Background
He was born on April 20, 1825 in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States, the son of Temple and Judith (Dubrill) Poston.
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Charles Debrill Poston
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Education
He went to the public schools and at twelve started an apprenticeship of seven years in the county clerk's office to learn the rudiments of law.
Career
He was a clerk of the state supreme court at Nashville. Admitted to the bar he practised in Tennessee and later in Washington. In 1850 he went to San Francisco, where he served as clerk in the custom house for two years. Even before the Gadsden Purchase was officially recognized, he led a party to explore along the east coast of the Gulf of California for harbors and in the region that is now southern Arizona for reputed mineral deposits.
Enthusiastic over the prospects he went to New York, where the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company was organized. In 1856, with a group of engineers, he went to Arizona and, from Tubac as a center, opened several properties, among which was the Cerro Colorado. On a second eastern trip the capitalization was raised to about a million dollars, modern machinery was ordered, the Arivaca property was purchased, and steps taken politically to obtain a port on the Gulf of California. However, all was abandoned in 1861 because the devastations of the Apache Indians swept Arizona unchecked during the Civil War.
With Raphael Pumpelly he escaped to California, and returning to the East he joined the union forces in Washington. In Washington he directed his attention to gaining a territorial organization for Arizona, and when the Territory of Arizona was created, he returned to the Southwest late in 1863 as superintendent of Indian affairs. Accompanied by J. Ross Browne he traveled through the Apache country, visiting the different tribes and at the same time gaining the support that elected him first delegate to Congress from Arizna. He served from December 5, 1864, to March 3, 1865, and advocated the building of irrigation works on the ground that they would aid the reservation tribes to become self-supporting. He obtained a congressional appropriation for the promotion of irrigation. By his defeat for reelection in 1864, his political career was closed.
Returning in 1868, however, from a visit to the Paris exhibition he received from Seward, then secretary of state, an honorary commission to study immigration and irrigation in Asia. He accompanied his friend, J. Ross Browne, the newly appointed minister to China under the Burlingame Treaty. As commissioner he traveled in Asia and Egypt. Arriving in Europe in 1870, he served as foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune, and he returned to America in 1876 to attend the centennial in Philadelphia.
A ready writer, he gave expression to his varied experiences in many forms books of travel, Europe in the Summer-Time (1868) as well as articles in Western periodicals, among which was a series "Building a State in Apache Land, " in Overland Monthly (July to October 1894) and "C. D. Poston", October 14, 1899.
Well informed on irrigation, he received several government appointments, where this training would be useful. He served as register of the Federal Land office at Florence, Arizona. Returning to Washington in 1882, he was soon taken back to the territory by official work. In 1885 he was again in government service in Washington. In 1890 he returned to the Southwest, where he held for short periods such minor offices as consular agent at Nogales, Mexico, and military agent in El Paso, Texas.
In 1899 a tardy recognition of his services, a small pension, was granted to him by the territorial legislature. He died in Phoenix.
Achievements
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Charles Debrille Poston is referred to as the "Father of Arizona" due to his efforts lobbying for creation of the territory. He was also Arizona Territory's first Delegate to the U. S. House of Representatives. During his term of service, Poston submitted bills aimed at settling private land claims and to establish Indian reservations along the Colorado river. He also wrote several popular books: The Parsees, The Sun Worshippers of Asia, and his poem Apache Land.
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Irrigation
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Apache-Land
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The sun Worshipers of Asia
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Irrigation
Connections
In 1848 he married Margaret John Haycraft of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, who died in 1884 and left one daughter.
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Political Party
Republican