Rash's Surname Index
Notes for David Wilmot WICKERSHAM
DAVID WILMOT WICKERSHAM, President of the Bank of Safford, is a native of Pennsylvania, but came to Arizona forty years ago. For years he has been closely identified with the commercial, financial and
industrial life of this State. Mr. Wickersham began his career in Arizona as a teacher in Mammoth and the Gila Valley, then started in as clerk in the store of I. E. Solomon, one of the pioneer merchants
of Arizona. In that position Mr. Wickersham proved so valuable an assistant that he was made a partner in the business under the firm name of Solomon, Wickersham & Co. The new firm opened a large
mercantile establishment at Bowie, which was one of the largest supply stations in the Territory in the early days. The firm was reorganized and known as Solomon & Wickersham, and a store established at Solomonville. In 1906 another change was made and Mr. Wickersham became the head of a new corporation, The Solomon Wickersham Company. Mr. Wickersham has been successful in his
mercantile ventures, and has invested much of his capital in the State. He was the organizer and first president of the Gila Valley Bank & Trust Co., which controls one of the strongest strings of banks in the Southwest. He is president of the Solomon Commercial Company, and although he has reached an age when most men retire he is actively interested in a number of important enterprises in California and
Arizona in addition to those enumerated. Mr. Wickersham spends his winters in Arizona and his summers on the coast. He was one of the heavy stockholders of the oil company which developed the Lake View gusher, one of the famous oil wells of the age, and has large realty holdings in California. Mr. and Mrs. Wickersham are parents of six children, Ernest S., Florence, Mabel (Mrs. Herman Heizman), Wilmot, Harry and Maude.
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