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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
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WOODS (1794-1887)  , a
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nephew of the
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elder Leonard and the son of
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Abel
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Woods (1765-1850), a Baptist preacher, graduated at Harvard in 1817 and at
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Andover Theological
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Seminary in 1821, and was ordained as a Baptist
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minister . In 1824-1828 he was
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professor of
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mathematics and natural
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philosophy at
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Brown University, acting as
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president in 1826-1827; in 1828-1831 was president of Transylvania University,
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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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