Part 71

=Willson, James Renwick.= _Pa._, 1780-1853. A Reformed Presbyterian clergyman in New York and Pennsylvania. History of the Church of Scotland; The Written Law; Historical Sketch of Opinions on the Atonement.

=Willson, Marcius.= _Ms._, 1813- ----. An educator of Vineland, New Jersey. Civil Polity and Political Economy; Mosaics of Bible History; and many school text-books. _Har._

=Wilmer, Lambert A----.= _Circa_ 1805-1863. A Philadelphia journalist. New System of Grammar; The Quacks of Helicon; Life of De Soto; Our Press Gang, an Exposition of the Corruptions of American Newspapers (1859); Recantation: a Poem; Somnia; Liberty Triumphant.

=Wilmer, Richard Hooker.= _Va._, 1816-1900. The second Protestant Episcopal bishop of Alabama. The Recent Past from a Southern Standpoint. _Wh._

=Wilmshurst, Zavarr.= _E._, 1824-1887. A journalist of New York city. The Viking, an epic; The Winter of the Heart, and Other Poems; The Siren; Ralph and Rose, a Poem.

=Wilson, Alexander.= _S._, 1766-1813. A Scottish ornithologist and verse-writer who came to America in 1794. He is often called the father of American ornithology. Watty and Meg, a narrative poem; American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States (continued by Charles Lucien Bonaparte). _See Life by G. F. Ord; Life by Brightwell, 1860; Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Co._

=Wilson, Mrs. Augusta Jane [Evans].= _Ga._, 1835- ----. A once popular novelist living at Mobile. Her writings had at one time an extraordinary vogue, but are now much less read. Beulah; Macaria; Vashti; St. Elmo; Inez, a Tale of the Alamo; Infelice; At the Mercy of Tiberius. _See Manly’s Southern Literature._ _Dil._

=Wilson, Henry.= _N. H._, 1812-1875. A Massachusetts statesman who was vice-president of the United States at the time of his death. History of Anti-Slavery Measures; Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America. _See Life and Public Services of by G. E. Nason._ _Hou._

=Wilson, James Grant.= _S._, 1832- ----. Son of W. Wilson, _infra_. A littérateur of New York city who, besides editing Appletons’ Cyclopædia of American Biography, has published Poets and Poetry of Scotland; Mr. Secretary Pepys and his Diary; Love in Letters; Bryant and His Friends; Centennial History of the Diocese of New York; Life of General Grant; Life of Fitz Greene Halleck; Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers. _Dil. Har._

=Wilson, James Harrison.= _Il._, 1837- ----. A United States army officer. China: Travels and Investigations in the Middle Kingdom; Life of Andrew Alexander; Life of General Grant (with C. A. Dana, _supra_). _Ap._

=Wilson, James Patriot.= _Del._, 1769-1830. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Lectures on the Parables; Essay on Grammar; Common Objections to Christianity; Easy Introduction to Hebrew, are among his works.

=Wilson, John.= _E._, 1588-1667. A Puritan clergyman, the first pastor in Boston, and long prominent in the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the colony. Some Helps to Faith; Famous Deliverances of the English Nation, a poem; The Day Breaking if not the Sun Rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England.

=Wilson, John.= _S._, 1802-1868. A Scottish printer who came to America in 1846, and established himself in the printing business in Cambridge. A Treatise on English Punctuation is his best-known work, but he wrote others on Scripture Proofs of Unitarianism; The Concessions of Trinitarians; Unitarian Principles Confirmed. _A. U. A._

=Wilson, John Grover.= _Del._, 1810-1885. A Philadelphia clergyman, originally of the Methodist Protestant denomination, but after 1855 the church of which he was pastor was known as the Ebenezer Independent Church. Among his various works are, Discourses on Prophecy; Writings in Prose and Verse; The Sabbath and Its Law; Atheism and Theism.

