P.C. BICKNELL
Arizona Republican Newspaper
April 1, 1904

News has been received from Prescott that Pierpont C. 
Bicknell died yesterday in the county hospital at that 
place after an extended illness.  Though Mr. Bicknell 
has lived in Yavapai County for many years, he was formerly 
a citizen of Phoenix, and few men were better known among 
the old timers in this valley.  He was, though, an Arizonian 
in the broadest sense of the word, his personal interest in 
Arizona affairs not being confined to any particular 
section.  He traveled all over the territory at one time 
or another, was well informed respecting its early history 
and was considered an authority as to its physical 
resources.  He gave particular attention to the mining 
industry, and there was little going on in the way of 
mineral development that he was not apprised of.  He was 
a newspaper man by profession, though his later years were 
devoted to correspondence for various papers, both at home 
and abroad, which correspondence was mainly devoted to 
recounting the development of the mining industry.  His 
special pride was the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in the 
vicinity of which he found much of interest in a mineral 
way and was largely concerned in the development of 
promising properties there.

He had no immediate family and had the faculty of being at 
home where ever he chanced to be.  His nearest relative in 
Arizona was a cousin, P. Minor of this city, his native state 
being New York.  Financially he had his ups and downs, as did 
all the early settlers and he will be remembered not so much 
for his achievements in that line as for his pleasing 
friendship and his fidelity to every trust.