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Thomas Carpenter, was a merchant in Phila .; d. there unm., 1772.
RICHARD PRESTON, grandfather of Samuel Preston, Provincial Councillor, came from England about the year 1635, and settled in Nansemond county, Virginia, and was granted a tract of land there by Governor John West, December 22, 1636. He later received two other grants of 500 acres each of Sir William Berkely, in Upper Norfolk. He was a Justice of the Courts of Nansemond county in 1646, and held a high social and political position there. He was however, a Puritan, and in 1649, with a view of founding a colony of his own faith, removed with his family and seventy-three other persons to Patuxent river, Maryland, where several large tracts were surveyed to him in 1650-51. On a tract of 400 acres on the north side of Patuxent, augmented by later grants to 1,000 acres, he erected a brick dwelling still standing, and known as "Preston on Patuxent," the oldest building extant in the state of Maryland. "Preston" was the seat of the government of Maryland, under the "Commonwealth" 1654 to 1658, the House of Burgesses, or Provincial Assembly under the Cromwellian authority, meeting there during that period. Richard Preston was made a member of Provincial Council, 1652, and "Commander on the North side of Patuxent," and in 1654 was one of the promi- nent leaders of the "roundhead" party that deposed Gov. William Stone, and removed the seat of government from St. Maries, the Catholic stronghold of Lord Baltimore, to "Preston," where the first Puritan Assembly met in 1654. When Lord Baltimore regained control of the government in 1658, Richard Preston retained his seat in the Assembly, and continued a representative of his county until the last session of 1666, and was Speaker in 1661. He became a Quaker late in life, and achieved as much prominence as a peaceful Quaker as he had as a fighting Puritan, under Claiborne ; Gov. Charles Calvert alluding to him in 1663 as "The Great Quaker." He died at "Preston," 1669. He brought with
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him from Virginia, his wife Margaret and five children, Richard, who settled in Dorchester county, which he represented in the Assembly at the time of his death in 1669; James, of whom little is known; Samuel, who probably died young, not being mentioned in his father's will; Naomi, married William Berry ; member of Assembly and Justice of Kent county, Delaware, 1684-89; Margaret, who also is supposed to have died young. Two other daughters, Rebecca and Sarah, were born in Maryland. The former married Lovelace Gorusch, and the latter married (first) William Ford and (second) Edwin Pindar.
RICHARD PRESTON Jr. was the father of Samuel Preston, Provincial Councillor. Margaret, widow of Richard Jr., married (second) William Berry, who had pre- viously married Naomi Preston, eldest daughter of Richard Sr., by whom he had a son, William Berry, who married Naomi, daughter of Shadrach Walley, of Newtown, Bucks county ; another son James who was twice married, and a daugh- ter Rebecca, who married James Ridley and settled in Salem county, New Jersey.
SAMUEL PRESTON was born in Maryland, probably at "Preston" on the Patuxent, 1665, and was reared a Quaker. He married at the house of Francis Cornwall, county of Sussex on Delaware, (now Delaware) July 6, 1688, Rachel, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, President of the Governor's Council, and Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania, and settled in Sussex county ; became a Justice of that county, January 2, 1689 ; was Sheriff from May 30, 1690, to April 28, 1693; and a member of Provincial Assembly from there in 1693-1701. In 1699 he accompanied Thomas Story on an extensive religious visit, and in 1703 removed to Philadel- phia and engaged in the mercantile business. He was elected to the Common Council of the city soon after locating there, and was elected by Council a member of Board of Alderman, October 5, 1708, and three years later was elected Mayor of the city. James Logan in a letter to Penn, dated January 17, 1708, recom- mending an increase in representation in the Provincial Council, says, "Samuel Preston, is also a very good man, and now makes quite a figure, and indeed Rachel's husband ought particularly to be taken notice of, for it has been too long neglected even for thy own interest." Thus potential was a good family connection in the good old Colonial days. Samuel Preston and Isaac Norris, both sons-in-law of Thomas Lloyd, were called to the Governor's Council, February 9, 1708-9, and both remained prominent members of that body for the next twenty-five years. Samuel Preston succeeded Samuel Carpenter as Provincial Treasurer in 1714, and held that office until his death, September 10, 1743.
