Woodruff family.

William Henry Mayo (1845-1905), a native of St. Landry Parish, La., enlisted in Co. F. of the 8th Regiment of Louisiana Infantry of the Confederate Army. With his regiment, he fought in in Jackson's Valley Campaign and the campaigns of 1862-1865, including the Seven Days Battles, Maryland Campaign, Gettysburg, Chancellorville, Cold Harbor, Early's operations in the Shenandoah Valley, and Appomattox. Mayo rose to the rank of the regimental adjutant. After the war he returned to St. Landry Parish and was engaged in general merchandize and farming. In 1867-69, he was mayor of Washington, La. (1867-1869). In 1871, he moved to St. Louis, Mo.where he became correspondent and superintendent of circulation of the Saint Louis Daily Times. The then was a member of the editorial board of the Freemason. A staunch Democrat, Mayo was secretary of the Democratic state central committee and for two terms secretary of the state senate of Missouri. In 1866, he married Ella Agatha Curley, daughter of Mrs. Lucy Curly of New Orleans.

Mayo's son Harry Nathaniel Mayo (b. 1867), was a physician and Lieutenant Colonel of the Army. He received his MD in 1895 at Baltimore Medical College. In 1890, he married Ms. Elizabeth B. Torbett of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was Medical director of the Continental Life Insurance & Investment Co., Surgeon of the Holy Cross Hospital (Salt Lake City), and was a prominent Free Mason. His daughter Etha (1895-1996) married E.R. Woodruff, son of one of the most prominent Salt Lake City families.

The Woodruff family -- John M. and Lucinda M. Woodruff and their two sons, moved from their native New York to Boone County, Ill. in 1849. Their eldest son Russell O. Woodruff joined Co. B. of the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment. John Dwight Woodruff (1847-1925) moved West in 1865. He first settled in Longmont, Colo. and then in 1867, moved to Fr. Laramie, Wyo. John D. Woodruff, known as a trapper, prospector, and Indian fighter, erved as a government scout and took part in Sheridan's expedition from Fort Washakie to Little Big Horn. He also pioneered sheep industry in Wyoming and was a member of the state legislature. The youngest son, Edward Day Woodruff (1849-1925) studied medicine in Chicago. In 1880, while visiting his brother in Wyoming, he received an offer to become surgeon for Union Pacific Coal Co. and resident surgeon for Union Pacific Railway Co. He married Minnette M. Roberts of Omaha, Nebraska, in 1882. In 1890, the Woodruffs moved to Salt Lake City. Edward D. Woodruff was one of the founders of Troy Steam Laundry and invested in various mining and agricultural operations. He served as President of the Utah Sons of the American Revolution, and in 1913 became President of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club.

Edward Day Woodruff's daughter Lesley married B. Franklin Riter (1886-1966), the prominent lawyer known was his effort to repeal the 18th Amendment, the coordinator of the boards of review the Judge Advocate General during the World War II and the first Utah lawyer ever elected to the board of governors of the American Bar Association. Lesley Day Woodruff was a family historian who published biographical sketches of her family in the Annals of Wyoming.

From the description of Etha Mayo Woodruff memorial collection of family papers, 1863-1925. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 289497777