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Rh of International Law, designed as an Aid in Teach- ing and in Historical Studies " (Boston, 1860 ; 5th ed., enlarged, New York, 1879) ; " Essays on Di- vorce and Divorce Legislation, with Special Refer- ence to the United States" (1869); "Religion of the Present and of the Future, Sermons preached chiefly at Yale College" (1871); "Political Sci- ence, "or the State, Theoretically and Practically considered " (2 vols., 1877) ; " Communism and Socialism in their History and Theory : a Sketch " <1880) ; and " Helpful Thoughts for Young Men " (1882). He has edited new editions of Francis Lieber's " Civil Liberty and Self-Government " (Philadelphia, 1871), and a " Manual of Politic Ethics " (2 vols., 1871). He also published smaller works, and essays and reviews in magazines. The discourses and addresses at his ordination to the ministry, and his inauguration as president of Yale were published together (New Haven, 1846). — His son, Theodore Salisbury, b. in New Haven. Conn., 22 Oct., 1852, was graduated at Yale in 1872, stud- ied abroad in 1874-'6, was gaduated at the Yale law-school in 1876, and since 1879 has been pro- fessor of international law at Yale law-school. — Theodore Dwight's niece, Sarah Chauncey, author, b. in Cleveland, Ohio, about 1845, has published, under the pen-name of "Susan Coolidge," "The New- Year's Bargain " (Boston, 1871) : " What Katv Did " (1872) j " Mischief's Thanksgiving, and other Stories " (1874), . besides other books for children ; " For Summer Afternoons " (1876) ; " Verses " (1880); "A Guernsey Lily" (1881); "A Little Country Girl " (1885) ; and " A Short History of the City of Philadelphia" (1887).

WOOLSON, Abba Louisa Goold, author, b. in Windham, Me., 30 April, 1838. She is the daughter of William Goold, author of " Portland in the Past " (Portland, 1886), and of several his- torical papers in the " Collections " of the Maine historical society, of which for many years he was corresponding secretary. She passed her early life in Portland, Me., where she was graduated at the high-school for girls in 1856, and the same year married Moses Woolson, its principal. Mrs. Wool- son has given courses of lectures in Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities on " English Literature in Connection with English History," " The Influence of Foreign Nations upon English Literature," " Dramas of Shakespeare, as Illus- trating English History," and " The Historic Cities of Spain." She resides with her husband in Bos- ton, and is a member of literary and philanthropic societies and president of the Castilian club. She has contributed to periodicals, and published " Woman in American Society " (Boston, 1873) ; "Browsing among Books" (1881); and "George Eliot and her Heroines " (New York, 1886) ; and edited "Dress Reform," a series of lectures by female physicians of Boston on " Dress as it affects the Health of Women " (Boston, 1874).

WOOLSON, Constance Fenimore, author, b. in Claremont, N. H., in 1848. She is the daughter of Charles Jar vis Woolson and of Hannah Cooper Pomeroy, who was a niece of James Fenimore Cooper. She removed with her parents to Cleve- land, Ohio, in early life, was educated at the young ladies' seminary there, and afterward sent to Ma- dame Chegary's French school in New York city. On the death of her father in 1869 she began to write, and she removed with her mother to the southern states in 1873, where she resided, princi- pally in Florida, till 1879. In that year, on the death of her mother, she went to England, where she has since resided. She has contributed to peri- odicals, and published " Anne " (New York, 1882) ; "For the Major" (1883); "East Angels" (1886); " Rodman the Keeper " (1886) ; and " Castle No- where : Lake-Country Sketches " (1886).

WOOSTER, David, soldier, b. in Stratford, Conn., 2 March, 1710; d. in Danbury, Conn., 2 May, 1777. He was graduated at Yale in 1738, and when war be- tween England and Spain began in 1739 he en- tered the pro- vincial army as lieutenant, and was subsequent- ly made captain of a vessel that was built and equipped by the colony for the defence of its coasts. In 1745 he served as captain in Col. Aaron Burr's regiment, which participated in the expedition against Louisburg, and commanded the " Connecticut," which conveyed the troops thither. From that place he went, in command of a cartel, to England. He was made a captain under Sir William Pepperell, and received half-pay until 1774. He was appointed colonel in the 3d Connecticut regiment in 1755, and later brigadier-general, and served during the French war, 1756-'63. He was an originator of the expedition that captured Ticonderoga in April, 1775, and afterward served in the Connecticut assembly. On the organization of the Continental army he was appointed one of the eight brigadier - generals, third in rank, and served in Canada, where, after the death of Gen. Richard Montgomery, he held for a time the chief command. He resigned from the army, but on his return to Connecticut he was made the first major-general of the militia of that state. During the winter of 1776-'7 he was employed in raising recruits and provisions for the force that was stationed in Danbury, and was in command of that town when it was attacked by Gov. William Tryon's troops on 26 April, 1777. Tryon, fearing that he might be cut off on his retreat, marched toward Ridgeway, a parish in the town of Ridgefield, and when this movement was known to the American commanders they separated their forces into two parts. The largest-division, of 400 men, under Gold Selleck Silliman and Benedict Arnold, was stationed in front of the enemy, while Wooster, with the remaining 200, was sent to annoy the rear-guard. Arnold, on arriving at Ridgefield, constructed a barricade across the highway between the house of Benjamin Stebbins and a ledge of rock to the west of the road, and awaited the enemy's approach. The British, after leaving Danbury, changed their course of retreat, and Wooster hastened forward until he met the foe a few miles north of Ridgefield, fell upon the rear of the British column, and, after a sharp skirmish, took forty prisoners. He made a second assault about a mile north of the Stebbins house. Several discharges of artillery caused the American column to break, and Wooster endeavored to rally his men, exclaiming, " Come on, my boys ! Never mind such random shots ! " But a musket-ball pierced his body. He was taken to Danbury, where he died a few days afterward. On