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WILLIAM WOODS, M. D. (deceased), was born in 1804 in this county, and died in 1885. He was the son of William Woods, a native of America, of Scotch descent, and a clergy man of the Presbyterian Church of Lebanon district. The subject of this memoir read medicine with Dr. William Church, of Pittsburgh, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia. He located in Pittsburgh, and distinguished himself during the epidemic of cholera in 1832. In 1858 he removed to Sewickley and continued his practice. Dr. Woods was married twice, his first wife being Mary, daughter of William Sample, and by her he had three sons. After the death of the second wife, nee Sarah Wilson, by whom he had three sons and one daughter, Dr. Woods retired from his profession and removed to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary F. McDonald, in Beaver county, Pa., where he died. He was a good physician, highly esteemed, and trusted; diseases of children were his specialty. Of his children, William S. Woods, M. D., was a surgeon in the army during the late war, and had charge of a hospital in Harrisburg, Pa., also of the Benton barracks, at St. Louis, Mo. He died while in the service among the Indians. He was a distinguished surgeon in his day. Previous to the war he was located in Birmingham, where he had a practice to the extent of $10,000 per annum.