who is aged 
 eight; and Anna, who is five. In politics Mr. 
 Tifft is a stanch. Republican, and has served as 
 marshal of Solomonville, and as deputy county 
 sheriff. He is variously interested in the afifairs 
 of the town, and can be depended upon to lend 
 the aid of his purse and counsel to every worthy 
 and advancing enterprise. He has built up a 
 creditable and increasing business, and has made 
 many friends, who appreciate his strong and 
 manly personality, and unquestionable business 
 integrity. 
 
 JUDGE JOSEPH CAMPBELL. 
 
 The science of law has an able exponent in 
 Judge Joseph Campbell, who was born in San 
 Francisco, June 17, 1857. The ancestry of the 
 Campbell family is Scotch, and the paternal 
 grandfather, Philip, was born in Pennsylvania, 
 in which state his ancestors had settled upon 
 coming to America. The father of Judge 
 Campbell, also called Philip, was born in Phila- 
 delphia, and when a young man undertook the 
 long journey to California, via the Isthmus of 
 Panama. In 1850 he located in San Francisco, 
 where he engaged as a builder and contractor 
 until his death. He was a Knight Templar, 
 and became prominent in the affairs of the city. 
 In San Francisco he was united in marriage 
 W'ith Mary Henderson, a native of New York 
 City, who died in San Francisco. Mrs. Camp- 
 bell became the mother of eight children, of 
 whom Joseph is the oHest. 
 
 Judge Campbell passed his youth in San 
 I'Vancisco, and was educated in the public 
 schools, and graduated from the high school 
 in 1872. In 1874 lie removed to Santa Rosa, 
 Sonoma county, and lived with his father on a 
 farm, and in 1876 began the study of law with 
 Judge Temple, of Santa Rosa, .\fter being ad- 
 mitted to the bar. he located in .San Francisco 
 in 1879, and in 1880 tools up his residence \u 
 Phoenix, which has since been his home. In 
 addition to the general practice of law, Judge
 
 \J/7^fd£^L^C.-^.^ux.yu.'
 
 PORTKAir AXiJ P.IOGRAPHICAI. RECORD. 
 
 985 
 
 Campbell is attorney for the National Bank 
 of Arizona, and for the Utah Irrigating Com- 
 pany. In 1884 he was elected probate judge 
 on the Democratic ticket, and re-elected in 1886, 
 serving from January of 1885 until January "i 
 1889. In addition he has received extended recog- 
 nition of his ability from various sources, and 
 has been city recorder for four terms. He was 
 also district attorney for one term, and assistant 
 district attorney ior the same length of time. 
 I'or two terms he Iield the highest local office 
 in the gift of the people of his city, and credit- 
 ably served as mayor for two terms. 
 
 In Los Angeles, Cal., Judge Campbell was 
 united in marriage with Ida M. Stewart, who 
 was born in Missouri. .\s a Democrat Judge 
 Campbell has rendered signal service to his 
 party, and has been a member of several county 
 and territorial committees. He served as United 
 States commissioner for one term. He is a 
 member of the Territorial lj.ar association, and 
 is fraternally associated with the Ancient CJrder 
 of United Workmen. He is recognized as one 
 of the n:ost sidjstantial and erudite members 
 of the bar in Phoenix, ancl is personally ex- 
 tremely popular with all who are privileged to 
 know him. Since coming to Phoenix he has 
 seen great changes and has himself been instru- 
 mental in bringing about much of the growth 
 and development which have astonished other 
 sections of the countrv. 
 
 HON. HARRY BUEHMAN. 
 
 One of the pioneer business men of Tucson 
 is this leading photographer, whose fame has 
 extended outside of the limits of .Arizona, ow'ing 
 to the originality and superiority of his work. 
 Coming here in July, 1873, he struggled along 
 with the struggling town, and as her prosperity 
 increased gradually progressed toward a posi- 
 tion of affluence. He has had an abiding faith 
 in this town and territory from the time he first 
 beheld it, and has done everything within his 
 power to hasten civilization in what has been 
 looked upon, until recently, as one of the hope- 
 less wilds of this republic. His value as a citi- 
 zen of Tucson was recognized in a fitting manner 
 in the fall of 1894. when he was elected to the 
 office of mayor, and in tiiat capacity he served 
 
 mosi acceptably for two terms, nr four years, 
 from January. 1895, to January, 1899. Prior to 
 this, however, he had been honored by public 
 preference, as he was elected and served for one 
 term as public administrator of Pima county, 
 was county assessor for one term and was sec- 
 retary of the board of school trustees of Tucson. 
 
 Born in Bremen, Germany, May 14, 1851, 
 Harry Buehman is a son of Ludwig and Annie 
 tjansen) Buehman, who passed their entire lives 
 in ihe fatherland. By occupation Ludwig 
 Buehman was a cabinet maker. Of his eleven 
 children eight grew to maturity, and two are 
 now in .America. One son, Gustav, enlisted in 
 defense of the L'nion during the Civil war, was 
 on a man-of-war in the navy, and was never 
 heard from after the vessel went out to sea, 
 though it is believed that he died battling for the 
 United States. 
 
 Harry Buehman was educated in the public 
 schools of Bremen, and at fourteen was appren- 
 ticed to a photographer. At the end of two and 
 a half years of serious application, in the spring 
 of 1868, the young man sailed for New York- 
 City, there took passage in a steamer bound for 
 the Isthmus of Panama, and thence proceeded 
 to San Francisco. For a year thereafter he was 
 employed by the old and noted firm of Bradley 
 & Rulofson, and then embarked in business on 
 his own account in Visalia, Cal. After spend- 
 ing two years there he became a traveling 
 photographer, traversing California, Nevada and 
 Utah, thence he came into Arizona by the old 
 Butterfield trail, crossing the Colorado at 
 Stone's Ferry. Going direct to Prescott, he 
 spent one week there, and then left his outfit 
 with his partner, while he came south, his inten- 
 tion being to go into iVIexico. However, arriv- 
 ing in Tucson in July (1873) ^^^ remained, and 
 for six months was in the employ of Juan Rod- 
 rigues, a Mexican photographer. Then, buying 
 him out, Mr. Buehman continued the business 
 which has steadily grown in importance. In 
 1881 he built the substantial two-story building 
 on Congress street, where he occupies the sec- 
 ond floor. He has neglected no means of im- 
 proving his system, and is a real artist. 
 Thoroughly enjoying his work, he has made 
 long trips to various points of beauty and inter- 
 est in the southwest, and has a splendid codec-
 
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 'OKTRAl r AXD BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tion of photographs as a rc-sult. Among thciii 
 are photographs of the different types of Arizona 
 Indians, for he has made a special study of 
 them, spending weeks at a time among them. 
 His collection of photos of leading men of 
 Arizona, including all of the governors and sec- 
 retaries, may be seen in the quarters of the 
 capitol building. Besides he has made photos 
 of General Miles, John C. Fremont, and many 
 other distinguished statesmen and military 
 characters, keeping negatives of all. His copy- 
 righted picture, "Buehman's Babies," comprising 
 two thousand five hundred and fifty-one baby 
 faces, is celebrated the world over, and has been 
 pronounced by his professional brethren the 
 "Photo Journal,"' the Arizona "Bonanza" and 
 other competent judges as one of the largest 
 and finest specimens of photography e.xtant. In 
 connection with his work he carries a full line 
 of photographer's supplies, wholesale and retail, 
 has picture frames and mouldings, kodaks and 
 cameras. 
 
 From 1882 to 1896 "Sir. Buehman was inter- 
 ested in the cattle Inisiness, owning a ranch 
 situated on the eastern slope of the Santa Cata- 
 lina mountains, and five years ago sold out. For 
 many years he has had investments in mining 
 property. He is a trustee and vice-president of 
 the Tucson Building & Loan Association, and 
 owns considerable residence property here. 
 While he was mayor he agitated the question 
 of street improvement and sidewalks, and 
 started the movement which resulted in the 
 city's purchasing of the waterworks. He was 
 initiated into Alasonry in Arizona and now be- 
 longs to Tucson Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M. A 
 charter member of the .\rizona Lodge No. 1, 
 A. O. U. W., he has the honor of being the 
 oldest living past master of the order in this 
 territory. Politically a Republican of truest 
 blue, he has served on the county central com- 
 mittee. In religion a Congregationalist, he is 
 a deacon and trustee of the Tucson Church. 
 
 For a bride Mr. Buehman went to Portland, 
 Mich., the lady of his choice being Miss Estella 
 Morehouse, a native of that state. She is a lady 
 uf fine educational attainments, and prior to her 
 marriage was engaged in kindergarten work in 
 Tucson, being a pioneer in that field in this ter- 
 ritory. Mr. and Mrs. Buehman have two sons. 
 
 namely ; Willis, a graduate of Tucson higli- 
 school and for one term a student in the Arizona 
 University, and Albert, a student of the Arizona 
 L'niversity. 
 
 Having the good of the public deeply at heart, 
 Mrs. Buehman, aided by other ladies, inaugu- 
 rated the "Reading and Recreation Rooms of 
 Tucson,'' now a flourishing concern. For two 
 years it struggled along, only a few dollars hav- 
 ing been contributed for the purpose, and then 
 the ladies gave an ice cream social, whose pro- 
 ceeds netted $80, and on election days dinners 
 have been served. Thus the public has become 
 interested in the matter, and in February, 1900, 
 rooms were rented on the corner of Church and 
 Pennington streets. Today four large, attrac- 
 tive rooms are fitted up, the leading periodicals 
 and other reading matter being on file, while in 
 contemplation are a gymnasium and bathrooms 
 and a bowling alley. Mrs. Buehman, to whose 
 efforts a large share of this truly splendid work 
 is indebted, has just been re-elected as presi- 
 dent of the association, she having ofiiciated as 
 such for the past two years, wresting success 
 from what appeared to be defeat for a long time. 
 
 JOHN S. MERRILL. 
 
 One of the most interesting of the pioneers 
 who have helped to develop the San Pedro Rivcr 
 valley is Mr. Merrill, who came here when white 
 faces were a rarity, and when, between the gov- 
 ernment station kept by William Ohnesorgen, 
 and the wild Mexican border on the south, there 
 was none save Indians and Mexicans. The pale- 
 face was as yet timid of a residence among these 
 lawless and treacherous Apaches, and was also 
 unaware of the latent resources of the soil. The 
 father of Mr. Merrill became familiar with the 
 locality when it was considered one of the most 
 worthless and danger-infested regions in the 
 west. He was a native of Ohio, and was born 
 in 1820. At Council Blufifs, Iowa, he became a 
 member of the Mormon Battalion, and served in 
 the Mexican war, crossing the plains through 
 this county in 1847 on the way to California. 
 His impression of the country must have been a 
 favorable one from some standpoint, for in 1877 
 he left his home in Utah, and located where this 
 settlement now stands. He was the first white
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 man liere, and with liini were eight families from 
 Idaho and Utah, many of whose members are 
 still here, although their leader settled in Gra- 
 ham county in 1893. F. C. Merrill and his wife, 
 Mary Jane (Smith) Merrill, were the prime 
 movers in the early development of the land and 
 church affairs, and he is remembered for his 
 dogged perserverance, and unbounded faith in a 
 seemingly dreary promise of success. 
 
 John S. Merrill was born in Salt Lake City, 
 .March 5, 1853, and came to the San Pedro val- 
 ley in 1878, his father having located here in 
 1877. 
 
 He at once entered into the efforts of the 
 settlement to redeem the land, and began to 
 dig a canal. In time he became the possessor 
 of one hundred and sixty acres of land, half of 
 which he has since given to his son. He raises 
 large quantities of alfalfa, which averages one 
 and a half tons to the acre, and sells for $12 per 
 ton, and the crops are cut four times a year. Mr. 
 Merrill predicts that in five years the whole val- 
 ley will be irrigated, artesian water having been 
 found in abundance, and there being in all from 
 fifty to sixty wells in the valley. He has three 
 on his home ranch, with an outpour of forty 
 gallons a minute for each. The canals which 
 have been dug at such an expenditure of time 
 and money will soon be relegated to past and 
 unsatisfactory means of irrigation, and the 
 people of the valley will have an advantage over 
 the settlers of the other portions of the territory 
 in the possession of their artesian wells. The 
 farm of Mr. Merrill has a fine residence and 
 equally fine outbuildings, and is modern in every 
 sense of the word, and unsurpassed for location, 
 the postoffice of St. David being only eighty 
 rods distant. 
 
 At Soda Springs, Idaho, in 1871, Mr. Merrill 
 married Rebecca Weaver, a daughter of Miles 
 Weaver, also a member of the Mormon Bat- 
 talion that passed through Cochise county in 
 1847. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Merrill all but one are living, namely: Mary 
 Jane, wife of Walter Fife: Sarah, wifeof A. H. 
 Norcross; John S. Jr., Miles, Byron, Grant, 
 Norah, Pearl and Parley (twins), Helen and 
 Wilford. In his capacity as pioneer Mr. Merrill 
 has undergone many experiences of an exciting 
 nature, and as deputy sheriff of the county 
 
 covering a period of twenty years he has iiad to 
 deal with some of the worst frontier characters 
 in the territory. In the very early days he fol- 
 lowed some bandits to the Mexican border and 
 to Magdalene, Sonora. Ixlexico, and recovered 
 nine horses by paying a ransom amounting to 
 almost as much as they cost originally. He is 
 a Democrat in politics, and has been active in 
 local and territorial affairs. In religion he is a 
 member of the Mormon church, and is first coun- 
 sel to Bishop P. A. Lofgseen of St. David Ward. 
 
 W. T. WEBB. 
 
 A leading position among the business men 
 of Pima is held by Mr. W'ebb, w4io, as pro- 
 prietor of a general mercantile store and as a 
 contributor to other local industries has proved 
 himself to be one of the tow'n's most progres- 
 sive citizens. His property interests are varied 
 and important, and include the building in which 
 he transacts business, also the most substantial 
 brick residence in the town, besides several 
 town lots and a valuable farm of ninety acres. 
 
 A son of Gilbert and Almira Webb, natives 
 respectively of Ohio and Michigan, W. T. Webb 
 was born in Salt Lake City. Utah, in 1864, and 
 he now owns the old homestead (built by his 
 grandfather), where he was born, situated at 
 No. 452 East Third street South. His education 
 was primarily conducted in local schools and 
 completed at the University of Deseret at Salt 
 Lake City. His first knowledge of Arizona was 
 derived from a visit to Tombstone in 1881. 
 After a short sojourn there, he proceeded to 
 New Mexico and w^as employed on the Atlantic 
 & Pacific Railway construction. His identifica- 
 tion with the town of Pima, Ariz., dates from 
 1883, when he settled here and became a silent 
 partner, with his father, in a general mercantile 
 and hardware business. On selling out, in 1887, 
 he turned his attention to the stock business, 
 in which he continued, with fair success, for four 
 years. 
 
 Returning to the pursuits of commercial life. 
 Mr. Webb embarked in the general mercantile 
 business, on a very small scale, as an indepen- 
 dent venture. From the first his business meth- 
 ods were such as to commend him to the people. 
 By degrees his trade increased, and he was jus-
 
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 f'()K^I^\lT AX]3 UIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tified ill the erection nf a lirick Ijuildiiig espec- 
 ially adapted for business purposes. In 1898 
 he built a structure, 32x66, with two stories 
 and basement, the second story being utilized as 
 a hall. On the first floor he has his store, which 
 is stocked with articles adapted to this region, 
 as well as the necessities of existence. In all 
 of his ventures he has h.ad the benefit of the 
 counsel of his father, who though now ninety - 
 four years of age, retains to an unusual degree 
 the possession of his faculties, and is interested 
 deeply in all that pertain.s to his son's prosper- 
 ity. It is a noteworthy fact that this vener- 
 alile man is about the same age -as Joseph Smith 
 and he and his wife were the first couple ever 
 married by the founder df the Mormon Church. 
 
 The prominence of Air. Webb in the Demo- 
 cratic party makes him one of its local leaders. 
 Elected by his fellow-citizens to the office of 
 mayor, he filled this responsible position for 
 two terms, to the satisfaction of all who are 
 interested in the maintenance of good govern- 
 ment and the promotion of the local welfare. 
 His interest in the town is further attested by 
 his acceptance of the position of president of 
 the Young Alen's Improvement Association at 
 Pima. In the stake of tiie Mormon Church he 
 officiated as the jjrcsident of the first corps of 
 elders. One of his recreations is found in his 
 connection with the Pima Drama and Comedy 
 Company, composed entirely of home talent, 
 with Mr. Webb as business manager, and it is a 
 matter of pride with liim that the company has 
 the reputation of being the best in the Gila val- 
 ley. 
 
 In 1887 Air. Webb married Sarah Burns, 
 daughter of Enoch and Elizabeth Burns, of 
 Pima. 
 
 CHARLES WINTER WOODS, AI. D. 
 
 Few men in Arizona have more thoroughly 
 prepared themselves to meet any and all emer- 
 gencies that may arise in the course of a medical 
 and surgical career than has Dr. Woods, the 
 superintendent of the L'nited \'erde Copper 
 Company's hospital at Jerome. The earliest 
 associations of Dr. Woods were centered in 
 Xew Orleans, La., where he was born in 1853. 
 The greater part of his education was acquired 
 
 in Xashville, Tcnn., and later he studied medi- 
 cine at the Eclectic College of Xew York City. 
 Subsequent training was recei\ed through post- 
 graduate courses in Boston University and the 
 Alassachusetts General Hospital, and in 1882 he 
 pursued his investigations in Europe, particu- 
 larl_\- in London, where he studied the methods 
 adopted in the hospitals of St. Thomas, Guy 
 and St. Bartholomew. For a time also he was 
 in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in 1883, cross- 
 ing over to the continent, spent six months in 
 Paris. 
 
 I'pon returning to .\;nerica. Dr. Woods im- 
 mediately sought the larger possibilities of the 
 far west. For a time he was surgeon and phys- 
 ician for the Oregon Short Line, with head- 
 cpiarters in Cjlenn's Ferry. Idaho. In 1884 he 
 returned to Xew York and took a special course 
 in diseases of the eye. ear. nose and throat, at 
 the Post-Graduate College. The following year 
 he again located in the west, where for five 
 years he acted in the capacity of physician and 
 surgeon to the Louisville Gold Alining Com- 
 pany in Oregon. In 1890 he took another 
 course of study in the Post-Graduate College in 
 Xew York City. 
 
 The Doctor's connection with Arizona dates 
 from 1891, when he came to the Big Bug mine 
 near Prcscott and united general practice with 
 mining. He was the original owner of the Blue 
 Bell and Blue Coat mines, which he sold to 
 Airs. Haggard for $10,000. June 15, 1893, he 
 came to Jerome as physician and surgeon for 
 the United X'erde Copper Company. In addi- 
 tion, he has built up a large general practice 
 covering a radius of many miles. For his hos- 
 pital work the services of two assistants and 
 three nurses are required, and about nine hun- 
 dred men are treated here every month. He is 
 also physician for the A'erde Queen mine, the 
 Little Daisy mine, the Brookshire, Black Hill. 
 Iron King and several others, his district in- 
 cluding patients to the number of two thousantl. 
 Besides this work, he is physician for the A'erde 
 & Pacific Railroad Company, chief examiner 
 for the Xew York Equitable Insurance Com- 
 ])any, examiner for the Knights of Pythias, and 
 member of the Territorial Board of Aledical 
 Examiners. 
 
 Dr. Woods is personally interested in many
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 989 
 
 payiiii; and iiupurtaiU I'nining properties, own- 
 ing seven sliares in the Eclipse group, a half 
 interest in the Knapp group of seven claims, a 
 large interest in the N'erde Mining and Smelting 
 Company, and the Jerome Mining and Smelting 
 (\ini])any. 01 wliich latter concern he is vice- 
 president. 1-ralernally he is associated with 
 Jerome Lodge .\(j. 17, I. ().(). !■".. the Knights 
 of Pythias, and Lodge Xo. 330. li. I'. ( ). I-"., 
 
 1K1-: WII.LIAMSOX. 
 
 .\lthougli jusl in the prime of manhood the 
 ^uhject of this article is. ne\ertheless. one of the 
 early pioneers of the Gila valley, and has wit- 
 nessed almost the entire development of this 
 section. During the first \ears of his residence 
 here the utmost jirecaution was necessary, lest 
 the Indians, so hostile to the white race, should 
 gain the ascendency, and for a long period it 
 could be truthfully said of the daring settler 
 that his head rested as luieasily upon his pillow, 
 ofttimes, as ever did the crowned head referred 
 to in the old saying. However, the family to 
 whicli Mr. Williamson belonged resided so near 
 to l-'ort Thomas for several years that a certain 
 feeling of security was indulged in, and thus they 
 were more fortunate than most of their neighbors. 
 
 Corn in Calaveras county, Cal.. in i860, Ike 
 Williamson passed sixteen years of his life in 
 that state, laying the foimdations of his future 
 success by his thorouglBsess in his school work. 
 In the Centennial year .ft€" came to Arizona with 
 his parents and settled in the valley of the Gila 
 river, on the site of the present town of Saf¥ord. 
 Only six white families were living in this valley 
 at that time, and but slight improvements had 
 been instituted here. For two years the young 
 man devoted his attention exclusively to the 
 cultivation of th.e homestead, and at the end of 
 that time he and his father went into the busi- 
 ness of raising cattle. The latter departed this 
 life at W'illcox in 1894 and the mother now lives 
 in California. Our subject has continued to 
 raise and deal in cattle, and now (jwns between 
 seven and eight hundred head. lie is the pos- 
 sessor of a finely irrigated tract of land, some 
 thirty acres in extent, and doubly valuable as it 
 adjoins Solomonville. By well applied energy 
 and upright business methods he has become 
 
 wealthy and inthienli.al in this connmmit) . and is 
 entitled to the respect which is freelv accorded 
 him. 
 
 In iXgS .\lr. \\ illiamson married Miss lunma 
 .Mdler. of Tennessee. They now own and oc- 
 cupy a pretty modern brick cottage, which was 
 built in Solomonville tuuler their direction in 
 the smnmer of 1900. Its wide veranda and 
 light, airy rooms and many other features ren- 
 der it a very desirable home, one which would 
 be a credit to any eastern town. Politically Mr. 
 Williamson is a stalwart Repuljlican. He is a 
 Knight of Pythias, being a charter member of 
 Solomonville lodge. 
 
 C. A. GREENLAW. 
 
 C. A. Greenlaw, senior member of the firm 
 of (irecnlaw Brothers, lumber merchants at 
 I-lagstafT, was born at St. Stephens, New Bruns- 
 wick, in 1855. A very few years later his par- 
 ents removed to Maine, and in the vicinity of 
 flaring, in the midst o\ the hunber coimtry, he 
 was reared, and became at a very early age 
 familiar with every detail of the lumber business. 
 He was thus fitted for any emergency that might 
 arise in the future, and it was but natural that, 
 upon removing to Minneapolis, Minn., in 1877, 
 he should turn his attention to the lumber busi- 
 ness, which he continued for three years. He 
 later moved still farther west, and lumbered on 
 the divide in Colorado. 
 
 In 1882 Mr. Greenlaw came to FlagstafT, and 
 was here for six months before the railroad came 
 through. ]'~or several years he was identified 
 with the .Ayer Lumber Company, and in 1886 
 formed a partnership with his brother, K. P., 
 their affairs being conducted under the firm 
 name of Greenlaw Brothers. They became con- 
 tn.ctors for the Arizona Lumber & Timber 
 Company, and their mill has a capacity of sixtv- 
 fivc thousand daily. The timber used is from 
 Clark's valley, where the mill is located, and the 
 patronage accorded to the firm is on a large 
 and gratifying scale. 
 
 -At present Mr. Greenlaw is interested in oil 
 development in California, and is a stockholder 
 in the Flagstaff Oil Company. He is variously 
 interested in the affairs of the bustling little 
 town, owns real estate, and has built a number
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 of residences and store structures. In 1888 he 
 erected one of the finest residences in the town, 
 which is one of the hospitable centers of at- 
 traction, and which is graciously presided over 
 bv Mrs. Greenlaw. To Mr. and Mrs. Greenlaw 
 
 have been born five children, of whom the two 
 youngest are twins. In politics Mr. Greenlaw is 
 a Republican, and has held several local offices, 
 among them being his appointment to the board 
 of supervisors in 1898, for a term of two years.
 
 HISTORICAL. 
 
 The history of Arizona during the remote 
 ages of the past is wrapped within the veil of 
 long-perpetuated traditions. Indeed, concern- 
 ing the origin of the word "Arizona" there exists 
 considerable doubt. There are those who be- 
 lieve it to be derived from "ari" (few or small) 
 and "zoni" (fountain). Others, with etiual facts 
 to substantiate their claims, trace the word to 
 "arida'" (dry) and "zona" (zone). The theory 
 accepted by many is that the word is a corruption 
 of "Arizuma," referring to a queen whom tradi- 
 tion asserts once ruled over the Pima nation. 
 Another version of the origin of the name is the 
 following: Southwest of Tucson eighty-five 
 miles lies Banera, at which point three hundred 
 years ago lived many Indians. Xear by is a 
 small creek, which Indians call .Aleh-Zon (young 
 spring). .\t the head of the creek is a spring, but 
 during the rainy seasons numerous small springs 
 start up, hence the name Aleh-Zon. About one 
 hundred years ago the village was destroyed by 
 the Spaniards, but the name of the creek still 
 lives in the name of the territory itself. 
 
 The earliest residents of Arizona of whom pre- 
 historic ruins offer evidence were the Aztecs or 
 their contemporaries. Of their degree of civili- 
 zation the only proof exists in implements found 
 in the earth and ruins of the mounds they once 
 inhabited. Certainly the fact that they dug im- 
 mense canals and used irrigation as a means 
 of agriculture proves them to possess intelli- 
 gence. The mines of Arizona they worked, thus 
 obtaining precious metals which they used in 
 making charms and ornaments. Their weapons 
 were of stone, while forts and fortifications fur- 
 nished them a means of protection from their 
 enemies. In religion, possibly they were sun- 
 worshipers, and evidences point to their belief 
 in the immortality of the soul, 
 
 After a long era of comparative peace, the .Az- 
 tecs were driven from Arizona by a conquering 
 race, from whom they fled to clifYs and canons, 
 
 finally seeking safet\- in Mexico. This was prob- 
 ably about the twelfth or the thirteenth century. 
 At the time of the first investigations of Arizona, 
 the red men were in sole possession of the soil, 
 the Navajos being in the western part of the ter- 
 ritory; the Alaricopas and Pimas on the Gila and 
 its tributaries; the Vumas on the Colorado, at 
 the mouth of the Gila, and the Papagos on the 
 Santa Cruz. Then, too, there were the fierce 
 and bloodthirsty Apaches, who were not only 
 the terror of early Spanish and American set- 
 tlers, but spread death and destruction among 
 other and less powerful races of Indians. It has 
 been everywhere admitted that they are the most 
 hostile and treacherous race of Indians between 
 the Rio Grande and the Pacific, and the tales 
 of their depredations in .\rizona, if fully told, 
 would be an epitome of murder and torture and 
 sufTering seldom e(|ualed in the world's history. 
 
 E.VRLY EXPLORERS. 
 
