Absalom C. Woodcock
The highest tenets of legal science find expression in the large professional practice of A. C. Woodcock, one of the most courteous and energetic members of the Lane county bar. In his rise from obscurity and comparative poverty Mr. Woodcock presents an example of perseverance and determination which may well serve as an example to whomsoever rebels at the limitations which shut in his youthful horizon. Starting in to make his own living at the age of thirteen, he demonstrated innate ability and faithfulness, for at a time when farm labor was poorly rewarded he was able to command $20 a month and board. He is the fourth of eleven children born to W.D. and Alizina (Cornelius) Woodcock. The chief cause of his familys financial stress lay in the fact that his father died in 1870, leaving his large family dependent upon the output of the donation claim on the Molalla upon which he had settled in 1845.
W.D. Woodcock was a native son of Illinois, but was reared and educated in Missouri. He possessed grit and determination, for he started across the plains in 1845, an undertaking hazardous in the extreme, and holding out but one chance in a thousand of ever reaching his goal. Fellow travelers in the ox-train with him were Absalom Cornelius and his family, one member being a daughter, Alzinia, whose youthful charms seriously impressed themselves upon the hopeful and ambitious young homeseeker. At the parting of the ways in Oregon Mr. Cornelius settled on a claim near Turner, Marion county, but his daughter soon became mistress of the farm on the Molalla, and thus yet another of the innumerable romances begun around the campfires and on the dreary march across the plains, was brought to a happy termination. Mr. Woodcock died at the age of fifty-two, and his wife survived him until 1889. Besides Absalom Cornelius, who was born on the Molalla farm July 23, 1859, there are living at the present time seven other of the eleven children: W.D. is a blacksmith in Lake county, Ore.; W.S. is a stockman in Wasco county; T.P. is a large commission man of Weiser, Idaho; Newton and Jasper are twins, the former living in Weiser, Idaho, and the latter in Wasco county, Ore.; Keziah is the wife of E.B. Ramsby of Lake county, Ore.; and Ada is the wife of W.H. Harriman of Wasco county, Ore.
A.C. Woodcock was eleven years of age when his father died, at thirteen he began to work on the farm of William Barlow, one of the best known of the early pioneers. He saved everything possible out of his wages of $20 a month, and at the end of a year went into a butchering and stock business at The Dalles with his brother, T.P. While thus employed he made up for a somewhat defective education by attending the public schools during the winter time, and in 1879 entered the sub-freshman class of the University of Oregon at Eugene, from which he was graduated in 1885 with the degree of B.S. Afterward he was appointed a tutor in the university, and at the same time took up the classical course, being graduated there from in 1887 with the degree of A.B. In the meantime he had become interested in the study of law, and after preliminary training under Dolph, Mallory, Bellinger & Simon of Portland he was admitted to the bar in October, 1887. In partnership with George S. Washburn he began practice in Eugene, continuing alone after the death of his old friend, and in May, 1903, inaugurated a partnership with L.T. Harris, under the firm name of Woodcock & Harris. The firm is engaged in a general practice of law, in addition to which they are attorneys for the Booth-Kelley Lumber Company, and other representative firms of the county.
A stanch Republican, Mr. Woodcock has been prominently identified with party affairs in the town and county, has served as chairman of the county central committee, and has been a member of the state committee, and of the state board of equalization. He is a member of the State Bar Association, of the Eugene Commercial Club, and of the native sons. Fraternally he is connected with Eugene Lodge No. 11, A.F. & A.M.; the Royal Arch Masons; the Commandery; the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Woodcock is held in high esteem by all who have the honor of knowing him, and to those familiar with his advancement his outlook is an unsually gratifying one, fully warranted by recognized capability, deserved popularity, and thorough adaptation to the requirements and amenities of his profession.
source - "Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley", pages 1107-1108
The highest tenets of legal science find expression in the large professional practice of A. C. Woodcock, one of the most courteous and energetic members of the Lane county bar. In his rise from obscurity and comparative poverty Mr. Woodcock presents an example of perseverance and determination which may well serve as an example to whomsoever rebels at the limitations which shut in his youthful horizon. Starting in to make his own living at the age of thirteen, he demonstrated innate ability and faithfulness, for at a time when farm labor was poorly rewarded he was able to command $20 a month and board. He is the fourth of eleven children born to W.D. and Alizina (Cornelius) Woodcock. The chief cause of his familys financial stress lay in the fact that his father died in 1870, leaving his large family dependent upon the output of the donation claim on the Molalla upon which he had settled in 1845.
