Bio of WOODARD, Dr. Francis Reuben (b.1848), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 334-337
FRANCIS R. WOODARD, M. D. (Francis Reuben Woodward)
No member of the medical fraternity of Minneapolis is better known nor more
highly respected than Dr. Francis R. Woodard, who for over four decades has been
engaged in continuous practice in this city. He was born in Madison, Ohio, July
15, 1848, and is a scion of an old American family, his paternal grandfather,
Solomon Woodard, having served with the rank of colonel in the War of 1812. His
son, Joseph S. Woodard, married Frelove M. Baker in 1847 and they were numbered
among the early settlers of Ohio.
Francis Reuben Woodard, their eldest son, attended the public schools of
Madison, Ohio, to the age of ten years and in 1858 moved with the family to
Rochester, Minnesota, where he completed his elementary training. During this
period he was engaged as a pharmacist in his father's drug store, and as such he
filled the prescriptions of Dr. William W. Mayo, father of Doctors William J.
and Charles Mayo, the famous Mayo brothers. In 1869 he entered the University of
Michigan, pursuing the study of literature until he finished his junior year,
when he changed his course and devoted a year to the study of law. The
profession of medicine, how­ever, made greater appeal to him and in 1876 he
entered Rush Medical College of Chicago, doing practical work in the Cook County
Hospital while acquiring his train­ing, and was graduated with the class of
1879. Soon afterward he came to Minnesota, first opening an office in Claremont,
where he practiced for about three years. In 1881 he came to Minneapolis and has
since followed his profession in this city. In addition to caring for a large
private practice Dr. Woodard is connected with the surgical staffs of the
Asbury, Swedish, City and several other hospitals of Minneapolis, and for twelve
years was chairman of the hospital committee for the last named institution. In
the field of professional service he has made continuous progress, gleaning from
comprehensive study and from broad practical experience valuable truths in
connection with the practice of medicine and surgery. His professional
activities have brought him into close relations with many households and he
commands the high regard of all those to whom he has ministered.
Dr. Woodard was married in 1874 and became the father of five children: Harry
S.; Joseph N., deceased; Lawrence B.; Francis H.; and Luella, deceased. The
family attends the Park Avenue Congregational church and Dr. Woodard's political
tenets are those of the republican party but he is not active in political
matters. He was appointed by Mayor Winston a member of the Board of Charities
and Corrections, with which he was identified for fourteen years, serving during
the succeeding ad­ministrations of Mayors Eustis, Pratt, Gray, Ames and Haynes,
and for six years of that period was president of the board. He is a member of
the Minneapolis Commercial Club and his professional connections are with the
Hennepin County and Minnesota State Medical Societies, the Minnesota Academy of
Medicine and the American Medical Association. His pronounced ability and
adherence to high stand­ards of professional ethics have won for him the respect
and admiration of his fellow practitioners as well as the general public, and
his life has been a long, active and useful one, crowned with successful
achievement.