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Woodward, Joseph Janvier

surgeon, author, was born Oct. 30, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa.. He was a United State's army surgeon, and the author of Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies, as Observed During the Present War (1864); and Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion. He died Aug. 17, 1884, near Philadelphia, Pa.

WOODWARD, NATHAN ARMSBY, lawyer, legislator, poet, was born March 9, 1818, in Fairfax, Vt. His parents moved to Monroe county, Ν.

Y.. in 1834.

He entered Union college and was graduated therefrom in 1845. He taught school for four or five years, in the meantime reading law, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. In 1851 he opened an office in Batavia, N. Y., to begin the practice of law. In 1862 he was elected county treasurer and held that office two terms issuing over half a million dollars of county war bonds, most of which were paid while he held the office. He served as a delegate to the state constitutional convention for the twenty-ninth senatorial district. He is the author of Pebbles and Boulders, a volume of poems.

WOODWARD, ROBERT SIMPSON, mathematician, educator, author, was born in 1849 in Michigan. He is a mathematician, professor of mechanics at Columbia university from 1893 and the author of Latitudes and Longitudes of Certain Points in Missouri, Kansas and New Mexico, and many scientific papers of value.