Walter P. Douglas

 

Contributed by Darren Markley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00032.html#0007982 February 18, 2015, 11:09 pm

Source: Who's Who in Arizona Vol 1 Compiled and Published by Jo Conners Press of The Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona 1913, page 463.

General Manager of the Phelps, Dodge and Co. mining interests was born in Quebec, Canada December 19, 1870 and is the son of Dr. James S. and Naomi Douglas. He was educated at Upper Canada, Morrin and The Royal Military Colleges, all of Canada before attending post graduate courses at the School of Mines of Columbia University, New York. He came to Arizona in 1890, where he was employed as an Engineer with the Commercial Mining Company of Prescott; in 1892 he became associated with the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining Co. as a metallurgist, but in 1894 he returned to Arizona and has since been associated with Phelps, Dodge and Co. interests, of which he was made General Manager in 1910. Unable to secure proper concessions from the larger railroads in the southwest, the interests of which he represented, under his direction, built their own lines, the El Paso and Southwestern, the only road of its length that was built without a floating debt. Mr. Douglas is Vice President of this road; President of the El Paso and Southwest R. R. of Texas, of the Mexico and Colorado R. R., Second Vice President of the El Paso and Northeastern, and is the director in a number of enterprises in Arizona and New Mexico. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, American Academy of Political and social Science and the National Geographic Society. He’s also a member of the Engineers Rocky Mountain, Columbia University, Santa Barbra and Warren District Country Clubs. Mr. Douglas was married in September, 1902 to Miss Edith Bell of Ottawa, Canada. Their present home is in Warren, Arizona and Santa Barbra, California.

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