of
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, page 371
JUDGE WILLIAM G. WOODWARD. Judge William G. Woodward was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, May 20, 1808, and died February 24, 1871. He was a son of the Hon. William H. Woodward, of New Hampshire, famous in the annals of jurisprudence as secretaty and treasurer of Dartmouth College and a defendant in the great Dartmouth College case, in which Daniel Webster made one of his greatest arguments. Judge Woodward came to Bloomington in 1839, where he practiced law, and in 185O was associated with Judges Mason and Hempstead in codifying the statutes of Iowa. In the winter of 1855 he was elected to the supreme court of Iowa and served six years. He represented Muscatine county in the state senate in 1860, and subsequently was clerk of the United States circuit court of this district. He was a man possessed of a cultivated mind, familiar with the discussions of the day and in every respect was entitled to the title of "a real old gentleman." He was a very able lawyer and noted jurist of his day.
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