William B. Coberly
Tucson
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

William B. Coberly is regarded as one of the progressive 
young business men of Tucson.  He was born in Denver 
Colorado, on the 9th of November 1883 and is a son of 
William D. and Florence (Bayley) Coberly.  The father 
was one of the pioneers of Colorado, having located 
there in 1857.  He met with success in his undertakings 
and subsequently acquired extensive interests in that 
state and in Arizona.  Both he and his wife are now 
residents of Hollywood California.

During the childhood of William B. Coberly the family 
removed to Missouri where he was reared and educated 
also attending the Throop Polytechnic Institute of 
Pasadena California.  In 1903 he came to Arizona to 
assume the management of the La Osa Cattle Company of 
which W.D. Coberly was president and Frank H. Hereford 
secretary.  In 1907 William B. Coberly was made the 
treasurer.  This was a close corporation and conducted 
in the southern part of Arizona.  It was splendidly 
equipped and was supplied with all of the facilities 
and conveniences found upon the modern cattle ranch 
of the present day.  Despite the fact that he was 
only twenty years of age when he took over the 
management Mr. Coberly was fully qualified for the 
duties he assumed.  The company sold the ranch in 
the spring of 1915 but Mr. Coberly is still the 
owner of property in Tucson and is now anticipating 
again entering the cattle business.

In 1907 Mr. Coberly was married to Miss Winifred Wheeler, 
a native of Tucson and a daughter of C.C. and Kate (Allison) 
Wheeler.  The father, a native of Wisconsin, came to Arizona 
in 1881 and here followed merchandising as the senior member 
of the firm of Wheeler and Perry.  His wife is a native of 
California and they were married in Tucson in 1885.  They 
still make their home in that city.  Mr. and Mrs. Coberly 
have become the parents of three children: William B. Jr., 
Margaret and Charles Wheeler. 



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