ORIN HAZEN WOODS

WOODS, MARTIN, WASHINGTON, HAZEN

Posted By: David (email)
Date: 1/9/2005 at 21:28:19

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, October 31, 1907

ORIN HAZEN WOODS, eldest son of L.N. and AUGUSTA WOODS was born in this
neighborhood Dec. 3, 1869, and grew to manhood on the farm, receiving a
common school education in the district school. From 1888 to 1892 he was a
student in Simpson College, where by close application he soon became
recognized as one of the thinkers of the institution, receiving the honors
for the best oration, which entitled him to represent the school in the
State Oratorial Contest held at Grinnell, in 1892.

A year later he taught school in Utah, then made a voyage to the North Seas.
He was appointed Principal of the Woodburn High School in 1896, going to
Wyoming, in l897, he was appointed U.S. Court Commissioner and worked at
surveying when not engaged in the duties of his office. On May 7, 1901, he
was united in marriage to MISS OLA M. MARTIN, of Woodburn, and at once
returned to Basin, to resume the duties of his office. He resigned his
position as U.S. Commissioner in 1902 to enter the George Washington
University at Washington, D.C., and graduated in law June 1, 1905, the fifth
in a class of three hundred students.

Returning to Wyoming, he at once began to practice law at Basin, where he
proved his ability by an almost phenominal success as a lawyer and man of
affairs, having in two years built up a large law practice besides being
interested in a number of business enterprises.

On October 1, 1907, he was taken sick with typhoid fever and Oct. 20 passed
to the Great Beyond where with loving hearts chastened, and bereft by this
Providence, we confide him to a loving Father until that glad morning when
faith lost in sight, we shall know that which now we cannot understand. To
the bereaved wife and to little CARL HAZEN, their only child and to the
father, four brothers and one sister, the hearts of the entire community go
out in sympathy in this hour of sorrow for the loss of a loving husband,
father, son and brother, while all who knew him share in their sorrow in
feelings of personal loss of a friend, an exemplary citizen and a true and
upright man.
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