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Woodward, Gilbert M

soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 25, 1835, in Washington, D. C. He received a common-school education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar, and has since practiced. He served in the union army during the war of the rebellion a little over three years, and in that time was private, first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, adjutant of the second Wisconsin volunteer infantry; and served by detail as acting aide-de-camp on the staff of the first brigade, first division, first army corps, and in the same capacity on the staff of the first division, fifth army corps. He was district attorney of La Crosse county from 1866 to 1873, and was mayor of the city of La Crosse, 1874, 1875.

He was city attorney of the city of La Crosse, 1876-82, and was elected to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.