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- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XXIX.
CALVIN WOODHULL, sixth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of Ebenezer Woodhull and Sarah Tallcott, and grandson of Colonel Jesse Woodhull.
He was born at Herkimer, New York, April 4, 1813. In 1853 he removed to Schoharie County, New York. He married, September 12, 1844, Gertrude M., daughter of Waterman Watkins.
His early recollections of Herkimer County in his boyhood days are interesting.
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He witnessed the grading of the first turnpike road from Albany to Utica; saw the first four-horse stage go through some months later; remembers the laying of the first strap iron railroad track through the Mohawk Valley, and saw the first train of cars go by.
He remembers watching the bateaux being "poled" up the Mohawk by two men. This was the first mode of transporting goods to the settlements in the valley. Each bateau was about 24 feet long and carried about two tons.
He saw the building of the Erie canal through his farm, and was a witness of the great celebration, in October, 1825, when the canal was open to traffic, and the Hudson was baptized with the waters of Lake Erie.
He has lived to see the four tracks of the New York Central Railroad revolutionize the valley, and the frontier moved to the Hawaiian Islands in the dim west of the Pacific ocean.
At this time, (1904) in his 91st year, he is enjoying good health, a sound body, and a clear mind.
(See Genealogy, No. 199.)
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1813 - Yes, date unknown
d. 18 Jul 1837, Herkimer, Montgomery, New York, United States 