Pitkin County CO Archives Biographies.....Woodward, Henry E. March 15, 1857 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Prominent, influential and highly esteemed in mining circles in Colorado,

and ardently interested in agriculture and the means of irrigating the soil to

make it productive, Henry E. Woodward, of Aspen, is one of the leading citizens

of the Western slope, and has for years been active and serviceable in promoting

its progress and the development of its resources.  He was born in Dane county,

Wisconsin, at the city of Madison, on March 15, 1857, and is the son of George

E. and Marion (Ashworth) Woodward, both natives of England, the father of

Birmingham and the mother of Manchester.  The father came to the United States

and settled in Wisconsin when a boy.  He attended the public schools and the

State University, being one of the first graduates from the law department of

this institution.  In his early manhood he was connected with the newspaper

business in connection with Judge Welsch, who was also a lawyer.  Later he

practiced his profession at Madison and achieved a gratifying success in the

work.  Although an ardent Democrat in politics, he voted for Abraham Lincoln for

President on the slavery issue.  He was a member of the Episcopal church and of

the Society of St. George.  Three children were born in the family, Henry F.,

Mrs. Florence Hasting Disbrow, of California, and Mrs. Nettie L. Ingham, of

Aspen.  Henry E., the first born, received his preparatory education in the

public schools and after completing the high-school course entered a private

school for a special course of training in engineering.  He then took up the

study of mining.  In the spring of 1876 he made a trip into the Black Hills,

returning to Cheyenne in the fall of the same year, where he became employed as

a clerk and bookkeeper, continuing as such until 1878.  Then, having saved a

little money, he began mining on his own account, entering the mines at

Leadville as a common miner, pushing trucks and doing other work of the kind. 

He has since served in every capacity in the business and at present (1904) is

manager of some of the leading properties in the neighborhood of his residence.

 He has also done important engineering work at different times and places.  In

1886 he came to live at Aspen, and here his first work was in connection with

the litigation in which some of the mines were engaged.  He then became foreman

of the Spar Consolidated Mining Company under H.B. Gillespie, then its manager

and one of its principal owners.  He next took charge of the Percy Mining

Company’s property as superintendent, and has been connected with the properties

of that company ever since, even after the change of name to the Percy-La Salle

Mining & Power Company, following the consolidation of the Percy with the Castle

Creek Tunnel & Power Company, a corporation that now controls over two hundred

acres of good mining land.  In politics Mr. Woodward ardently supported

Democratic principles and candidates until the year 1893, when he joined the

free silver party.  In religious belief he is a firm Seventh-day Adventist.  On

May 2, 1887, he was married to Miss Emma Patton, a native of Greensburg, Decatur

county, Indiana, and daughter of Nathanial Scott and Josephine Patton.  Her

father was a captain in an Indiana regiment in the Civil war, and after the

close of the memorable contest conducted the National Hotel at Terre Haute,

Indiana.  He was a Whig and later a Republican in politics, and a member of the

Masonic order, and both he and his wife were Methodists in church affiliation. 

In his earlier manhood he was a farmer and school teacher.  Both parents died a

number of years ago, leaving two surviving children, William H. Patton and Mrs.

Woodward.  Mr. Woodward is largely interested in farming and irrigation in Delta

county, and by his intelligence and breadth of view he has been of great and

lasting service to those interests in that section.  He is highly esteemed as a

wise and practical man, a good citizen and a progressive force in all the

elements of county and state improvement and advancement.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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