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 wrote "Light on the Dark River" (18.j4): "The Tobacco Problem" (I8?<5)and many articles on religious subjects. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon Professor Woods by the College of New Jersey (Princeton) and by Dartmouth in 1810. He was a founder of the American Tract, Temperance and Education societies and also of the A.B.C.F.M., serving as a member of its prudential committee twenty-five years, and was a fellow of the American Acadeny of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of: Letters to Unitarians (1820); Lectures on the Inspiration of the Scriptures (1829); Memoirs of American Missionaries (1833); Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection {184l); Lectures on Church Government (1843); Lectures on Swedenborgianism (1846), and his collected works were published in 5 vols., 1849-50; also of contributions to the Panoplist (1805), and of a History of Andover Seminary. left in MS. Dr. Woods died in Andover, Mass., Aug. 24. 1854.

WOODS, Leonard, Jr., educator, was born in West Newljury. Mass., Nov. 24, 1807; son of the Rev. Dr. Leonard (q.v.) and Abigail (Wheeler) Woods. He attended Pliillips Andover academy, 1815-23; matriculated at Dartmouth, in 1823, and entered Union college, in 1824, from which he was graduated, A.B., 1827; and also from Andover Theological seminary, 1830, continuing at the seminary as an assistant instructor in Hebrew, 1830-31, and as an Abbot resident postgraduate student, 1831-33. He was licensed to preach in 1833; was acting pastor at the Laight Street Presbyterian church, New York city, in 1S33. and ordained an evangelist by the third presbytery of New York, his father officiating. He was professor of sacred literature in Bangor Theological seminary, 1836-39, and president of Bowdoin college, Brunswick. Maine, 1839-66, the new college chapel being erected during his ad- ministration througli funds which he secured by the law of "contingent remainders" from the estate of one James Temple Bowdoin, grand-nephew of Gov. James Bowdoin. He visited Europe in 1833 and 1840, and again in 1866 as a commissioner from Maine to collect historical state data, which materialized in his Discovery of Maine (1868). The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Colby in 1839 and by Harvard in 1840, and that of LL.D. by Bowdoin in 1866. He was a member of the Maine, Massachusetts and New York Historical societies, serving as a member of the publishing and standing committees of the first organization, in whose Proceedings was published Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse on Western Planting" (1584), which Dr. Woods discovered while in Europe, the discourse having lain in manuscript nearly three hundred years, and for which he

prepared a "Preface" and "Introduction"; Charles Deane completing and editing the volume (1877). Dr. Woods lectured in New England on the "Liberties of the Ancient Republics;" translated Knapp's "Christian Tlieology" (2 vols., 1831-33); assisted Moses Stuart in his "Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans" (1832); was assistant editor, with Edward Robinson, of the Biblical Repository; editor of the Literary and Theological Review of New York, 1834-37, and is the author of eulogies on Daniel Webster (1852) and Parker Cleveland (1859), and of an address upon the Opening of the New Medical School of Maine (1862). His valuable private library was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1873. See: "The Life and Character of Leonard Woods, D.D., LL.D." by A. Park (1880). He died in Boston. Mass.. Dec 24. 1878.

 WOODS, William Burnham, associate justice, was born in Newark, Ohio, Aug. 3, 1824; son of Ezekiel Woods. His father, a native of Kentucky, was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and his mother of New England parentage. He was a student at Western Reserve college, Hudson, Ohio, and was graduated from Yale in 1846. He was a lawyer in Newark, Ky., 1848-61; mayor of Newark, 1856; representative in the state legislature and speaker of the house, 1857-58, and in 1861 was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 76th Ohio volunteers, of which his brother, Charles Robert (q.v.) was colonel. He took part with his regiment in the 3d brigade. 3d division, Grant's Army of the Tennessee, at Fort Donelson and Shiloh; and commanded the regiment in the 2d brigade, 4th division, Sherman's corps, at Chickasaw Bluffs, Dec. 27, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863. At Fort Hindman, Jan. 11, 1863, he was slightly wounded. He commanded his regiment in the Vicksburg campaign. May 1-July 4. 1863; the 1st brigade, 1st division, 15th corps, in the Atlanta campaign, May-September, 1864; and the 1st brigade. Col. Charles R. Wood's 1st division, Logan's 15th corps, in the campaign of the Carolinas and the final operations of Sherman's army. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, Jan. 12, 1865, and major-general. May 31, 1865, and was mustered out of the volunteer service early in 1866, when he took up the practice of law and engaged in cotton planting in Alabama. He took an active part in the reconstruction of the state government; was chancellor of the state, 1868-69; U.S. judge of the 5th circuit, which included Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, 1869-80. and was commissioned associate justice of the U.S. supreme court, Dec. 21, 1880. to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Justice Strong. During his six years' service as associate justice, he wrote the opinion of the court, 218 cases, 