Maricopa County AZ Archives Biographies.....Ainsworth, Charles F. January 3, 1853 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 451-452

  CHARLES F. AINSWORTH. The bar of Phoenix, Arizona, has won an enviable
reputation all over the country for the erudition, success and courtesy of its
members, many of whom have achieved a national reputation for their ability and
a correct apprehension of what pertains to the profession. Among those who stand
deservedly high as members of this bar with his brother lawyers and with the
courts, is Charles F. Ainsworth. He was born in Lisbon, St. Lawrence County, New
York, January 3, 1853, and is descended from prominent English stock. In tracing
the genealogy of this family we find that the first member to settle in the
United States was Edward Ainsworth, who left Lancaster, England, in 1652, and
settled in Roxbury, Mass., where his descendants lived for many years. Later
certain members moved to different localities as did the father of our subject.
The latter grew to sturdy manhood on a farm in York State and received his
primary education in the common schools. In the fall of 1870 he entered St.
Lawrence University at Canton, and was graduated in the scientific course in
June of 1874. During this time he taught school in the winter seasons and worked
on a farm during his summer vacations graduating with his class, however, in
1874. In the fall and winter of 1874-75 he took a principalship in the
Ogdensburg Institute and read medicine under Dr. C. C. Bartholomew while thus
engaged. In the spring of 1875 he went to Wisconsin and entered the law school
of the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, and graduated in June, 1876. The
following July he began practicing law at Black River Falls, Jackson County,
Wisconsin, and continued there from that time until November, 1888. For ten
years he was district attorney of that county, being elected five times on the
Republican ticket. Mr. Ainsworth came to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1888, and here he
has made his home since. He has never been associated with any one in his
profession, preferring to be alone, and makes a specialty of corporation law. He
is attorney for many of the principal corporations of the Salt River Valley,
viz.: The Valley Bank of Phoenix, Arizona Improvement Company, Arizona Canal
Company, Maricopa Canal Company, Grand Canal Company, Salt River Valley Canal
Company, The Highland Land & Water Company, the Valley Canal & Land Company,
Phoenix City Railroad Company, Phoenix Light and Fuel Company, Phoenix Water
Company, of which he is president. He is attorney for the Casa Grand Canal
Company at Florence, and for The Phoenix Consolidated Gold Mining Company. Mr.
Ainsworth selected his wife in the person of Miss Minnie A. Southworth, of
Canton, New York, whose ancestors came over in the Mayflower, and their union
was celebrated July 12, 1875. Four children have been given them, as follows:
Frank, born November 25, 1877; Sylvia, born September 10, 1880; Arthur Mark,
born February 14, 1883, and Ruth, born August 30, 1887. He is a prominent Mason,
being a member of the Commandery, Shrine and Scottish Rite.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896

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