Background
Woods, Leonard was born on November 24, 1807 in Newbury, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Leonard and Abigail (Wheeler) Woods.
Woods, Leonard was born on November 24, 1807 in Newbury, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Leonard and Abigail (Wheeler) Woods.
Born in Newbury, Massachusetts, Woods attended Phillips Andover Academy before graduating from Union College in 1827 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and membership in The Kappa Alpha Society. After having graduated from Andover Theological Seminary, he made a translation of George Christian Knapp"s Christian Theology, which became long used as a textbook in American theological seminaries.
Editor Literary and Theological President Bowdoin College, 1839-1866, replaced formal discipline system with honor system, largely responsible for planning and erection of King Chapel, resigned partly because of unpopularity of his lack of support for Number.
He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1845.