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Woodbridge, Luther Dana

educator, physician, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 27, 1850, in Perth Amboy, N. J.

He received his education in the Pingry school of Elizabeth, N. J.; graduated in 1872 from the Williams college of Williamstown, Mass., from the college of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city in 1877, and subsequently from the medical department of the Vienna university. In 1872-73 he was a tutor in the Robert college of Constantinople; and in 1877-79 was house physician in the Roosevelt hospital of New York city. In 1880 he was in the Interne London hospital, England, and in 1882-83 was assistant surgeon in the Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital. Since 1884 he has been professor of anatomy and physiology in the Williams college of Williamstown, Mass. He has been president of the Berkshire District Medical society, president of the Berkshire Congregational club, and since 1894 has been lecturer on the nervous system in the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston, Mass. He is the author of The Syllabus of Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology; a pamphlet on the Abortive Treatment of Typhoid Fever, and other works.

WOODBRIDGE, SAMUEL MERRILL, clergyman, author, was born in 1819 in Massachusetts. He is a Dutch reformed clergyman, professor at Rutgers Theological seminary of New Brunswick, N. J., from 1857, and the author of Analysis of Theology; and Faith: Its True Position in the Life of Man.