Charles Adelbert Canfield (May 15, 1848 – August 15, 1913) was an American oilman and real estate developer.

In 1869, he moved to Colorado and struggled to find silver in the American Southwest for seventeen years.

[1][2][3][4][5] In 1900, he and Burton E. Green, Max Whittier, Frank H. Buck, Henry E. Huntington, William F. Herrin and William G. Kerckhoff purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H.

[1] She was murdered in 1906 by a disgruntled employee called Morris Buck who had been fired five years earlier for leaving the Canfields' horses unattended and beating them.

[8] The couple served as witnesses to the marriage of silent film stars Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan in October 1924.