Rachel (Lloyd) Preston, wife of Samuel, having died, he married ( second) Margaret, widow of Josiah Langdale, who had accompanied her husband to Phila- delphia on a religious visit in 1723, the latter dying on the voyage. She died August 23, 1742, in her fifty-eighth year. Her daughter, Mary Langdale, married Samuel Coates in 1734, and is the ancestress of the Coates family of Philadel- phia.
Issue of Samuel and Rachel (Lloyd) Preston:
Margaret Preston, b. 1689; m. May 27, 1709, Dr. Richard Moore, Physician and Mer- chant, who was elected to the Common Council of Phila., 1716, but spent the latter part of his life in Md .; d. there, in 1734; his father, Mordecai Moore, m. as (second) Deborah, dau. of Thomas Lloyd. Samuel Preston Moore (son of Richard and Mar- garet) Provincial Treasurer, 1755-68, married his cousin, Hannah, dau. of Dr. Richard Hill, by his wife, Deborah, dau. of Mordecai and Deborah (Lloyd) Moore:
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Thomas Moore, another son of Richard and Margaret, m. Sarah, dau. of Samuel and Rachel (Hudson) Emlen, and granddaughter of Mayor William Hudson;
Hannah Preston, b. in Sussex co., now Delaware, in 1693, came with her parents to Phila., 1703, and m. there, May 25, 17II, Samuel Carpenter, Jr., above mentioned.
PRESTON CARPENTER, second son of Samuel Carpenter Jr. and his wife, Hannah Preston, was born in Philadelphia, October 28, 1721, located on the lands taken up by his grandfather in Salem county, New Jersey, when a young man, and inherited a large part thereof at the death of his father in 1748. Practically his whole adult life was spent in that county, where he took a more or less prominent part in public affairs. He died October 20, 1785.
He married, at Salem, New Jersey, October 17, 1742, Hannah, born at Salem, 1725, daughter of Samuel Smith, by whom he had twelve children. He married (second) late in life, Hannah Mason, but had no children by her.
Issue of Preston and Hannah (Smith) Carpenter:
Hannah Carpenter, b. Oct. 24, 1743; m. (first) Charles Ellet, (second) Jedediah Allen; her grandson and great-grandson, both named Charles Ellet, were civil engineers of national reputation;
Samuel Preston Carpenter, b. Nov. 14, 1746; d. y .;
Elizabeth Carpenter, b. Dec. 18, 1747; m. Ezra Firth, of Phila., Pa .;
Rachel Carpenter, b. Aug. 26, 1749; d. Nov. 26, 1749;
Mary Carpenter, b. Nov. 18, 1750; m. 1777, Samuel Tonkin, but d. s. p., Oct. 30, 1821 ; THOMAS CARPENTER, b. Nov. 2, 1752; d. July 7, 1847; m. Mary Tonkin; of whom pres- ently ;
William Carpenter, b. Nov. I, 1754; d. in Salem co., N. J., Jan. 12, 1837; m. (first) May 29, 1782, Elizabeth, dau. of Bartholomew Wyatt, a prominent resident of Salem co., (second) Dec. 2, 1801, Mary, dau. of John Redman, of Salem co .;
MARGARET CARPENTER, b. Aug. 26, 1756; m. 1776, James Mason Woodnut; of whom later; John Carpenter, b. Feb. 28, 1758; d. Nov. 2, 1773;
Samuel Carpenter, b. June 25, 1758; d. y .;
Martha Carpenter, b. Aug. 19, 1760; m. Joseph Reeve, of Salem co., N. J .; Samuel Carpenter, b. Feb. 17, 1765; d. July 12, 1769.
THOMAS CARPENTER, eldest surviving son of Preston and Hannah (Smith) Carpenter, was a resident of Carpenter's Landing, Gloucester county, New Jersey, and a prominent merchant and business man there. He was paymaster and com- missary of the New Jersey Line during the Revolution. He died at Carpenter's Landing, July 7, 1847. He married, April 12, 1774, Mary, daughter of Edward Tonkin, of Springfield, Burlington county, by his wife, Mary Cole. Edward Tonkin was a Justice of Burlington county in 1749. His grandfather, Edward Tonkin or Tonkan, settled in Springfield in 1685.
Issue of Thomas and Mary (Tonkin) Carpenter:
Samuel Carpenter, b. Jan. 6, 1775, d. s. p., April 16, 1792; EDWARD CARPENTER, b. June 4, 1777; m. Sarah Stratton; of whom presently; Rachel Carpenter, b. Oct. 23, 1782; d. Oct. 7, 1784.
