City: Nashville
WOODCOCK, William M., bookkeeper; born Macon County, Tenn., September 4, 1842; English descent; son of Wiley and Harriet (Simmons) WOODCOCK; father was a physician; educated in the common schools of Macon County, Tennessee, and Monroe County, Kentucky; graduated Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., Law Department, in June, 1875; in early life was a farmer; married Sarah Ellen WATERS, January 8, 1869, and member of Tennessee Senate from Davidson County, in 1889; U. S. Internal Revenue Collector, 1877-83; member of Co. “B,” 9th Kentucky Infantry, U. S. A., from September 24, 1861, to December 15, 1864; enlisted as Private and attained rank of First Lieutenant; member of Baptist Church, Deacon, Treasurer of Tennessee Baptist Convention since March 1, 1884; was Presidential Elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket and in 1873 was candidate for Congress from the Fourth Congressional District against Hon. H. Y. RIDDLE; he is now Assistant Bookkeeper in the office of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
