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| | Leonard Woods |
 | | He was professor of sacred literature in Bangor theological seminary in 1836-'9, and from 1839 till 1866 president of Bowdoin. |
 | | by Edwards A. Park (Andover, 1880), and an article by Richard H. Dana in the "Century Magazine" for June, 1881.--The first Leonard's nephew, Alva, educator, born in Shoreham, Vermont, 13 August, 1794; died in Providence, Rhode Island, in July, 1887, was graduated at Harvard in 1817, and at Andover seminary in 1821. |
 | | Immediately upon his graduation at the seminary he was elected professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Columbian college, Washington, D. In 1824 he was elected to the same chair in Brown university, where he remained until 1828, when he was made president of Transylvania university. |
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