Yavapai County, Arizona
Biographies
MAHAR,
THOMAS: Born in Tipperary, Munster, Ireland, 1832, son of_____
and______
Enrolled August 16 at LaPorte, Plumas County, California, and mustered
in, age 30, at Camp Downey, Oakland, California, August 30, 1861, to
serve 3 years as private, Company F, 1st California Infantry;
occupation when enrolled,
miner; appointed Company Musician immediately after muster; went with
the Company to Southern California and arrived at Fort Yuma in
December, 1861; left Port Yuma May 15 and marched via the
Pima villages to Tucson, arriving
June 27, 1862; left Tucson July 23rd and marched via Apache Pass and
reached Mesilla on the Rio Grande August 15; remained until September
28 when the march was resumed to. Fort Craig and arrived there six days
later.
Stationed at Fort Craig until October, 1863, when he left there with
the Company for Port Wingate; with 58 men of the Company commanded by
Captain H. M. Benson he marched from Port Wingate via the Little
Colorado River to establish
Fort Whipple, A. T, arriving at the site of the post, now known as Del
Rio, on December 21, 1863; moved with other troops to the present site
of Whipple Barracks, near Prescott, in May, 1864.Listed Territorial
Census, April, 1664 , 3rd District(Yavapai County), age 32, born in
Ireland, occupation, soldier, honorably discharged at Port Whipple,
A.T., August 29, 1864; engaged in mining and was one of the original
owners of the Ticonderoga Lode; thrown from his
horse, fracturing his skull, which resulted in his death at
Prescott, A. T., September 12 . 1867 Burial City
Cemetery Prescott.
Source: ASU Library Hayden Arizona Pioneer Biographies
MANNASSE, HYMAN born, in
Prussia about 1851; son of Hirsch Mannasse; listed,
Territorial Census, April 1864, at La Paz, A.T., age 35, married,
family in California, occupation Merchant, resident in Arizona 6
months, property valued at $2,225; in May of that year he
contributed 40 pounds of coffee and 4 pounds of gunpowder to the second
Woolsey expedition against the Apaches.
Formed a partnership with Julius A. Goldwater under the name of
Mannasse & Co., and moved his goods to Wickenburg following the
opening of the Vulture mine; Goldwater withdrew from the firm on
September 6, 1369; appointed Postmaster at Wickenburg February 9, 1870,
and served until February 28, 1872, when he was succeeded by Benjamin
Block; listed, U. S.Census, August 1870 Merchant at Wickenburg, age 38;
in March 1872, he engaged in business in Phoenix as is shown by the
following announcement in the Prescott Arizona Miner:
NEW STORE AT PHOENIX - By referring to the advertisement of H. Manasse,
our readers will perceive that he has established a branch store at
Phoenix, Salt River Valley, in which store, we learn, there is already
a large supply
of such goods as are or maybe needed by citizens of our sister county
of Maricopa. We have known Mr. Manasse for several years, and from said
knowledge, believe that our Phoenix friends will find pleasure and
profit in dealing
with him
His store was located in a small adobe building which he put up on the
north side of Washington Street between Center and Montezuma (First)
Streets and was managed by S. Abrahams who came with him from
Wickenburg; the business not proving to be profitable he disposed
of his goods and closed the store in. October, 1872; the
following account of his death was printed in the Tucson Arizona Weekly
Citizen.
Source: The Arizona Weekly Citizen, Tucson, April 24, p.2 col.3 and May
8, 1875 p.1 col .5; The Arizona Miner Prescott April 23, 1875 p.2 col.4
and p.4 col. 3 April 30, 1875 p.2 col .3
John G. Campbell
1827-1903
One of the earliest settlers of
Northern Arizona and once one of its largest cattle owners was John G.
Campbell, who came to the Territory in 1868.
Born in Glasgow. Scotland, on June 25, 1827, Campbell came to America
with his father in 1841. After following the trade of confectioner for
several years, he joined the westward
trek to the California gold fields in the gold rush year of '49.
After spending two years washing out gold on the Yuba River in Northern
California, Campbell operated n ranch for a time, and then spent two
years in Chile.
Returning to California in 1859, he operated hotels in Los Angeles and
San Francisco for the next four years. Then this restless and
enterprising Scot crossed the desert to El Dorado Canyon, built a raft
and floated down the muddy Colorado to the new gold strike at La Paz.
Arizona.
