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WOOD, Alan:
Iron manufacturer; born in Philadelphia. July 6, 1834, the son of Alan Wood. Sr., one of the pioneers in the iron business in the United States; builder of the Con- shohocken Rolling Mills and afterward proprietor of the Delaware Iron works, near Wilmington, Del. The son was the originator of the Schuylkill Iron Works at Conshohocken, Pa. The first mill of these works was erected in 1877 and proved a decided success. The father re- tired from business in 1870, leaving his son in full charge of all his interests. Mr. Wood had received his education in the Philadelphia Central Institute, en- tered the Delaware Iron Works at the age of seventeen, and took charge of the Schuylkill Iron Works before he was twenty-one. He remained in control of these works till 1576, and invented sev- eral processes of importance in the busj- ness. In 1873 he established the First National Bank of Conshohocken and was for a time its President. In 1sie he took
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a prominent part in having the Consho- hocken water-works erected. After this period Mr. Wood spent a number of years in travel and observation, and on his re- turn home built himself a handsome resi- dence on a large estate in Montgomery County. In 1SSS he retired from the act- ive management of the iron works to this rural retreat, designing to spend his re- maining years in leisure. He is one of the Board of Directors of the Union League of Philadelphia, Mortgage and Trust Com- pany and the Haverford Cricket Club. He was elected to the Centennial Congress in 1875, but declined a second term. He married, in 1861, Mary H. Yerkes, of Montgomery County. Address, Consho- hocken, Pa .; office, 519 Arch St., Philadel- phia, Pa.
WOOD. Alfred C .:
Surgeon and physician; born at Hat- boro, Montgomery County, Pa., June 17, 1863. Attended schools in Hatboro and Friends' Central School, Philadelphia. Entered retail drug business in 1SS1; was graduated from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy with degree of Ph. G., in 1885; was graduated from Medical De- partment, University of Pennsylvania, in isss, and appointed .@sident physician to the Hospital of the University of Penn- sylvania. Appointed successively physi- cian to the out-patient department; Sur- geon to the out-patient department of the University Hospital; Assistant Surgeon to the Gynecean Hospital; Assistant Instruc- tor in Surgery, Instructor in Surgery, Demonstrator in Surgery in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania; Visiting Surgeon to the Philadelphia, St. Agnes' and St. Timothy's Hospitals; Surgeon with the rank of Major in Medical Department of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and assigned to duty with the Third Regi- ment Infantry, First Brigade. Numerous contributions to medical text-books and current medical periodicals. Republican in politics. Married Bessie Saville, dangh- ter of Dr. and Mrs. John S. Lees, Bridge- port. Montgomery County, Pa. Address, 128 South Seventeenth St., Philadelphia.
WOOD. Andrew George:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion: private Sixteenth Ohio Infantry April 20, 1561; mustered out Aug. 16, 1861. Private Fifty-first Ohio Infantry Sept. 9,
1861; First Sergeant Sept. 17, 1861; dis- charged for promotion June 15, 1863; Sec- ond Lieutenant Fifty-first . Ohio Infantry June 16, 1863; honorably mustered out Dec. 10, 1864. Elected Feb. 6, 1895. Ad- dress, 1425 Poplar St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WOOD, Cassius M .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Erie County; born in Harbor Creek Township, Erie County. Pa., Jan. 26, 1845; reared on a farm; edu- cated in the common schools; learned the trade of inachinist, and in 1880 accepted a position with the United States Indian Department on the frontier, and remained there for three years; then accepted a position as general traveling agent for the Westinghouse Company, of Schenectady, N. Y., which position he held for sixteen years; in 1300 was a delegate to the Re- publican State Convention, and was made a member of the Republican State Com- mittee; is now serving his seventh year as School Director; electer to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Ad- dress, Harbourcreek, Pa.
