The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-07-25
MEMBER. !!
Of a Noted Family is Colonel
Woodford Now Visiting
at Bridgeport.

BRRDGBPcRT, w. Va, July 20.
-coi. A. w. woudford. CT Elslnore,
Calf. is at bridgeport visiting his
Granddaughter. Mrs. Flora Gawthrop,
and:his nephey. G', b. DAWSON, tthe
great cattle king OF West Virginia.
Col Waodford is as clipper as ever.
hale and hearty. a good eater, good
drinker and looks as young as he did
forty years ago. Wherever you. find a
drop of 1woodford blood you iind
3eeise, energy and good business tact.
The woodlfords have a great gamb-
ling, Instinct. not afraid TO make i
venture regardless of the risk. So
great Is the lack Of fear that in the
great aviation meeting In Los An
gelas, Calf, the colonel took a ride
above the clouds with one of the most
renowned 4ylators Quite display OF
nerve for a nonagenarlan.
Col. woodford is Older than the
railroads. telegraph and all the late
inventions OF the nineteenth CEN
tury, waspresent In 1S49 when Major
johnson Fleming tried to fly at Flem-
ington and fell and broke his leg.
The Woodfords are race of ath-
letes.. not quarrelsome, but no Wood
ford ever said enough In. q physl-
cal encounter one OF the eolonel's
brothers once had pugillstic en-
counter with a cattle man named Will
lar at Baltimore. Nd, "a man of the
same kind of stuff as the woodfords,
andthey fought and fought until they
both fell exhausted. Neither would
surrender. They shook hands and
were good friends like the' Blue and
the Gray, They learned to. @ppreel-
ate each other. Mayor James Wood
ford, OF Philsppi. now an octogenar-
ian. was noted for his sprinting as
well ais courage an don the Pimiico
track at Baltimore outran their swift
est runners.
Charlie Woodlford, now at Grasselli,
is made of the same material and the
man that tackles Charlie will find that
he is not man to be fooled with.
Col Hutton, OF Huttonsville. married
into the Woodford FIRMLY and has
raised sons that fear neither man nor
devil, one of whom lives in Clarks-
burg, and is at the head of the cleo.
trical department OF the Mononga-
.hela Valley Traction Company. What
ever Woodford does he does well
although all great money makers
their lBberality, their generosity, has
prevented them from becoming mil
iionaires F. b. DAVIDSON, half Wood
ford, is the most liberal man in the
country. When man asks for bone
he gets ham or middllng, when he
asks Flave for bread he doesn't set a
stone. but a, loaf with butter and SUI
gar on 1t. Public spirited Flave has
done much to give Bridgeport a splenr
did school building and good corps
OF teachers. He is also an earnest
advocate of good roads and every
public improvement.
The Woodfords are men. OF opinion
and use their own Judgment in their
anairs. When Col Woodtord arrived
in California and determined to set
lie. there, 1900 acres of land was Of
fered for sale at IS an acre and no
buyers. The colonel took in the sit
uaton. gmade the investment and In
less than five years sold at $50 per
acre. He is lover of nature and
makes his home in the San Jacinto
mountains. where he can see the
snow on, the mountains every day in
the year. 1T Is the wish Of the writer
that Col. woodford may live long
and prosper and that on his monu-
rnent, If he ever dies. may be Inscribed
the truth, "ap honest man is the
noblest work Of God"