Charles Asher Corbell
1 Mar 1858 - 1941
bornLockhart, Texas, USA
diedArizona, USA
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BiographyOccupation: rancher.Came to Tempe from Texas in 1882.
He had worked on building a section of railway for Southern Pacific Railraod, then settled on a homesteaded on the north side of Baseline Road. He had a farm, and supplied mines with provisions, ore wagons, and dairy products for about six years. He left the Tempe area in the mid-1880s to raise cattle near Silver King, but returned to Tempe in
1887 and became one of the major land owners of the area. He located a dairy herd near the copper mines to the east and ran cattle above Devils Canyon between Mesa and Miami.
He went back to farming in 1930, raising alfalfa, grain, hay, hogs, and cattle. He kept a dairy herd over by Double Buttes.
Was a shareholder in the Tempe Irrigating Canal Co., 1923.
Owned S2 S2 and NW4 SE4 section 1,
T.1 S.,R.4 E. (200 acres), in 1924.
Lived on 6th Street in 1910; lived at 10th and Willow (College).
BIO-Corbell; BIO-Cosner
OSB 61; TH-231
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Tempe CD, 1911-1914
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1924, 1940
Person TypeIndividual