 .\bout 1527 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de \'aca and 
 other Spaniards projected an expedition to Flor- 
 ida, but the men became separated and for ten 
 years de \'aca wandered through the interior, 
 finally reaching Mexico. It is supposed that he 
 passed through .\rizona in 1535 and that he was 
 the first white man who ever set foot upon its 
 soil. In 1539 Fathers Marcos de Niza and 
 Honorato, guided by a Moor who had crossed 
 the continent with de \ aca, started from Mexico 
 northward, reaching the Santa Cruz and Gila 
 rivers, where they found Pima Indians. The 
 first expedition uj) the Colorado river was made 
 in 1 540 and consisted of two ships commanded 
 b\- Fernando de .Marcon, whose expedition was 
 made in connection with that of Coronado. The 
 best families of Castile were represented in the 
 party of four hundred, who, under their captain- 
 general, Coronado, governor of New Gallicia, 
 and accompanied by eight hundred Indian sol- 
 diers, started upon a tour of exploration. Arriv- 
 
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 992 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 iiig at Cliichilticak-, they found a desertctl niiii 
 instead of the populous and wealthy city they 
 had hoped to see. Students of history believe 
 that this Chichilticale is identical with the Ca.'-a 
 Grande ruin, one of the most interesting points 
 in the territory to sight-seers. Pressing on from 
 there, they arrived at Ciljola, which they foimd 
 to be a small town with two hundred warriors. 
 Finally, the greater part of Coronado's force re- 
 turned to Mexico, but the remainder, under their 
 leader, continued foi two years to search for a 
 country called Quivira, which they finally found 
 near the headwaters of the Platte and Arkansas 
 rivers. In 1543 they started back to Mexico, 
 returning through Arizona, again visiting Casa 
 Grande and discovering other ruins of the Aztec 
 civilization. 
 
 The meager success attending Coronado's ex- 
 plorations did not inspire other explorers, and 
 as a consequence no further effort was made to 
 investigate Arizona until 1582, when Antonio de 
 Espejo led an expedition toward the north, trav- 
 eling up the Rio Grande for fifteen days and 
 naming the coimtry Nuevo Mexico. On his re- 
 turn he descended the Rio Pecos, arriving in 
 Mexico in 1583. For a century and a half no fur- 
 ther attempts were made to explore the south- 
 west, the people of Europe being convinced that 
 no easily-grasped treasures awaited their cu- 
 pidity there. 
 
 According to the memoirs of hather Bena- 
 vides twenty-seven missions were in existence 
 in what he called New Mexico in 1626, but it is 
 probable that the most of these were in what 
 is now New Mexico, although some were es- 
 tablished among the Pimas, Maricopas and Pa- 
 pagos of Arizona during the middle or latter part 
 of the sixteenth century. In 1680 all of the mis- 
 sions, without a single exception, were de- 
 stroyed by the Indians ; many of the priests were 
 killed and the remainder were forced to flee. 
 However, peace being restored in 1683, the work 
 was resumed, and in 1690 permanent missions 
 were established in Arizona. Four years later 
 the old fort was built at Tucson. The historic 
 mission at San Xavier del Bac and that at Guev- 
 avi, on the Santa Cruz, were established in 1690. 
 The former, built for the padres by the Papago 
 Indians, is still in a good state of preservation 
 and shows a Moorish style of architecture. Upon 
 
 its vestry door is marked the _\ear 1797, but its 
 age is not definitely known. The St. Augustine 
 Church was formerly three miles north of Tuc- 
 son, but on account of its decay, it was moved 
 to the present site of the governor's residence. 
 When Arizona was transferred by Mexico to the 
 L'nited States it had only two villages of Mexi- 
 cans or otIuT whites, these being Tubac and 
 Tucson. 
 
 ACQUI.SITIONT BY THE UXITED STATES. 
 
 Until the war with Mexico, the nineteenth 
 century had little of historical importance in Ari- 
 zona, asitle from an Indian outbreak in 1802, the 
 Mexican revolution in 1822, and the Apache 
 outbreak in 1827. That portion of Arizona lying 
 north of the Gila river was ceded to the United 
 States by Mexico February 2, 1848, by the treaty 
 of Gaudalupe-Hidalgo. The country was then 
 turned over formally to the United States, and 
 the stars and stripes were raised over a region 
 that before had known only the Mexican colors. 
 That part of Arizona lying south of the Gila 
 river was purchased from Mexico by the United 
 States December 30, 1853, the price paid being 
 $10,000,000, w^hile the area comprised was forty 
 thousand square miles. At the time the pur- 
 chase was not considered a good one, but sub- 
 sequent discoveries of gold changed public opin- 
 ion concerning the matter. It is said that in 
 1847 there was not a single American residing 
 in Arizona, and the territory remained a part of 
 New Mexico under the name of Doiia Ana 
 county until 1863. During the interval several 
 efforts had been made to secure its establish- 
 ment as a territory, but political jealousies and 
 the outbreak of the Civil war delayed the mat- 
 ter; although finally the lectures of Mowry upon 
 the resources of Arizona awakened a popular in- 
 terest and eventually secured the passage of the 
 act of organization and separation from New 
 Mexico. 
 
 KSTAIiT.ISIIJIENT OF THE TERUITOKV. 
 
 February 24, 1863 the president approved the 
 act establishing the territory of Arizona. It was 
 provided that congress might at any time change 
 the boundaries of the territory^ and at a later 
 date, February 24, 1866, the boundaries were 
 changed to their present limits by adding to Ne-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 993 
 
 vada the land lyinj,' west of the mouth of the 
 Grand Caiion, and north and west of Pilack 
 Boulder. \'irgin and Iceberg Canons of the Rio 
 Colorado. The capital was first located at Fort 
 Whipple, twenty-two miles north of Prescott. 
 The first civil officers entered upon their duties 
 at Navajo Springs December 29, 1863, and thus 
 was inaugurated the territorial government of 
 Arizona. Soon the capital was removed to Pres- 
 cott. In 1867 it was established at Tucson, but 
 returned to Prescott in January, 1877, and finally 
 was permanently located at Phoenix. John A. 
 Gurley, of Ohio, was first appointed governor, 
 but died before taking possession of his office, 
 and John N. Goodwin, of Maine, was the first 
 to actually fill the position. Associated with him 
 were, as secretary, Richard C. McCormick, of 
 New York; chief justice, William F. Turner, of 
 Iowa; associate justices, William T. Howell, of 
 Michigan, and Joseph P. Allyn, of Connecticut ; 
 district attorney, Almon Gage, of New York ; 
 surveyor-general, Levi Rashford, of Wisconsin ; 
 marshal, Milton B. Duffield, of California; su- 
 perintendent Indian affairs, Charles D. Poston, 
 of Kentucky. At the organization of the terri- 
 tory, its population was twenty thousand. There 
 were about fifty thousand Indians, half of whom 
 w'ere hostile to the whites. 
 
 The first session of the legislature was held 
 Octoljer 4, i<%4. At that session the territory 
 was divided into four counties, Pima, Yuma. 
 Mohave and Yavapai. In 1871 .Maricopa was 
 organized out of Yavapai, and four years later 
 Pinal was organized, while in 1879 Apache 
 county was formed. In 1881 ( iila county was 
 separated from Pinal and Maricojia, and the 
 same year Graham was formed from I'inia and 
 Apache and Cochise was organized from Pima 
 coimty. Coconino was organized in i8()3 and 
 Navajo in 1895. 
 
 THE AHIZON'A (IF Tdnw. 
 
 .\.fter }ears of struggles in the midst of cir- 
 cumstances the most discouraging, the .\rizo- 
 nians of today are in possession of a territory 
 showing abundant ])romise for the future — a ter- 
 ritory with a ])opulation, according to the census 
 of 1900, of 122,212, and with great resources 
 that await only the magic wand of industry and 
 capital. Being a mineral-producing region espe- 
 
 cially, the development of mines has always been 
 the leailing territorial industry. Of all the met- 
 als, gold is most widely distributed through Ari- 
 zona, and may be found both in placer deposits 
 and in veins, but. owing to the scarcity of water, 
 many of the deposits are only partly worked. 
 .Some of these mines have gained world-wide 
 distinction, and have attracted the attention of 
 mir.crs and investors possessing the keenest 
 judgment and most accvuate discriminating 
 ])owers. 
 
 As a co])per-prodncing region, Arizona is also 
 well known. The principal centers of copper 
 production are located at Bisbee, in the south- 
 ern ]3art of Cochise county; Jerome, in Yavapai 
 county; Morenci and Clifton, in Graham couiUy, 
 and Globe, Pinal county. In addition, copper 
 has been secured in the Santa Ritas, near Rose- 
 mont, and in Pinal county, near Tucson. Before 
 railways had facilitated the work of mining here, 
 copper was mined in the Ajo mountains and 
 shipped, via Yuma and the Gulf, to San h'ran- 
 cisco, ox teams being used to convey the prod- 
 uct to the ships. During recent years the rai)id 
 rise in the price of copper has brought about 
 new investments of capital in this important 
 industry and new veins and ileposits have been 
 located and sold. For 1898-99 the copper out- 
 put of Arizona was 110,823,864 pounds, being 
 the greatest in the territory's history. 
 
 .\mong the most noted cop])er mines of .Ari- 
 zona niav be mentioned the Cnite<l \'erde cop- 
 ])er mines at Jerome, owned iiy Senator \\ . .\. 
 Clark, of Montana, which have produced a phe- 
 nomen.d outiiut not only of copper, but also of 
 gold. The company employs in its mines and 
 reduction works about one thousand men. and 
 has an ec|ui])ment that is comiilete in every re- 
 spect, the property being one of the most vahi- 
 able in the world. 
 
 The property of the Copper Queen Coniiiany 
 at l')isbee is one of the most successful copper- 
 ]iroduciug works in the country and furnishes 
 emiiloynient to about one thousand men. 1 he 
 introduction of the pneumatic process, with .spe- 
 cial modifications, not only here, but also at Je- 
 rome, has revolutionized the science of copper 
 smelting, and has madr the two plants among 
 the greatest in the world. 
 
 The .\rizom Copper Companv, Limited, of
 
 994 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Clifton, and the Detroit Copper Mining Com- 
 pany of Morenci, add to the fame of Arizona as 
 a copper producer, as do also the. United Globe 
 mines north of Globe ; the Black Warrior Cop- 
 per Company six and one-half miles west of 
 Globe; the Azurite Copper and Gold Mining 
 Company in the Sierritas mountains, eighteen 
 miles south of Tucson, and other important and 
 remunerative propositions too numerous to men- 
 
 ^°"' AGRICULTDRE. 
 
 Contrary to the opinion of many not familiar 
 with the resources of Arizona, there are possi- 
 bilities in the raising of stock and general farm 
 products undreamed of in the past. Wealth 
 awaits those who can secure adequate water fa- 
 cilities for the conduct of their farms. In this 
 connection we cjuote from the Report of the 
 Governor of Arizona to the Secretary of the In- 
 terior, 1899, as follows: 
 
 The agricultural development of Arizona has 
 been carried to a point beyond which much fur- 
 ther progress in the line of enlarging the culti- 
 vated area cannot be achieved without an in- 
 creased water supply. The advantages ofifered 
 by nature — a mild and almost superlatively 
 healthful climate and a soil unexcelled in fertility 
 and lying in level reaches in broad valleys un- 
 encumbered by wild vegetation and therefore 
 ready for the plow, together with a ready mar- 
 ket for all ranch and orchard products — have 
 stimulated settlers in the work of reclaiming 
 the desert, until the ultimate unit of the normal 
 flow of the streams (except the Colorado river) 
 has been diverted into irrigating canals. .\nd in 
 many cases the zeal of the pioneer has led him 
 to construct ditches for the diversion of more 
 water than the average flow of the stream justi- 
 fies, thus bringing on a conflict with the prior 
 appropriators over the ownership of the avail- 
 able supply. Yet the relation which the land so 
 far reclaimed bears to the irrigable area is frac- 
 tionally small. There are hundreds of thousands 
 of acres of rich and level public land lying in the 
 valleys of the Salt and Gila rivers which would be 
 brought under irrigation from those streams 
 were their flow adequately increased: and in 
 other valleys of the territory there are vast bod- 
 ies of land which, if irrigated, would support a 
 large population. 
 
 The further development of the water supply 
 is, therefore, one of the most absorbing prob- 
 lems with which the people of this territory have 
 to deal. Confining the consideration of the 
 question to the solution of the difficulties which 
 confront only the people already here, it is ex- 
 tremely important. For, magnificent as is the 
 showing made by the agriculturists and horti- 
 culturists and b}' the cities and towns of our 
 prosperous valleys, the great wealth already cre- 
 ated and the handsome profits yearly reaped are 
 far short of what the land actually irrigated is 
 capable of producing. Contending frequently 
 with an insufficiency of water, the irrigators arc 
 often compelled to resort to a prorating of the 
 diminished flow during the dry season, and are 
 forced to be content with a yield which, however 
 profitable in itself, is short of the great capa- 
 bilities of the soil. 
 
 It is conceded that .Vrizona has natural re- 
 sources which would, if properly developed, 
 make the territory one of the most important 
 agricultural states in the Union in point of popu- 
 lation and productive power. 
 
 The (|uestion is also of great importance con- 
 sidered from the standpoint of national interest 
 in respect to the use of the arable public domain. 
 The eagerness with which settlers sought homes 
 in Oklahoma when it was thrown open for set- 
 tlement, crowding in until they had created a 
 new commonwealth in a day, the quick occu- 
 pancy of the various Indian reservations of the 
 scmihumid states as they were thrown open to 
 settlement in recent years, and the thousands of 
 homes carved out of the desert amid the most 
 discouraging difficulties, furnish convincing 
 proof of the importance oi this subject to the 
 economy of the nation. 
 
 From the beginning of. our national govern- 
 ment no question has been more continuously 
 interesting than that of the proper utilization 
 of the ]niblic domain. Solved for a time by the 
 homestead law. the (|uestion reappears and 
 presses for consideration more urgently now 
 than at any stage of our history. Its urgent con- 
 sideration is necessary because we have reached 
 a development where the homestead law no 
 longer meets the requirements of the situation. 
 Tlie arid lands present new problems which 
 nuist be solved. In the eastern and middle
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 995 
 
 states the growth of population has wrought 
 such changes in economic conditions that the 
 competition in all lines of business was never 
 so keen and the national tendency to "expand" 
 and establish new communities never had 
 greater reason for existence. l!ut, having taken 
 up practically all the public land whereon it is 
 possible to farm without irrigating the soil, the 
 tide of western emigration encounters in the so- 
 called arid region an insuperable barrier to the 
 creation of farm homes under existingconditions. 
 The land still vacant and open to settlement 
 within the boundaries of the United States (ex- 
 cluding .-Maska) comprises an area of nearly six 
 hundred million acres, or almost one-third of the 
 total extent of the country. Most of this is in- 
 cluded in what is known as the arid region. 
 Much of it is wholly unfit for agriculture under 
 any circumstances, and there is no reliable data 
 as to the exact quantity of irrigable land for 
 which it is possible to develop a constant water 
 supply. But the best information already gath- 
 ered by the government warrants the assertion 
 that in the arid states and territories enough 
 water can be stored to support on irrigated lands 
 enough people in new agricultural communi- 
 ties to more than equal the present population. 
 Leaving out of consideration the settlement of 
 Oklahoma, which was almost immediate, statis- 
 tics show that since 1890 the public lands have 
 been disposed of at a rate of hardly more than 
 one per cent per annum, and the fact illustrates 
 the conditions which the government must meet 
 hereaftir. Wise statesmanship urges the devel- 
 opment of our national resources, and the bring- 
 ing into use of all dormant assets. In no part 
 of our country has permanent wealth been cre- 
 ated more rapidly than in the sections which 
 have been brought under irrigation. Under the 
 system of farming naturally followed in the irri- 
 gated regions, of which .\rizona is typical, small 
 farms are fouTul to be the rule. .\ few acres 
 apiece for the conifortai)k' maintenance of a 
 family, and with irrigation, all the conditions are 
 conducive to a fidl settlement of the country. 
 Therefore statistics as to the reclaimable area do 
 not carry an adecjuate conception of the advan- 
 tages to the home-seeking population of the 
 country, following a large increase of the water 
 supply. 
 
 Water being one of the most valuable of .Ari- 
 zona's resources, its proper conservation and 
 economical use are of prime importance. There 
 are periods of the winter season when but com- 
 paratively little irrigation is necessary, during 
 which the greater part of the entire flow of the 
 streams could, with reservoirs, be held back and 
 stored for use in the spring and suirimer, thus 
 greatly enhancing its value for the crops during 
 their season of most rapid growth. Reservoirs, 
 therefore, would be very useful even were there 
 no lloods to be considered. A storage system 
 would piit an end to the lavish use of water in 
 winter, a practice to which irrigators now resort 
 because the water is at hand and going to waste. 
 
 Hut it is in the extent to which the Hoods can 
 be utilized in the reclamation of the vacant lands 
 that public interest chiefly centers. Much of the 
 rainfall is so torrential in character that a high 
 percentage of the run-ofif is carried by the 
 streams in flood. Sudden floods are caused also 
 by warm winds and rains attacking the snow in 
 the mountains in the latter end of winter. From 
 long observations of these floods the older resi- 
 dents of the territtjry are convinced that the land 
 already under irrigation is but a tithe of that 
 which could be reclaimed were the water stored 
 which runs to waste to the sea. Xo one doubts 
 that the area reclaimable under the water sujiply 
 available for storage is many times greater than 
 the area already irrigated. These general state- 
 ments must suffice, because of the absence of 
 exact data as to the cjuantity of rainfall and the 
 average yearly vohmie of water carried in flood. 
 In no other section of the country, probably, arc 
 the streaius so capricious and fluctuating in vol- 
 mne. Storms of a cloudburst nature in the 
 mountains often add in a few hours man\ thou- 
 sands of cubic feet to the flow of the rivers. 
 
 The difficulty of making accurate measure- 
 ments under such conditions is obvious. Rec- 
 ords of the rainfall are not as complete as is 
 desirable, but the measurements taken through 
 a long series of years and at points fairly repre- 
 sentative of the whole territory yield data from 
 which very close calculations can be made as to 
 tile animal jirecipitation. 
 
 ( )bservations were begun at Forts Whip])le, 
 McDowell and Bowie as early as 1866-67 and 
 carried forward to a recent period. Other sta-
 
 996 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 tions were established later, so that for the last 
 twenty years the records of a score of stations 
 are obtainable. It is thus demonstrated that 
 while the mean precipitation in the lower valleys 
 is very slight- — ranging from 3.16 inches at 
 Yuma and 5.34 inches at Casa Grande to 7.60 
 inches at Phoenix — in the drainage acres proper 
 ■ — i. e., in the region of great run-off — it is much 
 heavier. For illustration, • I'ort Apache shows 
 a mean precipitation of 19.75 inches; Fort Whip- 
 ple, 16.06 inches: Fort \^erde, 13.24 inches; Fort 
 Grant, 15.45 inches; San Carlos, 13.03 inches; 
 Pinal Ranch, 20.46 inches. But the sections of 
 the drainage area from which the least official 
 information has been gathered are the sections 
 over which the greatest precipitation occurs as 
 they are the sections of highest altitude, least 
 accessibility and of sparse settlement, and the 
 observatory stations have been usually located at 
 militarypostsorinthe towns of the lower altitude. 
 
 When consideration is given to the wide ex- 
 tent of the drainage areas tributary to the irriga- 
 ble valleys; to the precipitous, rocky and bar- 
 ren condition of the mountains, so conducive 
 to a maximum of run-ofT with a minimum loss 
 from seepage, and to the character of the rain- 
 fall, the conclusion is inevitable that in .\rizona 
 the water supply can be increased enormously 
 if the larger portion of the floods is stored. 
 And if the Geological Survey's eminently con- 
 servative estimate of two million acres be ac- 
 cepted as the maximum quantity of land in this 
 territory for which sufficient water can be de- 
 veloped, I regard it .as well within the proba- 
 bilities to estimate that that amount uf land will, 
 when properly irrigated, directly support one 
 million people. 
 
 In order that there may be an intelligent un- 
 derstanding of the question, in so far as it afifects 
 Arizona, it is necessary to review, in some de- 
 tail, the situation of the irrigation industry as 
 we find it today. 
 
 It is less than twenty years since the large 
 investment of capital in irrigation entcrjirises in 
 the west was begun, and hundreds of millions 
 of wealth have been created by the new industry. 
 Individuals and corporations have constructed 
 in the agricultural sections ditches carrying all 
 the normal flow of tlie streams, and a innnber 
 , of costlv reserynirs have been constructed in 
 
 dififerent parts of the arid west, which impound 
 a great additional quantity of flood waters. In- 
 fluenced by the phenomenal development of the 
 country under irrigation and by the profits de- 
 rived from less costly irrigation enterprises, capi- 
 tal was led by too sanguine promoters to invest- 
 ment on a larger scale, which, for years, proved 
 disastrous in many cases. The business of im- 
 pounding water \vas new. and it was but natural 
 that many mistakes were made. In some in- 
 stances due investigation had not been made as 
 to the average run-ot? of the streams. Incorrect 
 deductions were made from exceptional floods, 
 and after costly dams were constructed it was 
 found that the drainage area and rainfall had not 
 been accurately calculated, and in some years 
 the reservoirs were practically dry. But more 
 frequently over-sanguine calculations had been 
 made as to the beginning of revenue. 
 
 Investors found that they had not taken suffi- 
 cient account of tlie time which must elapse 
 before tliese lands could be settled and cultivated 
 sufficiently to be made productive of revenue. 
 
 (_)ften there was litigation over the ownership 
 of the water which ])reventcd the revenues 
 earned from reaching the pockets of security 
 holders, and lands owned by the water com- 
 panies were held at an exorbitant market price. 
 Meanwhile, interest charges accunuilated and 
 stockholders and bondholders became discour- 
 aged. These things, added to extravagant aiul 
 unnecessary cost of construction, overcapitaliza- 
 tion, etc.. served to give irrigation investments 
 a bad reputation. 'S'et the fact remains that the 
 storage enterprises which were carried to com- 
 pletion are at last, under intelligent and eco- 
 nomic management, begimiing to pay. With the 
 experience gained from the past, and in posses- 
 sion of the extremely valuable data gathered in 
 the past few _\ears by the industrious engineers 
 of the Geological Suryey; with reliable informa- 
 tion at hand as to the capacity of reservoir sites, 
 the drainage area tributary to them, ami the av- 
 erage precipitation which nia\- be expected; with 
 the cheapened cost of constructing dams ami the 
 knowledge which engineers liavc gained as to 
 the pro]jcr mode of construction, the builders 
 of storage dams, o])crating on conservative and 
 business-like lines, hereafter shnuld not fail to 
 make ;iin' ordinary storage enterprise a ]irolit-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 997 
 
 able one for investors as well as for the country 
 which they supply. 
 
 The energetic, resourceful and self-reliant 
 spirit which characterizes the people of Arizona 
 has led them to do all within their power to 
 promote storage enterprises. Corporations and 
 individuals have done a large amount of trouble- 
 some and expensive preliminary work. The nu- 
 merous reservoir sites have been closely ex- 
 plored aiul many of them have passed under the 
 searching scrutiny of eminent engineers, and the 
 feasihilit}' of proposed reservoirs has been 
 fully verified. In a few cases construction of 
 some magnitude has been accomplished, but the 
 work has been suspended while efforts are made 
 to enlist additional capital. 
 
 Liberal laws have been enacted governing the 
 appropriation of the flood waters and their con- 
 veyance through natural channels of the streams 
 to the points of diversion. The work of educat- 
 ing the investing public as to the merits of stor- 
 age enterprises has been carried on with patience 
 and vigor, and with the return of prosperity to 
 the whole country there have been encouraging 
 indications within the past few months that east- 
 ern capital is at last awakening to the value of 
 Arizona reservoir securities. I have no doubt 
 that final arrangements for the necessary capital 
 for some of the best-known projects will be com- 
 pleted before another year. 
 
 Acting in accord with strongly pronounced 
 public sentiment, in February of this year 1 ad- 
 dressed a special message to the legislative as- 
 sembly recommending that an act be passed ex- 
 empting from taxation for a period of years the 
 reservoirs and canals which may be constructed 
 within the next few years. It was pointed out 
 that when reservoirs are constructed they can- 
 not fail to increase the taxable wealth and popu- 
 lation of the territory in a very large degree; 
 that the enlargement of the water and irriga- 
 tion systems of Arizona is an imperative neces- 
 sity, and that exemption from taxation would 
 encourage capital to come into the territory and 
 accomplish the necessary work. The legisla- 
 ture was of the same opinion, and passed an act 
 exempting from taxation for the period of fifteen 
 years the reservoirs and canals constructed 
 within a certain time, and the act became a 
 law in April. 
 
 3S 
 
 Cndcr the various forms of encouragement 
 thus held out the people of the territory have 
 proved that they are ready to extend a ready 
 and hearty welcome to investors in storage en- 
 terprises; and if congress will add to those local 
 efforts the impetus of national aid, by ceding 
 the vacant lands, the territory will be in a posi- 
 tion to assure the early construction of a com- 
 plete and thorough water storage and irriga- 
 tion system. Moreover, the intelligence, patriot- 
 ism and public spirit of the people provide an 
 unquestionable guaranty that the lands would 
 be controlled and disposed of as a sacred public 
 trust and in a manner thoroughly protective of 
 all jniblic and private interests. 
 
 HECOM.MEND.VTIONS. 
 
 In the same report ( 1899) from which the pre- 
 ceding paragraphs have been quoted, Governor 
 Murphy makes the following recommendations 
 for congressional legislation and action of the 
 interior department; 
 
 (1) That Arizona be admitted as a state. 
 
 (2) That all the public lands within the terri- 
 tory be ceded to the territory or state. 
 
 {3) That until the lands are ceded authority 
 he granted to the territory to lease the grazing 
 lands. 
 
 (4) That all the lands within the territory be 
 surveyed, especially the railroad-grant lands, 
 so that they may be taxed. 
 
 (5) That a government assay office and branch 
 mint be established within the territory. 
 
 (6) That the act of Congress of June 27, 1866, 
 granting right of way to the Atlantic and Pacific 
 Railroad Company, and exempting said right of 
 way from taxation in territories, be so amended 
 as to permit the taxing of track and superstruct- 
 ures on the right of way. 
 
 (7) That the salaries of the federal judges of 
 the territory be increased. 
 
 (8) That a fifth judicial district be created. 
 
 (9) That a commission be appointed for ethno- 
 logical and archaeological research in the terri- 
 torv. and that a suitable appropriation be made 
 by congress therefor. 
 
 (10) That appropriation be made by congress 
 to i)ay the governors and secretaries of terri- 
 tories the salaries allowed them bv law.
 
 998 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 THE CLAIMS OF ARIZONA. 
 From the Saturday Evening Post (1901). 
 
 Before the senate committee on territories 
 Governor Miirphv and Delegate Wilson made 
 addresses on the hill to enable the people of Ari- 
 zona to form a constitution and state oovern- 
 ment, and to be admitted into the Union on an 
 equal footing with the original states. Mr. Wil- 
 son, in his address, began by saying tliat al- 
 though the population had increased from 
 59,620 in 1890 to 122,931 in 1900, it was even 
 more than the figures indicated, because the enu- 
 merators did not have time to get over the terri- 
 tory. 
 
