HARMON, Lon

Arizona Independent Republic 5/5/1933 Page 1 IN ILL HEALTH for a number of years, Lon L. Harmon, 71-year-old cattleman and a former mayor, died yesterday in a local hospital. Mr. Harmon had been a resident of the valley for 49 years, coming here during construction in Arizona of one of the first railroads. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the First Baptist church here, the Rev. C. Arlin Heydon, pastor, and the Rev. George R. Probert of Tempe will be officiating. Burial will be made in Greenwood Memorial park. Elected mayor of Phoenix in 1922, Mr. Harmon was forced to resign within a year because of ill health. During his residence in the state he acquired considerable ranch property and gained prominence in the stock raising industry in Arizona, serving at one time as president of the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association. Born in Lincoln County, West Virginia, in 1861, Mr. Harmon came West as a youth to Colorado and New Mexico. He came to Arizona as a contractor for railroad ties, establishing his home in Tempe in 1884, where he soon was joined by his family. His introduction to the cattle business was as a buyer for a Los Angeles packing company. He entered the cattle raising business 29 years ago, acquiring Camp Wood, a ranch near Prescott. Besides serving as President of the Arizona Cattlemans Growers', he at one time was an official of the National Cattle Growers' Association. He also, was a director of the Phoenix National Bank at one time, and later was appointed by former Gov. George W. P.Hunt as chairman of the Arizona State Sanitary Board. He owned considerable business property here and ranches near Peoria and Tempe as well as at Camp Wood. Surviving relatives at the widow, Mrs. Edith Kay Harmon; a daughter, Mrs. Leona Harmon Campbell; two grandchildren Germain and Robert Ball, and a sister, Mrs. Virginia Lewis, Tempe.