Wood, Fernando – Wood, Mrs. Julia Anna A
Wood, Fernando
merchant, congressman, was born June 14, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1840 he was elected a representative from New York to the twenty-seventh congress. In 1854 he was elected mayor of New York, and was re-elected to the same position, serving five years. He was also elected to the thirty-eighth, fortieth, forty-first, forty-second, fortythird, forty-fourth, forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses. He died Feb. 20, 1881, in Washington, D. C.
Wood, George
public official, author, was born in 1799 in Newburyport, Mass.
He was a treasury clerk at Washington, and the author of Peter Schmeil in America; The Modern Pilgrim; Marrying Too Late; and Future Life, reissued in 1869 as The Gates Wide Open. Besides his published works he contributed number of valuable articles to the leading newspapers and magazines of the a United States. He died March 17, 1870, in New York city.
Wood, George Bacon
physician, educator, author, was born March 13, 1797, in Greenwich, N. J. He was a Philadelphia physician, and medical professor in the university of Pennsylvania in 1835-60.
He was the author of The Dispensatory of the United States; The Practice of Medicine; Therapeutics and Pharmacology; Introductory Lectures and Addresses on Medical Subjects; History of the University of Pennsylvania; and Lives of S. G. Morton, F. Bache. He died March 30, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Wood, George T
soldier, congressman, governor. He was appointed major of Georgia three months' volunteers in the Creek war in 1836; was colonel of the second Texas regiment of mounted volunteers in the Mexican war, and was distinguished at the storming of Monterey. He was afterwards member of the Texas congress, and was governor of Texas from 1847 to 1849. He died Sept. 5, 1858, on Trinity River, Texas.
Wood, Henry
merchant, author, was born Jan. 16, 1834, in Barre, Vt. He has been a member and officer in various ethical, philosophical and humanitarian associations, and is the author of several books of wide circulation, on fiction, philosophy and metaphysics, entitled God's Image in Man; Ideal Suggestion; Studies in the Thought World; Political Economy of Natural Law, and 1855 he emigrated to other works. In the west, began a successful career in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, whence he removed to Chicago in 1863. After ten years, owing to ill-health, he retired from the active wholesale trade in which he had been engaged, and removed to Boston in 1882.
He says that he has never attempted poetic form, but no critic can deny that his prose is imbued with a poetic spirit.
Wood, Horace Gay
lawyer, author, was born in 1831 in Vermont. He was a New Hampshire lawyer, who practiced in New York city in his latest years.
He was the author of The Relation of Landlord and Tenant; Treatise on the Law of Nuisances; Master and Servant; The Law of Fire Insurance; Limitation of Actions at Law and in Equity; On the Statute of Frauds; The Law of Railroads; and Legal Remedies of Mandamus and Prohibition. He died in 1893.
Wood, Horatio Curtis
educator, author, was born Jan. 13, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a medical professor in the university of Pennsylvania from 1866, and the author of The Phalangidæ of the United States; Researches upon American Hemp; Brain Work and Overwork; On Fever; Nervous Diseases and their Diagnosis; Thermic Fever, or Sunstroke; and Therapeutics.
Wood, Isaac
physician, was born Aug. 21, 1793, in Clinton, N. Y. He was for twenty-five years one of the most active managers of the New York Institution for the Blind, one of the founders and subsequently president of the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Physicians, and a founder and twice president of the New York academy of Medicine. He died March 25, 1868, in Norwalk, Conn.
Wood, James
soldier, governor, was born in 1750 in Virginia. He was a colonel of the Virginia militia in 1776. He was lieutenant-governor and a member of the executive council, and was governor of the state from 1796 to 1799. A county in Virginia was named for him, to commemorate his patriotic services. He died July 16, 1813, in Olney, Va.
Wood, James
clergyman, educator, author, was born July 12, 1799, in Greenfield, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman and educator in Indiana, and the author of Old and New Theology; Treatise on Baptism; Call to the Sacred Office; The Best Lesson and the Best Time; The Gospel Fountain; and Grace and Glory.
He died April 7, 1867, in Hightstown, N. J.
Wood, James Rushmore
physician, surgeon, was born Sept. 14, 1816, in Mamaroneck, N. Y. In 1847 he began to collect material with the intention of founding a museum. This collection now constitutes the Woods museum of New York city, the grandest monument ever erected to any surgeon in America. He died May 4, 1882, in New York city.
Wood, Mrs. Jean
(MONCURE), author, poet, was born in 1754 in Virginia. She was the wife of James Wood, who was governor of Virginia in 1796-99. She was the author of Flowers and Weeds of the Old Dominion, a book of verse. She died in 1823.
Wood, John
author, was born in 1775 in Scotland. He was a Scottish writer who came to America in 1800 and settled in Richmond, Va. Among his writings are General View of the History of Switzerland; and History of the Administration of John Adams. He died in May, 1822, in Richmond, Va.
Wood, John
soldier, state senator, governor, was born Dec. 20, 1798, in Moravia, N. Y. In 1819 he moved to Illinois, and in 1822 built the first cabin on the site of the present city of Quincy. He was a member of the state senate during 1850-54; was lieutenant-governor in 1856, and became governor in 1859. He served with distinction through the civil war.
He died June 4, 1880, in Quincy, Ill.
Wood, John
manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1816 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a representative to the thirty-sixth congress from Pennsylvania.
Wood, John J
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829.
Wood, John J
lawyer, was born Feb. 13, 1859, in Neshkoro, Wis. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Wisconsin at Berlin; has been city attorney, supervisor and school commissioner, and served with distinction as mayor of his city. In 1896 he was a delegate from the sixth congressional district of Wisconsin to the democratic national convention at Chicago. He takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state, and is a member of several fraternal orders.
Wood, John M
railroad constructor, legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 18, 1813, in Minisink, N. Y. He was a member of the legislature of Maine, and was for years occupied as a constructor of railroads and other public works. In 1854 he was elected a representative from Maine to the thirty-fourth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress.
He died Dec. 24, 1864, in Boston, Mass.
Wood, John Robertson
banker, was born June 4, 1845, in Canada. He received a thorough education, and has attained success in business affairs at Appleton, Wis. Since its organization in 1887 he has been president of the First National bank of Iron Mountain, Mich.
Wood, John Seymour
lawyer, journalist, author, was born in 1853 in New York. He is a lawyer of New York city, editor of The Bachelor of Arts, and the author of Gramercy Park, a story of New York; College Days, or Harry's Career at Yale; Yale Yarns; A Coign of Vantage; An Old Beau, and Other Stories; and A Daughter of Venice.
Wood, Joseph
soldier, congressman, was born in Pennsylvania, Pa. He entered the revolutionary army as major of second Pennsylvania regiment, and rose to the rank of colonel. He was a delegate from Georgia to the continental congress from 1777 to 1779. He died in March, 1789, in Sunbury, Ga.
Wood, Mrs. Julia Anna A
journalist, author, poet, was born April 13, 1825, in New London, N. H. She received her education at the Colby academy of her native city, and at the Charleston Ladies' seminary, Massachusetts. In 1849 she married William Wood, a lawyer and journalist. Two years later she moved to Sauk Rapids, Minn., where Mr. Wood was appointed United States receiver of public moneys. Her husband also here established the Sauk Rapids New Era, the literary department of which was edited by Mrs. Wood. She has been a widow for more than a quarter of a century, and now publishes the Sauk Rapids Free Press in conjunction with her son. She is the author of The Heart of Myrrha Lake; The Brown House of Duffield; Hubert's Wife; Strayed from the Fold; From Error to Truth; and other works.