Wootton, Richard

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Dickinson Connection
Class of 1854
    Full name
    Richard Wootton
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Siblings
    4
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    6
    Family
    William Turnor Wootton (father), Margaret Hall Wootton (mother), Elise Duckett Contee (wife, 1873)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Farmer or Planter
    Businessman
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Tax collector
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Episcopalian
    Political Parties
    Democratic

    Richard Wootton (Dickinson Alumni Record)

    Reference
    *Wootton, Richard - Born April 1, 1835, Prince George's county, Md. ; p., William Turnor and Margaret Hall Wootton ; prep., Georgetown college ; farmer ; engaged in farming until 1887 ; member house of delegates three terms ; clerk house of delegates two terms ; deputy collector internal revenue, 1885-89, 1893-98 ; solicitor for life insurance, 1898-1901 ; B. L. society ; married, March 28, 1873, Elise Duckett Contee of Prince George's county, Md. ; children, William Hill, Henry Contee, Richard, Frank Hall, Mary Margaret, Cora Bowie. Died December 1, 1901.
    George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 159.
    How to Cite This Page: "Wootton, Richard," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6912.