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Death Of Lieut. F. L. Woodbridge

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
April
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
Obituary
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Lieutenant Francis L. Woodbridge, of the United States army, died at his residence on Packard street, Wednesday evening. He was in the city on a two years' leave of absence from the army, and was studying law. He was in delicate health and for several weeks had been sick from hemorrhage. Last Friday afternoon he was shaving himself by an open window, with his coat and vest off, when a ball from a revolver in the hands of some boys out doors struck his shirt front at an angle, glanced off, and struck the wall. The shock, in his debilitated condition, brought on heart trouble, from which he died. He was very popular with Ihose who knew him. He was bom in Detroit in i853,enlistedin the army as a private in 1869 and was commissioned first lieutenant in 1883. His wife was a daughter of the late Moses W. Field, of Detroit.