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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [345]

           THOMAS B. WOODWORTH, Prosecuting Attorney of Huron County,
        residing at Caseville, was born Oct. 2, 1841, in Rose Township,
        Wayne Co., N.Y., and is the son of STEPHEN E. and RACHEL (BELL)
        WOODWORTH.  His father is of English descent, and was born in 1815
        and is now a resident of Champagne Co., Ill. He has been a merchant
        all his life. The mother was born in 1822, and died July 20, 1845.
        She was of Irish parentage. Both parents were born in New York.
           MR. WOODWORTH was but four years of age when his mother died,
        and he went to live with his grandfather BELL, in Cayuga Co., N.Y.,
        where he remained until he attained his majority. He obtained his
        early education at the common schools of New York, and later was
        sent to the seminary at Cazenovia, where he was graduated in 1861.
        He then became a farmer on his own responsibility, and continued
        in that line of business until 1867, the year of his removal to
        Caseville. He interested himself in lumbering, in which he passed
        three years, and in 1870 was elected County Surveyor, in which
        position he officiated several years. He also served as Supervisor
        from 1868 to 1875 inclusive. In 1876 he was elected on the
        Republican ticket to represent his district in the Legislature of
        Michigan, and in the same year was admitted to the Bar of Michigan.
        He was elected to his present official position in 1882.
           MR. WOODWORTH was married Oct. 6, 1864, to GERTRUDE M. SMITH,
        and they have five children: PHILIP B. was born Oct. 19, 1865;
        PAUL, Sept. 3, 1869; ROBERT S., May 9, 1872; FREDERICK L., Jan. 8,
        1877; GERTRUDE E., Nov. 12, 1878.  The mother is the daughter of
        PHILIP M. and HARRIET (NICHOLS) SMITH. She was graduated at Caze-
        novia Seminary in 1862, and, with her husband, belongs to the
        Methodist Episcopal Church.

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