W.B. SHEIVLEY
History of Arizona, page 519

One of the best known citizens of Ash Fork, Yavapai County is W.B. 
Sheivley, who after many years of active and successful effort is 
now retired and enjoying a well earned leisure. He was born in 
Duncannon, Perry County, Pennsylvania on the 23rd day of November 
1855 and is a son of W.T .and Elizabeth Sheivley. His father, who 
died in 1889 was a carpenter, cabinetmaker and wheelwright. Mr. 
Sheivley attended the public schools of his native state, and in 
1878 when twenty two years of age, went to Colorado of which 
state he was a resident for nine years.  In 1887 he arrived in 
Flagstaff Arizona and accepted a position as foreman, having 
charge of the railroad tracks of the Arizona Timber and Lumber 
Company. On June 6, 1891 he went to Prescott and went to work 
for the Comer Mining Company, putting in railroad tracks of 
which he later had charge.  In October of that year he joined 
a surveying crew on the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railroad, 
now a part of the A.T. and S.F. Railroad, which surveyed the 
route from Ash Fork to Phoenix and in 1892 he went to work for 
the railroad at the latter place.  In 1897 he established a 
store at Seligman and two years later opened another store at 
Providence but in 1902 sold that and returned to Ash Fork where 
he re-entered business. He conducted this with marked success 
until 1909 when he sold his commercial interests and retired.  


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