John T. Alsap
History of Arizona,  Thomas Edwin Farish, Vol. 2 1915, pg. 266

John T. Alsap came to Arizona a few months before the 
organization of the Territory and settled in what is 
now the city of Prescott.  He was born in Frankfort 
Kentucky in 1832. He was graduated in 1854 from the 
New York College of Medicine as a bachelor of law and 
physician, in which year he crossed the plains and for 
some years practiced medicine to some extent in California 
in conjunction with mining and prospecting.  Upon his 
arrival in Arizona he took up mining and prospecting in 
the vicinity of Prescott.  The apache Indians being 
troublesome the following winter, he accompanied King 
Woolsey on an expedition against the tribe as surgeon 
of the command.  He was appointed the first Territorial 
treasurer of Arizona and served during the administration 
of Governor McCormick.  In 1868 he was elected to the 
Legislature as the representative from Yavapai County.  
In 1869 in company with his wife's brother, W.L. Osborn, 
he settled in the Salt River Valley, about a mile northeast 
of Phoenix, and thereafter was connected with the development 
of this section.

He was twice married, his first wife being Louisa A. Osborn, 
a daughter of John Preston Osborn, one of the pioneers of 
Prescott and his second wife being Anna D. Murray.

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