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.