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- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XLII.
ADDIS EMMET WOODHULL, eighth generation from Richard Wodhull 1., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of Richard William Woodhull and Ruth A. Strong. He was born at Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York, September 11, 1840.
His education was received at Blooming Grove, in which place he resided until 1861. During this same year he went to New York City, where he enlisted in the Ninth New York Militia, and on the 31st, of May, 1861, he started for the front. After serving as a private for six months he was promoted Captain of Company "D" of the Sixteenth New York Volunteers, raised at Plattsburg, Clinton County, New York, serving in this capacity through the Peninsular Campaign under McClellan. His next promotion was that of Lieutenant-Colonel of the same regiment.
Upon retiring from the Army, he went West to Valparaiso, Indiana, engaging in the lumber, and later in mercantile business, and in 1864 married Eliza Jane, daughter of Thomas A. E. Campbell and Margaret Parkinson, of Valparaiso.
Conducting his lumber and mercantile business until 1874, Mr. Woodhull embarked in the butter and cheese business, establishing factories throughout Northern Indiana, and entered very extensively into the commission business, establishing the main house in Chicago, and branch houses in New York City, and Liverpool, England.
In May, 1898, retiring from active business life, he was elected Mayor of Valparaiso, and served as such, until he removed his residence to Chicago in 1902.
Mr. Woodhull has seven children, six daughters and a son, all of whom are living, five daughters being married.
(See Genealogy, No. 668.)
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1840 - Yes, date unknown
