MRS. GERTRUDE HUGHES WOODWARD
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913 pg. 645

Reared in an atmosphere where interest centered upon 
activities for the benefit of mankind, Gertrude Hughes 
Woodward naturally entered upon such work and her influence 
has long been a potent factor in advancing those things 
which work for progress, improvement and higher ideals.  
She was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, in July 1869, a 
daughter of Governor L.C. and Josephine B. Hughes, both 
of whom have been active workers for Arizona's growth.  
She was brought by her mother to Arizona in 1872 and was 
reared amid early pioneer conditions.  After attending St. 
Joseph's Academy at Tucson she continued her studies in 
Snell's Seminary for Young Ladies at Oakland, California, 
spending two years there, after which she entered Linden 
Hall Seminary, a Moravian institution at Lititz, 
Pennsylvania.  Following her graduation in 1888 she 
remained for a year's post-graduate study and later 
became a student in the New England Conservatory of 
Music at Boston devoting four years there to the study 
of music, dramatic art, physical culture and languages 
being graduated with the class of 1894.  She returned 
to Tucson to accept the professorship of dramatic art, 
English History and physical culture at the University 
of Arizona, being the first woman instructor appointed 
a member of the university faculty.  She remained in 
that position for four years and in 1898 she became the 
wife of professor Sherman Woodward, a member of the 
university faculty, who continued work in Arizona for a 
time and was then tendered and accepted a more advanced 
position as a professor of hydraulics and electrical 
engineering in the University of Iowa.

In 1911 Mrs. Woodward went abroad accompanied by her two 
children, Miriam and Ronald, that they might have the 
benefits of European travel.  Mrs. Woodward was reared 
in a home where the deepest interest was felt in all the 
vital problems and questions of the day.  She has also 
worked for suffrage and for temperance.

USGenWeb Project NOTICE: 
In keeping with our policy of providing free information 
on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as
long as this message remains on all copied material. These 
electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for
profit, nor for commercial presentation by any other organization. 

Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must 
obtain express written permission from the author, or 
the submitter and from the 
listed USGenWeb Project archivist. 

submitted by burns@asu.edu