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He was a nephew of Col. George B. Sanford, Yale ’63. He had three 
brothers: Lewis B. Woodruff, Yale ’90, Frederick S. Woodruff, Yale ’o2, 
and Charles H. Woodruff, Jr., ex-’96 (died in February, 1909). 
He was prepared at Phillips (Andover) Academy, of whose New 
York Alumni Association his father was the first president, and in 1899 
graduated from Yale College. He then spent a year in biological study 
in the Graduate Department of Johns Hopkins University, followed 
by a short period with an investment firm in New York City. In his 
Senior year at the Yale Forest School he was president of his Class, was 
elected to Sigma Xi and, upon graduating, was appointed a member of 
the Graduate Advisory Board. 
He was unmarried. 
In the summer of 1907 Woodruff became a state forester of 
New York. In this position he gave his attention chiefly to 
reforestation in the Adirondack Mountains. He was deeply 
interested in research work in botany, entomology and ornithol- 
ogy, of which he gained much knowledge in the country about 
Litchfield, Conn. 
He died January 15, 1909, in New York City of typhoid 
fever and was buried in Litchfield, Conn., where he had spent 
a large part of his life. 
His published work was principally upon birds, and included Summer 
birds of Milford, Pike County, Pa. in Cassinia Bird Manual, 1905; 
A preliminary list of the birds of Shannon and Carter Counties, 
Missouri, The Auk, April, 1908; and Scarcity of the ruffed grouse, 
13th Annual Report of the Forest, Fish, and Game Commission of 
New York; also a paper (published in this report) on “Destruction of 
white and Scotch pine seedlings by the white grub.” 
GRADUATE HOLDING CERTIFICATE BUT NOT DEGREE 
William Winter 
Business address, 1003 Majestic Building, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Residence, 1329 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 
William Winter was born March 14, 1881, in Indianapolis, Ind., the son 
of Ferdinand Winter and Mary (Keyes) Winter. He has two brothers: 
Clarence Winter, B.A. Yale ’97, and Keyes Winter, B.A. Yale ’o0; and 
three sisters: Sue, Katherine and Mary Winter. 
He was prepared at St. Paul’s School, Concord, N. H., and at the 
Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., and in 1899-1900 attended the Massa- 
