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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: WOODRUM, Irvin
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 21, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 370
IRVIN WOODRUM, who is proprietor of the best general store on Joplin Branch,
Lou-don District, Kanawha County, W. Va., was born May 17, 1877, in
Boone§ounty W. V~., a son of Green and Mary Frances (Estep) Woodrum.
Green Woodrum was also born in Boone County and has followed farming all his
life and is one of the older residents of his neigh-borhood, having reached
his seventy-first year. He was married first to a Miss Griffith and they had
three children, William, Robert and Letha, the last named being deceased. He
married sec-ondly Mary Frances Estep, who was born in Boone County and was a
daughter of James Estep, once a well known farmer there. Six children were
born to this marriage, namely:
Victoria, who married John Kissinger; Olive, who married Albert Hill; James
B.; j. C. Mary Ella, who married E. W. Belcher; and Irvin of the present
record. Mr. Woodrum married for his third wife, Louisa H. Dolan, and they
have had eight children, as follows:
J. Mc., the only son living; Bertie, Sarah and Isaac, all of whom are
deceased; Belle, who married Nicholas Dol in; Virginia C., who married Olie
Dolin: Geneva, who married William Miller; and Loria, who married Wil-liam
Triplett.
Irvin Woodruin went to work on the rail-road after he was through with his
school books and was in the employ of the K. & M. road fdr three years. In
1904 he embarked in the mercantile business at this point and carries a large
and well selected stock, including gen-eral merchandise and groceries and
draws trade from the entire district. He owns his building and also has
property on Roane Street, West Charleston. Mr. Woodrum may be justly styled
a self made man and what he possesses he has honestly earned through his
energy, temperance and industry and well deserves his prosperity.
Mr. Woodrum married Mary Frances Holstein, a daughter of L. D. Holstein, a
farmer of Boone County, and they have four children, born as follows: Virgie
May, Feb. 19, 1903; Annie Marie, Feb. 28, 1905; Margie Elsie, Nov. 4, 1907;
Clarence Irvin, May 11, 1911. Mr. Woodrum is identified with the Odd Fellows
and the American Mechanics.
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