Notes on Walla Walla Citizens
found in various sources and
other county/state records
where you might not think to look
Woodruff
"The parents of Dr. Woodruff, Charles E. and Mary Smith Woodruff,
came to Nebraska in 1884. The father was born in Wisconsin, in 1852, and died
in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1918. The mother, who was born in New York,
still resides in Washington. Besided Dr. Woodruff, who was the first born,
they had four children: Ralph, with the American Expeditionary Forces in
England when the World War was halted; Rhea, the wife of Clough Hudson, a
newspaperman of Spokane, Washington; and Ruth and Eugene both of whom live
in Walla Walla, Washington. When the parents of this family came to Nebraska,
the father started a lumber yard in Gibson. In 1899, he removed to Grand Island
and started the Yost Lumber yard, with which he remained until 1909 when he went to
Walla Walla, Washington, where he was engaged in the lumber business until his death.
He was a Republican in politics but was never an office seeker. For many
years he belonged to the Masonic fraternity.
From: Buechler, A. F. and R. J. Barr, eds, History of Hall County,
Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: Western Publishing, 1920, p. 596.