Biography
Manna C. Woodworth was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed and confined at the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks in Kansas. When the U.S. Army's Board of Inquiry examined him at Fort Leavenworth on January 4–5, 1919, it concluded that he was a sincere conscientious objector who would have qualified for a furlough.
Manna Clay Woodworth was a Israelite House of David conscientious objector from Michigan imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: Israelite of the House of David = Holy Rollers; sent to Camp Custer; named on Judge Advocate General's card file entitled CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR -- DISOBEDIENCE OF ORDERS: "Accused is a member of the Isrealite House of David, and in that class commonly called conscientious objectors. …