Judge George Spofford Woodhull

1814 - 1881  (66 years)

• Name	George Spofford Woodhull
  Prefix	Judge
  Birth	25 Dec 1814	Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Mar 1881	New Jersey   [3]
  Burial	Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey
  Person ID	I13031	Scudder
  Last Modified	5 Apr 2006

  
  

  Father	Dr. John Tennent Woodhull,   b. 24 Aug 1786, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 18 Nov 1869, Camden, New Jersey (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Ann Wikoff,   b. 5 Jul 1793, New Jersey d. 3 Feb 1852 (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	22 Jan 1812	New Jersey   [4]
  Family ID	F356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Caroline Mandeville Vroom,   b. 24 Feb 1823, New York d. Aft 1880 (Age > 58 years)
  Marriage	4 Apr 1847  [5, 6]
  Children	1. Catalina Delamater Woodhull,   b. 19 Jan 1848, New York d. 3 Mar 1853 (Age 5 years)   2. John Tennent Woodhull,   b. 12 Jul 1850, New Jersey d. Aft 1880 (Age > 31 years)   3. Elizabeth Vroom Woodhull,   b. 11 Dec 1853, New Jersey d. Aft 1880 (Age > 28 years)   4. George Spofford Woodhull,   b. 18 Jan 1855, New Jersey d. Jan 1855, New Jersey   5. William Wikoff Woodhull,   b. 12 Jul 1858, New Jersey d. 2 Feb 1882 (Age 23 years)   6. Mary Gould Woodhull,   b. 21 Apr 1861, New Jersey d. Aft 1880 (Age > 20 years)   7. Charles Frederick Woodhull,   b. 22 Oct 1863, New Jersey d. Aft 1880 (Age > 18 years)   8. Schuyler Colfax Woodhull,   b. 22 Oct 1863, Camden, Camden, New Jersey d. 14 Apr 1942, Anoka, Minnesota (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F4503	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  George graduated from Princeton College. Subsequently, having studied law with Richard Field, of Princeton, he was admitted to the bar in 1850. He began practice in Monmouth county, but subsequently removed to the southern part of the State. Here he was appointed Prosecutor of Cape May and Atlantic Counties, having an office at May's Landing, and afterward held that position for ten years. He was also Prosecutor of Atlantic County for the ensuing five years. In 1866 Governor Ward appointed him an Associate Judge of the State Supreme Court and the Court of Errors and Appeals, and he was reappointed by the war Governor, Joel Parker. A man of strict integrity and utterly fearless, his decisions were always the expression of his convictions throughout the fourteen years of his connection with the judiciary. He died in 1881, the year following that of his retirement from the bench, having continued his law practice up to the last.

  
  

• Sources

  [S555] 1880 United States Census, FHL Film 1254773; National Archives Film T9-0773; Page 1A. [S798] Woodhull genealogy : the Woodhull family in England and America, p. 334. [S798] Woodhull genealogy : the Woodhull family in England and America, p. 337. [S16] Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, vol. 8, p. 15. [S15] Genealogy of Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, "Old Hunterdon County," New Jersey, p. 309. [S798] Woodhull genealogy : the Woodhull family in England and America, p. 325.