Son of Lewis and Catherine (Wiseman) Woodyard.
Prominent Men of West Virginia (1890), p. 499:
[WILLIAM WOODYARD.
ALWAYS at duty's post might truthfully be said of Senator Woodyard, from the county of Roane. He is a native of Wood county, Virginia, and was born in 1849, near Parkersburg, the seat of Justice. He was educated in the public schools, and by the experience of mercantile pursuits. From 1861 to 1864 he sold goods in Parkersburg, then moved to Spencer, Roane county, where, in his home, he has since continued to be one of the most prosperous business men of the section.
In 1882 he was elected to the State Senate for four years, and in 1886 he was given a second term. He is popular, energetic and clear headed. Among the important measures advocated by him in the Legislature was the erection of a second Hospital for the Insane, which, through his influence and liberality, is to be built at Spencer. He believes in public improvements, and was one of the first Directors of the Ohio River Railroad, and is the Vice-President of the Ravenswood, Spencer and Glenville Railway Company. He would be valuable to any constituency. In the pending Senate he is a member of the Committees of Finance, Penitentiary, Railroads, and Chairman on that of Public Buildings and Humane Institutions.]
History of West Virginia, Old and New, Vol. 3, p. 571:
[Hon. Harry C. Woodyard, whose service in Congress as representative of the Fourth West Virginia District has at once been characterized by repeated re-election and by extreme fidelity to the duties and responsibilities of his office, is a resident of Spencer, where for many years he was active in business affairs.
He was born at Spencer, November 13, 1867, son of William and Isabelle Woodyard. William Woodyard was born in West Virginia, spent the greater part of his life as a merchant at Spencer, was a Union soldier at the time of the Civil war, and died at Paris, Illinois, in 1896. His wife, Isabelle Chapman, was born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died at Detroit, Michigan. Her father, Henry Chapman, was in his time a well known physician and surgeon at Spencer...]
History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927, pp. 134, 373, 379, 701 and 702:
[THE RAILROAD AND SPENCER STATE HOSPITAL CAME 1890.
In the legislative deal at Charleston deciding the location of a "Second Hospital for Insane," now by law named "Spencer State Hospital," in Roane County, and a railroad from Ravenswood by way of Spencer thence to Glenville, were decided on and promised; year 1885.
William Woodyard (later senior), resident of Spencer, was at the time State Senator, and Jesse Roach, of Reedy District of this county, an influential delegate for Roane in the legislature; his work was continued by David Simmons, who succeeded him as delegate for Roane...]
["The Roane County Record," the fourth venture in the newspaper business in Spencer, and the first Republican "organ" and so outspoken; this was by Edwin H . Flynn in the year 1888; the county for twenty years next past had been democratic by such a large majority it was supposed that a paper avowedly Republican could not survive, but William Woodyard, Sr., and others of the county took shares in the venture and the national government was in the hands of Republicans and Mr. Flynn "got the post office;" the asylum for the insane was established here, the railroad came; oil and gas were discovered; population increased, and with all these the subscription list grew; both newspapers appeared prosperous; Editor Flynn built for himself and wife a modern brick residence in town situated on the corner of Market and Beauty Streets, its rear to the business part of the town, its front facing the best residences of the town; this went up in flames within a year or so.]
[WOODYARD ADDITION—1891.
Cow pastures and hay lots were laid off into streets and lots. The first recorded of these was by William Woodyard; this Woodyard addition was made in the year 1891, and is two blocks of lots on the southeast side of the south end of Market Street; they are numbered one to ten fronting on Market Street and eleven to twenty, inclusive, on an extension southward of Church Street, which this recorded plat thereby dedicates to the town; this plat of the Woodyard addition is of record in Book of Plats No 1 page 103.]
[WOODYARD : Of City of Spencer, first here.
William Woodyard, merchant, real estate man, State Senator. Ancestry, marriage, career, children.