 Surely those figures show an enormous gain. 
 But that really was not the most interesting or 
 the most wonderful demonstration. 
 
 "As to the internal wealth of the country," 
 said Mr. Wilson, "we have a mining belt there 
 running from Utah and Nevada in the north- 
 west to Me.xico in the southeast. That belt is 
 four hundred and thirty-seven miles in length, 
 with an average width of about one hundred 
 miles. The acreage area of the mineral lands 
 in the territory is nearly thirty million acres, and 
 although but few of the mines have been yet 
 opened, the output from the copper, gold and 
 silver mines is nearly $40,000,030 a year, while 
 the bulk of that great belt is hardly scratched. 
 The output of these mines now in operation 
 in a few years would buy almost every acre of 
 land in any agricultural state, and yet we are 
 only beginning to open that vast area of min- 
 erals. 
 
 "Then as to the grazing industry. The re- 
 ceipts are nearly $2,000,000 a year in Salt River 
 valley. The aggregate acreage now in ctdtiva- 
 tion in the territory is nearly one million acres, 
 and the amount of agricultural land in the terri- 
 torv which may be put in cultivation is nearly 
 ten million acres, equal to the agricultural do- 
 main of the state of Iowa. The average profit 
 of agriculture in Salt River valley amounts to 
 from $36 to $140 an acre, which is more than 
 any eastern state can show. The alfalfa crop 
 pays nearly $36 an acre, and there is one almond 
 orchard near Mason City which pays the owner 
 over $100 an acre every year. 
 
 "Then take the cantaloupe crop. That is mar- 
 
 velous, paying an average of about $100 .an acre 
 when properl}- cared for. We are growing 
 everything, from tropical fruits to Indian corn." 
 Governor Murphy supplemented these figures 
 by other statements and statistics. "It is my be- 
 lief," he said, "that Arizona will very soon be 
 one of the wealthiest mining states in the 
 Union," and he declared that the territory had 
 more people and more money than twenty-three 
 of the states had when they were admitted to the 
 Union. Another boast which Arizona makes is 
 that it is about the best-educated state in the 
 country. 
 
 A PLEA FOR STATEHOOD. 
 
 BY QOVEKNOR N. O. MnHPHY. 
 
 Arizona desires, above all things, to become 
 a state. Constitutional rights should not be de- 
 nied for sectional reasons, nor for alleged differ- 
 ences of opinion upon public questions. It is 
 true that other reasons are at times given in a 
 genera! way, based upon assertions and in no 
 degree substantiated by proofs, but the facts arc 
 conspicuous that disputed financial theories, an 
 unwarranted and offensive assumption of supe- 
 riority because of location, and a selfish unwill- 
 ingness to fairly distribute legislative power, too 
 often furnish the motives which actuate the ene- 
 mies of statehood in their unpatriotic and un- 
 American refusal to accord to loyal citizens of 
 this common country the rights and privileges 
 vouchsafed by the constitution. Such a despotic 
 exercise of legislative power was never con- 
 templated by that inspired work of our fathers 
 which declared the equality of men. The ques- 
 tion of opinion exjiressed upon the national 
 monetary policy, or uiion any specific policy of 
 legislation, by different localities, has not in 
 justice the remotest relation to the principles in- 
 volved. The labored comparisons showing the 
 ratio of population of the new western states 
 to the other states of the union have no bearing 
 whatever upon the rights vested under the con- 
 stitution, unless our system of government is to 
 be changed and our laws, precedents, rights and 
 customs disregarded. The people of the terri- 
 tory are true, honest .Vmericans. Intensely loyal 
 and patriotic, they have braved the dangers and 
 privations of pioneer life and have l)uilt up a ci\- 
 iliz.-itiim whicli will com])are f:ivorahl\- with rniy;
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 999 
 
 tliey have added an empire in wealth and popula- 
 tion to this j^reat rci)ublic: they are true to their 
 families and firesides. Why should they be de- 
 nied the rights and privileges which arc accorded 
 to their brother .Americans? 
 
 Chief Justice Taney, in pronouncing the opin- 
 ion of the Supreme Court oi the United States 
 in the famous Dred Scott case, lays down this 
 doctrine, which none will be so bold as to gain- 
 say : 
 
 "There is certainly no power given i)y the con- 
 stitution to the federal government to establish 
 or maintain colonies bordering on the L'nited 
 States, or at a distance: to be ruled and gov- 
 erned at its own pleasure, nor to enlarge its ter- 
 ritorial limits in any way, except by the admis- 
 sion of new states. That power is plainly given. 
 But no power is given to acquire a territorv to 
 be held and governed permanentlv in that char- 
 acter. 
 
 "The power to expand the territory of the 
 l'nited States by the admission of new states is 
 plainly given, and in the construction of this 
 power by all the departments of the government, 
 it has been held to authorize the acquisition of 
 territory not fit for admission at the time, but 
 to be admitted as soon as its population and 
 situation would entitle it to admission. It is ac- 
 quired to become a state, and not to be held as a 
 colony and governed by congress with absolute 
 authority." 
 
 Every argument and principle which should in 
 justice and right be considered in connection 
 with the admission of the territories rests simply 
 upon their ability to maintain themselves as 
 states, and the desire of a majority of their peo- 
 ple for self-government. No law, precedent nor 
 construction of law can be found to the contrary, 
 and while no specific regulation exists for the 
 guidance of congress in the admission of states, 
 the law as recognized by custom and precedent 
 has become a fundamental part of our national 
 policy; that whenever the people of a territory 
 of this Union express the desire for self-gov- 
 ernment and can furnish satisfactory proof of 
 their competency in population and wealth, it is 
 not only their right to be adnn'tted to statehood, 
 but it is clearly the duty of congress to admit 
 them. This is conceded by all of the authori- 
 ties upon constitutional law and jirecedent, and 
 
 any other view is reinignant to the verv inspira- 
 tion and patriotism of the reijublic. Cut four 
 states have been admitted which had more than 
 iccooo population at the last census previous to 
 their admission, and three of them viz.: Califor- 
 nia. Kansas and Utah, are west of the Missis- 
 sippi: while Maine, the other, was taken from 
 Massachusetts. Eighteen of the states admitted 
 had less than the apjjortionment number to jus- 
 tify one representative in congress at the last 
 census previous to admission, and four states did 
 not have a sufficient number at the next census 
 after admission. What is particularly noticeable 
 and instructive is the great average percentage 
 of increase immediately after self-government is 
 attained: which constitutes one of the strong- 
 est arguments in favor of statehood. Immigra- 
 tion into new states is large: a greater stability 
 to values is at once assured; a stronger feeling 
 of security is felt by investors: capital is more 
 confident: the development of natural resources 
 is consequently easier; a better class of public 
 servants who. when they are elected, are more 
 directly responsible to the people, are put in 
 office; and, above all, that inestimable right of 
 .American citizenship, freedom, is secured. 
 
 Occasionally misinformed citizens have de- 
 clared themselves opposed to statehood on the 
 ground of economy, claiming that the mainte- 
 nance of a state government would increase tax- 
 ation to a burdensome extent. The history of 
 the admission of every state in the Union, ex- 
 cept Nevada, disproves this theory; the increase 
 in population and taxable wealth, as a rule, far 
 more than compeiisates the increased expense. 
 •Arizona receives less than $40,000 a vear from 
 W'asliington on account of the territorial form of 
 government, which, at the present assessed 
 valuation of property in the territory, amounts 
 to less than one and one-half mills on the dollar. 
 Witli statehood all kinds of property would in- 
 crease in value — it is believed the people would 
 be more careful in the selection of legislators 
 and other public officers: a more thorough sys- 
 tem of assessing and collecting taxes would be 
 ado])ted. and instead of assessing $ i cxs.ooo.ooo 
 worth of pro])erty at $31,000,000. as we do now, 
 we would recjuire a more perfect ])lan of finan- 
 cial management, and the cost of government 
 would be correspondingly reduced.
 
 lOOO 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Everything about territorial vassalage is ob- 
 noxious to free-born Americans. The people 
 have no say as to who shall govern them. Ap- 
 pointees are sent to the territories by the presi- 
 dent, who in person or through subordinates 
 whom they appoint, expend a great part of the 
 money collected by taxation. This is surely 
 "taxation without representation." The remain- 
 ing territories have far outgrown the regula- 
 tions adopted by congress for their government. 
 Our judicial system is insufificient and unsatis- 
 factory: the entire machinery of the territorial 
 svstem is inadequate and un-American, and our 
 citizens should insist, .ns with one voice, upon 
 emancipation. And if temporarily the expenses 
 should be heavier upon our taxpayers — which is 
 unlikely — it will be a thousandfold compensated. 
 Now we have a delegate in congress, a quasi 
 member of the house of representatives, who 
 has no vote, no rights, little influence, and few 
 privileges, so to spe.ak, and when he solicits the 
 assistance of senators he must act more like an 
 humble mendicant than like the authorized rep- 
 resentative of a great commonwealth. As a 
 state we would have a representative with a 
 vote, and two senators, who could accomplish 
 more for the people of Arizona in one year than 
 has been accomplished in the entire territorial 
 life. 
 
 Statehood has been denied to Arizona be- 
 cause of sectional prejudice, ignorance, imagin- 
 ary partisan policy and pure selfishness. The 
 latter reason exists in the fact that our eastern 
 brethren are unwilling to divide legislative rep- 
 resentation in congress; they refuse to grant 
 to their brother Americans of the west, who are 
 their equals in every respect, the same privi- 
 leges under the constitution which they enjoy 
 and for which they fought and bled. Many of 
 them afifect to believe tliemselves superior on ac- 
 count of the locality of their residences, in which 
 accident has placed them; that they are better, 
 their blood bluer, etc. They have become very 
 forgetful and selfish. 1 have heard eastern rep- 
 resentatives say: "We made a mistake when we 
 let in some of those northwest states," presum- 
 ably because of a difference of opinion on ques- 
 tions of national policy. Who are "we?" and who 
 let them in? Upon what do they base the of- 
 fensive assumption that they have the right to 
 
 refuse any subdivision of this common country 
 any constitutional rights or privileges? To dis- 
 guise their real reasons, these self-constituted 
 conservators of our welfare frequently assert 
 that our population is insufficient to maintain a 
 state government. These assertions are not only 
 untrue, but concern matters of which they are 
 ignorant, and upon which they are prejudiced. 
 The real reason underlying their principal oppo- 
 sition to the admission of the territories, is the 
 purely selfish desire to prevent the same right 
 being accorded to others in the nature of leg- 
 islative representation which they exercise. They 
 do not wish us to have representation in the 
 United States senate. This is true, no matter 
 how much they attempt to conceal their motives 
 by talking political or economical reasons. 
 
 Arizona has 100,000 people, and one hundred 
 millions of taxable wealth, if it were all assessed. 
 Our citizens enjoy the proud distinction of being 
 the first to respond to their covmtry's call for 
 volunteers. On Cuban soil, by their bravery and 
 heroic conduct,' they won the admiration of all 
 Christendom. An Arizona flag was first hoisted 
 over the ramparts of the enemy at San Juan, 
 and many of the territory's noble heroes sealed 
 with their blood an' undying claim upon their 
 country's gratitude. Their names and deeds will 
 invoke love and respect as long a« the nation's 
 history lives. 
 
 .Arizona's people, by their patriotism and va- 
 lor, by their thrift and ability, by their loyalty to 
 the republic, fealty to national principles, and 
 every consideration of true Americanism, have 
 earned and won the inestimable privilege of self- 
 government. They all ask and demand tluit 
 which of right should be granted and the admis- 
 sion of the territory into the Union as a state, 
 without longer delay." 
 
 THE CAPITAL CITY. 
 
 Concerning the history of Phoenix, the fol- 
 lowing is taken from the Governor's report: 
 
 It has been said that western towns are either 
 miniature cities or exaggerated villages. Her 
 residents consider Phoenix included in the for- 
 mer class. She is essentially modern, founded 
 though she l)e on the ruins of a pre-Columl)ian 
 civilization. Here there is none of the languor
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 lOOI 
 
 of the south, no trace of the provinciaHsm of the 
 middle west, and only enough of the Mexican 
 and Indian to make picturesque the poorer quar- 
 ters of the city. Hither have come the brightest 
 of minds, professional and commercial, and the 
 visitor soon acknowledges that here he finds 
 push and intelligence not inferior to those quali- 
 ties that mark the most favored conununities of 
 the Union. 
 
 The inception of the city is within the memory 
 of many of its present residents. It w-as in 1868 
 that a small number of pioneers banded to- 
 gether to form its nucleus. In 1870 it was 
 platted. .Among the original American resi- 
 dents were W. A. Hancock, John T. Dennis, 
 lien Pdock. Thomas Barnum, Jacob Starer, E. 
 Irvine, C. H. (Iray, J. D. Abinnihon, and J. P. 
 Osborne. 
 
 The valley had been occupied for several 
 years, since Jack Swilling, noted for desperate 
 deeds, had come from the Rich Hill diggings 
 to cut a ditch from Salt River and to practice 
 the arts of peace. Friendly Indians were to the 
 south and wild Apaches on the north and east. 
 John T. Dennis, who then li\-e(l near the present 
 waterworks site, in the late si.xties lost a number 
 of cattle and horses through a raid of the Yava- 
 pai -\paches, and onl_\- proximity to the friendU' 
 Pima and Maricojia tribes saved the infant set- 
 tlement from continued depredations. In 1871 a 
 traveler wrote that Mrs. J. J. Cardiner was the 
 only American woman in the village, there being 
 at the time about seventy-five American men. 
 In 1877 Ilinton wrote that Phoenix was a town 
 of about five hundred, half the population being 
 Mexican. 
 
 September 5, 1872. the first public school was 
 started. It was a long adobe building on what 
 is now First avenue, about fifty feet south of 
 Washington street, the same edifice serving as 
 court-house. A few years later a little adobe 
 one-roomed building was erected on what is 
 known as the Central school block, on North 
 Center street. 
 
 In 1871 the comity was established, carved 
 from the southern portion of the giant county of 
 ^'ava])ai. The first county record filed was a 
 deed in which was transferred the ownership 
 of the ground on which the Porter Block now 
 stands. The price was $100. The present value 
 
 of the same ground is about $20,000. In the 
 -ipring of 1879 the Southern Pacific, building 
 eastward, reached Alaricopa, and through Phoe- 
 ni.x flowed the entire commerce of northern and 
 central Arizona, then rejoicing in the greatest 
 degree of mining activity ever known to the re- 
 gion. Dusty freight teams, not infrequently with 
 twenty mules to a team, were almost continuous 
 on the road from the railroad north, bearing sup- 
 plies to the mines. The freighter was the most 
 im])ortant of beings, and lived in a freighter's 
 gastronomical paradise on a diet of canned 
 goods straight. Fast freight to Prescott had a 
 tarifif of four cents a pound, and fast freight 
 meant making the one hundred and seventy 
 miles in two weeks. There was a strong Mexi- 
 can flavor to the communit)-, and a knowledge 
 of Spanish was almost essential. Occasionally 
 on the streets would be seen numljers of squeak- 
 ing two-wheeled ox carts laden with fruit, 
 mescal, and other products of Sonora, brought 
 across the international line in serene careless- 
 ness of any such thing as tarifif. 
 
 July 4, 1887, the Maricopa & Phoenix Rail- 
 way materialized, giving steam connection with 
 the world, and Phoenix became a city. In 1889 
 she took a further step in becoming the Terri- 
 torial capital. March 12, 1895, she assumed the 
 place of southwestern center and metropolis, 
 upon the completion of the Santa Fe, Prescott 
 & Phoenix Railway, through which she not onlv 
 secured competitive freight rates, but was given 
 outlet for her products to the northern part of 
 the Territory. 
 
 The Phoenix of to-day, the county seat of 
 Maricopa county, and capital of the Territory, 
 has 15.000 inhabitants, and its people are an en- 
 terprising and progressive body of citizens. 
 
 TIIK OLDEST CITY I \ TirK IXITED S'lWTES. 
 
 The old name of Tucson was Tulquson, or 
 Tucjueson. .At the beginning of the nineteenth 
 century it was garrisoned by eightv or ninetv 
 troops, and had a population of three hundred, 
 who lived in adobe hovels and eked out a miser- 
 able existence by cultivating small tracts of land. 
 The growth of the town was slow. In 1856 it 
 had but four hundred inhabitants, about thirty 
 being .Americans. I'p to a very recent period
 
 1002 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 the cily retained the apiiearance of a walled town 
 of .ancient ages, as the town was surrounded by 
 a wall in the form of a square, which protected 
 the people from the fierce Apaches. The rear 
 end of the houses was built into this wall, and 
 the only openings were doors that led into the 
 central plaza. It was the custom for the peo- 
 ple to stand on the roofs of their houses and 
 thus defend themselves against an attacking 
 force, being protected from assault by the height 
 of the walls. Indeed, so strongly was the place 
 impregnated that, in spite of repeated efforts, 
 the Indians, during the past two hundred years, 
 have never been able to capture it. During all 
 of this time the Papagos proved themselves 
 friends to the whites and not infrequently aided 
 them in repelling the assaults of the Apaches. 
 
 To the tourist the city of Tucson offers an 
 inviting field of investigation. It is one of the 
 most interesting cities in the United States and, 
 founded about 1555, has the distinction of being 
 the oldest permanent settlement in this country. 
 Occupying a picturesque location, it stands in 
 a valley surrounded by mountains. Here may 
 be seen contrasts between the civilization of the 
 present and that of the past. Substantial build- 
 ings lighted by electricity and provided with all 
 modern equipments form a vivid contrast to 
 one-story structures of long ago. Some of the 
 streets are narrow and are walled in by square 
 adobe houses, but other streets are modern and 
 broad, and are rendered beautiful by costly resi- 
 dences. Seldom in the history of the world is it 
 possible to find a civilization so remote lying in 
 direct contrast to the civilization of today. 
 
 Of recent years Tucson has come into promi- 
 nence owing to the peculiar advantages it offers 
 for the treatment of tuberculosis, its elevation 
 being about twenty-four hundred feet, which is 
 within one hundred feet of the limit of altitude 
 where, in the opinion of specialists in the dis- 
 ease, the cure of tuberculosis of the lungs is pos- 
 sible. However, this is by no means the sole 
 claim made by Tucson to prominence. Com- 
 mercially, it has glowing possibilities, and is 
 destined to become a great city. Financially, it 
 is on a remarkably sound basis. Business fail- 
 ures during the last five years have been prac- 
 tically unknown. Many brick buildings have 
 been recently built and scores are now under 
 
 construction. There are two flourishing national 
 banks, two building and loan associations — one 
 with a capital of $65,000, the other $25,000. This 
 being the center of a vast stock country shipping 
 from this point is very large, and as the country 
 for more than one hundred miles tributary is 
 rich in gold, silver, and copper, and vast marble 
 and onyx beds, the financial business is very 
 great. 
 
 Tucson has an organized municipal govern- 
 ment with mayor and city council and excel- 
 lent public buildings; a public library which 
 would do well for a city of 20,000 inhabitants; is 
 the seat of the University of Arizona, under 
 management of which are the agricultural col- 
 lege, the school of mines, and the United States 
 experimental station. It is favored with a strong 
 faculty of seventeen professors, and at present 
 100 or more students; tuition free, dormitory ac- 
 commodations and table board, $15 per month. 
 The college equipments are equal to the best in 
 the land. Families who come to spend the win- 
 ter here can allow their sons and daughters to 
 enjoy the advantages of this institution, while 
 they are assimilating the vigorous tonic of the 
 climate. 
 
 The public schools are on a high plane, well 
 graded, with an able corps of fourteen profes- 
 sional teachers, and with excellent buildings of 
 modern style of architecture. 
 
 The St. Joseph Academy for young ladies, 
 under the management of the Sisters of St. 
 Joseph, and the parochial school for boys, under 
 the supervision of the Catholic Church, have a 
 large attendance. 
 
 The Indian Industrial Mis.=ion School under 
 the auspices of the Presbyterian Home Mission, 
 is established here with an average attendance of 
 one hundred and fifty Indian boys and girls. 
 
 Because of its antiquity there are many places 
 of interest within the radius of a few miles of 
 Tucson, notably the San Xavier Mission, the 
 old mission church of Escala Pura, the aban- 
 doned Government post Fort Lowell, and the 
 fortified hills west of town. By whom or by 
 what race the fortifications were built is not 
 known, but their lines of defense are still plainly 
 visible. Many large rocks, having an eastern 
 face, are covered with hieroglyphics of a lost 
 race, and the riddle has vet to be read. For
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1003 
 
 iiiaiiy niilfs north of town, in the Santa Cruz 
 valley, are to be found evidences of dead cities. 
 The phins may bear no mark of himian occu- 
 pation, but reHcs of the past are unearthed by a 
 little labor. Broken pottery, ornaments, house- 
 hold utensils, implements of agriculture and war 
 are common to the inquiring mind of the arch- 
 aeologist. Burial urns, with their incinerated 
 contents perfect as the day when they were first 
 consigned to the earth, are occasionally to be 
 found. The whole country is full of interest, not 
 only for the capitalist and the home seeker, but 
 for men of leisure in search of recreation and the 
 in\alid in quest of health. 
 
 PRESCOTT. 
 
 Prescott was established in 1864. There was 
 previously a military post at Fort Whipple, near 
 the present site of Prescott, and the protection 
 of the army encouraged the settlement of the 
 country around the post and promoted the de- 
 velopment of the mines and the material re- 
 sources of the vicinity. There was a straggling 
 settlement along the Granite creek, and the set- 
 tlers here iletermined to erect their settlement in- 
 to a corporate town, and to that end called a mass 
 meeting for Monday evening. May 30, 1864. 
 This meeting was held in the store of Don Man- 
 uel, and here the dimensions and boundaries of 
 the town were agreed upon and the name 
 adopted by resolution as "Prescott." in honor 
 of the eminent American writer and standard 
 author upon Aztec and Spanish-American his- 
 tory. 
 
 The first territorial election was held July 18, 
 1864, and the new territory with its capital at 
 Prescott was fairly launched in the way of self- 
 government. 
 
 Prescott itself is a very prett_\- city (jf 3,559 
 population, situated on a number of low-rolling 
 hills, with a trend toward Granite creek, which 
 runs at the foot of the town. It is in the midst 
 of a well-wooded section and the town is em- 
 bowered in the perpetual green of pines and 
 cedars. The streets are broad, 100 feet in 
 width, rinuiing with the cardinal ])oints, and the 
 blocks are 325.\6oo feet, including a J5-foot 
 alley, running lengthwise through them. In the 
 center of the citv with business blocks facing it 
 
 on all sides is the Court Square, and in the cen- 
 ter of this is the court house, a very creditable, 
 substantially built structure of brick and stone. 
 It is two stories above a commodious basement, 
 and is well arranged and completely furnished. 
 
 Domestic water is supplied by the city, which 
 owns its own water works. The supply is de- 
 rived from deep wells, and is pumped into a large 
 reservoir located on a hill high above the town. 
 It is supplied by gravity pressure through mains 
 which are laid all over the city. The rates are 
 t]iirt)-five cents per one thousand gallons, with 
 a minimum charge of $i per month. Good 
 water can be got anywhere in the city at from ten 
 to fifty feet below the surface, and many windmills 
 and pumps are in use for raising water to irrigate 
 gardens and lawns. There are many very neat 
 modern residences in Prescott, and the grounds 
 are well kept. Of course, being a modern, up- 
 to-date city. Prescott has all the modern im- 
 provements and appliances. There is an electric 
 comjiany w hich fur;iishes a good system of both 
 arc and incandescent lights at a moderate 
 charge. Telegraph and telephone service, excel- 
 lent public schools and churches and benevolent 
 societies. C)f the religious denominations there 
 are Methodists. Episcopalians, Catholics, Metho- 
 dist Episcopal South and Baptists. The benevo- 
 lent orders are represented by Masons, Odd Fel- 
 lows, Knights of Pythias, Elks, Woodmen, 
 Workmen, Redmen, Foresters, Woodmen Cir- 
 cles, Rebekah Degree, Eastern Star, Royal Arch 
 Masons, Commandery and Maccabees. 
 
 Yavapai is a mountain county, its lowest alti- 
 tude is over one thousand two hundred feet, and 
 from this it ranges to ten thousand feet, attaining 
 its culmination in Moimt Cnion, about twelve 
 miles south of Prescott. Prescott itself lies at 
 an elevation of five thousand si.x hundred feet 
 above sea level and its summer climate is all 
 that could be desired. In fact, it is becoming 
 a favorite summer resort for people from the 
 lower and hotter portions of the territory, since 
 it has been brought within a few hours' journey 
 by rail. 
 
 APACHE COUNTY. 
 
 .\pache county was named from the Apache 
 Indians, who formerly occupied this section, 
 and still occupy their reservation to the inmie-
 
 I004 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 diate southwest. Tlic county is forty-eight miles 
 from east to west and one hundred and fifteen 
 miles north and south, exclusive of the Navajo 
 Indian reservation on the north, and lies in the 
 northeast corner of the territory. It has an aver- 
 ag^e of about five thousand six hundred feet alti- 
 tude, and is traversed, by the Rio Puerco, Zuni, 
 and Little Colorado rivers, flowing, respectively, 
 from the northeast, east, and southeast. The 
 rjreatest elevation is in the south, the region of 
 the .spurs of the \\'hite mountains. The surface 
 is a series of hrorid valle\s and table-lands. 
 
 The \\'hile mountains on the south, contain- 
 ing about six hundred square miles, which slope 
 gradually to the north, furnish a considerable 
 su])pl\- of water. The Julv and .Vugust rains are 
 cojiious, the streams often overflowing their 
 banks. This water is partially stored in numer- 
 ous small reservoirs, the capacity of which is 
 entirely inadequate to reclaim the available 
 agricultural land. 
 
 The best part of the country near the snow 
 line is covered with a good growth of long- 
 leafed pine, varying from saplings to immense 
 trees four to si.x feet in diameter. This timber 
 is protected by the government and is practically 
 untouched. The timber area is about six hun- 
 dred square miles in extent, and is worth millions 
 of dollars in itself, besides its incalculable influ- 
 ence upon climate and water supply. The foot- 
 hills of the mountains are covered with a growth 
 of pinon, cedar an<l oak, averaging at maturity 
 about twelve inches in diameter. The timber of 
 the foothills is not merchantable except for fuel 
 and fencing, and may be had for the cost of 
 hauling, which is only nominal. 
 
 There are about eight thousand acres under 
 ditch in the country. This has all been carved 
 out of waste land, ]>ractically valueless to the 
 government. The work of water development 
 and land reclamation has been done by our 
 home people in every instance, without the aid 
 of outside capital. The plan of operation, usu- 
 ally, is to organize a stock company, the stock 
 being paid for by work in the construction 
 operations. 
 
 Farming in this county is no experiment. It 
 is an unqualified success, and is limited to a few 
 thousand acres, solely because of a lack of water 
 development. Substantial improvements in that 
 
 direction are under way, however. The St. 
 Johns Irrigation Company, a co-operative con- 
 cern, which now irrigates some three thousand 
 acres of bench land, has two reservoirs com- 
 pleted, at a total cost of $15,000, and has an- 
 other reservoir under construction, which will 
 cost $15,000 more, and which will irrigate be- 
 tween three thousand and four thousand acres 
 in the neighborhood of St. Johns. All the water 
 supjjly is from the Little Colorado river and its 
 trilnUaries. 
 
