Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Ainsworth, Frederick Crayton

AINSWORTH, FREDERICK CRAYTON, an American soldier, born in Woodstock, Vt., in 1852. He studied medicine at the Medical College of New York and was appointed assistant surgeon in the army in 1874. He was promoted to various grades until in 1892 he became a colonel and Chief of the Record and Pension Office. He was appointed Brigadier-General in 1899 and Major-General and Military Secretary in 1904, and Major-General and Adjutant-General of the United States in 1907. He was retired at his own request in 1912. He was an efficient administrator of the Adjutant-General's office, and introduced many improved methods of carrying on the business of the War Department.