Among the pioneers of Wirt County, near the year 1800, was a family Woodyard. Of these was one Lewis Woodyard who united in marriage at "Beauchamps" Mills, now Elizabeth, on the Little Kanawha, when that part of the Little Kanawha Valley was part of Wood County, in records of which will be found the marriage of Lewis Woodyard and Catherine Wiseman; she a daughter of a pioneer family of Wisemans of that locality. They made their home on lands extending to the river and kept the ferry; there brought up their family of five sons and four daughters, as learned from George A. Roberts of City of Elizabeth, Wirt County historian. The names of these sons and daughters of Lewis Woodyard and wife, are Caleb, Isaac, John, Frank, William, Annie, Harriett, Mary and Emma. These all married and scattered each on his own. William Woodyard, son of Lewis and Catherine (Wiseman) Woodyard was born in Wirt County, Western Virginia, year 1840; buried at Spencer, 1895. He came to Spencer, possibly during the commotion of the Civil War. The town was garrisoned in 1862 by four regiments of Union troops under Col. John C. Rathbone, a native of Wirt County, as were many of his troops.
William Woodyard united in marriage with Miss Isabelle Chapman, February 24, 1866; she a daughter of Dr. Henry D. Chapman and wife; born 1848, died 1915. See Chapter IX. To William and Isabelle (Chapman) Woodyard, were born and by them brought up, in Spencer, the following sons and daughters: Catherine, Harry Chapman, Ralph, Louise and Jeanette. Something further of these:]
Prominent Men of West Virginia (1890), p. 499:
[WILLIAM WOODYARD.
ALWAYS at duty's post might truthfully be said of Senator Woodyard, from the county of Roane. He is a native of Wood county, Virginia, and was born in 1849, near Parkersburg, the seat of Justice. He was educated in the public schools, and by the experience of mercantile pursuits. From 1861 to 1864 he sold goods in Parkersburg, then moved to Spencer, Roane county, where, in his home, he has since continued to be one of the most prosperous business men of the section.
In 1882 he was elected to the State Senate for four years, and in 1886 he was given a second term. He is popular, energetic and clear headed. Among the important measures advocated by him in the Legislature was the erection of a second Hospital for the Insane, which, through his influence and liberality, is to be built at Spencer. He believes in public improvements, and was one of the first Directors of the Ohio River Railroad, and is the Vice-President of the Ravenswood, Spencer and Glenville Railway Company. He would be valuable to any constituency. In the pending Senate he is a member of the Committees of Finance, Penitentiary, Railroads, and Chairman on that of Public Buildings and Humane Institutions.]
History of West Virginia, Old and New, Vol. 3, p. 571:
[Hon. Harry C. Woodyard, whose service in Congress as representative of the Fourth West Virginia District has at once been characterized by repeated re-election and by extreme fidelity to the duties and responsibilities of his office, is a resident of Spencer, where for many years he was active in business affairs.
He was born at Spencer, November 13, 1867, son of William and Isabelle Woodyard. William Woodyard was born in West Virginia, spent the greater part of his life as a merchant at Spencer, was a Union soldier at the time of the Civil war, and died at Paris, Illinois, in 1896. His wife, Isabelle Chapman, was born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died at Detroit, Michigan. Her father, Henry Chapman, was in his time a well known physician and surgeon at Spencer...]
History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927, pp. 134, 373, 379, 701 and 702:
[THE RAILROAD AND SPENCER STATE HOSPITAL CAME 1890.
In the legislative deal at Charleston deciding the location of a "Second Hospital for Insane," now by law named "Spencer State Hospital," in Roane County, and a railroad from Ravenswood by way of Spencer thence to Glenville, were decided on and promised; year 1885.
William Woodyard (later senior), resident of Spencer, was at the time State Senator, and Jesse Roach, of Reedy District of this county, an influential delegate for Roane in the legislature; his work was continued by David Simmons, who succeeded him as delegate for Roane...]
["The Roane County Record," the fourth venture in the newspaper business in Spencer, and the first Republican "organ" and so outspoken; this was by Edwin H . Flynn in the year 1888; the county for twenty years next past had been democratic by such a large majority it was supposed that a paper avowedly Republican could not survive, but William Woodyard, Sr., and others of the county took shares in the venture and the national government was in the hands of Republicans and Mr. Flynn "got the post office;" the asylum for the insane was established here, the railroad came; oil and gas were discovered; population increased, and with all these the subscription list grew; both newspapers appeared prosperous; Editor Flynn built for himself and wife a modern brick residence in town situated on the corner of Market and Beauty Streets, its rear to the business part of the town, its front facing the best residences of the town; this went up in flames within a year or so.]
