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On Family Mosoleum in Berwick PA died 25 sep 1931
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Broken for the second time by death is the Woodin family group of 4 generations that was posed in 1929. The death of Clemuel Ricketts Woodin occurred on Sep 25, 1931. With CR Woodin and WH Woodin are William H Woodin Jr and William H Woodin 3rd
MarrAnnouncement WoodinDickerman1865The Star of the North (Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania)
05 Apr 1865, Wed
Page 2
MARRIED
On the 16th inst., by Rev Francis E Church, Mr Clemuel R Woodin of Berwick to Miss Mary L Dickerman of Harford, SUsquehanna county, PA
1850FCI WmHWooden&fam; Pennsylvania > Columbia > Berwick; image 8 of 12 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Roll M432_769; Page: 162B; Image: 40.
1860FCI WmHartmanWoodin&fam; Pennsylvania > Columbia > Briar Creek; post office Berwick; page 125; image 17 of 44 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Briar Creek, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Roll M653_1098; Page: 590; Image: 137; Family History Library Film: 805098.
W H Woodin 39
E F Woodin 39
C R Woodin 16
Dora Woodin 14
Foster Woodin 11
Amelia Langing 17
1870FCI CR and WH Woodin and Families &MIL, 2 pgs; PA, Columbia, Berwick, pg 1-2 of 24 @ancestry.com; Name: J F Woodin; Estimated Birth Year: abt 1850; Age in 1870: 20; Birthplace: Pennsylvania; Home: Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Race: White; Gender: Male; Post Office: Berwick; Roll: M593_1329; Page: 86; Image: 173
C R Woodin 25
Mary Woodin 23
Wm H Woodin 2
S A Dickerman 55 MIL
M Mcgregory 17
W H Woodin 48
Elisebeth Woodin 48
Harry Grazier 27
Susan Grazier 25
J F Woodin 20
Jennie Woodin 17
1880FCI CRWoodin&fam/MIL; PA, Columbia, Berwick, district 164, image 16 of 42 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Roll T9_1118; Family History Film: 1255118; Page: 36.4000; Enumeration District: 164; Image: 0347.
C. B. Woodin 35
Mary Woodin 33
William Woodin 12
Lizzie Aton 18 niece
Mrs S. A. Dickerman 65
Annie Lynn 19
Ellie Amerman 18
IMM 1889 CR Woodin; New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 Record for Mr. C R Woodin New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957; 1889 > September > 12 > City of New York > 14 ; image 14 of 25 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1889; Arrival: New York , United States; Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll: M237_538; Line: 30; List number: 1253.
Name: Mr. C R Woodin, Estimated birth year: abt 1844, Age: 45, Gender: Male
Arrival Date: 12 Sep 1889
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland
Destination: United States of America
Place of Origin: United States of America
Ethnicity/Race/Nationality: American
Ship Name: City of New York
next line Mr CH Woodin age 40 traveling with wife related?????
U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 > Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372) > 1892 - 1895 > Roll 413 - 01 Dec 1893-30 Dec 1893; image 242 of 717 @ancestry.com
Name: Clemuel R Woodin
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1844
Birth Place: Cambra, Luzerne Co, Pennsylvania
Residence: Berwick, Columbia Co, Pennsylvania
Passport Issue Date: 9 Dec 1893
“accompanied by my wife Mary L Woodin, born at Hartforn,PA, on 24 Nov 1846”
5ft 8 1/4in
U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 > Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372) > 1895 - 1898 > Roll 456 - 01 Nov 1895-30 Nov 1895; image 562 of 638 @ancestry.com
Name: Clemuel Ricketts Woodin
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1844
Birth Place: Berwick, Pennsylvania
Residence: Berwick, Pennsylvania
Passport Issue Date: 26 Nov 1895
Passport Includes a Photo: N
Source: Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372)
U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925; Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372) > 1898 - 1900 > Roll 504 - 01 Apr 1898-16 Apr 1898 > 571; image 571 of 715 @ancestry.com
Name: Clemuel R Woodin
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1844; Birth Place: Cambria (Luzine Co), Pennsylvania
Residence: Berwick, Pennsylvania
Passport Issue Date: 13 Apr 1898; Passport Includes a Photo: N
Source: Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372)
4ft 8 1/2in; very bald, wears toupe
1900FCI C R Woodin and family; United States Federal Census > Pennsylvania > Columbia > Briar Creek > District 5; image 21 of 37 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Briar Creek, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Roll: T623 1398; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 5.