=Wilson, John Laird.= _S._, 1832-1896. A journalist of New York city, but prior to 1866 a United Presbyterian minister in Scotland. The Battles of the Civil War; Life of John Wycliffe. _Su._

=Wilson, John Leighton.= 1809-1880. A Presbyterian missionary to Africa. Western Africa: its History, Condition, and Prospects (1857). _See Life by Du Bose, 1895._ _Har._

=Wilson, Peter.= _S._, 1746-1825. An educator of New York city, classical professor at Columbia College, 1789-1792 and 1797-1820. Rules of Latin Prosody; Introduction to Greek Prosody; Compendium of Greek Prosody.

=Wilson, Robert Anderson.= _N. Y._, 1812- ----. A lawyer of California. Mexico and its Religion, reissued as Mexico, California, and Central America; New History of the Conquest of Mexico.

=Wilson, Robert Burns.= _Pa._, 1850- ----. An artist and verse-writer of Louisville. Life and Love, a volume of verse.

=Wilson, Samuel Farmer.= _Ct._, 1805-1870. A New Orleans journalist. History of the American Revolution, long a popular work.

=Wilson, Samuel Graham.= 18-- - ----. A Presbyterian missionary in Persia. Persian Life and Customs. _Rev._

=Wilson, Theodore Delevan.= _L. I._, 1840-1896. A naval architect of note in the government service. Ship Building, Theoretical and Practical.

=Wilson, Thomas.= _Pa._, _c._ 1768-_c._ 1828. A Philadelphia printer. Principal American Military and Naval Heroes (1821); The Picture of Philadelphia for 1824.

=Wilson, [Thomas] Woodrow.= _Va._, 1856- ----. A professor of jurisprudence at Princeton College. Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics; The State Elements of Historical and Practical Politics; An Old Master, and Other Political Essays; Division and Reunion, 1829-1889; George Washington; Mere Literature, and Other Essays. _Har. He. Hou. Lgs. Scr._

=Wilson, William.= _S._, 1801-1860. A Scottish verse-writer who became a bookseller and publisher in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1854. Poems, edited by B. J. Lossing (1870).

=Wilson, William Dexter.= _N. H._, 1816-1900. An Episcopal clergyman of Syracuse, professor of philosophy at Cornell University, 1868-86. History of the Reformation in England; The Church Identified; Psychology; The Foundations of Religious Belief; Elementary Treatise on Logic; Live Questions in Psychology and Metaphysics; Introduction to the Study of the History of Philosophy. _Ap._

=Wilstach, John Augustine.= _D. C._, 1824-1897. A lawyer of Lafayette, Indiana, who has published a translation into English verse, with variorum notes, of the complete works of Virgil; also a translation of Dante’s Divina Commedia into English verse. _Hou._

=Wilstach, Joseph Walter.= _Ind._, 1857- ----. Son of J. A. Wilstach, _supra_. A lawyer of Lafayette, Indiana. Horatian Odes; Montalembert: a Character Study.

=Wiman, Erastus.= _Ont._, 1834-1904. Formerly a prominent capitalist of New York city. Chances of Success.

=Winans, Ross.= _N. J._, 1796-1877. An eminent inventor. One Religion: Many Creeds.

=Winchell, Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1824-1891. A professor of geology at the University of Michigan, 1854-73 and 1879-91. Sketches of Creation; Pre-Adamites; Doctrine of Evolution; World Life; Science and Religion; The Geology of the Stars; Thoughts on Causality; Sparks from a Geologist’s Hammer; Geological Excursions; Geological Studies; Walks and Talks in the Geological Field. _Har. Sc._

=Winchell, Newton Horace.= _N. Y._, 1839- ----. Brother of A. Winchell, _supra_. State geologist of Minnesota. Geology of Minnesota; Annual Reports on the Geological Natural History Survey of Minnesota from 1872.

=Winchester, Carroll.= _See Curtis, Mrs._

=Winchester, Elhanan.= _Ms._, 1751-1797. A Universalist clergyman of Philadelphia, but in earlier life a Baptist minister. New Book of Poems on Several Occasions; Universal Restoration; Prophecies to be Fulfilled; Progress and Empire of Christ, a Poem. _See Life of, by E. M. Stone, 1836._

=Winchester, Samuel Gover.= _Md._, 1805-1841. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and subsequently of Natchez. Companion for the Sick; Family Religion; The Theatre.

