Background
Woods, Edgar Hall was born on April 18, 1864 in Kemper Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Hervey, Junior, and Callie (Sanders) W.
Woods, Edgar Hall was born on April 18, 1864 in Kemper Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Hervey, Junior, and Callie (Sanders) W.
Student Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarksville, Tennessee. Bachelor of Laws, University Mississippi, 1886.
Admitted to Mississippi bar, 1887, and practiced at Rosedale. Member firm Woods & Woods, Meridian, Mississippi, 1892-1896, Chas. Scott & East. H. Woods, 1896-1911.
Retired from practice, 1911, and began stock raising near Lucas, Kentucky, 1914.
Owner and operator 2,500 acre stock and grain farm until summer of 1929 (disabled by illness). Chairman Louisville Branch of Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, 1924-1934.
Senior supervising attorney Home Owners Loan Corporation, Louisville, 1934-1935. Now owner and operator cotton plantation.
Member firm Woods & Woods, Meridian, Mississippi, 1892-1896, Chas. Scott & East. H. Woods, 1896-1911. Served as captain United States Volunteers, Spanish-American War, and as brigadier general Mississippi National Guard.
Member Committee of Four, agricultural loans of War Finance Corporation, 1921.
Formerly; Member American Bar Association, Kentucky Tax Reform Association (president), Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Married Elizabeth Bullus Scott, December 27, 1893 (died 1903). Married second, Ida Lyell, June 3, 1912. Children: Charles Scott (deceased), Edgar Hall World War II