Hartshorne.] iLO [Oct. 11, 



Physicians, the Trustees and Faculties of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical College, and "Woman's 

 Medical College of Philadelphia, and the Managers of the 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, and Philadelphia Dispensary, as 

 follows: 



Memoir of George B. Wood, M.D., LL.D., 



By Henkt Hartshorne, A.M., M.D. 



(Read before the American Philosophical Society, Octoher 11, 1880.) 



With a long life, not much varied in events, nor 

 brilliant in deeds that meet the public eye, Dr. George 

 B, Wood may be named as one who, in the main fea- 

 tures, and, indeed, in almost every particular of his 

 career, has left an example v^orthy of admiration and 

 emulation. It will be acknowledged by the least en- 

 thusiastic of his friends and associates, that he was 

 one of the most useful men of his generation. 



He was born at Greenwich, in New Jersey, in the year 

 1797. His own memoranda of his ancestry are not de- 

 void of historical interest in connection with the early 

 settlement of this city, as well as that of our neighbor- 

 ing State. It appears that Richard Wood, a member of 

 the Society of Friends, came to this country with 

 William Penn In 1682, bringing with him his son 

 James, and settled in the northern part of the then 

 new city of Philadelphia ; where Wood street proba- 

 bly received its name from him. There is reason to 

 believe that while James Wood remained in the city, 

 another younger son or sons of Richard Wood went 

 to New Jersey, locating themselves in Salem and 



