ARNABA, CANDIDO P. A. (  Dr.    )
Father Figueroa's   M.S. , p.53.
Doctor C. Arnaba (sic) came also looking for the sunny climate and dry atmosphere during the first  year of the foundation of the town, met some of his friends from San Diego and encouraged him to remain and practice the medicine among  them and some other families. He accepted the invitation and gave himself to be known, and the people was glad to have him. After many years  of resident  in Yuma, died at the age of seventy.
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Outside of the commissary on the west of it and also near the  river was the residence of Mrs. Captain Polhamus and next to it the residence of Doctor C. Arnaba, situated very near the bank of the river.  Doctor G. Arnaba was  a native  of  Spain, very illustrated man specially  in medicine. Lived in Yuma since the foundation until he passed away  in 1875, Mrs. Captain Mellon's residence was next to the Doctor's,
The Yuma Daily  Sun and  Yuma Arizona Sentinel,  4/ 1/ 37,   (Clipping.   )
LIST YUMA PHYSICIANS OF PAST  87  YEARS.
Editor's Note:— The following interesting article was prepared for the Sun by Dr. R. R. Knotts, Yuma's oldest physician in point of residence. (Photograph of Candido P. A. Anarbar (sic) M. D.,on first
(The item is continued  from the first page to page five.) Page  5,  col.  3,5.
First  to Practice,
The first doctor to establish a practice in Yuma, and no doubt should be considered the beginning of  the medical  fraternity here, was Candldo P. A. Arnabar, M. D. Born Sept. 4, 1823, in Madrid Spain, graduate of the Madrid university and medical college, with extensive  courses  in  Paris and Vienna, he came to America when a young man, establishing a practice in Philadelphia. He later moved to San Francisco, thence to San Diego, and, finally, to Yuma (1861) where he began the practice of medicine which  continued  until his death, March 29, 1877.We have here his picture (printed herewith), and should, perhaps, term him the father of Yuma physicians, he is buried in
the Redondo lot at the Yuma cemetery.

ARNOLD, VALES, born at Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, April  6, 1837; son of George Washington  and Sarah Ann (Wales) Arnold; married Mrs. Sarah Jane  (Ramsey) Wells (1846-1909) at  Prescott, A.T. October 24, 1869.
Enrolled, age 24,  at  La Porte, Plumes County, California, August 16 and mustered in August 30,1861, at  Camp Downey, near Oakland, to serve 3 years as Private, company F, 1st California Infantry; occupation when enlisted, Carpenter; went with the Company to Southern California and warn promoted to Corporal in October; arrived at Fort Yuma in December and left  there on May 15, 1862; was  on detached service at Gila Bend  for some weeks  and  arrived at Tucson June 27; resumed the march  to the Rio Grande on July 23 arriving at Mesilla on August 15, 1662; stationed at Fort Craig, N.M. for a year; marched via Fort Wingate, N.M. to Fort Whipple, A.T., arriving in December, 1863, where he was  honorably discharged On August 29, 1864.
Became a very early settler in the Verde Valley and was the first  to plant alfalfa there; listed, U.S. Census, 1870, at Rio Verde, occupation. Farmer; served as  Constable of  Verde Precinct, 1871-72 and is said to have acted as Scout for
General George  Crook in campaigns against the Apaches; appointed Justice of the Peace for Beaver creek Precinct, September 3, 1878; the Prescott Courier on May 3 1884, stated that "Wales Arnold has the best carp pond in the country at his home near the verde"; Comrade, Barrett poet No. 3, G.A.R. at Prescott, and at the time of his  death was  the oldest member in Arizona of  the Independent Order of  Odd Fellows; it was written of  him:
Arnold Vales
The passing of this soldier and upright citizen of the early days will be learned of with sorrow throughout the State, and especially  in this section where he had resided since 1863. He came of that old stock of New Englanders whose word
was as good as any man's bond.  Honorable in his dealings, industrious in habits, an exemplary citizen in all that term
implies, this man had won the affection of all. In 1910 he sold his homestead and moved to Prescott where he died on May 21, 1913, aged 76; his remains were taken to Canp Verde and buried beside his wife, in the Clear creek Cemetery (War Department Headstone).

Born May 3, 1878, near Carlock, Nevada, Harry Knight was two years old when a severe winter killed all his father's cattle, causing Knight. Sr.. to pack his family and effects into wagons and head for Arizona.
Arriving in Presentt in 1880, the family passed on to southern Arizona where the father freighted to Tombstone and other mines for several years.
In the mid-'80"s, Knight. Sr.. traded a team and wagon and $50 for 160 acres west of Phoenix. In 1890  wheat rust nearly broke him and he moved to the lower Gila and bought land under a new canal.
In '91 Harry began cowboying on the Agua Fria and in '98 started the Sunset brand on the Gila, where at one time he sold big steers in Yuma for $5 a head.
On the death of his father in '97 Harry moved the family to Phoenix.
Then for several years he rode the range and broke broncs for various outfits, during which period he won many riding and roping "tournaments."
In the late '90's and up to 1912 Harry rode and roped, off and on for nine years, with the famous Buffalo Bill Show.
In 1912 he and George Bixby, father of the Cattle Growers President, Steve Bixby. bought Mike Campbell's Three Links outfit at Walnut Grove, selling out in 1918.
In that year Harry and Edith Craven were married and Harry bought the Triangle HC at Camp Wood, which he operated until 1918. when he sold to Sam McElhaney. He was first president of the Yavapai Cattle Growers Association.
Returning to the Gila Valley he bought 560 acres of rich bottom land east of Yuma where with sons Robert and Dick, he now fattens cattle for the market.
Harry induced the Arizona Cattle Growers Association to hold its annual meeting at Yuma in February of 1955.
You'll know Harry when you see him. He's about nine feet tall and wears the biggest hat in the West, made especially for him by Stetsons.