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- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XXXIV.
MERRITT SMITH WOODHULL, seventh generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the only child of Colonel Charles, and his wife Mary (or Polly) Woodhull. He was born August 16, 1824.
"During his boyhood and youth he was given good educational advantages, attending both the public schools and Miller's Academy.
"On attaining his majority Captain Woodhull went as a sailor on board a merchant vessel plying between New York and Liverpool, England, and later made two trips to China.
"Being a wide-awake, capable and reliable young man, he soon won promotion, and was given positions of great responsibility. He rose steadily, and for some time had command of a coasting steamer running between New York and Southern ports.
"He married, November 11, 1885, Mrs. Mary Jones (widow of Benjamin H. Jones). In 1890 he retired from the sea, having spent about forty-five years upon the water.
"In business affairs Captain Woodhull prospered, and after a useful and well spent life he passed away August 15, 1892.
"He was a man of the highest respectability, and those who were most intimately associated with him speak in unqualified terms of his sterling integrity, his honor in business, and his fidelity to all the duties of public and private life."
(See Genealogy, No. 331.)
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1824 - 1892 (67 years)