Frank P. Woodbury Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Jody Goodson - kestrell@prodigy.net

Surname: WOODBURY
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1009

     FRANK P. WOODBURY has for many years been among the fore-
most citizens of Salem, New Hampshire, having fostered numerous
enterprises which have added materially to the prosperity of the com-
munity. He has identified himself with all projects and public move-
ments tending toward the development and improvement of the village,
and in every sense has proved himself a man of public spirit.
Mr. Woodbury was born in Salem, N. H., October 24, 1850, and
is the only son of Orlando H. and Mary Elizabeth (Corning) Wood-
bury, and a grandson of Nathaniel Woodbury, an early resident of Salem,
who at one time represented his town in the State Legislature. Orlando
H. Woodbury was also born in Salem, N. H., and when a young man
had charge of a force of men working on the Hudson River. He served
as a sutler in the army and for many years prior to his death conducted
a general store at Framingham, Mass.
     Frank P. Woodbury received a public school education. As a young
man he went into a shoe shop to Jearn the business, and within six
months he was owner of the shop. He then started the manufacture
of shoes on a larger scale, although he started with little capital and
no help from anyone. He placed the business on a firm basis and con-
ducted it with grreat success until 1909, when he suffered the loss of his
plant by fire. For a period of five years he was also interested in the
shoe business in Boston. He has been engaged in the coal business in
Salem for a period of twenty-five years, and with his son Ernest R. Wood
burv established the electric light plant, of which the latter is now
superintendent. In 1890 he was elected State Senator in a district that
had never before elected a Democrat to that office. He secured the pas- 

Page 1010

sage of a bill, and formed a company which built the water works of
Salem, serving as one of the directors until the plant was acquired by
the town. In December, 1913, Mr. Woodbury was appointed post-
master in which capacity he has served with great efficiency.
     Mr. Woodbury was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Ryant;
and they became parents of two sons: Harry C., who died in 1913; and
Ernest R. 

**********************************************************************  
*  *  *  NOTICE:  Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is 
encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included.  Any other use, 
including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIORto 
uploading to any other sites.  We encourage links to the state and county table of contents.

*  *  *  *The USgenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information
submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or 
disproved by weight of evidence.  It is always best to consult the original material for 
verification.