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Yavapai County, Arizona
Pioneers
ADAMS, WILLIAM V. and BRIDGES, GEORGE P.; typewritten notes made by Sharlot M. Hall, Arizona Historian, indicate that they were pioneers who came to Arizona In 1865; Miss Hall  states:
They were cutting and sawing ash timber, hard wood, hauling to Prescott. Had had horses stolen and had secured assistance  of party of dozen men at  lower Agua Pria, at old Townsend ranch, including Wm. L. Osborn, now of Phoenix,
who tells the story and who helped bury the victims. The  two left  the party to return toTownsend ranch, after going about five miles. One of them had been  taken sick.
On return they ran Into a band of Tonto Apaches. At  their second stand,  In  a clump of granite rocks.  Bridges was shot  through  the head with a bullet.  Apparently  Adams  exhausted all his ammunition and then tried to run  for his life ,300 yards away he was brought  down by an arrow that went through the back of his neck, mercifully killing him. The line of his flight was clearly marked by soores of  arrows that has missed him.
The theft of the horses was a decoy measure, to draw off the white men on the horse trail while the same Indians who  later killed the two raided the valley and drove off about fifty head of cattle. Cattle and horses never were run down and the Indians escaped without punishment
Killed near  the mouth of Sycamore Creek, on  the Agua Pria River, June  1, 1867; buried there by  the ranchers;  the Prescott Arizona Miner of July 27, 1867,  published the following resolutions whloh had been previously  adopted by Aztlan
Lodge No. 177, F.&A.M. as attested by Hylor Ott,  the Secretary:
Whereas, our late Brethren, George P. Bridges, and Wm. V. Adams, have been laid low In death by the merciless hands of  the Apaches, and from their association  with this Lodge, we are called upon to pay a tribute of respect  to their memory, therefore, be itResolved, That  in our intimate association with Brothers George P  Bridges and Wm. V. Adams, their genial hearts and kind dispositions had endeared them to all of us, and that we deeply deplore their untimely fate, cut off in the flower of life, and inhumanly butchered by the ruthless
savages, without one friend near  to cheer them in the hour of death, or to bear a last affectionate remembranoe to the ones they leave in sorrow. The  estate  of  George  P. Bridges was appraised at $120.50
The following aooount of reinterment of their remains in Prescott appeared in the Arizona Miner of November 5., 1870; Sunday last, a goodly number of Masons, of this town, followed the mortal  remains of  two departed  brothers—Adams and Bridges--to  the Masonic Cemetery, and  there deposited them in their houses of clay.  The ceremony at  the grave was very impressive. The deceased brothers, were murdered by the Indian, near the lower Agua Pria, 3 years ago, and their bones remained there, in rude graves, until recently taken up by members of Aatlan Lodge.
While upon this sad subject, we cannot  help relating a circumstance that happened sometime in 1867; Mr. Adams, ourself and several others, had been out  from Prescott nearly a month, prospecting, and, one day, encamped upon New
River, when Mr. Adams went  out alone to hunt. He had not gone far from camp, when he perceived three Indians, walking slowly ahead of him.  He raised his rifle, and would have shot one of them had it not been that a flock of quail flew out of the brush, and alarmed the savages, who fell upon  the ground, tumbled and ran so that Adams was unable to get a sight upon any of them. Shortly after this occurrence, our party re-crossed  the Agua Prlo, proceeded  to Black Canyon, where a  few of us went to placer mining.
We hadn't been long on ths creek, when Indians—Apache-Mohaves and Apache-Yumas—came in, professing to be friendly. Among them were those with whom Adams had the adventure. Poor Adams came to us, and In the gravest
manner possible, informed us that he had watched their actions and countenances, and had arrived at the conclusion that they would one day murder him.
This he firmly believed, and we now believe that it was the same trio of desperadoes that killed him and Bridges. Adams was not a coward, yet the feeling that he was to be killed by these savages was uppermost in his mind ever after.
 
