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Rh showed rare executive ability ; his admirable ad- ministralion did much to lighten the peculiar difficulties that beset the United States in its oc- cupation of the island. In recognition of his ser- vices the president, in December, 1898, appointed him major-general of volunteers, and the Spanish resident.s of Santiago presented him with a hand- some gold medal. On his return to Cuba in the summer of 1899, Gen. Wood won a victory, by the side of which any in the war was trivial. In less than a month he suppressed yellow fever at San- tiago, as Gen. Butler did in 1862 at New OrIean.s.

WOODRUFF, Timothy Lester. politician, b. in New Haven, Conn., 4 Aug.. 1858. His father was congressman from New Haven from 1855 to 1865. lie was graduated in 1879 from Yale. He chose a business career, becoming connected with various commercial enterprises and trust com- panies. In January, 189B. Mayor Wurster aj)- jKjinted him park commissioner of Brooklyn, and his record in the board was one of efficiency. In Novemtier. 1896, hewaselected lieutenant-governor of New York on the Republican ticket, with Prank S. Black, of Troy, governor. He was renominated by the Republican party, 27 Sept.. 1898, with Theodore Roosevelt as governor, taking an active part, in the [M)lltlcal camiialgn which followed.

WOODS, Joseph Jackson, soldier, b. in Brown countv, Ohio. 11 .Inn.. X2'-i; d. in Montana town- ship, kan.. 27 Sept., 1889. He entered the U. .S. military academy In July. 1843. being appointed from the .same congressional district a.s Gen. U. S. Grant, and was his immediate successor. He was graduated third In a class of thirty-eight, includ- ing Burnside, Gibbon, Heth, and, Ambrose I'. Hill. He entered the artillery, and. after .serving for six years on the Atlantic and Pacific coast, resigned his commission and engaged In farming in Jack- son county, Iowa. In October. 1861, he was com- mis.sioned colonel of the 3d Iowa infantry, and participated in the victory at Fort Donelscm and m the fierce battle of Shifoh, where he was seri- ously wouniled. During the siege of Vicksburg Col. Wo<k1s wa.s in command of a brigade, and in November, 1804, he resigned anil reliirried to his farm. Seven years later Presiilent Grant ap- pointed liim a inemljer of the board of visitors to the U. S. military i«-ademv at West Point.

'''WOODWARD. Eliza Brand''', benefactor, b. In Lexliigtiin. Ky.. 13 Oct., 1811 ; d. in Philadelphia, 9 May, 1897. She was the daughter of John Brand, a highly esteemed Scotch citizen of her native place, and was educated at a prominent school In Philadelphia. While very young she became the wife of the wealthy young Edward J. Macalllster, of that city, and several years after his death she married Judge Woodward, also of Philadelphia. In May, 1881, Mrs. Woodward founded, in Lex- ington, the Macalllster church home, in memory of her first husbaml, and during the many years of her second wi(lowhoo<l It was her dally delight to do gooil with the large means at her disposal.

WOODWARD, Robert Simpson, mathema- tician, b. in UochestrT, Mich., 31 July. 1849. He was graduated ut the University of jllchlgan In 1872 with the degree of C. E. From 1872 until 1882 he served fus a.sslstant engineer on the U. S. lake survey, and from 1882 until 1884 he was assistant astronomer on the U. S. transit of Venus commission. He then entered the U. S. geo- logical survey, serving as astronomer, geographer, and chief geographer until 1890. when he became an assistant In the U. S. coast and geodetic sur- vey. In 1893 he was called to the chair of mechan- ics in Columbia, which place he still fills, as well us that of dean of the graduate school of pure science in that university. The degree of Ph. D. was conferred upon him by the University of Michigan in 1892, and he has been an associate editor of the " Annals of Mathematics" since 1888, alsoanassoclateeditorof "Science" since 1894. Dr. Woodward was vice-president of section A of the American association for the advancement of science In 1894. He was treasurer of the Ameri- can mathematical society, and since 1897 he has been one of its vice-presidents. He is the au- thor of nearly one hundred papers which have been contributed to the proceedings of the societies of which he is a member. The more important of these are "Results of Experiments to determine the Variations in Length of Certain Bars at the Temperature of Melting Ice" (1883); "On Errors incident to Interpolated Values from Numerical Tables" (1886); "On the Free Cooling of a Homo- geneous Sphere "(1887) ; "On the Conditioned Cool- ing and Cubical Contraction of a Homogeneous S|)here" (1887); "On the Diffusion of Heat in Ilomogeneoiis Rectangular Masses, with Special Reference to Bars used as Standards of Length " (1888) ; " The Mathematical Theories of the Earth" (1890); "The Effects of the Atmosphere and Oceans on the Secular Cooling of the Earth " (1890) ; " Recent Experience on the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey In the U.se of Long Steel Tapes for measuring Base Lines" (1893); "The Iced Bar and Long Tajie Base Apparatus and the Results of Measures made with them on the Ilolton and St. Albans Bases" (1892); "An His- torical Survey of the Science of Mechanics" (1894); and "Mechanical Interpretations of the Variations of latitudes" (1895). In book-form he has published "On the Form and Position of the Sea-Level" (Washington. 1888) and "Smith- sonian (leographlcal Tables" (1894).

WORCESTER, Dean Conant, educator, b. In Thetford. Vt., 1 Oct., 1806. and was graduated from the University of Michigan. He was a mem- ber of the Steere scientific expedition to the Phil- ippine islands in 1887-'8, and one of two leaders to con<luct the Menage scientific expedition to the Philippines during the yeai-s 1890-'3. In 1893 he wasappointed instructor in zoology, and since 1895 has been assistant professor and curator of the 7.o<lloglcal museum In the University of Michigan. He was appointed by President McKinley in 1899 a member of the U.S. Philippine commission, hav- ing performed the duties of whudi he returned, with Col. Dcnby, in Octol)er, President .Schiirmann, the hea<l of the commission, having preceded them, arriving in this country In August. Prof. Worces- ter is the author of "The Philippine Islands and their People" (New York, 1898), of which seven editions were sold in a few niontlis, and of nu- merous papers on their animals and birds.

'''WORTH. William Scott''', soldier, b. in Albany, N. Y., Jan., 1840. He is a son of (ien. William J. Worth iq. i:). the contemporary of Scott and Tay- lor In the Mexican war, and entered the regular army as 2d lieutenant in the 8th Infantry In April, 1861. being jiromoled 1st lieutenant on 1 June following, lie served throughout the civil war. In January, 1866. he became captain. 3 May. 1883, major. March, 1891. lleuteiuint-coloiiel of the 13th infantry, and 26 Nov., 1894, colonel. His regi- ment was engaged In the Santiago de Cuba cam- paign in the war with Spain in 1898. and In the charge of .San Jiuin hill on 1 July he was wounded in the right arm early In the engagement, and soon after this he was struck in the breast. For gallantry in the field he was promoted colonel in