FRANK DUFFY
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 650

The judicial history of Santa Cruz County would be incomplete 
and unsatisfactory were there failure to make mention of Judge 
Frank J. Duffy who in December 1911 was elected without 
opposition to the Superior Court bench and is now serving as 
City Attorney of Nogales.  For almost seventeen years he has 
been a member of the bar of this county.  

Judge Duffy was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, April 
3, 1866, a son of Michael and Mary (O'Brien) Duffy, and was 
reared on a farm in that section, acquiring his preliminary 
education in the public schools. In 1888 he was graduated from 
St. Lawrence University with the degree of B.S. and in the fall 
of the same year came to Arizona, where he spent three winters 
teaching school in the Salt River Valley and two winters at 
Globe.  He spent all of his spare moments during that time 
reading law, continuing to do this after he came to Nogales 
in June 1893.  He here accepted a clerkship in the United 
States Customs Service and was for three years in that office, 
studying law at the bar of the Supreme Court of Arizona in 
1903.  He  here accepted a clerkship at the same time. He 
was admitted to the bar of the First District Court in 1899 
and to the bar of the Supreme Court of Arizona in 1903.   
Previous to this time he had begun his public career, his 
first office being that of Justice of the Peace.  In 1899 
and 1900 he was County Assessor of Santa Cruz County and in 
the latter year was elected district attorney, a member of 
the city council and during all of that time practiced law, 
building up a large and representative clientage. He served 
as a member of the Twenty Fifth Territorial Legislature and 
was afterward elected judge of the Superior Court of Santa 
Cruz County without opposition at the primaries at the 
election.

Judge Duffy has been twice married.  In 1894 he wedded Miss 
Catherine C. Linder, a daughter of J.A. Linder, of Tucson, an 
early settler of Arizona.  Mrs. Catherine Duffy died in 1902, 
leaving two children: Francis R., who is now pursuing a civil 
engineering course at the University of Arizona, being a member 
of the class of 1918 and Mary L. who is attending the Northern 
Arizona Normal at Flagstaff and is a member of the class of 
1917.  In 1905 Judge Duffy married Miss Annie M. Parker, a 
native of Phoenix, and a daughter of James Parker who came 
to the territory in the early 1870's and is a resident of 
Santa Cruz County.

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