 .\pachc county has been known as essentially 
 a stock-raising county, but its agricultural inter- 
 ests are certain to become an important factor 
 in the general prosperity within the near future. 
 The people are alive to the necessity and im- 
 portance of water storage, and the undeveloped 
 resources of the county in respect of available 
 reservoir sites comprise a valuable asset. Nor 
 will the development of the county's agricultural 
 resources conflict with the live-stock interests. 
 The land reclaimed and available for reclamation 
 forms little or no part of the grazing lands. As 
 a matter of fact, the stockmen welcome the 
 farmers, from whom they are able to purchase 
 all their supplies, while the extension of the al- 
 falfa fields will mean better opportunities for fat- 
 tening the range cattle. 
 
 COCHISE COUNTY. 
 
 Cochise county is in the southeast corner of 
 the territory. It was named in 1881 for one 
 of the Indian chiefs who formerly ruled the ter- 
 ritory within its boundaries. It contains many 
 historic spots connected with the early settle- 
 ment of Arizona and the Indian wars connected 
 with that period. One notable trace of pioneer 
 methods is the old Butterfield trail, over which 
 mail, express, and passengers were carried in 
 the ante-railroad days by the "pony express."' 
 Mail and express was carried over this route 
 between St. Joseph, Mo., and San Diego, Cal. ; 
 20,000 horses are said to have been employed on 
 the line. The climate is equable. Most of the 
 surface of the county is sufficiently elevated to 
 make the climate cool in summer and not severe 
 in winter. Like nearly all portions of Arizona, 
 Cochise county is mountainous. 
 
 The Chiricahua mountain district is one of the
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1005 
 
 wildest sections in the United States. P.car, 
 deer, lions and other varieties of wild animals 
 roam here and multiply almost undisturbed. 
 The mountain slopes are covered with a good 
 growth of timber, which furnishes lumber to the 
 mill man, stulls and lagging to the miner, and 
 fuel to all classes, thus greatly assisting all in- 
 dustries. The rugged folds of their great ridges 
 store water, which finds its way to the surface in 
 springs, or flows underground at a small depth, 
 which enables stockmen to raise it easily to 
 water their herds. Many pleasant retreats are 
 found beneath their sheltering cliffs and groves 
 for persons seeking refuge from summer's heat. 
 The different ranges serve as condensers, thus 
 causing throughout the country a fair rainfall. 
 During the year 1899 most parts of the couni\ 
 were very well favored with rains, and good 
 feed, fat stock, and a fair crop of hay is the re- 
 sult. 
 
 While the soil of Cochise county is fertile, still 
 for lack of water sufficient for irrigation, the 
 great need of the entire southwest, the county 
 can not make large claims as a farming county. 
 However, along the streams and in many can- 
 yons hardy husbandmen have taken advantage 
 of the natural facilities and are raising excellent 
 crops of hay, fruit, melons, vegetables, and 
 grain, all of which crops thrive wonderfully 
 where enough water can be had to irrigate them 
 sufficiently. It is, however, as a mining and 
 stock-raising county that Cochise can boast. A 
 great variety of ores are mined, including gold, 
 silver, copper, lead and wolframite. Roofing slate 
 and some valuable building stones are also a part 
 of her wealth. The Copper Queen Mining Com- 
 pany at liisbee is one of the leading concerns 
 of the world for the mining of copper. Its 
 works arc located at Bisbee, and a railroad 
 reaches them, which forms a junction with the 
 Southern Pacific at Benson. The Copper 
 Queen Company employs an army of men. and 
 the trade resulting from its employment fur- 
 nishes business to a great number of other peo- 
 ple and industries. Bisbee is the largest city in 
 the county, having a iiopulation of six thousand. 
 
 The Commonwealth and other mines owned 
 by the Commonwealth Mining and Alilling 
 Company at Pearce are bonanzas. The capa- 
 city of the mill on the company's property has 
 
 been increased from twenty to fifty stamps dur- 
 ing the year. 
 
 The wolframite mines, as well as mines of 
 other metals near Dragoon, have attracted a 
 .great deal of attention, and some important 
 deals affecting them have been accomplished. 
 There are n number of companies operating in 
 that district, l^esides several individuals. 
 
 A stamp mill for treating ores has been recon- 
 structed during the year at Dos Cabezas. Some 
 placers in that district are also exciting interest, 
 and some work is being done on them. Dos 
 Cabezas. located fifteen miles from Willcox. is 
 one of the oldest mining camps in the territory. 
 Gold is the principal ore mined there, although 
 others are found in jiaying (luanlities. Some 
 important ileals in mining property have been 
 made there during the year. 
 
 Tombstone mines, after many years of al- 
 most total inactivity, are lately taking another 
 start under the operations of lessees, some of 
 whom are said to be doing extra well, while all 
 are doing well. The people there are hopeful 
 that the plan above mentioned may prove a com- 
 plete success, and that those fabulously produc- 
 tive mines may again be turning out their mints 
 of the white metal. 
 
 Everywhere throughout the county there is 
 great activity in mining. .\t Tur(|uoise. liar- 
 rett Camp, Middlemarch, Golden Rule, and 
 other properties in the Dragoon district, exten- 
 sive work in the way of extracting ores and de- 
 veloping properties is being done. A smelter 
 at Barrett Camp will soon be operating upon 
 copper ores. .A stamp mill to work the ores of 
 the Golden Rule, and to do custom milling also, 
 has been erected at Cochise, a small station on 
 the Southern Pacific, during 1899. 
 
 That men have confidence in the ore supplies 
 of the county throughout is evidenced by the 
 amount of work and money that is at present 
 Ix'ing expended in developing property, and 
 sinking to discover ore bodies. Greater activitx' 
 tiian usual has been shown in this direction dur- 
 ing the past year, and the in(|uiries have been 
 more numerous for mining property than for 
 some time. 
 
 The cattle business has also been unusually 
 and gratifyingly jirofitable. Good rains have 
 fallen and prices have been excellent, and as a
 
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 consequence stockmen feel like princes. Will- 
 cox still holds its place at the head of the list of 
 cattle-shipping towns, having shipped 31.794 
 head to September i ; and still stockmen aver the 
 number shipped can scarcely be missed off the 
 ranges, so abundant are the stocks in Sulphur 
 Spring valley and on adjacent ranges. .A great 
 impetus has been given to the stock business by 
 the e.xcellent prices which have prevailed during 
 the year. Extensive and valuable irnprove- 
 nients in the way of increasing water supplies 
 and improving ranch property have been made. 
 
 Although cattle raising takes the lead, still 
 the raising of sheep, horses, and mules ought 
 not to pass without mention in an article treating 
 of the resources of the county. Valuable herds 
 of sheep are grazetl here, and the excellent prices 
 obtained for wool and mutton swell the accounts 
 of their owners. 
 
 A great many horses roam on the ranges as 
 free as nature itself. Their chief use has been 
 as saddle horses in handling all kinds of stock. 
 However, horse owners are hopeful that the 
 causes now influencing prices may make the 
 breeding and raising of good, clean-limbed, 
 hardy horses a paying business. 
 
 COCONINO COUNTY. 
 
 Coconino county was segregated from Yava- 
 pai county in 1891, and contains within her bor- 
 ders the largest body of timber of any county in 
 the United States, and the only present available 
 supply in Arizona. There are several large mills 
 working along the line of the Santa Fe, of which 
 more extended notice is given elsewhere, and 
 whose output forms no inconsiderable part of 
 the wealth of the territory. 
 
 Next to lumbering, sheep and wool growing 
 and stock-raising are the most prominent in- 
 dustries and large amounts of money are annu- 
 ally brought into the country from these 
 sources. There are on the ranges around Flag- 
 staff, in the neighborhood of 300,000 sheep giv- 
 ing an annual clip of about 2,500,000 pounds of 
 wool, and the annual shipments of stock will 
 run close to $250,000. 
 
 Within Coconino county there is a very large 
 area of land, estimated as high as two million 
 seven hundred and fifty thousand acres, suscepti- 
 
 ble of cultiv.ation without irrigation. Of this 
 amount there is a very limited quantity under 
 cultivation, not over ten thousand acres. The 
 cereals do well here and most vegetables yield 
 very heavy crops. 
 
 Within this county are very many of the 
 natural wonders of Arizona, the Grand canon, 
 the Painted Desert, wild mountain scenery, the 
 clifif and cave dwellings, all of which have been 
 alluded to more extensively elsewhere. The 
 county is well watered and well v^'ooded, and the 
 Santa Fe road crosses it from east to west. The 
 new railroad that has been built to the Grand 
 caiion lies wholly within Coconino. 
 
 The summer climate is very pleasant. Being 
 in a mountain county, Flagstaff and Williams, 
 the principal towns, lie at an elevation of be- 
 tween six and seven thousand feet ; the summers 
 are always cool while its southern latitude pre- 
 cludes the possibility of severe winter weather. 
 The air is very pure and bracing and is a specific 
 for asthma. 
 
 There are some very fextensive and rich cop- 
 per, gold and silver mines found here and some 
 in the vicinity of the Grand caiion have been 
 profitably worked for years. A smelter has been 
 erected at Williams for the purpose of reducing 
 ores from the mines of the county. Large de- 
 posits of coal have been found and some very 
 valuable beds of a superior onyx have been lo- 
 cated. Molybderium is found in quantities in 
 the Grand canon. 
 
 The principal towns are Flagstaff (population, 
 1,271) .and Williams (population 1,382), both 
 largely dependent upon lumbering for their 
 prosperity. Flagstaff is the county seat, and 
 here also is located the Northern Arizona Nor- 
 mal School, in one of the finest buildings in the 
 territory. The altitude is 6,800 feet and the 
 summer climate is perfect, while the winters are 
 not cold. The scenery is grand. Back of the 
 town towers the San Francisco range. From 
 here a stage line runs to the Grand caiion, and 
 the homes of the cliff and cave dwellers are 
 within reach. Flagstaff is in the center of some 
 of the most interesting features of the territory. 
 Here, too, on account of purity of its atmos- 
 phere the celebrated Lowell observatory, which 
 has added so nnich to the scientific knowledge of 
 the world, has been located.
 
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 Located within thirty-two miles of Flagstaff 
 and enjoying the same scenery and climate is 
 the town of Williams, a lively, enterprising, 
 lumbering, railroad and mining town. From 
 this town the new railroad to the Grand canon 
 has been constructed. 
 
 GILA COUNTY. 
 
 Gila county occupies a peculiar position, geo- 
 graphically, lying in the eastern central part of 
 the territory, bounded on the north by the rim 
 of the Mogollons, stretching into the .\p.nche 
 Indian reservation on the east, defined hv the 
 foot of the Four Peaks on the west. 
 
 The industries of Gila county are mining, 
 stock raising, lumbering and agriculture. Min- 
 ing far overshadows all other industries and in 
 Gila we find some of the heaviest mining prop- 
 erties in the territory. In the center of this 
 great mining region is the city of Globe, the 
 county seat of Ciila county. This district first 
 came into prominence in 1873, when some very 
 I)romising silver prospects were discovered. 
 But it was far from civilization at that time, con- 
 tinually exposed to danger from marauding In- 
 dians, and little progress was made until 1875, 
 when some inunense silver discoveries caused a 
 great influx of miners and prospectors from the 
 surrounding country. From that date Cjlobe has 
 continued to ]5rogress steadily and rapidly until 
 the present time. 
 
 Globe has railroad communication with the 
 outer world through the Gila \'alley. Globe & 
 Northern Railway, of which a further account 
 is given elsewhere, connecting with the South- 
 ern Pacific at Bowie, one hundred and twent}- 
 five miles east. An extension of the Santa Fe, 
 Prescott & Phoenix Railway is projected, which, 
 when constructed, will add greatly to the pros- 
 perity of both (ilobe and Phoenix. 
 
 The great mining camp of Cjlobe is one of the 
 largest frontier camps in this country. Under 
 adverse circumstances it has become a mining 
 center of great magnitude. The first settlement 
 was begun in 1876, at what was known then as 
 Rambo's camp, ten miles north of the jjresent 
 site of Globe. Pinal creek was the western 
 boundary of the Apache Indian reservation and 
 
 the creek was called the dead line by the early 
 settlers. 
 
 When the reservation was diminished in area 
 the section which now contains Globe was 
 opened to settlement to the whites. As the min- 
 eral wealth of the district became known peo- 
 ple began to come over the mountains from 
 New Mexico in large numbers and in a short 
 time a camp of considerable importance was 
 built here. 
 
 In her history as a mining camp (ilobe has 
 been [leculiarly fortunate. In the beginning her 
 prosperity was based upon silver production, 
 for while copper was known to exist in large 
 (|uantities, the cost of mining and transporta- 
 tion consumed the ])rofits and it did not ]iay to 
 \\t)rk. The white metal, however, was abundant, 
 and silver mining ])ai(I. With the decline in 
 silver, this class of mining ceased to be profit- 
 able, but at the same time a steady and remark- 
 able advance in the ])rice of copper took place 
 and the copper mines of Globe became more 
 profitable than the silver and her prosperity so 
 far from declining with the waning price of sil- 
 ver steadily advanced with the increasing price 
 of copper, and she is today one of the most 
 prosperous camps in the west. 
 
 GI!-\ITAiI eOUXTV. 
 
 (jraham county, in the southeastern part of 
 the territory, and almost the last spot to be 
 wrested from the domain of the .Vpache, has, by 
 reason of its mineral, agricultural, and jiastoral 
 resources, risen to a place of only second rank 
 in the list of counties. Clifton, Morenci and 
 Metcalf are mining villages, and contain a popu- 
 lation of 5,000, engaged in various occupations 
 of mining. 
 
 Duncan, Solomonville. Safford, Thatcher, 
 Central, Pima, Mathewsville, l-'ort Thomas, and 
 Geronimo are agricultural villages, being lo- 
 cated in the valley of the Gila, and all, with the 
 exception of the first named, which is on the 
 Arizona & New Mexico Railroad, are on the 
 Gila \'alley. Globe & Northern Railroad. 
 
 The river Gila, coming from its sources in 
 New Mexico, enters the county near its center 
 on the east, and uniting with the San Francisco 
 below Clifton, passes through the center of the
 
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 county, leaving it at San Carlos on the west. 
 The river valley is of rich alluvial soil, and is 
 from two to five miles in width, much of which 
 is under a high state of tillage by irrigation. 
 The crops grown include those of the temperate 
 zone and some semitropical fruits. Late apples 
 are very productive and of excellent quality. 
 Other fruits are of good quality, but are some- 
 times damaged by late frosts. Prices of all 
 farm products are excellent, owing to a local 
 market in the mines near by. 
 
 No portion of the county has a less elevation 
 than two thousand eight hundred feet and vary- 
 ing to ten thousand feet for the mountain peaks. 
 The climate is dry and healthful ; winters in the 
 valley are mild, the range of the thermometer 
 being from fourteen degrees F. above zero to 
 one hundred and four degrees. Nights gener- 
 ally are cool and bracing in summer. 
 
 The first white men in the county were the 
 California Volunteers, who were stationed at 
 Old Camp Goodwin to control Cochise and his 
 Chiricahua Apaches. No real settlement, how- 
 ever, was made until 1873, when prospectors 
 and home-seekers began to arrive. In 1874 Saf- 
 ford, which afterwards became the county seat, 
 was settled. In 1880 colonies of Mormons ar- 
 rived from Utah, and, locating along the river, 
 dug canals and developed the agriculture of the 
 valley. Graham is essentially a mountain 
 county, being situated on the great plateau of 
 the Rocky mountains. In elevation it ranges 
 from three thousand feet in the lower valleys to 
 four thousand feet in the elevated table lands. 
 The Graham range, which is well timbered with 
 pine, spruce, juniper and fir, besides several 
 hard woods, crosses the county from northwest 
 to southeast with peaks rising to 10,318 feet 
 above sea level. 
 
 M.\RICOPA COUNTY. 
 
 The county of Maricopa, which embraces the 
 Salt River valley, is located very nearly central 
 in the territory and comprises four million six 
 hundred and seventy-nine thousand acres, of 
 which one million five hundred thousand may 
 be classed as arable, and can be reclaimed 
 by irrigation. .'\nd what crops can be raised 
 here! The soil has lain fallow for ages, ever 
 
 since the mysterious race, who have disap- 
 peared and left no trace but their works, 
 irrigated and cultivated it — and there are evi- 
 dences that a teeming population was once lo- 
 cated here. In all these untold ages this soil 
 has been storing up fertility awaiting the com- 
 ing of the farmer, and now it is ready to break 
 forth at his bidding. The soil in the valley is 
 incomparable in its productive capacities. In 
 fact, it is limited only in this respect by its water 
 supply. The mesa land is gray sandy loam, 
 while nearer the stream it changes into a dark 
 rich soil, admirably adapted to the growth of 
 alfalfa, wheat, barley, and all kinds of vegetables, 
 sugar cane, watermelons, etc., while the lands of 
 the mesas have demonstrated that for the 
 growth of oranges, lemons, and all citrus and 
 deciduous fruits they have no equal in this or 
 any other country. The soil when irrigated is a 
 rich alluvium, and is of marvelous depth, and 
 the waters which give life to the plants and trees 
 in this garden of the new world, not unlike that 
 of the Nile, carries a large percentage of sedi- 
 ment which is incomparable as a fertilizer and 
 continually enriches the soil cultivated. 
 
 The senate of the L^nited States appointed 
 a special committee to examine into the possi- 
 bilities of irrigation, and they passed several 
 days in the intelligent examination of the soil, 
 climate, and agricultural conditions of the Salt 
 River valley. In their report we find on page 
 60 the following testimony: "A careful analysis 
 of this soil shows its fertile qualities to be su- 
 perior to the Nile earth." When we think of 
 the early history of civilization, its marvelous 
 growth and development, and then realize that 
 civilization and ancient greatness had its high 
 tide along the course of the Nile, we marvel at 
 the future of this new Edeti of the west. Most 
 of this valley's soils are the accumulated wash- 
 ings from the surroimding hills, made up of the 
 fine particles that have been, during countless 
 centuries, disintegrated by frost or the elements. 
 The water is also charged with new fertility. 
 
 One fact here may show the value of irriga- 
 tion as a fertilizer. The Pima and Maricopa In- 
 dians along the river in this valley live by farm- 
 ing and stock feeding. The system of irrigation 
 used bv them for centuries is of the rudest na- 
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 never having cost the government a dollar. The\' 
 have no tradition rnnning back to the time 
 when their ancestors did not cuhivate these val- 
 leys, sowing from year to year the same variety 
 of wheat, never changing the seed in all these 
 years, and neither the grain nor the soil show 
 signs of exhaustion. Xo wheat of greater 
 beauty nor of more excellent (|nalitv can be 
 found. 
 
 The Salt River valley has ni.uiy advantages 
 besides its climate, soil, and conditions. It is 
 ci.x weeks earlier in the market with apricots, 
 grapes, oranges, and peaches, thus sure oi secur- 
 ing a ready sale for its products. The early 
 fruits always command the highest prices and 
 most ready sale. 
 
 The extensive fields of alfalfa in this valley 
 afford fine opportunities for the fattening of 
 stock, of which the stockmen of the various 
 counties have taken advantage, and this is a 
 source of great profit to the farmer. 
 
 In this southern territory is the coming agri- 
 cultural empire of the continent. Palmyra of old, 
 Egypt in the days of the greater Rameses, and 
 the plains of greater India must be brought to 
 mind before the infinite possibilities of the re- 
 gion can be even dimly comprehended. .Along 
 a single Arizona river is a greater arable area 
 than in all the lately accjuired Hawaiian Isles. 
 In the single valley of the Salt, where two hun- 
 dred and fifty thousand acres partially cultivated 
 maintain a jjopulation of thirty thousand, 
 are yet untouched a million acres suscepti- 
 ble of irrigation and as well fitted by nature 
 for agricultural production as are any of the 
 acres alrcidy sown. This development to the 
 extent of the arable land will come with the con- 
 servati(.)n of the flood waters of the Salt, as a 
 similar and no less ])lienomenal change will 
 come through the same means to the ujjper and 
 lower valleys of the Gila river. 
 
 The soil of the great undeveloped plains or 
 deserts is almost uniform. Near the stream 
 channels are to be found strips of, clay-like black 
 adobe, with occasional streaks of alkali, contain- 
 ing varving proportions of mineral salts. The 
 upper-lying land is lighter, though it is not to be 
 classed as less rich. It abounds in lime, particu- 
 larly in lime sulphate (gyjisum). It is lacking in 
 two elements, vegetable hunnis and iron. I'lOth 
 
 are readily secured by cropping for several years 
 to alfalfa. Thus prepared, through the plant- 
 ing and plowing under of alfalfa, the land is at 
 its best. Alfalfa is king in the southland. ( )f 
 this there can be no dispute. Around about 
 Phoenix sixty thousand acres are planted to it, 
 and rich is the owner of a farm thereof. .Vhnost 
 to infinity is the list of special field crops that 
 may be raised in the irrigated valleys. Perhaps 
 in days to come sugar beets will occupv in acre- 
 age the place next below alfalfa. Thus far it is 
 believed the best methods of sugar-beet cidtiva- 
 lion have not been discovered, though one vari- 
 ety of l)eet, of Klein-Wanzlebener, has been 
 fi.xed upon by the American agricultural experi- 
 ment stations as best adapted to local conditions 
 In saccharine strength and jjurity the best .Vri- 
 zona beets have thus far come from localities 
 with altitudes above two thousand feet. Sugar 
 cane thrives in all luxuriance, as does sorghum, 
 lioth have been utilized in the manufacture of 
 molasses. Sorghum is one of the most profit- 
 able crops when grown for fattening cattle. The 
 feeder secures the quickest and most economical 
 results who combines sorghum with alfalfa hay. 
 
 The dairy industry has grown from nothing 
 until today it is one of the leading sources of 
 income, bringing into the valley not less than 
 ,$100,000 annually, and contributing an annual 
 product of no less than $125,000. In fact, some 
 conservative men place it much higher: hut this 
 much at least is knov.ii from figures based upon 
 actual weights. 
 
 There is hardlv any branch of agriculture thai 
 will not thrive here, and as all crops depend 
 u])on irrigation, tlicre is no such thing iis fail- 
 ure, and it is doubtful whether in the whole 
 county there is a farming community that will 
 compare for thrift and prosperity with those of 
 Maricopa county. 
 
 As an industry, horticulture has a growing 
 popularity in the Salt River valley. Both citrus 
 and deciduous fruits are successfully raised. 
 Eastern purchasers have fre(|uently commented 
 upon the excellence of Salt river oranges, and 
 at the California Midwinter Fair Washington 
 navels from here received a first-premium gold 
 medal for excellence. 
 
 The raising of cattle is another important 
 industry in the valley, a large proportion of the
 
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 stock shipped from Arizona to the market being 
 from her§. 
 
 The most important mining camp in the valley 
 is at Wickenburg, which is the third oldest town 
 in Arizona, Tucson being the first and Yuma 
 the second. The original location was made in 
 1863 l)y Henry Wickenburg, the second white 
 man to explore this section, and the discoverer 
 and original developer of the Wiltnrc mine. 
 
 MOHAVE COUNTY. 
 
 Prior to 1864 Moh.ave county composed a por- 
 tion of Donna Ana county, N. M., but after the 
 organization of the territory of Arizona it was 
 formed into one of the four original political di- 
 visions into which the territory was divided. It 
 embraces 16,000 square miles of the northwest- 
 ern part of the territory. It is traversed by high 
 motuitain ranges and broad valleys, covered 
 many months in the year by luxuriant vegetation 
 and nutritious .grasses. L'ntil 1882 its only 
 means of comnnmicati(jn with the outside world 
 was l)y stage to San Piernardino or river steamer 
 to the Gulf of California. 
 
 The number of acres of land now under cul- 
 tivali<;in is over 2,500: and on the Colorado river 
 below Fort Mohave several hundred more acres 
 are in process of reclamation. 
 
 The irrigation canals of the county are purely 
 of a lateral nature, built to carry water over 
 small sections of land. On the P>ig Sandy each 
 farmer has taken out a ditch from the creek to 
 irrigate his own tract of land, consisting of from 
 fifty to three hundred acres. Thirty-five miles 
 of ditch will cover the irrigation district of the 
 Sandy. In the valley of the Colorado river the 
 government has a pumping plant which supplies 
 water for about one hundred acres of land. 
 Several ranches irrigate small parcels of land 
 from wells, while the Mohave Indians await the 
 overflow of the river to put their land in proper 
 condition for crops. 
 
 There are in the county of Mohave, not in- 
 cluding the high mesas, over four million acres of 
 land that can be readily reclaimed. Lands along 
 the Colorado river, in the Mohave valley, grow 
 every semitropic;ii fruit. No frost falls in the 
 lowlands. In the mountain ranges are many 
 springs, the waters of which are used to irrigate 
 
 small patches of land. West of Kingman sev- 
 eral of these springs have been converged at 
 Beale Springs and a beautiful fruit orchard prop- 
 agated. This year the crop has been unusually 
 large, and thousands of dollars' worth was 
 shipped to outside points. The peaches raised 
 on this ranch arc of the most luscious flavor and 
 are of enormous size. North of this branch is 
 ( )ak creek, the largest orchard in the count\'. 
 Nectarines, peaches, apricots, figs, apples, pears, 
 plums, pomegranates, almonds, grapes and many 
 other fruits are here grown in abimdance. 
 
 The people of ^Mohave county depend almost 
 entirely on the product of the mines. For years 
 the mines were worked almost exclusively by 
 "chloriders," and the product has been enor- 
 mously large. Forty million dollars will not 
 cover in value the gold and silver taken from 
 the mines since their first discovery. 
 
 The principal towns in the county are King- 
 man. White Hills, Leach Springs, Hackberry, 
 Signal, Cerbat and ^Mineral Park. Kingman is 
 the county seat. This is a busy, thrivin.g little 
 town, directly on the line of the Sante Fe, about 
 sixty miles east of the Colorado river, and al- 
 most in the geographical center of the county. 
 It has a population of about one thousand and 
 is well supplied with water from a large spring 
 in the mountains. There are a nimiber of very 
 creditable residences .and some fine business 
 blocks. A very large trade is done here with 
 the surrounding mining coimtry. A new rail- 
 road is being built from this point to connect 
 with the Utah Southern system, of which a 
 more extended account will be found elsewhere. 
 On a hill overlooking the town is the court- 
 house, a pretentious structure that does credit to 
 the people of Mohave county. 
 
 N.\VA.JO COUNTY. 
 
