Walker Wilson Jones
1826 - 7 Jan 1896
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornHampton, Virginia, USA
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BiographyPhysician; Rancher.Came to Tempe c1878.
Attended College of William and Mary, 1841-1843, and then the Baltimore Medical College.
He served as an army surgeon in Los Angeles, California. On 12 Jun 1855, he was elected to the legislature of Los Angeles County, and later served as the county recorder, clerk and coroner, while at the same time practicing medicine.
Came to Arizona in 1858. Lived briefly in the new gold-rush settlement of Gila City (Yuma). He was one of the first physicians in Arizona in the early 1860s, and was a specialist in tuberculosis. In Arizona he worked as a miner and as a freighter with the Goldwater brothers, hauling food, supplies and ammunition from Sacramento to army posts in Arizona. On a trip to California, c1864, he met Alcaria Montano, a young woman from Altar, Sonora, who was working as a governess on a steamboat at Yuma. When he returned to Arizona, he married her.
In 1878, he sold his interest in the Vulture Mine near Wickenburg for $80,000 and bought farm land along Salt River west of Tempe, and a ranch at Blue Point in the Superstition Mountains.
He also established a cattle ranch in the Four Peaks area. He built the ranch house at Coons Bluff (Blue Point) and also ran a tubercular sanitarium there. The family later moved to a horse ranch southeast of Chandler, but still maintained the Coons Bluff ranch.
Irene Gomez Hormell, genealogy notes
Gloria Parra Leon, genealogy notes
Mary J. Gomez, biography form, ASU Archives
Laura Jones Curry, THM oral history
TN, 11 Jan 1896
TDN, 14 Apr 1971
Kathryn J. Gomez obit, AR, 18 Apr 1947
Margaret Jones Frank obit, TDN, 8 Feb 1985
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HPS-175
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Solliday, Journey to Rio Salado, pp. 71-72
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