Bios - Woodhull Genealogy

Bios - Short Biographies and information of some Woodhulls

54. ELIZABETH 'BETSY' "WOODHULL" NICOLL SMITH (69 years old in portrait)

Betsey was the only daughter of General Nathaniel and Ruth "Floyd" Woodhull. Betsey's first husband was Henry Nicoll and her second husband General John Smith (born Nov. 30, 1762 died Sept. 14, 1839, shortly after the birth of their daughter Eliza.

Henry Nicoll and Elizabeth "Betsy" Woodhull Nicoll Smith had four children together.

1. Edward Holland Nicoll (Mary Townsend)
2. Charles Nicoll d. 7y
3. Henry Woodhull Nicoll (Anna Louise Ireland)
4. Eliza Willet Nicoll (Richard Smith)

General John, of St. George’s Manor, was of the “Tangier Smith” family, of Long Island NY. He was born Feb. 12, 1756 and died Jun. 25, 1816.
Legend has it that John had always wanted Betsy as his bride, but had been bitterly opposed by Betsy's mother. After this marriage, General John and Betsy went to live on the Woodhull estate, which she had inherited from her father. General John, an active participant in the Revolution, was captured by the British and held prisoner for
a short time. Later, he was a member of the State Legislature for nearly twenty years, in 1788 was in the Convention that adopted our National U. S. Constitution, in 1799 was elected a representative to Congress, and then to the
U. S. Senate, as Senator from New York. Gen. John "Tangier" Smith and Elizabeth "Betsy" Woodhull Nicoll Smith had four children together.

1: SARAH AUGUSTA SMITH b. in Mastic May 19, 1794 d. Nov 13, 1877 . married John L.
Lawrence parents of 11 children & this is where The Lawrence Estate starts In Mastic .
It was actually once all Woodhull Farm property.
2: Maj. EGBERT TANGIER SMITH : b. in Mastic Aug. 17, 1796 , d. Napa, California Mar 13, 1879,
married Sarah Rogers Schenck in Ohio in 1818 they had 11 children.
3: ROBERT TANGIER SMITH b Mastic July 9, 1798 , d Mastic June 28 1862 Robert never married, he was merchant in NY City and returned to Mastic.
4: CHARLES JEFFREY SMITH b Mastic Aug 9, 1803 d Mastic May 12, 1876, married Lettia Jane Suydam June 16, 1852, no children survived to maturity. Charles & Lettia Are Buried In Woodhull Cemetary On Neighborhood Road.

7. REV. JOHN ALPHEUS WOODHULL

    John Alpheus Woodhull, (Rev.), seventh generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the third son of Richard Woodhull and Frances Greene. He was born October 30, 1825, near Lake Ronkonkoma, Suffolk County, Long Island.

     We read of clergymen, whose sermons set the standard of English for the community in which they lived, as well as the standard of spiritual excellence; whose lives inspired every man in the parish to Congregational Church History of Groton, Connecticut, with sketches of its ministers from 1704-1876."

     For ten years, he was again in his native
county, this time at Baiting Hollow. From here he removed to Middlefield, Massachusetts, where in 1887 he was called upon to bear the loss by death of his wife. In 1889 he married Mrs. Eliza Miller Church and removed to Plainfield, Massachusetts, where he preached for seven years. Then after an active service
in the Ministry of over forty years he retired and resided in Chicago until his death, February 1, 1902. He was interred beside his wife and two children in the historic Ledyard Cemetery, at Groton, Connecticut, where his widow has erected a substantial monument to his memory.

     In the new stone church at Groton, is a window designed by Mr. Frederick Wilson, executed by Tiffany and given as a memorial to the Rev. John A. Woodhull, by his wife Eliza Miller Woodhull.

     His life, like that of the parson in the Deserted Village, ran its unworldly course; of worldly ambition, he knew little, of the aspiration for all that was high and noble and beautiful, he knew much. There was no com-munity that was ever touched by his life that was not ennobled; young men went to college, libraries were started, public sentiment grew nobler and broader.

     One of his parishioners quoted Chaucer's well known lines in characterizing the Rev. John Alpheus Woodhull, and I know of no more fitting summary with which to conclude this sketch.

" He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him no spiced conscience, But Cristes
lore, and his      apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve."

     Of his children, four sons and one daughter survive him.

77. JOHN FRANCIS WOODHULL MD

     John Francis Woodhull, (Ph. D.), eighth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the third son of the Rev. John Alpheus Woodhull and Frances Greene.

     He was born July 2nd, 1857. Was graduated
from Yale in the Class of 1880. Teacher in High School, Bloomfield, N. J., 1880-1882.

     Principal of High School, Chicopee, Mass., 1882-1885. Student in Summer School, Harvard University, chemistry and physics, 1883, 188,4, 1885, 1892. Student in chemistry and physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1885-86. Teacher of Science in State Normal School, New Paltz, N. Y., 1886-7. Professor of Physical Science, Columbia University, 1888. Lecturer, National Summer School, 18881891. Lecturer Martha's Vineyard Summer School, 1890. Lecturer Chautauqua Summer School, 1894. Received Degree of Ph. D. from Columbia University, 1899. Professor of Physical Science, Columbia University. Chairman of Division of Science, Teachers' College, Columbia University. Member of the Columbia University Council. Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member of New York Academy of
Sciences. International Examiner, Young Men's Christian Association. Acting President, Teachers' College, Columbia University, April to July, 1894. Chairman of Faculty Teachers' College, Columbia University, September to January, 1897. Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Numerous Publications including;
1. Home-made Apparatus. Popular Science Monthly, 1889.
2. Simple Experiments for the School Room, E. L. Kellogg & Co., 1889.
3. Academic Syllabus for Physics and Chem-istry, Regents' Bulletin, No. 5, 1891.
4. Selection and Use of Apparatus, Regents' Bulletin, No. 6. Part m, 1891.
5. Object Lessons, with David Salmon, Longmans, Green & Co., 1892.
6. First Course in Science, Henry Holt & Co.,
1893
7. Educational Value of Natural Science, Ed-ucational Review, 1895.
8. Manual of Home-made Apparatus, E. L. Kellogg & Co., 1895

    He married, April 2, 1886, Minnie Ellen, daughter of John S. Hinkley, of Chicopee, Mass. They had three children.

76. Mitchell H. Woodhull
( SOURCE: Portrait and biographical record of Suffolk county (Long Island) New York By Chapman Publishing Company)

166. (tombstone) Zetus S. Woodhull
(SOURCE: Portrait Biographical Album of Clinton and Shiawasse Counties. Mich., Chapman Bros., 1891)

17. (tombstone) Captain Abraham Woodhull

134. Doctor Daniel Robert III
Birth:

122. (tombstone) Ruth "Floyd" Woodhull
(The Pioneer Mothers of America, by Harry Clinton Green & Mary Wolcott Green, second volume)