U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Woods, Samuel VanHorn (1856-1937) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Page 499 Samuel Vanhorn Woods, son of Judge Samuel Woods, was born at Philippi, August 31, 1856, and was married March 9, 1892. at Philippi, to Mollie, daughter of Isaac H. and Margaret (Jarvis) Strickler. Their child, Ruth, is five years old. Mr. Woods is a member of the M. E. Church, is a Knight of Pythias, and in politics is a Democrat, and by profession a lawyer, living at Philippi. He was educated in the public schools and at the West Virginia University, where he was prevented from graduating because of sickness. He never permitted ambition for political preferment to interfere with his business as a lawyer, although he takes a strong interest in his party; and as a result he has attained to a degree of success in his profession which places him in the foremost ranks of the lawyers of West Virginia, while still a camparatively young man. His practice is now worth more than $5000 a year, and he is so situated that he can, to a large extent, select from what is offered him such business only as is agreeable and profitable. He was strongly urged in 1898, by influential members of his party, to permit his name to go before the convention as a candidate for Congress; but he persisted in declining the honor. He has been, at different times, chosen as a special judge of the circuit courts of the counties of Randolph, Upshur and Taylor. He has found time to take part in Sunday School work, and was president of the West Virginia Sunday School Convention which met in Fairmont July 26, 1894, and on that occasion he read a paper which attracted much attention. His residence at Philippi is one of the finest in the county and a handsome picture of it will be found in this book. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Kanawha County, WV #8812 FULL-NAME: Samuel V. Woods BIRTH-DATE: August 31, 1856 BIRTH-PLACE: Phillipi, W. Va. DEATH-DATE: June 3, 1937 DEATH-PLACE: Charleston, Kanawha County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widower (Mollie S. Woods) OCCUPATION: Retired FATHER: Samuel Woods (born in Meadville, Pa.) MOTHER: Isabelle Neeson (born in Virginia) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Thrombo Phlebitis INFORMANT: Arthur Dayton (of city) BURIAL: Sunset Memorial Park ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------