Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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S. K. WOODWARD, 
 
a farmer and stock‑raiser residing five miles west of Compton, is a pioneer of 
1868. He first located near Downey, where for ten years he farmed and worked at 
the carpenter's trade. In 1888 he purchased forty-six acres where he now lives, 
on the Mesa. On this tract he has erected a very neat and comfortable residence, 
and his land is all under a high state of cultivation.  Mr. Woodward is a native 
of Franklin County, Tennessee, was born in 1837, and is the son of J. B. and 
Nancy (Kitchens) Woodward, the former a native of Tennessee, and the latter of 
North Carolina, and they were of English and Scotch origin respectively. Mr. and 
Mrs. Woodward removed to Texas in 1856, where the old gentleman is yet engaged 
in farming, at the advanced age of eighty years. His wife died in 1886. They had 
reared a family of eight children, S. K. Woodward being the next to the 
youngest. The subject of this sketch was married in 1871, to Miss Eliza Dunn, 
who was born in Georgia, and is the daughter of J. A. and Mary B. Dunn. They 
have six children living: Robert, William, Carrie, Henry, Samuel and Thomas. 
Both Mr. and Mrs. Dunn are members of the Methodist Church, South, being 
connected with the church at Downey, in which Mr. Dunn has held various offices. 
Socially he is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is an A. O. U. W. At 
different times he has held district and school offices. Politically Mr. Dunn is 
affiliated with the Democratic party.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 834
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler