Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature:Son: John S. Woolson; GAs 16 - 18; 21 - 23
Theron Webb Woolson
Henry County
Born at Lisbon, N.H., October 28, 1811. His father was a farmer of very limited means removed with his family to St. Lawrence County, New York. Theron went to work early and, consequently, he was hired by the month in the neighborhood during which time be succeeded in attending the winter school in his district through four winters. This comprises all of the schooling he received. He entered the employ of a firm of wood workers where his duties led him largely to the operation and use of a foot-lathe. In I835, he started westward and arrived at Tonawanda, Erie County, N.Y. He remained there for twenty-one years then removed to Henry County, Iowa. He was a member of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth General Assemblies. In the Senate he was a leading member, serving on its most important committees and exercising a large influence in shaping the legislation of that body, and at one time holding, by vote of the Senate, the position of President pro tem. His early political attachments were with the Democratic Party. But when that party in his judgment became unfaithful to its expressed principles concerning "free rights and free men," he severed his connection with it. He was a member of the first Republican Convention ever held at Buffalo, N. Y., and thereafter acted with that party, and was an influential participator in the District and State conventions and deliberations of that party in his State. He was a delegate from Iowa to the National Republican Convention, which first nominated President Grant. His religious associations were with the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he united in 1836. On September 1, 1886, he married Clarissa Simson, who died suddenly upon March 7, 1862. On June 21st he married Anna Carney.
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