Education
He graduated at Yale in 1872 and at Yale Law School (1876).
He graduated at Yale in 1872 and at Yale Law School (1876).
In 1872 he was an initiate into The Skull and Bones Society. After traveling in Europe he was instructor in public law at Yale, and for 33 years (1878-1911) professor of international law. He was one of the founders of the Yale Review and a frequent contributor to lieutenant
He wrote several essays which were collected under the title America"s Foreign policy (1898), and he edited Woolsey"s International Law and Pomeroy"s International Law.
Woolsey married Bostonian Annie Gardner Salisbury in 1877 and they had two sons. (One of these sons, Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Junior, was a forestry expert) He retired in 1911 and died of pneumonia.
He was a member of the General Society of Colonial Wars.