Charles Hornblower Woodruff, B. A. 1858
Born October 1, 1836, in Newark, N. J.
Died May 4, 1915, in Litchfield, Conn.
Charles Hornblower Woodruff was born on October 1, 1836, in Newark, N. J., the son of Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff (B.A. 1830, LL D Columbia 1860). The latter's parents were General Morris Woodruff, one of the first settlers of the town of Litchfield, Conn., and of Matthew Woodruff, one of the eighty-four original proprietors of Farmington, and Candace, daughter of Lewis Catlin, an early settler of Hartford. His mother was Harriette Burnet, daughter of Chief Justice Joseph Coerten Hornblower of New Jersey and Mary (Burnet) Hornblower. He entered Yale from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and in college was a member of Linonia.
His preparation for the law, which he had decided to follow as a profession, was received at Harvard, where he spent the academic year of 1859-60, and at Columbia, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL B. in 1861. He also received the honorary degree of M.A. from Yale in 1865.
He was admitted to the bar of New York in May, 1861, and after spending part of the following autumn in an office, began practice in New York City on January, 1, 1862. For six years he was associated with his father and Charles F. Sanford (B.A. 1847), an uncle of his wife, subsequently judge of the Superior Court of New York, under the firm name of Sanford & Woodruff. Upon the withdrawal of the elder Woodruff, upon his appointment as a judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State, Mr. Edward Randolph Robinson joined the firm, which became Sanford, Robinson & Woodruff, and with which Mr. Woodruff continued until 1875. From that time he practiced independently until 1896; then with his son, Frederick, until 1902, when he retired.
He was until his death a member of the Bar Association in the City of New York, and belonged to the Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey, the Society of colonial Wars, he New England Society, and the Sons of the Revolution, all of the state of New York, being for many years on the board of managers of the latter organization. He was the first president of the Philips Academy Alumni Association in New York, and had long served as an elder in the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church of that city. He had traveled to quite an extent both in this country and abroad.
In recent years, Mr. Woodruff had spent much of his time in Litchfield, Conn., where he had long had a summer home, and where his death occurred, from a cerebral hemorrhage, on May 4, 1915. Interment was in the East Cemetery in Litchfield.
His marriage took placed on June 30, 1863, in New Haven, Conn., to Catherine Gertrude Laing, daughter of William Elihu and Margaret Louise (Craney) Sanford, who survives him with two of their sons. Lewis Bartholomew, a graduate of the College in 1890 and of the New York Law School in 1892, and Frederick Sanford, who took a B. A. at Yale in 1892. Their oldest son died at birth, and the deaths of the two youngest, - Charles Hornblower, Jr., who was a non-graduate member of the Class of 1896, and Edward Seymour, a graduate of the College in 1899 and of the School of Forestry in 1907, occurred within a month of each other in 1909. Mr. Woodruff's brother, Morris, was a member of the Class of 1860, and the latter's two sons, Morris and George W.L., also graduated from Yale, the former with the degree of B.A. in 1893 and the latter with that of Ph.B. in 1895.
[Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Deceased from June, 1910, to July 1915, publ. 1915, pp. 747-749]
Born October 1, 1836, in Newark, N. J.
Died May 4, 1915, in Litchfield, Conn.
Charles Hornblower Woodruff was born on October 1, 1836, in Newark, N. J., the son of Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff (B.A. 1830, LL D Columbia 1860). The latter's parents were General Morris Woodruff, one of the first settlers of the town of Litchfield, Conn., and of Matthew Woodruff, one of the eighty-four original proprietors of Farmington, and Candace, daughter of Lewis Catlin, an early settler of Hartford. His mother was Harriette Burnet, daughter of Chief Justice Joseph Coerten Hornblower of New Jersey and Mary (Burnet) Hornblower. He entered Yale from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and in college was a member of Linonia.
His preparation for the law, which he had decided to follow as a profession, was received at Harvard, where he spent the academic year of 1859-60, and at Columbia, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL B. in 1861. He also received the honorary degree of M.A. from Yale in 1865.
