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| George Woodruff | 43 | M | Attorney at Law | 2,000 | NY | |
| Augusta " | 35 | F | NY | |||
| William " | 11 | M | MI | At school | ||
| George " | 9 | M | MI | At school |
| George Woodruff | 53 | M | Farmer | 1,500 | 250 | NY | |
| Augusta " | 44 | F | NY | ||||
| Willie " | 22 | M | Teacher | MI | |||
| George " | 20 | M | West Point Cadet | MI | |||
| Montgomery " | 18 | M | College Student | MI | |||
| Sarah " | 16 | F | Teacher | MI | At school | ||
| Julia " | 14 | F | MI | At school | |||
| Nellie " | 14 | F | MI | At school | |||
| Carrie " | 4 | F | MI | At school | |||
| Mary Branigan | 15 | F | Domestic | MI | |||
| Mrs. Ruida Woodruff | 84 | F | MA |
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He was born in Marshall, Mich., March 30th, 1842 and was the third son of Hon. George Woodruff and Augusta Schuyler Woodruff. There are few now surviving who lived in Marshall at that distant day and those few were children with him. But the memory of his early life and of all his years since, down to the sudden end is very bright, beautiful and inspiring to all who at any time had the privilege of his love, his companionship, his ever quick and helpful sympathy, his wise advice. He was educated in the public schools of Marshall, and assisted largely by his father who was one of the finest classical scholars in the state, he prepared for a college course and entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1859. He was a fine ardent student, as well as a great favorite socially with his college mates, but before his course was completed, the [C]ivil war burst upon the country and he gladely gave it all up and following the example of his two older brothers, George and William enlisted in the army. He served in the western army in Merrill’s Horse, and though but twenty years of age made a splendid record for brave devotion to duty of which any man might well be proud. He alone of his father’s sons survived the war, his brother George a West Point graduate dying gloriously at the head of his battery at Gettysburg, and [William at] the siege before Petersburg. Soon after the close of the war Mr. Woodruff took up the studies for the Episcopal ministry. He was ordained in 1866 and after a short time in the missionary field in that state he went to Missouri. Here as a missionary in Saline county he put in thirteen years of tireless effort riding on horseback winter and summer through his field. From Missouri he came back to his home state, being located successively at Big Rapids, Ypsilanti, and finally in Benton Harbor where he made his permanent home. In 1872 he married Emma Lorder at St. Louis, Mo., who survives him with two sons, George, of Ogden, Utah; Captain William S. of the U.S. army; Eleanor, wife of George Perrett of this city, and Margaret E., wife of Lieut. Agard Bailey, now stationed in the Philippines. Such is the bare outline of the life of Rev. Montgomery S. Woodruff whose sudden death, for though seventy years of age, he seemed so full of life and hope and joy and animatied by all the enthusiasm of the young, comes with the shock of bereavement as though he were still in the early prime of life and few that are of any age who will leave so many loving hearts behind. He was a man of much culture, who craved the simple life and studied nature close at hand. He had natural artistic tastes, which he cultivated as much as time and opportunity would permit. His soul was full of all generous emotions, and he was quick to pour out his all, not merely for his own, but for all the afflicted sons of men. Full of modesty, tender as a woman, he was a man of strength for all who needed him. By his unaffected integrity, and proferred sympathy for all, he was equally the favorite in the cabin of the poor as in the home of wealth and culture. This trait of genuine humanity left a path of good behind him, in all his walks and many a man he touched and lifted up to higher planes, whom very few could ever have reached. His bright and happy smile so full of affection, his buoyant spirits so full of uplifting grace, his winning companionship, his loyal devotion, and ready aid for all have left his world, but the gracious, influence of that personality still survive and will survive through how many coming years, none can know, to make this world warmer, better, cleaner, sweeter, because of his life here. And for him we know that the future must be well. [The Evening Chronicle, Saturday, January 11, 1918, p.2, c.5-7] [Many additional articles on Judge George Woodruff, father and George Woodruff, son of M. S. Woodruff] |