[WOODYARD ADDITION—1891.
Cow pastures and hay lots were laid off into streets and lots. The first recorded of these was by William Woodyard; this Woodyard addition was made in the year 1891, and is two blocks of lots on the southeast side of the south end of Market Street; they are numbered one to ten fronting on Market Street and eleven to twenty, inclusive, on an extension southward of Church Street, which this recorded plat thereby dedicates to the town; this plat of the Woodyard addition is of record in Book of Plats No 1 page 103.]
[WOODYARD : Of City of Spencer, first here.
William Woodyard, merchant, real estate man, State Senator. Ancestry, marriage, career, children.
Among the pioneers of Wirt County, near the year 1800, was a family Woodyard. Of these was one Lewis Woodyard who united in marriage at "Beauchamps" Mills, now Elizabeth, on the Little Kanawha, when that part of the Little Kanawha Valley was part of Wood County, in records of which will be found the marriage of Lewis Woodyard and Catherine Wiseman; she a daughter of a pioneer family of Wisemans of that locality. They made their home on lands extending to the river and kept the ferry; there brought up their family of five sons and four daughters, as learned from George A. Roberts of City of Elizabeth, Wirt County historian. The names of these sons and daughters of Lewis Woodyard and wife, are Caleb, Isaac, John, Frank, William, Annie, Harriett, Mary and Emma. These all married and scattered each on his own. William Woodyard, son of Lewis and Catherine (Wiseman) Woodyard was born in Wirt County, Western Virginia, year 1840; buried at Spencer, 1895. He came to Spencer, possibly during the commotion of the Civil War. The town was garrisoned in 1862 by four regiments of Union troops under Col. John C. Rathbone, a native of Wirt County, as were many of his troops.
William Woodyard united in marriage with Miss Isabelle Chapman, February 24, 1866; she a daughter of Dr. Henry D. Chapman and wife; born 1848, died 1915. See Chapter IX. To William and Isabelle (Chapman) Woodyard, were born and by them brought up, in Spencer, the following sons and daughters: Catherine, Harry Chapman, Ralph, Louise and Jeanette. Something further of these:]
Son of Lewis and Catherine (Wiseman) Woodyard.
Prominent Men of West Virginia (1890), p. 499:
[WILLIAM WOODYARD.
ALWAYS at duty's post might truthfully be said of Senator Woodyard, from the county of Roane. He is a native of Wood county, Virginia, and was born in 1849, near Parkersburg, the seat of Justice. He was educated in the public schools, and by the experience of mercantile pursuits. From 1861 to 1864 he sold goods in Parkersburg, then moved to Spencer, Roane county, where, in his home, he has since continued to be one of the most prosperous business men of the section.
In 1882 he was elected to the State Senate for four years, and in 1886 he was given a second term. He is popular, energetic and clear headed. Among the important measures advocated by him in the Legislature was the erection of a second Hospital for the Insane, which, through his influence and liberality, is to be built at Spencer. He believes in public improvements, and was one of the first Directors of the Ohio River Railroad, and is the Vice-President of the Ravenswood, Spencer and Glenville Railway Company. He would be valuable to any constituency. In the pending Senate he is a member of the Committees of Finance, Penitentiary, Railroads, and Chairman on that of Public Buildings and Humane Institutions.]
History of West Virginia, Old and New, Vol. 3, p. 571:
[Hon. Harry C. Woodyard, whose service in Congress as representative of the Fourth West Virginia District has at once been characterized by repeated re-election and by extreme fidelity to the duties and responsibilities of his office, is a resident of Spencer, where for many years he was active in business affairs.
He was born at Spencer, November 13, 1867, son of William and Isabelle Woodyard. William Woodyard was born in West Virginia, spent the greater part of his life as a merchant at Spencer, was a Union soldier at the time of the Civil war, and died at Paris, Illinois, in 1896. His wife, Isabelle Chapman, was born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died at Detroit, Michigan. Her father, Henry Chapman, was in his time a well known physician and surgeon at Spencer...]
History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927, pp. 134, 373, 379, 701 and 702:
[THE RAILROAD AND SPENCER STATE HOSPITAL CAME 1890.
