Abraham O. Woodruff

Abraham O. Woodruff
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
October 7, 1897 (1897-10-07)[1] – June 20, 1904 (1904-06-20)
Called by	Wilford Woodruff
LDS Church Apostle
October 7, 1897 (1897-10-07)[1] – June 20, 1904 (1904-06-20)
Called by	Wilford Woodruff
Reason	Removal of Moses Thatcher from Quorum of the Twelve; death of Abraham H. Cannon[2]
Reorganization at end of term	Charles W. Penrose ordained
Personal details
Born	Abraham Owen Woodruff (1872-11-23)November 23, 1872 Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, U.S.
Died	June 20, 1904(1904-06-20) (aged 31) El Paso, Texas, U.S.
Resting place	Salt Lake City Cemetery 40°46′37.92″N 111°51′28.8″W / 40.7772000°N 111.858000°W / 40.7772000; -111.858000
Spouse(s)	Helen M. Winters Eliza A. Clark
Parents	Wilford Woodruff Emma Smith

Abraham Owen Woodruff (November 23, 1872 – June 20, 1904) was an American missionary who was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was also the son of LDS Church president Wilford Woodruff.

Owen Woodruff was born near Salt Lake City, Utah Territory and grew up working on his family's farm. Then, as a young man, he attended the Latter Day Saints' College and obtained a job at the Zion's Saving Bank and Trust Company. After serving a mission in Germany, he was ordained an apostle at the relatively young age of 24. In this capacity, he traveled throughout the Intermountain West, Canada, and Mexico, attending stake conferences of the church and identifying areas for potential Mormon colonies. Woodruff played a major role in the establishment of a Latter-day Saint settlement at Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. During one of his trips to Wyoming in 1901, he met and married his second wife, thus practicing plural marriage eleven years after his father issued the 1890 Manifesto that ended polygamy as an official practice of the church. Woodruff contracted smallpox while visiting his second wife in the Mormon colonies in Mexico and died in 1904 at the age of 31.