Brief Life History of Robert Simpson
When Robert Simpson Woodward was born on 21 July 1849, in Rochester, Oakland, Michigan, United States, his father, Lysander Woodward, was 31 and his mother, Peninah Axford Simpson, was 24. He married Martha Grettan Bond on 14 March 1876, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Avon Township, Oakland, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Washington, District of Columbia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 29 June 1924, in District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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- Robert S Woodward, "United States Census, 1910"
- Robert S. Woodward, "Michigan Births, 1867-1902"
- Robert Simpson Noodroord, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1851 · Fire Devastates the Library of Congress
On Christmas Eve 1851, 35,000 of the volumes including many of Thomas Jefferson's own personal collections are lost in a fire that destroys two-thirds of the Library of Congress.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a forester employed to look after the trees and game in a forest, Middle English woodward (from Old English wudu ‘wood’ + weard ‘guardian, protector’).
History: Henry Woodward emigrated from England in 1635 and settled first in Dorchester, MA, and subsequently in Northampton, MA. He had many prominent descendants. Another Henry Woodward, born c. 1646 in the British West Indies, was the first English settler in SC (1664).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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