"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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WILLIAM HENRY PRESLY WOODWARD is descended from the English and Welsh. His
parents, William and Lavina (Munsee) Woodward, spent their lives in
Virginia--the mother, who lived seventeen years after the death of the
father, having died in 1834. They had three children; the youngest,
William H. P., was born in Lee County, Va., September 30, 1816, and came to
Mooresville in the spring of 1835, having walked all the way. From fourteen
to eighteen years of age, he learned the tailor's trade, and followed it for
several years after coming to Mooresville. October 17, 1839, he was married
to Keziah Bray, daughter of John H. Bray, one of the early settlers of
Morgan County. She bore him five children, two of whom--Sarah and
Ella--were living at her death, December 1, 1858. August 25, 1859, our
subject married Lydia E. Thompson, who has borne him one child--Mattie, wife
of W. A. Comer, of Martinsville, Ind. In 1853, Mr. Woodward accepted a
clerkship with Holman Johnson in the mercantile business, and at the end of
four years, in partnership with D. Fogleman, bought his employer out, since
which time he has continued in the goods business, Mr. Fogleman having
retired from the firm in 1856. July 3, 1881, his business house was
consumed by fire, as was also much of his stock; but by the fall of the
same year he had rebuilt, and was again in business at the old stand. He
received little schooling. His father was a school-teacher, but his
step-father took no interest in him. Mr. W. is a prominent member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and a Republican. He inherited from his father
one old book, and from his grandfather $65. What else he has has been
acquired by his industry, and though somewhat crippled by the burning of his
store and by friends (?), for whom he unwisely indorsed, he is yet full of
life and energy, and possessed of sufficient property to insure ease and
tranquillity to his declining years.
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