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Isaac Denver Holmesley
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Isaac Denver Holmesley

9 May 1870 - 12 Sep 1941
diedArizona, USA
bornSpringdale, Arkansas, USA
SchooltblData
BiographyArrived in Tempe in 1876.
Came to Arizona in 1875 from Arkansas with his parents and five brothers and sisters. The family spent a year in Prescott, then came to Tempe in November 1876. They homesteaded southeast of Tempe in 1877.
Farmer and dairy owner.
Worked as a miner in Prescott, Arizona, and at the Hayden Flour Mill, c1876.
Worked as a warehouse foreman for Alfred J. Peters & Co., c1905-1910
Tempe City Councilman, 1904-1906.
Owned SE4 SE4 section 22 (40 acres), in 1924.
BIO-Holmesley
OSB 81
TH-231; TH-311
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1880, 1900
Tempe CD, 1905-1914
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Person TypeIndividual