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A1767
Woodruff Family.
Collection, 1850-1957. 1 box (75 items)
Frederick C. Woodruff was born in 1838 in Granby, Massachusetts. He served in the Civil
War in an Ohio unit, and soon after the war moved to St. Louis, where he worked for many years
as a school principal. He died in 1906. His wife was Mary Humphrey (Newton) Woodruff (1839-
1891). His son Frederick Eno Woodruff was born April 26, 1872, in Ferguson, St. Louis County,
Missouri, and became an ophthalmologist. He died December 28, 1962, in St. Louis.
The collection contains one item that is clearly from the Woodruff family, namely, the bound
school notebook of F.C. Woodruff. However, the remainder of the collection is a disparate
assortment of documents that cannot be readily associated with the Woodruff family. Other
surnames that appear in the collection more than once are Fauntleroy, Schrage, and Uhlich. The
bulk of the collection relates to St. Louis and includes receipts, newspaper clippings, calling
cards, business cards, printed programs and invitations, mostly relating to events at St. Louis–
area schools and churches, and advertising material for St. Louis–area businesses. Several items
in the collection relate to art.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Woodruff Family Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1769
Woods, Christy and Company (St. Louis, Missouri).
Ledgers, 1841-1869. 2 volumes
Wholesale dry goods firm of William T. Christy, Robert K. Woods, Andrew Woods, James
Woods, and William T. Gentry.
Ledgers of real estate investments of St. Louis wholesale dry goods firm.
Cite as: Woods, Christy and Company Ledgers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1768
Woods Family.
Woods-Holman family papers, 1808-1905; 1946. 4 folders (approximately 300 items)
Patterns for weaving; undated book of instructions for dyeing materials; receipts of William
Holman family of Washington County, Missouri; some personal family and business
correspondence and William Woods.
Cite as: Woods-Holman Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1770
Wooldridge, Samuel (1819-1902).
Journal, 1857-1860. 1 volume
Samuel Wooldridge was a farmer and furniture dealer in Boonville, Missouri.
Journal contains business records (1857-1876) that include a list of fruit trees received, wood
bought, hire of workers, and products sold. The rear of the volume contains a boarding house or
hotel register (1856-1860).
Cite as: Samuel Wooldridge Journal, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
Woolrych, F. Humphrey W.
See: Varney, Woolrych, and Pulis (Saint Louis, Missouri).