He was admitted to the bar of New York in May, 1861, and after spending part of the following autumn in an office, began practice in New York City on January, 1, 1862. For six years he was associated with his father and Charles F. Sanford (B.A. 1847), an uncle of his wife, subsequently judge of the Superior Court of New York, under the firm name of Sanford & Woodruff. Upon the withdrawal of the elder Woodruff, upon his appointment as a judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State, Mr. Edward Randolph Robinson joined the firm, which became Sanford, Robinson & Woodruff, and with which Mr. Woodruff continued until 1875. From that time he practiced independently until 1896; then with his son, Frederick, until 1902, when he retired.
He was until his death a member of the Bar Association in the City of New York, and belonged to the Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey, the Society of colonial Wars, he New England Society, and the Sons of the Revolution, all of the state of New York, being for many years on the board of managers of the latter organization. He was the first president of the Philips Academy Alumni Association in New York, and had long served as an elder in the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church of that city. He had traveled to quite an extent both in this country and abroad.
In recent years, Mr. Woodruff had spent much of his time in Litchfield, Conn., where he had long had a summer home, and where his death occurred, from a cerebral hemorrhage, on May 4, 1915. Interment was in the East Cemetery in Litchfield.
His marriage took placed on June 30, 1863, in New Haven, Conn., to Catherine Gertrude Laing, daughter of William Elihu and Margaret Louise (Craney) Sanford, who survives him with two of their sons. Lewis Bartholomew, a graduate of the College in 1890 and of the New York Law School in 1892, and Frederick Sanford, who took a B. A. at Yale in 1892. Their oldest son died at birth, and the deaths of the two youngest, - Charles Hornblower, Jr., who was a non-graduate member of the Class of 1896, and Edward Seymour, a graduate of the College in 1899 and of the School of Forestry in 1907, occurred within a month of each other in 1909. Mr. Woodruff's brother, Morris, was a member of the Class of 1860, and the latter's two sons, Morris and George W.L., also graduated from Yale, the former with the degree of B.A. in 1893 and the latter with that of Ph.B. in 1895.
[Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Deceased from June, 1910, to July 1915, publ. 1915, pp. 747-749]
Charles Hornblower Woodruff, B. A. 1858
Born October 1, 1836, in Newark, N. J.
Died May 4, 1915, in Litchfield, Conn.
Charles Hornblower Woodruff was born on October 1, 1836, in Newark, N. J., the son of Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff (B.A. 1830, LL D Columbia 1860). The latter's parents were General Morris Woodruff, one of the first settlers of the town of Litchfield, Conn., and of Matthew Woodruff, one of the eighty-four original proprietors of Farmington, and Candace, daughter of Lewis Catlin, an early settler of Hartford. His mother was Harriette Burnet, daughter of Chief Justice Joseph Coerten Hornblower of New Jersey and Mary (Burnet) Hornblower. He entered Yale from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and in college was a member of Linonia.
His preparation for the law, which he had decided to follow as a profession, was received at Harvard, where he spent the academic year of 1859-60, and at Columbia, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL B. in 1861. He also received the honorary degree of M.A. from Yale in 1865.
He was admitted to the bar of New York in May, 1861, and after spending part of the following autumn in an office, began practice in New York City on January, 1, 1862. For six years he was associated with his father and Charles F. Sanford (B.A. 1847), an uncle of his wife, subsequently judge of the Superior Court of New York, under the firm name of Sanford & Woodruff. Upon the withdrawal of the elder Woodruff, upon his appointment as a judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State, Mr. Edward Randolph Robinson joined the firm, which became Sanford, Robinson & Woodruff, and with which Mr. Woodruff continued until 1875. From that time he practiced independently until 1896; then with his son, Frederick, until 1902, when he retired.
He was until his death a member of the Bar Association in the City of New York, and belonged to the Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey, the Society of colonial Wars, he New England Society, and the Sons of the Revolution, all of the state of New York, being for many years on the board of managers of the latter organization. He was the first president of the Philips Academy Alumni Association in New York, and had long served as an elder in the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church of that city. He had traveled to quite an extent both in this country and abroad.
In recent years, Mr. Woodruff had spent much of his time in Litchfield, Conn., where he had long had a summer home, and where his death occurred, from a cerebral hemorrhage, on May 4, 1915. Interment was in the East Cemetery in Litchfield.
