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jfEW WESTERN men have been honored by their fellow citizens as has been the present Executive officer Jf Arizona,
Twice has he received appointment to the office he holds, a double compliment never before known to have been
paid a Territorial Governor" The present term dates from July 16, 1898, when he was commissioned by President
McKinley to succeed Governor Myron H" McCord, who had resigned office to accept the Colonelcy of the First Territorial
Volunteer Infantry" His re- entrance to office was greeted with pleasure by the citizens generally, all fully appreciating
his peculiar fitness for the place. In his dealings with the sitting Legislature, Governor Murphy has shown himself frank
and fearless to a degree hitherto unknown in his position, In his messages, presented at the opening of the Legislati'e
sessions, his ideas are always strongly and clearly expressed, Especially dealt with was the condition of the Territory's
finances This year he especially urged the proper assessment of mines and railroads and personal property, recom­mended
an entirely new Territorial Prison, the rehabilitation of the National Guard of Arizona and the enactment of
primary election laws, He commended the work of the Territorial officials, particularly noting that of the Capitol
Commission, and reiterated expression of his strong and well known views in favor of Statehood and of the expansion of
the nation's resources through the irrigation and reclamation of the arid areas of the '' Vest
In 1889, N" 0" Murphy was selected by the President to be Territorial Secretary of Arizona Two years later, in
May, 1892, he logically succeeded to the Governorship, having for more than a year previous been, in all but name,
the Territorial Executive He was a member from Arizona of the National Republican Convention held in :: Ylinneapolis
in June, 1892, and there succeeded in first placing in a national platform a statement of the necessities of the arid
region, In November, 1894, in the face of a popular idea that Arizona was strongly Democratic, he was elected by a
large plurality Territorial Delegate to Congress, where his service to Arizona was both active and effective,
Governor Murphy is a native of Maine, born in Lincoln County, in 1849. After receipt of a high school education
he taught for a while in Wisconsin In 1883 he carne to Prescott to engage in profitable Arizona mining ventures with
his brother, Frank ;\ 1" Murphy, now president of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway Company, In Prescott,
Governor Murphy was married to Miss Nellie Bang'hart, daughter of one of the oldest families of northern Arizona"
Fruit of the union is one child, a son
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SECRETARY ;.
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TERRITORY OF ARIZONA.
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CHARLES H. rAKERS,
Secretary of the Tel'l'itory of Arizona. 1REXT IN importance to that of Governor in Arizona is the office of Secretary of the Territory.. This post is now
ably and popularly filled by Charles H .. Akers, appointed by President McKinley May 19, 1897 For a while
succeeding appointment he acted as Governor, pro tern Mr. Akers had strong claims upon the National Administration.
He was a leader in the Arizona delegation to the National Convention, and his influence was one of the principal causes
that swung the Territory into line for William McKinley. He again was chosen a National Delegate in 1900.
The first political experience ever had by the present Secretary was in 1888, when he was elected Recorder of
Yavapai County, Arizona His success was doubly gratifying from the fact of securing a substantial majority in a
strongly Democratic County. In 1890 he was re- elected. In 1892 he was the nominee of his party for Sheriff, but with
the balance of his ticket was caught by a political landslide He then took the place of Clerk of Supervisors, holding it
for four years. He was then a member of the realty firm of Akers & Tritle till transferred from Prescott to the more
important duties of the present position.
Charles H. Akers was born in Millersburg, Iowa, in 1857, two years later his parents moving to Shawnee,
Johnson County, Kansas, where he was reared and where he secmed his education. His father, a practicing physician,
continued his residence in Shawnee till his death. Kansas, when c.. H. Akers was a youth, was alternately cursed by
grasshoppers and drought, and so he departed thence.. He was at times a brick- yard employe, a herder for railroad
contractors, a butcher's employe, a fire engine house tender and a miner.. He came to Arizona in February, 1881.. In
this Territory he worked in a saw mill near Prescott, in the store of W. S.. Head & Co. at Camp Verde, at mining in
Tip Top District, and as a section hand on the Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad, at Tempe.. His main idea in life has ever
been to keep busy. In 1888, he returned to Prescott, to take employment as a bookkeeper.. Thenceforward his time
has been occupied in the public service
The Secretary has twice been married. His first wife, who had been Miss Emily Philpott, of Prescott, died in May,
1889, while the couple were on their wedding trip December 1, 1891, he was again happily mated to Miss Jennie
Bryan, of Phoenix. From the union have sprung three bright children, respectively named Bryan, John Kelsey and
Henry Harlow.
In his dealings with the Twentieth and Twenty- first Legislatures, Secretary Akers has made every member his
friend, by reason of uniform courtesy and by attention to every need that his office should supply.
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THERE IS A happy coincidence in the fact that the Twenty- first Legislature of Arizona is the
first to occupy Arizona's new CapitoL It may be likened unto a youth who has arrived at man's
age and who has taken unto himself the heritage of manhood and has founded himself a home.
The Capitol was dedicated February 25, 1901, just thirty- eight years and a day after the date of the passage of
the Congressional Act organizing the Territory and releasing the region from continued dependency upon New Mexico.
For Arizona's history is both brief and long. It is old in the tales told by the pictographs left by the Toltec valley and
cliff dwellers of dozens of centuries agone, and is old even in the chronicles of the Spanish occupation.. Yet, forty years
ago the Apache was lord of the mountains, and few indeed were the white men who had dared the redskin's authority.
The only reallv permanent settlement was at Tucson.
In December of 1863 the first governor of Arizona, John N. Goodwin, escorted from Santa Fe by a troop of
cavalry, crossed the border line and at Navajo Springs hoisted the American flag and read President Lincoln's proclama­tion
of establishment. A short stop was made by the traveling seat of government under tents in Little Chino Valley,
where now is Del Rio railway station.. Then the travelers passed on to the new military post of Whipple Barracks and
thence to Prescott, where, in the winter of ' 64-' 65, the first legislative session was held in a log hut especially erected.
This building, though with a more modern front, lasted ti111ast summer, when, with other buildings in the business part
of the city, it was destroyed by fire. For a while thereafter, Tucson was fa vored with the capital, return to Prescott
being in 1877 In 1~ 89, the Fifteenth Legislature, by the first act of its session, moved the capital to Phoenix. Here,
prior to this year, the legislative sessions have been held in the City Hall, an accessible and commodious structure Yet
the idea of a permanent building was almost coincident with moving the capital southward.. By a Commission, created
bv the Legislature, grounds were secured west of Phoenix, and appropriations were thereafter biennially made for their
improvement.. The Nineteenth Legislature of 1897 authorized the issuance of $ 100,000 in 5 per cent bonds for a new
CapitoL Congress approved the loan and so work was begun early in 1899, with the assistance of an additional grant
of $ 30,000 from the Twentieth Legislature.. The completed building is now in evidence.
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brought by rail from Kirkland Valley, a hundred miles to the northward. The foundation is of the most superh
quality of granite from the hills near Phoenix. In exterior plan, the structure is strikingly handsome.. Within, on the
ground and main floors, are located the offices of the major part of the Territory's official staff, the quarters of the
Governor and Secretary being fitted up in especially handsome manner On the third floor are the chambers of the two
legislative bodies, with an ample number of committee rooms and with commodious balconies for the public. The floors
are tiled, the heating is by steam and the lighting is by both gas and electricity" Provision has been made for two
electric elevators, one of them being now in operation. Eventually the Legislature will be housed in an addition, for
which provision has been made in the rear
The dedicatory ceremonial was impressive and interesting. After a parade that embraced military and civic
features and included legislators and officials generally, the oratorical part of the day's programme was presented fmm
a stand built above the main entrance to the building dedicated. Governor Murphy presided, and Chief Justice Webster
Street was the orator of the day. Brief addresses were also made by President I ves of the Council, by Speaker Parker
of the House and by gentlemen representative of the thirteen counties of the Territory.. In the evening was a reception
tendered by the Legislature to the public, at which was sung by Mrs. Frank Cox a new " Ode to Arizona," the
composition of Mrs., Elise R. Averill
In keeping with what appears to be the settled political policy of the Territory, the present Legislature is strongly
Democratic. In the Council, there are eight Democrats and four Republicans; in the Assembly, are nineteen Democrats
and five Republicans In personnel, the Twenty- first has been declared one of the best that bas ever sat in Arizona.
Its policy throughout has been a liberal one, and educational interests have been fostered especially. The work thrown
upon the body has been far heavier than generally known, for, in addition to the regular grist of bills, consideration bas
been had of a codification of the laws of the Territory. drafted by a commission authorized by the last Legislature.. At
this writing, March 10th, the work is well in hand and its completion is expected at the time of the compulsory
adjournment of the session, March 21st"
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Supet'intendentTef't'itorial Prison- Her'bert Brown, Yuma
Superintendent Territorial Insane Asylum- Dr, r. Miller,
Phoenix.
live . stock Sanitary Commission- But't Dunlap, Tucson,
Chairman; \ iVill H, Kay, Phoe'nix; W" F, Nichols, \ Villcox
Tet't'itof'ial Veterinadan- DI'.. .1" C Norton, Phoenix
Fish and Game Commissioners- j L. V, Thomas, Flagstaft;
John McCarty, j, K, Day
United States District Attor'ney- R" EO' l\ 1orrison, Prescott;
Assistant United States Attorney, Thomas D" Bennett, Phoenix
United States Marshal- W .. M .. Griffith, Tucson
Internal Revenue Collector for District of New Mexico and
Ar'izona":- A L Morrison, Santa Fe; Deputy, S" 1\ 1. Cullom,
Phoenix
Revenne Collector, Port of Nogales- W M, Hoey
United States Land Offices-- At Prescott, F .. A, T'ritle, Regis­ter,;
]" C" Martin, Receiver, At ' Tucson, 1\' 1.. \ V. ] VIoore, Regis­ter';
.1" H .. Baulnall, Receiver
United States Surveyor General- George Chtist, Tucson.
