lished "Ligature of the External Iliac Artery fol- lowed by Secondary Haemorrhage " and " Phosphor- Necrosis of the Lower Jaw " (1856), and " Early History of Ligation of the Primitive Carotid."
WOOD, John, author, b. in Scotland about
1775 : d. in Richmond, Va., in May, 1822. He was
residing in Switzerland in 1798 at the time of the
French invasion. On returning home, he became
in the following year master of the Edinburgh
academy for the improvement of arts in Scotland.
About 1800 he emigrated to the United States. In
1806 he edited the " Western World " in Kentucky,
and in 1817 he had charge of " The Atlantic
World," a paper published at Washington, D. C.
He subsequently resided at Richmond, V T a., where
he was employed in making county maps. He
published, besides other works, " General View of
the History of Switzerland" (Edinburgh, 1799);
" Letter to A. Addison, Esq., in Answer to his
' Rise and Progress of Revolution' " (Philadelphia,
1801); '"Pull Exposition of the Clintonian Fac-
tion, and the Society of the Columbian Illumi-
nati " (Newark, 1802) ; " History of the Administra-
tion of John Adams " (New York, 1802 ; suppressed
by Aaron Burr ; new ed., with notes and appendix
by John Henry Sherburne, Philadelphia, 1846) ;
"Narrative of the Suppression", by Col. Burr, of
the ' History of the Administration of John
Adams,' with a Biography of Jefferson and Hamil-
ton " (1802) ; " Full Statement of the Trial and
Acquittal of Aaron Burr " (Alexandria, 1807) ;
and " New Theorv of the Diurnal Rotation of the
Earth " (Richmond, 1809). Of the " History of
the Administration of John Adams " James Par-
ton, in his "Life of Aaron Burr," says: "Stu-
pidity, Ignorance, and Falsehood combined their
several powers in the production of this indigested
mass of tedious lies." Mr. Wood's statements
were also traversed in " Antidote to John Wood's
Poison " (Philadelphia, 1802).
WOOD, John, pioneer, b. in Moravia, Cavuga
co.. N. Y., 20 Dec, 1798 ; d. in Quincy, 111., 4 June,
1880. He emigrated to Illinois in 1819, and in
1822 built the first cabin on the site of the present
city of Quincy, living in it alone during one win-
ter. In 1825 he secured the laying .out of Adams
county, of which Quincy is the county-seat. For
the succeeding sixty years he was the foremost
figure in all matters relating to the city that he
founded and made his home. He served as town
trustee from 1834 till 1840, was many times alder-
man, and seven times mayor. In 1850 he was
eleoted to the state senate, where he sat till 1854.
In 1856 he was elected lieutenant-governor, and he
succeeded to the governorship in 1859. He had
enlisted in the Black Hawk war in 1832, and at
the beginning of the civil war he was appointed
quartermaster-general of Illinois. In 1861 he was
sent as a delegate to the Peace conference at Wash-
ington, and in 1864 was elected colonel of the
137th Illinois volunteers. Gov. Wood was one of
the few men who, from the outset, comprehended
the scope of the coming struggle. On being ques-
tioned by Gov. Richard J. Oglesby as to whether
a call for 75,000 men for three months' service
would be sufficient, he replied : " I know these
people, their attachment to slavery, and the deep
feeling that actuates them. . . . They will fight
long and desperately. What we want, and want
now. and must have, for it will take it all — I know
it will— is 500,000 men and $500,000,000." After
taking the field, Col. Wood was placed in com-
mand of a brigade at Memphis, where he was
stationed at the time of Gen. Nathan B. Forrest's
raid on that city. As quartermaster-general he
made frequent visits to the armies both in Virginia
and in the southwest, giving personal atteution to
the wants of the various Illinois regiments. He
was strongly anti-slavery in sentiment, and more
than any one man in northwestern Illinois is said
to have contributed to the casting of the vote in
that region against the slave-state scheme of the
convention of 1824. His townsmen dedicated a
monument to his memory on 4 July, 1883.
WOOD, Joseph, patriot, b, in Pennsylvania : d.
in Sunbury, Ga.. in 1789. During the early part
of the Revolutionary war he saw service with the
2d Pennsylvania regiment and rose to the rank of
colonel. In 1776 he was on duty in Canada. To-
ward the close of that year he removed to Georgia
and settled in St. John's parish (afterward Liberty
county), where he became a planter and was elected
a member of the council of safety. In 1777-'9 Col.
Wood represented Georgia in the Continental con-
gress, for which he was placed on the list of citi-
zens that were disqualified by act of the Tory gen-
eral assembly of the state on 6 July, 1780, during
the British occupation. In this document he is
stigmatized as a " member of the rebel congress."
Col. Wood was a man of unblemished character
and held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens.
WOOD, Reuben, lawyer, b. in Rutland county,
Vt., in 1792; d. in Rockport, Cuyahoga co., Ohio,
2 Oct., 1864. He served in the war of 1812 as
captain of Vermont volunteers, and after studying
law was admitted to the bar, began to practise
in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1825 till 1828 he
was a member of the state senate. In 1830 he was
appointed president-judge of the 3d district, and
in 1833 he became judge of the state supreme
court, which office he held until 1845. In 1849 he
was elected governor by the Democrats, and he
was re-elected in 1850, when the new constitution
went into effect. In 1852 the Democratic national
convention discussed the nomination of Gov. Wood
for the presidency, but finally united upon Franklin Pierce.
In 1853 he was appointed U.S. consul
at Valaparaiso, and he resided there eighteen months,
when he resigned and retired from public life.
WOOD, Samuel Casey, Canadian merchant, b.
in Bath, Lennox co., Ont., 27 Dec, 1830. His fa-
ther, Thomas Smith Wood, was formerly of Sara-
toga Springs, N. Y. The son was educated at
various common schools, and taught three yean,
when he embarked in trade, taking a situation in
a country store. Later he opened an establishment
on his own account in Mariposa, Victoria co., and
subsequently became clerk of the township coun-
cil. From 1860 till 1876 he held the post of county
clerk and county treasurer. He was chairman of
the high-school board in Lindsay, Ont., and was
the representative of the public-school inspectors
in the council of public instruction. On 25 Feb.,
1871, he entered the legislative assembly of Ontario,
in the Liberal interest, as member for South Vic-
toria, and the premier, Oliver Mowat, invited him
in July, 1875, to enter his government as secretary,
registrar, and commissioner of agriculture, in
March, 1877, on a readjustment of the portfolios,
he assumed the departments of finance and agri-
culture. In March, 1883, he retired from public
life altogether. He was chairman of the Ontario
agricultural commission of 1881, and two vears
later accepted the office of manager of the Free-
hold loan and savings company.
WOOD, Silas, legislator, b. in Suffolk county, N. Y., in 1769; d. in Huntington, N. Y., 2 March, 1847. He was graduated at Princeton in 1789. and
during the succeeding five years was a tutor there. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and