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Probate Court of Yavapal County - Docket No.   19.
The  Arizona Miner, Prescott,   July 27, 1867, 1;6
November 5, 1870 2;1
Samuel Adams (Steamboat Adams)
Adams, Samuel (Steamboat Adams), born in Beaver, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1828; son of Dr. Mile and Cynthia (Darragh) Adams; his great grandfather was Captain Benjamin Adams who served with Massachusetts troops in the Revolutionary War and on his mother's side, was a descendant of John Hart a signer of the Declaration of Independence; the following outline of his life was printed in the Beaver Evening Tribune the time of his death on May 15 1915. Samuel Adams, aged 87, oldest member of the Beaver County bar died at the Providence Hospital, Beaver Falls, at an early hour this morning.
Mr. Adams was educated at the old Beaver Academy. He studied law and practiced for a few years in Des Moines, Iowa. On June 8, 1853, he was admitted to the beaver County Bar and after practicing here for a short time he spent a number of years exploring the Colorado River, being sent unofficially by  Secretary Stanton who died before Mr. Adams returned, and his claim from the government was never adjusted.
For a short time he was employed in one of the Government Departments at Washington, resigning to stump the County Horace Greeley in 1872. He then engaged in the coal business in Somerset County Pa., and later devoted much time to the invention and perfection of the Portable Oil Driller, but owing to encroachment upon his patents he failed to reap any reward from his efforts.
Several years ago he had a fall which has confined him to his room ever since.
He came to Arizona in 1863 and was at Prescott when the Territorial  Census was taken in April of the following year; gave his occupation as Lawyer, single, resident in the Territory 9 months, property valued $1,000; was a candidate for Delegate  to Congress at the election held on July 18, 1864, but received only 31 votes, again ran for congress and on September 5, 1866, accumulated 168 votes; his third attempt to become Delegate reduced the number to 32 at the election held on  November 10, 1868, when a total of 2105 votes were cast, another Arizona record of his activities in the following Concurrent Resolution adopted by the 24 Territorial Legislature in December 1865.
Resolved by the House of Representatives, (the council concurring), That the thanks of this legislature are due and hereby tendered to Hon. Samuel Adams and Captain Thomas Trueworthy for their untiring energy and indomitable enterprise as displayed by them in opening up the navigation of the Colorado River, the great natural thoroughfare of Arizona and Utah territories.
He went to Washington, DC and on March 20, 1867, addressed a long letter to E.H. Stanton, the Secretary of War, from which  the following parts are quoted;
I take the liberty in this communication to call your attention to a few facts in reference to the great commercial importance of the Colorado of the West as being the central route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In the individual and different enterprises of demonstrating that it was capable of being ascended with steamers for over 620 miles from the mouth, I have, in connection with Captain Trueworthy, been engaged for the last three years. in the spring of 1864, I descended the river 350 miles on a small raft, everywhere seeing the most unmistakenable evidence that this natural thoroughfare had been misrepresented by published reports, as well as by the exaggerated statements of those who professed to be familiar with the rapids, canons, &c, of the same. I made my representations to Captain Trueworthy, of San Francisco, who consented to come to the Colorado for the purpose of relieving the mining community of the imposition which was practiced upon them, as well as upon the government, by the only steam navigation company on the river, which for over ten years had monopolized the entire trade of the Colorado for 300 miles from the Gulf.  By the opening up of the Colorado River the Government has already saved thousands of dollars in the transportation of  military stores, and a fresh impetus is given to the resources of Arizona. three years since two steamers could do the trade; now eight are employed, and unable to do the business. thirty-seven ships and one ocean steamer have gone to the mouth of the River within six months, while the trade of San Francisco has  increased within the same time over one million and a half. these are but a few of the results following the enterprise of navigating the Colorado.
Based upon his assertion that Secretary Stanton had authorized him to undertake a furthur exploration of the upper Colorado river on November 1, 1869, he made a lengthy report to W.W. Belknap, the then Secretary Of War on the
resources of the Colorado Basin and included a dairy of an expedition consisting of 11 men and 4 boats which left  Breckinridge, Summit County, Colorado on July 12, 1869, and ended on August 14 when the last of their equipment was  lost in Grand River; seeking compensation for what he had done he submitted a claim to Congress for $20,000, on March 23, 1870, which estimated the expense of his travels and explorations and included his own "services and expense for 5
years at $3,000. per annual, $16,500."
The committee on Claims of the House of Representatives recommended that he be paid $3,790 and in a report made on May 20, 1878, stated;
That the claimant for many years, dating back to 1864, had been engaged in exploring the Colorado River and the region of country adjacent thereto. The importance of this river to navigation, and its adjacent mineral and timber resources were such, in the estimation of the Secretary of War, at to induce him to direct the claimant to return to the Pacific coast of California to accompany boats to said river, and ascend It on a tour of inspection and exploration.
Among the more prominent results a of these explorations and observations may be mentioned the following. The discovery of a new, safe, and fresh-water harbor, below the mouth of the Colorado, named Victoria Bay, now known as "Isabella Harbor"; demonstrating the navigability of the Colorado River to Callville, a distance of six hundred and twenty miles, a point far beyond where the United States engineers reported the river susceptible of navigation, thus stimulating the commerce of the river and giving access to the rich mines of coal, copper, gold and silver lying beyond establishing the feasibility of a railroad route for four hundred miles from Salt Lake City to the head of navigation, and giving an uninterrupted route to the Pacific Ocean without crossing the Sierra Nevada Mountains; the discovery of valuable timber suitable for various mechanical and domestic uses; the discovery of the greatest fall in the Colorado, the extent of its valleys, and the location of its agricultural  lands; points of mineral wealth and evidences of extinct and existing types of advanced civilization.
Senator Cockrell of Missouri en January 11, 1877, for the senate Committee on Claims, submitted an adverse report on the bill for his relief which had passed the House of Representatives, stating that whatever services he may have rendered were without any authority of law; the report contains his affidavit which in part states that;
During the year 1863, I was engaged in Mining operations at La Pas, on tho Colorado River, went about 300 miles up from the mouth, and while so engaged I acquired a considerable knowledge of that region of the country and of its mineral resources, and thus became aware of the necessities of it, and the difficulties of developing such resources.   One of these difficulties was the existence of a powerful combination known as the Combination Navigation Company, then monopolizing the navigation and trade of the Colorado River from its mouth up to Fort Yuma, a distance of 140 miles, and to La Pas, a distance of 300 miles.
Early in 1864, as had been the case for ten years before, this company held the monopoly of transporting  *OS** and supplies for our Army up that river to Fort Yuma and Fort Mohave, and stores and supplies, tools and Implements, for some twenty-five hundred miners engaged immediately upon the river. It therefore, began to cast about for a remedy, and early in 1864, I went to San Francisco, where, after a time, I succeeded In inducing Capt, T.E. Trueworthy to take his steamboat Esmeralda and eight schooners around to tho mouth of the Colorado, and commenced navigating it, with the view of exploring it more thoroughly and up to the higher points.   Captain Trueworthy was the principal owner, of the boat, which had been engaged in the navigation of the Sacramento River. His object was to  build up a business for himself and partners where there was a large field for operation, and where profits would be probably
very great, while my immediate object was to effect the exploration of the river, and raise the blockade by which this monstrous monopoly held the mining interest, but an ulterior object I had in view was the obtaining of aid of the General Government and the employment of myself in making explorations of the river, even to its headwaters, believing that I would find vast mineral wealth, at well as fertile lands enough for the population of several large states. We, therefore, agreed to cooperate together, and that while he sought to earn freight and build up a trade on the Colorado, I should make my surveys and soundings, and assist him in protecting his boat and ourselves from the hostile measures and machinations of the great monopoly.


