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Woodbury, Augustus 1825-

Author; born in Beverly, Mass., in 1825; graduated at the Harvard Divinity School in 1849, and was ordained in the Unitarian Church; became pastor of the Westminster Unitarian Church in Providence, R. I., in 1853; was chairman of the Rhode Island board of inspection for prisons in 1866-77; appointed chaplain of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in 1861, and was chaplain-inchief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1874-75. In 1883 he became president of the Providence Athenaeum. His publications include The preservation of the republic; Narrative of the campaign of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the spring and summer of 1861; An Historical sketch of the prisons and jails of Rhode Island; Memorial of Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, etc.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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