=Winebrenner, John.= _Md._, 1797-1860. A German Reformed clergyman of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, founder in 1830 of the Church of God, a sect commonly known as Winebrennerians. Regeneration; Practical and Doctrinal Sermons; Brief Views of the Church of God.

=Wines, Enoch Cobb.= _N. J._, 1806-1879. A Congregational clergyman, widely known as a philanthropist, who laboured extensively in behalf of prison reform. Two and a Half Years in the Navy; A Trip to China; Hints on Popular Education; How Shall I Govern My School; Commentaries on Laws of the Ancient Hebrews; Adam and Christ; Prisons and Reformatories of the United States and Canada; State of Prisons and Child-Saving Institutions Throughout the World.

=Wines, Frederic Howard.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. Son of E. C. Wines, _supra_. Formerly a Presbyterian clergyman, but now devoted in official and private capacities to various reforms connected with the defective, dependent, and criminal classes. Punishment and Reformation, an Historical Sketch of the Rise of the Penitentiary System; The Liquor Problem in its Legislative Aspects (with John Koren). _Cr. Hou._

=Wing, Conway Phelps.= _O._, 1809-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, long active as an abolitionist. Among his writings are, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; History of the Presbyteries of York and Carlisle.

=Wingate, Charles Edgar Lewis.= _N. H._, 1861- ----. A Boston journalist. Shakespeare’s Heroines on the Stage. _Cr._

=Wingate, Charles Frederick.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A sanitary engineer of New York city. Views and Interviews on Journalism; Plumbing and House Drainage; Twilight Tracts.

=Wingate, George Wood.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. Brother of C. F. Wingate, _supra_. A lawyer and soldier. Last Campaign of the Twenty-Second Regiment; Manual of Rifle Practice; On Horseback Through the Yellowstone.

=Winser, Henry Jacob.= _Ba._, 1833-1896. A journalist of New York city, and subsequently of Newark, New Jersey, United States consul at Sonneburg, Germany, 1869-81. The Great Northwest; The Yellowstone National Park; The Seat of a Thousand Industries, a description of Newark.

=Winship, Albert Edward.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. An educator of Boston, editor of The Journal of Education, Methods and Principles in Bible Study; Life of Horace Mann, _supra_.

=Winslow, Mrs. Catherine Mary [Reignolds].= _E._, 183- - ----. Best known as Mrs. Erving Winslow. A once popular actress of Boston, and since her retirement from the stage well known as a public reader. Yesterdays with Actors; Readings (with notes) from the Old English Dramatists, _Le._

=Winslow, Charles Frederick.= _Ms._, 1811-1877. A physician. Cosmography; The Cooling Globe; Force and Nature.

=Winslow, Edward.= _E._, 1595-1655. A notable member of the Plymouth colony who succeeded Bradford as governor of that colony in 1633. Good Newes from New England; Hypocrisy Unmasked; New England’s Salamander; The Glorious Progress of the Gospel Among the Indians of New England. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Bibliography of Rhode Island._

=Winslow, Mrs. Erving.= _See Winslow, Mrs. Catharine._

=Winslow, Helen Maria.= _Vt._, 1851- ----. A Boston journalist. Concerning Cats; Literary Boston of To-Day.

=Winslow, Hubbard.= _Vt._, 1799-1864. A Presbyterian clergyman who held charges in Boston and other localities, and among whose writings are, Hidden Life; Moral Philosophy; Doctrine of the Trinity; Controversial Theology; Christian Doctrines; Young Man’s Aid to Knowledge, a very popular work; Intellectual Philosophy.

=Winslow, Miron.= _Vt._, 1789-1864. Brother of H. Winslow, _supra_. A Presbyterian missionary in Ceylon and Madras. Hints on Missions to India; Sketch of the Missions; Comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary.

=Winslow, Stephen Noyes.= _Vt._, 1826- ----. A Philadelphia journalist. Biographies of Successful Philadelphia Merchants.

=Winslow, William Copley.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. Son of H. Winslow, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Boston widely known as an Egyptologist. Israel in Egypt; The Store City of Pithom; A Greek City in Egypt; The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland.

