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William M. Woodruff |
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WILLIAM M. WOODRUFF, insurance agent, Meadville, was born May 30, 1843, in Portage County, Ohio, and is a son of Chauncey and Paulina (Bray) Woodruff, natives of Connecticut, and of English and Scotch descent. His father died in 1851, and his mother lived to be eighty-six years of age. Our subject is the youngest of a family of eleven children, and at the age of eighteen he learned telegraphy, which he followed until 1872. Since then he has been in the employment of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, and is now district agent. He was married December 25, 1866, to Jessie Wood, and they have three children: William B., Frank M. and Harry P. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which for several years he has been Steward and Trustee, and f or seven years Treasurer. History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 775 . |
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