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 I inDBURV. WODDIil'UV. 669 em live cattle trade, then bought a stall in Faneuil Hall market, and took his son into partnership. He moved to Cambridge in December, i860. He is now selling agent for P. 1 >. Armour & Co., of Chicago, at 111 Clinton Street, Boston, still retaining his retail business in Faneuil Hall market. Mr. Woodbridge was married in West Cambridge (now Arlington), April 5, 1843, tn Hannah Monroe, youngest daughter of William Locke. Of this union are three children : William Francis, Ellen Emeline, and Warren Samuel Woodbridge. The last named was graduated from Tufts College in 1874, and from the divinity school in 1S77. He was ordained the same year, and called to the First Universalist church, Orono, Me. In 1880 he was settled in charge of the Universalist church in Adams, where he remained until 1889, when he accepted a call to the First Uni- versalist church in Medford, where he is now stationed. Mr. Woodbridge was five years select- man in West Cambridge, two years a member of the common council of Cam- bridge, and an alderman three years. He was one of the committee of three sent to Chicago with the money (eight thousand dollars) raised in Faneuil Hall market to aid the sufferers in the great fire in that . ity. lie was one of the trustees of the Arlington Savings Bank during his resi- dence there ; was president of the Fourth National Hank, Boston, three years ; has been president of the North Avenue Sav- ings Hank, Cambridge, since its incorpora- tion in [872, and is now one of the directors of the Faneuil Hall National Bank of Boston. His religious connections are with the Universalist church. He was chairman of the building committee of the Third Uni- versalist church, Cambridge. WOODBURY, Charles Levi, sou ol Levi and Elizabeth Williams (Clapp) Woodbury, was born in Portsmouth, Roc k ingham county, N. H, May ::, 1820, the family having descended from John Woodbury, one of the early pioneers who settled on Cape Ann in 1624, whose history has been traced and written up. and privately printed by C. Levi Woodbury. He removed with his father's family, in 1S31, to the city of Washington, in which vicinity he obtained his early educational training. He was admitted to the bar in the district of Columbia ; practiced after- ward in Alabama, and then returned to Boston. His practice has been in the courts of the State, but chiefly in the cir- cuit courts of the United States, and the supreme court at Washington. Mr. Woodbury declined the mission to Bolivia in 1853. He was elected as a rep- resentative from Portsmouth to the New Hampshire Legislature in [857. lie was appointed United States district attorney for Massachusetts in 1857 ; and elected to the Legislature of Massachusetts in 1870 and '71. He is a member of the New England Historic Cenealogical Society, and an hon- orary member of the historical societies of Maine and New Hampshire. In the Masonic organizations he has held high offices in the York and Scottish Rites, and is now an active member of the supreme council of the latter body, and its second officer. He is a member of the board of trustees for the Grand Lodge of Massa chusetts, and also of the board for the supreme council. CHARLES LEVI WOODBURY. Though unwilling to let a political usurp the place of a professional life, yet he has been a frequent speaker in many States during presidential campaigns, and has often held prominent positions in the Democratic organizations, but has not as- pired to political offices. Mr. Woodbury was one of the compilers of "Woodbury & Minot's Reports," three