Thomas T. Woodworth was born in Wisconsin in 1843 of English parentage. He worked on the Capitol as a laborer. He married Fannie Anna Macomber and they had a son, Thomas James Woodworth on April 13, 1980. Thomas T. died in 1901 in St. Paul. His wife Fannie moved to New Orleans , where she married Dr. H.H. Grey, according to Thomas' great-granddaughter, Shelley Carpenter.