C. J. Woodward From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 954.

TOWN OF BLOOMINGTON

C. J. WOODWARD, Justice of the Peace and Police Justice, Bloomington; a native of Franklin Co., Mass.; born in 1831; came West in 1867, and located in Wyalusing, Grant Co., where he worked as a mason; learned his trade in the East; moved to Bloomington in 1871. He was married, in Massachusetts, to Miss Lucy A. Hamilton, a native of Stockbridge, Mass., by whom he has two daughters. Enlisted as First Lieutenant in the 10th Mass. V. I., in 1861, and resigned July, 1862. In 1864, he enlisted in the one hundred day call as Captain in Co. K, 60th Mass. V. I. Is about building a store and dwelling on the opposite corner from the hotel. Is a member of I. O. O. F.

 


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