The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-29
THE LATE w. H. WOODS.
He Drops Dead in His ONCE in
New York.

He Drops Dead in His Office in
New York.
The funeral of the late William Henry
Woods, whose death in New York was an
nounced in Thursdays MORNING NEWS,
took place yesterday. Mr.. Woods died of
heart disease in the Continental Bank build
ling Oman assau street. He went to his office
feeling somewhat unwell, but not sick
enouggh TO keep him from attending to his
htisinass as usual. He had scarcely opened
his desk when he fell off his chair, and in q
few minutes was dead. The other occu-
pants q the office thought at first that he
had tainted, but when a physician came a
few-minutes later he declared that there
was noIhope.
Mf.uW GODS had an eventful career in his
less than fifty years of life. The New
* ork- Times gives a lengthy sketch of his
life, in which it says: A mere boy in an
Alabama town when the war broke out. he
was oneIof the first of all the volunteers
whom enthusiasm hurried into the service
OF the confederacy. He rose quickly from
the ranks of his Eufaula Light Artillery
he was speedily captain and later attained
his higher rank. He had no promotion that
was not won by courage. He fought
throughout the war. He was in the blood
lest battles; he was always at the front;
danger.never deferred him one whit, and
Tor his devotion and his daring he won the
love and the faith Of as brave company of
men as was in all that war time.
Physically he was never strong man,
and the wound of the battle told upon him,
TOO. But when the war was over he has
tened to the ranks of the great contingent,
quitting the battlefield for the pursuits of
industry and commerce. He was continu-
ally worker. He established a cotton
factory and commission firm at Apala-
chicola, Fla. later he built up the pros
Porous house of w. II. Woods & Co. at Sa-
vannah; then he came to New York, and
the firm Of Woods e. Murphy became one
OF the most influential On the New York
Cotton Exchange. He made money; he
made friends. In social life, as in business
circles, he was popular and honored. From
the presidency of Savannahs Oglethorpe
Club he was welcomed to the Union Club
OF the metropolis.
As he had been brave in war, he was
modest and gentle and generous in peace.
Inc devotion he had given his family OF
VIE and children was divided only in the
love he had for Dixie. The new south was
Gear to him as life, as dear as the old south
ior which he had calamity risked and en-
Cured all; and heworked for southern in
terests with an enthusiasm and an unselfish-
ness Incompatible He accomplished much
Inc Alabama Mineral Land Company in
auced him to become its president; the
Admission City (Alal Land Company had
MN as its most influential director; he led
and won the fight of the oppressed minority
shareholders of the Memphis and Charles
, Ton railroad; be was identified with long
hst Of southern enterprises, and in his circle
Oh personal and business friends were the
foremost and the stanchest men who have
standing in Wall street. He could control
capital illinitable; he was trusted by men
who by trailing and Of business necessity
ere skeptica and cautious to the furthest
= lRegree-truIted by such men implicitly.
and never was one trust betrayed, one
Y promise broken.
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