The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 180 

SERGEANT FRANK ALVIN WOODIN.

On the roll of those who have been engaged in active military duty in France in
the great world war is Sergeant Frank Alvin Woodin, who on the 5th of July,
1918, enlisted as a member of Company K, Battery 4, Twenty-second Engineers. As
the year 1918 closes he is still in France, although the world is once more
enjoying peace. Washington may proudly claim him as a native son. He was born in
Seattle, January 14, 1878, a son of Ira R. and Susan (Campbell) Woodin. The
father was born in New York and was a son of Daniel Woodin, also a native of the
Empire state, who came to Washington in 1854, crossing the plains with team and
wagon. He had the first tannery on the coast and he homesteaded where the city
of Seattle now stands, there residing to the time of his demise. His son, Ira R.
Woodin, was but a boy when the family home was established in Seattle. He served
in the Indian wars of 1855 and 1856 and in young manhood he, too, engaged in the
tanning business. He afterward took up a homestead on what is now a part of
Seattle and subsequently he removed to Woodinville, ten miles from Seattle, a
place that was named in honor of the family. There he engaged in farming to the
time of his death, which occurred November 27, 1908. In politics he was an
active republican and fraternally he was connected with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. His wife was born in Marion county, Oregon, a daughter of James
Campbell, who crossed the plains in 1846. On that trip the wife of James
Campbell and a daughter died while the family were en route and were buried on
the plains. On reaching his destination Mr. Campbell located in the Waldo Hills
near Salem. He afterward married again in Oregon and following the death of his
second wife he returned to the east and wedded Nancy Taylor. He then again
crossed the plains in 1852 and in 1859 removed from Oregon to Washington, where
he remained until 1864. He then returned to Salem, Oregon, where he passed away.

Frank Alvin Woodin acquired a public school education in Woodinville and
afterward went with his father to Alaska, where he remained for eighteen months.
He then engaged in the logging business on the Sound until 1915, when he removed
to Yakima county and purchased eighty acres on the Cowiche. He also has an
interest in a stock ranch in Pleasant Valley, whereon they engage in the raising
of hay and wheat. He also devoted considerable time to stock raising, having a
fine full-blooded herd of Holstein cattle until 1918, when he sold his stock.

On the 13th of February, 1901, Mr. Woodin was married to Miss Anna J. Peterson,
a daughter of M. I. and Anna Mary (Bartleson ) Peterson, both of whom are
natives of Denmark. They came to the United States as children, however, and
were married in San Francisco. The father afterward took up a homestead at
Bothell, Washington, and is now engaged in the lumber business on the Sound,
with office at Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Woodin have become the parents of four
children: Clara, Lillie, Helen and Ira.

Mr. Woodin belongs to the Masonic fraternity, to the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and to the Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a republican but not an
aspirant for office. He has become a leading rancher of the district in which he
resides, but feeling that his duty was to his country, he enlisted on the 9th of
July, 1918, as a member of Company K of the Fourth Battery of the Twenty-second
Regiment of Engineers and is now in France with the American Expeditionary
Force, serving as sergeant. It is characteristic of Mr. Woodin that he never
slights any duty that devolves upon him. however arduous, and his enlistment was
the logical expression of this characteristic. It is, moreover, a matter of
satisfaction that such a man has been spared to return to his home and resume
the duties of civic life, for his aid and influence will he given here on the
side of right and progress, just as they have been given to further the
interests of democracy when fighting on the soil of France.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.