Charles Henry Waterhouse
15 Oct 1861 - 13 Dec 1952
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornDecorah, Iowa, USA
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BiographyFarmer and agriculture financier.Came to Tempe in 1895.
Graduating from Decorah Institute (Iowa) in 1879, and taught school in Iowa for a year. He then
went to Nebraska, where he filed a claim on a homestead and taught in the district school during the winter months. He quit teaching and turned to farming and other interests. He settled in Tempe in 1895 and engaged in farming and dairying, as well as clearing and leveling land by contract. He worked for the Tempe Canal Company as a zanjero and superintendent, 1902-1905. He was Field Superintendent for the Southwest Sugar and Land Company (Glendale), 1906-1911.
He was one of the first farmers to grow long staple cotton when it was introduced in the valley as early as 1910. In 1912, he helped organize the Tempe Cotton Exchange and built a cotton gin. He served as the first president of the Exchange. In this same year, he called a meeting of the cotton growers of the entire valley to arrange for bringing in cotton pickers and distributing them among the growers. At this meeting, the Salt River Valley Cotton Growers Association was organized and Waterhouse was elected President, a title which he held 1912-1918. Salesman in 1926, -'28. In 1931 was salesman for Alemite Stewart Warner (Phoenix)
He was also President of the Arizona Cotton Growers Association c1915-1919. Was Superintendent of the Tempe Irrigating Canal in 1913. In February of 1918, he was hired by the Southwest Cotton Company, a subsidiary of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, as Superintendent of the 17,000-acre Litchfield Ranch. He returned to Tempe in August of 1923 and was employed by the H and H Motor Company of Phoenix as an automobile salesman. In 1931 he became a field man for the Valley Livestock Sales Company. In 1935 he began buying and shipping dairy cows to California, which he continued until January 1940.
Shareholder in the Tempe Irrigating Canal Co. in 1923.
Owned 69 acres in section 19, T. 1 N., R. 4 E., and 17 acres in section 19, T. 1 N., R.5 E., in 1924.
Lived in the Hermosa Tract, three miles south of Tempe, (c1895); at 607 Tyler (1914); at Litchfield Park, Arizona (c1918-1923); 205 E. 5th Street (1924, 1926, -'28, '30, '31); 1246 E. Lemon Street (c1925-1952); 205 E. 5th Street (1940, 1942).
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BIO-Waterhouse
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Charles H. Waterhouse obit, AR, 14 Dec 1952
OH-121, Jessie Waterhouse Fisk oral history
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
HPS-150; HPS-177
TH-231
Jessie Waterhouse Fisk Collection
Tempe CD, 1905-1919, '26, '30, '31
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1924, 1940
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
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