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	Jack Swilling
		Jack Swilling (born John), was born in Anderson County, South Carolina on April 1, 1830.
		Swilling was especially interested in the extensive network of canals the ancient Indians had dug to irrigate their fields.
		Swilling called the military at the fort and a meeting was arranged at his house between the post commander Captain George B. Sanford, the Indian agent, and several Phoenix residents.
	members.aol.com /Gibson0817/swilling.htm (980 words)

	CHAPTER XII. EARLY PIONEERS AND SETTLERS (Continued)
		Swilling, known as "Jack Swilling," was born in the state of Georgia in 1831.
		Swilling was known as a kind hearted, generous man, public spirited, and always ready to assist any needy man, or any public enterprise.
		Jack Swilling, whose doors have always been open to the poor alike with those of the rich and plenty, looks forth from the prison cell to the blue heavens where reigns the Supreme Being who will judge of my innocence of the crime which has been brought against me by adventurers and unprincipled reward hunters.
	southwest.library.arizona.edu /hav2/body.1_div.12.html (3663 words)

	Phoenix Homes Guide
		A farmer all his life, Swilling examined the rich soil, and found it was perfect for crops, but the irrigation system that the Hohokam had built so many ions ago had disappeared, making irrigation nearly impossible.
		Shortly afterward, Jack Swilling formed the men into a small farming colony in 1868, four miles from where the city of Phoenix is located today.
		Swilling wanted to name the town Stonewall, after Stonewall Jackson, a Confederate General who Swillling had served under during the Civil War.
	www.phoenixazguide.com /history.htm (951 words)

	InstantMash.net » Jack Swilling Pt. I
		Jack was the eighth of ten children born to George Swilling and Margaret Prince Farrar.
		Jack is cut from revolutionary cloth as his maternal gandfather, Thomas Farrar was a Lieutenant in 1777 in the 5th Regiment, South Carolina Continental Line, according to Mrs.
		Jack Swilling’s father George met Margaret Prince Farrar when she was out on an errand for her mother, the wife of Col. Farrar.
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	Jack Swilling
		Just as Jack Swilling had a prominent hand in bringing the Capital to Prescott in 1864, he had an equally prominent role leading to its being taken away.
		Swilling called the military at the fort and a meeting was arranged at his house between the post commander Captain George B.
		Swilling left for the Rio Grande with his prisoners by April 6, 1862 (Swilling thus could not have commanded the Confederate forces at the upcoming battle of Picacho Pass...he was many, many miles away when the battle occurred.
	thenaturalamerican.com /jack_swilling.htm (3929 words)

	CHAPTER VII. PROGRESS OF SALT RIVER VALLEY. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swilling, an intelligent farmer, is of the opinion that by carefully managing the water from this stream, the entire arable land of the valley could be brought under cultivation.
		Swilling and Starar each had a fine crop of as delicious grapes as ever grew in California, and they, as well as others, have determined to henceforth plant and properly cultivate vineyards.
		The North Extension Ditch was the north lateral of the Swilling Canal, and carried its waters on a parallel and about a mile to the north of the Extension, or main canal.
	digital.library.arizona.edu /southwest/hav6/body.1_div.7.html (4855 words)

	Phoenix, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1867, Jack Swilling of Wickenburg stopped to rest his horse at the foot of the north slopes of the White Tank Mountains.
		The Phoenix post office was established June 15, 1868, with Jack Swilling as postmaster.
		The area was surveyed in 1870 and mass meeting of the citizens of Salt River Valley was held on October 20, 1870, to select a suitable piece of unimproved public land for a town site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona (4258 words)

	Jack Swilling
		Jack Swilling is the legendary founder of the city of Phoenix, but he did not do it alone.
		In 1867, Jack Swilling of Wickenburg stopped to rest his horse at the foot of the north slopes of the White Tank Mountains.
		After securing supplies and hiring sixteen workers, most of whom were unemployed miners, the perceptive Swilling in December 1867 moved his business enterprise to the Salt River Valley, where he began to supervise the cultivation of the rich soil.
	west.stanford.edu /cgi-bin/pager.php?id=62 (361 words)

	Natural History: The Rise of Phoenix - archaeological remains of the Hohokam people can be found throughout Phoenix, ...
		The city's rebirth began in 1867, when Jack Swilling, who had been employed variously as a Confederate soldier, a Union Army scout, and a miner, passed through the area and met John Y. Smith, one of the first settlers.
		By the end of my third afternoon there I was convinced that I had examined nothing less than an extensive system of canals and ditches whose function had once been to bring the water of the river to the farms of a country with rich soil but no rainfall to speak of.
		Jack Swilling began a new career as founder of the Swilling Irrigating and Canal Company, which cleaned out a few of the abandoned canals.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_3_110/ai_73064214 (1543 words)

	Phoenix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swilling's Mill became the new name of the area.
		Swilling, having been a confederate soldier, wanted to name the new settlement Stonewall after Stonewall Jackson.
		They would throw each other into Jack Swilling's first canal, which ran through the campus and had become the "Town Ditch." A total of 1,080 buildings went up that year.
	www.onlineazhomes.com /content/article.html?id=167621 (4722 words)

