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Numaticist and collector Howland Wood was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1877 and graduated from Brown University in 1900. Wood became a member of the American Numismatical Society in 1909. By 1913 he had been appointed Curator, remaining in this position until his death in 1938.