JAMES D. WOODROE

Source: The History of West Virginia, Old and New
	Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
	Chicago and New York, Volume III

pg. 144-145
Kanawha
JAMES D. WOODROE is a lawyer by profession, and was an
active member of the Charleston bar for about five years,
but since then has been busily and extensively engaged in
real estate operations as a member of the incorporation of
Poteet & Woodroe, of which he is vice president and
treasurer.

Mr. Woodroe was born at Waco, Texas, in 1875. His par-
ents, both of Scotch ancestry, were Joseph I. and Elizabeth
(Foyles) Woodroe, natives of North Carolina. In the early
'70s they removed to Texas and lived in Waco until 1878,
when they returned to Wilmington, North Carolina. James
D. Woodroe was reared and educated in the City of Wil-
mington. He studied law in the National University at
Washington, and, coming to Charleston in 1903, was ad-
mitted to the bar in that city in 1904. Thereafter he
practised as a law partner of W. L. Ashby until about
1909. But after 1908 he became associated with Mr. L. E.
Poteet, another Charleston lawyer, in the firm of Poteet &
Woodroe, real estate. Their first important achievement in
the real estate field was marketing the new townsite of
South Charleston. They also did a considerable business in
real estate auction and special sales, but in recent years
their operations, involving a thorough and systematic organ-
ization, have been in the sub-division field, supplemented
by a general brokerage business and the building of houses.

Poteet & Woodroe was incorporated in 1921 with an
authorized capital stock of $300,000. The purpose of the
corporation was to develop more adequately the growing
interest involved in the building of moderately priced
homes. The facilities of the organization in this respect
are probably not excelled by those of any similar firm in
West Virginia. The officers of the corporation are L. E.
Poteet, president, J. D. Woodroe, vice president and treas-
urer, and Hugh W. May, secretary.

Since its organization Mr. Woodroe has been one of the
moving spirits of the Charleston Real Estate Board. He
was the first secretary and vice president of the board, and
has also served as president. He has been president of the
West Virginia Real Estate Association and a member of the
executive committee of the National Association of Real
Estate Boards. He is a member of the Edgewood Country
Club. Mr. Woodroe is a communicant of St. John's Episco-
pal Church and also has charge of the affairs of St.
Matthew's Church on the South Side. St. Matthew's was
founded as a mission of St. John's, but is now an inde-
pendent parish.

Mr. Woodroe married Miss Jane Welles May, of
Savannah, Georgia, daughter of Dr. William F. and Cath-
arine (Cohen) May, of that city. Their five children are
Elizabeth, William, Clarence, Mary and Jane.

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