George E. Mowry
May 11, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Mr. George E. Mowry got to figuring around last Friday and 
discovered that he was seventy years old; three score years 
and ten, which is a whole lot older than many people ever 
get to be and older than he ever was before.  

Mr. Mowry 
came here first as a soldier during the Civil War and after 
he was mustered out of the service came back again.  Never 
since that time has he been beyond the territorial boundry.  
He is one of the men who were present at the birth of Phoenix, 
helped to build some of the first houses erected on the town 
site; and has never taken his eyes off the growing infant.  
He has but seldom been outside the county since then and but 
seldom has a day passed when Mr. Mowry was not seen on the 
streets of the city.  The exceptions were the few days of 
illness he has had from time to time and the occasions years 
ago, when as sheriff of the county he was called away from 
home.  Mr. Mowry is enjoying very good health for one of his 
age and will doubtless be spared for many years more of 
usefulness.  He is now employed in the postoffice whee he has 
been the greater part of the time for over a quarter of a 
century.