Delegate to Congress- M. A Smith, Tucson
Boar'd of Regi~ tr'ation in Oentistry- F.. C Devendor'f~ Tucson;
A A,. Doherty, Nogales; E, Co Hyde, Phoenix; H, J Jessop,
Phoenix; A .. P" Preston, Globe
Board of Medical Examiner's- Winfred Wylie ( regular school),
Phoenix; D 1\ 1 Purman ( regular school), Phoenix; George
Goodfello\ v ( regular school), Tucson; VV L. \ Voodruff' \ hOllleO­pathic
school), Phoenix; C., \ V \ Voods ( eclectic school" Jerollle
Capitol Grounds and Building Commission - E" B Gage, Pres­cott,
chainnan; \' Falter Talbot, Phoenix; Frank H Parker,
10 Phoenix.
GOYernOI, Nathan O. l\ Iu- rpby, Phoenix; Private Secrerar: y
to the Goyernor and Spanish Interpnder and Translator, Sitns
Ely, Phoenix; Secretary of the T erritor, y, Cbatles H. Akers,
Phoenix; Assistant Sec'reiaty of' the Territor: y, Han'}" R" TIttle,
Phoenix; Territorial Treasurer, Thomas W, Pemberton, Phoe­nix;
Territorial Auditor, George W" Vickers, Phoenix; Attorney­General,
Charles F Ains'worth, Phoenix; Superintendent of
Public Instruction, R. L Long, Phoenix; Adjutant- General,
H" F, Robinson, Phoenix ..
Board of Control- Governor N a Murphy, Chairman;
George \ V" Vickers, Auditor'; Ephr'aim J, Bennitt, Citizen lVlem­ber;
Frank DO' Lane, Clerk.
Supreme and District Courts- Third Disttiet, Chief justice
\ Vebster' street, Phoenix; First District, Judge Geo, R, Davis,
Tucson; Second District, Judge Fletcher M" Doan, Florence;
Fourth District, rudge R E Sloan, Prescott,
Board of Equalization- M., P. Freeman, Tucson, Fir'st Judi­cial
District; Michael Ohl, Bonita, Second Judicial District;
George ," V v'ickers, Phoenix, Third Judicial District; R N.
Fr'edericks, Prescott, Fourth Judicial District; Cler'k, Har'vey , J"
Lee. Phoenix.
Officers of the Territor'ial Public School System - Territorial
Board of Education: N., 0, . l\ Iurphy, Governor'; R., L. Long,
Superintendent of Public Instr'uction; Thomas W, Pemberton,
Territorial Treasurer Board of Regents, Uni,:' ersity of Arizona:
Governor N 0 JVlurphy, Ex- officio ThtIenlber; M" M" Palker,
President; \ Villiam Herring, Chancellor, Tucson j Charles R
Drake, Tucsun; Herbert Tenney, Tucson; R., \ V,. Fenner', Tuc­son;
R" L" Long, ~ uperintendel1tof Public Instruction, ex officio
Board of Education of Territorial Normal School: R., L, Long,
Superintendent of Public Instruction; Thomas W. Pemberton,
Territorial Treasurer, President; . J alnes l- L l\ JcClintock, Phoe­nix,
Secr'etary; A A" Dutton, Flagstaff; ' 1'" E. Pollock, Flagstaff
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EUGENE S" IVES, PRESIDENT"
f1Dembers.
UounctI Uommtttees.
M.. G, BURNS, D
COLIN CAMPBELL, R
J. B. FINLEY, D
GEO, P BLAIR, D
H. T,. ANDREWS, D
EUGENE S. rVES, D
Judiciary- Blair, Claypool, Shannon, Burns, Riordan ..
COl1nties and County BOl1ndaries- Shannon, Andrews,
Finley, Bums, Claypool.
Claims- Finley, Shannon, Warner.
Federal Relations- Blair, Andrews, Campbell.
Agriculture- Ford, Finley, Cant pbell,
Roads and Ferries- Shannon, Warner, Andrews,
Territorial Affairs- Ford, Claypool, Campbell.
R111es- President, Finley, Warner..
Mohave County,
Navajo County,
Pima and Santa Cruz Counties,
Pinal County,
Yavapai County,
Yuma County,
D- Democrats, 8., R- Republicans, 4.
E, S, PERKINS, R
M" J. RIORDAN, R
CHAS" C, WARNER, R
DR" S. B" CLAYPOOL, D
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DR,. J. M.. FORD, D
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Coconino County,
Cochise County,
Gila County,
Graham County,
Maricopa County,
Militia and Indian Affairs- Ford, Blair, Perkins.
Mmes- Burns, Claypool, \ Varner,
Corporations- Finley, Andrews, Claypool, Burns,
Riordan
Ways and Means- Claypool. Ford, Riordan
Printing- Pord, Shannon, Perkins
Memorials and Petitions- Claypool, Finley, Campbell,
Enrolled and Engrossed Blils- Burns. Ford, Riordan.
Edl1cation- Finley, Blair, Perkins.
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) Eugene S. 1f" e6,
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@ Vlember of the Council from Yuma County.
' i'T" HE PRESIDING OFFICER of the Legislative Council of the Twenty- first Legislature is acknowledged one of the
\, l,( keenest parliamentarians who has ever filled the position. Under his guidance, the work of what has been an
unusually vexatious and difficult session has been expedited to a degree that has been remarkable even to the Councilmen
themselves, The President is as well author of a number of the most important measures of the session. He has been
active and successful in his opposition to all bills that aimed at the retlloval of the Territorial Penitentiary"
Mr, Ives was born in the month of December, 1859, in the city of Washington, though of Virginian stock At the
time, his father, los, c. Ives, a West Point man, was an officer of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, and
stationed at Washington, Particularly interesting to Arizonans is the fact that he was the first man who ever really
explored the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River When the Ci" il War came on, he went with the South, becoming a
Colonel of Confederate cavalry and serving as well on the staffs of General R" E. Lee and President Jefferson Davis" The
mother of the present legislator had been Cora Semmes, first cousin and adopted sister of the famous naval commander"
The son's education has been a broad one, including attendance on schools abroad, in Belgium and in Austria.
From Georgetown College, Washington, he has received the post- graduate degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of
Philosophy. He is as well a graduate of Columbia College, New York, and has received from that institution and from
St John's ( Fordham) College, New York, the additional honor of LL, D, He left college in 1880, and immediately took
up the practice of law in New York City, there remaining till 1895. From 1885 to 1891 he was a member of the New
York Legislature, serving two years in the Assembly and four in the Senate His district was all of New York City
north of Thirtieth Street and west of Seventh Avenue, which includes practically all the recreation grounds of the citizens
of Manhattan Island" It was he who fought through the New York Legislature nearly all the legislation that has
resulted in the improvement of upper Central Park, in the construction of the magnificent Riverside Drive and of the
marvelous and costly Washington bridge across the Harlem
Mr" Ives came to Arizona in 1895, to manage an ambitious inigating enterprise that designed the reclamation of
an immense tract of arid land below Yuma. The project is " hung up" at present, but is bound to be put through before
many years, During the last few years ML Ives haS' been associated with Col. Epes Randolph of Tucson in the manage­ment
of their King of Arizona mine in Yuma County, a property that has proven one of the most phenomenal of gold
mines, President I yes was married in Washington in 1881 to Miss Anna Waggaman and is the father of five children"
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Member of the Council from Apache Coun( y. \ tHE COUNCILMAN who has especially looked out for the Territory's educational interests in the sitting Legislature
has been the gentleman hom Apache County. He is an old school- teacher and has clear and definite ideas on sucli
subjects, and his success in pushing forward the bills he has favored in this line has been remarkable. His knowledge is
of the kind that comes through doing, for he taught school for about ten
years in Kansas, Texas and Arizona, Mr. Perkins was born June 3, 1873,
in Whitley Count, y, in the southeastern part of Kentucky, the" blood and
moonshine country,," His father was a planter with extensive landed inter..
ests, The district is even yet remarkable for the fact that it is strongly
Republican and for the fact that through the Civil War it remained intensely
loyal to the Union" The yonng legislator has had good educational advant­ages,
starting with the common schools of his native heath, passing through
a bnsiness college in WilIiamsburg, Kentucky, and taking the degree of
Bachelor of Science in the fall class of ' 94 in the National Normal University
at Lebanon, Ohio, one of the largest and most important of such institu­tions
in the middle west. In Arizona his teaching has been wholly in the
northeastern part of the Territory, where, at St, Johns, he also conducted
a weekly p~ per, the St.. Johns Herald, This is his first public office, though
he serves as secretary of the Arizona Press Association" Mr" Perkins was
married only last July, in St. Johns, his home town, to Mrs. Sarah Craig.