 Navajo county was created b}- an act of the 
 eighteenth legislative assembly from the west- 
 ern portion of .Apache county, and is situated 
 in the northern and eastern portion of the terri- 
 tory. On the north is the Colorado river, on the 
 east Apache county, on the south Gila and Gra- 
 ham counties, and on the west the county of 
 Coconino. The topography of the county con- 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
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 lion is about six thous.and feet, cut from east to 
 west by the Little Colorado river, sloping gently 
 toward that stream and also toward the west, the 
 general direction of the river. It is about two 
 hundred and fort', miles long from north to 
 soutii and fifty-three miles wide from east to 
 west, containing about ten thousand s(|nare 
 miles. The iMoc|ui ind .Vavajo Indian reser\'a- 
 tions cover the entire northern jiortion, and the 
 White Mountain .-Vpachc Indian reservation 
 cox'ers the southern part, leaving a strip one 
 hundred miles long and fifty-three miles wide 
 for the occupation of white people. 
 
 The southern portion of the count) is cov- 
 ered by .a fine growth of pine, which is now em- 
 bodied in the Black Mesa Forest reserve. The 
 population of the county is estimated at about 
 5.000. 
 
 Hoibrook is the county seat of Navajo county 
 and is one of the greatest shipping centers in 
 northern .Arizona. It is situated in the fertile 
 valley of the Little Colorado, and has .a bright 
 future. .\l)ove the town is a fine site for a stor- 
 age reservoir and when constructed it will re- 
 claim several thousand acres of tillable land. 
 Hoibrook is also the distributing point for Snow- 
 flake, Taylor, Pinedale, Shumway, Linden, 
 Showlow, Silver Creek, Pinetop, Woodland, 
 Fort .\pache, Heber, Pleasant \'alley. Woodruff, 
 Concho, St. Johns, Springerville, Keams Can- 
 on, etc. Last spring over 10,000 head of cattle 
 were shipped from this point anil 50,000 head of 
 sheep and several hundred thousand pounds of 
 wool. .-Ml kinds of business are lilierally repre- 
 sented in town. In i8qS a fine court-house was 
 erected. 
 
 rnr.v county. 
 
 Pima retains the legal classification as a 
 comitv of the first class, that is. it still shows 
 taxable proi)ert)' in excess of the required 
 $3,000,000, notwithstanding that out of a por- 
 tion of its territory a new county (Sant.a Cruz) 
 of 1,200 scpiare miles has been created since the 
 last report. Last year the taxable wealth was 
 fixed liy the territorial board of equalization at 
 .$3,753,^40, .and this year it is $3,376,512. or 
 onl\- $376,728 less than a \ear ago, altlnjugh the 
 territory surrendered for the new county makes 
 
 the fine showing of $937,985 worth of taxable 
 property, .\ltogether there is an increased val- 
 uation for the whole territory comprised within 
 the former limits of the county of $561,157. .As 
 the assessed valuations are notoriously low, 
 these figures indicate an actual increase in 
 wealth of $2,coo,ooo over a year ago. .As these 
 figures show, mi nther county in the territory 
 is sharing to a greater extent than Pima in the 
 general prosperity now prevalent in .\rizona. 
 
 1 he ])rogress made in the mining industry, so 
 not;ible during the past few years, h.as con- 
 tiuue<l nn:ibated through the present year, 
 greatly stinuilated by the widespread revival of 
 interest and confidence in mining, so manifest 
 among the people of the eastern states. Here- 
 tofore the development of the prospects and 
 mines of this section has been made almost en- 
 tirelv by local energy and capital, but the great 
 merit (.)f Pima count v mines is at last attracting 
 outside capital m large (|uantities, and imnortant 
 sales are frequent. Promising prospects are 
 being purchased by people financially able to 
 develop them, anil there were never so many 
 ]jrospectors exploring the hills as now. 
 
 The production of all the jirccious metals 
 has increased during the year, that of copper 
 l)articularly. The high price of copper having 
 directed the attention of mining investors to 
 Pima county, a number of the better-developetl 
 mines have been equipped with modern machin- 
 ery and smellers, while prospecting for copper is 
 being rewarded by numerous new discoveries. 
 Even silver is receiving more attention than for 
 years past. and. taking advantage of improve- 
 ments in machinery and the treatment of ores, 
 silver mines that ha\e been idle for years- have 
 been started up with satisfactory' results. 
 
 In commercial lines the situation is no less 
 .satisfactory. 
 
 I lie live-stock industry remains in a lloiu'ish- 
 ing condition. Heavy shipments of cattle have 
 been made to the eastern and coast markets and 
 sold at renuinerative prices, while the increase 
 on the ranges has fully maintained the sup])ly. 
 .\s :i reference to the table of assessed valua- 
 tions will show, the actual value of the cattle in 
 the comUv approximates $1,500,000. Abnn- 
 ilant rains in July and .\ugust i)ut the ranges in a 
 most satisfactorv condition.
 
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 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 Considerable attention is being given to the 
 larger production of sheep in the mountain 
 ranges than heretofore, both on account of the 
 in'gher price of wool, incident to the passage 
 of the late tarifif legislation by congress, and the 
 greater demand for mutton as an article of food, 
 owing to the increased jirice of beef cattle. 
 
 The great mountain ranges of Pima counts- 
 are especially fitted for the support of immense 
 flocks of sheep: they produce large quantities 
 of the most nutritious grasses which are not 
 as accessible to the larger stock as to sheep. 
 This field of sheep industry presents a decidedly 
 inviting opportunity for the employment of cap- 
 ital with the most profitable results. This is es- 
 pecially so for the person with limited capital, 
 as it takes much less capital to start into sheep 
 raising than it does in cattle raising, while the 
 returns in sheep are much earlier than with cat- 
 tle. 
 
 Compared with other lines of business farm- 
 ing does not make the showing made in some 
 other counties. The area of cultivated land has 
 not been materiall\- increased, and will not be 
 until the adoption of some system of water de- 
 velopment. But possiliilities in that direction 
 are verv flattering, and the prospects for the 
 construction of one or more reservoirs are good. 
 It is only recently that the serious attention of 
 our people has been generally arrested and di- 
 rected to the possibilities and certain profits of 
 an increased water supply; and the energy with 
 which the question is being agitated promises 
 important results for the county, which is certain 
 in time to take a good position among the agri- 
 cultural sections of the territory. 
 
 Twenty per cent of the land of Pima county 
 can be successfully irrigated and reclaimed by 
 a system of ditches, subdrainage pipes and res- 
 ervoirs for water storage at a reasonable out- 
 lay, and 201,420 .acres thus added to the cultiva- 
 ble area at an average cost of reclamation of $6 
 per acre. Wheat, barley, oats, alfalfa, hay, corn, 
 sorghum, tobacco, potatoes, pease, beans, beets, 
 all kinds of vegetables, fruit, etc., can be pro- 
 duced on these lands. The yield of wheat, barley 
 and oats will be from thirty-five to forty bush- 
 els per acre; corn, from forty to si.\ty bushels; 
 hay, three tons; and alfalfa, five to seven tons. 
 
 There are six hundred and fift\- acres of land 
 
 devoted to orchards — peaches, apricots, nectar- 
 ines, apples, pears, quinces, figs, pomegranates 
 and grapes being the most profitable crops. 
 
 Only about ten per cent of the present fruit 
 consumed is produced in the county. 
 
 The Santa Cruz valley, which extends from 
 south to north across the entire countv, was un- 
 doubtedly the first seat of agriculture in the 
 territory of .\rizona. The old settlements of 
 Huebabi, Tumacacori. Tubac, Tucson and San 
 Francisco maintained a considerable population 
 and supplied the .Spanish militar\- posts with 
 provisions by agriculture in the earliest dawn of 
 civilization on the .American continent, and the 
 descendants of these early producers, aug- 
 mented by more recent settlers, still carry on 
 successful agriculture at all these points, and 
 at many new places, until agriculture has be- 
 come an important industry. For more than 
 three hundred and fifty years, ever since the 
 Spaniards first set foot in this section, crops have 
 been produced in the Santa Cruz valley every 
 month in the year with irrigation and without 
 a particle of fertilizer being used, and still the 
 soil is rich and abundantly productive, and is 
 annually growing richer from irrigation. Two 
 crops are raised on the same land each year. 
 
 The running bodies of water are the Santa 
 Cruz and San Pedro rivers, and the Pantano, 
 Rillito, and Sonoita creeks. During the rainy 
 seasons immense bodies of water flow to waste, 
 which, if impounded, would bring thousands of 
 acres of the most fertile land in the world under 
 cultivation. In any of the valleys and on the 
 plains where flowing water cannot be found 
 the same can be reached at a depth varying 
 at from ten to six hundred feet. 
 
 T1X.\L COUNTY. 
 
 Pinal countv has a full share in the general 
 prosperity which the year 1899 appears to have 
 brought to every section of Arizona. Every in- 
 dustry has made substantial progress. In min- 
 ing, particularly, the \ear is notable for the prof- 
 itable development witnessed. All kinds of live 
 stock have done well, and while farmers have 
 had to face, as usual, an unfortunate shortage in 
 the supply of water for irrigation, they are re- 
 alizing good prices for their products.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1013 
 
 Pinal count)- was organized in 1875 from por- 
 tions of Pima, Maricopa and Yavapai counties, 
 and contains an area of 5.338 square miles, or 
 3,435,520 acres. One-third of this acreage is 
 fine agricultural land, and is admiral^ly situated 
 for irrigation where there is sufficient water 
 available. 
 
 The Gila river tlows thruugii the county, and 
 at certain seasons of the year carries sufficient 
 w-ater in flood to irrigate a goodly porticin of the 
 county the year round, could the floods be 
 stored for use as needed. ( H late \ ears the short- 
 age of water has become more acute on account 
 of the rapid development of irrigation higher 
 up the river, in Ciraham county: and in conse- 
 quence of the inroads made upon the water sup- 
 ply by the Graham count}- irrigators, I'inal has 
 had to take third place among the agricuhural 
 counties of the territor)-. \ielding second place to 
 Graham. The principal irrigating canals are: 
 The Casa (irande \'a]ley canal, which takes its 
 supply from the Gila, eleven miles east of I'lor- 
 ence, and has a total length of forty-five miles: 
 the McLellan canal, heading nine miles east of 
 Morence, with a length of five miles: the Spinas 
 canal, heading three miles west of Florence, and 
 the Charlean canal, two miles w-est, each with hut 
 few miles of length, and all supplied from the 
 Gila. There are about nine thousand acres irri- 
 gated. 
 
 Florence, the county seat of Pinal, is a beauti- 
 ful shade-embowered tow-n of 1,500 population, 
 situated in the heart of a magnificent section 
 of country, and within half a mile of the Gila 
 river. Tributary to it is a large area of very fine 
 fanning land, irrigated by the waters of the Gila 
 and yielding certain crops year after year. .\ 
 large part of the older buildings are of adobe, 
 but an excellent quality of brick is made, and 
 very many buildings that w'ould do credit to 
 even a larger town are to be found here. A 
 noticeable building is the court-house, a good 
 two-story brick structure of which the people of 
 Florence and Pinal are justly proud. There is a 
 very fine school building, erected a few years 
 ago at a cost of $io,ooo. The county is divided 
 into thirteen school districts and maintains three 
 grammar and fifteen primary schools. 
 
 Tlie nearest railroad station to Florence is 
 Casa Grande on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 
 
 19 
 
 from which it is twenty-six miles distant in a 
 northeasterly direction. This distance is cov- 
 ered by stage, and the road passes the famous 
 ruins of Casa Grande. At this point the driver 
 always stops for a short time to give the trav- 
 elers a chance to insjicct this wonderful pile. 
 
 The second town of Pinal county in point of 
 im]iortance is Casa Grande, named from its 
 proximily to the ruins oi the same name. This 
 is tile raih'oad town of Pinal, being located on 
 tlie line of the Southern Pacific. There is a con- 
 sideral)le extent of farming land near Casa 
 ( irande which is irrigated from the waters of the 
 I'lorence canal. Other settlements are Mari- 
 copa, the junction of the Southern Pacific and 
 Marico])a & I'hoenix railroads, Arizola, River- 
 side and Mammoth. 
 
 Mining is a ver\- important industry of this 
 county, and has added many millions of dollars 
 to the national wealth. 
 
 SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. 
 
 -Santa t'ruz, tire thirteenth and last county or- 
 ganized in the territory, was created by act of 
 the twentieth legislative assembly, approved 
 March 15, last. It is also the smallest county, 
 the area being approximately twelve hundred 
 square miles, and was formed by detaching the 
 southern portion of Pima county, lying along 
 tlie ^Mexican border. 
 
 The chief industries of the new county are 
 mining and stock-raising, the moderate amount 
 (if farming conducted being mostly confined to 
 the lands immediately adjacent to the Santa 
 Cruz river, which traverses the county from 
 nnrth to south. It is possible, however, to de- 
 velop water so as to make a substantial increase 
 in the agricultural area. 
 
 Tlie county starts ofT under favorable aus- 
 pices. The people are generally prosperous. 
 .\s in all other portions of the territory, the live- 
 stock industry is in a splendid condition. In 
 mining, the revival of interest is pronounced in 
 all the districts. Nogales, the county seat, is 
 growing steadily, and all the leading branches 
 of business are prosperous. 
 
 The county is rich in mineral resources and 
 nlTers a tempting field for the prospector. Thecp 
 arc many districts in which practicallv j*^""^
 
 I0I4 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 velopment has been clone, while indications are 
 very promising. The districts in which the most 
 development has been done are the Harshaw, 
 Washington Camp. Lochiel and Oro Blanco. 
 
 The modern history of Nogales dates from 
 the construction of the New Me.xico & Arizona 
 Railroad from Benson to Xogales, in 1892. After 
 that line was extended to Guaymas, on the Gulf 
 of California, Xogales became an important porr 
 of entry and has steadily grown in importance. 
 Nogales (of which there are two, one in the 
 United States, the other in Mexico, the dividing 
 line passing along the center of a broad street) 
 is unique and interesting in more ways than one. 
 As a point of contact between two great na- 
 tions, the "line city," as it is familiarly termed, 
 presents salient features and all the habits and 
 customs of both nationalities. Citizens of both 
 republics dwell there together in the closest 
 accord and amity, and engage in social and busi- 
 ness connection with an ease and facility which 
 are pleasing to note and gratifying to the patri- 
 otic citizens of both countries. 
 
 Both governments have there the headquar- 
 ters of districts in the collection of customs 
 and important consulates. It is a division station 
 upon the through line of railway from the South- 
 ern Pacific at Benson and the Gulf of California 
 at Guaymas. The Arizona city is the seat of 
 government of the newly created county of 
 Santa Cruz, and there is a movement on the 
 Sonora side of the line to remove from Mag- 
 dalena to Nogales the government of the district 
 of the same name. Besides the business natu- 
 rally caused by being the gateway for an interna- 
 tional and transcontinental traffic, Nogales is a 
 very important and flourishing commercial 
 point, the merchants of the place drawing trade 
 from the rich and rapidly developing districts of 
 ,A.Itar. Magdalcna and .\rizpe, in the State of 
 Sonora. Mexico, and from the equally rich and 
 important regions of Oro Blanco, Duquesne, 
 Harshaw and Washington Camp, in Arizona. 
 Many of the stores carry extensive stocks of 
 goods, and the enterprise and push of the mer- 
 chants are known and appreciated all over 
 southern .Arizona and northern Sonora. The 
 country tributary is not only very rich in natural 
 tTiineral resources, but the cattle ranges are 
 among the best and must valuable in the south- 
 
 west, and Xogales is the seat of a large import 
 trade in stock from the interior of the state of 
 Sonora. The joint population of the two mu- 
 nicipalities is nearly five thousand souls, and in 
 each there are fine graded schools with large 
 attendance and thoroughly competent teachers, 
 under whose tuition pupils make very rapid 
 progress. 
 
 Situated at an altitude of about four thousand 
 feet, the climate is mild and equable, avoiding 
 the excessive heat of summer in lower altitudes 
 and e.xperiencing but little really cold weather in 
 winter. Bright and pleasant days follow each oth- 
 er in an almost endless succession, and the invalid 
 and health seeker finds the climate unparalleled. 
 Many of the leading citizens and officials in the 
 state of Sonora and their families reside there 
 several months in the year through the heated 
 term. Many Americans operating or employed 
 in mines and business in Sonora have their 
 homes in Nogales, residing there for the educa- 
 tional and climatic advantages presented. Roads 
 ramify in various directions, drawing a heavy 
 trade, and the enterprising business men of the 
 two cities are doing everything possible to im- 
 prove, extend and shorten the highways they 
 now have and to construct new ones. 
 
 YAVAPAI COUNTY. 
 
 From the first settlement of the territory no 
 section has been more favored or sought after 
 than Yavapai county. Its natural advantages 
 have attracted capital, and enterprise has been 
 conspicuous in developing the county. 
 
 Richer in a great variety of resources than any 
 other portion of the territory, possessing a cli- 
 mate free from the extremes of heat and cold, 
 it was but natural that the first north and south 
 railroad possessed by the territory should be 
 built for the purpose of developing the resources 
 of this favored region. 
 
 The completion of this road, named the Santa 
 Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railway, removed 
 forever the only obstacle that has ever delayed 
 the development of this diversified and extensive 
 section by placing it in direct railroad commimi- 
 cation with the great centers of the n.ation; and 
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 rORTRAlT A.\U IHOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1015 
 
 portion of the I'nion can present more varied 
 and numerous attractions. 
 
 Xo otiier portion of the southwest has secured 
 so large and so desirable an increase in its popu- 
 lation during the last lew years as has this 
 countw ^^'hile there are isolated instances of 
 a few sections having, imder the e.xcitement of 
 a "boom." attracted, for the time being, more at- 
 tention, the growth of this portion of .\rizona 
 has been a steady one. permanent and stable in 
 its character, and entirely free from the feverish 
 intoxication of speculation, which so often forms 
 the only basis on which the new regions of the 
 west .are brought into prominence, to be main- 
 tained there until the schemes of imscrupulous 
 speculators are consunmiated, and then allowed 
 by their "boomers" to relapse into their former 
 obscurity. To present, in writing, a satisfactory 
 idea of any frontier settlement is a most difficult 
 matter. The causes that have called such settle- 
 ment into existence may be nan ated. and its 
 growth may be explicitly set forth with con- 
 scientious observance of statistical minutiae; yet 
 the impression created may be far from being 
 more than approximately correct. Within less 
 than a quarter of a century more people have 
 found homes within a radius of a hundred miles 
 of Prescott, Ariz., than lived along the entire 
 Atlantic coast of Xorth .\merica iluring the first 
 half of the century following tlu' landing of the 
 Pilgrim Fathers. 
 
 The towns anil settlements are ])ustl ng and 
 progressive, among which are Prescott, the 
 county seat and the first capital of Arizona, with, 
 a population of .1,500: Jerome, a distinctively 
 mining camp, with 2.861: L\)ngress, with T^T, 
 McCabe, 250, and other places. In addition to 
 the above, numerous "camjjs" ni.ake u]i in their 
 numbers thousands of souls scattered here to- 
 dav and ever\ where tomorrow. 
 
 TUjrA COUXTT. 
 
 Vuma county, one of tlie four original politi- 
 cal subdivisions of the territory when it was first 
 established by the act of congress on h'ebruary 
 24, 1863, as an independent commonwealth, 
 forms the extreme southwestern portion of .Ari- 
 zona. It lies between 32° and 34° 2' north lati- 
 tude and 113° 20' and 1 14° 14' west longtilnde. 
 
 It is bounded by Pima, Maricopa and Yavapai 
 counties on the east, the Colorado river on the 
 west. Mohave county on the north and Sonora. 
 -Mexico, on the south. It has an area of 10,138 
 sf|uare miles (six million four hundred and 
 eighty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty 
 acres), an e.xpanse greater than any of the seven 
 smaller states of the Union, and larger than 
 Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware coni- 
 binetl. 
 
 I'or more than one hundred miles it is crossed 
 from cast to west by the Gila river, which thor- 
 oughly drains the southern and eastern portions, 
 eventually flowing into the Colorado at the town 
 of ^'unia, while the Colorado washes its western 
 boundary, effectually draining the remainder. 
 
 The topographical configuration of the sur- 
 face includes a series of wide plateaus, rising 
 graduallv from a point situated at the southwest- 
 ern extremity, with an altitude of sixty or eighty 
 feet above sea level to an elevation in the 
 north and northwest very much higher, the 
 whole sloping gently in a southwesterly direc- 
 tion. 
 
 These plateaus are crossed by numerous 
 mountain ranges, especially in the northern part, 
 the ranges being separated by broad valleys, 
 man_\- consisting of excellent lands. The various 
 mountain systems, though rough and abrupt in 
 character, are highly mineralized, carrying gold 
 and silver, copper and lead, iron and other met- 
 als in i)a\ ing quantities. The eastern and south- 
 ern divisions include gradually sloping plains, 
 covered in places with natural grasses and trees, 
 among the latter being the mesqnite, ironwood 
 and i)al<) verde. Here and there are detached 
 hills and spurs of eruptive origin. 
 
 .Ml the country embraced within the county 
 confines, situated north of the natural watershed 
 of the Ciila, owing to the slight rainfall and few 
 streams from which water can be taken for agri- 
 cultural i)urposcs, is practically worthless, so 
 far, at least, as the feasibility of bringing large 
 bodies of irrigable land under cultivation is con- 
 cerned. The available arable region, therefore, 
 is limited to broad strips of country lying di- 
 rectlv north of the Gila and east of the Colorado 
 river, and also hundreds of miles of splendid 
 lands stretching directly southward from Gila 
 river to tlie Mexican frontier. Consequently,
 
 ioi6 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 it is upon tliesc rivers that water-storage reser- 
 voirs must be establislied. 
 
 It is more than probable tliat less is known 
 of the physical and topographical peculiarities 
 of Yuma county than of any other county in the 
 territory. According to the map of the Interior 
 Department, issued from the (General Land Of- 
 fice in 1883, it is shown that less than ten per 
 cent of the total area was surveyed by the Fed- 
 eral authorities. It is believed that no further 
 surveys have been ordered since the date men- 
 tioned, and therefore so far as official recogni- 
 tion extends, more than nine-tenths of the 
 county is a veritable terra incognita. 
 
 Although the town of Yuma is the second 
 oldest community in the territory of Arizona, it 
 is astonishing how little its resources are 
 known to the world at large and how slightly 
 developed is the natural wealth of the county. 
 This is owing to Yuma's reputation for unbear- 
 able heat, and partly to the f;ict that, lying next 
 to California, it has been assumed that the 
 country has been thoroughly prospected for 
 mineral wealth, and prospectors have, in the 
 main, kept the traveled highways in crossing its 
 territory. As a matter of fact, one suffers less 
 from the heat here tli.an in almost any of the 
 settled communities of the east, owing to the 
 dryness of the atmosphere, and there is no 
 healthier climate anywhere. 
 
 People labor out of doors from the rising to 
 the setting of the stm and suffer no inconven- 
 ience. There has never been known in this sec- 
 tion of the country an authentic case of sun- 
 stroke. The climate, taken in time, never fails 
 to cure pulmonary com]daints of any descrip- 
 tion. 
 
 TUr: COPPER QUEEN MINE. 
 
 From a paper by James Douglas, LL. D.. New 
 York City. Read in February, 1899, before the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Mining Engineers. 
 
 The Copper (Juecn mine was opened in 18S0 
 by Messrs. Martin, I'.allanl & Reilly, and the 
 first copper furnace was blown-in on August 
 20th of that year. Prior to that summer nothing 
 but prosi)ect work liad been done on the Copper 
 Oueen and tjn a number of adjacent claims. In 
 fact, it w'as a small deposit, not of copper ore, 
 but of cerussite, which still remains undeveloped 
 
 on the western slope of the Queen hill, which 
 first tempted miners to the spot. To reduce this 
 lead ore, a primitive furnace was erected near a 
 spring, now dry. The development, just then, 
 of this and other copper deposits in the south- 
 ern territories was due to the simultaneous ar- 
 rival of the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, 
 Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, though it was 
 stimulated by the business revival of 1880, with 
 the consec|uent rise in the \aluc of copper. 
 
 The geology of the Dragoon and Mule Pass 
 mountains, in which (he Copper Queen mine is 
 situated, has not been systematically studied. 
 ( )n the flanks of a granite core lie beds of car- 
 boniferous limestone. Those to the west carry, 
 either enclosed, or as contact deposits, the sil- 
 ver-bearing minerals which in the early '80s 
 made Tombstone one of the most famous min- 
 ing districts of the west. The limestones on the 
 eastern slope of the Mule Pass mountains carry 
 the ores of the Copper Queen mine. The lime- 
 stone masses appear to be broken and filled by 
 extensive bodies of intrusive feldspathic rocks, 
 which seem to have exerted a decisive influence 
 on the genesis of the ore, though their relation 
 to the ore masses, whether these lie on the con- 
 tact or are completely and deeply imbedded in 
 the limestones, is a matter upon which theorists 
 will differ. The feldspathic rocks to ihe east of 
 the copper-bearing mass of limestones of the 
 Copper Queen group are deeply colored superfi- 
 cially by oxides of iron, and, as recent explora- 
 tions made by other companies than the Cop- 
 per Queen show, carry iron and copper pyrites 
 disseminated in particles anil in bunches, but 
 wdiether in profitable quantities or not has not 
 yet been determined. The colored band of these 
 adjacent rocks (which are supposed to be rhyo- 
 lites, though their deca}-^d character renders any 
 determination of their original mineralogical 
 composition doubtful) is broadest in contact 
 with the Copper Queen and the Atlanta claims, 
 where the largest bodies of copper ore have 
 been discovered in the limestones, anil tapers to- 
 wards the south, where the ore bodies as yet 
 found in the limestones arc smaller and deeper. 
 The contact of the limestones and rhyolites ap- 
 ])ears to represent the line of a great fault, wliicli 
 is also indicated by a marked depression in tin- 
 surface.
 
 iPORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 loi; 
 
 Beneath this (Icpressiuii lie ferruginous clays, 
 locally called "ledge matter," enclosing masses 
 of ore, both oxidized and unoxidized; but the 
 rocks at this level are altered by decay to such 
 a degree that it is difficult, if not impossible, 
 lo define the line between altered limestone and 
 altered rhyolite. Where, however, the deep 
 workings of the Copper Queen have penetrated 
 the feldspathic rocks, the ground has proved to 
 be barren. Nevertheless, since the wealth of 
 other mining districts in Arizona resides almost 
 exclusively in the so-called porphyries, explora- 
 tion in tile same class of rocks in the Warren 
 district is a legitimate enterprise. 
 
 The successful development of the Copper 
 < jucen mine, however, has been confined to the 
 limestone belt lying between what appear to be 
 two prominent faults — the one already referred 
 to and another lo the west of the Queen hill. 
 
 The outcrop of copjier which was first at- 
 tacked, and which was, in fact, the only exten- 
 .sive surface indication, was on the northern ex- 
 posure of a limestone hill. In this place strip- 
 ping revealed a solid body of oxidized copper, 
 iron and manganese ore over 60x60 feet 
 in area, and so rich in copper that the furnace, 
 fed from the surface ores alone, yielded for a 
 few months twenty-three per cent of metal. This 
 large outcrop was enclosed in an almost circular 
 unaltered limestone frame. Associated with the 
 ore was an abundance of calcite; but the per- 
 centage of silica was so small that Cjuartz had to 
 be added to the furnace charge. This body, re- 
 taining its general dimensions and well-defined 
 limestone walls, dipped at an angle of about 
 30° southeasterly into the hill. Between the 
 100 and 200 foot levels the ore changed into 
 a clay, with well-marked bedding, too lean in 
 copper-carbonate to be profitably worked; but 
 below this zone of clay the copjK'r, as carbonates 
 and oxides, increased to twelve ])er cent and was 
 associated in a measure with limonite, imbedded 
 in ferruginous clay. This ore body extended to 
 a depth of 400 feet on the incline from the sur- 
 face, and there terminated abruptly in hard lime- 
 stone. 
 