W.D. Woodcock was a native son of Illinois, but was reared and educated in Missouri. He possessed grit and determination, for he started across the plains in 1845, an undertaking hazardous in the extreme, and holding out but one chance in a thousand of ever reaching his goal. Fellow travelers in the ox-train with him were Absalom Cornelius and his family, one member being a daughter, Alzinia, whose youthful charms seriously impressed themselves upon the hopeful and ambitious young homeseeker. At the parting of the ways in Oregon Mr. Cornelius settled on a claim near Turner, Marion county, but his daughter soon became mistress of the farm on the Molalla, and thus yet another of the innumerable romances begun around the campfires and on the dreary march across the plains, was brought to a happy termination. Mr. Woodcock died at the age of fifty-two, and his wife survived him until 1889. Besides Absalom Cornelius, who was born on the Molalla farm July 23, 1859, there are living at the present time seven other of the eleven children: W.D. is a blacksmith in Lake county, Ore.; W.S. is a stockman in Wasco county; T.P. is a large commission man of Weiser, Idaho; Newton and Jasper are twins, the former living in Weiser, Idaho, and the latter in Wasco county, Ore.; Keziah is the wife of E.B. Ramsby of Lake county, Ore.; and Ada is the wife of W.H. Harriman of Wasco county, Ore.
A.C. Woodcock was eleven years of age when his father died, at thirteen he began to work on the farm of William Barlow, one of the best known of the early pioneers. He saved everything possible out of his wages of $20 a month, and at the end of a year went into a butchering and stock business at The Dalles with his brother, T.P. While thus employed he made up for a somewhat defective education by attending the public schools during the winter time, and in 1879 entered the sub-freshman class of the University of Oregon at Eugene, from which he was graduated in 1885 with the degree of B.S. Afterward he was appointed a tutor in the university, and at the same time took up the classical course, being graduated there from in 1887 with the degree of A.B. In the meantime he had become interested in the study of law, and after preliminary training under Dolph, Mallory, Bellinger & Simon of Portland he was admitted to the bar in October, 1887. In partnership with George S. Washburn he began practice in Eugene, continuing alone after the death of his old friend, and in May, 1903, inaugurated a partnership with L.T. Harris, under the firm name of Woodcock & Harris. The firm is engaged in a general practice of law, in addition to which they are attorneys for the Booth-Kelley Lumber Company, and other representative firms of the county.
A stanch Republican, Mr. Woodcock has been prominently identified with party affairs in the town and county, has served as chairman of the county central committee, and has been a member of the state committee, and of the state board of equalization. He is a member of the State Bar Association, of the Eugene Commercial Club, and of the native sons. Fraternally he is connected with Eugene Lodge No. 11, A.F. & A.M.; the Royal Arch Masons; the Commandery; the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Woodcock is held in high esteem by all who have the honor of knowing him, and to those familiar with his advancement his outlook is an unsually gratifying one, fully warranted by recognized capability, deserved popularity, and thorough adaptation to the requirements and amenities of his profession.
source - "Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley", pages 1107-1108
Absalom C. Woodcock
The highest tenets of legal science find expression in the large professional practice of A. C. Woodcock, one of the most courteous and energetic members of the Lane county bar. In his rise from obscurity and comparative poverty Mr. Woodcock presents an example of perseverance and determination which may well serve as an example to whomsoever rebels at the limitations which shut in his youthful horizon. Starting in to make his own living at the age of thirteen, he demonstrated innate ability and faithfulness, for at a time when farm labor was poorly rewarded he was able to command $20 a month and board. He is the fourth of eleven children born to W.D. and Alizina (Cornelius) Woodcock. The chief cause of his familys financial stress lay in the fact that his father died in 1870, leaving his large family dependent upon the output of the donation claim on the Molalla upon which he had settled in 1845.
W.D. Woodcock was a native son of Illinois, but was reared and educated in Missouri. He possessed grit and determination, for he started across the plains in 1845, an undertaking hazardous in the extreme, and holding out but one chance in a thousand of ever reaching his goal. Fellow travelers in the ox-train with him were Absalom Cornelius and his family, one member being a daughter, Alzinia, whose youthful charms seriously impressed themselves upon the hopeful and ambitious young homeseeker. At the parting of the ways in Oregon Mr. Cornelius settled on a claim near Turner, Marion county, but his daughter soon became mistress of the farm on the Molalla, and thus yet another of the innumerable romances begun around the campfires and on the dreary march across the plains, was brought to a happy termination. Mr. Woodcock died at the age of fifty-two, and his wife survived him until 1889. Besides Absalom Cornelius, who was born on the Molalla farm July 23, 1859, there are living at the present time seven other of the eleven children: W.D. is a blacksmith in Lake county, Ore.; W.S. is a stockman in Wasco county; T.P. is a large commission man of Weiser, Idaho; Newton and Jasper are twins, the former living in Weiser, Idaho, and the latter in Wasco county, Ore.; Keziah is the wife of E.B. Ramsby of Lake county, Ore.; and Ada is the wife of W.H. Harriman of Wasco county, Ore.