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!! Member of the Council from Cochise County. ' l: HE COUNCILMAN from Cochise County, Charles C. Warner, especially represents in that body the working miners
of the Territory, He is a native of Illinois, born in the town of Somanouk, August 19, 1850. He lived in Illinois,
mainly at Mendota, till his fourteenth year:, when he struck out into the world for himself" At the outset he admits he
" did pretty well for a lad," for he penetrated to the placer fieids of Mon­tana,
at Virginia City and in Alder Gulch, and at once found employment
at $ 8 a day. After a short trip through the Eastern States, he went to
Denver in 1869, and for ten years prospected and mined throughout
Colorado, at Tintic, Utah, and at Pioche and other mining camps of
Nevada, thus gaining an immense amount of practical experience in his
occupation, in mines and ores of every description
Mr. Warner was one of the many Nevada miners attracted by the
fame of the great silver discovery made by Ed" Schieffiin in southeastern
Arizona" He reached the then booming camp of Tombstone in March, 1880,
to take a position with the Contention Mining Company, then working
some of the best properties of the district. He remained in Tombstone even
after the slump in silver and the burning of the Contention works para­lyzed
activity, In 1895 he went to Bisbee, where he has since remained in
a responsible position in the noted Copper Queen mine, He is an active
Mason, being Past Deputy Grand Master of the order in Arizona, and is as
well a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mr" Warner was
married in Tombstone in 1885 to Miss Emma Bernard, and is the father
of five children, Though his home county is strongly Democratic, this is
Mr Wartier's second experience in the Council of Arizona's Legislature.
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/ 1'" OUNCILMAN RIORDAN is a Chicagoan by birth, having made his mundane appearance in that city May 21, 1865:
\, w His education was secured in the Chicago public schools, in St. Ignatius College of Chicago, and in the college of St.
Stanislaus, at Florissant, Missouri. He is one of the many who have come to Arizona for thc benefit of their health.
His brothers, D,. M. and T. A. Riordan. were already in the southwest,
interested in a lumbering enterprise at Flagstaff. He joined them in 1885,
but for several years spent about all his time afield, exploring the wilds of
Northern Arizona, hunting as well for game as for health,. For months he
was connected with an ethnological expedition, wherewith he had many
interesting experiences in the investigation of the remains of the ancient
civilization of the region. His health restored, he took a position with the
Arizona Lumber and Timber Company of Flagstaff, soon becoming secre­tary
of the corporation, a place he still fills, having also acquired a consid­erable
financial interest in the corporation The company is one of the most
important of the lumbering concerns of the west, and supplies the major
part of the lumber used in Arizona, as well as furnishing lumber and fruit
boxes to Southern California The Arizona Central railway, originally de­signed
to run to Globe, is now the property of the lumber company, and
serves to tap one of the largest forests of the United States,.
Mr. Riordan was married in June, 1892, to Miss Elizabeth Mets of
Cincinnati, and two children have come to the couple The only public
offices he has ever held before election as a legislator have been in connec­tion
with education, as trustee of the Flagstaff schools and as a member of
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\ IHE COUNCILMAN from Gila is one of the many native Kentuckians in the Twenty- first Legislature" He was bom
at Bowling Green, in the heart of the blue grass country, October 3, 1865 His lineage is an interesting one, The
stock is Irish and English Betsy Ross Claypool, who made the first American flag, was of the family and she was of
English I{ oundhead ancestry, a daughter of Cromwell Dr. Claypool's
grandfather, a Virginian, was among the first settlers of Bowling Green.
The father of the present legislator was a physician of means, The son
was sent through Ogden College and thence to the University of Nashville,
where he received the degree of M. n. just thirty- five years after his father
had received a similar diploma at the same college" Two of the signers of the
father's diploma were signers also of the son's, His graduation was in
1896, Dr .. Claypool senior had come west for his health, traveling exten­sively
and finally settling down in Globe, where he was joined in 1897 by
his son, The two are associated in the practice of medicine, Dr, Claypool
junior is now chief surgeon for the Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Rail­way,
and as well is official county physician, He is a keen partisan on the
democratic side of the fence and was a warm adherent of the Wilson wing
during the democratic division at the Territorial Convention in Phoenix
last summer and fall, He was married in June, 1898, to Miss Wilhelmina
Kellner, da ughter of E.. P, Kellner of Phoenix, They rejoice in an infant
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of the Council from Graham County.
( l; RAHAM COUNTY'S representative in the right wing of the Capitol is Chas. M.. Shannon, one of the best- known
Democrats of the Southwest.. He is a Missourian, born in Lexington in August of 1852, of Kentucky and pioneer
American stock His education was mainly that afforded by the schools near the plantation of his father, though he
attended also an academy at Shelbyville, Kentucky.. He went first to
Clifton, his present residence, in 1872. a year previous thereto having been
spent ab'lUt Silver City, New Mexico, where lived his uncle, R B. Metcalf,
discoverer of the mines near Clifton.. Though he has mainly been a miner,
for a season he ran the Southwest Sentinel at SiIver City and, with S.. H,
Newman, established the Lone Star at EI Paso, He had something to do
with the establishment of the Silver Belt at Globe, Arizona, and helped to
get out the first issue of that pioneer journal. Though Mr. Shannon has
never hunted for office, his friends have helped him into several positions of
trust, During Cleyeland's second term he was Internal Revenue Collector
for the District of New Mexico and Arizona, with headquarters at Santa
Fe, serving out his full term of four years During the same period of time
he was Democratic l'\ ational Committeeman for Arizona, His appointment
as Collector followed upon service in the Legislative Council of 1893, In
that Legislature his principal work was to reduce the fees of county and
Territorial officials, which were extremely high at the time.. He has suc­ceeded
in interesting capital in some mining properties he has controlled in
Metcalf Hill, five miles up Chase Creek Canon hom Clifton, claims that
are considered by experts among the very best in the Southwest. It is
confidently expected that great reduction works will soon be running on
the ores of the Shannon copper mines. Mr.. Shannon married in Dallas,
Texas, in 1885, his better half having been Miss Mollie Betterton,
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'] JR. JAMES 8VIITCHELL
8VIembe' of the Council from 8Vla, tcopa County.
1REPRESENTING the most populous of the counties of Arizona is Dr.. J M .. Ford. He ranks among the most solid
capitalists and largest realty owners of his home citv. A democrat, and one additional1y honored with the chair- ·
manship of the party's Territorial Central Committee, he is yet of recent conversion, coming over when the Republican
party was finally committed to the single standard.. Dr. Ford was born
" on the banks of the Wabash," in the town of WabAsh, Wabash County,
Indiana, in May, 1841. This makes him just the same age as Edward,
King of England. His parents were poor and his boyhood was a struggle
for an education. In 1861 he enlisted as private in the Eighth Indiana
Infantry, and, within a month and before drill was learned .. was under fire
in West Virginia, while a part of McClellan's brigade. The regiment, on
re- enlistment, was transferred to Missouri, where the recruit was in the raid
after Price and in the memorable actions of Pea Ridge and Wilson's Creek.
Sent home on recruiting service, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in
the 130th Indiana, and with the regiment took part in Chickamauga and
all the other great actions of the western army. At Franklin, the bloodiest
battle of the war, he was wounded in the shoulder, leg and thigh From
hospital, he was sent to be depot ordnance officer at Jefferson Barracks,
Mo, where he was mustered out as Captain of Cavalry, in June, 1865..
Thereafter he went to the University of Michigan, graduating in medicine
and science in 1870 After practicing for a year in his old home, through
Illinois, he went to Denver, where he was assayer in the mint.. For twelve
years he lived in Kansas City, where he served as president of the City
Board of Aldermen at the time the city had its most rapid civic advance­ment.
I He came to Phoenix in 1894 Dr. Ford, in Indianapolis in 1869,
married Miss Beulah Kirk. They have one son, a resident of Phoenix
MICHAEL G. BURNS,
Memba of the Council from Moha<[) e County.
1R EPRESENTING the northwestern part of Arizona in the Legislative Council is M, G. Burns, one of the best- known
mining men of the northern part of the Territory. He was born February 6, 1855. in Effingham County, Illinois,
His father was a railroad man, in general charge of the bridges of the Illinois Central road, and had been with the line
from its beginning The son's education was mainly secured in the public
schools of Chicago, to which city his parents moved while he was a child,
and where he remained till his twenty- second year His first employment
was with the Illinois Central. In 1877 he went to the Black Hills, goiug
in with a party of prospectors that was twice turned back by the cordon
of United States troops that for a while guarded the gold of the hills
against the white man, For a while he mined in the placers in Central
Gnlch and in the creeks below Deadwood, He was one of the first men to
locate claims at the lead discovery at Bear Butte, and had an interest in
the Hay Creek coal fields of northwestern Wyoming. With generallv uni­form
success attending his enterprises, he stayed in the Black Hills till Jan­uary,
1893, He came to Arizona later, arriving in Prescott in August, 1894,
He thereafter held his residence in Yavapai County till two years ago, min­ing
in the Jersey Lily country, below Prescott. Then he went to Mohave
County, to be foreman of the Pay Roll mine. He is now in charge of the
Schee mine, two miles south of Chloride, in the Sacramento valley. Mr
Burns has had prior legislative experience, having been elected, in 1891, a
member of the Second State Legislature of South Dakota, In the present
session his influence has been marked, and his work in behalf of measures
favored has generally been successful He w, as married in 1893, in Dead­wood,
to Frances Stevens.
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JAMES B. FINLEY,
Joint- Councilman from Pima and Simta Cruz Counties.
' 7r'HE ONLY member of either house who has the honor of representing two counties in the Legislature is James
\, l, t Buchanan Finley, member of the Council for the Counties of Pima and Santa Cruz. For Santa Cruz, carved from
Pima by the last Legislature, is the thirteenth county and there may be only twelve Councilmen. It is Mr. Finley's third
experience in the Legislatures of Arizona. In 1897 he served in the
Assembly from Pima County, in 1b99 as a Councilman, and now is back
with the slightly amended title of Joint- Councilman Naturally, he is one
of the best informed members of the Twenty- first in all matters of PIO­cedure
He is chairman of several of the most important committees and
exercises as strong an influence on the work of the session as does any
member. He has ably protected the interests of his constituents in the
consideration of important matters affecting them and has shown that their
confidence in him has not been misplaced
Mr.. Finley is a Californian by nati\' ity, born in Santa Rosa, in the
north- central part of the Golden State, November 23, 1856, in the month
James Buchanan was elected President. His father, one of the oldest
settlers of Sonoma County, was a pioneer of 1849. The son was educated
in the excellent schools of his home town When twenty- one, he went to
Nevada, to Paradise Valley, and later to northwestern Nevada and eastern
Oregon, engaged in cattle raising He came to the Southwest in 1883, to
Deming, New Mexico, where he established himself as a contractor. Two
years later he entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railway Company
at Tucson. Soon after, he was appointed master car repairer for the
Arizona and New Mexico division of the road, having charge as well of the
wrecking work on the line Mr. Finley was mauied in 1895 to Miss Clara
Letts of Denver, Colorado.
