George Washington Woodward

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• Name: G. W. Woodward
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-44139
• Occupation: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Teacher
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Primitive Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; S. Teacher
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Excise Officer
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Weslyan Methodist
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Excise Officer
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbterian
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Excise office
• Occupation: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Excise Officer, Distillery
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

From the advent of Mr. Geo. W. Woodward, an energetic, highminded and well qualified young man, who had enjoyed the advantages of a thorough education at the Toronto Normal School, under the able principalship of Dr. Sangster, dates the prestige of the Elmira School. Under Mr. Woodward's guidance the pupils of the school rose to a prominent place amongst those in the County of Waterloo. In the days of competitive examinations, there seldom appeared a list of successful candidates in which the names of Elmira pupils could not be found at or very near the top. Mr. Woodward was a man of stern discipline, beloved by the diligent and consciencious and feared by the miscreant. His influence was decidedly elevating, his enthusiasm was inspiring and carried with it the best elements of the young mould had been destined his work. He was passionately fond of music, and the whole community reaped the benefit of his decided talent in this respect. Of an exceedingly volatile and nervous temperament, his interest in the school and his pupils became so intense that he found the work preying on his nervous system to an extent which, in the year 1876, after a term of nearly fifteen years during which period he transformed the standing of the school from one of the lowest in the County to one of the highes induced induced him to resign his position and to seek other employment. This he found, as excise officer at Waterloo, position which he has filled very efficiently and which he is today occupying. His pupils, who, as a rule, have done well in their various chosen spheres, many having distinguished themselves far beyond ordinary, look back upon their school days with a sense of gratitude towards the noble efforts of their teacher. Mr. Woodward still enjoys fairly good health. His love of and talent for music is at present finding expression in the leadership of a very efficient amateur orchestra, which does much to enliven the declining days of an honorable and useful career.

Following Mr. Woodward, in August 1876, came Mr. David Bean, now editor of the Waterloo Chronicle-Telegraph, a worthy successor to a successful master, with similar intellectual tastes and aspirations, and with a record of efficiency and usefulness of which any teacher might be proud.


Enterprising Elmira, An historical, discriptive, and illustrated book of the Village of Elmira, Waterloo County, published by George Klinck 1903

George married Mary Ann Brown 26 Dec 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Daniel Brown and Margaretha McCoy) was born 19 Nov 1842, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. William H. Woodward was born CALC 18 Mar 1863; died 3 Jun 1864; was buried , Winterbourne Presbyterian Cemetery, Winterbourne, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
2. Carrie Woodward was born 1864, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Laura Amelia Woodward was born CALC 13 Jan 1865, , Ontario, Canada; died 10 Sep 1893, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
4. Eda Woodward was born 1866, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
5. Ella Clarine Woodward was born 18 Sep 1867, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
6. Charles Albert Woodward was born 6 Feb 1870, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 16 Mar 1919, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-112429
• Occupation: 1852, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer

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The first Scotch settlers came into Woolwich and settled in the neighbourhood of Winterbourne between the years 1834 and 1837. These were accustomed in the old country to gather for worship on the Sabbath day and felt the want of a meeting place. For a time they met in the homes of each other and in the log schoolhouses after these were built. They were not satisfied with these places of worship, so about the year 1837 they met at the hotel situated at the corner about a quarter of a mile south of the present village and took definite action to provide a place to meet in. The tavern was kept by a Mr. Grant. A lot was obtained shortly after for church and burying ground from Mr. Luman Woodward, but the deed was not obtained until Dec. 7th, 1858, owing to Mr. Woodward not having taken out the Crown Deed. So they had the use of it for twenty years before they became owners of it. Mr. Robert Douglas bought the farm from the government as also the one on the other side of the road on which Mr. Bemis had settled, and from Mr. Douglas the church obtained the deed for the ground on which the church was built and also the cemetery. The movement to have a church visible would thus be in the present year 1919 just eighty-two years ago. Previous to the opening of the church, services were held for a time in the schoolhouse situated at Mr. Norman Snyder's gate on the south side, the grounds of which were also the graveyard for the community. The most of the bodies were removed to the church yard, but some sleep quietly beneath the action of the plough and the harrow and underneath the growing grain.


A Few Notes on the Early History of Chalmers' Church, Winterbourne" by Rev. A. M. Hamilton, M. A.

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Lumon Woodward, an, American, was born in 1792. He came to the township of Woolwich in the spring of 1824 and took up the adjoining farm north of Hewitt's. This is the farm upon part of which is the Presbyterian cemetery. Lumon Woodward was married three times. Those in his family were: John Milton, married Rozy Smith. Alba, died in April, 1848, at the age of twenty-seven. Ebenezer, married Charlotte Peterson and lived at Hawkesville. William, married Helen Webster and they also lived at Hawkesville; at their home Lumon Woodward and his third wife died. George married a Miss Brown and now lives in the town of Waterloo. Emmeline married George Taylor, and lived in the township of Maryborough. Laura married Louis Brace. Mabel married a Mr. Green, lived in Elmira; and Alice. Lumon Woodward died on February 19th, 1860, in his sixty-eighth year.

The Early History of Elora, Ontario, and Vicinity by John R. Connon

Lumon — Mary Ballard. Mary was born CALC 8 Oct 1804, , New York State, USA; died 29 Dec 1893, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hawkesville Union Cemetery, Hawkesville, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Woodward
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-112430
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Primitive Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; U. Brethren