John W. Estill
Arizona USGENWEB archives
Arizona, the Youngest State, 1913

John W. Estill is prominent in public life in Pima County, serving as the first county 
supervisor under the state laws and he is also well known in business circles of Tucson 
as the organizer of the Arizona Lumber and Mill Company.  

He was born in Morris County New Jersey, July 28, 1861 and at eleven years of age went to
Ohio where he lived upon a farm for six years.  At the end of that time he removed to 
Columbus Ohio and there engaged as a manufacturer of brooms. He later became manager 
of the Wooden Willoware Manufacturing Company and by his progressive business 
methods and executive ability made it a profitable business enterprise.

Mr. Estill took up his residence in Arizona in 1898 and in 1900 became connected with
business interests of Oracle as a general merchant.  He also acted as postmaster and 
was well and favorably known in that locality where he remained for six years, coming to 
Tucson in 1906.  Here he organized the Arizona Lumber and Mill Company and is 
still connected with the concern which under his able management has become one of the 
large and representative industries of the day.

In 1887 Mr. Estill married Miss Ella R. Howard, a native of Columbus Ohio and they have
become the parents of threechildren: Howard W, a graduate of the University of 
Arizona and how assistant in chemistry in that institution; Mary H. and Edward,
both sophomores at the same university.