The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 988 

PAUL C. WOODIN.

Paul C. Woodin is the owner of splendidly improved farm property near
Sunnyside, in which section of Yakima county he has spent almost two decades.
He was born in Carroll county, Illinois, February 20, 1883, a son of S. T. and
Jennie M. (Bunker) Woodin, the former also a native of Carroll county, Illinois,
while the latter was born in New Hampshire. The paternal grandparents of Paul C.
Woodin were pioneer settlers of Illinois, where S. T. Woodin resided until 1900,
when he brought his family to the northwest, settling near Sunnyside. He took up
a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres a half mile north of the town,
purchasing a relinquishment from John Reed. The entire tract was covered with
sagebrush, but he at once began to clear and develop the property and afterward
sold sixty acres of the tract. He built a fine home upon the place and added
many modern improvements, continuing its cultivation until 1916, when he sold
the property to his son Paul and retired from active business. He has taken a
most helpful part in the development of the valley and is numbered among the
valued pioneer settlers of this portion of the state. His wife passed away in
1905.

Paul C. Woodin was graduated from the Sunnyside high school with the Class of
1906 and was reared to the occupation of ranching, to which he devoted the
vacation periods while he was still in school. After completing his high school
course he spent a year and a half in the Washington State College at Pullman and
then returned to the ranch, which he cultivated in connection with his father
until he purchased the farm. In 1907 he built a large barn upon the place and
also a silo. He raises corn, hay, potatoes and sugar beets and has a splendidly
developed property which annually produces large harvests.

On the 4th of September, 1912, Mr. Woodin was united in marriage to Miss Laura
Schader, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Lewis F. and Mary Schader. They have
become the parents of two children, Lawrence and Phyllis.

Mr. Woodin is a member of the Methodist church and his political belief is that
of the republican party. He has lived in the northwest from the age of seventeen
years and has therefore been a witness of much of the growth and development of
this section of the state, while as a ranchman he has contributed to its
agricultural progress. He is in touch with all modern methods of fanning and an
air of neatness and thrift pervades his place and indicates his progressive
spirit.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.