Background
Woodruff, Edwin Blanchard was born on June 3, 1872 in Delhi, New York, United States. Son of John Worth and Eunice (Blanchard) Woodruff.
Woodruff, Edwin Blanchard was born on June 3, 1872 in Delhi, New York, United States. Son of John Worth and Eunice (Blanchard) Woodruff.
Preparatory education, Delaware Academy, Delhi, New New York Student Saint Stephen’s College, Annandale, New New York Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1896.
Bachelor of Divinity, Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Connecticut, 1899.
Doctor of Divinity, Seabury Divinity School, Faribault, Minnesota, 1925. Doctor of Letters, Sioux Falls College, 1938.
Deacon and priest, 1899, Protestant Episcopal Church. Rector Saint George’s Church, Kansas City, Missoury, 1899-1908. Institutional director Grace Church, Kansas City, 1908-1910.
Rector Saint Clement’s Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1910-1917.
Dean of Calvary Cathedral, Sioux Falls, South Dakot, 1917-1940, dean emeritus since 1940.
Member National Commision on Ministry, Protestant Episcopal Church. Member charter commission of Kansas City, 1910, of Saint Paul, 1912. President South.S. Institute of Minnesota, 1914-1917.
President board All Saints’ School.
Member Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Mason (33 degree, Knights Templar, Shriner).
Married Ellen Hart Brent, April. Children: Eunice Brent (Mistress Francis Dilworth Calley), Kelly Brent, John Blanchard.