EDWARD CARPENTER, second son of Col. Thomas and Mary (Tonkin) Car- penter, born at Carpenter's Landing, Gloucester county, New Jersey, June 4, 1777; on his marriage, located at Glassboro, New Jersey, and was a prominent glass manufacturer ; died there March 13, 1813. He married, September 5, 1799. Sarah, daughter of Dr. James Stratton, of Swedesboro, New Jersey, by his wife, Anna, daughter of Benjamin Harris, of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
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Issue of Edward and Sarah (Stratton) Carpenter:
Thomas Preston Carpenter, b. April 19, 1804; a practitioner at law at Woodbury, N. J., for many years; Associate Justice of Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1845-52; d. March 2, 1876; m. Nov. 19, 1839, Rebecca Hopkins;
MARY TONKIN CARPENTER, b. Sept. 14, 1805; m. Richard W. Howell, of Camden, N. J .; of whom presently;
Dr. James Stratton Carpenter, b. Oct. 14, 1807; graduated at the Univ. of Pa., with de- gree of A. B., later from Medical Department with degree of Doctor of Medicine; fin- ished his medical studies abroad, and settled in Pottsville, Pa., where he practiced medicine for many years and until his death, Jan. 31, 1872; he was president of the State Medical Association of Pa .; m. Oct. 12, 1832, Camilla Jane, dau. of John Sand- erson, author of "Lives of the Signers;"
Samuel Tonkin Carpenter, b. Nov. 8, 1810; d. Dec. 26, 1864; Rector of Episcopal church at Smyrna, Del., and Chaplain of U. S. A. during Civil War; buried at Trinity Church, Swedesboro, N. J .; m. May 26, 1841, Frances Champlain, of Derby, Conn., (second) Emilie Thompson, of Wilmington, Del .;
Edward Carpenter, b. May 17, 1813; settled in Phila .; conveyancer and real estate dealer; m. Nov. 16, 1837, Anna M., dau. of Benjamin M. Howey, of "Pleasant Meadows," Gloucester co., N. J.
MARY TONKIN CARPENTER, eldest daughter of Edward and Sarah (Stratton) Carpenter, born at Glassboro, Salem county, New Jersey, September 14, 1805, married, March 30, 1830, Richard Washington Howell, Esq., of Camden county bar, son of Col. Joshua Ladd Howell, of "Fancy Hill," Gloucester county, by his wife, Anna Blackwood; grandson of John Ladd Howell, of Woodbury, New Jersey, and great-grandson of John Howell, sometime of Philadelphia, and his wife, Katharine, daughter of John Ladd, one of the Proprietors of West Jersey, who emigrated from Swingfield, county Kent, England, with his wife Sarah, prior to 1685, and according to the historian of the family, in 1678. According to the same authority, John Ladd came of a distinguished Kentish family that traced their descent from a Norman follower of William I. who came from Normandy and settled at Deal, county of Kent, England, in the eleventh century.
His lineage as definitely traced is as follows:
JOHN LADD, of Eleham, county Kent, died 1476, leaving a son,
John Ladd, of Eleham, who died 1527, and by wife Alice had three sons :
Stephen Ladd, father of Thomas Ladd, of Otling.
John Ladd, father of Nicholas Ladd, of Wooten.
Thomas Ladd, of Barham, ancestor of the Lades of "Boughton House," county Kent.
Nicholas Ladd, of Wooten, Kent, whose eldest son was,
Nicholas Ladd, of Swingfield, county Kent, Gent., died 1669, whose son,
Nicholas Ladd, became a convert to Friends, and was buried in the Friends' Burying Ground at Hythe, Kent, in 1699; father of,
JOHN LADD, who came to New Jersey, 1678, and was known as John Ladd, of Gloucester river. He purchased a share of West Jersey of Maurice Trent, and later purchased 4000 acres of the heirs of William Welch, much of which he con- veyed during his lifetime, but at his death in 1740 was a very large landholder. Among the numerous tracts surveyed to him was a large tract on the Delaware, Deptford township, at what became known as Ladd's Cove, on which he erected a dwelling and resided there until his death. A large portion of the land becoming later vested in his descendants, John Ladd Howell and Joshua Ladd Howell.
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John Ladd was a juror at the first Court held in Gloucester county, September, 1686. He was a practical surveyor, and tradition relates, was employed by William Penn to assist in laying out the city of Philadelphia, and was offered a lot of land there in lieu of the thirty pounds which he was to receive for his services, but not being favorably impressed with the prospects of Philadelphia becoming a town of any magnitude, declined.