Household Members: Name Age
Clement B Woodin 55
Mary L Woodin 52 had 1 child, still living
Hiram W Heller 49
Eveline C Kramer 48
Alison Smeaton 30
Kate Mcnichol 48
1910FCI CR Woodin and Family; United States Federal Census; New York > New York > Manhattan Ward 19 > District 1162 > 21; image 21 of 37 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Manhattan Ward 19, New York, New York; Roll T624_1043; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 1162; Image: 189.
Clemence R Woodin 65
Mary L Woodin 63
Emaline C Cramer 55
Kate Mcnicol 45
Mary Sullivan 35 [25]
Maria Flannery 25
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 New York New York 1911 New York, New York, City Directory, 1911; image 834 of 943 @ancestry.com; Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Name: Mary L Woodin
Gender: Female
Residence Year: 1911
Street address: 40 E64th
Residence Place: New York, New York, USA
Spouse: C R Woodin
Publication Title: New York, New York, City Directory, 1911
1920FCI Clemuel Woodin & fam; United States Federal Census > Pennsylvania > Columbia > Briar Creek > District 18; image 38 of 39 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Briar Creek, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Roll T625_1554; Page: 23B; Enumeration District: 18; Image: 973.
Clemuel R Woodin 75
Mary L Woodin 72
Hiram W Heller 69
1930FCI CR Woodin and Family; United States Federal Census; Pennsylvania > Columbia > Briar Creek > District 18 > 5; image 5 of 28 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Briar Creek, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Roll 2024; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 18; Image: 7.0.
C R Woodin 85
Mary L Woodin 83
Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964; 1931 085001-088000; image 2062 of 3289 @ancestry.com;
Source Citation: Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Pennsylvania, USA; Certificate Number Range: 085001-088000; Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Name: Clemuel Ricketts Woodin
Gender: Male; Race: White
Age: 86; Birth Date: 26 Dec 1844
Birth Place: Cambra, Pennsylvania
Death Date: 25 Sep 1931
Death Place: Briar Creek, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: William H Woodin b Salem Twn, PA
Mother: Elizabeth Foster b PA
Spouse: Mary Louise Woodin
Certificate Number: 86865
OCC gentleman Retired
informant Wm H Woodin 30 Church St, NYC
CoD Enlarged (obstructing) prostate; contributory Uremia
burial Pine Grove, Berwick PA
OBIT CRWoodin1931The Evening News (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)
26 Sep 1931, Sat
Page 5
CR WOODIN 86 OF BERWICK IS DEATH’S VICTIM
Father of President of American Car & Foundry Dies
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
Clemuel Ricketts Woodin, 86, fdaterof William H Woodin, president of the American Car & Foundry Company, died last night at his home on the Heights at Berwick. Mr Woodin had been seriously ill for 6 weeks and collapsed on Wednesday.
Mrs Woodin and William H Woodin were at the bedside when Mr Woodin died.
Mr Woodin was a member of the executive committee of the American Car & Foundry Company at the time of his death and was one of the nation’s pioneer railroad builders. During the Civil War he served with the Union army.
A native of Cambra, Luzerne County, he had been associated during most of his warly life with the Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company of which he was president from 1872 to 1894, when he resigned because of poor health. He became known throughout the nation for his work with this concern. He was also a graduate of the old Kingston seminary, now the Wyoming Seminary.
Although retiring from active management of the Jackson & Woodin Company, he retained interest in it, and when it became one of the large plants in the American Car & Foundry Company he became a member of the executive committee.
He had been married for 65 years. His widow who was Mary Louise Dickerman, and his son William H Woodin are the only survivors.
