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FRED B. WOODARD
Vol. 3, p. 1313-1314
Book has a photograph

Dewey, in Washington County, is now one of the important towns in
Northeastern Oklahoma, a central point in the oil and gas district
and with some extensive manufactories as well as stores and other
business houses a supply a local trade. Fifteen years ago, in 1900,
Fred B. Woodard, a prominent lawyer, built the first new dwelling
house on the site of the present city. Mr. Woodard has been
identified with that section of old Indian Territory since 1898, and
as lawyer ranks among the ablest in the Washington County bar.

Fred B. Woodard was born near Bloomingdale, in Parke County,
Indiana, October 21, 1871. His parents were William Penn and Martha
Ellen (KELLEY) Woodard. His father was also born in Parke County,
Indiana, on a farm that Grandfather Thomas Woodard has entered direct
from the government. Thomas Woodard came from South Carolina, and was
one of the number of freighter who founded a settlement in Western
Indiana. Thomas Woodard was of English ancestry and spent his life as
a farmer. William P. Woodard was both a merchant and farmer, and died
in 1887 at the age of forty-seven years. His brother, John E., of
Bloomingdale, was for several terms a member of the Indiana State
Legislature. Mr. Woodard's mother was also born in Parke County,
Indiana, and for the past ten years has lived in Dewey. Her father ,
Robert L. Kelley, represented Parke County in the Indiana Legislature
for several terms, and his son, Robert L., Jr., is now president of
the fine old Quaker College, Earlham at Richmond, Indiana. Fred B.
Woodard was one of five sons and three daughters: Ida M., wife of
Col. A. H. NORWOOD, the well-known publisher and business man of
Dewey; John T., of Dewey; Fred B.; C. Earl, also of Dewey; Elmo;
Herbert, a teacher of manual training in Detroit, Michigan; and two
that are deceased, Lawrence and Allie.

When he was nine years of age, Fred B. Willard [sic] accompanied his
parents to Douglas County, Kansas, and after four years in the
country the family removed to the City of Lawrence, where he grew to
manhood. He spent one year in the University of Kansas at Lawrence,
and in 1898 came to Claremore, Oklahoma, and from there to Washington
County, in 1899. In 1902, Mr. Woodard was admitted to the bar and has
since developed a large general practice in Washington County. For
one year after being admitted to the bar in 1903-4, he lived in Old
Mexico, near Guymas, where he still owns some irrigated farm lands.
He is also interested in the oil business.

Mr. Woodard is a republican, and was twice a candidate on the
minority party ticket for the office of county judge. In 1900 he was
a delegate to the republican convention at Purcell, with William
BRENTZ, and they represented a district that is now cut up into half
a cozen counties. For five years, from 1900 to 1905, Mr. Woodard was
assistant to Richard C. Adams, of Washington, D. C., in handling a
number of legal and business matters in connection with the Delaware
tribe of Indians in the Cherokee Nation. Mr. Woodard was qualified
for the practice of law when he came to Oklahoma, but deferred taking
his examination largely on account of this work in connection with
the Indian tribes.

Religiously he belongs to the Quaker Faith and is affiliated with
the Woodmen of the World. In 1900, Mr. Woodard married Lula L.
MITCHELL, who was born in the British West Indies, a daughter of J.
C. Mitchell, now a resident of Oklahoma, and of Mexico and other
places. Mr. and Mrs. Woodard have five shildren: Mary A., Kenneth
Penn, Darrel, Patricia Elizabeth and Martha G.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, October 7, 1998.