To all you Woodrow's out there would you please check the family name you are using!. Take "Woodrow Wilson" the 28th President of the USA. Did you know he is not a Woodrow!! He is a Wodrow. On his mothers side he came from a line of "Wodrow's" who migrated from Scotland. The patriach was Alexander Wodrow, a Scot who migrated to Virginia,USA sometime in the mid 1700's and died at the end of the First American Civil War. He was in politics and was the member for New Hampshire. The family "Wodrow" are well known Presbyterian Academics and historians. Alexander's father was Reverand Robert Wodrow