Maricopa County AZ Archives Biographies.....McCord, M. H. 1840 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 470

  HON. M. H. McCORD. Prominent men seldom rise to distinction suddenly. But in
the example before us we have a man without any special fortuitous circumstances
rising by his own force of character, learning and good judgment, to a front
place in the ranks of honorable and influential men. To reach a high mark of
success in any direction is, in these days of rush and activity, no easy matter,
but let a man once reach this mark and he is regarded with respect and
admiration by all. Hon. M. H. McCord is a man who, by his own superior ability,
now occupies a most enviable position. He was born in McKean County,
Pennsylvania, November 26, 1840, and in the public schools of that county
received a fair education which fitted him most admirably for his subsequent
prosperous career. When but a boy he engaged in the lumber business, going to
Wisconsin in 1854 and locating at Shawano, where he remained until 1874. He
carried on an extensive lumber industry at that place, but subsequently removed
to Merrill, that State, where he engaged in the manufacture of lumber, sash,
doors and blinds, carrying it on most successfully and extensively until 1884.
Afterward he followed banking, in connection with this, until 1892, and was one
of the organizers of the First National Bank and a director in the same. During
the years 1873, '74, '75 and '80 and '81 he was a member of the Wisconsin
Legislature, and in 1888 he was elected from the Ninth-District of Wisconsin a
member of Congress on the Republican ticket, serving one term. In 1893 he came
to Arizona and located at Phoenix, where he engaged in farming and fruit
raising, which still continues to claim his attention. He owns a fine ranch and
raises apricots, almonds, oranges, etc., having fifty acres in fruit. In the
month of March, 1895, he was appointed a member of the Board of Control and has
charge in part of the charitable, penal and reformatory institutions of the
Territory. Mr. McCord is a Thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic
Shrine. He is a man well known in political circles and a wide-awake, stirring
Republican.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896


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