WOOD, James, educator, born in Greenfield, Ulster County, New York, 12 July, 1799; died in Hightstown, Mercer County, New Jersey, 7 April, 1867. He was graduated at Union college in 1822, and studied at Princeton theological seminary. He preached at Wilkesbarre and Kingston, Pennsylvania, in 1825-'6, and, after being ordained in the latter year, he held the joint pastorate of Amsterdam and Veddersburg, New York, from 1826 till 1834. The next five years he served as an agent of the board of education of the Presbyterian church, and he was professor in the Theological seminary of the northwest from 1839 till 1851, while that institution was located at Hanover and New Albany, Indiana The following three years he was again an agent of the board of education, and in 1854-'9 he was its associate secretary. In 1859 he became president of Hanover college, Indiana, and held the office until 1866, when he resigned to become principal of the Van Rensselaer institute at Hightstown, New Jersey, a school for the education of the children of missionaries. Dr. Wood took high rank among the clergymen of his denomination. His sound judgment, amiable temper, extensive learning, and great energy made his influence widely felt. In an able work, entitled "Old and New Theology" (1855), he gave the fullest exhibition of the reasons that led to the disruption of the Presbyterian church, and its division into Old and New School, that has ever been published. He received the degree of D.D. from Marion college, Maine, in 1841. In 1864 he was moderator of the general assembly. He is also the author of "A Treatise on Baptism" (1850)" "Call to the Sacred Office" (Philadelphia, 1857); " The Best Lesson and Best Time "; "The Gospel Fountain" (1859)" and "Grace and Glory" (1860).