WOOD, George, lawyer, born in Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, 17 January, 1789; died in New York city, 17 March. 1860. He was graduated at Princeton in 1808, and. after studying law with Richard Stockton, was admitted to the bar in 1812. Settling in New Brunswick, he soon rivalled his preceptor, and he has been referred to as the ablest lawyer that his state ever produced. His power of analogical reasoning was very striking, and he had the faculty of so stating a question as to make the mere statement an argument in itself. The law of this country on charitable devises was in a great degree unsettled in his time, but Mr. Wood was able to elucidate that subject in such a manner as to form a guide for the decisions and learning of this country. In 1831 he went to New York city, where he took a high rank among lawyers, and he was engaged in chief cases not only there but throughout the United States. In his later years his efforts were much directed toward the maintenance of sound government principles, and to the preservation of the constitution in its integrity. On one occasion, when William C. Preston, of South Carolina, was about to argue an important ease in the United States supreme court, Daniel Webster asked him who was on the other side. Preston replied that it was a man from New York, whose name he could not recall, and said, "a sleepy-looking fellow named Wood, I think." "If it is George Wood," said Webster. " I advise you to look out how you wake him up." The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Hamilton college in 1842 and by Union in 1845.