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This
Biographical was written in 1916 By :
McClintock,
James H
Arizona
The Youngest State
EDWARD
CHARLES CONWAY
Edward
Charles Conway acquired his education in the public schools of Maine and when
he was fifteen years of age he went to Wisconsin, where for two years he
worked in the lumber camps. In 1868 he went to overland to California and
pushed north ward to Seattle, Washington , where he engaged in the lumber
business for two years. At the end of that time he went to the eastern part of
Oregon and there prospected and mined for gold for one year, going in 1870 to
Walla Walla, Washington. were he hauled the first logs for Wallula & Walla
Walla Railroad. In 1872 he went to Silver City, Idaho, and was for two years a
horse dealer in that locality , coming from there to Arizona in 1874.
His
first settlement in the territory was made in Prescott, where he engaged in
lumbering in the employ of Clark & Adam for two years, resigning at the
end of that time and removing to Globe, were for a short period he worked in a
number of mines near the city. He afterward went to the Silver King Mines and
in 1881 was a packer in the employ of the United States government, witnessing
during this period one of the great battles between the United States troops
and Geronimo . He afterward worked in the Silver King Mine until 1884 and in
that year turned his attention to cattle-raising and ranching on Tonto Creek.
His interests extended rapidly and steadily , his land holdings became greater
and his herds larger year by year until finally he became the owner of one of
the most important ranches in the locality and was accorded recognition as one
of the most successful stockmen in his part of the state. Recently he sold a
large pert of his herd and retired from active business life, retaining
,however, one hundred and sixty acres of patented land, well irrigated and
excellently improved. He makes his home thirty-five miles north of Roosevelt
dam , in the Greenback valley, and is there enjoying the rest and comfort
earned during the course of a long active and honorable life.
Edward
C Conway was married in 1888 to Miss Alice Harra, who was born in eastern
Oregon, a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. David H. Harra, the former of whom died
in 1907, while the latter now makes her home in Phoenix at the age of
eighty-one years. Mr. & Mrs. Conway became the parents of six children :
Edward, who was born in 1889 and is engaged in ranching in Gila county ; David
, at home ; Mary, the wife of Vogel, a Blacksmith of Gallup, New Mexico; and
Clara Belle, Georgia A. and William, all of whom were living at home. The two
oldest of this family received their business training in Lompton Collage at
Phoenix.
Mr.
Conway was a member of White Mountain Lodge, no 3,A.F. & A . M., and is a
democrat in his political beliefs. and it can readily be seen that his life
has been an honorable and useful one , characterized by a progressive business
activity that has resulted in bringing him a comfortable and well merited
competence. Moreover, he has borne his full share in the work of general
improvement and development since he took up his abode here , when this
section of frontier wilderness , giving little evidence of what the future had
in store for it . He is numbered among the men who believed in the territory
and in its possibilities-the wisdom of this belief being more clearly
evidenced as the years have gone by.
