William F. Kuchenbecker
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 286

William F. Kuchenbecker, mayor of Tombstone and general 
merchant was born in Germany in 1850 and is one of a 
family of eight children, only who of whom beside himself 
survive: Charles F., who is engaged in the transfer business 
in Gallup New Mexico; and Dr. August Kuchenbecker, a 
physician in Germany.

William F. Kuchenbecker acquired a limited education in 
the public schools of his native country and when he was 
fifteen years of age came to America, settling first at 
Cairo, Illinois where he followed various occupations 
until he enlisted in the United States Army.  He was sent 
to the western frontier against the Indians and served for 
five years throughout New Mexico and Arizona.  After he 
obtained his discharge he remained in New Mexico where he 
worked first in a post trading store for four years and 
then went to Gallup where he engaged in general merchandising 
until 1907, going in that year to Los Angeles.  After a 
short time he removed to Tombstone, buying out a general 
merchandise stock there and establishing himself in business.

Mr. Kuchenbecker married in 1881 in New Mexico to Miss 
Angelina Young, a native of Gallatin Missouri.  The father 
of Mrs. Kuchenbecker was a native of Virginia and her mother 
of Kentucky.  Both are deceased.  Mrs. Kuchenbecker passed 
away in Los Angeles December 5, 1895.  She was the mother 
of two children: Minnie, who died in infancy and Louis 
Frederick who was born in Gallup New Mexico July 5, 1885.  
He is associated with his father in the general merchandise 
business in Tombstone.  He married Miss Sadie E. Cowan, a 
native of Tombstone and a daughter of Thomas Cowan of that 
city.  They have one son, William Thomas.  On October 29, 
1913 Mr. Kuchenbecker married Miss Alice Feeney a native of 
Muskegon Michigan.

For three years, Mr. Kuchenbecker was mayor of Gallup 
New Mexico and for two terms served in the New Mexico 
territorial legislature.  He was elected mayor of 
Tombstone in 1912 and reelected in 1914.


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