A.C. Woodcock was eleven years of age when his father died, at thirteen he began to work on the farm of William Barlow, one of the best known of the early pioneers. He saved everything possible out of his wages of $20 a month, and at the end of a year went into a butchering and stock business at The Dalles with his brother, T.P. While thus employed he made up for a somewhat defective education by attending the public schools during the winter time, and in 1879 entered the sub-freshman class of the University of Oregon at Eugene, from which he was graduated in 1885 with the degree of B.S. Afterward he was appointed a tutor in the university, and at the same time took up the classical course, being graduated there from in 1887 with the degree of A.B. In the meantime he had become interested in the study of law, and after preliminary training under Dolph, Mallory, Bellinger & Simon of Portland he was admitted to the bar in October, 1887. In partnership with George S. Washburn he began practice in Eugene, continuing alone after the death of his old friend, and in May, 1903, inaugurated a partnership with L.T. Harris, under the firm name of Woodcock & Harris. The firm is engaged in a general practice of law, in addition to which they are attorneys for the Booth-Kelley Lumber Company, and other representative firms of the county.
A stanch Republican, Mr. Woodcock has been prominently identified with party affairs in the town and county, has served as chairman of the county central committee, and has been a member of the state committee, and of the state board of equalization. He is a member of the State Bar Association, of the Eugene Commercial Club, and of the native sons. Fraternally he is connected with Eugene Lodge No. 11, A.F. & A.M.; the Royal Arch Masons; the Commandery; the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Woodcock is held in high esteem by all who have the honor of knowing him, and to those familiar with his advancement his outlook is an unsually gratifying one, fully warranted by recognized capability, deserved popularity, and thorough adaptation to the requirements and amenities of his profession.
source - "Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley", pages 1107-1108
The highest tenets of legal science find expression in the large professional practice of A. C. Woodcock, one of the most courteous and energetic members of the Lane county bar. In his rise from obscurity and comparative poverty Mr. Woodcock presents an example of perseverance and determination which may well serve as an example to whomsoever rebels at the limitations which shut in his youthful horizon. Starting in to make his own living at the age of thirteen, he demonstrated innate ability and faithfulness, for at a time when farm labor was poorly rewarded he was able to command $20 a month and board. He is the fourth of eleven children born to W.D. and Alizina (Cornelius) Woodcock. The chief cause of his familys financial stress lay in the fact that his father died in 1870, leaving his large family dependent upon the output of the donation claim on the Molalla upon which he had settled in 1845.
W.D. Woodcock was a native son of Illinois, but was reared and educated in Missouri. He possessed grit and determination, for he started across the plains in 1845, an undertaking hazardous in the extreme, and holding out but one chance in a thousand of ever reaching his goal. Fellow travelers in the ox-train with him were Absalom Cornelius and his family, one member being a daughter, Alzinia, whose youthful charms seriously impressed themselves upon the hopeful and ambitious young homeseeker. At the parting of the ways in Oregon Mr. Cornelius settled on a claim near Turner, Marion county, but his daughter soon became mistress of the farm on the Molalla, and thus yet another of the innumerable romances begun around the campfires and on the dreary march across the plains, was brought to a happy termination. Mr. Woodcock died at the age of fifty-two, and his wife survived him until 1889. Besides Absalom Cornelius, who was born on the Molalla farm July 23, 1859, there are living at the present time seven other of the eleven children: W.D. is a blacksmith in Lake county, Ore.; W.S. is a stockman in Wasco county; T.P. is a large commission man of Weiser, Idaho; Newton and Jasper are twins, the former living in Weiser, Idaho, and the latter in Wasco county, Ore.; Keziah is the wife of E.B. Ramsby of Lake county, Ore.; and Ada is the wife of W.H. Harriman of Wasco county, Ore.
A.C. Woodcock was eleven years of age when his father died, at thirteen he began to work on the farm of William Barlow, one of the best known of the early pioneers. He saved everything possible out of his wages of $20 a month, and at the end of a year went into a butchering and stock business at The Dalles with his brother, T.P. While thus employed he made up for a somewhat defective education by attending the public schools during the winter time, and in 1879 entered the sub-freshman class of the University of Oregon at Eugene, from which he was graduated in 1885 with the degree of B.S. Afterward he was appointed a tutor in the university, and at the same time took up the classical course, being graduated there from in 1887 with the degree of A.B. In the meantime he had become interested in the study of law, and after preliminary training under Dolph, Mallory, Bellinger & Simon of Portland he was admitted to the bar in October, 1887. In partnership with George S. Washburn he began practice in Eugene, continuing alone after the death of his old friend, and in May, 1903, inaugurated a partnership with L.T. Harris, under the firm name of Woodcock & Harris. The firm is engaged in a general practice of law, in addition to which they are attorneys for the Booth-Kelley Lumber Company, and other representative firms of the county.
A stanch Republican, Mr. Woodcock has been prominently identified with party affairs in the town and county, has served as chairman of the county central committee, and has been a member of the state committee, and of the state board of equalization. He is a member of the State Bar Association, of the Eugene Commercial Club, and of the native sons. Fraternally he is connected with Eugene Lodge No. 11, A.F. & A.M.; the Royal Arch Masons; the Commandery; the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Woodcock is held in high esteem by all who have the honor of knowing him, and to those familiar with his advancement his outlook is an unsually gratifying one, fully warranted by recognized capability, deserved popularity, and thorough adaptation to the requirements and amenities of his profession.
source - "Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley", pages 1107-1108