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COLIN L. CAMPBELL,
& VIember of the Council from Navajo County,
\ DNE OF THE representatives in the sitting Legislature of the great sheep rearing industry of northern Arizona is
Colin Campbell, member of the Legislative Council from the young county of Na vajo. He is as well one of the
few republicans who managed to get into office despite the democratic blizzard of last November. He has never before
held public office and is not oratorically inclined, yet his work in the
Legislature has been marked by success and has been notable for good,
hard common sense With his family he resides in the railroad town of
Winslow, though much of his time is necessarily spent on the range.
Mr. Campbell is a native of Nova Scotia, born in Pictou, 111 the
northeastern part of the ice- bound province, in January of 1854 His father
was a sturdy farmer of Scottish ancestry and saw that the lad received a
good common- school education When twenty- one, he left Nova Scotia,
striking out for himself westward. A couple of years were spent in Wis­consin,
lumbering in the piney woods In 1877, attracted by the fame of
the riches of the Black Hills, then in the height of their great mineral
boom, he went to Deadwood, for two years thereafter mining and prospect­ing
in the hills thereabouts Progressing farther westward by easy stages,
by way of Salt Lake, Utah, Mr.. Campbell came by wagon to Arizona in
1880, about the time that the builders of the Atlantic & Pacific railway
were cutting their way across the almost trackless wilderness 01 northern
Arizona He landed in Holbrook in December Soon after he found employ­ment
on the right of way of the railway, for skilled lumbermen such as he
were in e] emand in passing through the Coconino forest, and thereafter
engaged for a while in lum1: ering mound Flagstaff In 1884 he went into
the sheep business, with ranges mainly in eastern Coconino County.
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Member of the Council from Yavapat County.
HENRY T. ANDREWS,
1T" HOUGH A NUMBER of the legislators are lawyers by education, the only active practitioner in either house is Henry
\,\,( T Andrews of Prescott. Like the majority of the legislators, he was born on a farm, in McHenry County, Illinois,
December 10,1841 After receipt of a good common school education, he enlisted at the outbreak of the Civil War, when
only twenty years old, in the Twentieth Illinois Infantry, recruited at
Bloomington" His war service embraced the whole period of the Rebellion,
· having been four years and three months With his regiment he was in the
fights at Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and in many other of the most
important engagements of the Western army Under Sherman, he was in
the famous March to the Sea Captured at Britain's Lane, he was paroled.
From private he won the rank of First Lieutenant
He was admitted to the bar at Warrensburg, Missouri, later moving
to Knobnoster, in the same State, where he served a term as Mayor, resign­ing
to go west. Arriving in Prescott in 1875, he engaged in mining and
prospecting for eleven vears In 1886 he was elected to the Legislature,
serving one term In 1894 he resumed the practice of law in Prescott, asso­ciating
himself with ReEse ! VI Ling He has filled man v offices. He has
served as Justice of the Peace, Court Commissioner, United Sta tes Depu ty
Revenue Collector, Secretary of the Territorial Board of Equalization, City
t\ ttorney, and Territorial Auditor A staunch democrat, he has been Chair­man
of the Central Committee of his countv and a member of the Territo­rial
Committee While in Missouri he was a member of the State COllven­tion
that nominated B.. Gratz Brown for the Governorship, and also sat as
a delegate in the Cincinnati National Convention that nominated Hotace
Greeley tot the presidency. He w Tied in 1896 to Miss Luella Hund­ley,
and is the father of tWtJiolen, ~ ughters
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GEORGE PERRIN BLAIR,
Member of the Council from Pinal County.
f1'> HAIRMAN of the Judiciary Committee in the Council, a place made the more important because of the consideration
\, l,( of the new code, is Geo, P, Blair" Yet Mr" Blair is not a practicing attorney, Since 1897 he has been general man­ager
of the mines and works of the Mammoth- Collins Gold Mining Company, Ltd, at Mammoth, The plant under his
charge is an immense one, embracing the largest mill in the southwest; three
miles of bucket tramway, three cyanide plants and underground workings
to correspond
Mr Blair was born in Monticello, Lewis County, Missouri, September
18, 1862 His father, in 1872, was elected to represent the district in Con­gress,
where he left a record of which his descendants are proud, He was
the introducer and principal supporter of the famous amnesty bill concern­ing
Confederate soldiers, and offered warm opposition to the ex post facto
provisions of the Edmunds act The son passed through the common
schools and took the degree of Bachelor of Science in the Christian Univer­sity
at Canton, Missouri, and later, at the University of Virginia, at Char­lottesville,
Virginia, took the degree of the law course After admission to
the bar in Missouri, Mr" Blair went to Colorado in 1885, and in that State
practiced law for twelve ycars, leaving the profession to accept his present
employment,
December 17, 1896, Mr. Blair was married to Miss Julia Y, Sisson,
daughter of one of the oldest families of Pike County, Missouri
In the present Legislature Mr Blair was the introducer of what is
probably the most important act of the session- that providing for the
draft of a constitution for the new State of Arizona, and for its subse­quent
suhmission to a vote of the people, in ' this way obviating the enor­mous
expense of a constitutional con vention"
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r:;::, OI<, Asst Chid Clerk Honse
Curt W. Miller, Chief ClerIc.
Mulford Winsor. Assistant Chief Clerk
So]' Drachman, Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk.
0. J" Wanen, First Ass't Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk.
Mamie Meagher, Second Ass't Enrolling and Eng, Clerk
Mrs.. D.. M. Faribault, Journal Clerk
Clare Kimball, Assistant Journal ClerIc
Madge Dawes, SpeaIcer's Clerk..
George Hochderfer, Sergeant- at- Arms"
John McCormick, Committee ClerIc.
S, A, D. Upton, Committee Clerk.
J Uhlman, Committee Clerk.
Albert Raybard, Committee ClerIc.
Harriet Oliver, Committee Clerk
Lulu Daly, Committee Clerk.
Walter Bailey, Committee Clerk
L. J, Hedgepeth, Chaplain.
J E Golden, Watchman
Clarence Dunbar, Page,
Postmaster..
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Geo" E. Truman, Assistant Chief ClerIc.
Joseph P" Dillon, Enrollinf{ aud Engrossing Clerk
R. L, WiJ1iams, First Ass't Enrolling and Eng. Clerk
Miss Carlotta Holbrook, Second Ass't En" and Eng ClerIc.
P. G, de la Lama, Journal ClerIc
Mrs. K, K, Lake, Assistant Journal ClerIc.
Miss Mattie Crews, Pr~ sident's Clerk
Pedro Pelion, Sergeant · - at- Arms"
Walter Porter, Committee ClerIc.
Miss E. D. Lipscomb, Committee ClerIc.
E P GrindeJ1, Committee Clerk
S,. L. Pattee, Committee ClerIc.
R S. McCov, Committee Clerk
Miss Belle Moore, Committee ClerIc
Mrs.. M. H.. Williams, Committee Clerk
Rev, E. A,. Penick, Chaplain.
E A,. Hinds, Watchman.
Wilbur Jaquette, Page,
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Mouse < rommtttees.
' Che mouse of 1Representati" es.
Pima County, - Jos. CORBETT, R
Pinal County, - WM" BEARD, D
Pinal County, ALEX BARKER, D
Santa Cmz Count, y, Dr" A, H" NOON, 0
Yavapai County, Dr. 0, L. GEER, D
Yavapai County, F, R" WARD, 0
Yavapai County, T" E CAMPBELL, R
Yuma County, JESSE CROUCH, D
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Memorials and Petitions- Campbell, Noon, St. Charles.
Counties and Coun~ y Boundaries- Barker, Roemer, Mor-gan,
Geer, Ijams"
Federal Relations- Morgan, Noon, Beard,
Agriculture- Ivy, Ijams, Gibbons, Peterson, Beard.
Public Buildings- Ward, Campbell, Crouch, Barkley,
Peterson,
Territorial Librarx- Noon, Walsh, Houston
Irrigation- Fowler, Crouch, Beard, Ivy, ~ jams
Public Expenditures and Accounts- Roemer, Ward, Gibbons,
Territorial Affairs- Crouch, Walsh, Beard, Geer, Gray.
LiTle Stock- Houston, Morgan, Bernard, Kimball, Geer,
Barker. Ivy.
Rules- Speaker, Kimball, Geer.
P. P, PARKER, SPEAKER" lIDembers.
Apache CO, untv, RICHARD GIBBONS, R Maricopa County, P" P PARKER, D
Coconino County, JAMES WALSH. D Maricopa County, J, P, Ivy, D
Cochise County, MICHAEL GRAY, D Maricopa County, CHAS, PETERSON, D
Cochise County, H" M" WOODS, R Maricopa County, B" A, FOWLER, R
Cochise County, STEPHEN ROEMER, D Mohave County, KEAN ST CHARLES, 0
Gila County, c.. L. HOUSTON, 0 Navajo County, W" J MORGAN, D
Graham County, ANDREW KIMBALL, D Pima County, SAM" BARKLEY, D
Graham County, E. T. IJAMS, D Pima County, - A. C. BERNARD, 0
D- Democrats, 19, R- Republicans,
Elections- St Charles, Gray, Gibbons, Crouch, Walsh,
Ways and Means- Gray, Fowler, Corbett, Ward, Ivy,
Appropriations- Barkley, Peterson, Campbell, Woods,
Morgan,
Education- Peterson, Woods, Corbett, Kimball, Campbell..
