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speaker of the state legislature, 1825, winning the sobriquet of " Rock of the New England Demo- cracy." He was elected U. S. senator as a Democ- rat, serving, 1825-31 ; declined his election as state senator, March 7, 1831, and served as secretary of the navy in Pi'esident Jacksbn's cabinet, April, 1831-Juue, 1834, when he was transferred to the treasury department, wliere he continued to serve by re-appointment from President Van Buren until March 3, 1841. He meanwhile de- clined the chief-justiceship of the supreme court of New Hampshire ; again served as U.S. senator, March 4, 1841 -Nov. 20, 1845, when, having de- clined the British mission, he was appointed by President Polk justice of the U.S. supreme court, in place of Joseph Story, deceased, his nomina- tion being confirmed by the senate, Jan. 3, 1846. He was mentioned for the presidency in 1851. Judge Woodbury continued in office until his death. He was married in 1819. to Elizabeth W., daugliter of Asa Clapp of Portland, Maine, and their son, Charles Levi (1820-1898), was U.S. dis- trict attorney for Massacluisetts, 1858-61, and ed- ited, with George Minot, " Reports of Cases ar- gued and determined in tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit," containing the decisions of Judge Levi Woodbury (3 vols., 1847-52). The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon Judge Levi Woodbury by Dart- mouth in 1823, and by AVesleyan in 1843. He was co-editor with William H. Richardson of the "New Hampshire Reports" (1816 et seq. See : "The Writings of Hon. Levi Woodbury, Poli- tical, Judicial and Literary," selected and ar- ranged by Nahum Capen (3 vols., 1853). He died in Portsmouth, N.H., Sept. 4, 1851.

WOODBURY, Ubran Andrain, governor of Vermont, was born in Acworth, N.H., July 11, 1838 ; son of Albert Merrill (a native of Caven- dish, Vt.) and Lucy Lestina (Wadleigh) W^dod- bury ; grandson of Albert and Mary (Chatterton) Woodbury and a descendant of John Woodbury, wlio landed at Cape Ann, Mass., from Somerset- shire, England, in 1630, and moved to Salem in 1634. In 1840 Urban A. Woodbury removed with his parents to Morristown, Vt., where he at- tended the common schools and subsequently the People's academy of Morris ville, and was graduated from theUniversity of Vermont, M.D., 1859. He was married, Feb. 12, 1860, to Paul- ina Livonia, daughter of Ira and Sarah (Stone) Darling of Elmore, Vt. He enlisted in the 2d regiment of Vermont volunteers. May 25, 1861 ; was appointed sergeant, June 19, 1861 ; partici- pated in the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, where he lost his riglit arm and was taken prisoner ; was paroled. Oct. 5, 1861, and on Octo- ber 18 discharged from service on account of his wounds. He was commissioned captain of Com-

pany D, nth Vermont volunteers, Nov. 17, 1862 ; transferred to the Veteran Reserve corps, June 17, 1863, and resigned from service, March, 1865. He subsequently engaged in the lumber and real es- tate business in Burlington, Vt., served as alder- man, 1881-82, officiating as president of the board, 1882 ; was mayor of Burlington, 1885-86 ; lieu- tenant-governor of Vermont, 1888-90 ; Republi- can governor of the state, 1894-96 ; a member of the war investigation commission by appoint- ment of President McKinley, 1898, and deputy commander, G.A.R., of Vermont, 1900.

WOODFORD, Stewart Lyndon, diplomatist, was born in New Yoi-k city, Sept. 3, 1835 ; son of Josiah Curtis and Susan (Terry) Woodford ; grandson of Chandler and Mary (Curtis) Wood- ford and of Lydia (Jennings) Terry and descended through a line of Colonial and Revo- lutionary army offi- cers from Thomas Woodford of Lincoln- shire, England, who settled in Plymouth, Mass., in 1635, and was a founder of Hartford, Conn., and of Northampton,

Mass. He was grad- uated at Columbia, A.B., 1854, A.M., 1866. He was mar- ried, Oct. 15, 1857, to Julia Evelyn, daugh- ter of Henry Titcomb and Eliza (Collins) Capen of New York City. He studied law ; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1857, and became the law partner of Thomas G. Ritch. He was a delegate to the Chicago Republican national convention of 1860, and messenger for the electoral college of New York in carrying the vote of the state for Lincoln and Hamlin to Washington. He was assistant U.S. district attorney for Southern New York, 1861-62 ; enlisted in the volunteer service in 1862, became lieutenant-colonel of the 127th New York volunteers, and accompanied the regi- ment to Virginia, where it was attached to the Federal force under Gen. John A. Dix on the Peninsula and subsequently to the 11th army corps, Army of the Potomac, and in August, 1863, under Gen. Q. A. Gillmore in South Carolina. He was judge-advocate-general of the Depart- ment of the South, provost-marshal-general, and chief of staff, and supervised the exchange of prisoners at Charleston. He received promotion to colonel and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers by special order of the President. After the close of hostilities he was military governor of Charleston, S.C, and of Savannah,