John Ladd died 1740, leaving a will dated 1731, and a codicil added a short time before his death, by which he devised the homestead of 560 acres to his son John, and his other property to his daughter, Katharine Howell, and granddaughter, Mary Parker, (who became the wife of Charles Norris, of Philadelphia, in 1759). His sons, Samuel and Jonathan, had been previously provided for. Sarah, wife of John Ladd, died in 1733.
Issue of John and Sarah Ladd:
Samuel Ladd, m. Mary Medcalf, 1713; he died 1725, and his widow m. Tobias Holloway, March 8, 1732;
Jonathan Ladd, m. Ann Wills, 1723;
Mary Ladd, m. Joseph Parker, native of Yorkshire, England, who settled for a time in Chester co., Pa., where he was Deputy Register, and Clerk of Orphans' Court, 1713-4, removing later to N. J .; their dau., Mary Parker, married Charles Norris, of Phila., June 21, 1759;
John Ladd, Jr., m. Hannah Mickle, 1732, but d. s. p., Dec. 20, 1770, and devised his estate to his widow, Hannah, and on her death to his grandnephew, Joshua Ladd Howell; he was a Justice of Gloucester co., 1739;
KATHARINE LADD, m. Jan. 25, 1734, John Howell.
JOHN HOWELL, who married Katharine Ladd, was son of Jacob and Sarah (Vernon) Howell, of Chester county, and grandson of John Howell, who with wife Sarah, and children, Jacob, Evan and Sarah, emigrated in 1697 from Aberystwith, Cardigan, Wales, and settled in Philadelphia, where he resided until his death in 1721. His son Jacob settled in Chester county, where he was a mem- ber of Colonial Assembly and prominent in local and Colonial affairs. He mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Francis Vernon, who with his brothers, Thomas and Robert, emigrated from Sandway, Cheshire, England, and settled in Chester, now Delaware county. He was a very prominent member of the Society of Friends, and served in the Colonial Assembly from Chester county in 1687. He was a son of James Vernon, at one time Secretary of State of Great Britain, and a brother to Sir Edward Vernon, Rear Admiral of the Blue, and a descendant of William, Lord de Vernon, Norman Baron, who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. Mt. Vernon, the Washington homestead, was so named by Lawrence Washington, in honor of Admiral Vernon, under whom he had served.
John Howell married Katharine Ladd, at Haddonfield Friends Meeting House, January 25, 1734, and settled at Woodbury, Salem county, New Jersey, removing to Philadelphia in 1739, later to Georgia, and subsequently to South Carolina, where he died.
Issue of John and Katharine (Ladd ) Howell:
Sarah Howell, m. John Sparks;
JOHN LADD HOWELL, b. March 15, 1738; m. at Darby Meeting House, Chester co., Pa., Frances Paschall, July 23, 1761. (They had, however, been married quietly by the pastor of the church of St. Michael's and Zion, March 1, 1761). Frances Paschall, b. 12mo. 27, 1740, d. May 2, 1812, was a dau. of John and Frances ( Hodge) Paschall, of Darby, and granddaughter of Thomas and Margaret (Jenkins) Paschall, of Philadel-
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phia co .; he a son of Thomas Paschall, who purchased land of William Penn, 1681, and emigrated from Bristol, England, in Feb., 1681-2, and located thereon; and Mar- garet Jenkins, dau. of William Jenkins, who with wife, Elizabeth Griffith, came from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and settled in Blockley, Phila .; William Jenkins was a Colonial Justice and member of Assembly, 1690-96.
JOSHUA LADD HOWELL, son of John Ladd and Frances ( Paschall) Howell, born September 19, 1762, at Woodbury, New Jersey, married, February 16, 1786, Anna Blackwood, of Gloucester county, New Jersey, born February 2, 1769, died Janu- ary 14, 1855. For several years after their marriage, they lived on the old Ladd homestead known as "Candor Hall," but in 1805 he erected a handsome residence on the Delaware, on part of the large estate he had inherited from his grand- uncle, John Ladd Jr., which he called "Fancy Hill," where he resided until his death, January 10, 1818.
