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Oswald Langdon Woodford : ウィキペディア英語版 | Oswald Langdon Woodford Oswald Langdon Woodford (Oct. 31st, 1827-Oct. 21st, 1870) was an American minister, teacher, and politician. Woodford was the son of Zerah and Minerva (Potter) Woodford, of West Avon, Conn., where he was born Oct. 31st, 1827. He was for two years a teacher in the Cherokee Male Seminary, and then entered the Andover Theological Seminary, where he remained till Febr , 1865, when he returned to the Cherokees, and was principal of the Male Seminary until Aug., 1856. He then came to New Haven, to attend Theological lectures, and in May, 1857, went to Kansas as a Home Missionary. He settled in Grasshopper Falls, organizing a Congregational Church there, April 19th, 1858, but in Aug., 1859, he was compelled by the failure of his health to give up his chosen profession and return to his native town. He spent his remaining years with his parents, engaged in farming. In 1865 he was a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives. He died in West Avon of typhoid fever, Oct. 21st, 1870. He was married, first, to Pauline Avery, of Conway, Mass., principal of the Cherokee Female Seminary, Nov 18th, 1856. She died in Kansas, Febr. 26th, 1858. He married, secondly, May 18th, 1859, Esther Butler, of Van Buren, Ark. She survived him, with a daughter by the first marriage, and a son and two daughters by the second marriage. ==References==
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