The Passing of a Columbia Valley Pioneer
Undertaker I. N. Mueller recovers the remains of Jas. B. P. Woodruff, an early settler of the region.
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Undertaker I. N. Mueller was called to Two Rivers Monday night to take charge of the body of Jas. B. P. Woodruff, who died about nine o’clock that evening. Mr. Woodruff was one of the earliest pioneers of the Columbia valley, having lived on his farm near Two Rivers for more than twenty years. His body was shipped east for burial.
“Mr. Woodruff was one of the earliest pioneers of the Columbia valley, having lived on his farm near Two Rivers for more than twenty years.”
Jas. B. P. Woodruff's life spans the gap between the era of untamed frontier settlement in the Columbia Valley and the transition to the modern agricultural irrigation projects that define the region today. Two Rivers remains a distinct rural locality, though the 'pioneer' era he represented has long since faded from living memory.
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