Judiciary- Kimball, Barkley, Fowler, Geer, Campbell,
Bernard, Noon,
Claims- Bernard, Morgan, Gray.
Zvlilitia and Indian Affairs- Walsh, Bernard, Fowler.
Enrolled and Engl'Ossed Bi1ls- Woods, Barkley, Houston"
Printing- Ijams, St. Charles, Bernard, Barker, Crouch,
Corporations- Geer, Roemer, Corbett, Ijams, Gibbons
Mines and Mining- Beard, Woods, Ward, Houston, St,
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Speaker of the House of Representatives. 111' IS WITH peculiar consideration of the " fitness of things" that the Assembly of the Twenty- first, the " Capitol"
Legislature, chose Capt, P P Parker as its presiding officer. For he it was, a member of that body, who fought
through the Nineteenth Legislature the bill for the bonding of the Territory for the construction of a Territorial Capitol.
Chosen by the democratic majority, despite the candidacy of two of the leading democrats of southern Arizona, his
election was gracefully made a unanimous one by motion from the republican minority"
Speaker Parker comes of good, old Yankee stock, though born in Canada, The date of his debut was December 26,
1835 His education was secured at Banston, just north of the Vermont line. In 1858 he went to Illinois and then to
Pike County, Missouri, finding employment as a teacher. In 1859 he was in the rush to Pike's Peak and was a pioneer
of Denver. In the Civil War he had a record of which any man might be proud, After a year in the Missouri Home
Guard, the young soldier enlisted in the Volunteers, his regiment being assigned to the Fifteenth Army Corps, under
Sherman" Without enumeration of mere skirmishes, he was under fire in pitched engagements just 165 days,' He was in
the siege of Vicksburg and was in the campaign to Atlanta, He was in the storming of Lookout Mountain and in all
the great battles that hale made that campaign notable in history, For months he was in command of a scouting
party, sent out against Forr~ st's raiders At Atlanta, the recruit had become a veteran and had been promoted to be
Captain. But his regiment had been frightfully cut up It had left St Louis 1200 strong; at Atlanta, on review, it
could muster only 116 men The remnant was accordingly made into two companies, and the officers of the remaining
companies were honorably mustered from the service, for it was plain that the war was practically done"
Returning home to Missouri, he was elected clerk of the District Court and ex- officio registrar of deeds of the
county, and served four years" In 1883 he was in Dakota, appointed by Governor Ordway a commissioner for the
organization of Towner County, wherein he served also as clerk of the District Court,
He came to Arizona for the benefit of his health, in 1888. as well as to engage in the preliminarg work for a canal
enterprise of the greatest magnitude Captain Parker is married and has four children, a danghter and three sons, all
with him at home in Phoenix, He is a devoted Mason, is a Shriner, and in 1899 was Grand Commander of the Grand
Commandery Knights Templar for Arizona I
The measures this popular presiding officer has personally handled during the session include those for the re- estab­lishment
of the National Guard and for the abolition of the now unnecessary Capitol Commission"
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Member of the Assembly from Apache County.
RPACHE COUNTY'S sole representative in the Assembly is Richard Gibbons" His father before him was elected to the
Arizona Legislature and under very interesting circumstances, In 1865, when the present legislator was only about
six years of age, the family moved to St. Thomas, then supposed to be in the newly created Territory of Arizona. The
district around about, l, ying northwest of the Colorado and now mainly
embraced within the county of Mohave, was formally organized into the
county of Pahute, a circumstance that is little known to students of the his­tory
of Arizona" While living there, Mr. Gibbons, the elder, was elected to
represent the county in the Fifth Legislative Assembl, y of Arizona at Tucson,
where the Capital was at the time, He was sworn in and served with
credit, In the following year, 1868, St.. Thomas and that part of Pahute
County lying west of the Colorado was adjudged a part of Nevada. fhe
Territorial officials of Nevada forthwith instituted suit against the settlers
for seven years' back taxes, The settlers not being able to pay, moved from
the county in 1870 The Gibbons family pitched tent in Glendale, Cane
Count, y, Utah, ten years later again pulling up stakes to move to St Johns,
Apache County, Arizona. Mr. Gibbons still holds his home in St. Johns,
where he has headquarters for his sheep business, He has always been an
active partisan, but has never run for office before his successful campaign
last falL Mr Gibbons' native place is Santa' Clara, Washington County,
Utah. He was married in St, Johns in July, 1892, to Clara I.. Wilhelm and
is the parent of three children.
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MICHAEL GRA ~
Member of the Assembly from Cochise County.
'- i: I NOT UNUSUAL practice in legislative bodies is to call upon the eldest member to convene the initial session of the
. L;\ assemblage. In the Assembly of the Twentieth Legislature this honor fell upon Mike Gray of Cochise County, and
again was the case in the session of the Twenty- first.. Mr Gray was born in Tipton County, West Tennessee, in Davy
Crockett's district, April 1, 182' 7, of Kentucky parentage. When he was five
years old the family moved to Texas, there to remain till after the close of
the Mexican war In 1849 he started with his father for the California gold
fields, by way of St. Louis. In Wyoming his father died of fever.. The lad
passed on, however. He mined, with good fortune, in Calaveras County
and on Yuba river In 1851, though only twenty- four, he was elected sher­iff
of Yuba County, and so held down the reckless element of the period as
to win a second term .. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned,
without his knowledge, Colonel of California Cavalry, but refused the com­mission,
underrating his ability in military matte! s. In 1861 he went to
Mazatlan, Mexico, remaining five years, and prospering in trading and min­ing.
Financially hurt by oue of the then frequent revolutions, he returned
to San Francisco to educate his children. He first visited Arizona in 1860,
on his way south. In 1872 he was back, with a government escort, and
explored the northeastern part of the Territory for mineral, with indifferent
success. In 1878 he came to Arizona to live, being identified with the first
mineral discoveries at Tombstone, and has lived in the neighborhood of
Tombstone ever since. He mined till sixteen years ago, when he started
cattle- raising in Rucker Canon, his present home. In 1887 he served as a
member of the Fourteenth Legislature and in 1899 in the Twentieth. Mr.
Gray is a widower He was married in 1853 at Marysville, California, to
Sarah A Robinson Four children were born to them, only one now living.
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! iMembet of the Assembly from Cochise County.
jf OR THE chairmanship of the important Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills, the ~ peaker fixed upon H .. M.
Woods, of Cochise County, one of the five republican members.. But Mr., Woods had had prior legislative experience
in the house of the Twentieth Legislature, and was known to possess a clear head and an intimate knowledge of all
questions of parliamentary procedure. In the language of a democratic
colleague, " he has proved one of the most valuable men in the house.. " At
home, in Bisbee, he is an employe of the great Copper Queen Consolidated
Copper Mining Company, hence it is natural that his attention has been
given during the session especially to matters affecting the mining industry.
As residence in Arizona is now considered, Mr, Woods is a pioneer..
He came in 1879, by mule train, across country from Fort Worth, Texas,
where he had lived for several years.. The Apaches were " bad" just then
on the southern route, but the expedition had the good fortune to be
missed by the redskins For a while he prospected around the Chiricahua
Range and about Dos Cabezas, but was early on the ground at the time of
the richest developments of the silver mines in Tombstone In that camp
he was First employed at the Contention mine under Superintendent " Si"
White.. He stayed in Tombstone till 1892, when he went to Bisbee to
accept employment with the Copper Queen, with which company he has
been ever since The esteem in which he is held by his fellows is best shown
by the fact ' of re- election and in a county that votes strongly democratic.
During the last campaign his legislati\ e record was found unassailable, for
it was one of the kind to which conventions are pleased to " point with
pride" He is a married man with three children, wedded in 1886 to Miss
Letta Steele, of Charlotte, Michigan I
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STEPHEN CJ? OEMER,
Member of Ihe Assembly from Cochise Counly.
UHOUGH he is now in his first emplo.\ ll1ent in the service of the people, it is probable that no community ever had a
more active or more untiring representative in the Legislature than is Stephen Roemer, of Benson, Cochise County.
He is a firm believer, moreover, in the idea that his home town is destined to become one of the most important of
cities, and he is helping along the good cause of her advancement with
truly commendable vigor. He is the author of a bill for the establishment
of a Territorial Reform School, now past both houses, is Chairman of the
Committee on Pu blic Expenditures and Accounts and takes a prominent
part in the general work of legislation.
Since 1893 Mr.. Roemer has been an employe of that greatest of
transportation agencies. Wells, Fargo & Co His first employment with the
company was at Mojave, California. In 1895 he became a resident of
Arizona, through transfer to the Phoenix office, and made many warm
fi- ienils during his stay of a couple of years in the Capital City In 1897
his merit was further acknowledged by his promotion to the important
transfer station of Benson, through which passes the freight and express
matter for northwestern Mexico, and which is the junction point for two
railways that tap the State of Sonora.
One of the three bachelors of the membership of the Legislature, he is
one of the manv legislators who have pride in their birth in the Blue Grass
State. He was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, February 18, 1866, of
German parentage. After a common school education, he began life for
himself at sixteen.. His earlier experiences were mainly in the lumbering
business, and at one time, though still little more than a lad, he had the
manag~ ment of two sawmills.
