William R. Long
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 760

Ranching interests of Maricopa County find a worthy 
representative in William B. Long who since 1900 has 
been engaged in the development and improvement of one 
hundred and sixty acres of land near Buckeye.  He has 
been in Arizona since 1880 but was born in Chippewa 
County Wisconsin where he grew to manhood.  He later 
came west, engaging in the lumber business in Colorado 
and Washington and locating finally in Yavapai County 
Arizona where he worked at copper mining in the employ 
of the Hartford Copper Company.  He spent some time in 
the Ora Bella and Ora Bonita mines in the Bradshaw 
Mountains and went to Phoenix in 1885, turning his 
attention to the butcher business.  With Mike Hurley 
as a partner he conducted a large and profitable 
enterprise of the character for five years and then 
came to Buckeye.  He took up his residence here in 
1900 and purchased his present ranch of one hundred 
and sixty acres.  He raises a number of crops of 
alfalfa every year and is a cattle dealer and dairyman.  
He is in addition connected with business interests of 
Buckeye as the proprietor of Long's Hotel which he has 
made the leading hostelry in the city.  He is also a 
director in the Buckeye State Bank.

Mr. Long married Miss Nellie Hurley, a native of New York 
and they have six children: Robert, Marshall, Lawrence, 
William, Harry and Nellie.


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