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ALVA WOODS (1794-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALVA WOODS (1794-1887)  , a
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nephew of the elder Leonard and the son of Abel Woods (1765-1850), a Baptist preacher, graduated at Harvard in 1817 and at
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Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, and was ordained as a Baptist minister . In 1824-1828 he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Brown University, acting as president in 1826-1827; in 1828-1831 was president of Transylvania University, Lexington,
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Kentucky; and in 1831-1837 was president of the University of
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Alabama at
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Tuscaloosa, where he organized the Alabama
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Female
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Athenaeum . After 1839 he lived in
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Providence, R.I .

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