WOOD, Charles:
Presbyterian clergyman; born in Brook- lyn, N. Y., June 3, 1851; son of John J. and Mary Wood; he was graduated from Haverford College in 1870, and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1873 (D. D., Princeton, 1885); married, 1883, Mary II. Morris, who died June 24, 1891. Pas- ior of the Second Presbyterian Church, Walnut and Twenty-first Streets, Phila- delphia. Author of
"Saunterings in Europe." 1882; "Beginning Life," 1SS7; "Friends and Foes of Youth," 199S. Ad- dress, Overbrook, Pa.
Woon, David Dufile:
Organist, composer; born in Pittsburg, Pa., March 2, 1838; son of Jonathan and Whilhelmina Wood; entered Pennsylvania Institute for Blind. Oct. 20, 1843; was graduated June, 1856; was twice married, Oct. 1, 1856, Rachael Laird, and, secondly, July 14, 1898, Alice Burdette. Studied higher mathematics under the late James G. Blaine, 1852-1854; studied pipe organ under Wilhelm Schnabel, 1851-1852, and other musical instruments under Ernst Pfeiffer, 1852-1856. (Musical Doc., Temple College, Philadelphia). Musical composi- tions are chiefly church anthems and songs. Address, 1713 Park Ave., Phila- delphia, Pa.
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WOOD, Edward E .:
Colonel United States Army; born in Lancaster County, Pa., Sept. 17, 1846; private Company C, Seventeenth Pennsyl- vania Cavalry, Sept. 8. 1862; Sergeant, 1862; Acting First Sergeant, 1863; First Sergeant, 1864; First Lieutenant, 1864; Acting Regimental Adjutant, 1864-1865; Acting Commissary of Musters on the staff of the First Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, 1865; honorably mustered out, Aug. 7, 1865. Served in and with the Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah. Captured at Occoyuan, Va., December, 1862; confined in Castle Thunder, Richmond, Va .; ex- changed, May, 1863. After exchange was present in all the several campaigns, battles, and engagements of the Second Brigade, First Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah to the surrender at Appomat- tox, including Gettysburg, Wilderness, Winchester, Five Forks. Nominated Ca- det to the United States Military Acad- emy, 1866, and was graduated June. 1870. Second Lieutenant Eighth United States Cavalry, 1870; First Lieutenant, 1873; Captain, 1×86; Lieutenant Colonel and Professor of Modern Languages, United States Military Academy, 1892; Colonel United States Army, Oct. 1. 1902. Served since graduation on the frontier, and as Assistant Professor of French and Spanish at the United States Military Academy. and as Aide-de-Camp to Major General Schofield, United States Army. Member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Grand Army of the Re- public. Society of the Army of the Poto- mac, Society of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, Military Service Insti- tution of the United States, Cavalry As- sociation, and Association of Graduates United States Military Academy. Ad- dress, Military Academy, West Point, New York.
WOOD, Horatio C .:
Professor of therapeutics, materia med- ica and pharmacy, at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the only member of the teaching force at the university who was connected with it prior to its removal to West Philadelphia; born Jan. 13, 1841; was graduated from the Medical Depart- ment in 1862; Professor of Botany, 1886- 1576: Professor of Materia Medica, Phar- maey and Therapeutics since 1876: Clini- cal Professor of Nervous Diseases, 1975- 1.01; visiting physician to Philadelphia Hospital, 1972-1837, and at the University
Hospital since 1870; elected member of National Academy of Science, 1879; L.L. D., Yale, 1889; President pharmacopial convention of the United States; Presi- dent of College of Physicians of Phila- delphia; editor of "New Remedies," 1870- 1873; "Philadelphia Medical Times," 1873- 1880, and of "Therapeutics Gazette," since 1884; also edited "U. S. Dispensary." He is a distinguished author upon medical subjects. Among his publications are
'Experimental Researches in the Physio- logical Action of Nitrite of Hmyl." which won the Warren prize at the Massachu- setts General Hospital in 1871; "Research- es l'pon American Hemp," for which he received a special prize from the Ameri- can Philosophical Society, and "Thermic Fever, or Sunstroke," for which he was awarded the Doyleston prize of Havard University in 1872. Other published writ- ings are "Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics," 1875, and eleven later edi- tions; "United States Dispensary." chief editor since January, 1883, five editions; "Brain Work and Overwork," 1879; "Ner- vous Diseases and their Diagnosis," 1886; "Practice of Medicine in Conjunction with Professor Fitz." 1896, and monographs on the following topics: "The Myriapoda of North America," "The Phalangidae of North America." "The Fresh Water Algae of North America," and "Fever, a Study in Morbid and Normal Physiology." the last two names being issued by the Smith- sonian Institution in 1872 and 1880 re- spectively. Address, University of Penn- sylvania. Philadelphia, Pa.