=Winsor, Justin.= _Ms._, 1831-1897. The librarian of Harvard University. He was editor of The Memorial History of Boston; Narrative and Critical History of America. His original works include, Reader’s Handbook of the American Revolution; Cartier to Frontenac: Geographical Discovery in the Interior of North America in its Historical Relations, 1534-1700; Christopher Columbus; The Mississippi Basin: the Struggle in America between England and France, 1697-1763; Was Shakespeare Shapleigh?; History of Duxbury; The Westward Movement. _See Bibliography of Maine._ _Hou._

=Winter, William.= _Ms._, 1836- ----. A prominent littérateur and dramatic critic of New York city. Poems; The Trip to England; The Jeffersons; English Rambles; Shakespeare’s England; Gray Days and Gold; Old Shrines and Ivy; Shadows of the Stage; My Witness, a Book of Verse; The Wanderers, a collection of poems; Thistle Down, a Book of Lyrics; The Queen’s Domain, and Other Poems; The Convert, and Other Poems; Brown Heath and Blue Bells; George William Curtis: a Eulogy. _See Foley’s American Authors._ _Hou. Kt. Mac._

=Winthrop, John.= _E._, 1588-1649. The first governor of Massachusetts. Arbitrary Government Described; History of New England from 1630 to 1649. _See Tyler’s American Literature; Letters of, to Margaret Winthrop; Lives by R. C. Winthrop, infra, 1867, J. H. Twichell, supra, 1891; Atlantic Monthly, January, 1864._

=Winthrop, John.= _Ms._, 1714-1779. Great-grandson of J. Winthrop, _supra_. A professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard University, 1738-79, and the foremost teacher of science in America in his century. Lectures on Earthquakes; Account of Some Fiery Meteors; Lectures on the Parallax.

=Winthrop, Laura.= Sister of T. Winthrop, _infra_. _See Johnson, Mrs. L._

=Winthrop, Robert Charles.= _Ms._, 1809-1894. Descendant of Governor Winthrop, _supra_. A Massachusetts statesman, a lifelong resident of Boston, noted for the polish and refinement of his oratory. Addresses and Speeches; a Life of Governor John Winthrop; Washington, Bowdoin, and Franklin. _See Smalley’s Studies of Men; Life by R. C. Winthrop, Jr., 1897._ _Lit._

=Winthrop, Theodore.= _Ct._, 1828-1861. Descendant of Governor Winthrop, _supra_. A brilliant young novelist who entered the Federal army at the outbreak of the Civil War and was killed at the battle of Big Bethel. John Brent; Cecil Dreeme; Edwin Brothertoft; The Canoe and the Saddle; Love and Skates; Life in the Open Air. _See Atlantic Monthly, August, 1861, and August, 1863; Life and Poems of, edited by his sister; Nichol’s American Literature._ _Ho. Int._

=Winthrop, William Woolsey.= _Ct._, 1831-1899. Brother of T. Winthrop, _supra_. A United States army officer, professor of law at West Point. Treatise on Military Law; Digest of Opinions of the Judge-Advocates-General of the Army. _Lit. Wil._

=Wirt, Mrs. Elizabeth Washington [Gamble].= _Va._, 1784-1857. Wife of W. Wirt, _infra_. Flora’s Dictionary.

=Wirt, William.= _Md._, 1772-1834. A famous Virginia statesman and orator, attorney-general of the United States, 1817-28. Life of Patrick Henry; Letters of the British Spy. _See Memoir by J. P. Kennedy, supra._ _Co. Har._

=Wise, Daniel.= “Francis Forrester.” _E._, 1813-1898. A Methodist clergyman and religious editor of Boston. Personal Effort; Heroic Methodists; Boy Travellers in Arabia; Some Remarkable Women; My Uncle Toby’s Library; Uncrowned Kings; Summer Days on the Hudson; Men of Renown, are among his numerous works. _Meth._

=Wise, Henry Alexander.= _Va._, 1806-1876. A Virginia politician, minister to Brazil, 1844-47, governor of Virginia, 1856-60, in whose administration occurred the celebrated John Brown raid. Seven Decades of the Union; Memoir of John Tyler.