Issue of Joshua Ladd and Anna ( Blackwood) Howell:
Samuel Ladd Howell, b. May II, 1787; m. Nov. 30, 1809, Mary Harrison Clayton ; Paschall Howell, b. Nov. 6, 1789, d. at "Fancy Hill," Sept. 1, 1811;
Frances Howell, b. April 2, 1791; m. March 15, 1810, her cousin, Benjamin Butterton Howell;
John Ladd Howell, b. Jan. 16, 1793; d. unm., Nov. 30, 1828;
Anna Maria Howell, b. Oct., 1795; m. Rev. James H. Jones;
Joshua Howell, b. Nov. 20, 1797; d. Aug., 1800;
RICHARD WASHINGTON HOWELL, b. Dec. 15, 1799, d. Aug. 12, 1859; m. March 30, 1830, Mary Tonkin Carpenter ;
Abigail Blackwood Howell, b. Feb. 1, 1802; m. Oct. 28, 1828, Rev. Thomas Leiper Jane- way;
Joshua Blackwood Howell, b. Oct., 1806; m. (first) Mary Lewis, of Phila .; (second) Catharine Whetley, of Newark, N. J .;
Benjamin Paschall Howell, b. Nov. 26, 1808; m. April 29, 1835, Rachel Lewis, who d. Oct. 2, 1882.
Issue of Richard W. and Mary Tonkin (Carpenter ) Howell:
John Paschall Howell, b. April 12, 1831; d. June 2. 1832;
Edward Carpenter Howell, b. July 24, 1833; d. March 5, 1834;
Samuel Bedell Howell, M. D., b. Sept. 30, 1834; graduated at Univ. of Pa .; m. Maria E. Neill, dau. of Rev. William Neill, D. D .;
Charles Stratton Howell, b. Dec. 21, 1837 ;
Richard Holmes Offly Howell, b. April 2, 1840; d. Jan. 3, 1850;
Joshua Ladd Howell, b. June 16, 1842; m. April 15, 1875, Mary Eyre, dau. of William Lyttleton Savage, of Phila .;
Thomas James Howell, b. Oct. 10, 1844, Lieut. in N. J. Volunteers, during Civil War, killed at Gaines Mill, June 27, 1862;
ANNA HOWELL, b. Sept. 12, 1846; m. June 10, 1869, Malcolm Lloyd, son of John and Esther Barton ( Malcolm) Lloyd, and a descendant of Robert Lloyd, of Merioneth- shire, Wales, who settled in Chester co., Pa., 1708, an account of whom and his de- scendants is given in this volume.
Issue of Malcolm and Anna (Howell) Lloyd :
Howell Lloyd, b. March 2, 1871 ;
Malcolm Lloyd, Jr., b. Jan. 16, 1874;
Stacy Barcroft Lloyd, b. Aug. 1, 1876;
Francis Vernon Lloyd, b. Aug. 31, 1878;
Anna Howell Lloyd, b. Dec. 2, 1880;
Esther Lloyd; Mary Carpenter Lloyd.
Mrs. Anna (Howell) Lloyd, in addition to being a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from Samuel Carpenter and Samuel Preston, both Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania, and in the eighth generation from Thomas Lloyd, President of Governor's
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Council and Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania, as shown in the preceding pages, and sixth in descent from Jacob Howell, all prominently associated with Philadelphia in its early Colonial days, is also a descendant in the seventh generation from Francis Collins, of "Mountwell," near Haddonfield, New Jersey, one of the Proprietors of West Jersey; mem- ber of Provincial Assembly, 1683, and of Governor Samuel Jening's first Council. She is also a descendant in the seventh generation of Randal Vernon, who came from Cheshire, England, 1682, and located in Chester, now Delaware county, and was a member of Colonial Assembly in 1687.
RICHARD WOODNUT, grandfather of James Mason Woodnut, who married Margaret Carpenter, came from England in 1680, and lived for a time in or near Philadelphia, later locating at Salem, New Jersey, where he died in 1688, and his widow Grace Woodnut in 1690.
RICHARD WOODNUT (2), son of Richard and Grace Woodnut, born in England, accompanied his parents to America. He became a large landholder in Salem county, New Jersey, and resided in the Mannington district, where he died Feb- ruary, 1726-7. He married Mary, daughter of John Thompson, of Salem county, and had two sons : Joseph, born September 5, 1697, and Richard, of whom presently ; and two daughters, Grace and Sarah.
