Arthur was the son of Frank Hall Woodward & Alice Svia Bailey.

He was the husband of Johanna Harriet Justice.

Arthur was from a family of eleven. His parent died when he was very young and he spent his teen years in a foster home, living with his sister Ida May and her husband Antone Mashuda.

At 18, he and his brother Jack traveled to Minnesota and went to work in the woods. Arthur returned to Wisconsin a few years later and was employed by the Foster-Latimer Lumber Co. and George Corrigan in the lumber camps in the Saxon-Gurney area. He also worked at the sawmill in Mellen, and in 1935 he went to work for the CC C(Conservation Corp) as construction foreman.

He spend seven years in that capacity - most of them in the Clam Lake area, where he was living at the time of his death. He passed away in 1941. Other information has his death as 1940.

Obituary

"Mellen Weekly"
15 March 1941

Relatives and friends were shocked last Saturday evening by the sudden and unexpected death of Art Woodward, well know resident of this locatlity for the past fifty years. Mr. Woodward was taken violently ill early Saturday afternoon and when a physician was called his condition was such that he was rushed to the hospital at Ashland where he passed away early in the evening. A blood clot in the intestines is reported to have been the cause of his death.

Even though he was fifty years of age, Art Woodward was still an active man and appeared to be in the full vigor of manfood. He ahd spent his entire life at active occupations and as a foreman at the CCC camp at Clam Lake and was actively engaged up to the day of his death.

Arthur G. Woodward was born at Highbridge, Wisconsin on October 22, 1890 and was in the firfty-first year of his age. He grew to young manhood at Highbridge and there took his bride, the former Johanna Justice, on August 24, 1914.

There are five children who with their mother mourn the passing of an exemplary husband and father.

In 1916, Mr. Woodward entered the employ of the Charcoal Iron Company and worked for them for nine years. Then followed eight years during which he was employed as a camp foreman for the Foster latimer Lumber Company. When the CCC Camp was established at Mineral Lake he was engaged as a construction foreman and when that camp closed, three years ago, he was transferred to the camp at Clam Lake where he was serving in the same capacity at the time fo his death. As a foreman, Mr. Woodward had the happy faculty of handling men in such a manner that he obtained results satisfactory to his employer, yet held the respect and adminiratin of the men placed under him.

In passing, Mr. Woodward leaves his wife and five children--Earl of Mellen, Felix of Clarkston, Washington, Milton of Ontonogon, Michigan, and George and Marie of Clam Lake. There are also four grandchildren. mr. Woodward also leave two brothers, John and Charles Woodward of Highbridge and six sisters--Mrs. May Mashuda, Mrs. Andrew Carbon and Mrs. Evelyn Larvey of Highbridge, Mrs. Florence Cooney of Chicago, Mrs. Joseph Dornblazer of Milwaukee, and Mrs. Ellen Davis of Detroit, Michigan 1920 Census has them living in Ashland at 12th Avenue.