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Author:
Bill Hart

Background:

Aytchmonde Woodson was born in Platte City, Platte County, MO on September 4, 1881 to Steven Crittenden and Margaret (Perrin) Woodson.  He received his preliminary education in the public school in Kansas City, graduating from Central High School in 1899.  He then spent six years at the University of Missouri, and the Kansas City Law School, graduating in 1906.  In the same year he was admitted to the Missouri Bar and began the general practice he was to continue until 1913.  Mr. Woodson also served as county accountant of Jackson County until his resignation in anticipation of his move to Wisconsin.  

Accomplishments:

On August 15, 1911, he was married in Wausau to Leigh Yawkey, daughter of Cyrus C. & Alice M. (Richardson) Yawkey, from Saginaw, MI. They lived in Kansas City for two years, and together they had four children.

 

In 1913 he moved to Wausau and moved the center of his activities here. He became associated with the Wausau Group, controlling extensive lumber, paper and public utility enterprises in various parts of the US and Canada.  He was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar but did not engage in general practice, confining his legal activities to problems arising from the business of the corporations with which he was connected.  During his long and active business and industrial career, Mr. Woodson served a total of 88 different corporations as a director or officer or both, far too extensive to list here. 

His interests ranged from the big Masonite Corporation of Chicago, which he helped to organize and which he served as secretary and director, to the Aytchmonde Woodson Foundation Inc. The Woodson Foundation is a Wisconsin corporation formed as a charitable foundation which has provided financial aid to local and other charities and educational institutions.  His interests were primarily in the fields of paper and wood, but they also encompassed a wide range of products and services, including insurance, electric motors, utilities, banking and others.  He was a director of most of the old lumber companies in this area.

 

Mr. Woodson was past president of the Wausau Rotary Club, the Wausau City Club, the Federated Charities, and the YMCA.  He was affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Phythias, Loyal Order of Moose, the Union League Club of Chicago, and the Everglades Club of Palm Beach. 

At age 77, Mr. A.P Woodson died of cardiac failure on October 8, 1958. He is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Wausau, WI.  

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Date of Birth: 9-4-1881

Place of Birth: Missouri

Date of Death: 10-8-1958

Place of Burial: Pine Grove Cemetery Wausau, WI

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