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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.