Captain Samuel Woodruff of Southington was a descendant of Samuel Woodruff, the town’s first colonial settler. As described in Heman Timlow’s Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington, Conn. (1875):
Capt. Samuel S. Woodbuff, son of Robert, b. Nov. 12, 1811; m. June 8, 1834, Emeline, daughter of Wooster Neal. He lives on the place owned by his father and grandfather. During the last war he was conspicuous for the promptness with which he entered the service, and the gallantry that he displayed during his entire military career. He led the Southington company through the period of their enlistment. In the town he is held in high repute as a man of the most incorruptible integrity. He is a carpenter by trade.
After the war, Capt. Woodruff ran a carriage business connected to his son Adna Neal Woodruff’s contracting business on Liberty Street. Capt. Woodruff and his wife both died in 1882. His house, built around 1840, is at 23 Old State Road in Southington. Starting in 1915, the Murawski family owned the property and built up a large farm which they operated into the late 1960s. The house is notable among Greek Revival houses in in Southington for its pyramidal roof, center chimney and rural location.