Thomas Simpson Woodward (February 22, 1797 – 1859) was a U.S. Army general who settled and named the area that developed into Tuskegee, Alabama.
Woodward was born in Elbert County, Georgia around 1794 and was orphaned at a young age.
[1] He migrated west and established a plantation in Camden, Arkansas, a town he named.
He later moved to Wheeling in Winn Parish, Louisiana and established a 16,000-acre plantation, which he named Montgomery after the capital city of Alabama.
A painted portrait of Woodward is preserved by the Alabama Department of Archives and History.