	Phoenix Trivia \| Phoenix Buzz
		The founder of Phoenix was Jack Swilling, a controversial hot-tempered redhead from South Carolina who came to Arizona in 1858.
		He realized the long parallel mounds leading from the river to the ruins were remnants of an extensive canal system.
		By the spring of 1868, nearly 1,000 acres were in cultivation because of the dam and canals built by the Swilling Ditch Company, the first irrigation ditch company in Phoenix.
	www.thephoenixbuzz.com /trivia.html (265 words)

	azcentral.com travel \| Pueblo Grande, Phoenix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		More than four centuries later, Jack Swilling and other veterans of the Civil War arrived in the Valley to grow hay for horses at military posts and dray animals at far-flung boomtown mines around the Arizona territory.
		When Swilling happened upon the ancient canal system, he discovered that all he needed to do to make the system usable again was to clear debris from the canals.
		Swilling's Ditch became local lore and part of it was located about where America West Airlines' hangars stand today.
	www.azcentral.com /travel/arizona/features/articles/archive/0219pueblogrande.html (632 words)

	Jack Swilling
		Just as Jack Swilling had a prominent hand in bringing the Capital to Prescott in 1864, he had an equally prominent role leading to its being taken away.
		Swilling called the military at the fort and a meeting was arranged at his house between the post commander Captain George B.
		Swilling left for the Rio Grande with his prisoners by April 6, 1862 (Swilling thus could not have commanded the Confederate forces at the upcoming battle of Picacho Pass...he was many, many miles away when the battle occurred.
	www.thenaturalamerican.com /jack_swilling.htm (3929 words)

	Area 52: Wanted: Daniel Jackson For The Murder Of Jack O'neill
		He'd always felt that Jack never quite got the respect he was due and the archaeologist was trying to shift the balance in Jack's favour a little.
		Jack was thinking about Daniel's fish and the attempts to assassinate his character in front of his peers and figured that maybe Daniel deserved just a little gentle payback.
		Jack smiled at his reflection in the mirror and that of his lover.
	stargateslash.com /asg/gateroller/wanted.php (1454 words)

	History and information about Picacho, Arizona
		Jack Swilling were returning from the Pima country after confiscating provisions intended for Union troops at Fort Yuma.
		Coming from the opposite direction, unknown to the Swilling party, was a company under Capt. William P.
		From that group Lt. James Barret with a detachment of cavalry detoured and struck Swilling's men on the flank in Picacho Pass.
	jeff.scott.tripod.com /picacho.html (379 words)

	Parks & Recreation - Maricopa County
		The traditional account of settlement of the Salt River Valley credits a former Confederate Officer and gold seeker, Jack Swilling, with the beginning of the modern irrigation in central Arizona.
		Swilling came into the Valley in 1867 and noted the presence of ancient canal systems of the early Native Americans who had irrigated the same lands.
		The first Swilling canal brought water to fields east of the present Arizona State Hospital near Phoenix and inspired the beginning of other canal building.
	www.maricopa.gov /parks/usery/History.aspx (519 words)

	Phoenix Bed and Breakfast Maricopa Manor Arizona Accommodations
		This name was given to the first permanent residence built in the Valley in 1867 by Jack Swilling, who developed the modern irrigation system from the remains of the ancient Ho Ho Kam settlement.
		Jack is recognized as the founder and father of Phoenix, and the early settlers knew him for his warm hospitality.
		Jack and his wife, Trinidad Escalante Swilling, opened their doors and their hearts to many a weary traveler.
	www.maricopamanor.com /history.html (457 words)

	Phoenix Arizona Real Estate - Phoenix Arizona Investment - Phoenix Arizona Relocation
		Swilling saw farm land, mostly free of rocks, in a place beyond the reach of frost or snow.
		Swilling, a former Confederate soldier, wanted to name the settlement Stonewall after Stonewall Jackson.
		A post office was opened on June 15, 1868 with Jack Swilling as postmaster.
	www.daltonsazhomes.com /index.cgi?page=phoenix (970 words)

	ARIZONA LEGEND - About Jacob 'The Dutchman' Waltz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swilling began a campaign to clear out and reopen the ancient ditches and canals of the Salt River Valley abandoned by the Hohokum Indian hundreds of years before.
		Many didn’t believe Swilling could pull off such a scheme, but he proved them wrong and the renewed waterways became the lifeblood of the community.
		One particular canal Swilling reopened, called the ‘Dutch Ditch,’ was said to have been created in part due to the hired labor of Jacob Waltz and several other German immigrants.
	www.azlegend.com /azl/trulegend/tlegend_waltz.asp (2371 words)

