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Edward L. Schieffelin (b.1847 - d.1897) was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania on September 27, 1847. His parents were Clinton Emanuel Del Pela Schieffelin, born in New York City on February 16, 1823 and Jane Walker, born in Dublin, Ireland in 1824.

Ed was employed by the U.S. government as an Indian scout and was sent to Apache territory in 1877. He was headquartered at Camp Huachuca. The Sonora Desert was alive with marauding Apache Indians, led by Cochise, Geronimo and Victorio.

Ed would prospect looking for his gold mine out in the desert. The soldiers told him the only thing he would find out there would be his tombstone. At the time Ed was only 29 years old. Eventually, Ed found his claim. It was silver he found not gold. He called this claim "Tombstone". Here in the Dragoon Mountains he founded the richest silver strike in the United States. Ore from mines in the area were being assayed at $15,000 a ton. Ed later discovered several other claims, the "Lucky Cuss" and the "Toughnut".

He was responsible for the town of Tombstone Arizona being established. An official town site was laid out on March 5, 1879.

Ed met Mrs. Mary E Brown in San Francisco in 1883, married her in La Junta, CO and settled in Alameda, CA.

In 1883, Ed was a member of a mineral prospecting party in Alaska.

Ed was a rich man from his strike in the desert. He headed out to Oregon in 1897 and bought a ranch near his brothers to prospect again. There he was found dead in his cabin. In his will he asked to be buried near Tombstone in his miner clothing with his pick and canteen. His body was sent to Tombstone where they buried him as he requested.

Ed died in Canyonville, Oregon on May 12, 1897. He is buried in Tombstone, per his wishes.

Sources: findagrave.com; US Census 1880 Pima, Arizona Territory; 1892 California Great Register, 1850-1920.

Effingham "Eff" Schieffelin (b. 1858 - d.1929) was born on Novembr 7, 1858 in Jackson County, Oregon. He was a miner.

Eff died on December 26, 1929 in a cabin fire in Atolia, California. He is buried in Rand District Cemetery in Johannesburg, California.

Source: findagrave.com.

Charles Farciot (b. 1839 - d.1891) was born in Switzerland in 1839 , By the early 1860's Farciot had crossed the Atlantic and was living in Pennsylvania. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in April of 1861, he enlisted in the 17th Pennsylvania Volunteers. After serving 3 1/2 months in the militia he was discharged in Philadelphia. Later in the war, on October 23, 1863, Farciot re-enlisted, this time in the Navy, and served aboard the Pinola patrolling for blockade runners along the coast of Texas. In 1864, Farciot transferred to the U.S.S. Gertrude stationed out of Galveston, Texas. At the war's end, Farciot was discharged at Mare Island, California. Farciot's whereabouts for the next 14 years remain a mystery and his story continues when he surfaces in Arizona in 1878. During the next four years, Farciot produced a series of stereo views and an album including 110 images of his life and travel between Charleston, Tombstone, and Globe in south central part of the state documenting life in one of the most exciting periods in Arizona's history. Farciot visited many of the mines and growing new settlements during their heyday and made striking photographs the soldiers, settlers, and scouts that called Arizona home. In 1880 Arizona Territory, Charles was living in Charleston as a machinist for the locale mining operations. He then traveled up to San Francisco and joined up with Ed Schieffelin for their journey to Alaska in 1883. Leaving Alaska, he headed down to San Francisco. His photos are also held by the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Charles was the brother-in-law of photographer Alexander Edouart.

Charles Farciot died on November 6, 1891 in Chino, California. He is buried in Pomona Valley Memorial Park in Pomona, California.

Source: findagrave.com; Arizona., Pima County, Voting Records 1876-1926; California Great Registers 1850-1920;US City and Business Directories, California 1749-1990; California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994.

Charles Julius Sauerbrey (b.1855 - d.1916) was born in North Carolina. He was a miner. Sauerbrey was a confederate soldier in the Civil War in 1861-1855 in North Carolina.

He traveled with Ed Schieffelin to Alaska to search for gold.

Charles died on May 17,1916 and is buried in Union Cemetery in Bakersfield, California.

Jack Young-his identity could not be confirmed.

Handwriting on photograph reads: "Edward L. Schieffelin, Born Oct. 8, 1847, Died May 12, 1897. The man who named Tombstone, Arizona".