Re: Pittsfield, Washtenaw Co, Woodruffs ...
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Pittsfield, Washtenaw Co, Woodruffs ...
Mark Woodruff 7/01/02
The PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF WASHTENAW COUNTY has the following entry on this family:
"HON. CAHRLES WOODRUFF, editor of the Ypsilanti SENTINEL, was born in Seneca County, N.Y., February 7, 1816, his parents being Benjamin and Freelove (Sanford) Woodruff.In common with the young men of that time he learned a trade - tailoring - after a meager education in the district school. In 1836 his parents moved to the then wild Territory of Michigan,settling in Pittsfield Township, at what is known as Carpenter's Corners, where they bought eighty acres upon which they resided until the spring of 1865. Besides the subject of our sketch, the family consisted of four boys:Benjamin F., a farmer living in the southern part of Wayne County; Henry, of Saginaw County, who was a Captain in the infantry in the Rebellion, and has since served as sheriff of Saginaw County, and as representative and senator in the legislature from the ClareCount districts; Peter D., of Ann Arbor; and Dr. Frank Woodruff (deceased) of Detroit.