Judge Rawghlie C. Stanford
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 462

Judge Rawghlie C. Stanford is one of Arizona's youngest 
citizens, his birth having occurred en route to this 
state from Texas in 1879, his parents being M.A. and 
M.J. (Gamble) Stanford.  The father who was a cattle 
man, removed from Alabama to Texas, when a youth of 
thirteen, in the early 1860's and was reared upon the 
Texas frontier.  In 1882 he left Texas and became a 
permanent resident of Arizona.  He was the owner of a 
cattle ranch in this state and in 1889 removed to the 
Salt River Valley where he engaged in raising stock.  
Their family numbered but two sons, the elder being E.A. 
Stanford who is now a resident of San Diego, California 
where he is engaged in the lumber business.

The younger son, Rawghlie C. Stanford, acquired his 
preliminary education in the country schools in Creighton 
district and then took up the study of law under Thomas 
Armstrong, Jr, an attorney of Phoenix.  In 1905 he was 
admitted to the bar in Cochise County where he practiced 
for four years coming to Phoenix in 1909.  He became a 
member of the firm of Stanford, Walton and Townsend, in 
which he continued until 1914.  In that year he was 
elected superior judge of Maricopa County.

In 1907 Mr. Stanford was married to Miss Ruth Butchee of 
Buffalo Gap, Texas and their family numbers three children: 
Rawghlie C. Jr., Margaret T. and Sharon.



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