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Wooldridge Park and Wooldridge Elementary School are named after him. He led the campaign in the early 1890s to build the Austin Dam across the Colorado River. The dam failed in a flood in 1900.
Wooldridge served as mayor during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.
At the height of the epidemic, the city passed an ordinance closing the state university, all public and private schools, and all churches for a period of 30 days. He was the president of Austin"s City National Bank in 1896.
He served as the first President of the Board of Trustees of the Austin Independent School District, and is sometimes called "The Father of Public in Austin.".