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WOODRUFF, George, jurist, born in Binghamton, New York, 4 July, 1807; died in Marshall, Michigan, 13 May, 1887. He was graduated at Hobart in 1829, admitted to the bar of Ithaca, and in 1837 removed to Marshall, Michigan, where he practised law. He became county judge in 1846, served two terms, was circuit commissioner three terms, and a judge of the circuit court in 1866-'75.--His son, WILLIAM S., was killed in battle before Petersburg, 25 June, 1864.--Another son, George Augustus, soldier, born in Marshall, Michigan, 27 May, 1840 ; died in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 4 July, 1863, was graduated at the United States military academy in 1857, and became 1st lieutenant of artillery in June. 1861. He served in the Virginia peninsular campaign from March till July, 1862, participating in the siege of Yorktown and the battles of Fair Oaks, Glendale, and Malvern Hill, commanded a battery at Antietam in the Maryland campaign, was engaged at Fredericksburg and Ctmncellorsville, and during the Pennsylvania campaign commanded a battery, and was mortally wounded at Gettysburg. In this battle he was stationed on the right of General Winfield S. Hancock's line. Of his death General Hancock wrote : "Among all the brave men who fell at Gettysburg there are none whose loss I regret more than his."

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