Background
Woodford was the son of Zerah and Minerva (Potter) Woodford, of West Avon, Connecticut, where he was born October 31st, 1827.
Woodford was the son of Zerah and Minerva (Potter) Woodford, of West Avon, Connecticut, where he was born October 31st, 1827.
He then came to New Haven, to attend Theological lectures, and in May, 1857, went to Kansas as a Home Missionary. He died in West Avon of typhoid fever, October 21st, 1870. She died in Kansas, Febr.
26th, 1858.
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In 1865 he was a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives.