Larimer County, History of Colorado, BIOS: AULT, Winton M. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 390



WINTON M. AULT.

	Winton M. Ault, attorney at law practicing at the Fort Collins 
bar, was born in Bellaire, Ohio, January 7, 1881, his parents being 
Alexander and Mary E. (Edson) Ault, natives of Ohio and of New York 
respectively. The father is a miller by trade and operated a flour mill 
in Ohio until 1883, when he removed westward with his family to Fort 
Collins, Colorado, where he again engaged in the manufacture of flour. 
Later he devoted his attention to the grain trade for many years and he 
also conducted a hardware store at Fort Collins for some time. He was 
very successful in all that he undertook by reason of his close 
application and persistent purpose. He purchased grain to a 
considerable extent in Weld county and particularly in the town of 
Ault, which was named in his honor. He was regarded for many years as 
one of the most forceful, resourceful and capable business men of his 
section of the state. He is now living retired in the enjoyment of well 
earned rest, making his home at No. 714 West Mountain avenue in Fort 
Collins, but his wife passed away in 1894.

	Winton M. Ault was but two years of age when the family home was 
established in Colorado, so that he was reared and educated in this 
state, being graduated from the Fort Collins high school with the class 
of 1900. He afterward won the Bachelor of Arts degree in the University 
of Denver as a member of the class of 1904, received the Master of Arts 
degree in 1905 and completed a law course In that Institution as, a 
member of the class of 1906. He subsequently took up land in New Mexico 
which he still owns. In the fall of 1907 he opened a law office in Fort 
Collins, where he has since practiced. He is now serving as deputy 
district attorney, a position which he has filled since February, 1915.

	On the 29th of November, 1909, Mr. Ault was married to Miss Nelle 
Woodard, a daughter of John M. Woodard, a Colorado pioneer now residing 
in Pueblo. Mr. Woodard served as state -fish and game commissioner 
under Governor Peabody and is well known as a representative man of the 
west. To. Mr. and Mrs. Ault have been born two children: Mary E., born 
April 22, 1911; and Winton W., October 4, 1916.

	The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian 
church and politically Mr. Ault has always been a democrat He is well 
known as a valued and representative member of the Masonic fraternity, 
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the 
Woodmen of the World and of Beta Theta Pi, a Greek letter fraternity. 
He is also a member of the Colorado Bar Association and the Larimer 
County Bar Association and he enjoys the confidence and trust of 
colleagues and contemporaries in the profession. In his practice he 
holds to a high standard of professional ethics and has been an able 
and conscientious minister in the temple of justice.