Mariano Gonzales
1820 - 27 May 1893
bornSan Miguel, Sonora, Mexico
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BiographyFarmer.Came to Tempe c1874.
In 1867, political struggles in Sonora forced his family to abandon land and cattle there. In 1868, he moved up to Tucson with his wife, 3 daughters, and seven or eight brothers from Ures and San Miguel Horcasitas, Sonora. In 1874, he moved to
Tempe, where most of his brothers also settled. He worked for C. T. Hayden, and for the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company. The Gonzales brothers homesteaded lands along the Kirkland-McKinney Ditch, east of Tempe, and under the San Francisco Canal, west of Tempe. Mariano settled on land in section 16, apparently unaware that the section was reserved by law for school lands, and he could not perfect title to the land. By 1877, he had a 40-acre farm at 636 W. 1st Street.
He became a naturalized citizen in 1878.
BIO-Gonzales
Maricopa County Great Register, 1882
Tempe Old Settlers Book
Florence Catholic church, marriage register, 1870-1878
Federal census (Tempe), 1880, 1900
Juanita Gonzales Fellows ms., Arizona State Library
HPS-142; HPS-160
Tempe CD, 1892
Solliday, Journey to Rio Salado, pp. 39, 64, 70, 124
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