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About Marshall Woods
Dr. Marshall Woods
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174091703/marshall-woods
Note: He graduated from Brown University medical school, but he did not pursue a medical career
When Marshall Woods graduated from Brown University in 1845, he was not the first of his family to establish a lifelong connection with the university that spanned generations. His father, Alva Woods (BP 66), was a professor of natural philosophy and mathematics at Brown, and served as interim president, trustee, and as a fellow of the university. Three years after his graduation from Brown, Marshall Woods earned a medical degree from the University of New York. He did not pursue a medical career, but instead engaged in investments and was a director of the Providence National Bank. Woods also served as a commissioner in the 1855 Paris exposition. He was Brown University's treasurer from 1866 to 1882, and a member of the corporation from 1855 until his death in 1899. In 1871, years before the Art Department was formed in 1892, Woods donated three thousand dollars to establish a "Lectureship on the Fine Arts, and on their Application to the Mechanic Arts, or Industrial Pursuits." Based on this initiative, the Marshall Woods lectures started in 1909.
Woods married Anne Brown Francis (1828-1896), daughter of Governor John Brown Francis and Anne Carter Brown. Her paternal great-grandfather was Providence merchant John Brown, and her maternal grandfather Nicholas Brown (John Brown's nephew), for whom Brown University was named. The Woods family resided at the Italianate Woods-Gerry House (built 1860-63, designed by architect Richard Upjohn) located on Prospect Street in Providence, which now houses the Rhode Island's School of Design's Admissions and Development offices. Marshall Woods died in London in 1899.
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The Woods–Gerry House (or the Dr. Marshall Woods House) is an historic house on 62 Prospect Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a large, three story brick structure, designed by Richard Upjohn and built in 1860 for Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Wood. It is the largest surviving 19th-century house in Providence, measuring 55 feet (17 m) in width and 75 feet (23 m) in depth. It features restrained Italianate styling, most evident in its porch and porte-cochere, and in its roofline. The building currently houses the Admissions office for the Rhode Island School of Design.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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Marshall Woods's Timeline
| 1824 |
November 28, 1824
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1850 |
June 25, 1850
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Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
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| 1851 |
June 12, 1851
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Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
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| 1899 |
July 13, 1899
Age 74
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Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
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Swan Point Cemetery, 585 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, 02906, United States
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