Sources
Senate Misc. Document 17, 41st  Congress, 24 session, 1870.
House Misc. Document 12, 41st Congress, 2d session, 1870.
House Misc. Document 37, 42nd Congress. 1st session, 1870.
Senate Report 662 (s. 534) 43d Congress, 3d session, 1875.
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WEAVER, BENJAMIN HENRY,
born at Palmyra, Lenawee County, Michigan, March 17, 1837; son of Howard and Phoebe (Crandall) Weaver; married Caroline E., daughter of Vamey A. Stephens at Prescott, AZ., July 8, 1869; children, Benjamin Varney, Cora Elizabeth (Mrs. Anthony A. Johns), Georgia Myrtle (Mrs. John M, Aitken), Josephine Edith (Mrs. Rudolph Baehr) and Pearl Ivy (Mrs. J. E. Wilson) Joseph Everett Wilson

Apprenticed to the printer's trade, age 14, and worked for 5 years with the Hillsdale, Mich., Standard and a year on the Adrian Watchtower; engaged in farming in Michigan and Illinois, 1856-58; left for Pikes Peak, Colorado, in March, 1859, and continued on to California, arriving in August; was at Virginia City, Nevada, for some time in 1860.

Engaged as civilian employee at Benecia Barracks and reported at Wilmington, near San Pedro, as Teamster at $35 per month; January 1, 1862; left for Fort Yuma in April and arrived at Tucson with the California Column in June; went to Mesilla, on the Rio Grande, in October and later to El Paso; returned to Tucson in March, 1863, and arrived at Wilmington, April 19; promoted to $50per month May 1; promoted  December 8, to Express Rider at $75 and carried dispatches to and from Fort Yuma; promoted to $100 per month June 1, 1864; discharged from the Quartermaster Service at Wilmington, Calif., September 20, 1864; employed as printer on the Wilmington Journal for about a year.

Came to Prescott, AZ., in the fall of 1865 to work as printer on the Arizona Miner; late in 1866 he settled on a farm, in Chino Valley; engaged in freighting with teams between Prescott and Fort Mohave and Prescott and Ehrenberg, 1867-69, during which
time he had several narrow escapes from attacks by hostile Apaches; served as Public Administrator (Coroner) of Yavapai County, 1871-72, and had the property of five murdered men to care for when he assumed office.

