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Representative Samuel D. Woodworth View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 6/7/1851
Birth Place: Buffalo, New York
Party Affiliation: Whig
Assemblies Served:
House: LA7 (1845) - LA8 (1845)
2 (1848)
Home County: Henry
Samuel D. Woodworth
Henry County
Born in New York in 1796, he was a farmer, surveyor and member of the Iowa Territorial and State Legislatures. He moved to Indiana to work as a surveyor and eventually settled near Rome in Henry County, Iowa. Mr. Woodworth married Mary Sample (born 1804) and had 9 children. She died in January 1845. He then married Susan Beaty Crawford in 1849, and they had 2 children. He was a Whig party affiliate and served in sessions 7 and 8 of the Iowa Territorial Legislature (1845-1846), and the 2nd Iowa General Assembly (1848). He died of cholera at his farm near Rome in 1851.
Sources:
House District 8
Committees
2nd GA (1848)
Standing Committees
Legislation Sponsored
2nd GA (1848)