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WOODS Vol. 3, p. 1042 Mr. Woods was born at Chillicothe, the judicial center of Ross County, Ohio, on the 24th of June, 1876, and is a son of Joseph J. and Laura (YEO) Woods, both likewise natives of Ohio and Representatives of sterling pioneer families of the Buckeye state, where the death of the mother occurred in 1884 and where the father still maintains his residence and is identified with the manufacturing of shoes, as an interested principal in the Union Shoe Company. Both the Woods and Yeo families were founded in America in the colonial era and both gave patriot soldiers to the continental Line in the War of the Revolution. Members of the Woods family were gallant soldiers also in the Civil war, and the military loyalty of the family found exemplification on the part of the subject of this review, who tendered his services in the Spanish-American war. After duly availing himself of the advantages of the unexcelled public schools of his native state, Charles H. Woods entered the University of Ohio, in the City of Columbus, in which institution he prosecuted both academic and law courses and in the law department of which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1900. In addition to receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws he was admitted to the bar of the Buckeye State, and in the year of his graduation he came to Oklahoma Territory and established his resided in Guthrie, the territorial capital. In the work of his profession he was there associated for the first year with the representative law firm of Asp & Cottingham and in 1901 he was appointed assistant attorney general of the territory, under Hon. Jeremiah C. Strang. He retained the position until March 1903, when he resigned to accept the post of assistant attorney for the Atchians Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, of which offer he is still the incumbent. He continued his residence of Guthrie until after the admission of Oklahoma to the Union and in 1911 removed to Oklahoma City, the capital of the state, where he has since continued in the practices of his profession and given effective service as an official of the legal department of the railroad company mentioned. One of the first cases to the charge of which he was assign after his appointment to the office of assistant attorney general of the territory was that connected with the attempt of Ira N. TERRILL to obtain release from the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, where he had been sentenced for a murder committed in Oklahoma Territory. This was a cause celebre and Mr. Woods vigorously and successfully opposed the granting of freedom to Terrill, his able presentation of this case having added materially to his prestige as a versatile trial lawyer. While a resident of Guthrie Mr. Woods served of the board of education. In connection with his professional activities in Oklahoma City a member of and counsel for the Employees' Building Loan Association, one of the leading organizations the kind in the State. In the recently organized school of Law at Oklahoma City, Mr. Woods will be one of the members of the faculty. Through ancestral heritage Mr. Woods is eligible for membership in and is a companion of the second class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, besides being affiliated with the Sons of the American Revolution and the Spanish-American War Veterans' Association. In the Masonic fraternity he has received the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which latter he is affiliated with Oklahoma Consistory No. 1, and with Guthrie Lodge, No. 426, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks. In Oklahoma City he holds membership in the Apollo Club, a men's musical organization, and both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Woods was secretary of Oklahoma Territory Bar Association from 1901 until it was consolidated with the Indian Territory Bar Association, after which he continued [as] secretary of the amalgamated organization until 1908, when it was merged into the present Oklahoma State Bar Association. He is not only one of the valued and popular members of this vigorous association but is identified also with the Oklahoma City Bar Association and the American Bar Association. In August, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Woods to Miss Edith SCOTT, daughter of Rev. Henry O. Scott, D. D., who was at that time pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Guthrie, and the two children of this union are Carolyn and Charles. Reverting to the genealogy of Mr. Woods it may be stated that his original American progenitors in the agnatic line were English Presbyterians who came to this country about the opening of the eighteenth century and settled in Pennsylvania, and that on the maternal side he is a scion of the Shinn family, which likewise is of sterling English lineage and the original American representatives of which settled in New Jersey, about 1654; they were members of the Society of Friends but a later generation, which settled in Virginia, became affiliated with the Baptist Church. Typed for OKGenWeb by Janie Edwards, August 1999.