WOOD, James R .:
General Passenger Agent Pennsylvania Railroad; born in Auburn, N. Y., 1843; Superintendent's Secretary. Creston, Ia .. 1869-1871; General Western Passenger Agent, Chicago, 1871-1872, Burlington & Missouri River Railroad; also General Ticket Agent in Nebraska for same, at Plattsmouth, Neb., 1873-1874; Western Land and Passenger Agent, Chicago. 1871- 1875; General Agent Grand Rapids, Mich .. 1875-1876; Assistant Superintendent, Jack- son, Mich., 1876-1878; Assistant General Passenger Agent, May to September. 1878. Michigan Central Railroad; General Pas- senger Agent. Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 1978-18\1; General Pas- senger Agent of the Pennsylvania Rail- road since April, 1881. ress, care Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pa.
WOOD, Richard:
Iron manufacturer; born in Philadel- phi, 1833; educated at Haverford College,
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Pennsylvania; treasurer of Philadelphia Board of Trade. Director of Provident Life. and Trust Company, Philadelphia; Manager of Haverford College, Trustee of University of Pennsylvania, etc. Is a manufacturer of iron materials. Address. 1620 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WOOD, Stuart:
Iron manufacturer; born in Philadelphia, May 30, 1553; was graduated at Haverford College in 1870; studied at Heidelberg and at Harvard, receiving from the iat- ter University the degree of Ph. D. in 1875 in Political Science; engaged in the manufacture of iron castings and ma- chinery and of glass and cotton in con- nection with the firms of R. D. Wood & Company. R. D. Wood & Sons, Comden Iron Works and allied firms and corpo- rations. Has written on subjects con- nected with the theory of political econo- my, and has served as Vice President of the American Economic Association, and as treasurer of the American Academy of Political and Social Science since its or- ganization. Address, Philadelphia, Pa.
WOOD, Win. H. Furness:
Journalist; born in Montreal, Canada, Dec. 10, 1868, while his parents were so- journing there; son of John Wood, of England and Mary Morgan, of Glamor- ganshire, Wales: educated at private and public schools of Philadelphia, where he entered the newspaper and magazine field as a writer. In the Common Pleas Court of that city in 1590 he took naturalization papers forswearing his allegiance to the British crown. He was correspondent in the fifty-sixth and . fifty-seventh sessions of Congress and field correspondent in the Spanish-Cuban and Spanish-American Wars. Member of the Society of the Caribbean (Spanish-American War); British Red Cross for services South Afri- ca, 1900, and Fellowship Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Address, Lebanon, Pa.
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WOODBURN, B. F .. D. D .:
Clergyman; born in Shousetown, Pa., March 23, 1822; educated at the public schools and later entered Jefferson Col- lege, Cannonsburg. Pa., and after receiv- ing his degrees entered the Western The- ological Seminary to prepare for the min- istry. Upon graduation accepted a call to Mt. Pleasant. Westmoreland County. Pa., and remained there several years. In 1870 he moved to Allegheny and be- came pastor of the Sandusky Street Bap-
tist Church; of this church he is still pas- tor. For many years he was active in edu- cational affairs in Allegheny, being a School Director of the Second Ward. mem- ber of the Board of Controllers, member of the High School Committee and Chairman of the committee in charge of the public library. At one time he was editor and publisher of The Witness, a Baptist publication. For seventeen years he was President of the Allegheny General Hospital. In 1854 he married Margaret Shouse, of Shousetown. Address, 2534 Perrysville Ave., Allegheny, Pa.
