Oswald Langdon Woodford (Oct. 31st, 1827-Oct. 21st, 1870) was an American minister, teacher, and politician.

Woodford was the son of Zerah and Minerva (Potter) Woodford, born on October 31, 1827. He was a teacher for two years in the Cherokee Male Seminary, and then entered the Andover Theological Seminary. He returned to the Cherokees, and was principal of the Male Seminary until August 1856. He then came to New Haven, to attend Theological lectures, and in May 1857, went to Kansas as a Home Missionary. He settled in Grasshopper Falls, organizing a Congregational Church in 1858, however in 1859, he returned to his native town due to his health. He spent his remaining years with his parents, engaged in farming. In 1865 he was a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives. In 1870, he died in West Avon of typhoid fever.

Oswald Langdon Woodford

He was married, first, to Pauline Avery in 1856. She died in Kansas in 1858. He again married in May 1859 to Esther Butler.

Oswald Langdon Woodford

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1827 births

1870 deaths

Yale University alumni

Andover Newton Theological School alumni

People from Avon, Connecticut

American Congregationalist ministers

Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives

19th-century American politicians

People from Valley Falls, Kansas

19th-century American clergy

Oswald Langdon Woodford