With John H. Marion purchased the Arizona Miner.in 1870 and helped to publish it until 1874; among his most treasured possessions were the files of the Miner for that period of which he said:

"That newspaper stunt of mine was considered as glorious in its day, and I got as much pleasure out of it as the people did who compelled me to put the forms on the press and grind out a second edition."

The following is quoted from his obituary in the Prescott Courier:

"When the writer came to Prescott in 1879, he was running a general merchandise business in his own building located almost opposite where the Sherman House now stands.   He called it the "Ready Pay" store. He ran this business for a number of years, started the transfer business afterwards, in which business he was engaged when he passed away."

"He was a most honorable and industrious man with strong convictions as to the right and An equal determination to stand by those convictions. He was not a man who would stand silent and hear one of his fellow citizens slandered or villified, but would promptly speak up and defend the absent one, whether a personal friend or not.  This is a rare quality, and one showing a peculiar nobility of mind, he was a charter member of the Prescott I. 0 0. F. Lodge, the mother lodge of that order in Arizona."

At the time of his death the Journal Miner said of him;

"Benjamin H. Weaver, worthy pioneer, exemplary citizen and good man, has gone over the Hassayampa range, into eternity. Of the passing of this pioneer there is much to say in commendation and nothing whatever which can reflect on the past life of this splendid man."

"Merchandising, mining, and the express business, in addition to his newspaper career, have been his pursuits and he was in active harness steadily until only a few weeks ago, rounding out one of the most eventful and useful lives of any man who ever lived in Arizona."

"The passing of Mr. Weaver brings sharply to mind the need of a concerted effort to collect and preserve the lore of his day. Within a few years there will be none whose memory reaches back to those pioneer days. The history of Arizona and its previous relics should be kept, died at Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona, February 5, 1920, aged 83; buried 1. 0 0. F. Cemetery, Prescott."


SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Chapman Pub, Co. - Portrait- and Biographical Record of Arizona, Chicago, 1901, pp. 637-689, (Portraits of himself and wife).
Farish, T.E. - History of Arizona, Vol, 4, pp. 23, 261.
McClintock, J.H. - Arizona, The Youngest State, p. 189.
Hinton, R.H.  Handbook to Arizona, S.F., 1878, appendix p. 5.
Disturnell, W. C. - Arizona Gazetteer, S. F., 1878, p. 165.
Probate Court of Yavapai County - docket No. 1638.
The Quartermaster General - Archives and Claims records.
The Journal-Miner,  Prescott, February 6 & 7, 1920 (obituary).
The Prescptt Courier. February 7, 1920 (obituary).
The Arizona miner, Prescott, November 22, p. 3, col. 5; and December 6, 1878, p. 3. col.2
Fish Joseph - History of Arizona, Manuscript, pp. 418, 432, 476

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GOODWIN, JOHN NOBLE, born, at South Berwick, York County, Maine, October 18, 1824; son of John and Mary (Noble) Goodwin; married, Susan Howard Robinson, daughter of  George and Alveria (Emery) Robinson, at Augusta, Maine, October 27, 1857, children, Richard Emery, Howard Robinson, and Susan Robinson (Mrs. Lewis Curtis Taylor).

Attended the public schools and the Academy at Berwick; graduated at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1844, and then returned home to read law in the office of John Hubbard; admitted to the bar in 1848; member from York County, Maine State senate, 1654; appointed special commissioner to revise the laws of Maine, 1855.

Elected as a Republican from Maine to the 37th Congress, and served from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863, but was defeated by a Democrat for re-election in 1862 by only 127 votes; on the recommendation of James G. Blaine he was appointed by President Lincoln as Chief Justice of the United States Court for the Territory of Arizona, March 6, 1863; on August 21, he was given a recess appointment as Governor of Arizona by the President in place of John A. Gurley, deceased; his appointment as Governor was confirmed by the Senate, February 2, 1864.

Left New York City for Cincinnati and the far West in August 27, 1863; accompanied by a military escort he departed from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with other Territorial officials September 25, and traveled via Forts, Riley, Larnod, Lyon and Union, arriving in Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 14; here he decided, on the advice of General J. H. Carleton, to establish the Territorial Government near the new gold discoveries in northern Arizona rather than at Tucson; the party left Santa Fe November 26, Albuquerque, December 8, Fort Wingate, December 20 and crossed the 109th Meridian into Arizona, December 27; the Government of the Territory of Arizona was formally organized
at Navajo Springs on Tuesday, December 29, 1863, by a proclamation which he issued; Fort Whipple, in the Little Chino Valley, which he had designated as the seat of government, was reached on January 22, 1864.

