George Catlin Woodruff, 67, publisher and editor of the Litchfield Enquirer, a weekly newspaper, died yesterday at the Hartford Hospital after a short sickness. Mr. Woodruff was at one time vice-president of the National Editorial Association and president of the Connecticut editorial Society. Mr. Woodruff traveled extensively and was the author of several books on travel. A graduate of Amherst College, he entered Union Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1888 as a doctor of divinity. His first pastorate was the Congregational Church at Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. Returning East after a short time in the West, he did missionary work for the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church of Washington , D. C. In 1894 Mr. Woodruff gave up the ministry and bought the Litchfield Enquirer, which he edited and published up to the time of his death. The Woodruff family are among the oldest residents of the State of Connecticut and date back to Revolutionary days. — Boston (Massachusetts) Globe. March 18, 1929.
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George Catlin Woodruff, 67, publisher and editor of the Litchfield Enquirer, a weekly newspaper, died yesterday at the Hartford Hospital after a short sickness. Mr. Woodruff was at one time vice-president of the National Editorial Association and president of the Connecticut editorial Society. Mr. Woodruff traveled extensively and was the author of several books on travel. A graduate of Amherst College, he entered Union Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1888 as a doctor of divinity. His first pastorate was the Congregational Church at Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. Returning East after a short time in the West, he did missionary work for the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church of Washington , D. C. In 1894 Mr. Woodruff gave up the ministry and bought the Litchfield Enquirer, which he edited and published up to the time of his death. The Woodruff family are among the oldest residents of the State of Connecticut and date back to Revolutionary days. — Boston (Massachusetts) Globe. March 18, 1929.
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