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Member of the As semb( y from Coconino County.
/ 1"' OCONINO'S representative in the popular branch of the Legislature was born in July, 1851, in Madison County, III i­\"
l, f nois, on a farm His father is still an Illinois fanner, hale and hearty, though ninety- one years of age For ednca­tion
the legislator of today had only the advantages offered bv the public schools of the neighborhood. When he was
only fifteen years old, young Walsh left home and went to railroading on
the Chicago and Alton line, which passes through the section of country in
which he had been reared. He worked in Indiana on the same road, on the
Indianapolis and St. Louis, on the Louisville and Nashville, and on other
of the important western lines In 1880 he went to Colorado, there to be
emploved on both the Denver and Rio Grande and the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe systems In 1882 he came to Arizona to take the place of
yardmaster at Williams, on the Atlantic and Pacific railway. He has also
served as conductor on the same road, now known as the Santa Fe Pacific
Last summer 1\ 11'. Walsh undertook the task of superintendent of construc­tion
and virtu; tI superintendent of the Santa Fe and Grand Cafton road,
that was designed to connect Williams with the rim of the Grand Canon of
the Colorado, at the head of Bright Angel trail The work was one attended
with more difficulties than usually come to the men who bind the wilder­ness
with iron, for the road was in financial straits and later passed into
the control of the courts, even before it had been completed
At the present time Mr \¥ alsh has considerable interests in cattle and
sheep on the ranges near \ VilIiams, and is as well half owner and manager
of the electric lighting system of the town of Williams. He is a married
man, wedded in St Louis in 1882 to Miss Teresa, Smith He is now holding
his first public office of any kind
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8vlember of the Assembly for Gila County.
lREPRESENTING the rock- ribbed mountain county of Gila is a representative also of the toilers in the mines, for
Assemblyman Houston wears the button of the l\ liners' Union of Globe. As is natural, he has shown industry and
devotion on behalf of the cause of labo. r Coming as he does from a county that is the center of the cattle- raising
industry of the Territory, he has fitly been honored with the chairmanship
of the Committee on Live Stock, beside having been given membership on
the Committee on Mines He is in his first public office. though honored
by election to the vice- presidency of the Globe Miners' Union With one
exception, his majority in the election last November was the largest on
the ticket He is one of the very few unmarried men in the Legislature.
Mr Houston was born in \' Vood County, Texas, June 7, 1863, of
Scotch- Irish parentage, At the time, hi~ father, a Cumberland Presbyterian
clergyman, was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Quitman His
education was that afforded by the common schools. When only eighteen,
he struck out for himself He chose to follow railroading His railroad
experience has been a broad or, e For several years he was engaged on
bridge work on the Baltimore and Ohio railway and on southern roads
In 1895 he went to Central America, to enter the employ oj the Guatemala
;\[ orthern railway, then under construction between Porto Barros and
Socapa.. He much preferred his native land, for he was soon back, doing
construction work on the Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Gulf line. ' Tn
September of 1898, he came to Arizona, to enter the employment, at
Globe, of the Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelting Company, with
which he has been connected ever since,. held in esteem by his employers and
his felldw workmen
ANDREW KIMBALL,
Memba of the A. ssembly from Graham County.
~ THIS HO\ 1E in Thatcher, Andrew Kimball is best known as President of St.. Joseph Stake of Zion of the Church
.. c\ of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints, a position in which he is the spiritual and temporal adviser of 3400 people
This colony, scattered along the upper Gila river and in Cochise County, is one of the most important of the subdivis­ions
of the Mormon church.. Me Kimball is President of the Latter- Day
Saints Academy at Thatcher, the central church school of Arizona, with an
attendance of 220 adult pupils Besides this, Me Kimball is president of
three canal compauies, is one of the firm of Phillips & Kimball, doing the
largest implement business in the valley, and takes a keen and active inter · ·
est in all that will aid in the upbuilding of his people and community. Be­fore
being sent, three . years ago, by his church to Arizona, he lived in Salt
Lake, a member of the General Sunday School Union Board, of which Geo.
Q. Cannon is president, and which has 112,000 members under its direction ..
For twelve and a half years he was a missionary, and President of the
Indian Territory and Southwestern States Mission, at his own expense. He
was member of the Utah Constitutional Convention in 1895, was an Alder · ·
man in Brigham City, and has held several minor offices in Salt Lake.. He
was born in Salt Lake City, September 6, 1858 His father, Heber C.
Kimball, a Vermonter, was First Counsellor to President Brigham Young,
and was one of the pioneers of the west in the journeyings of the Mormon
people from Kirtland, Ohio. through Missouri and .' o! auvoo to the promised
Land of Deseret Orphaned while yet tl lad, the son had to make his own
way by hard knocks For several years he served on the Union Pacific rail­way
and other roads as machinist and as locomotive engineer He has also
served as farmer, rancher and merchant. He was married in 1882 to Olive,
daughter of Edw D.. Wooley, and has seven living children, the eldest, Miss
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EDWARD TALMADGE IjAMS,
1I!' J MR. IJ AMS, Graham County has sent to the Legislature one of the foremost representatives of her business
interests He is a native of Ohio, born in Fairfield County in 1849 His father was a farmer and his rearing was
largely upon a farm" After passing the common schools, he \ vent to college at Athens, graduating in 1864, having paid
especial attention to mathematical subjects In 1866 he graduated from
the noted business college at Poughkeepsie, New York, thus finishing the
foundation for the practical education that has proved so advantageous to
him in later years" In 1868 he left Ohio for Iowa, where he taught school,
also teaching in Missouri and in California It was as a teacher that he
came to Arizona, to teach a term at Safford in lR81, But he soon took
up his natural business bent He started the first dry goods store in
Safford, the first drug store and was the town's first postmaster, serving
for six years Later, he was the pioneer in the line of plumbing and
hard ware, till he has come to maintain an establishment that will compare
without discredit to the great department ston's of the cities, Latterly, he
has become interested in the Gila Valley Telephone Company, of which he
owns a third and is the general manager The corporation, though
equipped solely by local capital, has a magnificent 70- mile line, extending
hom Clifton on the east to Fort Thomas on the west, and embracing all
important settlements of the county, The company has fixed rates and
given senice that take the telephone in the Gila Valley hom the list Of
luxuri~ s
Mr. Ijams was married in San Diego, Cal., in 1878, to Miss Eliza
Gallaspy of Lampasas, Texas, From the union have sprung two boys, one
of whoin is in the univ. ersity of Arizona, studying electric~' lengineering. 7/ u- YLrr; d. ~)~ ,~. ~ Jy; a.
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Member of Ihe Assembly from Maricopa County.
': LAS. P IVY, of Maricopa County, is a Mississippian, born May 17, 1864, in Oxford, the university town of the State,
J in its northern part. His father was a farmer in the cotton belt. When the subject of this sketch was only eight
years old, the family moved to Los Angeles County, California, settling almost on the site of the present beautiful city
of Pasadena There eight years were spent, with the usual school advant-ages
of a rural neighborhood.. In the fall of 1880 Mr,. Ivv accompanied his
parents to Arizona, his father choosing a new location in the Salt Ri ver
Valley, near Phoenix, under the Montere. y ditch, now ahandone( L Here he
finished his education to the extent of passing through the common schools
and for a while attending the Normal School of Arizona at Tempe
No legislator is better informed on the practical questions of agricul­ture
in Arizona, a fact that caused Speaker Parker to place him at the head
of the Committee on Agriculture. His residence is nine miles west of Phoe­nix,
in the alfalfa district of the vaney, and he owns a ranch farther west,
on the Agu3 Fria river. At present he devotes the major part of his time
to apiculture, caring for 800 hives, probably the largest number owned bv
anyone beekeeper in Arizona.. In the legislature his principal service has
been in connection with the" Ivy Irrigation Bill," a measure believed by its
introducer to be one that would serve to solve for all time all the yexatious
questions that now are daily encountered by the farmers of the Arizona
valleys He has also ably championed a number of educational bills
Mr hy was married in 1897 to Miss V, ernette O. Green of Phoenix..
He has never before held any public office, though known since his maturity
as a democrat of steadfastness in the faith and of untiring industry.
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Member of the Assembly from Martcopa County.
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: t8 A. FOWLER was the only Republican elected on the legislative ticket it" Maricopa County last fall, a fact that shows
• he must be well esteemed on both sides the party walL Yet he is not an " old- timer," for his residence in Arizona
is only since 1899, when he located on a ranch near Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, Since that time he has been a
close student of irrigation questions, and has been foremost in the attempts
to provide some way in which to better the present conditions of the water
supply of the arid west, Since the organization of the body, he has served
as Chairman of the Maricopa County Water Storage Committee, By the
committee he was sent as delegate to the last session of the National Irri­gation
Congress, and was there selected as the member for Arizona on the
National Executive Committee of the Congress. He was a member of the
committee sent to interview Congress, and was delegated by the citizens of
Maricopa county to urge recognition of the rights of Sonthern Arizona in
the matter of forest reserves, He has just introduced in the House a bill for
the bonding of Maricopa County for water storage, Representative Fowler
was boru in Stoneham, near Boston, I\ 1assachusetts, December 14, 1843"
He went through the cornman schools of his native town, through Phillips
Academy, Andover, and finally through Yale, from which he graduated, in
the regular classical course, in 1868" He enlisted in 1862 in the Fiftieth
Massachusetts Infantry, but was detailed later to the Signal Corps, He
served mainly along the Mississippi, part of the time attached to General
Dudley's stafr After leaving college he spent a year in the study of law
and a couple of years in teaching,. For twenty- five years he was in the sub­scription
book business, nearly ten years with Dodd, Mead & Co" in New
York gater he was associated with Powers, Fowler & Lewis in Chicago"
In 1888 Mr.. Fowler was married, in Medford, Massachusetts, to Ella
Francis Quinby,
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CHARLES PETERSON,
Member of the Assembly from Martcopa County.
