Cochise-Gila-Yavapai County AZ Archives Biographies.....Douglas, Walter P December 18, 1870 - October 3, 1946
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Source: Who's Who in Arizona Vol 1 Compiled and Published by Jo Conners  Press of The Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona 1913
Author: Who's Who in Arizona Vol 1 Compiled and Published by Jo Conners Press of The Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona 1913

General Manager of the Phelps, Dodge & Co. mining interests was born in Quebec, 
Canada December 19, 1870 and is the son of Dr. James S. and Naomi Douglas. He 
was educated at Upper Canada, Morrin and The Royal Military Colleges, all of 
Canada before attending post graduate courses at the School of Mines of 
Columbia University, New York. He came to Arizona in 1890, where he was 
employed as an Engineer with the Commercial Mining Company of Prescott; in 1892 
he became associated with the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting & Refining Co. 
as a metallurgist, but in 1894 he returned to Arizona and has since been 
associated with Phelps, Dodge & Co. interests, of which he was made General 
Manager in 1910. Unable to secure proper concessions from the larger railroads 
in the southwest, the interests of which he represented, under his direction, 
built their own lines, the El Paso & Southwestern, the only road of its length 
that was built without a floating debt. Mr. Douglas is Vice President of this 
road; President of the El Paso & Southwest R. R. of Texas, of the Mexico & 
Colorado R. R., Second Vice President of the El Paso & Northeastern, and is the 
director in a number of enterprises in Arizona and New Mexico. He is a member 
of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, American Academy of Political 
and social Science and the National Geographic Society. He’s also a member of 
the Engineers Rocky Mountain, Columbia University, Santa Barbra and Warren 
District Country Clubs. Mr. Douglas was married in September, 1902 to Miss 
Edith Bell of Ottawa, Canada. Their present home is in Warren, Arizona and 
Santa Barbra, California.            

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