The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964 Page: 319
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Alexander Penn Wooldridge
a boarding school, then to live with his brother Thomas who
resided in Texas. On April 19, 1846, the following was entered
in the diary, "I was united in marriage to Miss Julia W. Stone-
a young lady I had long known and respected. She was I thought
in a high degree calculated to make me a good companion-
possessing good manners, good habits, intelligence, industry and
economy."3 His estimate of his new wife was well justified and
the family circle became complete once again as the daughters
of Absalom and Susan returned from Texas.
Julia Stone was born November 14, 1817, in Watertown, Mas-
sachusetts, to a family which had a lengthy heritage in New
England. Family tradition tells that Julia's father was a merchant
and planter in New Orleans at the time of her marriage to
Wooldridge. Virtually nothing else is known of her early life,
but it is obvious from her subsequent actions that her training
had been of the highest order.
The family was greatly appreciated by its contemporaries, for
in 1847, the year Penn was born, a biographical sketch of the
elder Wooldridge appeared:
... The thinking man and scholar, Wooldridge chose to bring
reason to the oracles of God, and believing that man's highest
faculties were made to be employed in the investigation of the
truths of religion, as in other things, he rose from his studies the
Unitarian Christian. He preaches but seldom, yet his discourses are
characterized by a depth of thought, of originality and compre-
hensiveness of topics that mark the mind of native strength and
purely classic education.
Mr. Wooldridge is an elegant writer, and has published one work
on education of high literary merit.
Wooldridge is quiet and composed. Wooldridge possessed of little
imagination, arrives at conviction through force of reason. Wool-
dridge, in his gesture, is calm and collected. Wooldridge, in his
style is plain, natural, and diffuse. ... He has cultivation, sincerity
and patience. Wooldridge has ceased to be ambitious as to preaching.
He is content, satisfied with his lot. Wooldridge has mingled with
the world, makes little distinction between priesthood and laity.
Wooldridge manifests in his actions, that man was made for the
business of life and for the world-not for the cloister or the counting
of beads.4
3Diary of Absalom Davis Wooldridge, I, 2og-21o.
4----[Whittaker], Sketches of Life and Character in Louisiana (New Orleans,
1847).319
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