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Born: 16 Nov. 1886-Bath, Grafton, New Hampshire Married: Beulah Carrie Harrison Sargent 29 Nov. 1917-Concord, Merrimack, NH Died: 22 Nov 1971-Newark, New Castle, Delaware Buried: Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio
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Arthur's mother, Alice Page,
kept a diary for each of her children. I possess the original
Baby Diary for Arthur Page Woods, her first child.
"November 17, 1886
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 I posess this little lock of hair from Arthur's first haircut, which his mother described in his Baby Diary. The color is light golden - I couldn't get the scanned image to match the actual color, it is lighter than pictured. |
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provided by Arthur's youngest son, Everett M. Woods:
In 1893, my father starts school at the Bath Village School (one room) - he is six years old at this time
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Pictured here at about the age of 12 | |
| In 1901, my father attends Lisbon, NH High
School On April 12, 1902, his mother, Alice Page, dies. In 1905, my father graduates from Lisbon, NH Highschool
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at the "Woods Farm" in Bath, NH, age 14.  |
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In 1905, goes to the Univ of New Hampshire at
Durham, NH in the fall - he
roomed with my Uncle George during his stay there - in a note from my
aunt
Lena (wife of my Uncle George, married 7/8/1926), she wrote that G J
Sargent
was a pal and room mate with Dad at NH Univ from 1905-1909.
In 1909, my father graduates from the Univ of New Hampshire with a BSE degree - he and my Uncle George graduated in the same class and roomed together through their stay at NH Univ Sep 1,1909, Mary Isabel Thyng marries my grandfather, Harry Woods Pictured here at his desk while attending Univ of NH. |
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| - they (GJ Sargent and AP Woods) both went on
to Cornell (Ithica,
NY) to
continue their education at the graduate level. I believe it was
during
1910. My father got a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell
University
- my aunt Lena wrote in a note that Dad was a 3 year graduate of
Cornell
University in 1913. - he and Uncle George had been rooming together and Uncle George stayed on at Cornell to work on his PhD degree - in a letter from my mother dated Sep 3, 1969, she states that "Cornell Univ was on a hill and I never saw such hills to walk up where George got his PhD in Metallurgy and Arthur Sr his Post Grad Degree in Mechanical Engineering." Pictured here in his room while attending Cornell University |
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| - Dad went on to Pittsburg where he
apprenticed at Westinghouse for several years, - In 1913, my father is a student apprentice at Westinghouse Electric Co - I believe he may have worked under a training program for Westinghouse Electric Co as I have pictures that he took with notes telling of a flood while there in Pittsburg, PA - he stays with them up until 1915. I figure this must have been 1915 because he moved to Detroit at that time to room with my Uncle George again on the north side of Detroit In Detroit, he worked for the Timkin Axel Company. He married Beulah Sargent on November 29, 1917
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the age of 31. They resided at 1842 Elsmere Avenue. |
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Pictured here at age 32 with his firstborn
child
- Arthur Page Woods, Jr. 1919
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to illustrate his passion for family
history, I
include an exerpt from a letter to Beulah dated Sept. 3, 1945 - for
many
years she took the children to her childhood home in Concord, NH
summers
while Arthur worked in Detroit:
Dear Beulah, |
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| Pictured here while a resident at nursing home in Newark, Delaware, 1970, age 84. |
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