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We have to revert to Wisconsin to find the birthplace of our subject, and Grant county was the spot, while April 2, 1856, was the important date of ths event, his parents being Hawkins and Julia A. (Bull), natives respectively, of Kentucky and Ohio. The father came from Kentucky to Wisconsin in the forties, and there was numbered with the leading agriculturists of his section. At fifteen years of age we note that our subject commenced the battle of life for himself, farming first in Nebraska, whence eight years later he went to Montana and rode the range for four years. In 1882 we find him in Iowa operating a farm, and two years later he came to the Grande Ronde valley, settling on a farm ten miles east from Elgin, gaining title to three hundred and sixty acres of good land. He was steadily engaged in improving this estate and raising there the fruits of the field until 1890, at which date he repaired to Elgin and opened the livery business which he has handled with such gratifying success since. He owns his farm still, also the entire property, and stock, where and with which he carries on a lucrative business. Also Mr. Woods has a fine home in the city of Elgin which is made attractive and presided over by his estimable wife, who displays gracious dignity and many virtues.

At Summerville, on December 28, 1884, occurred the happy marriage of Mr. Woods and Miss Joan Tuttle. She was born on November 14, 1867, near Summerville. Mr. and Mrs. Woods are valuable members of society and have demeaned themselves with manifestation of affability and iwsdom, with amiability that have won them a large circle of admiring and warm friends and they are highly esteemed by all.

On May 20, 1862, Joseph C. was born in Grant county, Wisconsin, to Hawkins C. and Julia A. Woods and in his native state he lived with his parents, gaining a good education, until 1880, when he left the home circle and started for himself. First he went to the Black Hills of South Dakota, making his headquarters at Deadwood, and for two years he operated a freighting outfit from Ft. Pierre to that town; then went to Leadville, Colorado, and engaged to drive stage from that town to Neosha and Buena Vista, handling the ribbons successfully until 1885. In this year he retired to Santa Fe and drove stage from that city to Espanolia, and in 1887 we find him in Allen county, and then in Colony, in which latter place he was engaged in livery and stage business. In 1888 he came via San Francisco and Portland to Lagrande, engaging first in farming and then driving stage from Joseph to Elgin for the M&M Company for four years. After this he purchased a farm near Elgin, making his home there until 1900, at which time he sold out and purchased his present stand of livery and sale stables in Lagrande. He has centered his energy and time in this business since that date and he is now the proprietor of a good stables as there are in eastern Oregon, having first-class rigs and fine horses and paraphernalia for comfortable and safe transportation of passengers to any portion of the county.

On July 16, 1889, Mr. Woods married Miss Lucy C., daughter of John Q. and Eliza Wallsinger, at Summerville, and they have become the parents of two children, Clay and Clarence. Mr. and Mrs. Wallsinger came with ox teams across the plains from Buffalo county, Iowa, to this section in 1862, being among the very first settlers here, and it was their lot to endure their share of the hardships of the pioneer in their endeavors to build up this county. They landed here on the 28th day of August and located near Summerville, and on July 26,1897, Mr. Wallsinger, being in his sixty-third year, was called away by death, while the mother is living with Mr. Woods. The parents of our subject came from Grant county, Wisconsin, to the Grande Ronde valley, locating near Elgin, where his father died in 1883, but the mother is now living in Lagrande. Mr. Woods is a member of the American Order of Protection of Lagrande.