The young mistress of Mrs. Ann Woodson of Virginia instructed her until she could read in the first reader.

Lewis Woodson owed it to friends in Pittsburgh that he became an influential teacher.

Miss Emma J. Woodson was an assistant in the institution from 1856 to 1867.

There were Martin H. Freeman, John Newton Templeton, Mary E. Miles, Lucy Stratton, Lewis Woodson, John F. Cook, Mary Ann Shadd, W.H. Allen, and B.W. Arnett.

The dead name was mossy; the letters were dim; But they spelled out "James Woodson," and mused upon him, Till Harry said, poring, "I wish I could know What manner of man used the bones down below.

143-168, 195-204, containing many details; F.U. Quillin, The Color Line in Ohio, pp. 11-87; C.G. Woodson, "The Negroes of Cincinnati

[Footnote 78: The schooling facilities are elaborately and excellently described and discussed in C.G. Woodson, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 (New York, 1915).]

The removal of Governor Shannon a few weeks after Colonel Sumner once more made Secretary Woodson, always a willing instrument of the conspiracy, acting Governor.

Arouse yourselves to speedy vengeance and rub out the bloody traitors." [Sidenote] Woodson, proclamation, Aug. 25, 1856.

The Kansas pro-slavery cabal had upon the dismissal of Shannon fondly hoped that one of their own clique, either Secretary Woodson or Surveyor-General John Calhoun, would be made executive, and had set on foot active efforts in that direction.

The day following his interview with General Smith found him at Lecompton, the capital of the Territory, where the other territorial officials, Woodson, Calhoun, Donaldson, Sheriff Jones, Lecompte, Cato, and others, constituted the ever-vigilant working force of the Atchison cabal, precisely as had been so truthfully represented to him by General Smith, and as he had so graphically described in his letter to Marcy of the day before.

While he was preaching and printing his sage admonitions about peace and prosperity at Lecompton, and laboring to change the implements of civil war into plowshares and pruning-hooks, the Missouri raid against Lawrence, officially called into the field by Woodson's proclamation, was about to deal out destruction to that town.

He immediately dispatched to the Missouri camp Secretary Woodson with copies of his inaugural, and the adjutant-general of the Territory with orders to disband and muster out of service the Missouri volunteers, while he himself, at the head of three hundred dragoons and a light battery, moved rapidly to Lawrence, a distance of twelve miles.

Woodson, who had so often abused his powers during his repeated service as acting Governor, was promoted to a more lucrative post to create the vacancy.

"There are quite a few old persons around Woodson that can give you information.

Charles Scribner's Sons (PWH); 6Sep62; R300842. CURTIS, LOUIS WOODSON.

By Clella Lester Perkins, Ann Trimingham, Mary Strawn Vernon, Louis Woodson Curtis & M. Claude Rosenberry.

By Clella Lester Perkins, Ann Trimingham, Mary Strawn Vernon, Louis Woodson Curtis & M. Claude Rosenberry.

Charles Scribner's Sons (PWH); 6Sep62; R300842. CURTIS, LOUIS WOODSON.

By Clella Lester Perkins, Ann Trimingham, Mary Strawn Vernon, Louis Woodson Curtis & M. Claude Rosenberry.

By Clella Lester Perkins, Ann Trimingham, Mary Strawn Vernon, Louis Woodson Curtis & M. Claude Rosenberry.

St. Clair Drake (A) & Susan C. Woodson (E of H. R. Cayton); 7Dec72; R541260. DRAPER, JOHN W. The Humors & Shakespeare's characters.

By Carter Godwin Woodson.

By Carter G. Woodson.

By Carter G. Woodson.