From the age of five until his decease, a period of nearly seventy-one years, Mr. James Ainslie made his home in Louisville. Perhaps he is best known from his connection with the Ainslie-Cochran Company, which, in its day, was the best-equipped foundry in the South. He was the practical man in this corporation. He was an original incorporator of the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company, of which he was for a while president, and at the time of his death a director. He was also at the time of his decease president of the Louisville Woolen Mills. In business he was specially noted for the clear-headed and energetic way in which he undertook anything. Perhaps his most distinguishing single characteristic was honesty. One of his associates said: " I was intimately connected with Mr. Ainslie for twenty-one years. In all that time I never knew him to be involved in a single questionable transaction or to make a single misrepresentation. He was the soul of 'honor.' He was a very charitable man, who disliked nothing more than to have his gifts and subscriptions to various charities attract attention."
From the age of five until his decease, a period of nearly seventy-one years, Mr. James Ainslie made his home in Louisville. Perhaps he is best known from his connection with the Ainslie-Cochran Company, which, in its day, was the best-equipped foundry in the South. He was the practical man in this corporation. He was an original incorporator of the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company, of which he was for a while president, and at the time of his death a director. He was also at the time of his decease president of the Louisville Woolen Mills. In business he was specially noted for the clear-headed and energetic way in which he undertook anything. Perhaps his most distinguishing single characteristic was honesty. One of his associates said: " I was intimately connected with Mr. Ainslie for twenty-one years. In all that time I never knew him to be involved in a single questionable transaction or to make a single misrepresentation. He was the soul of 'honor.' He was a very charitable man, who disliked nothing more than to have his gifts and subscriptions to various charities attract attention."
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