Woods, Charles Coke – Woodward, Francis Channing
Woods, Charles Coke
clergyman, was born Oct. 8, 1860, near Springfield, Ill. In 1879 he was licensed to preach at Belton, Mo.; is a graduate of the Garrett Biblical institute of Evanston, Ill., and the McKendree college of Lebanon, Ill.
He has attained success as an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; is a popular lecturer, and fills the chair of theological science in the Itinerant's Theological institute of southwestern Kansas, Eldorado, Kan., where he also fills the pastorate in his church.
He is an able, zealous and uncompromising advocate of the prohibition cause, and was elected as a delegate to the world's temperance congress in 1893.
Woods, George L
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born July 30, 1832, in Boone county, Mo. In 1847 he moved to Oregon with his father; in 1863 he was appointed county judge of Wasco county, and in 1864 was elected presidential elector. In 1866 he was elected governor of Oregon for four years, and from 1871 served four years as governor of Utah territory. He died Jan. 14, 1890, in Portland, Ore.
Woods, Henry
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1790 to 1803.
Woods, John
governor. He was governor of Illinois for a part of the years 1860 and 1861.
Woods, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1817.
Woods, John
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1794 in Dauphin county, Pa.
In 1824 he was elected from Ohio to congress and served two terms. In 1829 he became the editor and publisher of the Hamilton Intelligencer. In 1845 he was elected auditor of the state, which office he held for two terms. He died July 30, 1855, in Hamilton, Ohio.
Woods, John Lamb
lumberman, financier, philanthropist, was born Feb. 11, 1821, in Corinth, Vt. He erected entirely at his own expense a new college building for the medical department of the Western Reserve university of Cleveland, and the building ranks among the finest in the United States.
The Woman's college of the same university also received from him a large endowment in memory of his wife, as did also the Lakeside hospital of Cleveland, Ohio. Among his other gifts to the cause of education and science, he built for the Bradford academy of Bradford, Vt., a commodious school building, and also erected and liberally endowed a public library there. He died March 27, 1892, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Woods, Mrs. Kate Tannatt
author, poet, was born in 1838 in Peekskill, N. Y. She is a writer of Salem, Mass., standard collections. and the author of Six Little Rebels; Dr. Dick; Out and About; The Wooing of Grandmother Grandfather Grey; Grey; Children's Stories; Toots and His Friends; and The Duncans on Land and Sea. Her poems were given a place in Poets of America and other
Woods, Katherine Pearson
author, was born in 1853 in West Virginia.
She is the author of The Crowning of Candace; John, a Tale of King Messiah; From Dusk to Dawn; A Web of Gold; Metzerott, Shoemaker, a protest against social injustice; and Mine and Thine.
Woods, Leonard
educator, clergyman, author, was born June 19, 1774, in Princeton, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, professor at Andover seminary in 1808-54, and the author of Letters to Unitarians; Inspiration of the Scriptures; Memoirs of American Missionaries; Church Government; Lectures on Swedenborgianism; and Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection. He died Aug. 24, 1854, in Andover, Mass.
Woods, Leonard
clergyman, educator, college president, author, was born Nov. 24, 1807, in West Newbury, Mass.
In 1831 he was an instructor in the Theological institution, and the same year translated and published an edition of Knapp's Theology. He was editor of the Literary and Theological Review during 1834-37; became professor of biblical literature in the Theological seminary of Bangor in 1836, and in 1839 became president of Bowdoin college. In 1866 he resigned the presidency of that institution, and the following year received a commission from the governor of Maine to collect material in Europe for the early history of the state for the Maine Historical society. He died Dec. 24, 1878.
Woods, Micajah
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1776 in Albemarle county, Va. He was for twenty years a member of the justice's court for Albemarle county, and for many years the presiding justice of that county. He died in 1837 in Albemarle county, Va.
Woods, Virna
educator, author, was born in 1864 in Ohio. He is an educator of Sacramento, Cal., and the author of A Modern Magdalene, a novel; and The Amazons, a lyrical drama.
