Florence Arizona Gurley was the last child born to John Addison & Sarah Leonora Borden Gurley.
Florence Arizona's birth June 4, 1863, came shortly after her father's Congressional efforts in passage of the Arizona Territorial bill came to fruition February 20, 1863, when the bill was approved by a 24 to 12 vote in the Senate and signed by President Lincoln on Feb 24, 1863.
Recommended by Congressional consensus -- John Addison Gurley -- who'd gone to great lengths to familiarize himself with this "far off district" and in championing its cause -- should be appointed Arizona's Governor, which President Lincoln duly ratified.
It was during the ensuing months preparing for the Governorhip and arranging his affairs in Cincinnati that John's wife Sarah delivered a baby girl on June 4th, and she was named Florence Arizona.
However, the course of history was changed by fate, when in late July, John's health began to deteriorate from an unspecified gastrointestinal ailment suspected to have been an attack of appendicitis and on August 19, 1863 -- the day he was to leave for Arizona -- John Addison Gurley died; followed three days later, by the death of his new daughter, Florence Arizona on August 22, 1863.
One historian wrote in 1951,
"Although John Addison Gurley never actually served as Governor of the new Arizona Territory -- it can be readily discerned, that he was a conspicuous figure in Arizona's pre-territorial history. Up to the present time, however, his name and career and his service to Arizona, have been shamefully neglected, by the majority of Arizona writers and historians."
Florence Arizona's birth June 4, 1863, came shortly after her father's Congressional efforts in passage of the Arizona Territorial bill came to fruition February 20, 1863, when the bill was approved by a 24 to 12 vote in the Senate and signed by President Lincoln on Feb 24, 1863.
Recommended by Congressional consensus -- John Addison Gurley -- who'd gone to great lengths to familiarize himself with this "far off district" and in championing its cause -- should be appointed Arizona's Governor, which President Lincoln duly ratified.
It was during the ensuing months preparing for the Governorhip and arranging his affairs in Cincinnati that John's wife Sarah delivered a baby girl on June 4th, and she was named Florence Arizona.
However, the course of history was changed by fate, when in late July, John's health began to deteriorate from an unspecified gastrointestinal ailment suspected to have been an attack of appendicitis and on August 19, 1863 -- the day he was to leave for Arizona -- John Addison Gurley died; followed three days later, by the death of his new daughter, Florence Arizona on August 22, 1863.
One historian wrote in 1951,
"Although John Addison Gurley never actually served as Governor of the new Arizona Territory -- it can be readily discerned, that he was a conspicuous figure in Arizona's pre-territorial history. Up to the present time, however, his name and career and his service to Arizona, have been shamefully neglected, by the majority of Arizona writers and historians."
Florence Arizona Gurley was the last child born to John Addison & Sarah Leonora Borden Gurley.
Florence Arizona's birth June 4, 1863, came shortly after her father's Congressional efforts in passage of the Arizona Territorial bill came to fruition February 20, 1863, when the bill was approved by a 24 to 12 vote in the Senate and signed by President Lincoln on Feb 24, 1863.
Recommended by Congressional consensus -- John Addison Gurley -- who'd gone to great lengths to familiarize himself with this "far off district" and in championing its cause -- should be appointed Arizona's Governor, which President Lincoln duly ratified.
It was during the ensuing months preparing for the Governorhip and arranging his affairs in Cincinnati that John's wife Sarah delivered a baby girl on June 4th, and she was named Florence Arizona.
However, the course of history was changed by fate, when in late July, John's health began to deteriorate from an unspecified gastrointestinal ailment suspected to have been an attack of appendicitis and on August 19, 1863 -- the day he was to leave for Arizona -- John Addison Gurley died; followed three days later, by the death of his new daughter, Florence Arizona on August 22, 1863.
One historian wrote in 1951,
"Although John Addison Gurley never actually served as Governor of the new Arizona Territory -- it can be readily discerned, that he was a conspicuous figure in Arizona's pre-territorial history. Up to the present time, however, his name and career and his service to Arizona, have been shamefully neglected, by the majority of Arizona writers and historians."
Florence Arizona's birth June 4, 1863, came shortly after her father's Congressional efforts in passage of the Arizona Territorial bill came to fruition February 20, 1863, when the bill was approved by a 24 to 12 vote in the Senate and signed by President Lincoln on Feb 24, 1863.
Recommended by Congressional consensus -- John Addison Gurley -- who'd gone to great lengths to familiarize himself with this "far off district" and in championing its cause -- should be appointed Arizona's Governor, which President Lincoln duly ratified.
It was during the ensuing months preparing for the Governorhip and arranging his affairs in Cincinnati that John's wife Sarah delivered a baby girl on June 4th, and she was named Florence Arizona.
However, the course of history was changed by fate, when in late July, John's health began to deteriorate from an unspecified gastrointestinal ailment suspected to have been an attack of appendicitis and on August 19, 1863 -- the day he was to leave for Arizona -- John Addison Gurley died; followed three days later, by the death of his new daughter, Florence Arizona on August 22, 1863.
One historian wrote in 1951,
"Although John Addison Gurley never actually served as Governor of the new Arizona Territory -- it can be readily discerned, that he was a conspicuous figure in Arizona's pre-territorial history. Up to the present time, however, his name and career and his service to Arizona, have been shamefully neglected, by the majority of Arizona writers and historians."
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