WOODBURY, Augustus, author, born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1825. He was graduated at Phillips Exeter academy in 1846, and at the divinity-school of Harvard in 1849, and became pastor of" Unitarian churches in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1849, in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1853, and of Westminster Unitarian church, Providence, Rhode Island, which place he still holds. He was chairman of inspectors of the Rhode Island state prison in 1866-'77, and in 1875-'9 was a member of the commission for building the state prison. He was chaplain of the 1st Rhode Island regiment from April till August, 1861, and in 1874-'5 was chaplain-in-chief of the Grand army of the republic. Since 1883 he has been president of the Providence athenaeum. Harvard gave him the degree of A. M. in 1866, and Brown that of D. D. in 1888. He is the author of "Plain Words to Young Men" (Concord, 1858); " The Preservation of the Republic," an oration (Providence, 1860); " Narrative of the Campaign of the First Rhode Island Regiment in the Spring and Summer of 1861" (1862): "General Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps" (1867) ; "The Second Rhode Island Regiment" (1875); "An Historical Sketch of the Prisons and Jails of Rhode Island" (1877); "Memorial of General Ambrose E. Burnside" (1882); and sermons, addresses, and articles in reviews.