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- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH LI.
GEORGE EDMUND WOODHULL, (Rev.), eighth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the second son of the Rev. George Spofford Woodhull, D. D., and Elizabeth D. Martin. He was born at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, October 17, 1860.
He graduated M. A. from Princeton University June, 1884; and from Princeton Theological Seminary, May, 1887.
From 1887 to 1888 he was Home Missionary at West Plains, Missouri. March 19, 1888, he was commissioned as a Foreign Missionary to Japan by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions.
He married at West Plains, Missouri, June 7, 1888, Lillie May, daughter of Edward Johnson.
He was ordained as a Minister of the Gospel by the Presbytery of New York, September 30, 1888.
He arrived in Osaka, Japan, October of the same year, and took up the work nearest his heart, that of preaching the gospel to the people of Japan; which work he continued with enthusiasm and joy, until his death at Tokyo, October 11, 1895.
A Memorial Service was held by the West Japan Mission during its annual meeting at Kyoto, November, 1895.
To the father of the deceased, the Secretary wrote as follows:
"Your son was a beloved and highly honored member of this body. Many were the tributes made to his kindness, unselfishness, zeal and success in his work. No man was ever more sincerely mourned."
A Japanese pastor, the Rev. Mr. Wada, said of him, "Many words which I heard him speak years ago in Osaka, are still sounding in my ears. Many Japanese friends to-day join with his family and foreign friends in lamenting his sad and untimely death."
In him the West Japan Mission lost one of its most earnest and successful workers.
He left a widow, two daughters and a son.
(See Genealogy, No. 603.)
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1860 - 1895 (34 years)