Capt. Isaac C. Woodward and Martha J. Woods

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Husband Capt. Isaac C. Woodward ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Capt. Isaac W. Woodward 3 4
           Born: 20 May 1813 - Chadd's Ford, Chester Co, PA 1 2 4
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           Died: 13 Sep 1898 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Levi Woodward (1781/1781-1819) 1 5 6
         Mother: Mary Chalfant (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Maria Brashear (      -1853) 2 7 - 1846 7

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Wife Martha J. Woods ⁷

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         Father: James Woods, Jr. (      -      ) 7
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Isaac C. Woodward

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In 1816 he was brought by his parents to Chad Chalfant's, a relative of his mother, near Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and shortly after their arrival his father died. In 1819 the captain was taken by an old Quaker, by the name of Cattell, with whom he remained ten years. While with him he received his education in the subscription schools of the surrounding neighborhood. He learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed for several years. He next engaged in building steamboats, and during a period of thirty years built about twenty boats. During the Mexican War he built a boat for the United States government, which ran on the Rio Grande river. He also commanded steamboats on the Mississippi river and its principal branches. For several years he was president of the Pittsburgh, Brownsville & Geneva Packet Company, and was one of the company's largest stockholders. At the breaking out of the Civil War, he left the western waters and purchased a fine farm of three hundred acres, near Brownsville, where he engaged in farming and stock raising, making a speciality of fine sheep.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha J. Woods

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from near Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA

1 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 573.

2 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 868.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1040.

4 Lewis Woodward, M. D, Genealogy of the Woodward Family of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Wilmington, DE: Ferris Brothers, 1879), Pg 62.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 218.

6 Lewis Woodward, M. D, Genealogy of the Woodward Family of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Wilmington, DE: Ferris Brothers, 1879), Pg 48.

7 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 574.