C. Fred Brackett
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

C. Fred Brackett, a prosperous merchant of Mesa is a 
partner in the A. and B. Grocery Company.  The 
business was organized by James W. Alexander and 
our subject in March 1908 and as the years have 
gone by has increased in prosperity and scope.  
The store was originally founded by the Shattuck and 
Desmond Warehouse Company of Los Angeles for whom Mr. 
Brackett at first was manager and was later owned by 
the Shattuck and Nimo Warehouse Company. He acted as 
manager for both concerns until 1908 when he organized 
the present company and with Mr. Alexander bought out 
their interest.  On the 1st of January 1915, however, 
Mr. Alexander sold his interest to C.T. Washburn, but 
business is still conducted under the name of the A. & 
B. grocery Company.  The firm does a large warehouse 
business and their retail grocery establishment returns 
to them a most gratifying income.  They carry a large 
variety of provisions and also deal in coal.  They run 
their own freighting outfit to Superior and other 
points in this vicinity and buy all of their goods 
and provisions by the carload and forward supplies to 
ranches and mines.

Mr. Brackett was born in California in 1876 and there 
received his education.  He was afterward a bookkeeper 
and assistant cashier in various banks in San Francisco 
and in 1905 came to Mesa which city has since been his 
home.

In May 1908 Mr. Brackett married Miss Bessie Duff of 
Denver Colorado and they have one son.




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