BIO: William H. Woodward, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

403  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  WILLIAM H. WOODWARD, general superintendent of the Gettysburg & 
Harrisburg Railway, and treasurer of the South Mountain Railway & 
Mining Company, and of the South Mountain Iron & Mining Company, office 
at Pine Grove Furnace, and residence at Carlisle, is a native of 
Chester County, Penn.  Soon after his birth the family moved to the 
city of Philadelphia, where he attended the public schools until 
thirteen years of age, when he began clerking in a drug store, in which 
he remained until fifteen; at the early age, September 3, 1861, he 
enlisted in Company A, Sixty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Infantry; served through entire war, and was mustered out July 15, 
1865, as sergeant-major of the regiment.  The regiment to which he 
belonged was attached to the Second Brigade, Second Division, Sixteenth 
Army Corps of the command, most of the time.  He was taken prisoner at 
Winchester, Va., June 15, 1865, from which time until August following 
he spent in Libby and Belle Isle prisons, when he was paroled and sent 
to Annapolis, Md., and soon after joined his regiment, this being his 
only absence from the regiment during the war.  He was mustered out of 
the service at the close of the war, and returned to Philadelphia; then 
went to Plymouth, Luzerne County, where he became employed as book-
keeper and paymaster for J. C. Fuller, of the Shawnee Coal Mines, which 
position he held until 1871, when he was elected treasurer, and 
subsequently, in 1877, general superintendent of the Gettysburg & 
Harrisburg Railway.  In 1870 Mr. Woodward was married to Miss Emma 
McGee, of Philadelphia, who died in 1881, and to them were born one son 
and three daughters:  Dora F., Bessie A., Harry F., and Emma E. B.  In 
February, 1883, he then married Miss Annie M. Bixler, of Carlisle, a 
daughter of Joshua P. and Julia (Beetem) Bixler, former of the firm of 
Saxon & Bixler.  Mrs. Woodward is a member of the Lutheran Church.  Mr. 
Woodward is Past Master of Cumberland and Star Lodge, No. 97, Carlisle; 
Past High Priest of St. John's Chapter and St. John's Commandery, No. 
3, Carlisle; is also a member of Capt. Colwell Post, G. A. R., of 
Carlisle.