RICHARD WOODNUT (3), second son of Richard and Mary (Thompson ) Wood- nut, was born in Mannington district, Salem county, New Jersey, March 22, 1702-3. He married Ann Walmsley, and had two sons: James Mason and Henry Woodnut.
JAMES MASON WOODNUT, eldest son of Richard and Ann ( Walmsley) Wood- nut, was born in Mannington district, Salem county, New Jersey; married, in 1776,
Margaret, eighth child of Preston and Hannah (Smith) Carpenter, who was born August 26, 1756, died October 3, 1821. They resided in Salem county all their lives.
Issue of James Mason and Margaret (Carpenter) Woodnut:
Sarah Woodnut, b. Nov. 28, 1777, d. unm., June 9, 1820;
Hannah Woodnut, b. 1780; became second wife of Clement Acton, Sr., of Salem co .;
Thomas Woodnut, b. 1782, d. s. p .;
JONATHAN WOODNUT, b. Oct. 12, 1784; m. (first) Mary Goodwin, (second) Sarah Dennis; of whom presently;
Preston Woodnut, b. Jan. 24, 1787; m. Rachel Goodwin;
William Woodnut, b. April 1, 1792; went to Cincinnati, O., and engaged in mercantile business, later returning to Phila., where he d. s. p .;
Margaret Woodnut, b. 1794; m. William J. Shinn;
Martha Woodnut, m. Joshua Reeve, of Salem co., N. J .;
Mary Woodnut, m. Benjamin Newlin, of Phila .;
Elizabeth Woodnut, m. Morris Hall, of Salem co., N. J.
JONATHAN WOODNUT, second son and fourth child of James Mason and Mar. garet (Carpenter) Woodnut, born October 12, 1784, married (first) Mary, daugh- ter of William and Elizabeth Goodwin, of Salem county, New Jersey, and (second) Sarah Dennis, of a prominent Salem county family.
Issue of Jonathan and Mary (Goodwin) Woodnut:
Richard Woodnut, m. Lydia, dau. of Clement and Sarah Hall, of Elsenborough, Salem, co., N. J .;
William C. Woodnut, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph and Lydia Bassett, of Salem co., N. J .; THOMAS WOODNUT, of whom presently.
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THOMAS WOODNUT, son of Jonathan and Mary (Goodwin) Woodnut, was born in Salem county, New Jersey, December 1, 1816. He joined his uncle in Cincin- nati, Ohio, and about 1840, in partnership with his cousin, Clement Acton, suc- ceeded to the mercantile business established there by his uncle when Cincinnati was but a village. Thomas Woodnut retired from business in 1864, and removed to Richmond, Indiana, where he was identified with manufacturing and banking enterprises. Mr. Woodnut was born a member of the Society of Friends, of whose religious meetings he was a regular attendant. As in business life his keen foresight, sound business judgment, and staunch integrity, made him esteemed and respected by all with whom he came in close contact, so in Richmond, Indiana, he held a prominent place in the philanthropic and religious interests of the city. His wise judgment and untiring zeal, fostered by his generous impulses, were always at command for furthering any laudable enterprise for the good of his fellow citizens.
Though not a college graduate, he was a man of keen intelligence and broad culture, and his appreciation of the importance of proper training of youth, prompted him to associate himself with several other men of means-members of the Society of Friends-in providing a building and establishing a school to be conducted in accordance with the principles of the Society. To this work Mr. Woodnut devoted his time, his wise counsel and an open purse, during the remainder of his residence in Richmond, Indiana.
In 1880 Mr. Woodnut removed to Philadelphia, where he also became identified with philanthropic, educational and charitable enterprises. No enterprise for the uplifting and enlightenment of his fellowman that the needs of the great city presented to his attention was passed heedlessly by, and many were the quiet, unostentatious and generous gifts that the seekers for aid along these lines received from him. He was a man of determined will, clothed with an air of quiet dignity and repose under every provocation, and his spirit of fairness developed in him a character in sympathy with all who were oppressed or unjustly treated, and when the occasion demanded, no one could be more insistent and vigorous in the demand for absolute integrity and justice on the part of every interest in which he was engaged, financial or otherwise. Beloved and respected by all who knew him, he died in the midst of a useful and earnest life, August 9, 1889.
Thomas Woodnut married, January 5, 1858, Hannah Hooloway, daughter of Nathan and Margaret (Hooloway) Morgan, of Richmond, Indiana, and of dis- tinguished Welsh ancestry. She still survives him, residing in Philadelphia.
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