WOODWARD, Ashbel, physician, born in Wellington, Connecticut, 26 June, 1804; died in Franklin, Connecticut, 20 November, 1885. He was graduated at the medical department of Bowdoin in 1829, settled in Franklin, Connecticut, and resided there until his death, engaging in the practice of his profession and in genealogical and historical researches. At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered as surgeon in the 26th army corps, sharing in the siege and capture of Port Hudson. Yale gave him the honorary degree of M. D. in 1854. Dr. Woodward was president of the Connecticut medical society for many years, and a member of the New England historic-genealogical society, to which he contributed about fifty papers. His publications include "Vindication of General Israel Putnam" (Norwich, Connecticut, 1841); "Historical Account of the Connecticut Medical Society" (Hartford, 1859);" Biographical Sketches of the Early Physicians of Norwich" (Norwich, 1859); "Medical Ethics" (Hartford, 1860); "Life," an address (1861);" Memoir of Colonel Thomas Knowlton " (Boston, 1861); "Life of General Nathaniel Lyon " (Hartford, 1862); " Vindication of Army' Surgeons" (New Haven, 1863); "Specialism in Medicine" (1866) ; and "The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Franklin," an address delivered in April, 1868 (1870). See a memoir of him by his son, Henry H. Woodward (Boston, 1886).