Elected in 1871 for a one-year term, the municipality formed the township of Tucson with two sections of land purchased from the U.S. government.

[1] He was born to Mary Huston DeLong of Grand Isle, Vermont, on December 28, 1828, in Beekmantown, New York.

On March 20, 1880, the Southern Pacific Railroad arrived in Tucson and business for freighting by horse-drawn wagon collapsed.

DeLong left Tully & Ochoa to trade at Fort Bowie, and later mined gold in the Dos Cabezas, Arizona.

From 1905 until his death DeLong was Secretary of the Arizona Pioneer Society, except one year when he was Receiver of the United States General Land Office.