 The enrichment of surface copper ores and 
 their rapid impoverishment at a shallow depth is 
 not an unconnnon occurrence in the "arid re- 
 gion" of the United States. It probalily takes 
 
 ]ilacf thriiugh the oxidation, in this hot, dry cli- 
 mate, of the copper solutions which rise to the 
 surface during the decay of the ore. A lower 
 layer of ore is thus necessarily depleted, in pro- 
 portion as the surface layer is enriched. The 
 insensible flow, through the apparently dry rocks 
 of the region, of moisture charged with soluble 
 salts is often evinced by the thick efflorescence 
 of cop])er alum which rapidly covers the walls of 
 drifts run through or near feldspathic or argil- 
 laceous rocks, even when the copper contents 
 of these rocks are so low as to be barely appre- 
 ciable. During the dry season a waste heap of 
 such refuse will be completely covered with a 
 green coating. 
 
 On the other hanil, in the wet eastern climate, 
 as in Tennessee, the surface ore, wdiere it has 
 iKJt been denuded by glacial action, consists of 
 insoluble ferric oxide deprived by lixiviation of 
 the copper which, in .Vrizona, under favorable at- 
 mospheric conditions, would be fixed as oxides. 
 The ra])idity with which a soluble copjier sul- 
 phate when exposed to the air is converted into 
 insoluble basic sulphate, and this into more 
 highly oxidized compounds, is illustrated in 
 many cop])er regions of the southwest, where 
 copper solutions ooze from almost barren de- 
 caying feldspathic rocks, and, on reaching the 
 surface and filtering through the gravels, form 
 copper-bearing conglomerates. 
 
 The first ore body, above mentioned, was not 
 exhausted until 1884, when it had yielded about 
 twenty thousand tons of ore and twenty million 
 pounds of copper. The earliest months of that 
 year were the gloomiest which the district had 
 known up to that (or, fortunately, up to the 
 l>resent) time. Simultaneously with the com- 
 mencement of active operations on the Queen, 
 a large group of claims on the southern slope of 
 the Queen hill had been explored by the Nep- 
 tune Company, and a furnace plant had been 
 erected by it on the San Pedro river, some miles 
 distant. The reason for building the reduction 
 plant so far from the mine was the scarcity of 
 water in Bisbee, which at that period was so 
 serious that the Copper Queen occasionally had 
 to damp its single furnace for lack of a sufficiency 
 of water to cool the jacket. The Neptune Com- 
 pany, after expending its capital and bonded 
 debt, suspended operations in 1882. .Another
 
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 PORTRAIT AND P.IOGRAPHICAL KECORD. 
 
 corporation, tlie Atlanta Minins;- Company, own- 
 ing claims adjacent to the Queen, had been 
 searching in vain fur mure than three years for 
 an ore body by following, to no profit, surface 
 indications. Other minor operations of a like 
 kind had been cqiiall\ unsuccessful. .\t that 
 date the Queen Comi^any. having reached the 
 bottom of its ore body and the four hundred- 
 foot level of the incline, could count only some 
 three months' ore in sight: and the Atlanta had 
 decided to abandon the enterprise after one more 
 effort should have ])een made to discover ore. 
 The foot of the Queen incline, which coincided 
 with the bottom of the original Queen ore bod\ . 
 had nearly reached the side line of the claim, 
 and therefore a drift easteidy along the side line 
 in hard limestone was the exploratory w'ork un- 
 dertaken by the Queen — a long drift having 
 been previously run to the west without encoun- 
 tering any ore. 
 
 Meanwhile the Atlanta Company «as sinking 
 a shaft in barren limestone a little to the south 
 of the point towards which the Queen drift was 
 directed. Thus, final pieces of exploratory work 
 were under way prior to the abandonment of 
 their property by both companies, when, almost 
 at the same time, each of them struck a new ore 
 body which appeared to fie dipping northwest 
 or in a direction the reverse of that of the body 
 originally discovered. The two companies then 
 wisely decided to consolidate on equitable terms, 
 rather than waste their funds in obtaining a le- 
 gal interpretation of an even more complicated 
 problem than that involved in the Richmond- 
 Eureka "apex" case. Since then the claims of 
 the Neptune Company, the Holbrook & Cave 
 Company, the Silver P.ear Company, and a num- 
 ber of private owners have been acquired. Manv 
 of them have proved to be barren, but not a few 
 contribute their quota of ore to the total of the 
 consolidated company's product, which is drawn 
 at present from what would be some twenty 
 different unprofitable mines, if each were under 
 separate management. 
 
 The first ore body extracted extended from 
 the surface to the original four hundred-foot 
 level of the old incline, which corresponds to 
 the two hundred-foot level of the new Czar 
 shaft. The second ore body, discovered about 
 six hundred feet east of the first, was covered 
 
 at the surface by two hundreil feet of limestone, 
 and abruptly terminated at a depth of three hun- 
 dred feet from its apex. A narrow seam of ore 
 was known to extend into the limestone to the 
 south of the original ore body, but it was not 
 followed until years after its discovery. Then it 
 was found to be the connecting link between 
 the ore body from which it sprung and another, 
 still larger, in the southwest of the Atlanta 
 claim. This ore body extended in depth from 
 above the one hundreil-foot to below the three 
 hundred-foot Czar level, and on the sill floor of 
 the latter level the stope was 200x150 feet — by 
 far the largest opening made in any ore body. .\s 
 it was of such magnificent size, we thought our- 
 selves safe in nmning a long drift for fifteen hun- 
 dred feet, through limestones, from the Czar 
 shaft, to strike it on the four hundred-foot level. 
 ( hi reaching the position wdiicli the ore should 
 have occupied, none was found, nor has the ex- 
 tension of the ore body in any direction been 
 discovered by diamond drill holes bored radially 
 for thousands of feet. A drill hole pointed up- 
 wards entered the ore at thirty feet below the 
 three hundred-foot level, where the ore abruptly 
 tenninated. 
 
 Disappointments of a like character have be- 
 set operations in other sections of the mine. 
 .\ large ore body in the southern section of the 
 mine was traced downward to a point forty feet 
 below the four hundred-foot level. A search in 
 all directions on the level below has failed to 
 find it. Where ore bodies are so eccentric in 
 their size and the direction of their curves, it is 
 often well-nigh impossible to trace their exten- 
 sion, or be sure of their extinction, until they are 
 being actually extracted. In searching for ore 
 in these limestones, it is extremely difficult to 
 interpret the signs wdiich point to its presence, 
 or to distinguish accidental occurrences from 
 actual laws of deposition. The presence of ore 
 in more than one place on the five hundred- 
 foot level, and elsewdiere in the southern por- 
 tion of the mine, was indicated as probable by 
 the presence of ore on the four hundred-foot 
 level and the intermediate level below; but in no 
 single instance has the ore been found on the 
 five hundred-foot level wdiere expected. In fact, 
 nearly a mile of drifts was run on that level be- 
 fore any copper was encountered.
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1019 
 
 Certain general conclusions have been provi- 
 sionally reached. There seem to be two series 
 of limestone beds, both of carboniferous age: 
 the upper bedding, recognized as the white, and 
 the lower as the blue, though this distinction 
 of color is not always well marked. They dip 
 conformably to the south, but at varying angles. 
 .\t some places they lie almost flat; at others 
 they attain an angle of over 30°. The large 
 masses of copper, whether oxidized or unaltered, 
 have as yet been discovered exclusively in the 
 upper series, and only at the base of that series. 
 Its total thickness is probably about eleven 
 hundred feet, but only in the lower three 
 hundred feet has ore been found in profitable 
 .|uantity. Where the series is thickest, under 
 the apex of the Queen hill, no ore masses are 
 known to exist. Large quantities of ore lie, as 
 already described, under the valley where exists 
 the obscure dividing line between the limestones 
 and rhyolite, and where the former are prob- 
 ably shallow; but the largest isolated ore body 
 yet extracted was separated by many hundreds 
 of feet of barren limestone, and what is locally 
 called "ledge matter," from this contact. 
 
 .\s we work to the southward, the ore bodies 
 attain greater deptii from the datum line of the 
 collar of the Czar shaft. Xo ore has been dis- 
 covered below the four hundred-foot level in the 
 northerly section of the mine, whereas in the 
 section to the south, reached by the Holbrook 
 shaft, ore bodies have been found at five hun- 
 dred feet below that point, and still further south 
 the ore attains a greater depth. But the ore 
 bodies hitherto encountered here are small in 
 comparison with those explored and extracted 
 in the northern sections. 
 
 The conclusion that the profitable ore is con- 
 fined to the upper series of limestones is based 
 on the experience that large, com])act ore bodies 
 have not been found to extend below a certain 
 horizon. Nevertheless, the limestones of the 
 supposed lower series, as far as they have been 
 explored, are more thoruughly impregnated with 
 iron sulphides, associated with minute quanti- 
 ties of copper sulphide, than the up]x'r lime- 
 stones. But so little work has been done below 
 the upper chain of ore bodies that no conclusive 
 opinion can be formed as to the metalliferous 
 value of the underlving limestones. There is 
 
 slight probability of oxidized ore being en- 
 countered, but the general dissemination of pyr- 
 ite and chalcopyrite in fine grains through the 
 rock leads to the hope that areas of ground 
 may be entered where the latter mineral may 
 be abundant enough to render the limestone 
 a "concentrating ore." 
 
 The Copper Queen mine has become famous 
 for its beautiful specimens of carbonates, both 
 malachite and azurite. The malachite is never 
 found in such large and compact masses as to 
 make it commercially valuable for decorative 
 purposes; besides, occurring generally in thin 
 botryoidal masses, it is usually streaked with 
 manganese, which detracts from its purity. Its 
 most striking mode of occurrence is in geodes, 
 which are lined with velvety crystals of the 
 same mineral. These hollow spheres, the walls 
 of which are composed of concentric layers, are 
 rare, but, when found, are usually in nests im- 
 bedded in soft, wet, ferruginous or manganif- 
 erous clays, such as constitute the gangue, or 
 "ledge-matter" of nearly all the ore; and they 
 occur at no great distance from a limestone wall 
 or partition. The slabs of azurite, also, usually 
 occur near limestone, but preferably in the man- 
 ganiferous, clayey gangue. The oxidized cop- 
 per-ores, however, which are mined in economic 
 quantities, consist usually of cuprite and carbon- 
 ate, disseminated through limonite; or of car- 
 bonates, chiefly of the green variety, in streaks 
 or crystals scattered through ferruginous or 
 manganiferous clay ; or of minute particles of 
 metallic copper, with more or less cuprite crys- 
 tals, disseminated through yellow clay. These 
 yellow clays are generally more distinctly 
 bedded than the masses of red and black clays 
 which carry the highly oxidized copper-com- 
 pounds. Masses of any considerable size of na- 
 tive copper are found almost exclusively, not 
 at the surface, where the oxidizing agencies have 
 been most active, but in the deepest layers of the 
 large ore-bodies, where apparently some reduc- 
 ing-agent has been more actively at work than 
 elsewhere, and w-here the ore is furthest removed 
 from atmospheric interference. On the sill-floor 
 of the three hundred-foot level (at the bottom of 
 the great southwest ore-body already referred 
 to), native copper was abundant in masses, some 
 of them of several hundred pounds in weight.
 
 1020 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 The surface of the native copper lumps and 
 masses is always more or less perfectly crystal- 
 lized, as of course is tlie case in those mines 
 where all the secondary copper-ores were de- 
 posited slowly from the dissolved constituents 
 of the original sulphides. 
 
 AGRICULTURE IN ARIZONA. 
 [From the Census Bulletin, July 29, 1901.I 
 THE IMPORTAXCK OF .UilUCri/rrTtK. ■ 
 
 By the census of 1890 agriculture in the ter- 
 ritory of Arizona ranked second to mining in 
 the jM-oportion of nne to seven, .\lthough the 
 ])resent value of the mineral product of the ter- 
 ritory is not known, it is observed that the value 
 of all agricultural products in 1899 about 
 equaled the value of all mineral products in 1889, 
 and therefore it is probable that the relative 
 importance and value of agricultural products 
 have increased in the decade rather than dimin- 
 ished. 
 
 FARMS ANT) FAliM AlilCAS. 
 
 Arizona was organized as a territory in 1863, 
 and the statistics of agriculture were first pul)- 
 lished in the ninth census, the first to be taken 
 after its organization. The following table sum- 
 marizes by decades the increase in the number 
 of farms and acres of faim land: 
 
 FARMS AND FARM ACREAGE. 
 
 Number of acres in farms. 
 
 Census Number Unlm- 
 
 vear. of farms. Total. Improved. proved. 
 
 I'JOO (a) 5,809 1.93r,,31.>7 2.-|4,r,2l 1,080.806 
 
 1900 (b) 4,040 1,891,985 227,739 1,664,246 
 
 1890 1.426 1,297,033 104.128 1,192,90.5 
 
 1880 767 13.5.573 56.071 79,502 
 
 1870 172 21,807 14,585 7.222 
 
 As the present census is the first to report 
 upon the agriculture of the Indians in connec- 
 tion with that of other races, two series of fig- 
 ures are given in Table i and elsewhere, for 
 1900. The series marked "a" includes, and the 
 one marked "b" excludes, the statistics of In- 
 dian farms. For comparatixe jjurposes the lat- 
 ter is more significant. 
 
 Excluding the Indians, the numlier of farms 
 reported in 1900 is about twenty-three times, 
 and the acreage of improved farm land fifteen 
 times, as great as in 1870. In the ten years 
 since 1890 the farmers have more than doubled 
 the area of their improved land, and have started 
 more new farms than all that had been estab- 
 
 lished prior to that year. The relative increase 
 in acreage of improved land is greater than that 
 of unimproved. 
 
 L"^nder the general title "Farms" are included 
 not only such tracts of tilled and unfilled land 
 as are commonly designated by that word in the 
 older-settled states, but also the ranches of the 
 owners of flocks and herds. Of the latter there 
 arc many in .Arizona. The proprietors of some 
 of these ranches own large tracts of land, upon 
 which cattle and sheep are fed, while others, 
 who own little or no farm lands, subsist their 
 tlocks and herds, often exclusively, u])on the 
 ]jublic domain or range. The land and agricul- 
 liiral resources of such ranches are classed as 
 farms, when of sufficient importance to require 
 in their management the continued labor of one 
 or more jjersons. 
 
 IWliM UESOl'RCES AND PROnt'CTS. 
 
 Table 2 gives, in the first colunm, the value 
 of all farm resources reported for each census 
 year. In the next two columns arc presented 
 the values of certain specified parts of those re- 
 soiuTCs, and in the coliunn headed "Products 
 not fed to live stock," the income of the farms 
 for the crop year preceding the census: 
 
 VALUE OF FARM RESOURCES AND 
 PRODUCTS; 
 
 Land im- 
 
 Census provements. Land with Imple- Products 
 
 year. impltments, impro\e- ments and not fed to 
 
 and live menis. machinery, live stock, 
 stock. 
 
 1900 (a) $29,906,877 $13,682,960 $765,200 $6,179,397 
 
 1900 (b 27,901,264 13,088,560 607,285 5,980,642 
 
 1S91I 10,676,470 7,222,230 196,580 1,045,970 
 
 18S0 2,384,746 1.127.946 88,811 614.327 
 
 1870 325.441 161,310 20,105 277,998 
 
 In the last decade farm wealth increased 
 i6T.g per cent, and the value of implements and 
 machinery increased even more rapidly. The 
 value of products not fed to live stock, as re- 
 ]iorted in igoo, was 3.7 times as great as that 
 reported for all products in 1890. A part of 
 this great ajiparent increase is probal)ly due to 
 the greater completeness and accuracy with 
 which products and their values have been 
 reported for the present census. 
 
 lilCXKliAT, .\01iICrLTtRAL COXDITIOXS. 
 
 The surface of Arizona is divided into two 
 clearly defined regions. The line between them 
 extends from near the middle of the eastern 
 boundarv, northwest to the canon of the Colo-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 I02I 
 
 ratio. North ol this Hue is a plateau with an ele- 
 vation of from five thousand to eight thousand 
 feet. This plateau is mainly a level mesa, except 
 where it is broken by the extrusion of groups 
 of volcanic mountains rising above seven thou- 
 sand feet, and in the San Francisco mountains 
 attaining an altitude of thirteen thousand feet. 
 The climate of this plateau is tvpitiecl by that 
 of Flagstafif, which, in iSyy, had a mean annual 
 temperature of forty-five degrees, or aboiu 
 that of Alaine, and a rainfall of nearly twenty 
 inches. This plateau descends abrujjtly along 
 the escarpment indicated on the map, to a mucii 
 lower region, consisting of broad valleys sepa- 
 rated by narrow, steep ranges, having a surface 
 varying in altitude from near the sea le\'el to 
 three thousand feet. The climatic conditions in 
 this region are typified by those of Phoenix, 
 where the average tem])erature in 1899 was 
 sixty-nine degrees, or about that of New (Or- 
 leans, and the rainfall five inches. On the 
 plateau, except in a few regions where volcanic 
 peaks increase the jjrecipitation upon their 
 slopes, the rainfall is insufficient for the suc- 
 cessful cultivation of crops, and the main agri- 
 cultural interest is grazing sheep and cattle. In 
 the low country the rainfall is insufficient for 
 this, and grazing is confined to certain favored 
 nuumlain slopes. In that part of the territory 
 the i)re(lominant industry, aside from mining, 
 is agriculture, ba.t^ed upon irrigation, and its ex- 
 tent is dependent mainly upon the supply of 
 water in the rivers and the facility with uhicii 
 it can be carried to the land. 
 
 T.IVE-STOCK INTERESTS. 
 
 The vast extent of the plateau on wliich tlocks 
 and herds can be successfully grazed and the 
 limited irrigated area, as shown on the sketch 
 map, indicate ctsnditions which give to live stock 
 its dominant position. The capital invested in 
 agriculture, June I, 1900, was $29,906,877. ( )f 
 this amount $15,458,717, or 51.7 per cent, was in 
 live stock. For the United States, in 1890. the 
 value of live stock constituted only 13.8 per 
 cent of all agricultural capital. 
 
 Cr.ASSIKIC.\TIOX, XUMBEE, .\XD VALUE OK LIVE 
 STOCK. 
 
 For the census of 1900 a new classification of 
 domestic animals has been adopted at the re- 
 
 quest of the various live-stock associations 
 throughout the country. Neat cattle are 
 grouped by age in accordance with their present 
 and prospective relations to breeding or to the 
 dairy industry. Horses and mules are classified 
 by age, and sheep by age and sex. The new 
 classification permits very close comparison with 
 the figures obtained at preceding decennial pe- 
 riods. 
 
 The following table gives the numlier of all 
 live stock on farms and ranges, the average 
 value of the same per head, and the number of 
 domestic animals not on farms and ranges. The 
 average value per head ot horses and sheep is 
 greatly reduced by the cheap stock on Indian 
 reservations. ( )f the colts under one year, 56.8 
 per cent are reservation animals worth but $2.56 
 per head, while the average value for the rest 
 of the territory is $6.72, and for Maricopa, the 
 leading agricultural county, it is $16.41. The 
 reservations also report over one-half of the 
 horses in the territory one and under two years, 
 their average value being $3.23. as compared 
 with $11.70 outside of the reservations. Horses 
 two years old and over are worth $11.37 each 
 on the reservations, while for the remainder of 
 the territory the average value is $21.27, ''"i' '" 
 Maricopa county it is $40.97. 
 
 NUMBER -VND V.\LUE OF DOMESTIC .\NI- 
 
 M.-VLS, FOWLS. .AND BEES, JUNE i, 1900. 
 
 Not on 
 farms 
 Ou Farms and and rngy. 
 
 Ranges. Av. 
 
 No. Value. vaUie. No. 
 
 133,181 Jl. 133,178 JS.3S 322 
 
 63.203 S98.604 13.77 
 
 743.84.". 17.6t; 
 
 GS6.953 21.81 
 
 483.411 23.65 
 
 961. 818 13.10 
 
 Age. Id yoar.s. 
 
 42.116 
 . 30,577 
 . 20.437 
 
 7.1.437 
 
 17,965 577,693 32.16 673 
 
 Calves Under 1 
 
 Steers l and under 2. 
 
 Steers '- i<nd under '.*... 
 
 Steers 3 and over ... 
 
 Bulls 1 and over ... 
 
 Heifers 1 and under 2 
 
 Cows kept for 
 
 milk. 2 and over ... 
 
 Cows and heiter.s 
 not kept for 
 
 milk. 2 and over 357,719 
 
 Colts Under 1 18,976 
 
 Horses ' and under 2... 22.283 
 
 Horses 2 and over 83.804 
 
 .Mule colts Under 1 445 
 
 Mules 1 and under 2... 552 
 
 Mules 2 and over 3.080 
 
 Asses and burros All ages 4.625 
 
 Lambs Under 1 193,303 
 
 Sheep (ewe3)....l and over 452,271 1,061,3.58 
 
 Sbeep (rams and 
 
 wetbers), l and over 216.187 
 
 Swine All ages 18.103 
 
 Goats .'Vll ages 98.403 
 
 Fowls: 
 
 Chickens- 165,200 1 
 
 Turkeys 6.043 [ 
 
 Geese S40 i 
 
 Ducks -. 2.439 I 
 
 Bees (swarmsoO 18,991 66, GO: 
 
 101 
 64 
 49 
 14 
 
 127 
 
 gSS 
 170 
 111 
 
 5.901,964 16.50 
 
 82,610 4.35 
 
 152.S7S 6. 86 
 
 1.466.417 17.60 6.109 
 
 7.273 10.34 6 
 
 13.384 2425 7 
 
 102,882 33.40 718 
 
 32.162 6.95 1.466 
 
 284.858 1.47 5 
 
 2.34 60 
 
 491.578 
 80.587 
 
 2 27 
 4!45 
 
 58 
 712 
 
 167.863 1.71 1,.5»1 
 
 80,798 
 
 Value of all live 
 
 stock »1B.458,717
 
 I022 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 DAIRY rows AMI I'UODrCTS. 
 
 Tin- (lair\ interests arc increasino- in impor- 
 tance with every decade. In i8ijo the milch 
 cows numbered 4,874; in itpo. i/.c/'S- This is 
 an increase of 268.6 per cent. The total jinidnc- 
 tion of milk in i88y was 709,223 gallons, or 145 
 gallons per cow. In 1899 the total was 3,056.- 
 109, or 170 gallons ])er cow. The total produc- 
 tion of milk increased 330.9 per cent. 
 
 Dairy products to the value of $255,332 were 
 consumed on farms; the remainder of the total 
 value of $540,700 represents the products sold. 
 
 The total value of the various crops produced 
 in 1899 was $2,474,296. The total value of farm 
 products, including animals sold or slaughtered 
 for food, was $6,997,097. In this total are in- 
 cluded the products fed to live stock on the 
 farms of the producers. Detlucting this from 
 the general total to avoid duplication, the gross 
 income of farms in 1899 was $6,179,397, which is 
 referred to in this bulletin under the general 
 designation of "Products not fed to live stock." 
 
 POOR CHOI'S OF 1899. 
 
 The effect of the reduced rainfall is plainly 
 manifest in the returns for cereals and pota- 
 toes, and is most evident in the statistics for 
 hay and forage. The failure of the irrigation 
 ditches in some sections to furnish sufficient 
 water to mature crops led the farmers to cut 
 many acres of cereals for hay which would 
 otherwise have been harvested for grain. The 
 acreage of cereals reported is. therefore, much 
 less than was sown for grain, and the average 
 yield per acre is also below that of the ordinary 
 year. The lack of water on the grazing plains 
 of the northern section caused an unusually 
 large movement of stock to the green and irri- 
 gated .alfalfa fields of some of the lower coun- 
 ties, notably Maricopa. A great portion of the 
 alfalfa grown in 1899 in that county was cut 
 but twice, and some of it but once. The fields 
 sown to this crop were used in the latter part 
 of the year as pasture. The drought reduced 
 also the average yield of uncultivated grasses, of 
 which a large area was cut in the census year. 
 
 Coconino county rejiorted four hundred and 
 five of the six hundred and twenty-six acres of 
 potatoes grown in Arizona in 1899. This was 
 64.7 per cent of the total. Potatoes in Coconino 
 
 are grcnvn generalK without irrigation, and the 
 effect of the drought is seen in the fact that 
 the average yield for the county was only thirty- 
 hcven bushels per acre, while in 1889 the yield 
 in the same section was eighty-seven bushels. 
 I'lie tields where potatoes were grown under 
 irrigation furnished a greater yield for 1899 than 
 ten \ears before. The drought reduced the 
 yield in Coconino and greatly modified the av- 
 erage production in the territory. 
 
 GENERAL liEVIEW OF T-UiT.ES. 
 
 The production of cereals increased, outside 
 of the Indian reservations, 110 per cent. Includ- 
 ing the reservations, the acreage of hay and for- 
 age increased 231.4 per cent, and the tons har- 
 vested, 1 78. 1 per cent. The value of garden 
 products, exclusive of potatoes and inclusive 
 of small fruits, was 345.9 per cent greater in 1899 
 than ten years before. The acreage of potatoes 
 increased 53.8 per cent, but the actual product 
 obtained was less in 1899 than in 1889. The 
 growing of grapes and orchard and subtropical 
 fruits has developed into an important industry. 
 The number of orchard trees of bearing age is 
 325.4 per cent, and the product 442.4 per cent 
 greater than in 1889. Of subtropical fruit and 
 nut trees the last decade records a marked in- 
 crease, and the products, which were very small 
 in 1889, have become a considerable item in the 
 farm income of 1899. The tables show an in- 
 crease in the number of fowls since 1890 of 182.4 
 per cent, and an increase in the number of 
 dozens of eggs produced per fowl from 3.3 in 
 1889 to 4.7 in 1899. 
 
 Ostrich farming is a new and promising in- 
 dustry. .\ company organized in 1898, near 
 Phoenix, with one hundred and four birds, now 
 owns the largest farm of .African ostriches in the 
 United States. 
 
 FLOWERS, PLANTS, SEEDS .\ND NUESEEY STOCK. 
 
 In the semitropical climate of Arizona, where 
 all but the most delicate flowers and plants 
 thrive in the open without danger from frost, 
 it is not to be expected that commercial floricul- 
 ture should attain any considerable degree of 
 importance as an industry. Two floral estab- 
 lishments were reported in 1899, one in Cochise 
 and one in Santa Cruz county. In 1899 there 
 were under glass six hundred and seventy
 
 PORTRAIT AND TIIOGRAITIKAI. RKCORD. 
 
 1023 
 
 square feet of land, of which two hundred and 
 twenty square feet were devoted to tlie euUnre 
 of flowers an<l phuits, and the reniaiuder to the 
 forcing of certain classes of vegetables. 
 
