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This photo shows Cotesworth P. Head residence at 135 N. Montezuma Street in Prescott, Arizona.  Note on back of photo states, C. P. Head was a Confederate army veteran who came west after the Civil War.  He became a merchant in Prescott and served as a member of the Arizona Territorial Legislature.  He died in 1887.

Coteswoth Pinckney Head, also known as C.P. Head, was born 1834 in New York State to Sandford/Sanford & Anna Head. He received a college education and studied for the bar at Madison University in Hamilton, New York. By 1860, he had moved to Batesville, Arkansas before the Civil War began and then served in the Confederate army with distinction making the rank of Colonel. 

He came to Arizona in 1869/1870 and engaged in merchandizing, stock raising, grain contracting and mining. His brother William S. Head was also a merchant in the Prescott and the Verde Valley area.

He married Elizabeth (Watkins) Irish (b. 1841 - d. 1926) on October 30, 1883 and had two sons Coteworth Bradway (b. 1886 - d. 1946) and William H. (b. 1887).

C. P. served in Arizona’s Eighth Territorial Legislature and in 1884, he was the Democratic candidate for Delegate to Congress, but was defeated by Colonel C. C. Bean.. 

He was involved in the Masonic Lodge and became a Master during his tenure.  C. P. left Prescott for other areas in Arizona and then in California. He died on August 19, 1887 in Oakland, California and was survived by his wife and one son Cotesworth Bradway.