John W. "Jack" Swilling

~• one of the founders of Phoenix Arizona ; see wikipedia

Go to page 333 and start reading about Wickenburg in A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona; McFarland & Poole, 1896 - Arizona - 606 pages

See also: page 26 of a book on Wickenburg

service in Civil War

• Born April 1, 1830
• Anderson, South Carolina
• Died August 12, 1878 (aged 48)
• Yuma, Arizona
• Allegiance Confederate States of America
• Service/branch Confederate States Army
• Years of service 1861-1862
• Rank Confederate States of America First Lieutenant.png First Lieutenant
• Unit Arizona Guards
• Battles/wars American Civil War
• Battle of Pinos Altos (1861) ~•see timeline
• Battle of Stanwix Station (1862) ~•see timeline
• Apache Wars
• Bradshaw Mountains Expedition (1863)

Incorporates a Road Company with others

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Arizona_Territorial_Legislature

"AN ACT Incorporating the Prescott, Walnut Grove, and Pima Road Company"
Adopted_by_the_First_Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Territory_of_Arizona
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Acts,_Resolutions_and_Memorials...
"Sec. 2. That said company is authorized and allowed the exclusive privilege and power to construct and build a toll-road from the town of Prescott in an easterly direction, via Groomdale to Turkey Creek, thence in a southerly direction to a point on the Hassayampa Creek, in the vicinity of Walnut Grove, and thence to the Pima villages, with a branch extending to the town of Weaver, to connect with the branch of the Arizona Central Road Company at that place, and a branch extending to the public road leading from Prescott, via Woolsey’s Ranch, to the Pima villages, to construct bridges and grade said road, to dig wells at practicable points, and do all things necessary to make said road safe and passable at all times for wagons with their usual freights, and may receive and collect tolls in sums not exceeding the following rates, to wit:
1. For each wagon drawn by two horses, mules, or horned cattle, five cents per mile, and for each additional animal one cent per mile."