 The rai)id development of horticulture during 
 the ]iast decade has caused a corresponding in- 
 crease in the luinih'er of nurseries devoted to 
 the propagation of young trees. In i<Si)(j three 
 luirseries were reported. These were presuina- 
 hly of recent establishment, as no sales were 
 given. In 1899 there were rcijorted, in all, eight 
 establishments, covering fcjurteeu acres of 
 laud, and having a gross income of $2,914 from 
 sales for the year. ( )f these esta))lishments, 
 only two made the raising of nursery stock their 
 principal business. The otlier six raised a few 
 trees and ])lants in addition to ordiuary farm 
 products. 
 
 IRIUGjVTION S'L'.VTISTICS. 
 
 .\rizona has been inhabited at different times 
 In three races, each making use of irrigation in 
 agricultural operations. (Jf the first, or prehis- 
 toric, race very little is known. Evidences 
 abound that it inhabited Arizona for au ex- 
 tended period, and had \'anished before the ad- 
 vent of the wdiite man in .\merica. In Maricopa 
 and otlier counties are found traces of this race, 
 and the present canals and ditches for irrigation 
 in many places follow closely the lines laid 
 down centuries ago. When the region was ex- 
 plored bv white men the agricultural Indians 
 were practicing irrigation of a primitive kind, 
 very much as do their present successors. The 
 white settlers have impro\-ed on these methods, 
 and ]5opulation, agricultural development, and 
 wealth have advanced on lines parallel with the 
 artificial application of water to the cultivation 
 of the soil. 
 
 Of the 72.268.800 acres of land surface of 
 .\rizona. only 1,935,327. or 2.7 per cent, were in- 
 cluded in farms in 1900. and only 254,521, or 
 0.35 per cent, were improved. Of the improved 
 land, 227,890 acres are located outside of the 
 Indian reservations. The importance of irriga- 
 tion is demonstrated by the fact that irrigated 
 land outside of the Indian reservations has an 
 .acreage of 185,396, or 81.4 per cent of the corre- 
 sponding improved land. The progress of agri- 
 culture during the decade ending with 1900 is 
 attributable to the successful application ol irri- 
 
 gation to the growing of hay and forage, cereals, 
 vegetables, fruits and other crops. 
 
 Within tlie ten years from 1890 to 1900, five 
 hundred and forty-five miles of canals and 
 ditches were constructed, at a co.-t of $1,508,469. 
 ( )ut of this total. $512,000 was expended in 
 ditches into which no water had been turned be- 
 fore June I. 1900. -\side from this amount. 
 $250,000 is represented in canals which, were 
 completed within the last few years, and wdiich 
 utilize onl\' a small (|uantity of the water .ap- 
 jiropriated for them. The acreage under these 
 ditches, which in the near future will be brought 
 ui:der .-ultivation. will undoubteilly be much 
 larger than the area now irrigated, by all the 
 ditches constructed since 1889. In i8c>o the 
 acres irrigated, outside of the reservations, num- 
 bered 65.821: in 1900 they numbered 185,396. 
 I'.y the opening of new ditches and canals be- 
 tween 1890 and 1900. 26.297 aci'cs were added 
 to the irrigated area. I'.y the enlargement of 
 the canals previously constructed, and as the 
 result of more intelligent methods of water dis- 
 tribution, 93,278 .acres were added to the pro- 
 ducti\c area of the territory The total increase 
 in irrigated land in ten years was 1 19.575 acres. 
 .Most of this land was jniblic domain in 1890. 
 .\t a low estimate its present average value is 
 S30 per acre, or $3,587,250. Irrigation has 
 added this large amount to the farm wealth of 
 the territory. The relation of irrigation to the 
 various agricultural ojierations can be noted in 
 the following table: 
 
 .\CR[':S AND YIELD OF .-\LL CROPS .\ND OF 
 IRRIG.^TED CROPS. 1899. 
 
 Total, Irrigated 
 
 Crops. and Uiiirrigated. Irrigated. 
 
 ..Veres. Bushels. Acres. Bushels. 
 
 Harley 1G.270 458,776 16,064 455,338 
 
 Cornt 11,654 204,748 7,246 135.860 
 
 Oats 1,641 43,246 1,602 42.711 
 
 Hve 15 190 15 190 
 
 Wheat 24,377 440,252 24.137 436.582 
 
 I'otatoes 626 .•!3,927 139 14.360 
 
 Sweet Potatoes .... .51 4.299 51 4,299 
 
 Onions 47 6,966 43 6,293 
 
 Alfalfa 62,585 •137.270 62 585 •137.270 
 
 Crains cut green for 
 
 hay 15,349 
 
 Other hay 14.740 
 
 Vegetables 2,145 
 
 Small fruits 79 
 
 •20,487 
 •20,074 
 
 11,202 •16,007 
 
 6.576 •12,501 
 
 2,145 
 
 79 
 
 685 
 
 2,295 
 
 Grapes 685 
 
 Orchard fruits 2,295 
 
 Subtropical fruits and 
 
 nuts 1.149 
 
 Other crops 1.309 
 
 : A large fortion of the acreage of uuirrigated corn was In 
 
 the Indian reservations, and was in very small tracts near 
 water courses and springs. 
 
 • Tons. 
 
 1,149 
 1,220
 
 1024 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPIIICAI. RECORD. 
 
 The tutal imiubc-r of acres of irrigated crops, 
 as given above, is 1,^7.233, while the total mim- 
 ber of acres of land irrigated is 185,396. The 
 difTerence of 48,163 acres represents approxi- 
 mately the area of pasture land irrigated. It is 
 probable that a portion of the area upon wliich 
 crops were reported as grown without irriga- 
 tion, was really irrigated at some time during 
 the year. 
 
 In addition tu surface water obtained from 
 rivers, Arizona possesses considerable quantities 
 of ground water, or so-called underflow, at depths 
 varying from forty to fifteen hundred feet. Sev- 
 enty-seven farms were wholly or in part sup- 
 plied with this ground water by pumping from 
 wells. In this way nine hundred and seventy- 
 four acres were irrigated. The use of wells to 
 augment the supply of water in the ditches, or 
 by pumping the water directly upon the land, is 
 becoming more general each \ear, and in sec- 
 tions where an artesian suppl\- is abimdant a 
 considerable area of land above the line of ditch 
 ultimately will he reclaimed and rendered jiro- 
 ductive and valuable. 
 
 THE GILA VALLEY. 
 
 Arizona Bulletin, January 12, igoo. 
 
 Written by Andrew Kimball, Stake President "f the 
 
 Mormon Churcb, Thatcher. 
 
 Fortified by the afBdavits of the most respon- 
 sible men in the valley, tlie writer dares venture 
 once more on the billows of the great journalis- 
 tic ocean. The former stories related by me have 
 not only awakened considerable interest and 
 caused a steady inunigration of many good peo- 
 ])le to our valley, but has created some criticism 
 and in some circles are used as fireside jokes. 
 .\11 I have to say about this is that those with 
 sufficient good judgment to come here and see 
 for themselves are ready to bear testimony to 
 tlie truth of every statement that has been made. 
 The Gila river heads way back in the mountains 
 east of us and just before it crosses the Xew 
 Mexico line its valuable fluid is diverted into 
 irrigating channels and conmiences its valuable 
 mission. Increased by the 'Frisco river and 
 other perpetual streams, by the time it gets to 
 the narrows above the more populous portion of 
 
 our valle) yuu would not know that a stream 
 had ever been diverted from its banks. 
 
 Situated in the southeast of Arizona, our set- 
 tlements extend over the border into New Mex- 
 ico. There is considerable country intervening 
 between us and Mexico. Sixty miles below our 
 border settlement, Franklin, which, by the way, 
 is a very prosperous one, the valley widens out, 
 until when it reaches the writer's home it is fully 
 ten miles wide and still widens opposite Pima, 
 six miles lower down, and as the river extends 
 westward as far as the e}c can reach there is 
 still valley. In search of a cut-of¥ road home 
 from Northern Arizona last summer, Emil Mae- 
 ser, Heber Larson and the writer stood on some 
 cliffs about seven hundred feet high, overlook- 
 ing the Gila valley, and until then I was never 
 able to properly appreciate the vastness of this 
 agricultural region. Sloping towards this great 
 basin I saw for hundreds of miles back almost 
 the entire country pays tribute to the Gila; if 
 a cloud bursts or an inch of rain falls a hundred 
 miles away our canals are replenished. 
 
 The Gila river is perpetual; the more it is 
 appropriated the more it increases; in the dis- 
 tance of forty miles there are no less than 
 twenty-two canals, and below each dam, which 
 in low water seems to sop the last drop from the 
 river bed, each succeeding canal has a stream. 
 Matthewsville canal, fully thirty miles from the 
 first canal taken out of the river, has a better 
 stream than many above it, and does not need 
 to put the water on turns, while others are being- 
 guarded very closely. There is an dlmost inex- 
 haustil)le supply of good water at forty to sixty 
 feet below the surface, which is secured by open 
 wells and pumps and windmills. The well at 
 the ice plant of C. Layton & Co., in Thatcher, 
 furnished, besides what is ii,sed in the factory, 
 a good irrigation stream, sufificient for a cit\' 
 lot. Bv the aid of tanks and windmills every 
 family that can afford it may have a complete 
 water system at their homes. Our elevation is 
 a little less than three thousand feet above sea 
 level, while on either side of our valley are 
 mountains from five to seven thou.sand feet 
 higher, which are covered with saw timber. The 
 Graham mountain produces several irrigating 
 streams. 
 
 The slope of the valley is about right for con-
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 1025 
 
 venient irrigation, while down the valley there 
 is a fall of about ten feet to the mile. 
 
 The soil is of a rich sandy loam on the higher 
 lands and nearer the higher lands and nearer 
 the river a black sandy clay. Our deepest well 
 is still in soil, for it seems that the valley has 
 been washed in for generations. Flowing well 
 water has been encountered here. \\'e have one 
 about three miles above Thatcher at Chlarson's 
 lumber yard, there is an artesian well which 
 tlows full}- twenty-five gallons per minute, anil 
 is of the purest kind of water. Our canal sys- 
 tem is oive of the best in the world. \\'hy this 
 condition? Simply because our people have 
 adopted co-operation as the principle in their 
 management and not allowed large corporations 
 to monopolize the precious fluid and make of it 
 merchandise. In the Gila valley these condi- 
 tions do not exist. The farmer who cultivates 
 the land owns and controls all the water. 
 
 Surrounded by mining camps and govern- 
 ment posts and Indian reservations, everything 
 we raise can be sold. Compare the hollow of your 
 hand to the Gila valley and all the extremities 
 as the feeders and you have it. Not only an 
 oasis on the desert, but a supply house for a 
 great surrounding country of consumers. It is 
 needless for the writer to elaborate upon this 
 subject, when the reader can in this edition see 
 the illustrations and read of the millions of 
 wealth in mining camps all around us. 
 
 As to the phenomenal productions the writer 
 refers to outside statements. George T. Odell, 
 general manager of the Co-operative Wagon and 
 Machine Company in Utah and Idaho, and of 
 w^hich Messrs. Philips & Kimball, of this valley, 
 form a part, made the following statements to a 
 "Deseret News" reporter after visiting this val- 
 ley last winter. Of course Mr. Odell thought 
 the writer had enlarged upon many items of 
 which he had written, an<l set out in his investi- 
 gations with the end in view of either proving 
 Mr. Kimball to be an enlargcr on facts, or this 
 to be one of the grandest valleys on earth. lie 
 first encountered the man who raised the thirty- 
 six-pound sweet potato, and in response to his 
 fjucry the honest old farmer said: "\\'ell. I reck- 
 on it would have been rather a large potato if we 
 had got all of it, but a large slice was cut off in 
 
 digging it." We found many farmers who raise 
 two crops of Irish potatoes every year on one 
 piece of land, one crop of small grain and a 
 crop of corn and squash the same year. "The 
 statements of these farmers," said Mr. Odell, 
 "so far outstripped Mr. Kimball's modest stories, 
 I was ready to believe most anything." When 
 he asked Bishop John Taylor, of Pima, regard- 
 ing these things Mr. Taylor replied: "I raised 
 fift\ bushels of wheat on one acre of land and 
 afterwards planted it to corn and raised fifty 
 bushels on the same land in the same year." 
 "I had heard a great deal," said Mr. Odell, "of 
 the wondcrfid resources of the Gila valley, but 
 I can truthfully say, in the language of the 
 In lun, 'the half has never been told.' " 
 
 I now c|uote from obser^-ations of Prof. Mc- 
 Clatchie, superintendent of the experiment sta- 
 tion at Phoenix, and professor of agriculture 
 and horticulture in the University of Arizona, 
 as reported in a Phoenix paper: "He brought 
 back with him, as trophies of his trip, specimens 
 of apples grown in the Gila valley. They were 
 of extremely large size and unusually fine in ap- 
 pearance and flavor, especially the Ben Davis 
 variety. All that is necessary to raise a crop 
 is to put the seed in the ground and turn on the 
 water at proper intervals. From forty to sixty 
 bushels of grain are raised on an acre. The 
 summer heat in the Gila valley is not as intense 
 as it is in the Salt River valley, the highest tem- 
 perature last summer being about one hun- 
 dred degrees. The Gila valley is certainly a 
 most interesting country. I found they raised 
 a fine quality of wheat, and I was surprised to 
 find in the town of Safford four large flouring 
 mills. When the Enterprise canal is completed 
 the area under cultivation will be increased fully 
 one hundred per cent. The mountains are cov- 
 ered with timber from which all the lumber 
 needed is secured. Springs of water bubble out 
 from the caiions and will furnish, if utilized, an 
 abundant supply of pure and cool water for 
 domestic purposes. The people living in the 
 ( '.ila valley are thrifty and hospitable. They live 
 (|uiet. retired lives and appear to enjoy them- 
 selves in an old-fashioned way, truly pleasant 
 to behold. There are no paupers among tlicni; 
 all appear to have plenty."
 
 1026 
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 MARICOPA & PHOENIX & SALT RIVER 
 VALLEY RAILWAY. 
 
 ^^■llen tlie attention of capitalists was directed 
 to the importance of developing the resources 
 of the Salt River valley, and their investments 
 began to yield valuable returns, it was clearly 
 recognized that a railroad into the valley was an 
 immediate necessity. The Southern Pacific 
 road, which was completed through the terri- 
 tory in 1880, was almost forty miles distant, yet 
 it furnished the only available transportation 
 facilities. No sooner was the need recognized 
 than the means of building were provided. The 
 then financial agent of the Southern Pacific 
 Companv, N. K. JNIasten. of San Francisco, in- 
 duced Francis Cutting, of the same city, the 
 founder of the Cutting Packing Company, and 
 Sidney M. Smith, also of San Francisco, to be- 
 come interested with him in the building of a 
 road that would meet the necessities of the time:. 
 The task was by no means an easy one. The 
 fact that this section was far from the base of 
 supply rendered the undertaking an expensive 
 one, yet the projectors did not lose faith in ulti- 
 mate success, and continued perseveringly until 
 finally the road was completed, July 2, 1887. 
 
 On the organization of a company, N. I\. 
 Masten was chosen president, he and his two as- 
 sociates previously mentioned becoming the 
 principal owners of the road. As the valley de- 
 veloped to a degree previously undreamed of, 
 and as Phoenix also showed a remarkable in- 
 crease in growth and business imi^ortance, the 
 road shared a corresponding success and pros- 
 perity. Indeed, the operating of the road un- 
 doubtedly contributed largely to the develop- 
 ment of the region, and the present high 
 standing of the valley as an agricultural and 
 horticultural center may be attributed in no 
 small degree to the road itself. Lasting credit 
 is to be given to the men whose determination 
 and enterprise made possible tlie development 
 of one of the luost fertile sections of the south- 
 west. 
 
 The increase of the volume of business trans- 
 acted by the road rendered advisable the exten- 
 sion of its line, and in 1895 a branch was built 
 from Tempe to Mesa. 
 
 The completion of the Mesa branch made the 
 line forty-two miles in length. The motive 
 
 power comprises three first-class Baldwin loco- 
 motives. Employment is furnished to a large 
 corps of men in the company's shops at Phoe- 
 nix. In ecjuipment the company ecjuals others 
 that are older and greater in extent. From the 
 establishment of the road, it has been the com- 
 pany's policN- to aid the residents of the valley 
 in every wav possible, and they have endeavored 
 to keep the freight rates on shipments of prod- 
 uce at as low a point as possible, m order that 
 the profits for the farmers may thus be larger 
 than otherwise. Immense shipmencs are made 
 to Southern California over the road. The day 
 has passed when all shipments are incoming. 
 Now a policy of exportation has been estab- 
 lished that gives every indication of placing 
 .\rizona in a high position for the \'alue of its 
 products, secured through the energy of its peo- 
 ple. 
 
 (ilLA \ALLEY, GLOP.F & NORTHERN 
 RAILWAY. 
 
 The building of this road marked an era in 
 the progress of eastern Arizona. 1 he survey 
 was made in 1892, but the work of construction 
 did not begin until February, 1894, when it was 
 activel)' ijrosecuted by the following ofificers: 
 William (iarland, president; E. A. Cutter, vice- 
 president; .\. C. Laird, secretar}- an<l treasurer; 
 George B. Fox, chief engineer — all of whom 
 also served as directors, together with Julius 
 Lieberman and J. E. Solomon. 
 
 The point of inception of the road is Bowie, 
 which lies in the southeastern ]iart of the ter- 
 ritory, on the Southern Pacific Railroad, east 
 of Tucson. From there the track runs up into 
 Cochise countv, in a northwesterly direction, 
 through Solomonvillc. which was named in 
 honor of J. E. Solomon. Thence it follows the 
 bed of the Gila river to Safiford, from there to 
 Thatcher and Pima, and finally to Geronimo. 
 which for two or more years was the terminus 
 of the road. However, finally the consent of 
 the .\pache Indians was secured to build a line 
 across their reservation to San Carlos, and w-ork 
 was immediately begun on the extension, which 
 was completed up the valley of the .San Carlos 
 river to. the mouth of Aliso creek, and over the 
 I'inal sunnnit to the town of Globe, one of the
 
 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 
 
 102; 
 
 present prosperous mining camps of the terri- 
 tory. 
 
 It is the hope of the officers of the road that 
 in the near future the Hue ma\ be extcndecl to 
 the rich mining districts of Tonto basin, coni- 
 ])rising the timber behs of ;he MogoHan moun- 
 tains. When this plan is executetl, the vahie 
 and importance of tlie road will thereb\' be still 
 further enhanced. 
 
 SAK'IW I'V.. PRESCOTT & PHOI'.VIX 
 RAILWAY. 
 
 There is no enterprise within the limits of 
 .\rizona th.at is more peculiarly the fruit of .Ari- 
 zona capital, energy and brains than the road 
 of which F. M. Murphy is president. Conceiveil 
 and consummated in the face <jf oljstacles- that 
 would have daunted man_\-, it was nevertheless 
 brought to a successful completion, and has 
 since been operated successful!}'. The road 
 starts at Ash Fork, on the Santa Fe Railway, 
 and from there cuts through the very heart of 
 the territor)', from nc:)rth to south, a distance of 
 one hundred and ninety-seven miles, and termi- 
 nates at Phoenix, where it connects with the 
 Maricopa & Phoenix road, joining the Southeni 
 Pacific. The fact that it forms the link between 
 the Santa Fe on the north and the Southern 
 Pacific on the south renders it indispensable to 
 the development of the territory. 
 
 When once the mammoth project had been 
 l)lanned, not even the financial depression of 
 1893 was allowed to retard the work. Tlie 
 track .and bridges were constructed from Ash 
 Fork to Prescott between August, 1892, and 
 Ma\ , 1893; from Prescott to Skull valley, be- 
 tween January and .April, 1894; and from Skull 
 valley to Phoenix, between .August, 1894, and 
 March i, 1895. In the laying of the track steel 
 rails were used. s])liced with heavy angle h-ars. 
 
 and on sharp curves steel pressed railbraces 
 are used. In the construction of bridges the 
 material used was principall\ California red- 
 wood and Oregon pine. The same difficulties 
 confronted the engineers in the building of this 
 road that have been found throughout the entire 
 west. Inu these were .surmounted in a way cred- 
 italile to the skill of the engineers. The machine 
 shojis of the company have been located at Pres- 
 cott. while both there and in I'luienix are to be 
 found large engine houses and storehouses. 
 
 The first ])resident of the road was I). IS. Rob- 
 inson, one of its jirojectors and builders. In 
 time the secretary .and general manager, Mr. 
 Mur])hy, was elected to the presidency, and has 
 since officiated in that capacity, his co-laborers 
 ;s directors being D. M. Ferry, Detroit, Mich.: 
 L. W. P>owen, Detroit: Simon J. Murphy, De- 
 troit: X. K. Fairbank. Ciiicago: C. W. Kret- 
 zinger and Jay Morton, Chicago: Robert Mc- 
 Curdy, 'S'oungstown, Ohio: and E. B. Gage, of 
 1 'rescott. 
 
 Tributary to this road is the Prescott & East- 
 I'rn, which runs southwest from Prescott to 
 Mayer, in the heart of the Big-Bug mining re- 
 gion, and where is also to be found one of the 
 largest deposits of onyx in the worUl. The 
 building of this road has given an important 
 impetus to mining in the region through which 
 it passes, and its utility has been proved beyond 
 a doubt. -Another branch road runs fronr Con- 
 gress Junction to the mining regions at Con- 
 gress, while still another extends from Jerome 
 twenty-si.x miles into the Jerome mining dis- 
 trict. By means of these branches already in 
 operation, together with others that have been 
 ])rojcctcd, the road reaches every important min- 
 ing and agricultural region between the north- 
 ern and southern ])ortions of Arizona, and is 
 therefore one of the greatest factors in the de- 
 \elnpment of the territorv's resources.
 
 INDEX BIOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 Abell, Wilbur 859 
 
 Adams, J. C 28 
 
 Aguirre, Mrs. Mary 341 
 
 Ainsworth, Gen. C. 1" 183 
 
 Akers, Hon. C. H 61 
 
 Akers, James W 279 
 
 Alexander Brothers 914 
 
 Alsap, Hon. J. T 171 
 
 Andersen, Peter 714 
 
 Andrews, Frank E 519 
 
 .Anewalt, Henry P 337 
 
 Arballo, Ramon B 740 
 
 Arbuckle, Henry 373 
 
 Armbruster. William 745 
 
 Atkinson, George W 885 
 
 .\ustin, Linzy C 698 
 
 Austin. William S 698 
 
 B 
 
 I'.abbitt. David 934 
 
 Bacon, William 908 
 
 Baehr, Rudolph 473 
 
 Bailey, Alonzo 24 
 
 Baker, Hon. A. C 41 
 
 Barkley, Hon. S. Y 215 
 
 Barnes, Judge W. H 27 
 
 Barnett, C. W 348 
 
 Barry, William E 899 
 
 Ba.shford, Hon. Coles 1 r4 
 
 Bashford. William C 344 
 
 Bassett, Josiah S 919 
 
 Bauer, Charles 344 
 
 Baxter, Mrs. Mary H 311 
 
 Beck, John 427 
 
 Beebe, Nelson P 428 
 
 Bell, William 458 
 
 Bennett, Alma H 428 
 
 Benson, William H 924 
 
 Bent, Charles 255 
 
 Berkholter. C. M 874 
 
 Bernard, Hon. A. C 349 
 
 Bicknell, M. 432 
 
 Biles, Fred E 506 
 
 Birchett. Joseph S 776 
 
 Birdno Brothers 926 
 
 Blair, Robert 567 
 
 Blake, Judge John 631 
 
 Blakely, Judge W. G 169 
 
 Blauvelt, Harrington 768 
 
 40 
 
 vm;e 
 
 llUiniir, Hun. F. 1 244 
 
 Began, John W 527 
 
 Boido. Lorenzo. M. D 225 
 
 Bollen. R. T 244 
 
 Bonne, Max C 739 
 
 Booker, D. L 280 
 
 Bovvers, Mrs. Anna 859 
 
 Bradley, A. J 782 
 
 Branen, William V 323 
 
 Brannen. D. J., M. D 465 
 
 Bray, Gorham A 772 
 
 Breakenridgc, William !\l 379 
 
 Breathitt. Col. J. B .^62 
 
 Brichta, Augustus C 755 
 
 Brichta, Bernabe C 327 
 
 Brickwood. John T 881 
 
 Bright, S. E 442 
 
 lirill, Frederick L 310 
 
 Brinkmeyer, Henry 765 
 
 Brockman, Thomas M 762 
 
 Brockway, G. M., M. D 3«o 
 
 Brookner, William W 341 
 
 Brooks, Judge H 175 
 
 Brown, John N 571 
 
 Brown, Hon. Samuel 143 
 
 Brown, William H 603 
 
 Brown, William T 50 
 
 Bruce, Hon. J. W 925 
 
 Buehman, Hon. Harry 985 
 
 BuUard, George P 357 
 
 Burbage, William H 283 
 
 Burgess, Capt. J. DeW 321 
 
 r.urmister, Robert H 93 
 
 Burtch. L. A. W.. M. D 38S 
 
 C 
 
 Cadwell, Fred E 753 
 
 Campbell, Clinton 730 
 
 Campbell, George H 809 
 
 Campbell, Hon. John G 363 
 
 Campbell, Hon. Joseph 982 
 
 Campbell. Samuel S 926 
 
 Cartter, Judge H. H 242 
 
 Castaneda, Jose M 903 
 
 Chalmers. Louis H 243 
 
 Chamberlain. T. W 7-3 
 
 Charoulcau. Pierre 7"4 
 
 Cheyncy, Hon. G. W' 1 13 
 
 Christ, Gen. George 99 
 
 Christ, George, Jr 703 
 
 1029 
 
 Christy, Capt. G. D 533 
 
 Christy, Capt. L M 44 1 
 
 Christy, Shirley A 419 
 
 Christy, Col. William 35 
 
 Clancy, John C 32S 
 
 Clark, Ben R 645 
 
 Clark, Col. C. S 162 
 
 Clark, David 749 
 
 Clark, George C 710 
 
 Clark, John 822 
 
 Clark, Vernon 1 36S 
 
 Clark, William H 317 
 
 Claypool, S. B., M. D 952 
 
 Clayson, George H 728 
 
 Cleary, W. B 109 
 
 Clifford, Harry 810 
 
 Coggins, Major L. W 892 
 
 Cole, N. B., M. D ,i84 
 
 Coleman, J. W., M. D 231 
 
 Collins, George U 917 
 
 Collins, Lewis W 33S 
 
 Collins, T. S., M. D 310 
 
 Council, Judge C. T 343 
 
 Connolly, Rev. T. M 772 
 
 Cook, Rev. Charles H 559 
 
 Cook, Edward H 030 
 
 Cook, William W 75 
 
 Cool, Dr. G. W 376 
 
 Cooley, Lewis W 720 
 
 Cooper, William F 105 
 
 Corbell, Charles .\ 702 
 
 Corbett, Hon. J. B 119 
 
 Corbett, J. Knox 741 
 
 Cordiner, A. C 840 
 
 Cornwall, Hon. Adamson 547 
 
 Corpstein, Peter 800 
 
 Cottrell, A. W.. M. D 203 
 
 Cottrell, J. J 933 
 
 Coughran, Capt. J. W 873 
 
 Coughran, William II So 
 
 Cox, Frank 144 
 
 Cox, Joseph H 309 
 
 Creighton, William 841 
 
 Crepin, H. E., M. D 938 
 
 Crouch, Hulbert B 894 
 
 Crouse, Judge C. W 232 
 
 Crowley, John F 822 
 
 Culver, Judge W. H 708 
 
 Cummings, Hon. C. 1 851 
 
 Cummings, Whitfield T 730 
 
 Cuniming.^;. William N 937
 
 I030 
 
 INDEX— BIOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ciiber. Alois L 7Jl5 
 