WOODBURN, James B .:
President of the First National Bank. Address, Claysville, Washington County, Pa.
WOODBURY, Frank Thomas:
Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon Unit- ed States Army; born June 10, 1875, in Philadelphia; prepared for college at East- burn Academy, Philadelphia; was gradu- ated from College Department, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, 1897, and from Med- ico-Chirurgical College in medicine in 1899. Was resident physician in Phila- delphia Hospital ( Blockley), 1899-1900. Received contract as Acting Assistant Sur- geon United States Army, July 10, 1900. Accompanied Second Battalion Third Ar- tillery to China and served there from September to October. Arrived in Manila, Nov. 20, 1900. Received commission dated March 6, 1901, as First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon, United States Army. Returned to United States and assigned to duty at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., Nov. 5. 1902. Address, Plattsburg Barracks, New York.
WOODFORD, Walter R .:
Vice President of the Pittsburg Coal Company; born at Dunkirk, N. Y., in 1857. In 1882 he became purchasing agent of the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Cleveland & Marietta Railroad; three years later AAssistant General Manager; later be- came General Superintendent of the for- mer road. In 1893 General Manager of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling and its allied coal interests. In 1899 he became President and General Manager of this road. Address, Hussey Building, Pitts- burg. Pa.
WOODMAN, Andrew Jackson:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; First Meutenant Second Maine
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Cavalry Dec. 24, 1863; honorably mustered out Dec. 20, 1865. Elected May 4, 1887. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Le- gion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WOODMANSEE, J. E .:
Born in Buckingham Township, Wayne County, May 4, 1836; was educated in the public schools; has always been a close reader and is well informed. He is well versed in agriculture. dairying, and lum- bering, having extensive tracts of timber land, and owning the finest herd of Guernsey cows in the county. During his younger days was engaged in lumbering on the Delaware; was one of the organ- izers of the Wayne Chemical Co .; has held many local offices: is President of the School Board, was member of Pennsylva- House of Representatives, 1889 and 1891, and County Treasurer, 1870-1873. Enlisted in Company F, Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers in September, 1861, and was present at the surrender of Gen. Lee to Gen. Grant at Appomattox, April 9, 1865, and of Gen. Johnson to Gen. Sherman, April 26, 1865. Is fraternally affiliated with Grand Army of the Republic Post, Odd Fellows, and Binghamton Chapter, Council and Commandery of Masons. Ad- dress, Lake Como, Pa.
WOODRING, James D .:
President Albright College; born in Le- high County, Pa., 1854; educated in the public schools, Keystone State Normal School, and was graduated from the Muhlenberg College in 1ST8; entered the ministry and served as pastor to congre- gations in Bethlehem, Allentown, Read- ing and Philadelphia. A member of the United Evangelical Church; served two years as Field Secretary of Albright Col- lege; since April, 1902, President of Al- bright College. Address, Myerstown, Pa.