GroomName=woodin
GroomName GroomRes BrideName BrideRes Newspaper WeddingDate AnnounceDate
Woodin, Clemuel R. Berwick Dickerson, Mary L. Susquehanna Co. Columbia Democrat 1865-03-16 1865-04-01
Woodin, Clemuel R. Berwick Dickerman, Mary L. Susquehanna Co. Star of the North 1865-03-16 1865-04-05
The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company had its origins in 1840 at Berwick, PA, when Mordecai W. Jackson (1815-1880+) and George Mack established a foundry there to produce plows and plow castings, kettles and almost everything that farmers would want. Their works were housed in a 25' x 40' building with an attached shed in which agricultural implements were manufactured. They employed about 15 men.
In 1843, Jackson bought out Mack's interest and took in Robert McCurdy as his new partner. In 1846, he bought out McCurdy's interest. At this point, one source says he continued alone for three years, while another says he associated with Louis Euke. However that may be, during this time the firm began to build heavy wagons in addition to farm implements.
In 1849, Jackson took in William Hartman Woodin (1821-1886) as partner. Woodin had been operating his own furnace and foundry at Foundryville on the north side of Berwick.
Among other things, Jackson & Woodin made the iron pipes laid by the Berwick Water Company in 1850 and bridge castings for the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad in 1858. In 1861, they entered the railway car building business, producing 20 simple four-wheeled cars. (39)
Additional shops were erected, and in 1865 the firm employed 150. On the morning of 17 March 1866 the shops burned to the ground. But they were soon rebuilt to an even larger size, and by 1869 the firm employed 250. In 1872, the shops were directly connected to the Lackawanna & Bloomsburg railroad.
On 1 March 1872, the Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company was organized as a Pennsylvania corporation, with Clement R. Woodin, president; Clarence G. Jackson, vice president; Garrick Mallery, treasurer. Mordecai W. Jackson and William H. Woodin, retired from active business, named themselves the executive committee. Both continued to pursue other business interests.
Clement R. Woodin (1844-1898) was the son of W.H. Woodin. He was one of the founders of the Car Trust Company of New York, founded about 1878 with capital of $3 million, to finance car purchases. The function of a car trust was to pay the car builder cash for its production, and then let the railroads pay for the cars in installments. Before such trusts were established, many rail car builders were forced to take railroad bonds in payment for their production -- bonds that could easily become worthless due to the financial machinations of the railroads. By 1886 this firm had issued over $34 million in car trusts. (46)
Clarence G. Jackson (1842-1880) was the son of M.W. Jackson. He went to war at the age of 20 as a 2nd Lieutenant and then pursued a military career, becoming a colonel in the 1870s, and eventually quartermaster-general, a position he held at his death in 1880. During his later years he was also involved in several businesses, including Jackson & Woodin. (37)
By 1880, the Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company was reportedly one of the largest freight car manufacturers in the country.
An 1887 County history (37) says -
“now they do about $1,500,000 per year, and give employment too about 1,200 men when running at full capacity. The firm also own and operate a large store and do a business from $100,000 to $125,000 per annum. The capacity of the rolling-mill is forty to fifty tons per day of finished iron or merchant bar iron. The car wheel factory manufactures from 150 to 200 wheels per day, and in connection with the wheel foundry they manufacture all kinds of castings. The pipe factory runs twenty-five to thirty tons per day, from three to twelve inches in diameter, used for water and gas. When the works are run under full capacity, 140 to 150 tons of pig iron per day are used. This gives some idea of the work done by them. The car shops have a capacity of twenty cars per day.”
In 1892, William H. Woodin (1868-1934), son of the founder and later Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt, became General Superintendent of the firm, and in 1895 he became its President.
In 1899, Jackson & Woodin was consolidated into the American Car & Foundry Company. It was one of the largest of the 13 companies involved. By then the Berwick plant had become the largest manufacturer of railroad cars in the eastern United States. It would continue to be one of the largest units of the vast American Car & Foundry Company.
American Car & Foundry — Berwick Plant
-American Car & Foundry invested heavily in the Berwick plant. About three million dollars were spent on the purchase of additional land, erection of additional buildings and installation of machinery. By 1902 the Berwick plant had 2,600 employees, with a payroll of $140,000 a month, and a prospect of adding 2,400 more employees when the new facilities then being erected were completed.
-In 1916, William F. Woodin, President of Jackson & Woodin and grandson of the firm’s founder became President of American Car & Foundry.
-By 1940, the Berwick plant—begun in a building only 25' x 40'—encompassed well over 400 acres. (39)
-The Berwick plant was sold by AC&F in 1962.
