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Birth:          24 May 1910 Haverford, Pa.
Death:          Mar 1984 Medford, Burlington Co., N.J.

Notes
1981 book (see for details)
ssn 144 05 0273 issued in NJ
His grandfather was the famous Robert Simpson Woodward, mathematician, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Simpson_Woodward
Robert Simpson Woodward (July 21, 1849–June 29, 1924) was an American physicist 
and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University 
of Michigan in 1872 and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake 
Survey. In 1882 he became assistant astronomer for the United States Transit of 
Venus Commission. In 1884 he became astronomer to the United States Geological 
Survey, serving until 1890, when he became assistant in the United States Coast and 
Geodetic Survey. In 1893 he was called to Columbia as professor of mechanics and 
subsequently became professor of mathematical physics as well. He was dean of the 
faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of 
the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means 
of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was 
elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president 
of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval 
Consulting Board. He died in 1924 in Washington, D.C.

Professor Woodward carried on researches and published papers in many departments 
of astronomy, geodesy, and mechanics. In the course of his work with the United 
States Coast and Geodetic Survey he devised and constructed the "iced bar and long 
tape base apparatus," which enables a base line to be measured with greater 
accuracy and with less expense than by methods previously employed. His work on 
the composition and structure of the earth and the variation of latitude found 
expression in a number of valuable papers. He published:

Geographical Tables (1897; third edition, 1906) 
Probability and Theory of Errors (1906) 

Parents
WOODWARD Robert Simpson ()
HEROY Madeline ()

Siblings
WOODWARD Robert Simpson (24 May 1910 - Mar 1984)

Marriage To THOMAS Esther Evans (27 Dec 1909 - 28 Jul 2007)
    m. 4 Oct 1941 Haverford, Pa.

Notes

Parents
THOMAS Arthur Henry (24 Nov 1872 - 31 Aug 1942)
WILLITS Esther Evans (13 Jan 1874 - 29 Nov 1975)

Children by THOMAS Esther Evans 27 Dec 1909 - 28 Jul 2007
WOODWARD Robert Simpson ()
WOODWARD Dorothy Heroy ()
WOODWARD Sidney Wynne ("Wynne") ()

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