Robert W. Arthur
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 783

Robert W. Arthur, Sr., is now engaged in dry farming on a 
ranch of three hundred and twenty acres near San Rafael, 
Santa Cruz, county.  He came to Arizona from California bus 
is a native of Tennessee, his birth occurring in 1853 and 
is a son of William and Mary J. (Webster) Arthur.  The 
father is of English extraction and the mother is of 
Scotch.  The family left Tennessee in 1860 and settled 
in Kentucky whence they removed to Kansas and from there 
went to Texas following which they spent a year in Mexico.  
They then returned to Texas and in 1865 came to Arizona but 
in the next year removed to San Bernardino County, California.

Robert W. Arthur was thirteen when the family settled in San 
Bernardino where he completed his schooling, and then served 
an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade.  After mastering 
that trade he worked in the mines of California for three 
years and in 1872 returned to Arizona.  For at time he 
worked for the Overland Stage Company but when the railroad 
was completed to Los Angeles he found employment in the 
Southern Pacific shops at that point.

Shortly after his marriage in 1875 Mr. Arthur again came to 
Arizona and devoted his energies to prospecting and placer 
mining in various sections of the state until 1903.  In the 
latter year he came to Douglas and purchased a lot on which 
he erected a building for blacksmithing and wagon making in 
partnership with his son-in-law J.E. Bates.  He carried on 
this business for 10 years but for the past three years has 
engaged in farming in Santa Cruz County where he owns three 
hundred and twenty acres.

In 1875 he married Miss Mary Dusoe, who is a native of 
Massachusetts and a daughter of Moses and Amelia Dusoe, 
and to this union have been born the following children: 
May, born in 1876 and the wife of J.E. Bates of Douglas; 
Robert, born in 1887 and a resident of Douglas; Lillian, 
wife of Roy R. Reed of Cochise County; one who died in 
infancy and Pearl born in 1897 and living at home.



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