On February 25 he gave instructions to M. B. Duffield, the United States Marshal, to take a census of the white population as a basis for representation in the Legislature and, on April 9, issued a proclamation dividing the Territory into 3 Judicial Districts; he first visited the nearby placer mining districts and then, with a military escort, toured the Verde and Salt River valleys during the course of which an Apache rancheria was surprised by the troops when 5 Indians were killed and 2 wounded; in April he began a tour of the Territory stopping at La Paz, Arizona City (Yuma) and thence to Tucson where on May 11, 1864, by proclamation, he established a municipality and appointed W. S. Oury, as Mayor, and 5 Councilors; he returned to Fort Whipple, which had been moved 22 miles south during his absence to a new location on the east bank of Granite Creek, where he issued a proclamation, on May 26, directing that an election be held on Monday, July 18, to choose a Delegate to Congress and members of the Legislature; he then made the new town of Prescott, established on May 30, the seat of government.

In June, 1864, he made a second visit to southern Arizona and went with General John S. Mason to Fort Bowie, and thence to Fort Goodwin which had just been established on the Gila River; on August 20 he proclaimed the election of C. D. Poston as Delegate to Congress, named those who had been elected to the Legislature and directed them to assemble at Prescott on September 26, 1864; in a message delivered before a joint session of the 1st. Legislative Assembly at 3 P.M. on September 30, Governor Goodwin said in part:
    "We are here clothed with the power to make laws which may forever change the destiny of the territory, to-lay the foundations of a new State, and to build a new commonwealth.   We are en-trusted not only with the present interests of
a small constituency and amendable to them alone, but we are the trustees of posterity and responsible  to the millions who in all time shall Come after us    

Where the foot of the Anglo-Saxon is once firmly planted, he stands secure, and before the change of his labor the Indian and the antelope disappear together. The tide of our civilization has no refluent wave but rolls steadily on over ocean and continent.
Hereafter, when the trials of the hour are forgotten, we may boast that in the performance of our duties, in the day of peril, when dangers encircled our path, we followed the flag of the Republic to the most remote region of its domain; that under its folds we established the principles for which it has waved in the battle and storm, and that by our efforts another has been added to the Commonwealth of States.

After praising the Pima, Papago and Maricopa Indians as well tried and faithful allies, the Governor said in his message:

 On the other hand, to the Apache has been transmitted for a century an inheritance of hate and hostility to the white man. He is a murderer by hereditary descent—a thief by prescription.   He and his ancestors have subsisted on the stock they have stolen and the trains they have plundered. They have exhausted the ingenuity of fiends to invent more excruciating tortures for the unfortunate prisoners they may take, so that the traveler acquainted with their warfare, surprised and unable to escape, reserves the last shot in his revolver for his own head.

When the troops were removed from this territory at the commencement of the rebellion, it was nearly depopulated by their murders. They have made southern Arizona and northern Mexico a  wilderness and a desolation.   But for them mines
would be worked, innumerable sheep and cattle would cover these plains, and some of the bravest and most energetic men that were ever the pioneers of a new country, and who now fill bloody and unmarked graves would be living to see their brightest anticipations realized.

It is useless to speculate on the origin of this feeling--or inquire which party was in the right or wrong.    It is enough to know that it is relentless and unchangeable. They respect no flag of truce, ask and give no quarter, and make a treaty only that, under the guise of friendship, they may rob and steal more extensively and with greater impunity. As to them one policy only can be adopted. A war must be prosecuted until they are compelled to submit and go upon a reservation.

Elected Delegate to Congress from Arizona Territory in 1664, receiving 707 votes to 381 for Joseph P. Allyn and 206 for Charles. D.. Poston; served in the 39th Congress from March. 4, to March 3, 1867; was not a candidate for re-election but established a law office in New York City where, among other clients, he represented the northern pacific Railroad Company.

Went to Paraiso Springs, Monterey County, California to seek relief from the gout where he died on April 29, 1687, aged 62; buried. Forest Grove Cemetery, Augusta, Maine.

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OSBORN, JOHN PRESTON, born in Claiborne County, Tennessee, March 26, 1815; son of John and Elizabeth (Flannery) Osborn, both natives of Virginia; married, Perlina Elizabeth Swetnam (1821-1912), daughter of Neri Swetnam, in Lawrence County, Kentucky, March 25, 1841; children, William Lewis (1842-1927); John Wesley (1854-1931); Neri Ficklin (1856-1943); David Ezra, Elisabeth M., Emma, Jeanette J. (Mrs. Thomas Barnum), Louisa A. (Mrs. John T. Alsap), Paulina Rebecca (Mrs. Joseph B. Cramer) and Rose G. (Mrs. Lucius D. Copeland).

