Eureka  is  the  county -seat.  Other  thriving  cities
and  towns  are  Metamora,  Minonk,  El  Paso  and
Roanoke.  Corn,  oats,  wheat,  potatoes  and  barley
are  the  principal  crops.  The  chief  mechanical
industries  are  flour  manufacture,  carriage  and
wagon-making,  and  saddlery  and  harness  work.
Pop.  (1900),  21,822;  (1910),  20,506.
WOODHULL,  a  village  of  Henr  County,  on
Keithsburg  branch  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy
Railroad,  15  miles  west  of  Galva;  has  a  bank,
electric  lights,  water  works,  brick  and  tile  works,
six  churches  and  weekly  paper.     Pop.  (1910),  692.
WOODMAN,  Charles  W.,  lawyer  and  Congress-
man, wTas  born  in  Aalborg,  Denmark,  March  11,
1844 ;  received  his  early  education  in  the  schools
of  his  native  country,  but  took  to  the  sea  in  I860,
following  the  life  of  a  sailor  until  1863,  when,
coming  to  Philadelphia,  he  enlisted  in  the  Gulf
Squadron  of  the  United  States.  After  the  war,
he  came  to  Chicago,  and,  after  reading  law  for
some  time  in  the  office  of  James  L.  High,  gradu-
ated from  the  Law  Department  of  the  Chicago
University  in  1871.  Some  years  later  he  was
appointed  Prosecuting  Attorney  for  some  of  the
lower  courts,  and,  in  1881,  was  nominated  by  the
Judges  of  Cook  County  as  one  of  the  Justices  of
the  Peace  for  the  city  of  Chicago.  In  1894  he
became  the  Republican  candidate  for  Congress
from  the  Fourth  District  and  was  elected,  but
failed  to  secure  a  renomination  in  1896.  Died,  in
Elgin  Asylum  for  the  Insane,  March  18,  1898.
