Samuel Baker Woods
Samuel B. Woods | ||
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Mayor
City of Charlottesville |
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Electoral District | At-large | |
Preceded by | R. F. Harris | |
Succeeded by | L. T. Hanckel | |
Member of the
Charlottesville City Council |
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Electoral District | Appointed | |
Term Start | 1888 | |
Term End | 1889 | |
Preceded by | Seat did not existing | |
Succeeded by | New Council | |
Biographical Information
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Date of birth | January 21, 1856 | |
Date of death | October 1, 1952 (aged 96) Maplewood Cemetery |
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Children | 8 | |
Alma mater | University of Virginia | |
Profession | lawyer peach and apple orchardist farmer |
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Religion | Presbyterian |
Samuel B. Woods (1856-1952) of "Arrowhead," Albemarle County, was a lawyer, peach and apple orchardist, farmer, and former city council member. He was an elected mayor of the City of Charlottesville and served as ex-officio judge of the police court.
Woods was an ardent dry. His many publications on the subject of prohibition included a letter to Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, on the issue of diplomats serving liquor and protesting the use of liquor in the embassy. All indications are that Sir Ronald ignored the protest.[1]
Samuel Baker Woods was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, to the Reverend Edgar Woods (who served as pastor of the Charlottesville Presbyterian Church from 1866 to 1877) and Maria Baker. The Reverend Woods established the Pantops Academy (1879-1906) a Presbyterian school for boys to prepare young men for college, where Samuel Woods taught while attending the University of Virginia (1873-1877, 1879-1880). When he received his law degree in 1880, he began a law practice in Charlottesville.
On September 1, 1881, he married Lucretia Gilmore of Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, whose father, James Houston Gilmore, taught international and constitutional law at the University of Virginia. Sam and Lucretia had eight children who survived into adulthood:
- Dr. Edgar Lyons Woods (attended UVA 1900-1904), Washington, D.C.
- Archibald Paull Woods (attended UVA 1914-1915), Petersburg
- William Sharpless Derrick Woods (attended UVA 1918-1924), Richmond
- Theodore K. Woods (attended UVA 1921-1923), Darien, Connecticut
- Addison Gilmore Woods (attended UVA 1908-1909); Lucretia Woods
Woods was extremely interested in the improvement and promotion of agriculture and was one of the founders of the Virginia Horticultural Society and served as its first president.
He was also one of the oldest of the members of the Charlottesville Presbyterian Church at the time of his death where he served as a trustee and a deacon. The three brothers of Samuel Woods, the Reverend Dr. Henry McKee Woods (1857- ?), Dr. Edgar Woods, and Dr. James B. Woods, were all graduates of the University of Virginia and Presbyterian missionaries to China.
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