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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY 0 F MICHIGAN e.s LAW SCHOOL ~e.stae 13 November 2001 Vol. 52 No.5 What's lJtftl.lf Mlc name9 Nov 1' 2001 The story of the name for the University of MichikA~ i}m lB Catholepistemiad -and the man responsible for its founding, name notwithstanding. by John Fedynsky Like a tree, an institution owes much of title is fairly accurate, considering its existence and identity to its roots. The Woodward was much younger and man most responsible for the roots of this seemed to invest more in Jefferson be­ fair University is Augustus Brevoort ing his mentor than Jefferson found in Woodward. Woodward being a follower. No portrait of Woodward exists, only caricatures like the one above. Jefferson appointed Woodward to the The Early Years Supreme Court of the Michigan Terri­ Woodward was baptized in New York tory. After an arduous journey akin to enue. His purported justification for this City on November 6, 1774 and was pre­ Roman officials travelling their vast em­ was that the road ran inland from the river sumably born some time shortly before pire, Woodward arrived in Detroit on June towards unsettled areas and thus ran that date. Records indicate his first name 30, 1805. The existence of the Michigan "wood-ward." Woodward Avenue stands originally was Elias, but by the time he Territory by the power of Congress be­ as his only commemoration in all of De­ graduated with a B.A. from Columbia came effective the following day. troit. College in 1793, he was Augustus, the name by which he would be known his­ The Arrival The Law Laid Down torically and for the rest of his natural life. Judge Woodward arrived in the wake Perhaps more important than the roads Upon graduation, he joined his family of the Great Fire of 1805, which had just Woodward conceived is the law he laid in Philadelphia and clerked for two years about leveled the town of Detroit, a settle­ down in Michigan. Before 1805, Michi­ at the Treasury Department. He ended up ment of less than 2,000 in a territory of gan only knew military rule and people in Washington, D.C., where he practiced only about 8,000. Woodward kept in his often took justice into their own hands. law and engaged in politics. He became pocketbook a copy of L'Enfant's plan for Woodward instituted civil authority of an acquainted with Charles Pierre L'Enfant, Washington, which he used to help re­ American kind that disposed of the an­ the man who planned the city of Wash­ build Detroit. His ambitious plan for wide cient French and British customs and ington, which proved fortuitous when avenues and grand traffic circles only codes. Congress authorized Woodward Woodward arrived in Detroit. partly materialized, which proved costly to exercise legislative authority in addi­ when roads had to be widened years later tion to his judicial function. The three The Mentor for automobiles. This was not the first in­ appointed judges and the appointed gov­ At some point in his life, Woodward stance of outside forces frustrating ernor of the territory were its legislative established a relationship with Thomas Woodward's grand plans. He did succeed body, although they were limited to Jefferson, a man Woodward would forever in naming the principle thoroughfare par­ adopting laws already passed in estab­ admire and occasionally visit at allel to the river Jefferson Avenue. A road lished states and subject to congressional Monticello. One author found fit to dub that happens to be more prominent today veto. Woodward "Mr. Jefferson's Disciple." 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