James Craven Wood, Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Wood county, Ohio, January 11, 1858, son of Henry Lewis and Jane (Kunkle) Wood. His father, born near Albany, New York, was of Scotch-English ancestry, and his grandfather was a revolutionary soldier. The mother was of German lineage. Dr. Wood obtained his early education in district schools of Wood county, Ohio, and grammar schools at Waterville, Ohio, and his literary education in Ohio Wesleyan University, which in 1894 conferred on him the honorary degree of M. A. In the fall of 1876 he began reading medicine in the office of the late Dr. Alfred I. Sawyer, at one time president of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and in 1877 entered the homeopathic department of the University of Michigan, being graduated in 1879, after which he completed his literary studies in Ohio Wesleyan University and then became a partner of his former preceptor. Five years later he was appointed to the chair of obstetrics, gynaecology and pædology in the homeopathic department of the University of Michigan, serving for eight years, during which time he edited and published (1894) his "Text Book of Gynecology." (Second edition in 1898.) He spent one year in post-graduate study in hospitals of England and on the continent and has done post-graduate work in various American medical centres. He removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1893, and accepted the chair of gynaecology in the Cleveland Medical College, continuing as such in its successor the Cleveland