=Wise, Henry Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1819-1869. Cousin of H. A. Wise, _supra_. A United States naval officer. Story of the Gray African Parrot; Captain Brand; Los Gringos; Tales for the Marines; Scampavias, from Gibel Tarak to Stamboul.

=Wise, Isaac Mayer.= _Bo._, 1819-1900. A Jewish rabbi of Cincinnati from 1854, president of Hebrew Union College. History of the Israelitish Nation; Essence of Judaism; Judaism: its Doctrines and Duties; The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth; The Cosmic God; History of the Hebrew Second Commonwealth; Pronaos to Holy Writ. _Clke._

=Wise, John.= _Ms._, 1652-1725. A Congregational clergyman of Ipswich from 1780 until his death. A strong, vigourous writer, almost the first of the American colonists to declare his belief in a government founded on human equality. The Church’s Quarrel Espoused; Vindication of the Government of New England Churches. _See Tyler’s American Literature._ _C. P. S._

=Wise, John.= _Pa._, 1808-1879. A once noted aëronaut. System of Aëronautics; Through the Air, or Forty Years’ Experience as an Aëronaut.

=Wise, John Sergeant.= _B._, 1846- ----. A lawyer of New York city. Diomed: The Life, Travels, and Observations of a Dog; The End of an Era. _Hou. Mac._

=Wisner, William.= _N. Y._, 1782-1871. A Presbyterian clergyman of Rochester, New York. Incidents in the Life of a Pastor; Civil Liberty.

=Wisner, William Carpenter.= _N. Y._, 1808-1880. Son of W. Wisner, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman at Lockport, New York, 1837-76. Prelacy and Parity.

=Wisser, John Philip.= _Mo._, 1852- ----. An instructor at West Point from 1878. Chemical Manipulations; Modern Gun Cotton; Practical Instruction in Minor Tactics and Strategy; Report on Military Schools of Europe. _Ap._

=Wistar, Caspar.= _Pa._, 1761-1818. A Philadelphia physician, professor of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1792-1818. System of Anatomy for Use of Students in Medicine.

=Wister, Mrs. Annis Lee [Furness].= _Pa._, 1830- ----. Daughter of W. H. Furness, _supra_. A noted and popular translator of many German novels. With F. H. Hedge, _supra_, Metrical Translations and Poems. _Hou. Lip._

=Wister, Owen.= _Pa._, 1860- ----. Son of Mrs. S. B. Wister, _infra_. A lawyer and littérateur of Philadelphia. The New Swiss Family Robinson; The Dragon of Wantley, a romance; Red Men and White, a collection of frontier stories; Lin McLean. _Har. Lip._

=Wister, Mrs. Owen.= _See Wister, Mrs. Sarah._

=Wister, Mrs. Sarah [Butler].= _Pa._, 1835- ----. Daughter of Frances Kemble. A Philadelphia writer who has published, A Boat of Glass, a poem; translations from Alfred de Musset.

=Withers, Frederic Clarke.= _E._, 1826-1901. An architect of New York city, the designer of the reredos in Trinity Church in that city. Church Architecture.

=Witherspoon, John.= _S._, 1722-1794. A Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, 1768-94, eminent in his day as a leader of opinion, both political and religious, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Ecclesiastical Characteristics; Thoughts on American Liberty; Sermons on Practical Subjects; Leading Truths of the Gospel; Letters on Marriage; Sermons on Various Subjects. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; American Historical Review, July, 1896._

=Witherspoon, Theodore Dwight.= _Al._, 1836-1898. A Presbyterian clergyman in Louisville from 1882. Children of the Covenant; Letters on Romanism.

=Withington, Leonard.= _Ms._, 1789-1885. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Massachusetts, 1816-1885. The Puritan, a series of Essays; Penitential Tears; Solomon’s Song Translated and Explained.

=Wolcott, Roger.= _Ct._, 1679-1767. A colonial governor of Connecticut, 1750-1754. Poetical Meditations. _See Everest’s Poets of Connecticut._

=Wolf, Edmund Jacob.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, professor in the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg from 1874. History of the Lutherans in America.

