Urey C. Woodson was born at Madisonville, Ky., Aug. 16, 1859, the son of S.C. and R.J. (Hawthorn) Woodson, the former a native of Hopkins County, Ky., and the latter of Anderson County, Ky. When he was about five years old his parents moved to Evansville, Ind., where he grew to manhood, attending school, etc. At the age of sixteen he entered the newspaper business in that city first on the Evening Herald, afterward on the Sunday Argus, and later on the Evansville Daily Courier. He then went to Greenville, Ky., in the fall of 1877, and published the Muhlenburg Echo, a weekly, which he enlarged and made prosperous. In the autumn of 1881 he sold this paper and became connected with the Messenger.

Source: History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Chicago: Interstate Publishing Co., 1883. Print.