Plumas County Biographies

George Woodward

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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This gentleman was born in Wilmington, Delaware, July 14, 1821, and was the son 
of Alice and George Woodward. He removed with his father�s family to Chester 
county, Pennsylvania, and when twelve years of age went to Champaign county, 
Ohio, where his parents died. The family consisted of eleven children, ten of 
whom grew to be men and women. Mr. Woodward, who is a carpenter by trade, served 
his apprenticeship in Columbus, Ohio. From there he emigrated to California in 
1849, and worked his trade in Sacramento until the flood of 1850, when he went 
to mining in the fall of 1850 in Plumas county. Since 1851 he has resided 
permanently in Plumas. He was married October 25, 1857, to Martha Portman, a 
native of England. Seven children have been born to them: Florence E., Alice I., 
George F., Fannie, John J., Edgar W., and Arthur. Mr. Woodward was one of the 
locators of the Mammoth mine. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 246