Major General Roscoe Barnett Woodruff was a career United States Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II and served for 38 years. During World War II he commanded divisions and corps in Europe and the Pacific.
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. census.
East side of public square, 1864
The Sam Smith coal mine in 1895, located in what is now the 1300 block of High Avenue West.
Theodore Roosevelt campaigns in the Oskaloosa city square in the fall of 1912.