M.D. Henry William Beck Woodhull

1819 - 1894  (74 years)

• Name	Henry William Beck Woodhull
  Title	M.D.
  Birth	3 Oct 1819	Vine Hill, Manalapan Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States
  Gender	Male
  Burial	1894	Perrineville, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States of America
  Death	20 Jan 1894
  Person ID	I18646	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	M.D. Gilbert Smith Woodhull,   b. 11 Jan 1794, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States d. 13 Oct 1830 (Age 36 years)
  Mother	Charlotte Wikoff,   b. 15 Apr 1795, Manalapan Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States d. 11 Jan 1862 (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	25 Nov 1817	Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
  Family ID	F3908	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Azelia Giraud,   b. 3 Jun 1826   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	12 May 1847
  Children	1. Thenford Woodhull,   b. 24 May 1848   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Rosalie Woodhull,   b. 2 May 1852   d. 5 Apr 1856 (Age 3 years)   3. Evelyn De Vivon Woodhull,   b. 20 Nov 1866   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F7901	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XXXII. HENRY WILLIAM BECK WOODHULL, (M. D.), seventh generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the only son of Gilbert Smith Woodhull, M. D., and Charlotte Wikoff. He was born at Manalapan, Monmouth County, New Jersey, October 3, 1819. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1838, and after conducting for three years the paternal farm (a part of the estate of his grandfather), commenced the study of medicine in the City of New York and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons there in 1845. He commenced the practice of his profession Page 338 at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and on May 12th, 1847, married Azelia, youngest child of Joseph Giraud, a retired merchant of the City of New York, and a descendant of Pierre Giraud, a Huguenot refugee of 1685. Dr. Woodhull removed to the City of New York in 1854, and practiced there, in Long Island City, and in Brooklyn, removing to the last named place in 1879. He was an enthusiastic, efficient, and popular staff-officer of the National Guard of the State of New York, holding a commission as surgeon of the Twelfth Regiment from 1855 to 1857, and as brigade-surgeon (with the rank of major) of the old Fourth Brigade, First Division, from 1857 to 1869. As a physician, Dr. Woodhull was acute in diagnosis, skillful in therapeutics, and assiduous and devoted in his attention to his cases. While not without his preferences among the various departments of medicine and surgery, he resisted the tendency to sink into a specialty, and performed with ability and effectiveness the important and symmetrical functions of the general practitioner. In his intercourse with his patients, his manner was habitually cheerful, animating, and encouraging, and professional ability and personal influence were so combined in him that it was no uncommon thing for his patients to insist upon his services exclusively, even after they had removed to great distances. He died at his home in the (then) City of Brooklyn, on January 20th, 1894. (See Genealogy, No. 324.)