When Caleb Thomas Woodman was born on 3 August 1823, in Hatley, Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, his father, Joshua Sawyer Woodman, was 34 and his mother, Mary Polly Sturtevant, was 37. He married Eunice Blodgett on 18 June 1850, in Compton, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He died on 12 September 1898, at the age of 75, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
English:
occupational name for a woodcutter or a forester (compare Woodward ), from Middle English wodeman ‘woodman’. In some instances this may be a variant of Wadman .
from the Middle English personal name Wudemann (Old English Wuduman, from wudu ‘wood’ + mann ‘man’).
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