Farish, Thomas Edwin. History of Arizona, Filmer Bros. Electrotype Co., 1918, volume 1, page 125 (and index page 392: WOOD, SURGEON WM. MAXWELL Goes to Mexico City and furnishes Commodore Sloat with information leading to taking of California for United States.)
Who was William Maxwell Wood? http://www.dd715.org/history/william_wood.htm [8/24/2012]
A Shoulder to the Wheel of Progress: Being Essays, Lectures and Miscellanies upon Themes of the Day. By Wm. Maxwell Wood, M. D., Surgeon, U. S. Navy. Buffalo, Derby, Orton and Mulligan; Auburn: Derby & Miller, 1853."From the eventual Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy, celebrated spy in the Mexican War, and early citizen of Erie, Penna. (Wood was stationed there with the steamer Michigan, the navy's first iron-hulled warship) comes this miscellany of essays on topics ranging from naval matters (he includes a lengthy argument on scientific, medical and social grounds against the naval grog ration) to a sketch of Erie County, Pennsylvania."
Who was William Maxwell Wood? http://www.dd715.org/history/william_wood.htm [8/24/2012]
A Shoulder to the Wheel of Progress: Being Essays, Lectures and Miscellanies upon Themes of the Day. By Wm. Maxwell Wood, M. D., Surgeon, U. S. Navy. Buffalo, Derby, Orton and Mulligan; Auburn: Derby & Miller, 1853."From the eventual Surgeon General of the U. S. Navy, celebrated spy in the Mexican War, and early citizen of Erie, Penna. (Wood was stationed there with the steamer Michigan, the navy's first iron-hulled warship) comes this miscellany of essays on topics ranging from naval matters (he includes a lengthy argument on scientific, medical and social grounds against the naval grog ration) to a sketch of Erie County, Pennsylvania."
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