Joseph Ehle
History of Arizona,  Thomas Edwin Farish, 1915, pg. 207

One of the first men to locate in Prescott was Joseph Ehle.  
His family consisted of his wife, one son and five daughters.  
Mr. and Mrs. Ehle were married in 1841 in Iowa, from whence 
they emigrated to Oregon, thence to Denver and on July 28, 1864 
they arrived in Prescott where they located permanently.  Mrs. 
Margaret Ehle was born in Ohio on October 14, 1817 and died in 
Prescott on November 4, 1905.  She was survived by her husband 
who died a few years afterward at the advanced age of 99 years.  
Mr. Ehle drove in several hundred head of cattle, which the 
Indians confiscated.  Accounts of his death and funeral are 
as follows:
"Telegrams from Los Angeles yesterday brought the sad news of 
the death of Joseph Ehle.  He was born in Mohawk County New York, 
in March 1813 and when still a boy went to Canada, where he 
learned the trade of millwright.  In 1834 he returned to the 
United States and made his home in Iowa where he was married 
to Miss Margaret Williams.  About the year 1837 he was admitted 
as a member of a Masonic Lodge and for the remainder of his 
long life was a faithful member of the order.  In 1851 he went 
to California, leaving his wife with relatives and later went 
to Oregon where he erected a sawmill and remained for three 
years.  In 1860 with his wife he went to Colorado where they 
remained until 1864.  In that year he headed a party bound 
for Prescott, coming by way of the Santa Fe trail.  In 1865 
Mr. Ehle erected the first gristmill in Arizona, having 
previously built a log residence of five rooms, at what is 
now the corner of Goodwin and Marina Streets, Prescott.  
In 1865 he established the government road station at 
Skull Valley, but in the following year returned to Prescott.

Of the children born there were the following: John H. Ehle, 
Mary J. Dickson, Amy S. Sanders, Olive B. Crouch, Sarah F. 
Baker and Margaret V. Foster.  There were also twenty four 
grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren.

The pall-bearers were E.W. Wells, J.C. Stephens, Fred G. 
Brecht, N.L. Griffin, C.A. Peter Sr., and William N. Kelly." 
(Prescott Courier," Saturday, December7, 1912.)

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