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Woodward, Ashbel – Wooster, David

Woodward, Ashbel

physician, author, was born June 26, 1804, in Wellington, Conn. He was a physician of Franklin, Conn., and the author of Vindication of General Israel Putnam; Vindication of Army Surgeons; Life of General Nathaniel Lyon; and Medical Ethics, his principal writings. He died Nov. 20, 1885, in Franklin, Conn.

Woodward, Augustus B

lawyer, jurist, was born about 1775 in Virginia.

He was appointed a judge of the territory of Michigan, a position he held during 1805-24. He was the author of a Code of Laws, which bears his name. 1824 he was appointed a judge for the territory of Florida, and died there after a service of three years. He died in 1827 in Florida.

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Woodward, Calvin Milton

soldier, educator, author, was born Aug. 25, 1837, in Fitchburg, Mass. He is a St.

Louis educator, professor in Washington university from 1868, and the author of History of the St. Louis Bridge; and The Manual Training School: Its Aims, Methods and Results.

Woodward, Joseph A

congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1843 to 1847.

Woodward, Samuel Bayard

physician, philanthropist, was born June 10, 1787, in Torringford, Conn. He was one of the founders of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane, and assisted to establish other philanthropic institutions. He died Jan. 3, 1850, in Northampton, Mass.

Woodward, William

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1815 to 1817.

Woodworth, James H

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 4, 1804, in Greenwich, N. Y. He moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1833; in 1839 was elected to the state senate, and in 1842 was a member of the lower house.

From 1845 to 1850 he was connected with the city government of Chicago, being. two years mayor, and was a representative from Illinois to the thirty-fourth congress.

Woolman, John

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 19, 1720, in Northampton, N. J. He was a Quaker itinerant preacher of New Jersey, in whose writings occurs the earliest protest in America against the slave trade. He is the author of Essays and Epistles; Serious Considerations; and On the Keeping of Negroes. His famous journal, by which he is most widely known, has been edited by the poet Whittier. He died Oct. 7, 1772, in England.

Woolsey, Abby Howland

philanthropist, author. She was a New York philanthropist; and the author of A Century of Nursing; Lunacy Legislation in England; Handbook for Hospital Visitors; and Hospital Laundries. She died in 1893.

Woomer, Ephraim M

soldier, bank cashier, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1844, in Jonestown, Pa. He enlisted in company A, ninety-third regiment Pennsylvania volunteers in 1861. He is cashier of the People's bank of Lebanon; was a member of the councils of the borough of Lebanon from 1883 to 1885; and president of select councils of the city of Lebanon from 1885 to 1889. He was elected from Lebanon, Pa., to the fifty-third, and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Wooster, Charles Wing

naval officer, was born in 1785 in New Haven, Conn. He served in the war with England; and in 1829 was promoted rear-admiral. He died in 1848 in California.

Wooster, David

physician, surgeon, author, was born June 10, 1825, in Jasper, N. Y. In 1858 he founded The Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal in San Francisco, Cal., which he edited four years. He has published a brochure on Diphtheria, the first publication in the United States on this disease; Diseases of the Heart; a pamphlet on Hip-Joint Disease; and a Genealogy of the Woosters in America.