Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-10-31
HONORABLE RECORD
OF GEORGE B. WILCOX
Progressive Candidate for Sheriff of
Maricopa County

rTo9feSSiVe CdndIuate TOR SheTiTT OF
Maricopa County
George B. Wilcox, the progressive
candidate for sheriff of Maricopa coun-
ty is native of the state of New
York. His father, William Wilcox,
served during the Civil War in the
famous Black Horse cavalry, as did his
oldest brother The brother died of
| fever in Georgia, and the father lived
but few years after the war, having
returned an invalid, the result of hard
ship and exposure incident to his three
years service in the south.
George was taken care of by rela-
tives until fifteen years of age when he
struck out for himself and came west
to the new state of Nebraska, where he
worked on ranches for some years and
became an expert horseman. Later he
worked in a drug store in Dakota City,
Nebraska, until 1885, when he suffered
a violent attack of pneumonia and
asthma, when, on advice of his physi-
elan he came west to Denver, Colo,
where he recovered his health within a
few weeks
Mr.. Wilcox raliZing that an outdoor
life would be beneficial to his health,
and learning that the Chiricahua Apa-
ches were on the warpath in the south
west, enlisted in the cavalry branch of
the United States Army and was as
signed by request to the 4th United
States Cavalry, headquarters at Fort
Huachuca, where he joined Troop ! in
October 1885 and was sent out on the
trail with his troop Immediately.
After the surrender of Geronimo,
Trooper Wilcox transferred to the
medical corps of the United States
Army and one year later took the eX
animation for and was promoted to the
position of hospital steward and as
SUCH had charge of the hospitals at
Lowell, Huachuca and Apache in Arl
IONA
After leaving the service Mr.. Wilcox
was appointed steward and supervisor
of the ASYLUM for the insane east Of
Phoenix, where he remained two years,
serving under two administrations, and
upon leaving that office, he was pre-
scented with a gold watch by the Off
GERS and employees of the institution as
token of appreciation.
In 1901 Mr.. Wilcox purchased a ranch
in the Salt River valley. and still owns
portion of it, where he now resides.
In 1898 Mr.. Wilcox enlisted in Roose
velt's regiment as private soldier, and
within two months time was placed in
command of Troop B of that regiment
and remained in command of that troop
until the muster out of the regiment
on his discharge appears the following
endorsement: Zone of the most eff
cient officers in any command; one of
those upon whom I relied most in every
emergency. T Roosevelt"
After the war Mr.. Wilcox returned to
Bisbee, where he engaged in the drug
business and in 1900 was elected JUS
tice Of the peace for that precinct. He
was elected chairman of the committee
on incorporation for the town of Bis
bee. and the town was soon incorpor-
ated thereafter In 1901 he resigned
the office of Justice of the peace to ac-
cept the office Of clerk of the district
court of the 2nd district of Arizona, |
which office he held for eight years,
residing at Tombstone, Ariz. While re-
siding in Tombstone Mr. Wilcox was
elected chairman of the school board
of that city and while so acting, forced
the red-light district out of the four
hundred yard limit. He took the lead
in the anti-saloon fight in the city of
Tombstone, and was the dry peoples
candidate for mayor of Tombstone,
running against a saloon keeper, and
was defeated by sixteen votes, on ac-
count Of the saloon people, working
with the democratic superintendent of
the county hospital cO-ercing twenty
five INDECENT inmates of the hospital to
vote for the saloon candidate.
Mr. Wilcox has been consistently
fighting the liquor interests for the
past fifteen years and is now in the |
fight for the dry amendment as the
candidate for sheriff on the progressive |
ticket. and if elected, pledges himself
to conduct the office economically and
efficiently and if the dry amendment |
carries will guarantee that prohibition
will prohibit if all officers elected viii |
work to that end as faithfully as he !
will do