American Car and Foundry Company, Berwick, PA
The origins of the American Car and Foundry Company in Berwick began with Mordecai W. Jackson in 1840 who built a foundry to manufacture agricultural implements on the corner of Third and Market Streets. William Hartman Woodin, who operated a furnace and foundry at Foundryville on the north side of Berwick, agreed to form a partnership with Jackson that became the Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company. The firm soon expanded and by 1860 began to manufacture railroad cars, and with the advent of the Civil War experienced significant growth.
When American Car and Foundry Company acquired the Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company in 1899, the Berwick plant had become the largest manufacturer of railroad cars in the eastern United States, and by 1907 it employed 5,700 workers. It also had the distinction of manufacturing the first all steel passenger cars for standard railroad service. After World War II broke out in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Berwick plants soon began to make tanks for the United States government. By August 2, 1941, the 1000th tank rolled off the assembly line. In the early 1960s the A.C. & F. operation at Berwick closed its doors which had serious adverse economic impact on the community.
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CLEMUEL RICKETTS WOODIN is too well-known throughout the Seventeenth
Congressional District to need an extended introduction to the readers of this
volume. His name is known and respected throughout the United States wherever
any attention is paid to the rolling-stock of railroads. His present and past
connection with car-manufacturing places him among the most prominent men of the
Keystone State. For twenty-two years, until 1894, he served as president of The
Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, of which his father was one of the
founders, and of which his son, William H. Woodin, is now vice-president. He is
now living a retired life, because of failing health brought on by business
cares, and resides in his palatial residence on Berwick Heights, than which
there is no finer nor more completely-appointed home in Central Pennsylvania.
Mr. Woodin was born in Cambria, Luzerne County, Pa., December 26, 1844, and is
a son of the late William Hartman Woodin, a grandson of David Charles Woodin,
and a great-grandson of Milo Woodin, a native of Connecticut. Our subject's
grandfather was an architect by profession who settled in Pennsylvania; he died
October 21, 1825, a young man in years. He was married in 1819 to Sarah Hartman,
who was born in Catawissa, Columbia County, Pa., in 1792, and who died the same
year as her husband. Their children numbered three, as follows: William Hartman;
Joseph B.; and a daughter.
William Hartman Woodin was born in Salem, Luzerne County, Pa., November 4,
1821, and married Elizabeth Foster, daughter of John and Ellen Foster. Among the
first of his business ventures was the building of a foundry at Foundryville,
Briarcreek township, Columbia County, where he manufactured pig iron, and,
later, stoves and plows. In 1849 he united his interests with those of M. W.
Jackson, who had in 1840 with George Mack established a foundry at Berwick. Mr.
Jackson bought out Mr. Mack and the united strength of the firm of Jackson &
Woodin, under which style they did business from the start, was such as to
assure full and complete success. Both gentlemen possessed extraordinary ability
and shrewd business judgment and each had a practical and thorough knowledge of
the iron industry. They started in business in a building, 40 by 25 feet, at the
corner of Market and Third streets, where they manufactured the Robb stove, with
open grate, and a round stove with a bake-oven on top; also plows, a specialty
in this line being the old Bull plow. The stoves and plows were among the best
of that time, but would be considered crude at the present-day, because of the
many improvements that have been made. In 1850 they began the manufacture of
iron pipes; in 1858 they commenced making bridge castings for the Philadelphia &
Erie Railroad. In 1861 the firm of Jackson & Woodin received a large contract
from Mr. Creveling, a large lime manufacturer of Espy, Columbia County; the
order was for sixteen four-wheeled cars, which they constructed in a shed; when
the cars were finished the sides of the shed were torn down, and the cars drawn
to the railroad by horses. In this work the two partners demonstrated that they
were men of exceptional ability, whom no obstacles could overcome or drive from
their original purpose. The result was that from that time forward they never
lacked orders and their business grew pleasingly, many new departments being
added to the rapidly growing plant. One of the specialties that Messrs. Jackson
and Woodin developed was the manufacture of mine cars and mine castings, and in
this branch of work they have held their own with many competitors to the
present time. The partners were greatly aided in their work by their mutual
friend, A. C. Whitney of Philadelphia, who gave them timely advice and lent them
patterns and chills for the mouldings of car wheels. It may also be said that
the man who mixed the iron for the wheels made at that time is still in the
employ of the company and serves in the same capacity as then. In 1872 the D.,
L. & W. R. R. built a switch in Second street and connected it with all parts of
the Jackson & Woodin plant, and so from that time on the firm's goods were
loaded on cars in its own yards. On March 1, 1872, The Jackson & Woodin
Manufacturing Company was organized, with C. R. Woodin, our subject, president,
his father retiring.
