JOHN A. BLACK
History of Arizona, 1896

John A. Black, proprietor of the largest jewelry store in Arizona 
is a practical, highly educated gentleman and one aptly skilled 
in every branch of his calling. He is a native of Scotland, born 
in Aberdeen in 1853 and educated in Union Row Academy.  When but 
a boy he served an apprenticeship at the wholesale dry goods 
business n his native land and in 1873 crossed the ocean and 
settled in Toronto, Canada where he was engaged in the wholesale 
dry goods business for less than a year. From there he went to 
Chicago, where soon after arriving he was employed in the 
wholesale jewelry business and later represented one of the 
largest houses in that line in Chicago, through Colorado, 
Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, for several years, making Denver 
his headquarters.

Mr. Black was married in Chicago in 1882 and gave up traveling.  
An opening presented itself for a jewelry store in Tucson and he 
began business there in April 1883.  Since that time he has 
resided in that flourishing city and carries a large and well 
selected stock that would do credit to a much larger city than 
Tucson.

Mr. Black is official timekeeper for the Southern Pacific 
Railroad and was Commissioner of Immigration for two years, 
during Governor Wolfey's administration.

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