 Curry, Michael F. 629 
 
 D 
 
 Dake, Charles A 501 
 
 Dalton, James 5<57 
 
 Dameron. L. D., M. D 389 
 
 Davis, Edwin L 55 r 
 
 Davis, Hon. George R f>6 
 
 Davis, T. B., M. D 394 
 
 Davis, William G 533 
 
 Davis, W. J., M. D 646 
 
 Dawes, W. C 49^ 
 
 Delahanty, P. J 775 
 
 Demarest, F. C 501 
 
 Denier, Andrew 458 
 
 Dennett, John, M. D 560 
 
 Dennis, John T 383 
 
 Detweiler, John S 328 
 
 Dial, Henry Mi 
 
 Diaz, Abraham 557 
 
 Dietz, Frank 324 
 
 Divelbess, L. K 891 
 
 Doan, Judge K. M 228 
 
 Dobson, Wilson W 545 
 
 Doe, Edward M 358 
 
 Doe, George H 719 
 
 Donau, Hugo J S02 
 
 Doner, John B 813 
 
 Doran, Hon. A. J 457 
 
 Dorris, Caswell D 521 
 
 Dorris, J. W 542 
 
 Dougherty, Joseph 585 
 
 Downs, Rev. Frank W 522 
 
 Drake. Hon. C. R 923 
 
 Duffey, Merritt L .583 
 
 Duffield, William, M. D 390 
 
 Duffy, Frank J 4^3 
 
 Duncan, Hon. J. F 295 
 
 Dunlap, Hon. Burt ^77 
 
 Dutton, Hon. A. A 176 
 
 Dwyer, John F 534 
 
 E 
 
 Ealy, A. E., M. D 394 
 
 Edmundson, C. L.. M. D 396 
 
 Edwards, Arthur J 493 
 
 Egger, Jesse T 63y 
 
 Elias, A. M 694 
 
 Elliot, William V 453 
 
 Elliott, Harry W 440 
 
 Emanuel, A. H 347 
 
 Etz, Hon. Henry W 465 
 
 Evans, John 934 
 
 F 
 
 l-'.irley. Patrick J 803 
 
 I-'ccny, John P 35'3 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Fenner, H. W., M. D 400 
 
 Fife, Walter T 939 
 
 Fifield, Joseph S 723 
 
 Finley, Hon. J. B 214 
 
 Fish, Edward N 491 
 
 Fish, Joseph 564 
 
 Fisher, Frederick G 677 
 
 Fleishman, Fred 668 
 
 Flinn, Charles L 286 
 
 Forbes, S. J 707 
 
 Fourr, William 610 
 
 Frankenberg, Ernst G 839 
 
 Franklin, Hon. B.J 102 
 
 Franklin, Hon. S. M 235 
 
 French, F. M 044 
 
 Fuller, Reuben W 6S4 
 
 Fulton, Harry 652 
 
 Funston. C. M 684 
 
 G 
 
 Gaddis, Hon. O. D. M 494 
 
 Gage, E. B 862 
 
 Gage, George N 672 
 
 Gallagher, George H J43 
 
 G?.!pin, M. J.. 611 
 
 Gamble, George B 354 
 
 Gann, George 336 
 
 Gant, James L 615 
 
 Gant, Valentine 609 
 
 Ganz, Hon. Emil 222 
 
 Gardiner, John J 353 
 
 Gardner, J. 1 620 
 
 Gebler, Theodore 649 
 
 Geddes, Samuel J 600 
 
 Geer, Hon. O. L 369 
 
 Geimer, J. F 337 
 
 George, H. L 553 
 
 Gerwien, H 897 
 
 Gibson, Jack 59>5 
 
 Gillespie, William A 938 
 
 Gillett, Ben T 702 
 
 Giroux, Joseph L 678 
 
 Goff, Norris 662 
 
 Goldman, Charles 606 
 
 Goldschmidt, Leo 676 
 
 Gordon, Peter 693 
 
 Gosart, .A. J 682 
 
 Gosney, E. S 658 
 
 Goss, Homer 60S 
 
 Gould, A. J., M. D 940 
 
 Gould. Peter 676 
 
 Gray, Col. Gilbert D 594 
 
 Gray. Harry 624 
 
 Gray, Henry J 357 
 
 Gray, Col. John 600 
 
 Gray, Josiah H 616 
 
 Green, Noah 599 
 
 Greenhaw. Hosca G 507 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Greenlaw, C. A 989 
 
 Griebel, Frank 606 
 
 Griffith, Hon. W. M 57 
 
 Grindell, Thomas 315 
 
 Griswold. Albert J 409 
 
 Grossetta, xAnthony V 656 
 
 Grubb, David 586 
 
 Guthrie. James E 324 
 
 H 
 
 Hadley, Elwood 4S7 
 
 Hagan. W. F 257 
 
 lialderman, Benjamin F 716 
 
 Hale, Edward 729 
 
 Hale, Hon. O. R 58 
 
 Hall, C. J 733 
 
 Hancock, Judge W. A 189 
 
 Harbert, Josiah 44s 
 
 Hardy, Dr. Joseph 401 
 
 Harmon, Judson A 703 
 
 Harper, Harvey J 830 
 
 Harper, Ira 709 
 
 Harris, John C 742 
 
 Harris, S. M 318 
 
 Haskell, J. E 554 
 
 Hawes, T. Ashby 713 
 
 Hawkins, Eugene T 252 
 
 Hayden, Charles T 871 
 
 Hayden, R. L 788 
 
 Hayes, F. W 820 
 
 Hays, Charles W 301 
 
 Head, Adoniram J 727 
 
 Henderson & Houlahan 044 
 
 Heney, Ben 888 
 
 Hereford, Hon. F. H yoo 
 
 Hermann, Michael S82 
 
 Herr, Judge L. C 370 
 
 Hesser, Thomas J 405 
 
 Hibbert, David T 893 
 
 Hicks, Judge C. P 193 
 
 Hill, Henry 701 
 
 Hill, LeRoy F 735 
 
 Hirst, Charles T 715 
 
 Hitchcock, Harley C 95 
 
 Hodnett, John J 255 
 
 Hoff, Hon. Gustav 151 
 
 Hogan, E. B 946 
 
 Holladay, Leonidas 953 
 
 Hooker, Col. H. C 49 
 
 Hoover. J. B 860 
 
 Hornmeycr, George H 836 
 
 Houston, Andrew J 912 
 
 Hubbs, Harvey 638 
 
 Hughes, John T 912 
 
 Hughes, Hon. L. C 22 
 
 Hughes, Hon. Samuel 67 
 
 Hulet, John R 865 
 
 Hunt, Alexander C 252
 
 INDEX— BIOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 1031 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Hunt, Hon. G. W. P ^o 
 
 Hunter, Charles W 309 
 
 Hunter, Hon. T. T 425 
 
 Hurley, D. E 957 
 
 Hurley. P. T ... 781 
 
 I 
 
 Ijams, Hon. E. T 306 
 
 Irvine, Edward 453 
 
 Irvine, J. A. R 525 
 
 Ivy, Hon. James P }40 
 
 J 
 
 Jackson, Judge U. F 179 
 
 Jackson, Eugene S. 1 735 
 
 Jacobson, P. J. C 488 
 
 Jerome Dairy, The 534 
 
 Jessop, Dr. Henry J 401 
 
 Jewell, Harrison 779 
 
 J immie, L. \V 847 
 
 Johnson, Benjamin F 251 
 
 Johnson, Joel E 886 
 
 Johnson, Seth J 716 
 
 Johnson, William D ;84 
 
 Johnston, W. S 804 
 
 Johnstone, Hon. C. W 94 
 
 Jones, Edward E 914 
 
 Jones, John B 374 
 
 Jones, Hon. John S 558 
 
 Jones, S. S 952 
 
 Jones, Hon. Wiley E 148 
 
 Judia, John F 63 
 
 K 
 
 Katz, Henry 574 
 
 Kay, William H 886 
 
 Kellner, Ernest F 553 
 
 Kellner, William O 664 
 
 Kelly, George H 681 
 
 Kelly, W. N 689 
 
 Kersey, R. W 655 
 
 Kimball, Andrew 477 
 
 King, Frank M 624 
 
 Kinney, Alfred 32 
 
 Kirtland, William 612 
 
 Kloss, Rev. Daniel. D. D 833 
 
 Knight. John 285 
 
 Knoblock. Andrew J 623 
 
 Knowles, James H 584 
 
 Korrick, Sam 868 
 
 Kuencer, O. F 598 
 
 L 
 
 Langston, Judge J. H 130 
 
 La Prade, F. T 585 
 
 La Tourrette, John 604 
 
 Layton, Charles M 538 
 
 I'.^Gli 
 
 Layton, Judge N. G 194 
 
 Lewis, Gen. R. Allyn 141 
 
 Lewis, William R 690 
 
 Lindley, W. E.. M. D 263 
 
 Lines, Joseph H 671 
 
 Logan, Judge J. A 803 
 
 Long, Hon. R. L 186 
 
 Lovell, Judge W. M 156 
 
 Lovin, Henry 957 
 
 Lows W. S. ., 90 
 
 Lowry, James R 842 
 
 Luhrs, George H. N 497 
 
 Lutgerding. John A 845 
 
 M 
 
 McAllister, .\le.xander I" jOs 
 
 McCallum, N. P 756 
 
 McCourt, L. V 891 
 
 McCowan, Prof. S. M 198 
 
 McCurdy, W. J. N 158 
 
 McDermott, Daniel "46 
 
 McDougall, John A 54 
 
 McDougall, Roderick 336 
 
 McEvven, C. C 759 
 
 McFall, Benjamin F 370 
 
 McGrath, Thomas 318 
 
 Mclnernay, Murray 43 
 
 McKay. Hon. Alexander 222 
 
 McKinnon. Judge W. A 302 
 
 McNally. J. B.. M. D 219 
 
 McNamara, Mrs. Bee L 24c 
 
 Macdonald, Wallace A 439 
 
 Macmanus, Ignacio 887 
 
 Maeser, Prof. Emil 483 
 
 Mahoney, O. L., M. D 402 
 
 Mahony, John F 766 
 
 Maier, Bernhard 248 
 
 Mann, Hiram C 435 
 
 Manning. Gen. L, H no 
 
 Marlar, James D 768 
 
 Marshall, S. S 954 
 
 MaVtin, Charles T 291 
 
 Martin, George 451 
 
 Martin, George W 785 
 
 Martin. Col. J. H 200 
 
 Masten. Louis C iZ^ 
 
 ^Lntas, N. H.. M. D 405 
 
 Maxwell, James C 819 
 
 Merrill. John S 986 
 
 Merrill, Philemon C 393 
 
 Merrill, Philemon C 375 
 
 Messinger, Marcu j W 120 
 
 Mcssinger. Victor E 66-1 
 
 Meyer, Conrad 74S 
 
 Meyer. John J 7/1 
 
 Michelena. Pedro 765 
 
 Middleton. Eugene 697 
 
 Millar. R. T 248 
 
 r.\Gi: 
 
 Millay, Hon. Jerry 172 
 
 Miller, Albert 276 
 
 Miller, Christian 760 
 
 Milliken, James J 292 
 
 Mills, Ernest M 399 
 
 Mills, Mrs. Ernest M 399 
 
 Miner, Ricardo E 84 
 
 Minty, Gen. R. H. G 142 
 
 Mognett, Francis M 387 
 
 Mognett, Mrs. F. M 387 
 
 Mohn, Peter 27; 
 
 Monier, Quintus S52 
 
 Montgomery, John 641 
 
 Moody, William 788 
 
 Moody, Judge W. A 431 
 
 Moore, Hon. J. M. W 868 
 
 Morford, Hon. N. A 298 
 
 Morgan, Henry A 272 
 
 Morgan, Hon. William 207 
 
 Morris, Hiram B., Jr 867 
 
 Morrison, Fred W ^^ 
 
 Morrison, Hon. R. E 99 
 
 Morrow, Thomas 487 
 
 Morten, Niels 749 
 
 Mulvenon, Hon. W. J 270 
 
 Munds, John L 795 
 
 Munds, William M 367 
 
 Murphy, Frank E 375 
 
 Murphy, F. M 61 
 
 Murphy, Judge J. M 911 
 
 Murphy, Hon. N. O 21 
 
 Murray, David 1 471 
 
 Myers, Philip J 84S 
 
 N 
 
 Nash, Prof. John F 848 
 
 Nash, Robert 64 
 
 Nathhorst, Charles E 557 
 
 Nelson, F. W 782 
 
 Nelssen, Peter 6G3 
 
 Newell, William M 750 
 
 Newton, H. P 515 
 
 Nichols, George W 829 
 
 Nichols, Judge W. F 667 
 
 Nielsen, Jack 90S 
 
 Noble, John 919 
 
 Nonnamaker, Clarence B 262 
 
 Noon, Hon. A. H 406 
 
 Noon, Capt. J. J 137 
 
 Noon, Owen 241 
 
 Norton, James C 197 
 
 Norton, John H.. '33 
 
 Norton, John R 761 
 
 Novinger, Simon 589 
 
 O 
 
 Ochoa, Esteban 675 
 
 Odermatt, Francis A 414 
 
 Ohnesorgen. William 968
 
 1032 
 
 INDEX— BIOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 TAGK 
 
 Olcott, A. W., M. D 4io 
 
 Olney, George A 270 
 
 Olsen, EUing 724 
 
 O'Neill, Capt. W. 87 
 
 Orme, John P 335 
 
 Orme, Lindley B 179 
 
 Orme, Lindley H 642 
 
 Orndori¥, R. B 736 
 
 Overlock, L. J 704 
 
 Overton, W. F 284 
 
 Owen, W. S 452 
 
 Owens, James T 709 
 
 P 
 
 Parker, Frank H 220 
 
 Parker, George R 286 
 
 Parker, Hon. P. P S3 
 
 Parkinson, Edwin J 954 
 
 Pascoe, Benjamin F 2S9 
 
 Pascoe, Elmer E 7S0 
 
 Pascoe, Thomas A 54 
 
 Pearce, James 754 
 
 Pearce, Jesse 780 
 
 Peck, A. L 775 
 
 Pemberton, Hon. T. W 42 
 
 Pendergast, Charles 583 
 
 Peters, Dr. S. J 413 
 
 Petersen, Charles 44 
 
 Petersen, Hon. Niels 619 
 
 Peterson, Charles 436 
 
 Peterson, J. G 280 
 
 Phelan, J. C 484 
 
 Phelps, Hiram S 290 
 
 Pickrell, A. J 141 
 
 Plath, O. E., M. D 415 
 
 Porter, Benjamin F 128 
 
 Porter, James N 261 
 
 Poston, Hon. C. D 892 
 
 Powers, E. A 972 
 
 Powers, Freeman T 756 
 
 Powers, Hon. R. C 123 
 
 Pratt, W. S 979 
 
 Price, Hon. Hugh H 170 
 
 Price, Col. J. E 48 
 
 Price, Samuel W 856 
 
 Price, W. Y 907 
 
 Priest, James T 563 
 
 Prina, Z. C 641 
 
 Pritchard, Rev. J. G 505 
 
 Pulliam, T. E 257 
 
 Purcell, Judge S. W 226 
 
 Pursley, James C 635 
 
 Q 
 
 (Juelu, Rev. .A.lfrcd 945 
 
 R 
 
 Randolph, Epes 28 
 
 Ransom, J. W 968 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Rath, John J 147 
 
 Rawlins, Charles L 204 
 
 Redden, James E 74 
 
 Redfield, Leonard D 754 
 
 Reid, William 767 
 
 Reilly, Judge James 155 
 
 Renaud, Henry 856 
 
 Reynolds, C. T 256 
 
 Richardson, David A 331 
 
 Richmond, F. O., M. D. C 420 
 
 Riordan, T. A 866 
 
 Robbins, Mrs. Oona Mae 269 
 
 Robbins, W. C, M. D 269 
 
 Robertson, Judge P. C ■. 183 
 
 Robinson, Gen. H. F 157 
 
 Robinson, James C 767 
 
 Rodgers, M. A., M. D ji6 
 
 Roemer, Hon. Stephen 151 
 
 Rogers, Hon. H. C 547 
 
 Rohrig, William 878 
 
 Roskruge, Gen. G. J 207 
 
 Russell, Frank E 929 
 
 Rynning, Lieut. T. H 526 
 
 S 
 
 Sachs, Wolf 785 
 
 Samaniego, Hon. 'M. G 577 
 
 Sampson, Amasa B 275 
 
 Sandoval, A 213 
 
 Sandoval, P 213 
 
 Sanford, Hon. E. M 79 
 
 Sanford, Judge J. M 165 
 
 Sawyer, Edward A 24 
 
 Scarborough, J. C, M. D 422 
 
 Scherrer, George 894 
 
 Scholefield, George P 579 
 
 Schuckmann, William 655 
 
 Schuster, Adolph 898 
 
 Scorse, H. H 646 
 
 Scott, Walter G 227 
 
 Scoville, H. Percy 816 
 
 Scribner, M. D 835 
 
 Seamands, John L 316 
 
 Sears, J. M 258 
 
 Secrist, Franklin P 305 
 
 Shattuck, L. C 847 
 
 Sheftield, Thomas N 807 
 
 Sheldon, Henry E 80S 
 
 Shibell, Charles A 23 
 
 Shill, Charles G 787 
 
 Sidow, William 839 
 
 Silva, Alexander 830 
 
 Simpson, Ernest H 474 
 
 Sines, George W S19 
 
 Sirrine, Warren L 821 
 
 Skinner, Edward M 713 
 
 Slack, Joel R 657 
 
 Slayton, Charles W 814 
 
 Sloan, Judge R. E 31 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Smith, .\d:ini .\ 951 
 
 Smith, George H 787 
 
 Smith, George J 913 
 
 Smith, James 951 
 
 Smith, Hon. J. Y. T 448 
 
 Smith, Hon. M. A 980 
 
 Smith, Cap P 855 
 
 Smith, Thomas 527 
 
 Smith, William C 786 
 
 Smith, Hon. W. T 216 
 
 Sorenson, Sorcn C 979 
 
 Soto, P. B 262 
 
 Spainhower, John V 7^)2 
 
 Spaulding, Edgar A 809 
 
 Stearns, C. M 834 
 
 Steinfeld, Albert 127 
 
 Stephens, Varncy A 264 
 
 Stevens, C. W 826 
 
 Stevens, Daniel C 531 
 
 Stewart, Cassius N 881 
 
 Stewart, Ivy V 796 
 
 Stewart, Joseph .V 8S7 
 
 Stone, L Bruce 861 
 
 Stoneman, George J 236 
 
 Storm James P 799 
 
 Stout, Samuel S 545 
 
 Stratton, Hon. E. 296 
 
 Straw, Albert J 76 
 
 Street, Hon. V\'ebster 47 
 
 Strong, William H 835 
 
 Stroud, Col. H. E., M. D 421 
 
 Sturgeon, James E 623 
 
 Sturges, C. M 962 
 
 Sturmer, R. S 80 
 
 Sutherland, S. W 800 
 
 Swanger, ]\L F 593 
 
 Sweet, F. A., M. D 53 
 
 T 
 
 Tarbell, C. B 629 
 
 Taylor, Charles N 626 
 
 Taylor, John 759 
 
 Thomas, Hinson 630 
 
 Thomas, William 681 
 
 Thomas, William E 631 
 
 Thompson, Edward F 693 
 
 Thompson, J. H 374 
 
 Thurmond, Philip M 96 
 
 Tidwell, E. L 958 
 
 Tifft, Henry H 981 
 
 Tomlinson, Joseph B 461 
 
 Tovrea, E. A 435 
 
 Treadwell, Erwin D 235 
 
 Trippel, Dr. Alexander 975 
 
 Trippel, Hon. E. J 841 
 
 Tritle, Hon. F. A loi 
 
 Tritle, F. A., Jr 89 
 
 Tritle, Harry R 106 
 
 Tullgren, Martin 920
 
 INDEX— BIOGRAPHICAL. 
 
 1033 
 
 Tuthill, A. .\1., .\1. IJ 683 
 
 Tuttle, Edward D 361 
 
 Tuttle, Mrs. Louise G 637 
 
 Tyroler, Adolpli, M. D 551 
 
 U 
 
 Underwood, Hon. H. D 525 
 
 V 
 
 Vail, Hon. J. A 472 
 
 Vail, Zachary T 899 
 
 Van Gorder, Harry S 636 
 
 Van Tuyl, John 632 
 
 Vasquez, Ramon 635 
 
 Vest, Julian ' 312 
 
 Villaescusa, F, J 740 
 
 W 
 
 Waddill, William R 520 
 
 Wakefield, Lyman W 971 
 
 Walbridge, Alfred P 573 
 
 Walker, Asa C 512 
 
 Walker, Hon. J. Elliott 516 
 
 Walker, J. Ernest 061 
 
 Walls, John R,, M. D 422 
 
 Ward, Willis M 528 
 
 Warnckros, 1'. H 572 
 
 Watrous, James S 918 
 
 Wattron, Frank J 467 
 
 Watts, Major J. M 79' 
 
 Watts, Joseph R 580 
 
 Weatherford, J. W 568 
 
 Weaver, Benjamin H 687 
 
 Weaver, Mrs. Caroline E 687 
 
 Webb, W. T 987 
 
 Webster, George 221 
 
 Weech, Hyruni 447 
 
 Welborn, Henry M 560 
 
 Welker, J. R 520 
 
 Wells, George W 462 
 
 White, Hon, Scott 124 
 
 Wickcrsham, David W 447 
 
 Wien, .■\mos H 291 
 
 Wightinan, H. P 461 
 
 Wightman. L. E., M. D 247 
 
 Wilky, George 1 365 
 
 Wilky, Henry II S4i 
 
 Wilky, Mrs. Sophia 541 
 
 Wilky, William H 537 
 
 WiUard, Charles D 468 
 
 Willard, Wallace B 807 
 
 Williams, .\lired B 508 
 
 Williams, Judge E 161 
 
 I'AtiK 
 
 Williams, Hon. E. M 671 
 
 Williams, Robert J 251 
 
 Williams, Judge S. K 511 
 
 Williams, W. W 532 
 
 Williamson, Ike 989 
 
 Williscroft, George R 552 
 
 Wilson, George H ^2^ 
 
 Wilson. Dr. J. V 426 
 
 Wilson, Joe W 568 
 
 Wilson, William .\ 546 
 
 Wise, Charles T 507 
 
 Wolcott, F. x\ 334 
 
 Woods, C. W., .\1. 1) 'iU 
 
 Woods, Hon. H. M 5(14 
 
 Woods, J. X 54S 
 
 Woods, William P 5:1 
 
 Woolf, Hon. J. W 825 
 
 Worthen, B. 1^ 446 
 
 Wright, Judge .\nthony 480 
 
 Wylie, Col. Winlred. \\. U.... 184 
 
 Z 
 
 Zabriskic, Col. J. A 650 
 
 Zeckendorf, Louis Ti 
 
 Zeek, William M 506 
 
 Ziegler, Peter B 225 
 
 Zuck. Hon. F. M 661
 
 I '-'.U 
 
 INDEX— HISTORICAL. 
 
 INDEX HISTORICAL. 
 
 I'AOE 
 
 Acquisition by United States. . 992 
 
 Agricultural Conditions 1020 
 
 Agriculture , 994 
 
 .\ztccs -pcil 
 
 Capital City. The 1000 
 
 Copper 993 
 
 CoiTimonwealt^ Mine 1005 
 
 Copper Queen Mine 1016 
 
 Coronado 09- 
 
 Dairy Cows and Products.... 1022 
 
 Early Explorers 901 
 
 I'.VCE 
 
 Establishment of Territory... 992 
 
 Farms 1020 
 
 Flowers and Seeds 1022 
 
 Gila Valley 1024 
 
 Gila Valley, Globe & North- 
 ern R. R 1026 
 
 Internal Wealth 998 
 
 Irrigation Statistics 1023 
 
 Live-Stock Interests 1021 
 
 M. & P. & S. R. V. R. R.... 1026 
 
 Oldest City in United States.. 1001 
 
 I'->.GK 
 
 Origin of Name .'Arizona 991 
 
 Ostrich Farming 1022 
 
 Prescott 100.5 
 
 Purchase of .Vrizona 992 
 
 Salt River Valley long 
 
 Santa Fe. Prescott & Phoenix 
 
 R. R 1027 
 
 Statehood 998 
 
 United Verde Copper Mines. 993 
 Water Supply 995 
 
 INDEX-HISTORICAL, COUNTIES. 
 
 -\paclie 1003 
 
 Name — Size — Rivers — 
 Mountains — Timber — Ir- 
 rigation — The Stock Busi- 
 ness — General Farming. 
 
 Cochise 1004 
 
 Name — Climate — ■ Moun- 
 tains — Soil — Copper 
 Mines — Wolframite ^Nlincs 
 — Stock- Raising. 
 
 Coconino 1006 
 
 Formation — Lumbering — 
 Wool-Growing — Raising of 
 Stock — Grand Canon — 
 Painted Desert — Climate — 
 Scenery — Lowell Observa- 
 tory. 
 
 Gila 1007 
 
 l,ocation — Mining — Lum- 
 bering — Agriculture — 
 Railroads — Prosperity. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Graham 1007 
 
 Situation — Towns — Rivers 
 — Soil — Fruits — Altitude 
 — Climate — Settlement. 
 
 Maricopa 1008 
 
 Size — Fertile Soil — Mesa 
 Land — Citrus and Decidu- 
 ous Fruits — Alfalfa King of 
 the Southland — Sugar- 
 Beets and Sorghum — Dairy 
 Industry — Cattle Business. 
 
 .VIohave loio 
 
 Formation — Size — Irriga- 
 tion Canals^No Frost in 
 Lowlands — All Varieties of 
 Deciduous Fruits — Mining 
 the Leading Industry. 
 
 Navajo loio 
 
 Location — Topography — 
 Reservations — Towns. 
 
 Pima loii 
 
 Ta.xable Wealth — Increase in 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Wealth — Development of 
 Copper Mines — Large Ship- 
 ments of Cattle. 
 
 Pinal 1012 
 
 Prosperity, Organization, Ir- 
 rigation — The County Seat 
 — Ruins of Casa Grande — 
 Mining. 
 
 Santa Cruz 1014 
 
 Smallest County in the Ter- 
 ritory — Mining the Chief 
 Industry — Nogales a Bi- 
 National City — .\ltitude and 
 Climate. 
 
 Yavapai 1014 
 
 Natural Advantages — Rail- 
 roads — The "Boom" — 
 Cities. 
 
 ^'uma 101 s 
 
 Location — Area — Topog- 
 raphy — Yuma's Reputation 
 for Unbearable Heat.
 
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