History of Collinsville, (Butler County) Ohio United States of America

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Biographical Sketch of John Granville Woolley

John Granville Woolley, prohibition advocate, was born in Collinsville, Ohio, Feb. 15, 1850; son of Edwin C. and Elizabeth (Hunter) Woolley: grandson of William and Mary (Woolley) Woolley and of Alexander and Agnes (Andrews) Hunter, and a descendant of Emanuel Woolley-Freeman, who settled in Newport, R.I., 1653, and later with a company of other Quakers, became large land owners in New Jersey, the present family seat. He was graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan university, A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874, and was married, June 26, 1873, to Mary V., daughter of Mathias and Harriet (Campbell) Gerhard of Delaware, Ohio. He studied law at Michigan university, 1872-73; began practice in Paris, Ill.; was city attorney, 1875-77, and practised in Minneapolis, Minn., 1878-87, being prosecuting attorney for Hennepin county, 1883-85. He removed to New York city in 1887. In 1888, he relinquished law to take up the work of temperance reform, and in 1900 was Prohibition candidate for President of the United States. He established and edited, with Samuel Dickie, The New Voice, Chicago, Ill., from 1884. He is the author of: Seed (1893); The Sower (1898) ; Civilization by Faith (1899); The Christian Citizen (1900); A Lion Hunter (1900).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor