Fred P. Woodruff

WOODRUFF, ELLIOTT

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 11/2/2004 at 05:51:23

Fred P. Woodruff
Railroad Commissioner, member of the railroad commission, was born at Knoxville, Iowa, September 21, 1876, a son of Lieut. E.B. Woodruff, a pioneer hardware merchant. Captain Woodruff was educated in the Knoxville public schools. In the Spanish-American war he served as first sergeant of Company D in the 51st Iowa Infantry in the Philippines. For meritorious service in action he was commissioned second lieutenant and brevetted a captain by Governor Shaw. On his return home he engaged in the retail clothing and shoe business and continues in that line now. He is also a director in the Marion County national bank and is interested in various other business enterprises. During the world war Captain Woodruff was active in promoting defense and war work council, and later was commissioned captain and assigned to duty in the quartermaster department. He was married September 18, 1901, to Myrtle M. Elliott, and they have one son, Elliott. Was elected for full term in 1920 as railroad commissioner. A republican in politics.

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of State Officers, pg. 304

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall (not related to subject)