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 AVOODIIULL

WOODS

Georgia, respectively, ami was mustered out Aug. 22, 1860. He was lieutenant-governor of New York, 1S6T-G9; declined the nomination as repre- sentiitive from the third district of New York in the 41st congress in 18GS; was defeated by Jolin T. Hoffman for governor of New York in 1870. and at the Kopublican national convention that as- sembled in Philadelpliia, June 5, 1872, lie presented the name of Ulysses S. Grant for the presidential nomination for a second term. He was an elector-at-large from New York on the Grant and Wil.son ticket in 1872, and president of the elec- toral college: was a Rei)iiblican representative from New York in the 4:Jd congress, 1873-74, re- signing his seat in 1874. S. B. Cliittendeu com- pleting the term. He took part in the celebrated political contest in Ohio in 1875. where he en- gaged in joint debate with Gen. Thomas Ewing; was a prominent candidate for the nomination for vice-president in 187G, and after receiving sixty votes withdrew in favor of William A. Wheeler; was U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York. 1877-83; was again a candidate for the vice-presidency in 1880 when he placed Chester A. Arthur in nomination. In 1896 he assisted in drafting the charter for greater New York, and was U.S. minister to Spain, 1897-98. during the stormy period preceding the declaration of war between that nation and the United States, and left the Spanish capital. April 21, 1898. He was married secondly. Sept. 26. 1900, to Isabel Hanson, daughter of James S. and Eliza (Foster) Hanson of New York city. He was a member and officer in the various military associations of New York and Brooklyn: president of the New England society of New York; a trustee of Adelphi college; of Berkeley school and of Cornell university. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1866, from Trinity in 1869: that of LL.D. from Trinity and Dickin.son in 1870, and D.C.L. from Syracuse in 1894. His most notable published ad- dresses include: Funeral Oration at the Grave of Maj.-Gen. George H. Thomas (ISIQ); of William Henry Seirard (1872); Address in Commemora- tion of William CuUen Bryant (1878); and Time Friends of the Union. Arlington, June 30, 1876. In 1903 he was practising law in New York city. WOODHULL, Nathaniel, soldier, was born in St. George's Manor, Mastic, L.I., N.Y., Dec, 30, 1722; son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Smith) Wood- hull; grandson of Richard (1047-1699) and Tem- perance (Fordham) WVjodliull and of Richard Smith, and great-grandson of Riciiard WoodhuU (1620-16fK)), who came from Tlienford, England, to Easthampton, Long Island, about 1648: set- tled in Brookhaven, N.Y., IG-j.^, which place he represented in the general court at Hartford, 1663; was appointed a jiustice of the court of the assizes, 1666; deputy to the Dutch conimis.sioners

in New York, 1673, and subsequently magistrate for Brookhaven. Nathaniel Woodliull assisted his father in farming; served with distinction as major under General Abercrombie. participating in the expeditions against Crown Point and Ticonderoga in 17.58: under General Bradstieet in the attack upon Fort Froutenac. and in the following j-ear as lieutenant-colonel either under General Prideaux against Niagara, or under Gen- eral Amherst against Crown Point and Ticon- deroga. He was promoted colonel of the 2(1 regiment of New York provincials, and serveil under Gen. Jeffrey Amherst in 1760. in the ex- pedition that resulted in the reduction of Canada. He was a representative from Suffolk county in the New York colonial assembly, 1769-7."); a member of the convention of April 10, 1775, to choose delegates to the Continental congress, and president of the Provincial congress of New York, 1775-76, bj- which he was appointed brigadier- general of the militia of Suffolk and Queens counties in August, 1776. He was ordered to proceed '* to the western part of Queens county," but upon the failure of the 2d Long Island regi- ment to join him, he fell back to Jamaica. L.I.. where he was surprised by the British, and (>n Aug. 28, 1776, compelled to surrender his sword. Upon his refusal to repeat " God Save the King." lie was mortally wounded by an officer (probably Major Baird). He was taken prisoner, with eighty others, on board a truiis])ort. and released at New Utrecht, where he suffered the amputa- tion of his arm, the operation proving fatal. His only child married, secondh*, Gen. John Smith. See " W^oodhull," a poem by Epes Sargent in his "Songs of the Sea and Other Poems" (1847); Thompson's and Wood's histories of Long Island, and also General WoodhuU's personal account of the Montreal expedition of 1760, published post- humously in the Historical Magazine (1861), He died in New Utrecht, L.I., N.Y., Sept. 10, 1776.

WOODS, Alvah, educator, was born in Shore- ham, Vt., Aug. 13, 1794; son of the Rev. Abel (1765-1750), (a Baptist clergyman), and Mary (Smith) Woods, and a nephew of the Rev. Dr. Leonard W'oods (q.v.). He attended Phillips acad- emy, Andover, Mass.; was graduated from Har- vard. A.B.. 1817, A.M., 1820, and from Andover Tlieological seminar}' in 1821, serving as assistant instructor, 1819, and was ordained to the Baptist ministry, Oct. 28, 1821. He was professor of math- ematics and natural philosophy and of ecclesi- astical history and Christian discipline in Colum- bian college, Washington, D.C., 1821-24, visiting Europe in 1822-23 as financial agent of the col- lege, and was married, Dec. 10. 1823. to Alniira, daughter of Josiali and Priscilla Marshal of Bos- ton. Mjiss. Their son, Marshall Woods. (Brown. A.B., 1845. A.M., 1848, University of the City of