The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-11-23
TO WE'D A MILLIONAIRE.
A BROTHER OF OUR TOwNSMAN
OK. WOODRUFF,
Announced to- Marry Miss Anna,
Daughter of the Late Jay Gould
What the Herald Says

Mr.. Henry NJ. Woodruff. of New
York, a brother of our townsman,
Mr.. G. K. Woodruff, salesman at Mr..
w. L. Hills store, is announced TO
wed Miss Anna Gould, daughter OF
the late million aire Jay Gould.
Mr.. Woodruff corresponds with his
brother and aunt, Mrs. w. L. Hill.
The latter received letter from him
last week
A SENTINEL representative called
upon MIR. O. X Woodruff this morn
ing but he declined to say whether
the report about his brothers mar
rage was true or not. However,
judging from the reports in the New
York papers the rdnor is evidently
correct.5 From the Herald's report
we print the following:
Actor Harry Woodruff has resigned
from Charles E'r ,hInau'S comedy COM
pany. To his intimate friends he
said that this step was preparatory 10
taking a law course at Yale, with the
intention of ultimately marrying
Miss Anna Gould, daughter or Uhe
late Jay Gould.
The story of the prospective mar
riage has been current for some time
in the Lambs and other clubs, OF
which Mr. Woodruff and his friends
are members, and these friends say
that his resignation rendered yester-
day gives it confirmation:
Henry Mygatt Woodruff is twenty
four wears old. He is successful
player of juvenile parts.
He is about five feet seven and one
half inches in height, with slender
but well knit and elegant figure. He
has handsome, clear cut, regular
features and blue eyes, which are of
the deep rich tint Of the sapphire.
His complexion is of the extreme
blonde type. There is faint pink
flush in his cheeks. His hair is of the
palest yellow Imaginable, half way
between haxen and golden. On the
top of his head it lies close like a cap
of FURNISHED metal, but all along the
ends the hair breaks into countless
crisp curls. Mr.. Woodruff has tiny
growth of hair on each cheek and
still timer mustache.
He has enjoyed popularity for sever
al years and has gone out IN society
more or less at times. In the JneaLfl-
cal season he earns S75 or 800 week.
A Chicago newspaper in speak
ing of the engagement explained
that Mrs. Edith Kingdom Gould was
the matchmaker; that her husband,
George J. Gould, was violently oppoS-
ed to the match, but relented upon
condition that the young man take
the law course at Yale. 1t is true
that when Mrs. George j. Gould
Edith Kingdom was member Of
Augustin Days company in this
with her This was before he was
sixteen years old; Miss Anna Gould
was at that time child of less than
ten years.
She is now in her eighteenth year
and has attended boarding school in
Massachusetts for several years. Like
her sister and brothers, she bears a
strong resemblance ID her father. She
is of medium height and OF slender
figure. Her complexion is dark, with
large, soft, brown eyes and hair so
black that it has blush tint in GER
tain lights.
She is the fifth of the Gould chill
dren. George j. Gould is the eldest,
then in order follow Edwin NJ, Helen,
Howard, Anna and Frank.
All of the Goulds have been noted
for their dislike of anything like os-
tentation of social eXclusiveness. Miss
Anna Is no exception. Before she was
sent to boarding school she met several
of her sisters friends at informal
gatherings. 1t is understood that IN
this way young Woodruff formed heI
acquaintance.
CONTRAST BETWEEN THEM.
Young Woodruff's own account OF
the beginning of his acquaintance
with tie young lady he may marry is
that he met her at the house OF
friend at a tea or al afternoon recep'
tion ahOut four wears ago He declines
to be more specific. There is no reason
to doubt that Miss Anna was favora
bly, impressed with the youthful actor
He and she are of opposite tempera
ments.
She is dark, reserved and thought
full. He is fair, as delicately PINK
and white and golden as BIZ
of Dresden china. Having been OF
the stage since he was nine years old
he is master of much of it's art and al
its graceS.