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Woods, John Hopkins (b. 1853)
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The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, 
From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by Hu Maxwell
The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899

Pages 498-499

John Hopkins Woods, son of Judge Samuel and Isabella (Neeson)
Woods, was born in Philippi, November 23, 1853; and on June 22,
1898, at West View, near Staunton, Virginia, he was married to Miss
Jennie, daughter of John W. and Martha J. (Gammon) Canter. Mr.
Woods is a member of the M. E. Church, is a Master Mason, in
politics he is a Democrat, and by profession a lawyer, residing in
Philippi, where his home, but recently completed, is a model of
taste and elegance, both in architecture and furnishing. He is a
gentleman of education and culture, of wide reading and correct
appreciation, having received his training in the West Virginia
University at Morgantown and at the United States Military Academy
at West Point. He entered the University in 1872 and continued
there till nearly the end of the sophomore year, 1875, when he
entered West Point. His tastes were rather for law than for a
military life, and he studied for that profession under the
excellent guidance of his father, and in 1878 was admitted to
practice after having been duly examined as to his qualifications
by the Supreme Court of West Virginia; and he soon built up a large
practice to which he has given his sole attention. He has always
taken a deep interest in politics, and has contributed much to the
support and success of the Democratic party. His ideas on political
subjects are broad and liberal, and his principles are the result
of sound thinking; and his party, in his county and in the State,
has had no supporter more conscientious, more industrious or more
hopeful of ultimate triumph of the doctrine which he upholds in
defeat as well as in victory. He was a clerk in the Constitutional
Convention, of which his father was a member, which met at
Charleston in 1872 and framed the present constitution of the
State. In 1883 he became the joint owner (in connection with Hon.
D. W. Shaw) of the Barbour Jeffersonian, and his management of the
paper was able and his editorial writings were vigorous. The paper
was Democratic in politics. Subsequently Mr. Woods purchased the
interest of Mr. Shaw, and for some time was sole editor and
proprietor, finally selling the property to Hon. D. W. Gall, who
consolidated it with the paper which he owned, making of the two
the Jeffersonian-Plaindealer. After retiring from the newspaper
field, Mr. Woods devoted his whole time to his profession, except
that he neglected none of the calls of duty in matters social and
political. In 1898 he received the Democratic nomination, in the
Tenth Senatorial District, for the State Senate; and although the
district was overwhelmingly Republican, yet he conducted an
admirable campaign and merited and received the thanks of his party
for the able fight he had made, having canvassed and spoken in
every county and nearly every magisterial district in the
senatorial district, consisting of Barbour. Lewis, Randolph, Upshur
and Webster Counties. In 1899 he was elected by the Philippi bar as
special judge of the circuit court, and presided during the hearing
of the result of the special election at Belington which divided
that town.

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