Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Woodruff, George 
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Author: Past and Present Will County IL; 1907

George Woodruff, numbered among the younger representatives of financial 
interests in Joliet, is president of the First National Bank and also a member 
of the Will county bar, but uses his law knowledge simply for the interests of 
the bank. He was born in this city May 25, 1881, and is a son of Frederick W. 
and Nellie (Davis) Woodruff. Entering the public schools at the usual age he 
passed through successive grades until he had completed the high school 
course, after which he matriculated in the University of Michigan and later he 
won the degree of Bachelor of Law from Yale University. He was admitted to the 
bar in Connecticut and also in Illinois in 1903 but has confined his practice 
to the business of the bank. He entered the bank while still but a boy in 
order to thoroughly familiarize himself with the business in every department, 
and when he had completed his college course in 1903 he entered the 
institution as assistant cashier. In addition to his law course in Yale he was 
a student in the Sheffield Scientific School where he studied banking and 
finance. When he finished his studies in finance he was offered a government 
position but declined and, returning to Joliet, entered the First National 
Bank, serving as assistant cashier until 1904, when he was elected vice-
president, and in January, 1907, he was elected president to succeed his 
father. Mr. Woodruff is the youngest national bank president in the United 
States. He has traveled abroad through various countries, studying foreign 
exchange and foreign banking, particularly in London and Paris, and few men 
have more intimate, accurate or practical knowledge of the banking business in 
all of its departments than he. He gives his entire attention to the business 
and is the active force in its successful management. Socially he is 
interested in the leading organizations and clubs of Joliet and is serving 
officially in a number of them, being a popular young man with wide and 
favorable acquaintance. 

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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