Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 783
Robert W. Arthur, Sr., is now engaged in dry farming on a ranch of three hundred and twenty acres near San Rafael, Santa Cruz, county. He came to Arizona from California bus is a native of Tennessee, his birth occurring in 1853 and is a son of William and Mary J. (Webster) Arthur. The father is of English extraction and the mother is of Scotch. The family left Tennessee in 1860 and settled in Kentucky whence they removed to Kansas and from there went to Texas following which they spent a year in Mexico. They then returned to Texas and in 1865 came to Arizona but in the next year removed to San Bernardino County, California.
Robert W. Arthur was thirteen when the family settled in San Bernardino where he completed his schooling, and then served an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade. After mastering that trade he worked in the mines of California for three years and in 1872 returned to Arizona. For at time he worked for the Overland Stage Company but when the railroad was completed to Los Angeles he found employment in the Southern Pacific shops at that point.
Shortly after his marriage in 1875 Mr. Arthur again came to Arizona and devoted his energies to prospecting and placer mining in various sections of the state until 1903. In the latter year he came to Douglas and purchased a lot on which he erected a building for blacksmithing and wagon making in partnership with his son-in-law J.E. Bates. He carried on this business for 10 years but for the past three years has engaged in farming in Santa Cruz County where he owns three hundred and twenty acres.
In 1875 he married Miss Mary Dusoe, who is a native of Massachusetts and a daughter of Moses and Amelia Dusoe, and to this union have been born the following children: May, born in 1876 and the wife of J.E. Bates of Douglas; Robert, born in 1887 and a resident of Douglas; Lillian, wife of Roy R. Reed of Cochise County; one who died in infancy and Pearl born in 1897 and living at home.
Who's Who in Arizona, page 196
Dr. W. F. Chenowith, one of the pioneer physicians of Nogales, is a native of Rose County, Ohio, where he was born in 1865. He was educated in his native state and was graduated from the medical deprtment of the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Chenowith has been a resident of Nogales for twenty-three years, during which he has acquired an excellent practice and been eminently successful in his work. Dr. Chenowith is also County Superintendent of Health and surgeon for the Southern Pacific Company north of the international line. He is a member of the American Medical Association. He is married and has three children.
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, page 650
The judicial history of Santa Cruz County would be incomplete and unsatisfactory were there failure to make mention of Judge Frank J. Duffy who in December 1911 was elected without opposition to the Superior Court bench and is now serving as City Attorney of Nogales. For almost seventeen years he has been a member of the bar of this county.
Judge Duffy was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, April 3, 1866, a son of Michael and Mary (O'Brien) Duffy, and was reared on a farm in that section, acquiring his preliminary education in the public schools. In 1888 he was graduated from St. Lawrence University with the degree of B.S. and in the fall of the same year came to Arizona, where he spent three winters teaching school in the Salt River Valley and two winters at Globe. He spent all of his spare moments during that time reading law, continuing to do this after he came to Nogales in June 1893. He here accepted a clerkship in the United States Customs Service and was for three years in that office, studying law at the bar of the Supreme Court of Arizona in 1903. He here accepted a clerkship at the same time. He was admitted to the bar of the First District Court in 1899 and to the bar of the Supreme Court of Arizona in 1903. Previous to this time he had begun his public career, his first office being that of Justice of the Peace. In 1899 and 1900 he was County Assessor of Santa Cruz County and in the latter year was elected district attorney, a member of the city council and during all of that time practiced law, building up a large and representative clientage. He served as a member of the Twenty Fifth Territorial Legislature and was afterward elected judge of the Superior Court of Santa Cruz County without opposition at the primaries at the election.
Judge Duffy has been twice married. In 1894 he wedded Miss Catherine C. Linder, a daughter of J.A. Linder, of Tucson, an early settler of Arizona. Mrs. Catherine Duffy died in 1902, leaving two children: Francis R., who is now pursuing a civil engineering course at the University of Arizona, being a member of the class of 1918 and Mary L. who is attending the Northern Arizona Normal at Flagstaff and is a member of the class of 1917. In 1905 Judge Duffy married Miss Annie M. Parker, a native of Phoenix, and a daughter of James Parker who came to the territory in the early 1870's and is a resident of Santa Cruz County.
Arizona, The Younest State, 1913
Through enterprise, commercial, integrity and business ability Manuel Escalada has in the course of twenty three years residence in Nogales become one of the most prominent business men of the city, where he is associated with his brother in the conduct of a leading dry goods establishment. He was born in northern Spain, April 11, 1867, and spent his childhood in his native country coming to America in 1883 at the age of sixteen. He settled in Brownsville Texas where he obtained a position as clerk in a mercantile establishment. He proved able, energetic and honorable, retaining his position for nine years and during that time saving enough money to establish a business of his own. He came to Nogales in 1892 and in partnership with his brother Leo started a small general store, which in twenty three years has expanded into a large modern establishment. He is now serving as treasurer and a director of the Chamber of Commerce and he is also a director of the Nogales Building and Loan Association.
Mr. Escalada was married in Spain, September 27, 1899 to Miss Domitila Revuelta, a native of that country and they have three children: Joseph, age twelve, Louis, age ten and Manuel age eight.
