WOOD, NATHAN EUSEBIUS: Baptist; b. at Forrestville, N. Y., June 6, 1849. He was graduated from Chicago University (A.B., 1872) and the Baptist Union Theological Seminary, Chicago (1875); was pastor of Centennial Baptist Church, Chicago (1875-77); principal of Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis. (1877-83); held pastorates at Memorial Baptist Church, Chicago (1883-86); Strong Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn (1886-92); Brookline, Mass. (1892-94), and the First Baptist Church, Boston (1894-99); and was president of Newton Theological Institution, Newton Center, Mass. (1899-1908). He is president of the Northern Baptist Education Society, chairman of the executive committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and a member of the executive board of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society and of the American Baptist Education Society. In theology he is moderately conservative, and has edited J. R. Boise's Exegetical Notes on the Greek Epistles of the Apostle Paul (New York, 1896), and has written History of the First Baptist Church of Boston, Mass. (Philadelphia, 1899).

WOODCOCK, CHARLES EDWARD: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Kentucky; b. at New Britain, Conn., June 12, 1854. He was educated by private tutors and was graduated from Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn. (1882). He was curate of Grace Church, Baltimore (1882-84); rector of the Church of the Ascension, New Haven, Conn. (1884-88); Christ Church, Ansonia, Conn. (1888-1900); and St. John's, Detroit, Mich. (1900-1905). In 1905 he was consecrated bishop of Kentucky.

WOODROW, JAMES: Presbyterian; b. at Carlisle, England, May 30, 1828; d. at Columbia, S. C., Jan. 17, 1907. He was educated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa..(A.B., 1849), Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard (1853), and the University of Heidelberg (Ph.D., 1856), after which he spent an additional year of study in Europe. He was professor of natural science in Oglethorpe University, Milledgeville, Ga., in 1853-&1, and in 1861

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Word of God was appointed professor of natural science in con nection with revelation in the Presbyterian Theo logical Seminary at Columbia, S. C. In 1884 he was deposed from his position on account of the views which he advocated regarding evolution, but the action was not sustained by the controlling synods, and in the following year he was officially informed by the board, which had been remodeled in the mean time, that he had not been removed, but was still in office, whereupon he resumed his duties as chairman of the faculty and professor. He was chief of the laboratory of the medical de partment of the Confederate Army at Columbia, S. C., in 1863-65, and was also professor of natural science in South Carolina College, Columbia, S. C., in 1869-72 and again in 1880-97, while from 1891 to 1897, when he retired, he was president of the same institution. He was editor and proprietor of the quarterly Southern Presbyterian Review (1861 1885) and of the weekly Southern' Presbyterian (1865-93).