Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Woodward, Gilbert Motier December 25, 1835 - 
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GILBERT MOTIER WOODWARD, attorney and counselor at law; was born in 
Washington, D. C., Dec. 25, 1835. Apprenticed to printing trade at Baltimore 
in the spring of 1850. Worked as printer and proof-reader in Baltimore, Upper 
Marlboro, Md., and in Washington, chiefly in the office of the "National 
Intelligencer", until the beginning of 1860. Settled in La Crosse Feb. 25, 
1860. Read law with Messmore & McKenney. Admitted to the bar by George Gale, 
Circuit Judge, at Black River Falls. Had no practice before the outbreak of 
the war. Enlisted in La Crosse Light Guard, Co. B, 2d W. V. I., May 22, 1861. 
Was mustered into the United States service for three years, June 11, 1861, at 
Madison, and thereafter served with the Second Wisconsin Infantry in all the 
campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, in which that regiment participated 
until June 11, 1864; Orderly Sergeant of Company B, September, 1861; Second 
Lieutenant, Aug. 25, 1862; First Lieutenant, Sept. 15, 1862; Adjutant of 2nd 
W. V. I. June 2, 1863. Served at Gettysburg as Acting Aid de Camp of First 
Brigade, First Division, First Army corps (Gen. James S. Wadsworth's 
division); received a severe gunshot wound in the right forearm in this batle. 
During campaign of the Wilderness and advance of army from Rapidan to 
Richmond, May 5 to June 11, 1864, served as Acting Aid de Camp on staff of 
same division, then part of the Fifth Army Corps. Mustered out of service with 
the regiment at Madison, June 30, 1864. Elected City Attorney of La Crosse, 
April, 1865. Elected District Attorney of La Crosse Co. in November, 1865, 
also in 1867, 1869, and 1871. He formed a partnership with S. S. Burton, 
January, 1866, which continued until January, 1877. Was Alderman of Fourth 
Ward of La Crosse City from 1868 to 1874; Mayor of La Crosse from 1874 to 
1875; City Attorney of La Crosse City since April, 1876. Candidate for Mayor 
in April, 1872, and was defeated by James I. Lyndes; was candidate for State 
Senator in the fall of 1872, defeated by G. C. Hixon. Delegate to National 
Liberal in Cincinnati, May, 1872. Delegate to National Democratic Convention 
at Cincinnati in June, 1880. His father, William Woodward, was born in 
Washington, of parents who had removed there from Philadelphia; his mother, 
Esther, nee Rittenhouse, Woodward was born in Philadelphia.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 808 - 809.

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