Who's Who in Arizona, 1913, Page 550
Walter C. Fortune, member of the Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz County, is the son of James and Elizabeth Brown Fortune, of Maryland, and was born in that Stat in 1874, and there educated in the public schools. He lost both perents, however, when he was very young, his mother's death having occurred a year succeeding that of his father.
He came to Arizona about 1890 and started in freighting business, in which he continued about ten years. He then disposed of that business at a profit and engaged in the cattle business on an open range. This he has conducted with great success, and he is now one of the most prominent cattle men of his vicinity, his interests being bout one mile from Patagonia. Mr. Fortune is also interesed in valuable mining properties about Patagonia. He is a Southern Democrat, and at both the primaries and general election led the ticket in Santa Cruz County, an evident appreciation of his worth and work, for, like the other members of the Board.
Mr. Fortune is one of the solid citizens of Santa Cruz, and well versed in his knowledge of the county. He is an active member of the Mosse Lodge. He was married in 1907 to Miss Anna Hellman, a native of Germany. They have two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret.
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, page 656
Theodor Gebler was an early settler in Nogales and has been connected with many phases of its business and political development since taking up his residence here in 1886. He was engaged in the hardware business in one location for twenty eight years but sold out in 1914. He is interested in mining property and is a director of the First National Bank.
Mr. Gebler is a native of Germany, born in Berlin, July 1, 1831, and there he attended the German Military Academy, afterward learning the trade of a tinsmith. When he was nineteen years of age he came to the United States, working at his trade for six years, thereafter in New York, and finally going west to San Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He located in that city in 1856 and after working as a tinsmith for a short period opened a shop of his own on Clay Street where he conducted a profitable and well managed business, later adding hardware to his line of tin goods. He was during this time a member of the famous Vigilante Committee in San Francisco and a man prominent as a member of the common council and he continued his identification with the hardware business there until 1879 when a pleasure journey to Arizona influenced him in making a permanent location to the state, where he has since resided. His first settlement was made in Tucson whence in 1886 he removed to Nogales, building the first American house in the city and establishing a hardware business, which he conducted in the same shop for twenty eight years. He later aided in organizing the First National Bank and took an active part in the foundation of this institution of which he was for a time vice president and is still a director. He owns valuable mining property in the Patagonia district.
Mr. Gebler was married in New York City in 1851 to Louisia Waldman, who died in 1910 and the five children born to them are also deceased.
Who's Who in Arizona, 1913, Page 645
J. H. Harrison, Senator from Santa Cruz County in the First State Legislature, is the son of richard and Mary Harrison, and was born in Sonoma County, California, February 12, 1870. Senator Harrison is a descendant of the old-time Harrison family of Virginia, and numbers among his distinguished ancestors William Henry Harrison, President of the United States.
Senator Harrison has been practically brought up and educated in Arizona, as he came here when but nine years of age. For ten years he has been in the employ of the Wells Fargo Express Company. For six years, he served as member of the Board of Supervisors of Santa Cruz County, and in 1911 was elected to represent his County in the First State Senate. He isa member of the Code, Education and Public Institutions, Labor, Public Lands, State Accounting and Methods of Business, Suffrage and Elections and Counties and County Affairs Committees, and Chairman of the latter.
On May 23, 1894, Mr. Harrison was married to Miss Catherine W. Hill, and they have three children, Virginia, Mary and Richard.
Who's Who in Arizona, 1913, Page 530
Alexander S. Henderson, Chairman [Board of Supervisors], is on of the best known business men in the Patagonia region, having been interested for many years in mining, cattle growing and merchandise, and his general store is on of the principal places of business in Patagonia. In mining matters he is associated with mr. John F. Campbell, their holdings comprising one large group in the vicinity of Duquesne, and another in the World's Fair region, in all of which they have recently interested investors in the east and have assurance that capital for the throrough development of these claims will be forthcoming. Mr. Henderson aslo has valuable claims in the Santa Rita mountains.
Mr. Henderson is a native of Canada. He came to this country when quite a young man and has made it his home ever since, and all his interests are in Santa Cruz County.
Who's Who in Arizona, 1913, Page 799-800
Phil Herold, Vice President of the First National Bank of Nogales, and Recorder of the county of Santa Cruz, has been identified with the commercial, official and political life of Arizona for many years. He was born in Seneca, Kansas, 38 years ago. His father, Andrew P. Herold, a native of Germany, came to America when but a young man, and follwed the profession of attorney for a number of years, and was also interested in the journalistic field as owner and editor of several Kansas papers. Here he married Miss Wilhelmina Krupp, also a native of Germany.
Phil Herold was educated in Kansas, having attended the public schools and St. Benedict's college. He came to Arizona and took up his father's calling, newspaper work, having been connected with Phoenix papers for some time. He served in Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish War. He then went to Nogales, entered a law office, was appointed Deputy Recorder. he was first appointed, then elected Recorder, and has held the office for twelve years, his courtesy and efficiency being such he has not been supplanted. He is one of the war harses of Democrazy, a leader in his party. He is an Elk and belongs to all the commercial organizations in Santa Cruz County.
In 1908 he married Miss Minnie McIntire, daughter of J. P. McIntire, the well known mining man.
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