WOODS, LEONARD, JR.: Congregationalist and educator; b. in Newbury, Mass., Nov. 24, 1807; d. in Boston Dec. 24, 1878. He was graduated from Union College, 1827, and from Andover Seminary, 1830; was resident graduate scholar at Andover for a year; was ordained, 1833; editor of The New York Literary and Theological Review, 1834-37; professor of sacred literature in Bangor Theological Seminary, 1836-39; and president of Bowdoin College, Me., 1839-66. In 1867 he visited Europe, under a commission to secure materials for a documentary history of Maine. He had the assistance of J. G. Kohl of Bremen, and the result of his work was the procuring of the Hakluyt manuscript of the Westerne Planting, and the publication of the Discovery of Maine (Portland, 1868). His only independent theological publication was his translation of George C. Knapp's Lectures on Christian Theology (2 vols., New York and Andover, 1831-33). He was famous for oratory, and even more remarkable for his conversational gifts.

Bibliography: The Memorial Discourse by C. C. Everett is in Collections of the Maine Historical Society, vol. viii., Portland, Me., 1881; and Professor Park's Memorial Sermon was published at Andover, 1879.

WOOLSEY, THEODORE DWIGHT: American Congregationalist; b. in New York Oct. 31, 1801; d. in New Haven, Conn., July 1, 1889. He was graduated from Yale College, 1820; studied law for a year in Philadelphia, and theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, N. J., 1821-23; was a tutor at Yale College, 1823-25; was licensed to preach, 1825; and studied the Greek language and literature in Germany, France, and Italy, 1827-30. Returning to the United States, he was professor of Greek at Yale, 1831-46, when he was chosen president; in 1871 he resigned and withdrew from public life. He was an authority on international law, and was also a member of the American Company of Revision of the New Testament, and its chairman, 1871-81. He had extended literary interests, but his works pertaining to theology were Religion of the Present and of the Future: Sermons preached chiefly at Yale College (New York, 1871); Helpful Thoughts for Young Men (Boston, 1874); and Communism and Socialism in their History and Theory: A Sketch (New York, 1880); his chief work was the standard Introduction to the Study of International Law, designed as art Aid in Teaching and in Historical Studies (Boston, 1860); and Essays on Divorce and Divorce Legislation,, with Special Reference to the United States (New York, 1869).

Bibliography: An excellent appreciation by J. Cooper is found in the Bibliotheca Sacra, lvi (1899), 607-638.