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BARBOUR COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
November 26, 1999
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 319
FRANK WOODS was born at Philippi, West Virginia,
July 20, 1850, and was the oldest son of Judge Samuel
Woods. He graduated from the West Virginia University
in 1874. He was a member of the faculty and tutor in
that institution until his admission to the bar in 1877,
when he formed a partnership and practiced law at Graf-
ton, West Virginia, with the late Benjamin F. Martin,
under the firm name of Martin and Woods. He was
a remarkably successful and clear headed lawyer, with
a style and diction which were unusnally scholarly, lucid
and forceful, and his pleadings were models, and will be
found models to this day. In 1887, after having prac-
ticed law in the courts of West Virginia for about ten
years with unusual success, he moved to the City of Balti-
more, and practiced his profession there in the courts
of Maryland until his death in the year 1900.
Mr. Woods attained a remarkably high standing in the
able bar of Baltimore City, and was held in the highest
respect by all who knew him. He was a devoutly religious
man and a consistent member of the Monumental Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, and was for a long
time the superintendent of the Sunday School of that
church.
While he lived in Baltimore his services were in great
demand. He had a large practice in questions of title
and property relating to interests of clients in the state
of West Virginia, and he frequently appeared and prac-
ticed in the Federal courts in West Virginia and for a
long time in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Vir-
ginia after his removal to the City of Baltimore.
Mr. Woods took great interest in educational and re-
ligious affairs, and was very active and generous in char-
itable activities in and about the City of Baltimore. He
was for many years a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Chelteham School for colored boys near the City
of Baltimore.
Mr. Woods was a democrat of the most independent
character, but took no active personal participating in-
terest in political affairs.
He was six feet high, wore a dark beard, was as straight
as an Indian, was always a deeply and devoutly studious
and religious man, and was held in the highest esteem
by all who knew him.
He married Miss Harriet L. Deering, of Morgantown,
West Virginia, in June 1879. They had no children.
Mr. Woods died suddenly in Atlantic City, New Jersey,
on the 21st day of August, 1900.
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