George Ezra Woodruff (1883-1963) was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Col. Ezra Woodruff (d. 1913) and Frances Gaulbert Woodruff (d. 1919). Graduated from Lawrenceville Academy, Lawrenceville, NJ, in 1896, and Yale University in 1904 and went to work as a clerk for Peaslee & Gaulbert Co. and hoped to work his way up from the bottom, learning the business as he went along. Seems that the firm's owners, however, were eager to acquire his mother's stock in the company and paid him very little wages, which he apparently constantly complained about to his parents. In 1910 he married Mary Dabney (1889-1957), the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Gordon Dabney, a longtime Louisville physician, and started his own paint company, two blocks from Peaslee & Gaulbert Co., on Main Street in Louisville. He and his wife had three children, Gordon (1911-1941), Francis (1914-2007), Louise (1916-2008), and Elizabeth (1928-2017).---
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