BIO: Charles R. 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.

402  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  CHARLES R. WOODWARD, of the firm of Woodward, Graybill & Co., 
millers, Carlisle, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in York, York 
County, December 8, 1844, a son of Capt. Robert C. and Sarah E. 
(Spangler) Woodward, the former a native of Newburyport, Mass., and a 
son of Capt. Salem Woodward, of that place, a sea-captain, who ran a 
line of ships from Charleston, S. C., to Liverpool, England.  Robert C. 
Woodward sailed with his father for a number of years as a sea captain 
and as captain on the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Cincinnati. 
He located in York County, where he married Miss Sarah E. Spangler, and 
engaged in the grocery business at York until 1850, excepting three 
years spent in California, prospecting, just prior to 1850, when he 
came to Carlisle and formed the company of Woodward & Schmidt, 
forwarding and 

403  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

commission agents, and erected the building now occupied by his son, 
Charles R.  Robert C. died at Carlisle in August, 1877, and his widow 
in November, 1885.  Their five children were George (deceased), Ellen 
(deceased), Charles R., Robert S. (deceased); and Florence W., wife of 
the Rev. J. Hepbron Hargis, of Philadelphia.  The parents were 
identified with the First Presbyterian Church.  Charles R. was but six 
years old when his parents came from York.  He attended the high school 
and Dickinson College, of Carlisle, assisting his father as clerk until 
1864, when he became a partner of his father, with whom he remained 
until 1876, when he purchased his father's interest, and became 
associated with John G. Bobb, as a partner of the firm of Woodward & 
Bobb.  This firm continued until 1882, when Mr. John Graybill became a 
partner in the business, and one year later the present firm was 
established (Mr. Bobb's interest being purchased by Woodward, Graybill 
& Co.).  In April, 1870, Mr. Woodward married Miss Jessie V. Elliott, 
who was born in Wyoming Territory (the first white child born in that 
Territory), a daughter of Gen. W. L. and Hattie (Jones) Elliott, of 
Cincinnati, now living in San Francisco.  To Mr. and Mrs. Woodward five 
children were born:  Florence V., Jessie E., Robert C., Sarah E. and 
William G.  The mother is a member of the Episcopal Church.  Mr. 
Woodward is a member of Carlisle Council, No. 502, Royal Arcanum.  He 
is a director of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, treasurer of the Carlisle 
Land Association, and is one of the enterprising business men of 
Carlisle.  In 1882 he and his partner built the Carlisle roller 
flouring-mill, a three-story brick building, in which are fourteen 
pairs of rollers, being otherwise fully equipped.