Background
Woodson, Archelaus M. was born on January 30, 1854 in Knox Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of Benjamin J. Woodson.
Woodson, Archelaus M. was born on January 30, 1854 in Knox Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of Benjamin J. Woodson.
Reared on farm in Buchanan Company, Missouri. Educational public schools there, and Plattsburg College, Clinton Company, Missouri, 3 years. Bachelor of Laws, Saint Louis Law School, 1877.
Appointed, December 18, 1890, judge Circuit Court of Buchanan Company. Elected to same, for terms 1892-1898, 1898-1904. Judge Supreme Court of the Missouri, since 1906.
Married Bettie Oliver, April.