In the legislative deal at Charleston deciding the location of a "Second Hospital for Insane," now by law named "Spencer State Hospital," in Roane County, and a railroad from Ravenswood by way of Spencer thence to Glenville, were decided on and promised; year 1885.
William Woodyard (later senior), resident of Spencer, was at the time State Senator, and Jesse Roach, of Reedy District of this county, an influential delegate for Roane in the legislature; his work was continued by David Simmons, who succeeded him as delegate for Roane...]
["The Roane County Record," the fourth venture in the newspaper business in Spencer, and the first Republican "organ" and so outspoken; this was by Edwin H . Flynn in the year 1888; the county for twenty years next past had been democratic by such a large majority it was supposed that a paper avowedly Republican could not survive, but William Woodyard, Sr., and others of the county took shares in the venture and the national government was in the hands of Republicans and Mr. Flynn "got the post office;" the asylum for the insane was established here, the railroad came; oil and gas were discovered; population increased, and with all these the subscription list grew; both newspapers appeared prosperous; Editor Flynn built for himself and wife a modern brick residence in town situated on the corner of Market and Beauty Streets, its rear to the business part of the town, its front facing the best residences of the town; this went up in flames within a year or so.]
[WOODYARD ADDITION—1891.
Cow pastures and hay lots were laid off into streets and lots. The first recorded of these was by William Woodyard; this Woodyard addition was made in the year 1891, and is two blocks of lots on the southeast side of the south end of Market Street; they are numbered one to ten fronting on Market Street and eleven to twenty, inclusive, on an extension southward of Church Street, which this recorded plat thereby dedicates to the town; this plat of the Woodyard addition is of record in Book of Plats No 1 page 103.]
[WOODYARD : Of City of Spencer, first here.
William Woodyard, merchant, real estate man, State Senator. Ancestry, marriage, career, children.
Among the pioneers of Wirt County, near the year 1800, was a family Woodyard. Of these was one Lewis Woodyard who united in marriage at "Beauchamps" Mills, now Elizabeth, on the Little Kanawha, when that part of the Little Kanawha Valley was part of Wood County, in records of which will be found the marriage of Lewis Woodyard and Catherine Wiseman; she a daughter of a pioneer family of Wisemans of that locality. They made their home on lands extending to the river and kept the ferry; there brought up their family of five sons and four daughters, as learned from George A. Roberts of City of Elizabeth, Wirt County historian. The names of these sons and daughters of Lewis Woodyard and wife, are Caleb, Isaac, John, Frank, William, Annie, Harriett, Mary and Emma. These all married and scattered each on his own. William Woodyard, son of Lewis and Catherine (Wiseman) Woodyard was born in Wirt County, Western Virginia, year 1840; buried at Spencer, 1895. He came to Spencer, possibly during the commotion of the Civil War. The town was garrisoned in 1862 by four regiments of Union troops under Col. John C. Rathbone, a native of Wirt County, as were many of his troops.
William Woodyard united in marriage with Miss Isabelle Chapman, February 24, 1866; she a daughter of Dr. Henry D. Chapman and wife; born 1848, died 1915. See Chapter IX. To William and Isabelle (Chapman) Woodyard, were born and by them brought up, in Spencer, the following sons and daughters: Catherine, Harry Chapman, Ralph, Louise and Jeanette. Something further of these:]
Prominent Men of West Virginia (1890), p. 499:
[WILLIAM WOODYARD.
ALWAYS at duty's post might truthfully be said of Senator Woodyard, from the county of Roane. He is a native of Wood county, Virginia, and was born in 1849, near Parkersburg, the seat of Justice. He was educated in the public schools, and by the experience of mercantile pursuits. From 1861 to 1864 he sold goods in Parkersburg, then moved to Spencer, Roane county, where, in his home, he has since continued to be one of the most prosperous business men of the section.
In 1882 he was elected to the State Senate for four years, and in 1886 he was given a second term. He is popular, energetic and clear headed. Among the important measures advocated by him in the Legislature was the erection of a second Hospital for the Insane, which, through his influence and liberality, is to be built at Spencer. He believes in public improvements, and was one of the first Directors of the Ohio River Railroad, and is the Vice-President of the Ravenswood, Spencer and Glenville Railway Company. He would be valuable to any constituency. In the pending Senate he is a member of the Committees of Finance, Penitentiary, Railroads, and Chairman on that of Public Buildings and Humane Institutions.]
