ALVA WOODS (1794-1887)
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V28,
Page 803
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:ALVA See also:WOODS (1794-1887)
, a See also:nephew of the See also:elder Leonard and the son of See also:Abel See also:Woods (1765-1850), a Baptist preacher, graduated at Harvard in 1817 and at See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1821, and was ordained as a Baptist See also:minister
.
In 1824-1828 he was See also:professor of See also:mathematics and natural See also:philosophy at See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown University, acting as See also:president in 1826-1827; in 1828-1831 was president of Transylvania University, See also:Lexington, See also:Kentucky; and in 1831-1837 was president of the University of See also:Alabama at See also:Tuscaloosa, where he organized the Alabama See also:Female See also:Athenaeum
.
After 1839 he lived in See also:Providence, R.I
.
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