Ii"' HARLES PETERSON, of Mesa, one of the representatives of Arizona's most populous count" is serving his second
\, l,( term as an Assemblvman, having been elected to suceeed himself in office, His two terms in the Legislature comprise
the total sum of his experience in public office
M1" Peterson is a western man, born and bred, His native State is
Utah, wherein he was born, January 28, 1854, in Alpine, Utah County,
about sixty miles south of Salt Lake City He was reared in Weber Val­ley
in Morgan County, Utah, Though he has generally followed the occu­pations
of an agricultmal life, he had an early aptitude for machinery, and
for a time was a railway engineer on the Union Pacific
In January, 1879, Mr Peterson came with his family to Arizona, the
journey being made overland by wagon, He was one of the pioneer set­tlers
of what is now the beautiful town of Mesa, eighteen miles east of
Phoenix, but where, in 1879, was little more than a bare and arid plain
He helped in the strug, gle to bring water to the top of the mesa, a work in
which the pioneers were materially aided by using an ancient Toltec ditch,
almost providentially discovered
In 1895. at his own expense, VIr" Peterson entered upon a two years'
tour as a missionary in Ireland for the spread of the beliefs of his church,
that of the Latter- Day Saints of Jesus Christ, His experiences abroad were
both exciting and entertaining At present he is engaged both in farming
and in the management, with his sons, of a model creamery,
\\' hen twenty years of age, M1" Peterson married, at Coalville, Utah,
Miss Clara Jane Lewis. daughter of one of the best- known old residents of
Mesa City, In the Legislature Mr. Peterson is Chairman of the Committee
on Education, and has made a record in favor of the strictest economy 111
the administration of the public service.
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KEAN ST. CHARLES,
Member of the Assemb( y from Moha< oe County. liN THE HOUSE the tight little mining county of Mohave is represented by an editor, Kean St.. Charles, a man who
has definite opinions on everything and never halts at expressing himself: It is probable the members of the House
would all agree that St, Charles is the most active member of the body He has shown intense interest in all measures
that affected the miner or the laboring man generally, and has served as a
guardian of the treasury, though at the same time a strong advocate of
liberal appropriations for all educational institutions"
Member St Charles was born in Fairmont, Marion County, Virginia
( now in West Virginia) His father was a skilled mechanic and was the
inventor of the cast ft'ogs, now in use on all the railways of America, and
during the war was an officer on a Federal Mississippi steamboat.
The son's education was secured in the common schools and in St
Vincent's College, Wheeling" In 18' 77 he was in the Black Hills of Dakota,
there doing his first newspaper' work on the Pioneer Press of Deadwood"
Thence he went to Leadville and finally to New Mexico, where he built the
first stamp mill in the Black Range country When the mining excitement
broke out in the San Juan region of southeastern Utah, he was sent there
as an expert by Hon" Walter C. Hadley of Albuquerque" When the Alaskan
gold rush commenced, in 1893, St" Charles started for the frozen north, but
got no farther than Kingman, Arizona, where he has remained ever since,
as editor of Our Mineral Wealth He was married in Kingman five years
ago to Eliza beth Oram, and has three children. Though he has never held
office before, St Charles is a red- hot partisan, He calls himself a Bryan
democrat, with free coinage and equal rights as his gospel. Originally a
republican, he switched to the populist party and was a delegate to the
Populist National Convention at St, Louis, where he cast his vote for Bryan"
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6Member of the c4ssembly from f!!'( aovajo County. lR AVAJO COUNTY'S representative was born in the windy city of Chicago, August 11, 1857, of Irish stock. He never
was outside the rather extensive corporate limits of Chicago till he reached the agc of eighteen. But he knew a bit
about the cattle business before he left, for he was employed for a while in the stock yards that make the Lake City
famous, He got to reading Indian stories and Texas history and finally
started south for the sole purpose of seeing the Alamo at San Antonio,
He saw the Alamo and then stayed around San Antonio several years,
Thence he went to Show Low, then in Apache County, in October, 1879,
and engaged in sheep raising, At that time the Scott brothers were the
only sheep raisers in that region, Mr.. Morgan passed through some of the
worst Indian scares of the southwest in the earlier days and was unmo­lested
Indeed, only one man was ever killed by Indians in that vicinity,
though many were shot at" Mr., Morgan is still contentedly rearing sheep,
and has so prospered that, with one exception, he is the heaviest individual
taxpayer in the county" His main experience in office before has been in
the capacity of supervisor He was appointed to fill out an unfinished term
in Apache County and later was elected to the same position, drawing the
four, years' term Then the county was split, He is a strong advocate of
the idea that no man should be favored in the assessment, and as a super­visor
and legislator has taken the stand that the Territory must have full
and equitable assessments, Mr Morgan is a widower.. He was manied in
Show Low in 1892 ~ o Miss died, leaving him two children.
ALLAN C. BERNARD"
Member of the Assembly from Pinal County.
~ NE OF THE readiest and most active of the members of the House of Representatives is " AI" Bernard, His abilities
in the way of parliamentary procedure are so well known that he was prominently mentioned for the Speakership
before the beginning of the legislative session. It is the second time he has represented his county in the Legislature" His
previous service was in the Nineteenth The esteem in which he is held by
his fellow members is shown by the fact that he was made chairman of the
legislative committee that had charge of the dedicatory ceremonies of the
new Capitol. He is chairman of the Committee on Claims and is a member
of a number of other important house committees,
Mr" Bernard was born in Westport, Missouri, February 11,1859" His
parentage was southern, his father being a Virginian and his mother a
native of Maryland, He received the education afforded by the schools of
his native place and then attended the high school of Kansas City, of which
Westport is a suburb. He came to Arizona when he was only seventeen, to
join his brother, N. W" Bernard, wbo had established himself in business in
Pima County. At that time the Santa Fe railroad came no further than
La Junta, Colorado, and the rest of the journe, Y had to be made by mule
teams, in a train owned by Don Mariano G Samaniego of Tucson. In
1881 Mr" Bernard returned to Westport, to wed the girl of his choice, Miss
Minnie Chouteau, granddaughter of Pierre Chouteau, the original fur trader
of St. Louis. They are the parents of two children, both boys" At the
present'time J\ lfr. Bernard is the manager and part owner of Tucson's ice
and cold storage plant.
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@~ E OF THE two most important committees in the Assembly is that on Appropriations. Of this a Tucson man,
~. y" Barkley, is chairman. It is history that the work put upon the committee has been carefully and honestly
done and yet in a spirit of liberality, especially manifesting itself in the treatment given the school;; of the Territory.
Mr,. Barkley is a native of Tennessee, born in Wilson County, in the
central part of the State, April 26, 1866 His father was a planter, whose
property had been badly torn up by the war, for the region had alternately
been occupied by the devastating troops of both sides" Necessarily, young
Barkle. y's education was limited till his nineteenth year, though, by his
own efforts, he managed to pass through a private high school in Cleburne,
Texas, whither he went in 1882" In 1886 and ' 87 he taught school near
Cleburne In 1887 he came to Arizona, starting for Phoenix the next
morning after his twenty- first birthday. For four years he was engaged in
farming and horse raising, with ranches near Mesa and west of Phoenix.
In 1891, ' 92 and ' 93, he studied law with Cox, Street & Williams. In 1894
he was nominated the Democratic candidate for Assessor of Maricopa
County, but went down with his fellows in the general Democratic slump
that followed the Cleveland administration In 1895 he moved to Tucson,
there to engage in the livery business The esteem in which he is held in
the county is best shown by the fact that his vote was the largest received
by any candidate on either of the legislative tickets. He was married in
October, 1892, to Nannie Howard, of Tempe From the union have come
two children
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JOE BAYLEY CORBETT,
Member of the Assembly from Pima County.
li N THE last general election, only three republicans were elected to office in the ancient county of Pima, and
only one republican candidate for the Legislature got through, The favored legislative candidate was Joe B., Corbett
of Tucson. He has for years been one of the most energetic workers in the republican ranks, and was content to " let it
go at that," but was put in the field by his friends and elected, in the face
of the apparent democratic majority.
Me Corbett is a Californian. born in San Francisco, and reared in the
same city and in its environs. His father, a mining engineer, was from
Boston. Massachusetts After passing through the public schools of San
Francisco, the son attended the model high school of the coast, that of the
City of Oakland. across the bay, graduating in 1890, and later took a
course in the Oakland Business College His first employment was with the
great iron dealers, Huntington, Hopkins & Co , in San Francisco With this
firm he remained till, in 1892, he suddenly made up his mind to visit Ari­zona
So to Arizona he came, to Tucson The new arrival S0011 found
employment with the Southern Pacific Railway Company, and is in the
service of the company still, as a locomotive engineer"
Though his party is in a hopeless minority in the house, the work done
by Mr., Corbett in the present session has been marked by vigor and attended
with success. He has been an especial champion of the University, which has
received the most liberal treatment by the Twentv- first. He and the demo­cratic
members from Pima County have worked throughout in perfect
accord" Me Corbett is made doubly in the minority, in that he is one of
the four members who manage to exist without a helpmeet.,
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Member of the Assembly fmm Pinal County.
BLEXANDER BARKER was born in Lockport, LaFourche parish, Louisiana, in 1849, and was raised there.
cation was" newspapers.." In 1866, however, he was in school in Ohio, running away to join the army.
he was discharged, a Sergeant of Company G, Seventh D.. S.. Infantry, at Salt Lake, Utah Then he went back home.
