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WOODS, William, clergyman, born in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1788; died there in 1819. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and his father, William, came from Pennsylvania with the emigrants that followed John Lewis up Shenandoah valley, and became the owner of large tracts of land in Albemarle county, Virginia The son was a bold and independent thinker, and became a Baptist when that denomination was struggling for existence against great opposition. In 1780 he was ordained a minister of that faith, and founded the old Albemarle Baptist church, near the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson frequently attended his church, and wrote that "it was a model for a republic." At the request of Jefferson he resigned his charge in 1.799 that he might be elected to the legislature. He served during the agitation of 1800 over the Kentucky resolutions of 1798-'9, and his name heads the list of state-rights Republican voters in that body. During his term a bill was passed to increase the pay of the members, but he refused to accept its privileges.--His son, Micajah, jurist, born in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1776; died there in 1887, was for twenty years a member of the justice's court for Albemarle county, and for many years the presiding justice of that comity.-His son, John Rodes, physician, born in Albemarle county, Virginia, 15 January, 1815; died there, 9 July, 1885, was graduated in medicine at the University of Virginia in 1835, but ceased to practise in 1837, devoted his attention to scientific agriculture, and brought large importations of English stock to his estate, " Holkham." He was a member of the old Whig party, a personal friend of Henry Clay, and a member of many Whig conventions. For eight years he was a director of the Virginia Central (now Chesapeake and Ohio) railway company. Dr. Woods was a supporter of the University of Virginia, and a member of its board of visitors from 1867 till 1872.--John Rodes's son, MICAJAH, lawyer, born at Holkham, Albemarle County, Virginia, 17 Nay, 1844, has been attorney for the commonwealth of Albemarle county since 1870, and was a member of the board of visitors to the University of Virginia from 1872 till 1876.
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