SAMUEL WOODHOUSE, retired merchant and capitalist, Bloomington; born in 1819 in Schuylkill Co., Penn.; a son of John Woodhouse and Ann Newton; came with parents to Wisconsin in 1837, and settled in Potosi, Grant Co., where he remained until 1839, when he moved to Beetown. In an early day was engaged in farming and mining; moved to Bloomington in 1862, and started the hotel which he managed until 1865; he also owned and run the Bloomington flouring-mill successfully for ten years, besides being engaged in the hardware business. Mr. Woodhouse has owned and built since he lived in Bloomington $35,000 worth of property. He still owns the brick block; the lower part is used for hardware by his son and son-in-law, and the hall is occupied by the I. O. O. F., besides other valuable real estate. Mr. Woodhouse was all through the Mexican war, and enlisted in late war in 1861 as First Lieutenant, 7th W. V. I., Co. F; mustered out in 1862. Was married in Beetown, in the fall of 1848, to Miss Mary Baker, a native of New Jersey, by whom he has five children, three sons and two daughters - Mary L., the oldest daughter, now Mrs. C. M. Morse, hardware merchant, of Bloomington; Martha, now Mrs. John Wright, Jr., of Lancaster; the oldest son, Clinton, has succeeded his father in hardware business; two youngest sons remain at home. Has passed all the chairs in the I. O. O. F., as well as Encampment. He is a self-made man, of cheerful disposition, and after passing through all the hardships of a pioneer life, richly deserves his pleasant home. Republican in politics.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.