TEOFILO E. AROS
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 612

Teofilo E. Aros, a well known resident of Tucson, is one of the 
prominent cattlemen of Arizona, where he also has valuable real 
estate and mining interests.  He was born in San Bernardino 
County, California in 1860 and is a son of the late Antonio 
Aros, a native of Sonora, Mexico who went to California in 
1849 and engaged in the cattle and mercantile business and 
also operated a large ranch.  He prospered in his various 
undertakings and was known as one of the successful business 
men of the southwest.  In 1884 he removed with his family to 
Arizona, locating on a cattle ranch in the Sasabe District 
and there passed the remainder of his life, his death 
occurring in 1912, when he had reached a ripe old age.  He 
had acquired large interests, including extensive and valuable 
land holdings in Mexico.  He assisted in the development of 
the southwest and in early life participated in many of the 
Indian Wars in this section.  The mother of our subject died 
July 25, 1903.

The boyhood and youth of Teofilo E. Aros were passed in his 
native state, his education being acquired in St. Vincent's 
College in Los Angeles.  When old enough to assume the 
duties of manhood he became associated with his father in 
the management of the cattle ranch and he also assisted 
him in conducting a general merchandise store at Sasabe, 
where he filed on a hundred and sixty acres of government 
land on which he proved up.  For a time he engaged in 
teaching school in that district and also held the office 
of postmaster. He holds the title to some valuable mining 
interests in Mexico and has extensive realty holdings in 
Tucson, in partnership with his brother and two sisters. 
Mr. Aros removed to that city with his family in the fall 
of 1912 in order to five his children better educational 
advantages.

Mr. Aros married Miss Mercedes Celaya, a native of Mexico 
and to them have been born ten sons, eight of whom are 
living: Antonio, Gustave, Teofilo E., Jr., Aureliano, 
Randolpho, Bernardo, Armando and Jesus.  The family 
residence is located on East Fourteenth Street.

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