History of West Virginia, Old and New, Vol. 3, p. 571:
[Hon. Harry C. Woodyard, whose service in Congress as representative of the Fourth West Virginia District has at once been characterized by repeated re-election and by extreme fidelity to the duties and responsibilities of his office, is a resident of Spencer, where for many years he was active in business affairs.
He was born at Spencer, November 13, 1867, son of William and Isabelle Woodyard. William Woodyard was born in West Virginia, spent the greater part of his life as a merchant at Spencer, was a Union soldier at the time of the Civil war, and died at Paris, Illinois, in 1896. His wife, Isabelle Chapman, was born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died at Detroit, Michigan. Her father, Henry Chapman, was in his time a well known physician and surgeon at Spencer...]
History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927, pp. 134, 373, 379, 701 and 702:
[THE RAILROAD AND SPENCER STATE HOSPITAL CAME 1890.
In the legislative deal at Charleston deciding the location of a "Second Hospital for Insane," now by law named "Spencer State Hospital," in Roane County, and a railroad from Ravenswood by way of Spencer thence to Glenville, were decided on and promised; year 1885.
William Woodyard (later senior), resident of Spencer, was at the time State Senator, and Jesse Roach, of Reedy District of this county, an influential delegate for Roane in the legislature; his work was continued by David Simmons, who succeeded him as delegate for Roane...]
["The Roane County Record," the fourth venture in the newspaper business in Spencer, and the first Republican "organ" and so outspoken; this was by Edwin H . Flynn in the year 1888; the county for twenty years next past had been democratic by such a large majority it was supposed that a paper avowedly Republican could not survive, but William Woodyard, Sr., and others of the county took shares in the venture and the national government was in the hands of Republicans and Mr. Flynn "got the post office;" the asylum for the insane was established here, the railroad came; oil and gas were discovered; population increased, and with all these the subscription list grew; both newspapers appeared prosperous; Editor Flynn built for himself and wife a modern brick residence in town situated on the corner of Market and Beauty Streets, its rear to the business part of the town, its front facing the best residences of the town; this went up in flames within a year or so.]
[WOODYARD ADDITION—1891.
Cow pastures and hay lots were laid off into streets and lots. The first recorded of these was by William Woodyard; this Woodyard addition was made in the year 1891, and is two blocks of lots on the southeast side of the south end of Market Street; they are numbered one to ten fronting on Market Street and eleven to twenty, inclusive, on an extension southward of Church Street, which this recorded plat thereby dedicates to the town; this plat of the Woodyard addition is of record in Book of Plats No 1 page 103.]
[WOODYARD : Of City of Spencer, first here.
William Woodyard, merchant, real estate man, State Senator. Ancestry, marriage, career, children.
Among the pioneers of Wirt County, near the year 1800, was a family Woodyard. Of these was one Lewis Woodyard who united in marriage at "Beauchamps" Mills, now Elizabeth, on the Little Kanawha, when that part of the Little Kanawha Valley was part of Wood County, in records of which will be found the marriage of Lewis Woodyard and Catherine Wiseman; she a daughter of a pioneer family of Wisemans of that locality. They made their home on lands extending to the river and kept the ferry; there brought up their family of five sons and four daughters, as learned from George A. Roberts of City of Elizabeth, Wirt County historian. The names of these sons and daughters of Lewis Woodyard and wife, are Caleb, Isaac, John, Frank, William, Annie, Harriett, Mary and Emma. These all married and scattered each on his own. William Woodyard, son of Lewis and Catherine (Wiseman) Woodyard was born in Wirt County, Western Virginia, year 1840; buried at Spencer, 1895. He came to Spencer, possibly during the commotion of the Civil War. The town was garrisoned in 1862 by four regiments of Union troops under Col. John C. Rathbone, a native of Wirt County, as were many of his troops.
William Woodyard united in marriage with Miss Isabelle Chapman, February 24, 1866; she a daughter of Dr. Henry D. Chapman and wife; born 1848, died 1915. See Chapter IX. To William and Isabelle (Chapman) Woodyard, were born and by them brought up, in Spencer, the following sons and daughters: Catherine, Harry Chapman, Ralph, Louise and Jeanette. Something further of these:]
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