He attended school in Virginia and than settled in eastern Kentucky where he was a merchant: moved with his family to Adams County in southwest Iowa about 1852 and went from there in the Spring of 1863 to Colorado Springs, Colorado; joined a party of emigrants which traveled via Santa Fe to northern Arizona arriving in Prescott, July 6, 1864, with 3 ox teams and wagons and some fine Durham cattle; according to Varney A. Stephens he built one of the first hotels in Prescott

The Osborn House stood partly on the ground now (1900) occupied by Wallace's saloon, on Granite Street.   The hotel was a two story frame structure and by no means a pretentious affair. Dressed lumber was worth $60 a thousand and nails 50 cents a pound in those days.  The best hotel fare to be had was pork and beans, with coffee and bread. These meals cost  $1 each. Mr. Stephens said that Osborn was one of the most  industrious men he ever knew.

In January, 1878, the Prescott Enterprise stated:

Mr. J. P. Osborn, who boarded the members of the First Arizona Legislature, survived that embarrassment and is still alive and good natured.

In addition to his hotel in Prescott he began to cultivate a tract of land north of Prescott afterwards known as the Banghart place; In a depredation claim filed in 1890 against the United States and the Apache Indians he stated that he had suffered the following losses:

In March, 1865, the Indians scattered his stock herd on Willow Creek, about 4 miles north, of Prescott, and got away with 8 milk cows and a horse each worth $100.

Soon afterwards he moved most of his herd to the Verde Valley where hie son, William L. Osborn had a farm below the present site of Camp Verde the Indians raided the valley in  June, 1865, and drove off 30 head of cattle, 12 of which belonged to him, one being a fine Durham bull worth $500 which he brought from Colorado.

In 1866, he built a house In Chino Valley with lumber that cost $100 per thousand;he went to San Bernardino, California, that year to place his children in school and to buy a load of provisions but when he returned he was told by hie neighbors that the Indians had burned the house which was worth $1,000.

In 1867, a horse for which he paid $100 was being herded between Prescott and Fort Whipple by Amasa 0.Punn when the Indians killed Dunn's herder, stampeded and stole the whole herd

That same year he began farming on the Agua Fria River southeast of Prescott, and in the spring of 1868 the Indians stole a horse which had been turned out to graze for which he had paid

$80; he grew 60 acres of fine corn but when It ripened, the Apaches came on different nights and stole large amounts of it,  corn was then selling at 4 to 6 cents a pound and the quantity that they took was worth at least $1,100.

In the fall of 1869, members of hie family being sick, he had to move them to Prescott and he rented the place to George Hamlin, furnishing seed, feed, plows, etc.; in the winter of 1869-70 a band of Apache-Mohaves set fire to the house about daybreak and tried to kill the man who was inside but he got away the barn was locked but they burned it destroying 3 horses in the stalls and about 10 tons of cribbed com; the house that was destroyed cost about $1,000;  the barn and stored corn were valued at $600 and the loss of farming Implements and furniture amounted to $400; the following items were printed in the  Prescott Arizona Miner

October 9, 1869 -- "J. P. Osborn and family got to town from their ranch on the lower Agua Fria, Friday evening last, suffering with fever and ague, which will not stay with them long in this piney country."

January 22, 1870 - - "J. P. Osborn and family threaten to migrate to Salt River"

January 29, 1870 - - "J. P. Osborn and family started Monday last (January 24) for Phoenix Salt River."

Soon after his arrival in the Salt River Valley he settled in the H.W. 1/4 Section 4, 1 North, 3 East, and upon a cash payment of $1.25 per acre obtained a patent to the 160 acres on April 10, 1874;  the home that he built in 1871 was located at what  is now 710 East McDowell Road; as a member of the Salt River Valley Town Association he took a leading part in the  selection of the Phoenix townsite and assisted in surveying it;  was a member of the first Board of Trustee of the Phoenix  School District organized in 1871; served from June 4, 1874, to May 18, 1875, as Chairman of the Phoenix Townsite  Commission which determined the ownership and fixed a value upon all lots sold.

