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596 lished "Ligature of the External Iliac Artery fol- lowed by Secondary Haemorrhage " and " Phosphor- Necrosis of the Lower Jaw " (1856), and " Early History of Ligation of the Primitive Carotid."

WOOD, John, author, b. in Scotland about 1775 : d. in Richmond, Va., in May, 1822. He was residing in Switzerland in 1798 at the time of the French invasion. On returning home, he became in the following year master of the Edinburgh academy for the improvement of arts in Scotland. About 1800 he emigrated to the United States. In 1806 he edited the " Western World " in Kentucky, and in 1817 he had charge of " The Atlantic World," a paper published at Washington, D. C. He subsequently resided at Richmond, V T a., where he was employed in making county maps. He published, besides other works, " General View of the History of Switzerland" (Edinburgh, 1799); " Letter to A. Addison, Esq., in Answer to his ' Rise and Progress of Revolution' " (Philadelphia, 1801); '"Pull Exposition of the Clintonian Fac- tion, and the Society of the Columbian Illumi- nati " (Newark, 1802) ; " History of the Administra- tion of John Adams " (New York, 1802 ; suppressed by Aaron Burr ; new ed., with notes and appendix by John Henry Sherburne, Philadelphia, 1846) ; ''Narrative of the Suppression, by Col. Burr, of the ' History of the Administration of John Adams,' with a Biography of Jefferson and Hamil- ton " (1802) ; " Full Statement of the Trial and Acquittal of Aaron Burr " (Alexandria, 1807) ; and " New Theorv of the Diurnal Rotation of the Earth " (Richmond, 1809). Of the " History of the Administration of John Adams " James Par- ton, in his "Life of Aaron Burr," says: "Stu- pidity, Ignorance, and Falsehood combined their several powers in the production of this indigested mass of tedious lies." Mr. Wood's statements were also traversed in " Antidote to John Wood's Poison " (Philadelphia, 1802).

WOOD, John, pioneer, b. in Moravia, Cavuga co.. N. Y., 20 Dec, 1798 ; d. in Quincy, 111., 4 June, 1880. He emigrated to Illinois in 1819, and in 1822 built the first cabin on the site of the present city of Quincy, living in it alone during one win- ter. In 1825 he secured the laying .out of Adams county, of which Quincy is the county-seat. For the succeeding sixty years he was the foremost figure in all matters relating to the city that he founded and made his home. He served as town trustee from 1834 till 1840, was many times alder- man, and seven times mayor. In 1850 he was eleoted to the state senate, where he sat till 1854. In 1856 he was elected lieutenant-governor, and he succeeded to the governorship in 1859. He had enlisted in the Black Hawk war in 1832, and at the beginning of the civil war he was appointed quartermaster-general of Illinois. In 1861 he was sent as a delegate to the Peace conference at Wash- ington, and in 1864 was elected colonel of the 137th Illinois volunteers. Gov. Wood was one of the few men who, from the outset, comprehended the scope of the coming struggle. On being ques- tioned by Gov. Richard J. Oglesby as to whether a call for 75,000 men for three months' service would be sufficient, he replied : " I know these people, their attachment to slavery, and the deep feeling that actuates them. . . . They will fight long and desperately. What we want, and want now. and must have, for it will take it all — I know it will— is 500,000 men and $500,000,000." After taking the field, Col. Wood was placed in com- mand of a brigade at Memphis, where he was stationed at the time of Gen. Nathan B. Forrest's raid on that city. As quartermaster-general he made frequent visits to the armies both in Virginia and in the southwest, giving personal atteution to the wants of the various Illinois regiments. He was strongly anti-slavery in sentiment, and more than any one man in northwestern Illinois is said to have contributed to the casting of the vote in that region against the slave-state scheme of the convention of 1824. His townsmen dedicated a monument to his memory on 4 July, 1883.

WOOD, Joseph, patriot, b, in Pennsylvania : d. in Sunbury, Ga.. in 1789. During the early part of the Revolutionary war he saw service with the 2d Pennsylvania regiment and rose to the rank of colonel. In 1776 he was on duty in Canada. To- ward the close of that year he removed to Georgia and settled in St. John's parish (afterward Liberty county), where he became a planter and was elected a member of the council of safety. In 1777-'9 Col. Wood represented Georgia in the Continental con- gress, for which he was placed on the list of citi- zens that were disqualified by act of the Tory gen- eral assembly of the state on 6 July, 1780, during the British occupation. In this document he is stigmatized as a " member of the rebel congress." Col. Wood was a man of unblemished character and held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens.

WOOD, Reuben, lawyer, b. in Rutland county, Vt., in 1792; d. in Rockport, Cuyahoga co., Ohio, 2 Oct., 1864. He served in the war of 1812 as captain of Vermont volunteers, and after studying law was admitted to the bar, began to practise in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1825 till 1828 he was a member of the state senate. In 1830 he was appointed president-judge of the 3d district, and in 1833 he became judge of the state supreme court, which office he held until 1845. In 1849 he was elected governor by the Democrats, and he was re-elected in 1850, when the new constitution went into effect. In 1852 the Democratic national convention discussed the nomination of Gov. Wood for the presidency, but finally united upon. In 1853 he was appointed U.S. consul at Valaparaiso, and he resided there eighteen months, when he resigned and retired from public life.

WOOD, Samuel Casey, Canadian merchant, b. in Bath, Lennox co., Ont., 27 Dec, 1830. His fa- ther, Thomas Smith Wood, was formerly of Sara- toga Springs, N. Y. The son was educated at various common schools, and taught three yean, when he embarked in trade, taking a situation in a country store. Later he opened an establishment on his own account in Mariposa, Victoria co., and subsequently became clerk of the township coun- cil. From 1860 till 1876 he held the post of county clerk and county treasurer. He was chairman of the high-school board in Lindsay, Ont., and was the representative of the public-school inspectors in the council of public instruction. On 25 Feb., 1871, he entered the legislative assembly of Ontario, in the Liberal interest, as member for South Vic- toria, and the premier, Oliver Mowat, invited him in July, 1875, to enter his government as secretary, registrar, and commissioner of agriculture, in March, 1877, on a readjustment of the portfolios, he assumed the departments of finance and agri- culture. In March, 1883, he retired from public life altogether. He was chairman of the Ontario agricultural commission of 1881, and two vears later accepted the office of manager of the Free- hold loan and savings company.

WOOD, Silas, legislator, b. in Suffolk county, N. Y., in 1769; d. in Huntington, N. Y., 2 March, 1847. He was graduated at Princeton in 1789. and during the succeeding five years was a tutor there. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and