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 706 WOOD WOODCHUCK area, 828 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 8,912; in 1875, 6,048. The surface is undulating and the soil fertile. The Green Bay and Lake Pe- pin railroad traverses it. The chief produc- tion in 1870 were 8,C59 bushels of wheat, 6,948 of rye, 14,536 of Indian corn, 17,430 of oats, 28,468 of potatoes, 46,643 Ibs. of butter, and 3,796 tons of hay. There were 291 horses, 594 milch cows, 1,119 other cattle, 440 sheep, and 537 swine; 1 tannery, 1 currying estab- lishment, 1 machine shop, and 17 saw mills. Capital, Grand Rapids. V. A S. E. county of Dakota, recently formed and not included in the census of 1870; area, 576 sq. m. It con- tains several lakes. The surface is rolling. WOOD, Anthony a, an English antiquary, born in Oxford, Dec. 17, 1632, died Nov. 29, 1695. He was educated at Merton college, Ox- ford, and about 1655 began to transcribe the monumental inscriptions and arms in the parish churches and college chapels of the city and university, which led to his " History and An- tiquities of Oxford," which was sold to the university, translated into Latin, and published in 1674. He is better known by his "Athenro Oxonienses, an exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the University of Oxford, from 1500 to 1690, to which are added the Fasti or Annals of the said University " (2 vols. fol., London, 1691-'2), which has been greatly improved by Dr. Bliss (4 vols. 4t<>, 1813-'2<J). WOOD, Robert, a British archaeologist, born at Riverstown, county Meath, Ireland, in 1716, died at Putney, near London, Sept. 9, 1771. Ho wan educated at Oxford, visited Italy re- peatedly, made the tour of Asia Minor and Syria in 1750, in company with an Italian architect named Borra as a draughtsman, and published "The Ruins of Palmyra" (fol., 1753, with 57 plates), and " The Ruins of Balbec " (fol., 1757, with 46 plates). From 1759 to 1765 he was under-socretary of state. His " Essay on the original Genius and Writings of Homer" was published posthumously (4to, 1775). WOOD, illiain Maxwell, an American surgeon, born in Baltimore, Md., May 27, 1809. He graduated M. D. at the university of Maryland in 1829, entered the navy as an assistant sur- geon, and was promoted to bo surgeon in 1838. In 1844-'6 he was fleet surgeon of the Pacific squadron, and during the civil war of the North Atlantic squadron. In 1870 ho was appointed chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery of the navy department, and in 1871 promoted to bo surgeon general. He was retired in the autumn of 1872. Ho has published " Wander- ing Sketches of People and Things in South America, Polynesia, California, and other Places " (Philadelphia, 1849) ; " A Shoulder to tho Wheel of Progress;" and "Fankwei, or the San Jacinto in the Seas of India, China, and Jftpan" (New York, 1859). WOODBINE. See HONEYSUCKLE. WOODBRIDGE, Timothy. See BLIND, vol. ii., p. 721. WOODBURY, a W. county of Iowa, bounded W. by the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers, which separate it from Nebraska and Dakota; area, about 800 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 6,172. The surface is undulating and the soil generally fer- tile. It is traversed by the Illinois Central, the Sioux City and Pacific, and the Dakota Southern railroads. The chief productions in 1870 were 99,740 bushels of Indian corn, 40,653 of oats, 25,040 of potatoes, 22,845 Ibs. of but- ter, and 10,433 tons of hay. There were 873 horses, 3,912 cattle, 706 sheep, and 1,378 swine. Capital, Sioux City. WOODBCRY, Leri, an American statesman, born in Francestown, N. II., Dec. 22, 1789, died in Portsmouth, Sept. 7, 1851. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1809, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and practised in Francestown till 1816, when he was elected clerk of the state senate ; and at the close of the same year ho was appointed a judgo of the state superior court. In 1819 ho removed to Portsmouth. In 1823 he was elected governor of the state, and in 1825 became a member and speaker of the state house of representatives. In the lat- ter year he was also elected United States sen- ator, and at the close of his term in 1831 he was appointed by President Jackson secretary of the navy. In 1834 he was transferred to the office of secretary of the treasury, which ho held during the remainder of President Jackson's and the whole of President Van Buren's term. In 1841 he was again elected to the United States senate, and in 1845 Presi- dent Polk appointed him a justice of tho Uni- ted States supremo court, as successor of Jus- tice Story. He was one of tho most influential leaders of the democratic party. He published with Judgo Richardson of Now Hampshire a volume of law reports, and his " Political, Ju- dicial, and Literary Writings" appeared post- humously (3 vols. 8vo, Boston, 1852). WOODCHDCK, the common name of an Amer- ican rodent (arctomys monax, Gmel.), the ge- neric characters of which have been given un- der MARMOT. It is 15 to 18 in. long, the color varying from blackish to grizzled above, and chestnut red below ; tho feet are always dark, and the tail blackish, sometimes with grayish rings. The form is thick and clumsy, neck hardly apparent, head broad and flat, legs short and thick, and tail short and bushy ; the nose is wide, lips full and fleshy, eyes small, and ears short ; feet large, and naked below ; hair rather soft, and whiskers long and stout ; there are rudimentary cheek pouches ; stomach simple, and crectim large ; there are glands just within tho rectum, which secrete a slightly offensive substance. It is found from Hudson bay to South Carolina, and west to the neigh- borhood of tho Rocky mountains. From its voracity and burrowing habits it is often called the ground hog ; it digs deep holes in the fields, on sides of hills, or under rocks in the woods, in a slanting direction, at first upward to keep out the water, with several compartments, and