Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Woodruff, Nodiah December 28 1828 - February 2 1891
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   NOADIAH WOODRUFF was born at Farmington, Conn., December 28, 1828. His
parents were Sylvester and Nancy (Andrews) Woodruff, both of whom were born of
English ancestry and of good families in Connecticut. Mr. Woodruff was reared on
a farm and educated in the common schools of the state. He left the parental
roof when he was twenty-one and came south in 1852, and at Talledega accepted a
clerkship, and remained in that position one year. He then became a merchant at
Mardisville, and for about two years before the war he was located at
Plantersville. When the war came on he sold out his business and went into the
quartermaster's department of the Confederate service; but on account of
ill-health, his military record is not what it would otherwise have been, and he
was discharged; he remained, however, in the commissary department. He came to
Selma in the fall of 1806, having been there some time before the war, and
established himself in business there as a member of the firm of Woodruff &
Woolley. In 1870 Mr. Woolley retired and the firm then became Woodruff & Co. In
1875 Mr. E. W. North was admitted to partnership, the style of the firm being
then changed to Woodruff & North, and it thus remained till the death of Mr.
Woodruff, which occurred February 2, 1891. Mr. Woodruff was also largely
interested in farming, owning valuable possessions in Dallas, Talledega, Shelby,
as well as other counties. He was a Knight Templar, and always conservative in
politics. He participated in public life, neither as a democrat, nor as a
republican, but rather as an independent. He ran once for governor of the state,
and his friends assert that there is every evidence that had a fair count been
permitted he would have been elected. He was three times elected mayor of Selma,
in 1875, 1877 and 1879. When he first accepted the mayoralty Selma was in debt;
but at the end of his third term the city was in a much better condition. He was
twice married; his first wife was Miss Mary Smoot, by whom he had a daughter who
died in 1879, at the age of nineteen, the mother having died in 1863. In May,
1866, Mr. Woodruff married in Talledega county, Miss Sarah E. Keith, by whom he
has one daughter, Ettie, who with her mother survives and lives at Selma. While
Mr. Woodruff was not a member of any church, he was always a warm friend of
religion and education.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 928-929
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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