Granville Henderson Oury Granville Henderson Oury ( March 12 , 1825 – January 11 , 1891 ) was a nineteenth - century American politician , lawyer , judge , soldier and miner . Early life and career . Born in Abingdon , Virginia , Oury and his family moved to Bowling Green , Missouri in 1836 where he pursued in academic studies , studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848 . That year , he moved to San Antonio , Texas and in 1849 to Marysville , California where he engaged in mining . He then moved to Tucson in 1856 and began a law practice and was appointed a district judge for New Mexico Territory in Mesilla . Oury was involved in the infamous Crabb Massacre of April 1857 , during which no more than 100 Americans were killed after an eight - day battle with Mexican forces at Caborca , Sonora . The Americans were under the command of General Henry A . Crabb , a former California senator , who was allegedly trying to take over Sonora like the filibuster filibuster . Oury was one of the men General Crabb had recruited in Tucson , and he was given the rank of captain and ordered to follow the general into Mexico after recruiting more men . However , when news reached Tucson that a superior force of Mexicans was besieging Crabb ' s expedition , Major R . N . Wood and Captain Oury were sent across the international border to help their compatriots . Just after crossing the border , the rescue party encountered about 200 Mexicans . A skirmish ensued which forced the Americans back across the border into Arizona . There were no casualties on the Americans ' side . Of the Crabb party , all were killed except a fourteen - year - old boy and possibly one other man depending on varying sources . Civil War . At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 , Oury was elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress representing the Arizona Territory . Around this time , hostile Apaches attacked the town of Tubac , located south of Tucson . Over the course of a few days the Apaches besieged to old presidio until the settlers were rescued by Oury and a small band of rebel militia from Tucson . Tubac was destroyed and abandoned but the settlers were saved due to Oury and his men . Oury later resigned his seat in the Confederate Congress to serve as a captain in Herbert ’ s Battalion of Arizona cavalry in the Confederate Army . He also served as a colonel on the staff of General Henry Hopkins Sibley in Texas and Louisiana from 1862 to 1864 . He took the oath of allegiance at Fort Mason in Arizona on October 8 , 1865 . Political career . After the end of the war , Oury returned to his law practice in Tucson , Arizona . He was elected to the 3rd Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1866 , serving as Speaker of the House that year , and was appointed Arizona Territory Attorney General in 1869 . He moved to Phoenix , Arizona in 1871 and was appointed district attorney for Maricopa County , Arizona serving from 1871 to 1873 . That year his brother , William S . Oury , was involved in the Camp Grant Massacre in which over 140 Apache men , women and children were killed . Granville was elected in 1873 and 1875 to the 7th and 8th Arizona Territorial Legislature , serving as Speaker during the 1873 session . Oury unsuccessfully ran as a Democrat for the United States House of Representatives in 1878 and was appointed district attorney for Pinal County , Arizona in 1879 . He was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1880 , reelected in 1882 , serving from 1881 to 1885 , not running for reelection in 1884 . He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884 , returned to Florence , Arizona in 1885 and resumed practicing law . He once again served as district attorney for Pinal County , Arizona in 1889 and 1890 . He died of throat cancer in Tucson , Arizona on January 11 , 1891 and was interred in Masonic Cemetery in Florence , Arizona . Note : According to Arizona Daily Star historical writer David Leighton , Oury Street , just north of downtown , in Tucson , AZ , is named in honor of brothers Granville and William Oury .