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Woods, Mrs. Kate Tannatt
author, poet, was born in 1838 in Peekskill, N. Y. She is a writer of Salem, Mass., standard collections. and the author of Six Little Rebels; Dr. Dick; Out and About; The Wooing of Grandmother Grandfather Grey; Grey; Children's Stories; Toots and His Friends; and The Duncans on Land and Sea. Her poems were given a place in Poets of America and other
Woods, Katherine Pearson
author, was born in 1853 in West Virginia.
She is the author of The Crowning of Candace; John, a Tale of King Messiah; From Dusk to Dawn; A Web of Gold; Metzerott, Shoemaker, a protest against social injustice; and Mine and Thine.
Woods, Leonard
educator, clergyman, author, was born June 19, 1774, in Princeton, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, professor at Andover seminary in 1808-54, and the author of Letters to Unitarians; Inspiration of the Scriptures; Memoirs of American Missionaries; Church Government; Lectures on Swedenborgianism; and Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection. He died Aug. 24, 1854, in Andover, Mass.
Woods, Micajah
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1776 in Albemarle county, Va. He was for twenty years a member of the justice's court for Albemarle county, and for many years the presiding justice of that county. He died in 1837 in Albemarle county, Va.
Woods, Virna
educator, author, was born in 1864 in Ohio. He is an educator of Sacramento, Cal., and the author of A Modern Magdalene, a novel; and The Amazons, a lyrical drama.
Woods, William
clergyman, legis-- lator, was born in 1738 in Albemarle county, Va. In 1780 he founded the old Albemarle Baptist church, near the university of Virginia. At the request of Jefferson he resigned his charge in 1799 that he might be elected to the legislature. He died in 1819 in Albemarle county, Va.
Woods, William
state legislator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1823 to 1825, and a member of the state assembly from Steuben county in 1828.
Woods, William Stone
financier, philanthropist, was born Nov. 1, 1840, in Columbia, Mo. He invested largely in real estate, being to-day the owner of much valuable business property, which is covered with buildings and rented to good advantage. In 1890 he gave fifty thousand dollars to the Orphans' school of Fulton, Mo.
Woodson, Samuel H
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1821 to 1825.
Woodson, Samuel H
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1815, in Jessamine county, Ky. He was a member of the Missouri general assembly in 1853 and 1854, and was a member of the constitutional convention of Missouri in 1855. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from that state, and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Woodson, Silas
lawyer, jurist, governor. He was governor of Missouri from 1873 to 1875; and at the time of his death was judge of the criminal court of Buchanan county. He died Nov. 9, 1896, in St. Joseph, Mo.
Woodville, Richard Caton
artist, was born about 1825 in Baltimore, Md. Among his effective and well-finished genre pictures were Old '76; Young '48; The Politicians; The Game of Chess; Waiting for the Stage; and The Sailor's Wedding. He died Sept. 13, 1855, in England.