Woods, Samuel
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel Woods, Letters Regarding Constitutional Convention (typescript copies)
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1445
Overview
Woods was Chairman of the Committee on the Bill of Rights and Elections in the 1872 Constitutional Convention and played a major role in the formation of the present state Constitution. These letters, mostly written by Woods to his wife, reveal in detail the activities of the convention.
Dates:
1872
Spencer Dayton and Samuel Woods, Certificates and Account Statement
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0206
Overview
County court certificates showing that Spencer Dayton of Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut, was admitted to the bar of that state 15 April, 1864. A copy of the certificate of the Barbour County W. Va. Clerk showing Dayton's admittance to practice In the Circuit Court of Barbour County, 25 May 1847. This notes that Dayton had been licensed to practice law in PA. Household account book of Samuel and Isabella Woods, grandparents of Mrs. Arthur Dayton in Philippi, W. Va. Items for June...
Dates:
1849-1855