Upon his return to New York in 1903, Woodward was made vice president of Hanover National Bank in New York City by his uncle, James T. Woodward, who was then president of the bank [REF].
In 1903, William Woodward met Elsie Ogden Cryder at Saratoga, New York,[REF] and they were married at Grace Church in New York on October 24, 1904 [REF].