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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, 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, 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.