Campbell opened a store at La Paz but moved within a year to the new
town of Prescott, where he again engaged in merchandising.
In 1868 he went into the cattle business with R. H. Buffuni. and the
two men soon had one of the largest cow outfits in Northern Arizona,
spreading out over a good part of the Chino and Verde Valleys.
The first headquarters of the 7-6 brand of the partners was at the
"Adobe" ranch, now Del Rio. but ranches were later established at what
it now Perkinsville and at Clear Springs, now Copper.
Buffum soon sold out. and .James Baker took over his interest. The 7-6
was known as the Campbell & Baker outfit until Campbell was bought
out by Baker in the early 90's.
Meanwhile, Campbell was twice elected a member of the Territorial
Legislature, and in 1878 was elected as Arizona's Congressional
Delegate. It was while serving in Washington that he met and married
Marguerite Malezieux, in 1880.
Following the termination of his Congressional career, in 1881,
Campbell remained in the Capital for some time as a Treasury Department
official. On his return to Arizona, he became active in the
organization of the Yavapai Stockgrowers
Association and was elected
president at the organization meeting in 1883.
Campbell also owned and operated a hotel in Prescott for some time. He
passed away in that city on December 22, 1903.
Although six children were born to the Campbells, only Mrs. Lillie
Moorhead and Louise Campbell of Prescott are still living.
Source: Pioneers and Well Know Cattlemen of Arizona by Roscoe G.
Willson volume 2
John G. Babbitt
1908-
John G.. Babbitt. President of the
Arizona Cattle Growers Association, 1951-52, was born in Flagstaff May
19, 1908.
John's father, Charles, is still living; the last of the five Babbitt
brothers who arrived in the little lumber town of Flagstaff in the
spring of 1886, when the settlement was comprised of only a few log
houses.
It was then that the Babbitt family began their commercial and
live-stock activities that have made the name Babbitt well and
favorably known throughout the state. Shortly after the arrival of the
Babbitt brothers in Flagstaff (when Coconino County, created in 1891.
was still a part of Yavapai, and cattle and sheep ranges were being
taken up) they purchased a trail herd of about 1,000 head of cattle
from Kansas. Thus the CO Bar brand was established. In the years
following, the family spread out in livestock until they had vast
holdings in both cattle and sheep, while at the same time their
commercial enterprises spread and flourished.
Over the years Charles and William Babbitt devoted their attention to
the livestock end of the business.
John, following in the footsteps of his father, prefers livestock, and
while he is also concerned with the business enterprises, he devotes a
lot of time to the operation of the CO Bar. the W Triangle and the Spur
outfits.
Public-spirited. John Babbitt has served two years as president of the
Cattle Growers, is past president of the Arizona Senate, and is current
president of the Board of Regents of the University and State Colleges.
He is a graduate of Loyola University and the Babson Institute and has
spent some time in stock brokerage in Boston.
While in the East he married Elizabeth Quimby. September 16. 1933. When
it got so he "couldn't see enough of the sky at one time" he returned
to Arizona.
John and Elizabeth Babbitt have two children, Betty Ann and John, Jr.
Source: Pioneers and Well Know
Cattlemen of Arizona by Roscoe G. Willson volume 2
Norman Fain
1907-
Norman Fain was born at Camp Verde on
February 9, 1907. His father. Dan Fain, had been born on a cow ranch
near Cornville in 1879, and his mother. Mildred Back, was also born and
grew up on a Verde Valley cow ranch.
Even as a small boy Norman rode with his father and took to the cattle
business like a duck to water.
Preliminary schooling was obtained in the Verde Valley and his high
school years were spent in Prescott.
Then followed four years at Stanford University where he planned to
major in geology but switched to political science.
With a natural aptitude for boxing, he became the light heavyweight
champion at Stanford and was offered strong inducements to become a
professional prize fighter. (Looking at his Jim Jeffries frame today,
one fancies Norman might have gone far in the ring.)
But the call of Arizona was too strong. He returned to the Verde and
his father's ranch and for a time became a "hand," although also owning
an interest in the 44 brand.
He couldn't forget the Texas girl he went to school with in Prescott;
consequently he made a trip to Fort Worth where he married Johnie Lee
Parsons in October. 1928.
Norman became his mother's partner and soon stocked a range to the west
in the Diamond S brand.
In 1935, with the Fain Land & Cattle Co., in Lonesome Valley.
