The mill was spared during Wilsons Raid because it produced foodstuffs. In the years he directed the company, his principal home, in northwestern Atlanta, was unostentatious, more like the dwelling of a junior executive than that of one of the wealthiest men in the United States. Robert L Woodruff was born circa 1914. The restless spirit bloomed again. Those who knew Mr. Woodruff's business pragmatism and his worldliness were sometimes astonished to find out that he concerned himself with religious matters. Even though the building was not destroyed in 1865, Woodruff had his individual fortune wiped out. January 29, 2013. As long as he lived, he looked for new worlds to subdue. Ina Helen Woodruff Obituary - Phenix City, AL We are sad to announce that on November 6, 2022, at the age of 75, Robert D. Woodruff of Wilmington, Ohio, born in Fostoria, Ohio passed away. As nearly as may be determined, most of the American Woodruffs can be traced back to John Woodroffe of Devonshire, early in the sixteenth century. ''He taught her to play golf and dreamed that she would become a professional golfer,'' the lawsuit says. SOURCE: Robert Winship Woodruff: A Biography of the Boss by Charles Elliott, 1979. My dream would be to live and work in a small active mountain town with a community-focused practice. His sales region included a sizeable portion of west Georgia and east Alabama, and often he needed a full week to make his rounds by horse and buggy. One of the things we experienced is that these countries recover. ''I see dozens of us here, and, of course, we're only the ambulatory cases - the walking wounded,'' the speaker, a one-time Coca-Cola treasurer, went on. By 1888, George had invested enough money in the newly organized Third National Bank to make him an initial director along with G. Gunby Jordan and W.C. Bradley. Woodruff Genealogy - Anytime, Anywhere The same year he came to Atlanta, Ernest was also elected a director of the Commercial Travelers Savings Bank. . This state of affairs pleased Mr. Woodruff. Ernest married Emily Caroline Winship of Atlanta in 1885 and carried his bride to live in Columbus, where he remained a salesman for the Empire Mill until 1893. ''He has the qualities of inborn leadership; when he's in the room, whoever else is present, Woodruff dominates.''. SOLD BY REDFIN JUN 14, 2022. Robert Craig Woodruff Obituary - tributearchive.com In 1967, the lawsuit said, her father prevailed on her mother and another daughter to have Frances declared mentally incompetent and confined for four years in a Florida mental institution, where she was often kept in a padded, windowless cell. It introduced us to a whole new technique of getting along with each other. Mack peeled away to see a different part of Beirut.