Biography

08/17/1840 - 08/16/1902

WOODWARD, David M., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, August 17, 1840 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; private, Company A, 19th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); private, Company C, 65th Regiment, 5th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry (1864-1865, Civil War); partner, Woodward & Co., caterers and stationary contractors; clerk of the market; city constable, Philadelphia; elected as a Republican  to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1891 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1893 term; died, August 16, 1902 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.