	The Apartment Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		There are charming moments in the film: the introduction of a pop-culture phrase still in existence, film-wise (that's it: "fill-in-the-blank- wise "), and Baxter's use of a tennis racket as pasta strainer are the most memorable.
		The numerous character actors in supporting roles are uniformly excellent, with special mention going to Jack Kruschen (Baxter's doctor neighbor), Edie Adams (Sheldrake's scheming, jilted secretary), and an unrecognizable Ray Walston, who later landed the title role in My Favorite Martian (here he plays Cheater #1, a.k.a.
		In fairness to the film, the acting is good (excepting MacMurray); the direction is pretty strong (Billy Wilder was famous for a reason); the dialogue fast, if not very interesting—the elements are all there, and clearly it's a beloved film, yet it landed in the hands of a reviewer who found it tedious.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=46 (965 words)

	SRP: Our water history
		One of the adventurers was John W. "Jack" Swilling, who first observed the impressions left by ancient irrigation canals constructed by the Hohokam Indians centuries before.
		Swilling was intrigued with the challenge of re-constructing these canals to deliver water from the Salt River to land that could be cultivated.
		His enthusiasm attracted business partners, and soon the Swilling Irrigating Canal Company dug what is now known as Swilling's Ditch.
	www.srpnet.com /about/history/water.aspx (3100 words)

	Elliott West, Familes - the Connective Tissue in the American West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swilling scouted for the army, and was a key figure in the betrayal and capture, under a flag of truce, of the greatest war leader of the eastern Apaches, Mangus Coloradus (Red Sleeves).
		Jack Swilling married a Mexican woman and adopted an Apache boy, Chicken Hawk.
		When deep in his cups Jack was fond of inventing all sorts of boasts, and one day a barroom claim that he had robbed a stage just happened to overlap with an actual event.
	www.edheritage.org /projects/archivedpages/a98ewest.htm (4514 words)

	Swillling's Cabin - Arizona Ghost Town
		Jack Swilling was one of the more unusual characters in 19th century Arizona history: he was an Indian fighter, miner, rancher, farmer, developer, entrepreneur, and a hell-raiser.
		During his trips as a courier, he encountered the abandoned canals and irrigation ditches left behind by the Hohokam along the Salt River, and eventually founded the Swilling Irrigation Canal Company--to re-open and use them to water the fertile soil in the area.
		Later, Swilling moved to Gillett (q.v.), but he kept the cabin until his death in 1878.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/az/swillingscabin.html (170 words)

	RCI.com City Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Traveling on horseback, Jack Swilling of Wickenburg stopped to take a rest, looked out upon the vast expanse of desert, experienced the favorable weather and envisioned a farming community.
		The lack of available water was the primary obstacle, so he organized the Swilling Irrigation Canal Company to divert water to the Valley's land.
		The idea for a new name for the tiny settlement was born from the idea that, just as the legendary phoenix rises up from the ashes, the new town would spring from the ruins of a former civilization.
	www.rci.com /CDA/wcities/tmpwcitiesinfo/1,6038,HISTORY\|77\|Phoenix\|,00.html (969 words)

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		The earliest memories I have of my dad are of his Saturday nights at the kitchen table with his favorite companion – Jack Daniels.
		His other companions were Fats Domino, Boots Randolph, Marty Robbins…whoever he was crooning along with as the music spilled from the vinyl spinning on the turn table.
	autumnsongs.org /weblog/index.php?cat=19 (645 words)

	Kirkland-McKinney Ditch - Tempe, Arizona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In late 1867, J. "Jack" Swilling and several other men living in Wickenberg formed a canal company to build a channel on the north bank of the Salt River.
		These men would be the first to irrigate in the valley during the historical period, and that project, along with a few others that followed the next year, helped precipitate the founding of the Phoenix townsite.
		In that same month, Swilling and others formed the Hardy Canal Company to provide water for another farming venture south of the river, which would be invaluable to the success of Hayden’s flouring mill operation.
	www.tempe.gov /museum/hps232.htm (674 words)

	bblog: Park of Four Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Their extensive canal system inspired Phoenix founder Jack Swilling to start his own canal project to irrigate the Salt River Valley.
		The canal he dug with his employees—known as the Swilling Ditch or the Town Ditch after he left Phoenix—is located not far from this place underneath one of Sky Harbor 's runways.
		This, and the fact that many of Phoenix's early canals were made from widening and deepening Hohokam ones, is a testament to the sagacity of that ancient people.
	www.bbrown.info /blogs/bblog/archives/park-of-four-waters.cfm (563 words)

	Encyclopedia: Phoenix, Arizona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John Jack Swilling (April 1, 1830 – August 12, 1878) was one of the original founders of the city of Phoenix, Arizona.
		Some Confederate soldiers The Confederate States Army (CSA) was formed in February, 1861, to defend the Confederate States of America, which had itself been formed that same year when seven southern states seceded from the United States (with four more to follow).
		May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Phoenix%2C-Arizona (9658 words)

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		He saw farmland, predominantly free of rocks, and beyond the reach of heavy frost or snow.
		As for the town that was to be built, Swilling, a former Confederate soldier, wanted to name it Stonewall, after Stonewall Jackson; others suggested Salina.
		The town of Phoenix was officially recognized on May 4, 1868, when the Board of Supervisors of Yavapai County (which at the time encompassed Phoenix), formed an election precinct there.
	www.ticketspecialists.com /cities/phoenix_city.htm (517 words)

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