CHARLES T. CONNELL
History of Arizona, 1896

Charles T. Connell, the present efficient City Recorder, is a 
man well known in this part of the territory and one whose push 
and energy and progressive and advanced ideas have brought him 
prominently before the public. He was born in Mount Vernon, Iowa, 
January 21, 1859 and is the son of Peter D. and Mary M. (Safely) 
Connell, natives of Ohio and New York respectively and of Scotch 
Irish origin.  Charles T. received his education in the Mount 
Pleasant Military Academy and Sing Sing, New York, it being his 
intention to enter West Point.  The trend of events, however, 
changed his course and in 1880 he accepted an appointment under 
Major Powell to take the first census of Apache Indians that 
year. He accordingly came West and the year following was 
appointed to the post of Indian trader at San Carlos, at which 
place he remained two years.  Since that time, 1883, he has been 
engaged in mining throughout the Territory, and has adopted that 
as his business.  On the death of City Recorder Judd, Mr. Connell 
was appointed by the city council to the vacant position and his 
conduct of the office was such that later he was elected to the 
position for another term by one of the largest majorities on 
the ticket.

All Mr. Connell's interests are centered in and around Tucson 
and every dollar he earns is put into the ground in quest of the 
precious metals. He has thus acquired considerable interest in 
several mining camps in this region.  He is chairman of the 
Republican Central Committee of Pima County and during 1884 and 
1885 he was deputy U.S. Marshal under Z.L. Tidball.  Mr. Connell 
was superintendent of the Eagle Golden Mining Company at Saginaw 
Camp, nine miles southerwst of Tucson and he is at present police 
judge in the city of Tucson.

On the 20th of May, 1882 Mr. Connell married Miss Susan A. Moore 
in Globe, daughter of James A. Moore, an old pioneer stage man 
of Arizona.  Mrs. Connell died February 20, 1895.  This union 
resulted in the birth of three children: Frances S., first 
white child born at San Carlos, March 11, 1883; Henrietta F., 
born September 23, 1885 and Robert Moore, born July 4, 1893.

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