Norman moved his family to Yeager Canyon. In 1945 he moved
head-quarters out in the valley where he sank two deep wells and now
cultivates a large area. He also has a few geese on it — "for their
nuisance value," his wife declares. In addition he still operates the
Verde Valley brands and has farming interests near Yuma.
In 1944 Norman Fain was elected to the State Senate and served three
terms. He was President of the Arizona Cattle Growers 1044-46; is a
past President of the Yavapai Association.
Norman Fain and Johnie have three children: Bill, Sue and Donna (Mrs.
M. C. Wells).
Source: Pioneers and Well Know
Cattlemen of Arizona by Roscoe G. Willson volume 2
William Perry 1844-1929
William Perry, who for many years ran
cattle on the upper Agua Fria and the Perry Mesa, in Yavapai County,
was born in Pepperell. Mass., November 9, 1811. When he was nine, he
moved with his parents to California, by way of Panama, arriving at the
end of the Gold Rush.
As he grew to manhood. Perry acquired ranch property in California.
Then he learned of Arizona's vast, idle ranges. He returned to
Massachusetts in 1873, married Mary Clark, and took his bride back to
California. Selling his property, he bought 3,000 sheep to take
to Arizona.
Then began a year's trek. With a wagon for a home and with their
herders and sheep. Perry and his bride crossed the great Mohave Desert
and circled through southern Nevada and Utah. At Lee's Ferry on the
Colorado, they swam the sheep across while the wagons crossed on the
ferry.
In 1871, Perry located east of the Cordes, near the mouth of Ash Creek.
There he made a ranch home and ranged his sheep until he sold them in
1881 and begun acquiring cattle. He established the A Dot brand, later
sold to Lon Harmon. In 1900, he established the Bar Box brand,
which was maintained until its sale in 1949.
Not long after the death of his wife, in 1911, Perry more or less
retired from ranch management. William Perry was widely known for his
friendly disposition, so travelers made it a point to stop at the A
Dot. where they were always
heartily welcomed.
Perry loved his home range of mesas and canyons. It was most fitting,
therefore, that when he died in Peoria, in June. 1929. his wishes were
carried out and his body was cremated and the ashes scattered over
Perry Mesa.
The six surviving children of William and Mary Perry are: Mrs. Homer
Redden. Tempe; Mrs. Carl Harvey. Bakersfield, Calif.; William K. Perry.
Peoria; Mrs. Arthur Haynes. Phoenix; Mrs. Maude Daly, Chandler; and
Eben P. Perry. Avondale.
Source: Pioneers and Well Know
Cattlemen of Arizona by Roscoe G. Willson volume 2
William Henry
Ashurst 1844-1901
Born
in Macon, Missouri, in 1844. This pioneer was distinguished not only as
one of Arizona's early day cowmen, but also as the father of a famous son, Henry Fountain Ashurst. who
served Arizona as a Senator for thirty years. Unfortunately William
Ashurst did not live to see his
son in that high office.
A sturdy. independent youth. William Ashurst early became an expert
shot and hunter, so that when his parents and several other families crossed the plains and mountains to
California, in 1856, he kept them supplied with fresh game.
The family settled at Red Bluff and for a time William worked in the
mines of California and Nevada.
In 1871 he married Sarah Bogard. and in 1873. with his young bride,
drove a band of sheep into the Bill Williams mountain region of
Arizona, consuming two years on the
trail.
For a short time he was in partnership with John Clark, but during the
drought of 1876 Ashurst moved his sheep to the Anderson Mesa and established what is known today as the
"Old Ashurst Ranch."
In 1882 he sold the sheep and
purchased 100 cattle from Henry Wingfield of Camp Verde.
His cattle business prospered, and in 1887. Ashurst served in the
Fourteenth Territorial Legislature. A neat, well-dressed man. Ashurst used
good language and never swore or cared for off-color jokes. On the
reverse side he had a fiery
temper, drank brandy and smoked and chewed tobacco. He was a man's man.
Loving prospecting and mining Ashurst spent much time in the Grand
Canyon in search of gold. There, in January of 1901, William Ashurst met his death in a 200-foot fall over a
cliff. It being impossible to remove the body at that time he was
buried on the spot. Ten years later Ralph and
Miles Cameron removed the skeleton and re-interred it in the Grand
Canyon Cemetery. Mrs. Ashurst
died in 1921. The remaining survivors of their ten children are Ex.-Senator Henry Fountain,
of Washington; Charles. Andrew, and Mrs. Maude West of California, and
Edward of Wickenburg.
