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Parents:
Joseph Gurley Woodward (1836 - 1908)
Mary Williams Hooker Woodward (1852 - 1882)
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Joseph Hooker Woodward, Ph.B. 1903.

Father, Joseph Gurley Woodward, a stockbroker; son of Joseph and Almira (Gurley) Woodward; ancestors mainly settled in eastern Connecticut in the early part of the seventeenth century.

Mother, Mary Williams (Hooker) Woodward; daughter of Bryan Edward and Maria Robbins (Williams) Hooker; descendant of the Rev. Thomas Hooker (B A Cambridge 1608), who came to Boston in 1633 and was founder of Hartford in 1636.

Yale relatives include a cousin, Roland M. Hooker/21 S. Hartford

Public High School. Electrical engineering course; honors in English composition Sophomore year, a Class Book historian and chairman of Class Day historians. Studied at Harvard Law School 1903-04, had since been engaged in the actuarial business; connected with The Travelers' Insurance Company 1904-06; actuary of Insurance Department of State of Connecticut 1906-08 and of New York State Insurance Department 1908-1914; actuary for New York State Industrial Commission 1914-18; associate actuary for Guardian Life Insurance Company 1918-1920; assistant actuary for Equitable Life Assurance Society of America 1920-22; since 1922 had been in consulting practice as senior member of Woodward & Fondiller and its successor (1924), Woodward, Fondiller & Ryan, in New York; in 1917 served as member of a committee of actuaries appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to advise with reference to war risks; also served as member of insurance advisory committee of the Red Gross and of Pelham Manor Volunteer Police (a Home Guard organization); lecturer on life insurance at Columbia University 1920-21; Fellow of Casualty Actuarial Society (president 1918-19), Actuarial Society of America, American Institute of Actuaries, and American Mathematical Society.

Married November 22, 1905, in Hartford, Charlotte Elizabeth Cutler (a member of the first year class of Department of Drama of Yale School of Art during 1927-28), daughter of Ralph William and Grace (Dennis) Cutler, and sister of Ralph D. Cutler, '07.

Children: Nancy Hooker, Bryn Mawr 1929, Barbara Holman, Smith 1930, Joseph Cutler, '31, and Mary Hooker, Vassar, '31

Death, due to pneumonia which developed from a tonsillar abscess, occurred in the French Hospital, New York City. Buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford.

Survived by wife, three daughters, and son.