“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


STEPHEN S. WOODARD, real-estate agent; born in New London, 
N.H., Oct. 14, 1827; came to Oak Grove, Dodge Co., Wis., in 1854; 
engaged in clerking there three years; afterward conducted the railroad 
restaurant and eating-house at Beaver Dam; had charge for one year of a 
gang of men engaged in grading the railroad between Minnesota 
Junction and Beaver Dam; afterward spent another year at Oak Grove; 
then he took charge of a store at Rubicon, which he conducted several 
years.  He helped to raise Co. E, 10th Wis. V.I.; enlisted in that company, 
but, after spending two months in camp, he was rejected on account of 
injury in his hand which he received while in the railroad business.  Mr. 
Woodard was Doorkeeper for the Wisconsin Legislature during the extra 
session of 1861 and regular session of 1862; in 1865, he came here and 
engaged in the bakery business, continued in that business several years, 
then engaged in real-estate and commission business; Mr. W. has served 
two terms as Alderman, and has also been elected twice to fill vacancies 
and has served for the unexpired terms.  He was married, at Oak Grove, 
to Caroline Bortle, a native of Lenox, Madison Co., N.Y. they have two 
children – Emma J. and Wesley Ellsworth.



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