Source: Pioneers and Well Know
Cattlemen of Arizona by Roscoe G. Willson volume 2
J.W.
Sullivan 1843-1929
"Jerry" Sullivan, one of the best-known old-time cattlemen, at one time
dominated thousands of acres of lush Upper Williamson and
Chino Vallevs in Yavapai County. He was born in
Picton, Ontario. Canada, Nov. 28, 1843, but moved to the United States
in 1865.
In 1837, he engaged as a teamster in the army, hauling freight to Fort
Union, New Mexico, and other forts established as a defense against
Indian depredations.
In 1868. he came into the Prescott area, where he worked in a saw mill.
While coming home from the mill one evening, he was attacked by Indians
and shot through the shoulder with an arrow. He managed to escape into
Prescott, where he recovered from the wound, but bore the scar for the
rest of his life.
Shortly after this incident, he was attracted by the well-watered and
grassed Williamson Valley. Setting up a camp there in 1869, he cut and
delivered wild hay to Fort Whipple for three years. One day he found a
rake team standing idle and the driver missing. On investigating, he
found the driver dead, with an arrow through his heart. With the
assistance of neighbors Puntenney and McCormack, he buried the body.
That night, the Indians dug it up and dropped it into McCormack's well.
The next day, Sullivan and McCormack removed the body, buried it again,
and cleaned out the well.
Having some money saved up, Sullivan then went to Oregon, to Alaska,
and made a trip to South America and Hawaii in 1871. In 1873 he
returned with several hundred cattle and horses and started the O-O
brand. It was claimed that these were the first cattle located in
Williamson Valley. In a short time, Sullivan built up the outfit until
it included thousands of cattle and a range of 150,000 acres or more.
In 1927, he put his outfit into a merger of sheep and cattle interests
known as the Reid, Cashion Company, but withheld 40.000 acres in his
own name. This was fortunate since the merger soon failed.
Prominent in livestock and civic affairs, he was a supervisor of
Yavapai County, a director of the Hank of Arizona and a member of the
Masonic Lodge. "Jerry" Sullivan died in Prescott on October 24, 1929,
leaving an estate valued at close to $500,000. He had never married and
was survived by one brother and a sister.
Source: Pioneers and Well Know
Cattlemen of Arizona by Roscoe G. Willson volume 2
William Satathie 1874-
William Satathite was born at Fort Mason, deep in the Texas cow county
on Aug. 1,1874. Though of old-time TX cattlemen stock, his parents
shared the restless wanderlust of the post-Civil War reconstruction
period, and young Williams early became accustomed to life in the
saddle amid constantly shifting horizons.
His first range experience came when his parents moved to Fort
Davis,TX. In the early 1880’s, followed by a short period at Lake
Valley, New Mexico. In 1890 the family moved back to Edwards County,
TX., where Williams ran cattle with this father for the next few years.
Coming to Arizona in 1894, young Satathite, then 20, worked for various
cattle outfits in the White Mountains. Two years later he returned to
TX., and worked on his father’s ranch until the turn of the century.
Leaving the TX., range for good in 1900, Williams started a new outfit
of his own in the San Mateo Mountains, east of Rosedale, New Mexico. It
was there, on Jan. 18, 1905, that he married Lillie Belle Welty.
When, in 1910, doctors advised the dry Arizona climate for his wife’s
health, Williams sold the Rosedale ranch, and for the next 6 years the
Satathites lived in Sedona, Phoenix and other Arizona communities.
In 1916 they moved to Peoples Valley, where they engaged in the cattle
business and in raising Angora goats.
In 1926 the Satathites moved to Yava in Thompson Valley, where they
continued to run both goats and cattle. Since the slump in goats,
however, they have confined themselves strictly to cattle.
For many years Mrs. Satathite has also been postmistress at the little
community of Yava, where she and Williams are the principal residents.
After nearly 70 years in the saddle, Williams Satathite has retired
from active range work. Ranch affairs are now managed by his son,
Clayton, who lives just across the road from the Satathite’s Kirkland
Creek headquarters.
Two other sons, Marion & James, live in California, while a
daughter, Pearl Ethridge, lives at the mining camp of
Bagdad.
(Mr. Satathite died shortly after this was written)
Source: Pioneers and Well Know
Cattlemen of Arizona by Roscoe G. Willson volume 2