Died at Phoenix, Maricopa County, A.T., January 20, 1900, aged 84; buried, A.O.U.W. Section, old City (Pioneers) Cemetery, Phoenix

SOURCES OF INFORMATION
McClintock, J.H. - Arizona, The Youngest State, Chicago, 1916, Vol. 3, pp. 426-427 (Neri Osborn)
Chapman Co. Portrait & Biographical Record of Arizona, Chicago, 1901, p 172 (Alsap)
Sloan, R.E. & Adam W, - History of Arizona, Phoenix, 1930, Vol. 3, p. 175* (Neri Osborn).
Farish, T.E.  History of Arizona, Phoenix, 1915-18, Vol. 3, p. 211; Vol. 4, pp. 268-269) Vol. 6, p. 95, 181.
Barnes, W.C.  Arizona Place Names, Tucson, 1955, p. 311.
U.S. Court of Claims - Indian Depredation Docket No. 1052.
The Arizona Gazette, Phoenix, January 20, 1900, 8.2 (obituary), February 24, and March 10, 1941.
The Arizona Republican. Phoenix, January 22, 1900, 5 2 (funeral); December 4, 1912, 8j2 (death of hie wife).
The Phoenix Herald. March 26, 1891, January 20, 1900, 1:6  (obituary).
The Arizona Republic. Phoenix, April 7, 1940, 4:2.-5 (Neri Osborn).
The Arizona Bulletin, Solomonville, February 2, 1900, 1:1 (reprint from the Prescott; Courier)
The Arizona Enterprise, Prescott, January 19, 1378, 1-3.
The Arizona Miner. Prescott. October 9, 1869, January 22 and January 29, 1870.
October 8, 4:3 and October  20,  1866, .2:1 :  April 17, 3;2 and October 23, 1868, 3
August 10, 3:3 and November 30, 1872, 1:4; April 9, 1875, 2:3
August 10, 3:3 and November 30, 1872, l:4; April 9, 1875, 2:3
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RAIBLE, JOHN
Born at Truchtelfiner Kingman Wurtenburg, Germany august 30, 1833 Married, Wilhelmine Worth at New York City on October 6, 1873 who was born in Baden, Germany, about 1847. Children, Charles M. Inez . (Mrs. Robert Mallost Fletcher) and Augusta (Mrs. Edward Hussey Knight). 3 died in infancy Listed, Territorial Census, 3d District, (Yavapai County), April, 1864, age 30, resident in Arizona 1 month, occupation - Carpenter, property valued at $250; the following is taken from the manuscript of a history of Arizona Written by Joseph Fish of Snowflake;

The first Government contract was that published in the Arizona Miner; in June, 1864, calling for proposals for the building  of what has long been called the "Old Gubernatorial Mansion".   The contract was awarded to Messera. Samuel E. Blair, Daniel Hatz, and John Raible. Materials that had to be imported were high, nails costing $1.75  per pound and other things in proportion. Armed guards had to be furnished to protect the workmen from the Indians.   The consequences were the contractors went behind $1,500.   In this old building the machinery of Arizona's government was first oiled and set in motion.

The Arizona Miner first printed on October 5, 1867, a display advertisement the text of which was: Pacific Brewery, Montezuma Street, Prescott. John Raible & Phillip Sheerer, proprietors.   As we brew our own beer, and take great pains to make it O.K., lovers of that healthy and strengthening beverage will do well by calling upon us and taking some of our medicine. Good lager beer, liquors and cigars, always on hand.

Listed, U. S. Census, 1870, at Prescott, age 36, occupation - Brewer, property valued at $1,500 nominated at the "People's Convention" held in Prescott October 28, 1870, as a candidate for member of the County Board of Supervisors was Inspector at the election held on January 14, 1875, when the Town of Prescott was incorporated and was elected a member of the first Town Council re-elected and served  until January 20, 1877 again served as Town Councilman, 1881-83,

The following references to him appeared in the Prescott Courier:
Maroh 11, 1882 - - John Raible has a large force making beer for everybody at his Pacific Brewery

March 22, 1884 - - Levi Bashford, Ed W. Wells, Hugo Richards, John G. Campbell, Jas. M. Baker, W. W. Hutchinson, Judge French and John Raible are, we believe, the richest men in Prescott.   All save Judge French leathered their riches here.

August 23, 1889 - - John Raible is one of the very few Arizona pioneers who is troubled with gout.

June 22,  1899 - - John Raible came to Prescott in 1864 and in all the years of his residence, his reputation has been that of a most honorable an and exemplary citizen.   He, in company with Dan Hatz, built the Fleury log house in west Prescott, the first Territorial capitol building.

He was one of the pioneer brewers of Prescott, and before the advent of railroads did a wholesale business in that line.   He showed his abiding faith in Prescott by making investments in Prescott real estate and never lost faith in the future greatness of the town he labored so many years to build up.

At the time of his death the Prescott Journal Miner printed the following:

"Deceased was 64 years of age.   He came to Arizona in 1864, and has resided here ever since. During the above year, he and Dan Hatz were the contractors who built the executive mansion in West Prescott. In 1873 he returned to New York for a visit where he was married, returning to Prescott with his bride.

