Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Baraboo:

Edwin E. Woodman, was born at St. Louis, Mo., June 1, 1838; received an academic and collegiate education; removed to Wisconsin in 1856, settling in Janesville; lived at Monroe, Wis., from 1858 to 1874; in the latter year, removed to Baraboo, and entered on the editorship of the Baraboo Republic a work in which he is still engaged. On the breaking-out of the civil war, in 1861, he assisted to raise Co. B. of the 13th Wis. V.I., and was commissioned Captain; served three years, mostly on detached service; was Post Inspector of Nashville on the staff of Brig. Gen. Robert S. Granger, and Topographical Engineer on the staff of Maj. Gen. Rousseau; is by profession a civil engineer, and as such has had charge of some of the most important railway constructions in the Northwest; was resident engineer at Tunnel No. 3 on the North-Western Railway in charge of construction. He was elected State Senator in 1879; received the honorary degree of Civil Engineer from the University of Wisconsin in 1880.

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