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From: Bill Utterback <>
Subject: History of Kentucky in Five Volumes - Graves Co. - Albert Parish Woody
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:58:22 -0500

My friends -

Today, we are returning to our review of the biographies contained in the
1922 work entitled, "History of Kentucky in Five Volumes", which was
created by the American Historical Society.
Our subject today is Albert Parish Woody of Graves County.

As is now customary, there will be no data posts tomorrow or on the
weekend. Time constraints look tight over the next few days, and, as a
result, I may not be able to work on more conversions of "Miscellaneous
Files". But bear with me - I'll be returning to that task soon.

-B
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ALBERT PARISH WOODY is one of the youngest county highway engineers in
Kentucky. He took the engi­neering profession while still in college, and
practically all his time and service for a decade have been given to
railroad and other engineering service.

Mr. Woody, whose home is at Mayfield, was born at Cynthiana, Kentucky,
January 13, 1893. His grand-
father, Albert M. Woody, was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1828, and when a
child was brought by his parents to America. The family settled at Tuscola,
Illinois, where Albert M. Woody was reared and married and where for many
years he conducted a mercantile establishment. Later he removed to Long
Beach, California, and spent his last days at Lacombe, Alberta, Canada,
where he died in 1915.

Horatio Albert Woody, father of Albert Parish Woody, was born at Tuscola,
Illinois, in 1864, was reared in that vicinity of Illinois, and for a
number of years was a traveling representative for the Cincinnati Coffin
Company, covering as his territory Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and
Arkansas. He died at Greenville, Mississippi, April 22. 1920. He was a
Republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
While on a visit at Cynthiana, Kentucky, he met Miss Anna Harriet Parish,
and they were married there in 1891. She is still living in Cynthiana where
she was born in 1864.

The only son of his parents, Albert Parish Woody acquired his early
education in the public schools of Cynthiana, and also attended Smith's
Classical School and graduated from the Cynthiana High School. Mr. Woody
completed his junior year in Kentucky State University at Lexington,
leaving college in 1912. He is a member of the Sigma Nu college fraternity.

In the meantime he had acquired much valuable training for two years in the
engineering department of the Louisville and Nashville Railway, and from
1912 t0 1914 was in the engineering department of the Virginian Railway.
Following that for three yearns he was an engineer for the Kentucky State
Road Department, and in 1917 was put on the large staff' of engineers
employed by the Interstate Commerce Commission in estimating the valuation
of the railways. He performed this work with headquarters at St. Louis
until December, 1917, when he was appointed to his present duties as county
road engineer of Graves County, with an office in the courthouse.

Mr. Woody is a certified member of the A. A. E., is a Democrat, a member of
the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Mayfield Lodge No. 679. A.
F. & A. M., Mayfield Chapter No. 69. R. A. M., and Mayfield Lodge No. 565
of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.

At Mayfield in 1917 he married Miss Mary Elizabeth Ridgway, daughter of J.
W. and Blanche (Kendall)Ridgway, residents of Mayfield. Her father is a
well known business man, a member of Lochridge and Ridgway Hardware
Company. Mrs. Woody graduated from St. Vincent's Academy, near Louisville.
The only child of their marriage is Billee Annette, June 3, 1918.

-History
of Kentucky in Five Volumes
Charles
Kerr, Editor
Chicago:
American Historical Society, 1922
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