"He was an exemplary citizen and occupied various positions of trust.   He was noted particularly for the honor and respect paid to families of deceased persons in the community as few funerals ever occurred at which he  was not present."

Died at Prescott, Yavapai County, A. Z., June 21, 1899; buried Citizen's Cemetery Prescott Arizona

SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Fish, Joseph - History of Arizona, Manuscript, p. 377
McClintock, J.W. - Arizona, The Youngest State, 1916, p. 521
Disturnell, Arizona Gazetteer, S.F., 1881, pp. 161, 164
Probate Court of Yavapai County, Docket No. 509
The Arizona Republican. Phoenix, June 24, 1899, 4:5 (obituary)
The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, April 15, 1936, sec. 2, 6:6
The Arizona Enterprise. Prescott, May 8, 2:1 and 4:2, July 20, 1870 3:1
The Arizona Miner, Prescott, October 24, 1868, 3:5  October 29, 1870,
4:1 February 17, 3: 1 December 14. 1872. 3:1 January 8, 3:2
and January 22, 1875, 2:2; August 10, 3:2 and 4:3, September 28, 1877, 3:3
The Prescott Courier, March 11, 4:2, April 29, 3:2, September 2, 1882,
3:1; September 8, 1883, 3:8  March 22, 3:2, May 24, 1884, 4:5
June 15, 1886, 3:1  August 23, 1889, 3:8; August 2, 1890, 4:1
June 22, 1899 3:3 (obituary); October 14, 1908, 1:2 (marriage of daughter).
The Journal Miner. Prescott, July 29, 1886, 3:2; October 13, 1887, 3:8;
June 21, 4:3; .June 22, 1899, 4:2 (Obituary and funeral)
LEIB, CHARLES, "born at Pennsylvania, ____18 (about 1826) Son of____and_____ Married Mary Catherine Smith, who was born near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania about 1828 and who, after his death, married Hezekiah Brooks of Prescott, A.Z.

Was a resident of Illinois and a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, who, as President, gave him a recess appointment on May 21, 1861, as 1st Lieutenant, 11th U.S. Infantry and as Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, which he accepted on the following day; his nominations for these appointments were rejected by the Senate on August 5; President Lincoln renewed both appointments on August 30 and he continued to serve in the Army until February 19, 1862 when the nominations were rejected by the Senate; was in charge of the Quartermaster Depot at Clarksburg, Department of Western Virginia, cluing the period of his military service; no record has been found of shortage in his accounts or of failure to make reports.

Upon leaving the Army he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he published a book entitled Nine Months in the Quartermaster's Department or the Chances for Making a Million in which he states that his nominations were) not confirmed by the Senate through the influence of a Senator from his own State for political reasons; went to New Mexico in 1862 where he founded the weekly Santa Fe New Mexican on January 3,1863 and became public printer.

Appointed by General James H, Carleton under Contract at Santa Fe as Acting Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army, on August 1, 1868; named in General Orders No, 24, Department of New Mexico, October 23, 1863, and directed to proceed to Fort  Whipple in the newly created Military District, of Northern Arizona with troops under command, of Major Edward B. Willis as escort for Governor Goodwin and other officials of the Territory of Arizona; he must have gotten into some trouble because his contract at Fort Whipple was cancelled on March 31, 1864; this is further indicated by the following passage in a letter written to General Carleton by Major Nelson II. Davis, the Inspector General, at Tucson on April 4:

The case of Dr. Leib was such an aggravated one, I acted upon it before your instructions in regard to him were received,

Listed, Territorial Census, April 1864, at Fort Whipple, A.Z., age 38, born in Pennsylvania, occupation  Physician, resident in Arizona five months, property valued at $1000; Union Candidate for Delegate to Congress at the first Territorial election held on July 18, 1864, receiving 236 votes to 514 for G.D. Poston; owned the Bonito, Washburn, Little Giant and Bullie Bueno mining claims and, an interest in the Burro, Cadiz and Arizona, quartz leads in Yavapai County at the time of his  death.

Died at Prescott, Yavapai County, A.Z., January 21, 1865, aged 39; buried Masonic Cemetery, at Prescott.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Heitman, F. B. - Historical Register, U.S.. Army, 1900, p. 408,
Farish, T.E. History of Arizona, Vol, 3, p. 88.
Tuttle, E. D. - Arizona Historical Review, April, 1928, pp. 52,58,59.
Lockwood, F. C. - The Apache Indians, p. 148,
Records of the Rebellion, Series 1, Vol. 34,
Adjutant General of the Army - Military service records.
Executive Journal, United States Senate 1861-1862,
Probate Court of Yavapai County, A.T. - Docket No. 6,
Fish, Joseph - History of Arizona, Manuscript, pp. 360,361,376.









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