OBIT:  WOODRUFF, Lucien Dallas; Johnstown, Cambria Cnty., PA; 1911

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 3 Feb 1911
Volume 45, Number 5


Ex-Mayor Woodruff Dies in Johnstown

Lucien Dallas Woodruff, formerly postmaster and later mayor of Johnstown 
and for more than two decades prominent in the affairs of that city, died 
at 6:10 o'clock Friday evening at his residence.  Surrounded by his loved 
ones, the end came peacefully, terminating as it did a brave battle for 
life that extended months back. A cancerous affection of the stomach and 
liver was the cause of death.

The deceased was born Jan. 8, 1845 at Landisburg, Perry County. In 1865 
Mr. Woodruff went to Johnstown and became associate editor and proprietor 
of THE DEMOCRAT and after the retirement of his father in 1876 he was sole 
editor and proprietor of the paper until Feb. 1, 1893.  A year later he 
assumed charge of the Johnstown post office of which he had been 
commissioned as postmaster by President Cleveland. Politically he was a 
strong Democrat of pronounced views.  He served from 1879 to 1882 as a 
member of the Pennsylvania legislature.  In his earlier years he 
frequently served as chairman of the Democratic county committee and also 
represented Cambria County in different State conventions of his party.

In 1899 Mr. Woodruff was elected mayor.  During his term of office he made 
many improvements and introduced innovations by which the city was greatly 
benefited.

Mr. Woodruff was married in 1866 to Maggie W. Lynch of New Bloomfield who 
died in 1888.  In 1894 he married Miss Marie Dicks of Baltimore, who 
together with daughter, Jessie, wife of Anderson H. Walters; a son, Harry 
D. Woodruff of Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Charles R. Tittle and a brother, 
Edward, the last two of Blairsville, survive.

Public religious services were held at the late home of ex-Mayor Woodruff 
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock in charge of the Rev. N. H. Holmes, D. D., 
Pastor of the Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church, assisted by the 
Rev. C. C. Hays, D. D., of the First Presbyterian Church. Interment was 
private, at a later hour.

The pallbearers were: Ex-Mayor James K. Boyd; Ex-Mayor Charles Young; John 
McDermott; Charles C. Greer; Edward A. Barry and Willis A. G. Lape.