Woodbury, William W. R.

Born: 1824-11-19 Indiana

Died: 1901-02-16 Danville, Illinois

Flourished: Danville, Illinois

William W. R. Woodbury, druggist, came to the Danville, Illinois area with his family in 1833 and was apprenticed to local physician William Fithian in 1841. He subsequently studied at Rush Medical College, graduating in 1850. Later that same year he was working as a druggist in Danville. He partnered in a drug store with James A. D. Sconce until 1853, then with Stephen Mires and John W. Mires until 1857, after which Woodbury continued the business alone. Woodbury built the Lincoln Opera Hall in Danville in 1859. In 1850, he owned real estate valued at $6,000 and possessed $16,400 in real estate and $12,000 worth of personal property ten years later. In 1864, he became a director of the newly formed Spring Hill Cemetery in Danville. Woodbury married first, Lucy Field in 1850, then Elizabeth Mires in 1853, and finally Maria L. Williams in 1857. With his second wife he had one son who survived to adulthood, and with his third wife he had five children who survived to adulthood.

Scrap Book: Amos Williams and Early Danville, Illinois (Danville, IL: Recording & Statistical Corp., n.d.), 135-37, 139-41; H. W. Beckwith, History of Vermilion County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1879), 341, 378-79; Jack Moore Williams, History of Vermilion County Illinois (Topeka and Indianapolis: Historical, 1930), 2:955-56; Seventeenth Triennial Catalogue of the Rush Medical College (Chicago: Rogers & Wells, [1895]), 39; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Danville, Vermilion County, IL, 307; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Danville, Vermilion County, IL, 7; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Vermilion County, 3 May 1850, 26 May 1853, 2 December 1857, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Gravestone, Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Danville, IL.