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Wood, William Maxwell

naval officer, inventor, author, was born March 9, 1850, in Baltimore, Md. He has patented a boat-detaching apparatus, which has been adopted in the United States navy and merchant service. He is the author of an article on Life-Boats and Boat-Detaching Apparatus.

WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD, educator, author, was born May 12, 1855, in Beverly, Mass. He is a prominent literary critic of New York city, professor of literature in Columbia university, and editor, with E. C. Stedman, of the complete works of Poe. He has also edited a complete edition of Shelley, with Memoir and Notes. He is the author of A History of Wood Engraving; The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems; Life of Edgar Allan Poe; Life of James Russell Lowell; and Studies in Letters and Life.

WOODBRIDGE, FREDERICK ENOCH, lawyer, state legislature, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1819, in Vergennes, Vt.

He served three years in the Vermont state legislature; two years in the state senate and three years as state auditor.

In 1863 he was elected a representative from Vermont to the thirty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the thirtyninth and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died April 26, 1888, in Vergennes, Vt.