Woods, W. B
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born in Newark, Ohio. In 1857 he was elected to the Ohio legislature and made speaker, and was re-elected to the same body in 1859. In 1861 he went into the military service as lieutenant-colonel of the seventy-sixth Ohio infantry; served until the close of the war, and was mustered out with the rank of brigadier-general and brevet major-general. He was mustered out of service in Alabama, where he remained.
In 1868 he was chosen a state chancellor for six years; and after serving as such two years, was appointed circuit judge of the United States for the fifth circuit, residing in Mobile. In 1881 he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States.
Woods, William
clergyman, legis-- lator, was born in 1738 in Albemarle county, Va. In 1780 he founded the old Albemarle Baptist church, near the university of Virginia. At the request of Jefferson he resigned his charge in 1799 that he might be elected to the legislature. He died in 1819 in Albemarle county, Va.
Woods, William
state legislator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1823 to 1825, and a member of the state assembly from Steuben county in 1828.
Woods, William Allan
educator, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born May 16, 1837, near Farmington, Tenn.
In 1862 he moved to Goshen, Ind., where he practiced his profession successfully, and in 1867 was elected a representative in the state legislature. In 1873 he was elected judge of the thirty-fourth judicial circuit, and served by re-election until 1881, when he was elected judge of the state supreme court. He was soon after made chief justice of that court, and in 1883 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Indiana, and moved to Indianapolis. He is now United States circuit judge for the seventh circuit.
Woods, William Stone
financier, philanthropist, was born Nov. 1, 1840, in Columbia, Mo. He invested largely in real estate, being to-day the owner of much valuable business property, which is covered with buildings and rented to good advantage. In 1890 he gave fifty thousand dollars to the Orphans' school of Fulton, Mo.
Woodson, Samuel H
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1821 to 1825.
Woodson, Samuel H
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1815, in Jessamine county, Ky. He was a member of the Missouri general assembly in 1853 and 1854, and was a member of the constitutional convention of Missouri in 1855. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from that state, and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Woodson, Silas
lawyer, jurist, governor. He was governor of Missouri from 1873 to 1875; and at the time of his death was judge of the criminal court of Buchanan county. He died Nov. 9, 1896, in St. Joseph, Mo.
Woodville, Richard Caton
artist, was born about 1825 in Baltimore, Md. Among his effective and well-finished genre pictures were Old '76; Young '48; The Politicians; The Game of Chess; Waiting for the Stage; and The Sailor's Wedding. He died Sept. 13, 1855, in England.
Woodward, Ashbel
physician, author, was born June 26, 1804, in Wellington, Conn. He was a physician of Franklin, Conn., and the author of Vindication of General Israel Putnam; Vindication of Army Surgeons; Life of General Nathaniel Lyon; and Medical Ethics, his principal writings. He died Nov. 20, 1885, in Franklin, Conn.
Woodward, Augustus B
lawyer, jurist, was born about 1775 in Virginia.
He was appointed a judge of the territory of Michigan, a position he held during 1805-24. He was the author of a Code of Laws, which bears his name. 1824 he was appointed a judge for the territory of Florida, and died there after a service of three years. He died in 1827 in Florida.
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Woodward, Calvin Milton
soldier, educator, author, was born Aug. 25, 1837, in Fitchburg, Mass. He is a St.
Louis educator, professor in Washington university from 1868, and the author of History of the St. Louis Bridge; and The Manual Training School: Its Aims, Methods and Results.
Woodward, Edward P
clergyman, poet, was born June 8, 1840, in Warsaw, N. Y. Since 1881 he has been pastor of the Second Advent church of Portland, Maine, and is also vice-president of the Maine State Advent Christian conference.
His poems have appeared in the leading religious and secular publications.
Woodward, Francis Channing
author, was born in 1812 in Connecticut.
He was a once popular writer of juvenile tales, among which are, Uncle Frank's Home Stories; and Stories for Little Folks. He died in 1859.