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- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLVI.
JESSE CALVIN WOODHULL, seventh generation from Richard Wodhul I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the only son of Calvin Woodhull and Gertrude M. Watkins.
He was born at Oriskany, Oneida County, New York, September 11, 1847. His great-grandfather was Colonel Jesse Woodhull, who served with honor during the Revolutionary War.
Jesse Calvin Woodhull attended the district school and Academy at Havana, Schuyler County, New York, (now Montour Falls), and began his business career in early youth.
He moved to Brooklyn in 1878, and has been identified with many business enterprises in that city and in New York, principal among which was the yellow pine lumber business, of which he was among the first to engage extensively.
He has been for some years connected with the First Reformed Church of Brooklyn, and is at present an elder. He is also President of the P. M. M. Fraternity, which has its rooms in the Dutch Arms; member of the Montauk Club, and of the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and has been active in the Republican party.
He married September 3, 1873, Ann Maria, daughter of Gilbert Schenck Bergen, a descendant of Hans Hansen Bergen who settled on Manhattan Island in early colonial days.
They have four children living.
(See Genealogy, No. 423.)
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1847 - Yes, date unknown
d. 1914 (Age 77 years) 