Theron Woodward

25 May 1848 — 1 February 1906

Born 25 May 1848 at Clarendon, Rutland Co., Vermont.[1] Son of John Perkins Woodward and Mary Dodge.[2] Cousin of EBW.[3] Living in Kingston, Green Lake Co., Wisconsin, by Apr. 1855.[4]  Resided in Chicago, ca. 1869–1883.[5] Married first Anna Elizabeth Stevens, 18 Jan. 1877, at Kingston; widowed 1883.[6] Moved from Kansas City, Jackson Co., Missouri, to Wales, Erie Co., New York, 1880.[7] Correspondent in New York City and Chicago for the New York Clipper, the New York Dramatic News, and several out-of-state newspapers, 1883–1886.[8] Secretary and treasurer of Lanward Publishing Company, 1886; owner 1902.[9] Belonged to numerous social, historical, and fraternal societies, by 1890, including the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Old Colony Historical Society, the Illinois Society of the American Revolution, and the Illinois Society of the War of 1812.[10] Married second Carrie Estelle Clark King, 26 Sept. 1894, in Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co., Wisconsin.[11] Corresponded with EBW regarding the Woodward family genealogy he was researching.[12] Manager of the National Engineer, 1897–1906.[13] Coauthored Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge, 1904.[14] Died 1 Feb. 1906 in Chicago.[15]

 

[1] Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 71, 155.  “Theron Royal Woodward,” U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889–1970, database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), accessed 30 Jan. 2019). “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2019), Theron Royal Woodward (9HGB-VRS).

[2] Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 71, 155.  “Theron Royal Woodward,” U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889–1970, database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), accessed 30 Jan. 2019).

[3] EBW, Diary, 5 June 1899 and 20 Apr. 1900.

[4] Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 73. 

[5] Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 73. “Theron Royal Woodward,” National Engineer 10, no. 3 (Mar. 1906): 23.

[6] Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 73. 1880 U.S. Census, Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO, ED 6, p. 70, Theron Woodward, Anna Woodward. 1880 U.S. Census, Hamlet of Wales Center, Wales, Erie Co., NY, ED 106, p. 28, Theron Woodward and Anna E. Woodward.

[7] 1880 U.S. Census, Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO, ED 6, p. 70, Theron Woodward. 1880 U.S. Census, Hamlet of Wales Center, Wales, Erie Co., NY, ED 106, p. 28, Theron Woodward.

[8] Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 73. “Theron Royal Woodward,” National Engineer 10, no. 3 (Mar. 1906): 23.

[9] Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 73. “Theron Royal Woodward,” National Engineer 10, no. 3 (Mar. 1906): 23.

[10] “Theron Royal Woodward,” U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889–1970, database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), accessed 30 Jan. 2019). Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 74. John Ward Dean, ed., The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1875, vol. 51 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1897), 180. “Theron Royal Woodward,” National Engineer 10, no. 3 (Mar. 1906): 23. “Renew Memories of Wars,” Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), 31 Jan. 1900, 6.

[11] Waukesha Co., WI, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Registration of Marriages, 1847–1907; Index to Marriages, 1846–1907, no. 171, Theron R. Woodward and Carrie E. Clark, 26 Sept. 1894, microfilm 1275600, DGS 7622494, FHL.  Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 73. “A Day of Weddings,” Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), 27 Sept. 1894, 3.

[12] EBW, Diary, 21 Oct. 1895; 30 Jan. 1898; 5 June 1899; 20 Apr. 1900.

[13] “Theron Royal Woodward,” National Engineer 10, no. 3 (Mar. 1906): 23.

[14] Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), 74. “Theron Royal Woodward,” National Engineer 10, no. 3 (Mar. 1906): 23.

[15] “Theron Royal Woodward,” National Engineer 10, no. 3 (Mar. 1906): 23. “Deaths: In Memoriam,” Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 1906, 7.