All Our Yesterdays

Frank B. Woodford, a native of Detroit, was born in 1903 and died in 1967. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 1923 and earned a B.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925. In 1931 Frank B. Woodford joined the staff of the Detroit Free Press, which he served in various capacities for over thirty years. He was the author or co-author of numerous books, including Lewis Cass, the Last Jeffersonian (1950), Mr. Jefferson's Disciple, a Life of Justice Woodward (1953), Parnassus on Main Street, a History of the Detroit Public Library (1965), Gabriel Richard, Frontier Ambassador (1958), and Harper of Detroit, the Origin and Growth of a Great Metropolitan Hospital (1964). All Our Yesterdays, his final work, a fitting tribute to Mr. Woodford's appointment as City Historiographer of the City of Detroit, was virtually ready for the press at the time of his death. Arthur M. Woodford, also a native of Detroit, was born in 1940. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan, from which he received his master of library science degree. Mr. Woodford is Assistant to the Personnel Director of the Detroit Public Library. Woodford's other books include Tashmoo Park and the Steamer Tashmoo (2012), This is Detroit, 1701-2001: An Illustrated History (2001), Tonnancour: Life in Grosse Pointe and Along the Shores of Lake St. Clair (1994), and Charting the Inland Seas: A History of the U. S. Lake Survey (1994).