BIO: Egburt E. Woodbury; New York State
surname: Woodbury

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Egburt E. Woodbury was born in Cherry Creek, in Chautauqua county, on
March 29, 1881, and was educated at public schools and the Chamberlain
Institute at Randolph. Mr. Woodbury then taught school for two years and
labored for his living as a farm hand. In the year 1880 he began the study of
law in the law office of Rodney R. Crowley at Randolph, and finished these
studies in the law office of Lakin & Sessions in Jamestown. He was admitted to
practice as a lawyer in 1884. The same year, July 1, he was admitted to
partnership in the firm, its title becoming Lakin, Sessions & Woodbury. Judge
Lakin died a few weeks afterward and the firm was continued as Sessions &
Woodbury until July 1, 1885, 1885 when Mr. Woodbury formed a partnership with
George R. Butts under t he firm name of Wood- bury & Butts.

     In 1890 Mr. Woodbury was elected an Assemblyman, as a Republican ran
candidate from the Second Assembly district of Chautauqua county. He was
re-elected to the same office in 1892. Then Chautauqua county was reduced to
one Assembly district, in 1893, ani Mr. Woodbury was elected to represent all
of the county, During these three years he was without a law partner. In
December, 1894, he formed a law partnership with Eleazer Green, then Mayor of
Jamestown, and later District Attorney of Chautauqua county for nine years.
Mr. Woodbury was a Justice of the Peace of Jamestown for four years from 1886
onward. Then he declined a re-election. For three years, beginning in 1889, he
was a member of the Republican county Committee of Chautauqua county; and its
Chairman in 1889 and manager of the Republican campaign in 1891. In 1896 he
led a movement to elect delegates to the Republican National Con
vent ion, favoring the nomination of William McKinley for President from the
Chautauqua -Cattaraugus Congress district.

     In 1894 Mr. Woodbury was nominated for Surrogate of Chautauqua county by
t he Republican party and was elected. When his term ended in 1900, his work
had been so satisfactorily done that he was renominated and re-elected, Some
of the lawsuits coming before the Surrogate of Chautauqua county involve large
sums of money. It is said that in ten years of life as a Surrogate and Just
ice of the Peace Mr. Woodbury has never had a decision of his reversed but
once, and that was upon a quest ion of practice. It was while he was acting as
Surrogate that Mr. Woodbury was ap pointed State Tax Commissioner.