Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Woodruff, Harry Wheeler, M D 
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Author: Past and Present Will County IL; 1907

Dr. Harry Wheeler Woodruff is a well known representative of professional 
ranks in Joliet, where he is engaged in successful practice as an oculist and 
aurist. He was born in this city February 18, 1868. His father, George H. 
Woodruff, was a native of Clinton, New York, born in 1814, and in the year 
1834 became a resident of Joliet-when the now thriving city was a mere hamlet. 
For several years he engaged in clerking in the general store owned by Martin 
H. Demmond and later he engaged in the drug business on his own account. He 
was for many years one of the most distinguished and honored citizens of Will 
county and a more fitting memorial of his life, its virtues and its 
accomplishments is given on another page of this work. Dr. Woodruff, entering 
the public schools of Joliet at the usual age, passed through successive 
grades until he had completed the high school course by graduation with the 
class of 1886. Preparing for a business career, he was graduated from the 
Chicago College of Pharmacy in 1889 and from the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of Chicago in the class of 1892. He acted as interne in the Illinois 
Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1892-3, after which he came to Joliet, where he has 
since successfully engaged in practice. He belongs to the Will County Medical 
Society, the Illinois State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, 
the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, and the Chicago Medical Society, and is 
a member of the staff of the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary of 
Chicago and of the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College. In the line of 
his specialty he has gained considerable distinction, his ability being widely 
acknowledged by the profession as well as the general public. He has 
continually kept abreast with the advanced thought of the profession, 
promoting his knowledge and efficiency through constant reading and 
investigation, and he has few equals in the line of his specialty in this part 
of the state. Dr. Woodruff was married to Miss Jennie L. Coventry of 
Deerfield, New York, on the 25th of June, 1895. She is a daughter of Robert 
Coventry and a great-granddaughter of Alexander Coventry, who was the founder 
of the Coventry family in this country at one time the president of the New 
York State Medical Society. Dr. and Mrs. Woodruff have four children: George 
H., Robert C., Lewis W. and Katherine, aged, respectively, ten, eight, five 
and four years. Dr. Woodruff in his social relations is connected with the 
Union and the Commercial clubs. He is a gentleman of genial, pleasant manner, 
of laudable ambition and strong and earnest purpose, and has made consecutive 
advancement in a profession which demands strong intellectuality, close 
application and unfaltering zeal. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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