JOSEPH E. CURRY
History of Arizona, page 490

Joseph E. Curry, general manager of the Apache Powder Company is 
one of Benson's leading citizens. He was born in Visalia California 
on April 14, 1870. His parents J.E. Curry and Narcissus A. (Rowland) 
Curry, both of whom are deceased, moved from their  native state of 
Alabama to Texas and in the early days of the gold excitement joined 
an expedition going from Texas by ox train over the southern emigrant 
trail to California.

On January 28, 1895 Joseph E. Curry married, at Bisbee Arizona, 
Barbara Brown, Quebec Canada and they are the parents of two children, 
May Lillian and Louis C.

In 1881, when but eleven years of age, Joseph E Curry with his 
parents came to Arizona. He received a limited education in the 
public school of Charleston.  Worked as a cowboy; later as a clerk 
in a general merchandise store, and was storekeeper and postmaster 
at Charleston when that post office was discontinued and the town 
removed from the map.

In 1888 he went to Bisbee and became connected with the Copper 
Queen Consolidated Mining Company where he worked as a miner, 
after entering the Copper Queen Store as clerk, becoming accountant, 
and later succeeding Mr. C.E. Mills as Chief Clerk in the general 
offices of the Copper Queen and Holbrook and Cave Mining Companies. 
In 1898 Mr. Curry while still in the employ of these same companies, 
transferred to their newly acquired property at Nacozari ,Mexico 
as store and general office manager. Remaining in Nacozari for 
two years, he then came to Naco, Arizona and engaged in the 
general merchandise business for himself and was appointment 
first postmaster of that town.

In 1903 he again became connected wit the mining industry, 
entering the employ, as accountant, for a group of development 
companies in the Bisbee Warren District which later merged into 
one corporation under the name of Calumet and Arizona Mining 
Company.  When the Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad was 
built, in addition to his position with the mining company, Mr. 
Curry served as director, secretary and treasurer of the Tucson, 
Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad.  He assisted in the organization 
of the Cochise Building and Loan Association and for many years 
served as director and president of that association.

In 1917 he became secretary of the Arizona Chapter of the American 
Mining Congress and while serving in that capacity became engaged 
with Mr. Charles E. Mills in the organization of a concern composed 
only of mining companies to manufacture their own requirements of 
explosives. C.E. Mills was made president and J.E. Curry made 
secretary and treasurer of the Apache Powder Company.