WOODRUFF, Clinton Rogers:
Lawyer; was graduated A. B. from Cen- tral High School, 1886; Ph. B. from Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1889; LL. B. from University of Pennsylvania, 1892; admitted to the bar in 1892 and formed partnership with William D. Neilson in September, 1900. Associated as Counsel in leading election and constitutional cases, including the "List of Voters" case, the "Party Square" case and the right of a Governor to veto a proposed amendment to the constitution. Honorary member of Educational Club of Philadel- phia; corresponding member of Twentieth Century Club of Boston; member Law
Academy, Law Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association. President, American Park and Outdoor Art Association, 1902- 1904; Secretary of American League of Civic Improvement; Secretary, 1903-1904. Associate of the American Institute for Social Service; Secretary and Treasurer of the Municipal League of Philadelphia, 1892-1897, Counsel, 1897-1903; Secretary of the Union Committee for a Better Water Supply and Sanitation, 1893. Member of the Executive Committee of the Citizens' Union, 1898-1599; Secretary of the Public Education Association of Philadelphia, 1897-1900; member Executive Committee, 1900; Secretary of Pennsylvania Ballot Re- form Association, 1893; of National Mu- nicipal League. 1894; member of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the National Pri- mary Elections Reform Association. 1808: Chairman of Joint Committee for the Pro- motion of Electoral Reforms; member of the Committee of National League to draft a Municipal Charter, 1897-1899; Committee on Uniform Municipal Ac- counting. 1900; Executive Committee Civil Service Reform Association of Pennsyl- vania since 1894; Executive Committee National Civil Service Reform League since 1900; one of the Secretaries of the American Academy of Political and So- cial Science from 1889 to 1897; Director and counsel since 1897; Secretary of the National Conference for Good City Gov- ernment held in Philadelphia January, 1894: Vice President Young Men's Ameri- can Humane Union, 1894-1897: President of the Intercollegiate Young Men's Christian Association, 1891-1893; first President Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Young Men's Christian Association, 1892; member of the Executive Committee of the Fourth. Fifth. Sixth, Seventh. Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Lake Mohonk International Arbi- tration Conferences, 1898-1901; Secretary since 1900; meniber Philadelphia Branch American Friends of Russian Freedom, 1893; Italian Political Prisoners' Aid Com- mittee: Philadelphia Committee on the International Peace Conference at the Hague, 1899; First General Committee of the International Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, Arts and Educa- tion: Vice President Christian Temperance Alliance for Philadelphia, 1$23; one of the Secretaries of the Conference held in Washington, Jan. 12, 1901, to secure a new treaty of arbitration between Breat Bri- thin and the United States; signer of the American Response to England's Greeting. 1\99: correspondent of the International Association for Labor Legislation; mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Legislature two
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terms, 1897-1900; special inspector of the Interior Department, with Charles J. Bon- aparte, to investigate affairs in the Ind- ian Territory. Address, 121 South Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa .; Summer address, Arbor Vitæ, Cumberland Head, Platts- burg. Pa.
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WOODS, E. Cyrus:
State Senator from Westmoreland County; born in Clearfield, Pa., Sept. 3, 1861; educated at Lafayette College, and has been actively engaged in the practice of law since his admission to the bar in 1890. He was elected to the Senate in November, 1900. Address, Greensburg, Pa.
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WOODS, D. W .:
President of the Mifflin County National Bank. Address, Lewistown, Millin Coun- ty, Pa.
WOODS, Matthew:
Physician; born in Ireland, May 29, 1848, of English, Scotch and French Hu- guenot ancestry. His maternal grandfath- er, Captain deWauchop, served in the Cri- mean and other wars, and the Scotch Gen- eral Wauchop, the original "Fighting Bob," an important figure in the history of Brit- ish India and killed in the Boer War, was a member of the same family; his father, Samuel Woods, was a farmer, manufac- turer, at one time exten. iyely engaged in the making of ploughs. The son obtained his early education in Ireland, and in 1.65 emigrated to this country and offered his services at once to the country, and four weeks after landing in Philadelphia he was on board a monitor within sight of Fort Sumter. At the end of the war, he resumed his studies and was graduated from the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1874. Since then he has been actively engaged in medical practice in Philadelphia, giv- ing special attention to the treatment of Epilepsy. Ile is President of the Ameri- can Anti-Vivisection Society, of the Phil- adelphia Medical Mission, and of the Phil- adelphia Browning Society. a member of various medical societies and of the Pennsylvania State Editorial Association. He was the originator and for some years the editor of the Journal of Zoophily. He has traveled widely and observantly in Europe, his observations being recorded in his interesting "Rambles of a Physi- cian, or a Midsummer Dream"; he has also written various pamphlets on epilep- sy. hydrophobia and kindred subjects. Address. 1307 South Broad St., Philadel- phia, Pa.
