Charles C. Woolf
Arizona The Youngest State, 1913, pg 383

The Arizona bar numbers among its representatives no more 
prominent, able or successful man than Charles C. Woolf, 
now city attorney of Tempe and in control of a large and 
growing private practice there.  In a profession where 
advancement comes only in recognition of superior merit 
and ability he has made steady and rapid progress and 
extending his activities beyond merely professional lines, 
has influenced in an important way local public development.

He was born in Kentucky in 1871, and is a son of J.W. and 
Mary A. (McConnell) Woolf, also natives of that state.  
They went from there to Colorado in 1875 and thence to New 
Mexico in 1879.  Ten years later they removed to Arizona, 
settling in Tempe, where the father engaged in farming and 
the cattle business, occupations with which he was connected 
during the entire period of his active life.  He became 
prominent in local politics and was honored by election 
to the territorial legislature, serving with ability and 
conscientiousness in 1897 and in 1903, his influence 
being always on the side of right and progress, and he 
is now living retired in Tempe, enjoying a period of 
rest and leisure following many years of earnest and 
straightforward work.

Charles C. Woolf acquired his early education under the 
instruction of private tutors and in the public schools 
of Trinidad Colorado.  He was afterward a student in the 
State Normal School at Tempe Arizona from which he was 
graduated in 1892.  Having determined to study law, he 
entered the law school of the University of Denver, where 
he remained a student for one year and then matriculated 
to the University of Colorado at Boulder from which he 
was graduated in 1896.  Prior to his graduation he was 
admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Colorado in 
February of that year.  He began the practice of law in 
Phoenix in 1896 but after one year opened an office in 
Tempe where he has since continued to make his home, 
being numbered today among the well known and prominent 
residents of the city.  Mr. Woolf specializes in 
litigation connected with irrigation and having made 
an exhaustive study of all the phases of this question 
is considered an authority upon everything relating to 
it, his reputation having the solid backing of 
accomplishments.  He has successfully represented 
the interest of the Tempe Canal Company and took an 
important part in the water litigation in the Salt 
River Valley.  His able presentation of his clients' 
interests, his conduct of the cases entrusted to him 
and the success which has steadily attended his 
professional work have drawn to him a large patronage 
connecting him with a great deal of litigation.  In 
addition to his private practice, he is serving as 
city attorney of Tempe .  In January 1912 Mr. Woolf 
was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the 
U.S.

In 1903 Mr. Woolf married Miss Ruby M. Tucker, a native of 
Kansas and a graduate of the Tempe Normal School and they 
are the parents of two children.

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