Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Woodruff, William Wallace 1844 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    WILLIAM WALLACE WOODRUFF, retired, of Santa Monica, is a native of
Fluteville, in the town of Litchfield, Conn., and was born May 20th, 1844. His
father, Isaac B. Wroodruff, descended from the earliest colonists of that name
in Connecticut, and became a successful manufacturer of fifes at Fifeville.
Later he, with W. L. Gilbert, founded the W. L. Gilbert Clock Company at
Wrinstead, Litchfield county, Conn., which is one of the most extensive
institutions of its kind on the western continent. He was, for fifty years,
until the time of his death, a moving spirit in the development of the business.
Mr. W7oodrufr grew up at Winstead and, at eighteen years of age, entered the
Federal army, was soon detailed as a musician and served as a fifer in Company
G, Nineteenth Connecticut Infantry. He served from 1862 to September 15th, 1865,
during which time he played a solid silver instrument, the production of his
father's factory at Fifeville. Upon the close of the war he returned home,
entered the employ of the Gilbert Clock Company and became thoroughly familiar
with all the intricacies of clock making, developing an instinctive mechanical
genius that became invaluable to him in his business. By reason of impaired
health, he came to California in 1903 and is one of Santa Monica's esteemed
citizens. He is a member of the G. A. R. and one of the founders of the Stephen
Jackson Post of Santa Monica. Mr. Woodruff is prolific in vivid reminiscences of
the Civil War and plays with as much life and relish the popular airs and war
songs as when a lad leading the boys in blue to battle, nearly half a century ago.

    Mr. Woodruff married at Litchfield, Conn., in 1887, Miss Eleanor Loraine
Smith who, during their five years' residence in Santa Monica, has gained many
steadfast friends.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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