William Hartman Woodin was a man beloved by all. He was strict and exact in
business affairs and had little patience with those who were disposed to shirk
obligations or to slight their work. But, with all his adherence to the sterling
rules of business, he never lost sight of the fact that he had been blessed
abundantly and that it was his duty to make bright and happy the lives of those
whose lot, otherwise, might have been wretchedness and want. He gave liberally
as a friend and not as one dispensing alms. In his life there was nothing
artificial, nothing out of harmony. He was loved and respected by all who knew
him and his death on November 10, 1886, was mourned as a public calamity. The
memory of his nobly spent life is still green in the minds of all with whom he
was associated in varied walks of life. His wife, who is now aged seventy-seven
years, is living in Berwick, Pa. Their children were as follows: Joseph B.,
deceased; Sarah A., deceased; C. R., our subject; Eudora W., widow of the late
S. P. Hanly of Berwick; Mary, deceased; John Foster, of Arkansas; and Elizabeth,
deceased.
C. R. Woodin, at the age of sixteen years, left Kingston Seminary on account
of his eyes, and began work under his father. In 1863 he served one year in the
Pennsylvania Emergency Reserves, Company C, 28th Regiment. Upon his return to
Berwick he applied himself to learning and becoming familiar with every detail
and development of the business. He was made president of the company upon its
organization, March 1, 1872, and filled that office until 1894, when, his health
having been overtaxed by business, he resigned. The company is now officered by
the following men: Fred'k H. Eaton, a nephew of the subject of this sketch,
president; William H. Woodin, vice-president; W. F. Lowery, secretary; W. M.
Hager, treasurer; and H. F. Glenn, general manager. It has a capital of
$1,100,000. The business has increased yearly until now the Jackson & Woodin
cars are seen on nearly all railroads of the United States and Canada.
Employment is given to 1,500 workmen, most of them skilled in their department
of work. Descriptions of the various departments, such as the car-wheel foundry,
pipe foundry, rolling mills, and car, casting, paint, car-building, and forging
departments, are on. other pages of this work in the biographical sketches of
the different foremen and superintendents.
Mr. Woodin has lived the greater part of his life in Berwick, only making his
home at Hazleton for a short time for the benefit of his health, as a high
elevation was required. In 1890 he bought the Van Pelt and other farms located
on an elevation north of the town of Berwick. A few acres having been cleared on
the highest part of an elevation of 1,200 feet above the sea, and 700 feet above
the railroad track at Berwick, Mr. Woodin decided to build residences for
himself and son there. A fine graded road 2 8-10 miles in length leads to the
summit from which a broad, open view of the Susquehanna Valley may be had, with
mountain after mountain piled up for a background and with the fertile valley in
which Berwick is located for an immediate foreground. Besides Berwick, which is
one of the most progressive boroughs in the state, several small villages may be
seen. To the southwest is a magnificent scene of forest-covered peaks and cuts
and ravines, that is scarcely surpassed in beauty and grandeur. To the north on
a clear day can be seen the Glen Summit Hotel, 30 miles distant, and still
farther the Pocono Mountains. In the summer, one escapes the sultry valley air
and enjoys the mountain breezes, receiving health and invigoration the year
around. In 1891 Mr. Woodin built his beautiful home on this charming spot,
constructing it of stone and wood, with spacious verandas. His son also built a
residence near by, and both are of Queen Anne style. The houses are furnished
with all the conveniences that minister to the comfort of its occupants, both in
summer and in winter. Three cottages were erected for his employees, and a water
tower 50 feet high was built of stone and timber, stone being used for the first
story; this tower is supplied with pure spring water which is forced to it by
pumps located at the spring 1,600 feet below at the foot of the hill. Also
attached to the tower, and located on its first floor, is a chemical engine and
hose-cart, for emergency use in case of fire. A large barn was also built for
each house: one of them burning recently, it was rebuilt into a handsome
structure, 33 by 40 feet, finished throughout with Norway pine. The borough of
Berwick supplies the necessary means of illuminating the premises. Sixteen arc
lights disposed about the house and on the walks and drives are lit every night,
and give to one, who may be miles away, the impression that a city is located
there. As many trees of the natural forest growth were left standing, the
grounds do not lack for abundant shade. Beautiful lawns, tennis courts, flower
gardens, fruit orchards and gardens make up the rest of the prospect, which is
truly a delightful one. Mr. Woodin lives quite closely at home throughout the
year, except during the severest weather, when he makes a trip to the South to
avoid the chilling blasts of winter. Mr. Woodin married Mary Dickerman, daughter
of Dr. Charles and Adelia Dickerman of Hartford, Pa., and to them was born one
son, William Hartman, named after his noble grandfather.