=Wolfe, Theodore Frelinghuysen.= _N. J._, 1843- ----. A physician and littérateur of Ledgewood, New Jersey. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors; Literary Shrines: the Haunts of Some Famous American Authors,--two widely popular books. Among his professional works are volumes on Tetanus; Anæsthesia, and other medical subjects. _Lip._

=Wolle, Francis.= _Pa._, 1817-1893. A Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, eminent as a botanist. Desmids of the United States; Fresh-Water Algæ; Diatomaceæ of North America. _Wn._

=Wollenweber, Louis August.= _G._, 1807-1888. A German printer who came to America, and, after editing several German papers in Philadelphia, removed to Reading, Pennsylvania. Sketches of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania; Treu bis in den Tod; Zwei treue Kameraden.

=Wood, Alphonso.= _N. H._, 1810-1881. An educator of Brooklyn whose text-books were very popular. Class-Book of Botany; First Lessons in Botany; Leaves and Flowers; The American Botanist.

=Wood, Benjamin.= _Ky._, 1820-1900. A journalist of New York city, member of Congress, 1861-65. Fort Lafayette, or Love and Secession.

=Wood, Charles.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of Germantown, Philadelphia. Saunterings in Europe.

=Wood, De Volson.= _N. Y._, 1832-1897. A professor of mathematics and engineering at the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1872. Treatise on Resistance of Materials; Construction of Bridges and Roofs; Elements of Analytical Mechanics; Elements of Coördinate Geometry; The Mechanics of Fluids; Trigonometry; Thermodynamics; Theory of Turbines. _Wil._

=Wood, George.= _Ms._, 1799-1870. A treasury clerk at Washington. Peter Schmeil in America; The Modern Pilgrim; Marrying Too Late; Future Life (1858), reissued in 1869 as The Gates Wide Open. _Le._

=Wood, George Bacon.= _N. J._, 1797-1879. A Philadelphia physician, medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 1835-60. The Dispensatory of the United States (with F. Bache, _supra_). The Practice of Medicine; Therapeutics and Pharmacology; Introductory Lectures and Addresses on Medical Subjects; History of the University of Pennsylvania; Lives of S. G. Morton, F. Bache. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._ _Lip._

=Wood, Henry.= _Vt._, 1834- ----. A philosophical essayist and novelist of Boston. Natural Law in the Business World; Political Economy of Natural Law; God’s Image in Man; Ideal Suggestions Through Mental Photography; Edward Burton, a novel; Studies in the Thought World. _Le._

=Wood, Horace Gay.= _Vt._, 1831-1893. A New Hampshire lawyer, who practised in New York city in his latest years. The Relation of Landlord and Tenant; Treatise on the Law of Nuisances; Master and Servant; The Law of Fire Insurance; Limitation of Actions at Law and in Equity; On the Statute of Frauds; The Law of Railroads; Legal Remedies of Mandamus and Prohibition.

=Wood, Horatio Curtis.= _Pa._, 1841- ----. Nephew of G. B. Wood, _supra_, a medical professor in the University of Pennsylvania from 1866. The Phalangidæ of the United States; Researches upon American Hemp; Brain Work and Overwork; On Fever; Nervous Diseases and their Diagnosis; Thermic Fever, or Sunstroke; Therapeutics. _Lip._

=Wood, James.= _N. Y._, 1799-1867. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator in Indiana. Old and New Theology; Treatise on Baptism; Call to the Sacred Office; The Best Lesson and the Best Time; The Gospel Fountain; Grace and Glory.

=Wood, Mrs. Jean [Moncure].= _Va._, 1754-1823. The wife of James Wood, who was governor of Virginia, 1796-99. She was socially prominent in her day. Flowers and Weeds of the Old Dominion, a book of verse.

=Wood, John.= _S._, _c._ 1755-1822. A Scottish writer who came to America in 1800 and settled in Richmond, Virginia. Among his writings are General View of the History of Switzerland; History of the Administration of John Adams.

=Wood, John Seymour.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A lawyer and littérateur of New York city, editor of The Bachelor of Arts. Gramercy Park, a story of New York; College Days, or Harry’s Career at Yale; Yale Yarns; A Coign of Vantage; An Old Beau, and Other Stories; A Daughter of Venice. _Ap. Cas. Do. Put._