There, in 1871, he was married to Selma Dalferes, deceased in 1880 A
second marriage was with Isabella Cosgrove, from whom he later was legally
separated.. By the first marriage there were three children and by the second
two, all living In 1881 Mr. Barker came to Florence, Arizona, and has held
his residence in Pinal County ever since, mainly engaged in mining. He has
a number of promising copper claims in the Catalina mountains.
A philosopher has said that a man who plants a tree is a benefactor
of generations unborn On this basis Mr. Barker is one of the greatest bene­factors
Arizona has ever known, for it was he who introduced the beautiful
and popular umbrella tree into the Territory.. In the fall of 1881 he tele · ·
graphed his brother, C. J Barker, at Lockport, Louisiana, asking him to
mail some seeds from a tree belonging to Registe Parr The seeds arrived
in due time, to be planted by J. V. Wilson and Peter Will in Florence The
following year a notice published in the Florence Enterprise, explaining the
beauty of the trees and their adaptability to this climate and offering a
few for sale, created considerable interest. The trees are now to be found
in every nook and corner of the Territory.
Member of the Assembly from Pinal County.
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' f': l KYONE who knows the sturdy miner who serves as one of the representatives of Pinal county in the Legislature will
1;\ be surprised to learn that he came to Arizona for his health But that was back in 1876. He went to Globe,
which was then in the heart of the Apache country, and prospected when danger might lurk behind every boulder on the
way. He had the usual prospector's luck, among other properties locating
the well- known Black Warrior claims, lately sold by him to a syndicate
headed by James Fleming. He now lives in Florence. Through his mines he
has been put into comfortable circumstances, but is still mining, and believes
he has milIions in sight. Representative Beard was born in Wayne County,
IlIinois-" down in Egypt "- in 1845" When he was still a child, his parents
moved to Marion County, Illinois, and settled within eight miles of Salem,
where Wm.. J. Bryan was reared. The lad's schooling was limited, because
of lack of even the usual country schoolhonses with puncheon seats.. In
1862, though not seventeen years old, he joined the Union Army, in Com­pany
E of the Eleventh Illinois Infantry, Col.. Jos" F .. Martin commanding.
In 1863 he was serving in the left wing of the Sixteenth Army Corps, the
regiment afterward being transferred to the Fifteenth Corps, under Gen.
John A. Logan.. It was the color- bearer of Beard's regiment that planted
the Stars and Stripes on the parapet of Fort McAllister at the conclusion
of Sherman's march to the sea" Beard avers that his army life was one of
fun, and that he never had a day in hospital during the war. He wag in
several hot engagements, notably at Decatur, Georgia, where he was one ot
eleven of his company left out of a former strength of fifty- nine men. He
was captured in March, 1865, at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and had a
tough time VIi ith the starving Confederates tor forty days, when he was
turned loose at Augusta, Georgia, to rejoin the army and to be discharged
July 5th.
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Member of the Assembly from Yuma County.
lr1TTMA'S only representative in the Assembly was born in 1872 at Xenia, in eastern Kansas His f, lther was a f~ lTmer
~ and his rearing was upon a farm When he was only fourteen he was thrown upon his own resources, through the
death of his father. His mother had died two years before Undaunted by adversity, he determined to secure a good
education and worked his way through the Christian Institute at Weaubleau,
Missouri.. Thereafter he taught school for several years in southwestern
Missouri. In 1892 he came to Arizona in the employ of the South Gila
Canal Company.. For three years he was engaged in the mercantile busi­ness
at Aztec, in Yuma County, on the line of the Southern Pacific railway,
then moved to Mohawk, in the same county, where he has lived ever
since, managing his business enterprises, Though he has held no public
office before, he was honored, four years ago, by the Democratic nomina­tion
for Treasurer of Yuma County, being defeated by only a small major­ity,
Mr. Crouch was married in 1896 to Katie Snowden, at Aztec, and is
the father of three children. In the Legislature he has been notably active
in the defense of his home county against all attacks upon her institutions;
and his work has throughout been attended with success To him the peo­ple
of Yuma County are indebted in large measure not only for the pre­servation
to them of the Territorial Penitentiary hut as well the appropri­ation
made for its repair.
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iWlember of the A. ssembly from Yavapai County.
OLIVER LOUIS GEER,
! DR O. L. GEER by birth is a Kentuckian He was born near Lexington Dec. 3, 1847, His father was a planter,
with lumbering interests as well in Pennsylvania" The family was an old American one, dating back in Connecticut
to 1635 The present legislator's great grandfather was in the Revolutionary War and his grandfather in the War of
1812, Dr" Geer's education was mainly received in private schools in Phila­delphia,
thereafter finishing by taking a degree in medicine in the University
of Pennsylvania in 1867. In the following year he went to New Orleans,
and later, by way of Texas, to Tucson" For two years he was on cattle
ranches seeking to regain lost health. He then went into mining, chasing
about all the mining booms of the west and even going to Chili and Peru
in search of riches, For a while he placered in Plomosa District, near
Yuma, He was married in 1877 in New Orleans to Miss Annabella M.
Marseilles, dapghter of one of the oldest families of the Crescent City For
the eight years following 1890 he was in business on Wall street, New York.
Then, the eastern climate proving too severe, he carne to Arizona He now
is managing mines for himself and for the Arizona Development Company
in Southern Yavapai county, and is as well conducting a business enter­prise
at Congress Junction
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Membe, of the Assembly from Ya'lJapat County.
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' 1T" HE only native- born legislator in the Twenty- first is Thos. E. Campbell of Jerome, the . youngest member. He was
\ oW born in Prescott, July 18, 1878. His father was a business man, who came to Arizona as a general service clerk at
Whipple Barracks. Young Campbell went through the grammar and high schools of Prescott, thence going to St. Mary's
College, Oakland, graduating in 1893.. Returning to Arizona, he served four
years as deputy postmaster at Prescott, through both Republican and
Democratic administrations In 1898 he moved to Jerome, where he has
served as assistant postmaster.. For the last year he has been interested in
the Verde Queen Mining Company, in which he is an active director and
assistant treasurer Mr.. Campbell was married in Jerome last June to Miss
Eleanor Gale Allen, daughter of H. J. Allen. He is a member of the Elks,
Redmen and Knights of Pythias orders. In the present session he has been
a notably active member, with particular care for the development of the
mining industry.. The bill for the creation of Verde County was introduced
by Mr. CampbelL
FRANKLIN PIERCE WARD,
Member of the Assembly from Ya'Dapai County.
If\ AVAPAI COUNTY has a second representative of her rich mineral interests III the Assembly in the person of F. R"
~ Ward. He has been a resident of Arizona only about four years, coming to manage the E.. R Hills group of gold
Inines near Crown King, in the Bradshaw mountains. His work has been attended with gratifying success and his prac-tical
experience has made him a valued member of the Mining Committee.
Mr.. Ward was born in New York City April 30, 1852. His father was an
old- time New York merchant, of good old revolutionary stock After an
education that comprised passage through the grammar schools, he was
apprenticed in the olden fashion to a coachmaker Finishing his appren­ticeship
of three years he went to Chicago, there to set up in business for
himself, meeting with good success till the annihilating fire of 1871. In 1874
he had drifted to the Pacific coast, where, in San Francisco, after employ­ment
on the construction of the Palace hotel, he established himself as a
contractor and builder.. Several of the largest business blocks of Market
street, San Francisco, wer'e erected under his superintendence. For a few
years in each he resided in Winters, Yolo county, and in Ventura, San Buena­ventura
county, California, in both places finding employment as architect
and builder.. Mr .. Ward is holding his first office as Assemblyman. He has
been twice married, in Winters to Miss Jennie Hill, who died within four
years, and in Ventura to Miss Hattie Sackett. By the latter marriage there
has been issue a daughter ..
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Iffillember of the cAs. sembly from Santa Cruz County. IDR ADOLPHUS H .. NOON was born in London, England, in 1838 His mother died whilst he was an infant.. His
father having good German connections, he was educated partly in England and partly at the University of
Gottingen, and obtained a nayal lieutenancy in the Prussian service. His father marrying again, young Adolphns, not
liking it, enlisted in the British army and was sent to South Africa, where
he served four years" Then, purchasing his discharge, he went to Natal,
where he had two sisters, the one married to Richard King, one of its
earliest pioneers, the other to Robert B.. Tatham, snperintendent of the first
railway in that Colony. Young Noon, after leaving the regular army, was
joined by his younger brother Alonzo, and, aided by Richard King. they
engaged in sugar planting, our subject also studying medicine under an
army surgeon" The natives becoming threatening, he organized a volunteer
company known as the Isipingo Rifle Corps, of which he was commissioned
Lieutenant and his brother Quartermaster. In 1864, he married Emma
c.. E Slaughter, the daughter of a Port Elizabeth merchant He left for
America in 1865 and went West; started into mining in Tintic Mining
District, Utah, in 1870, and laid off the townsite of Eureka, was appointed
Postmaster., also twice elected Justice of the Peace, practiced medicine, and
also got hold of some mining property, including iron mines,. The district
getting dull, he sold out and went to San Francisco, Cal.., in 1876, took
an additional medical course there and received his diploma Dr, Noon came
to Arizona in 1879, and settled in Oro Blanco, Pima County, practicing
medicine, also engaging in mining and stock raising He was elected District
Recorder and school trustee successi,' e terms" He moved to Nogales in 1898,
was appointed one of the Supervisors of the'new County of Santa Cruz in
1899, served the full term. and was then elected on the Democratic ticket
its first Representative to the Legislative Assembly,
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