WOODS, N. Milton:
President of the First National Bank of Lancaster. Address, Lancaster, Lancas- ter County, Pa.
WOODS, William Speer:
Attorney-at-law; born in Allegheny City, Pa., March 3, 1861; educated in the public schools of Pittsburg, Pa .; read law and was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County, Pa., September, 1888; at present engaged in the practice of the law. He was a member of Common Council of the City of Pittsburg from April to December, 1902, and elected to the Senate of Penn- sylvania from the Fourty-fourth Senator- ial District in November, 1902, for a term of four years. Address, 422 Diamond St., Pittsburg, Pa.
WOODSIDE, John W .:
Manufacturer; born at Kelton, Chester County, Pa., Nov. 21, 1838; son of William Stuart Woodside; educated in the public schools and New London Academy, Ches- ter County, Pa. He taught school for three years, and was engaged in mercan- tile business until 1865, when he became a member of the firm of A. Ralph & Co., afterward Stewart, Ralph & Co .; he was very successful in his business enterprises, and in 1898 he was largely interested in the Atlantic Snuff Company, and in 1900 in the American Snuff Company; subse- quently he became President of the Oxford Manufacturing Company, the American Nickel Steel Company, and Higbee Coup- ling Company; was Secretary of the Na- tional Tobacco Association of the United States for many years. He has repre- sented Philadelphia and Pennsylvania on all leading centennial celebrations; Com- missioner from Pennsylvania to centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration, 1$$9: Pennsylvania member World's Co- lumbian Commission, Chicago, 1890-1896; President of Pennsylvania Commission to the Omaha Exhibition; President Valley Forge Commission of Pennsylvania. Mem- ber of Union League and Historical So- ciety of Pennsylvania. Twice married; first, in 1863, to Annie M. Dare, and, sec- ond, in 1872, to Josephine Jeffries. Ad- dress, Bullitt Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
WOODWARD, George Abisha:
Brigadier General United States Army (retired); born in aand appointed from Pennsylvania; Captain Second Pennsyl- vania Reserves, May 27, 1961: Major. April 2, 1862; Lieutenant Colonel, Feb. 20,
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1863; honorably mustered out, Aug. 29, 1863; Major, Veteran Reserve Corps Aug. 24, 1863; Lieutenant Colonel, Sept. 25, 1863; Colonel, Dec. 4, 1863; honorably mustered out. July 20. 1866; Lieutenant Colonel Forty-fifth Infantry. July 28, 1566; trans- forred to Fourteenth Infantry, March 15. 1869; Colonel Fifteenth Infantry, Jan. 10. 1876; retired, March 20, 1879; brevetted Colonel, March 2. 1867. for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Get- tysburg, Pa .; Brigadier General, retired, April 23, 1904. Address, 2110 Massachusetts Ave .. N. W., Washington, D. C.
WOODWARD, Stanley:
Lawyer; born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 29, 1833; son of George W. Wood- ward; prepared for college at Wyoming Seminary; was graduated from Yale in 1855; studied law in the office of Warren J. Woodward; admitted to the bar in 1856. In 1862 he was Captain of Company H, Third Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. in service about two months (Antietam campaign); in 1863 he was Captain of Company A. Forty-first Regiment, Penn- sylvania Militia, at the front about three months (Gettysburg campaign) ; appoint- ed Aid on Governor Hartranft's staff in 1876, with rank of Colonel. In 1878 he was a member of Executive Committee of Wyoming Centennial Celebration, and Chief Marshal of the grand parade on July 4. Appointed Additional Law Judge of Luzerne County, 1879; elected for full term in 1880; re-elected, 1890: President Judge, 1895-1901. After retiring from the bench he became a member of the firm of Woodward. Darling & Woodward. Member of Westmoreland Club. Address, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
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