Robert Bartholemew Carley
14 Jul 1825 - 12 May 1900
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornBrockville, Ontario, Canada
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BiographyFreighter; farmer.Living East of Tempe in 1880, 1882, 1899.
Went to New York City at age 17 and went to work for a steamship company. Went to New Orleans, LA.
By 1845 he was a government teamster at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Served as a teamster in Mexico during the Mexican War, returned to Fort Leavenworth, c1847, and went on to Santa Fe, NM, where he was a Quartermaster Clerk, and later, Assistant Quartermaster. In 1852 he was hired to teach Apaches farming, but after a raid in 1856, he returned to work as a Quartermaster Clerk.
Became an independent freighter, hauling goods from the Missouri River to Santa Fe, and later to Army forts in New Mexico, and to Tucson and Prescott. In July 1870, he was living at Adamsville, Arizona Territory.
Settled in the Tempe area, c1871, and worked on construction of the Tempe Canal. Lost his farm in the flood of 1891. Sold the land, but lost his money when the Bank of Tempe failed.
Served on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, 1875-1878 and Justice of the Peace for Tempe Precinct, 1874-1875 and 1896-1900.
Became a naturalized citizen on 16 Dec 1876, in Phoenix, AZ.
He was the enumerator for the Federal census in Tempe in 1880.
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census, 1880
Maricopa County Great Register, 1882
Tempe CD, 1898-1899
Oscar Quihuis, Tucson, genealogy notes
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
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