Jacobo Gonzales
ABT 1825
bornSan Miguel Horcasitas, Sonora, Mexico
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BiographyFarmer.Came to Tempe c1875.
When he came to Tempe in 1875, he had left lands in San Miguel Horcasitas, Sonora. He brought peach tree seedlings to establish an orchard in the Salt River Valley. After his widowed daughter married William Osborn, an Anglo sugar cane grower, Osborn and Gonzales boiled sugar cane into panocha (brown sugar cakes) and preserved peaches with molasses, which they marketed locally. Se also: Gonzales, Jacobo # 1945.
Maricopa County Great Register, 1882
Tempe Old Settlers Book
Florence Catholic church, marriage register, 1870-1878
Federal census, 1880, 1900
Juanita Gonzales Fellows ms., Arizona State Library
HPS-142
HPS-160
Solliday, Journey to Rio Salado, p. 39
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