Harry Fowler Woods (1859 - 1955)

Born in Cincinnati, Harry Fowler Woods was the son of William K. Woods and Elizabeth Martin Sharp Woods. In 1880 Woods joined Chatfield and Woods, a paper company founded by his father and his uncle, William H. Chatfield. Harry became the president of the company in 1918, and served in that capacity until 1928 when he became chairman of the board, a position he held until 1951. Harry Woods married Katharine Longworth Anderson with whom he had three daughters and a son. Katharine was the great grand-daughter of the first Nicholas Longworth, land speculator and one of the wealthiest men of his time. She was also a cousin of Congressman Nicholas Longworth.

During his long life, Harry Fowler Woods’s extensive travels included the 1905 diplomatic trip to Asia, which Woods followed with a tour of Indochina, Burma, India, Egypt, and Greece where he took over four hundred additional snapshots. Not long after the Asia trip, he purchased a camp in New York’s Adirondack Mountains where he spent most of each summer fishing and exploring in the well-known Adirondack guide boat. Woods was an avid and talented amateur photographer. His 1905 photographs of the Taft mission were among the intriguing artifacts that he left at Woods Camp for future generations to enjoy. He died in 1955 at age 95.