His marriage took placed on June 30, 1863, in New Haven, Conn., to Catherine Gertrude Laing, daughter of William Elihu and Margaret Louise (Craney) Sanford, who survives him with two of their sons. Lewis Bartholomew, a graduate of the College in 1890 and of the New York Law School in 1892, and Frederick Sanford, who took a B. A. at Yale in 1892. Their oldest son died at birth, and the deaths of the two youngest, - Charles Hornblower, Jr., who was a non-graduate member of the Class of 1896, and Edward Seymour, a graduate of the College in 1899 and of the School of Forestry in 1907, occurred within a month of each other in 1909. Mr. Woodruff's brother, Morris, was a member of the Class of 1860, and the latter's two sons, Morris and George W.L., also graduated from Yale, the former with the degree of B.A. in 1893 and the latter with that of Ph.B. in 1895.
[Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Deceased from June, 1910, to July 1915, publ. 1915, pp. 747-749]
Born October 1, 1836, in Newark, N. J.
Died May 4, 1915, in Litchfield, Conn.
Charles Hornblower Woodruff was born on October 1, 1836, in Newark, N. J., the son of Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff (B.A. 1830, LL D Columbia 1860). The latter's parents were General Morris Woodruff, one of the first settlers of the town of Litchfield, Conn., and of Matthew Woodruff, one of the eighty-four original proprietors of Farmington, and Candace, daughter of Lewis Catlin, an early settler of Hartford. His mother was Harriette Burnet, daughter of Chief Justice Joseph Coerten Hornblower of New Jersey and Mary (Burnet) Hornblower. He entered Yale from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and in college was a member of Linonia.
His preparation for the law, which he had decided to follow as a profession, was received at Harvard, where he spent the academic year of 1859-60, and at Columbia, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL B. in 1861. He also received the honorary degree of M.A. from Yale in 1865.
He was admitted to the bar of New York in May, 1861, and after spending part of the following autumn in an office, began practice in New York City on January, 1, 1862. For six years he was associated with his father and Charles F. Sanford (B.A. 1847), an uncle of his wife, subsequently judge of the Superior Court of New York, under the firm name of Sanford & Woodruff. Upon the withdrawal of the elder Woodruff, upon his appointment as a judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State, Mr. Edward Randolph Robinson joined the firm, which became Sanford, Robinson & Woodruff, and with which Mr. Woodruff continued until 1875. From that time he practiced independently until 1896; then with his son, Frederick, until 1902, when he retired.
He was until his death a member of the Bar Association in the City of New York, and belonged to the Society of the Cincinnati in New Jersey, the Society of colonial Wars, he New England Society, and the Sons of the Revolution, all of the state of New York, being for many years on the board of managers of the latter organization. He was the first president of the Philips Academy Alumni Association in New York, and had long served as an elder in the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church of that city. He had traveled to quite an extent both in this country and abroad.
In recent years, Mr. Woodruff had spent much of his time in Litchfield, Conn., where he had long had a summer home, and where his death occurred, from a cerebral hemorrhage, on May 4, 1915. Interment was in the East Cemetery in Litchfield.
His marriage took placed on June 30, 1863, in New Haven, Conn., to Catherine Gertrude Laing, daughter of William Elihu and Margaret Louise (Craney) Sanford, who survives him with two of their sons. Lewis Bartholomew, a graduate of the College in 1890 and of the New York Law School in 1892, and Frederick Sanford, who took a B. A. at Yale in 1892. Their oldest son died at birth, and the deaths of the two youngest, - Charles Hornblower, Jr., who was a non-graduate member of the Class of 1896, and Edward Seymour, a graduate of the College in 1899 and of the School of Forestry in 1907, occurred within a month of each other in 1909. Mr. Woodruff's brother, Morris, was a member of the Class of 1860, and the latter's two sons, Morris and George W.L., also graduated from Yale, the former with the degree of B.A. in 1893 and the latter with that of Ph.B. in 1895.
[Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Deceased from June, 1910, to July 1915, publ. 1915, pp. 747-749]
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Charles Hornblower Woodruff
October 1, 1836 – May 4. 1915
Catherine Gertrude Laing Sanford
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September 15, 1838 – July 29, 1916
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