Bio of AINSWORTH, Shepard Alcide (b.1857 d.1912), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

SHEPARD ALCIDE AINSWORTH - Vol II, pg 602, 605
Shepard Alcide Ainsworth, who for thirty years was associated with the 
Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, occupying the responsible position of 
cashier for a long period prior to his death, which occurred on the 26th 
of November, 1912, spent his boyhood and youth in his native town of Cape 
Vincent, New York, his birth having there occurred February 25, 1857. He 
was a son of Bruce and Julia (Sacket) Ainsworth and in the maternal line 
traced his ancestry back through several generations to Revolutionary war 
stock.

His education was acquired in the place of his nativity and he continued 
to make his home in the Empire state until about twenty-five years of 
age, when attracted by the opportunities of the growing west, he made his 
way to Minneapolis, where he arrived about 1882. The Pillsbury milling 
interests were then rapidly developing and he entered into active 
association with this company, with which his capability and business 
fidelity won him promotion. His powers were recognized in a steady 
advance­ment that brought him to the position of cashier and he was 
acting in that capacity at the time of his death.

In the year 1898 Mr. Ainsworth was united in marriage to Mrs. Helen 
(Hale) Haworth, a daughter of District Judge William Hale, and they 
became parents of two children: Florence, who is now the wife of Edward 
Spaulding Gould, a son of George P. Gould of Minneapolis; and William 
Hale, who is at home.

In his political views Mr. Ainsworth was a lifelong republican, giving 
stalwart allegiance to the party from the time that age conferred upon 
him the right of fran­chise. He was a communicant of the Episcopal church 
and high principles guided him in all the relations of life and caused 
his memory, when he passed away at the age of fifty-six years, to be 
cherished and revered by all with whom he had been associated. He had 
gained many warm friends during the period of his residence in 
Minneapolis and was numbered among her honored sons.