William Hartman Woodin, the only child of our subject, was born May 27, 1868,
in Berwick, where he received his early education in the public schools. At the
age of fourteen years he entered the preparatory department of the Woodbridge
School of Mines, New York City, and completed his technical education in the
School of Mines of Columbia College. Returning to Berwick, he made himself
master of the practical workings of the great institution of which his father
was then president and acquainted himself with every detail, so that now he is
the best informed of the stockholders. He was made a member of the executive
committee, and, after two years in that position, became general superintendent
of the plant and a director of the company. In 1896 he was chosen
vice-president, and is most efficiently filling his father's place. He has won
the highest esteem of his employees and the residents of Berwick. On August 25,
1898, Mr. Woodin was made the nominee of the Republicans of the Seventeenth
Congressional District for Congress, Representative Monroe H. Kulp retiring at
his own request. At the ensuing election in November, Mr. Woodin was defeated.
He represents the young element of his party, and also the business interests of
Berwick, in which he figures both modestly and prominently. He was married
October 9, 1889, to Annie Jessup, daughter of Judge William H. Jessup of
Montrose, Pa., and to them two children have come, namely: Mary, Louise, born in
Scranton, Pa., October 31, 1891; and Annie Jessup, born in New York City on
April 10, 1894.
William Hartman Woodin is a director of the Berwick Water Company, is
secretary and director of the Berwick Electric Light Company, and takes an
active interest in every public-spirited movement directed toward the benefit of
Berwick and its commercial development. It has been a pleasure to him to support
liberally all churches, charitable institutions and schools in Berwick, and no
worthy cause need lack in him a friend in need and a friend indeed.
On March 1, 1899, the entire plant of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing
Company was sold to the American Car & Foundry Company, an organization with
$60,000,000 capital, practically embracing all the car manufacturing companies
in the United States. The new company took possession on that date, and is now
operating the business. Fred'k H. Eaton, Esq., nephew of C. R. Woodin, and
former president of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, was elected
vice-president of the new company with headquarters at New York City, and
William H. Woodin was elected district manager to operate the plant at Berwick.
Thus the great organization, founded by William Hartman Woodin and M. W. Jackson
in 1842, passes out of existence, and C. R. Woodin, after an active and
successful business career, permanently retires from car manufacturing.
The publishers of this work take pleasure in announcing that a portrait of
William Hartman Woodin, the founder of The Jackson & Woe din Manufacturing
Company, appears on a preceding page, in connection with the above sketch.
Additional Comments: Extracted from:
Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
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03-0073 ""The Heights" residence of C R Woodin BX-#3 1900
Postcard Berwick Wood Houses Woodin C.R.
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03-0196 Berwick-Nescopeck Covered bridge, Jackson-Woodin brick warehouse, canal boats.
BX -#3 1865 Photo Berwick Covered Jackson-Woodin River
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14-0552 Woodin Mausoleum, Pine Grove Cemetery, Market Street, Berwick. William H. Woodin was Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin Delano Rossevelt. 2003.
Bx-#14 2003 Photo Berwick Woodin William H.
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21-0100 W.H. Woodin, 1932, with other men at Nescopeck Station; vintage auto.
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