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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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Wood, John
Wood, John (uncle of Alan Wood, Jr.), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 6, 1816; attended the Friends Society schools of Philadelphia; employed by his father in the manufacture of tools and agricultural machinery 1832-1840; engaged in the manufacture of iron and steel near Wilmington, Del., 1841-1844; moved to Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pa., in 1844 and engaged in the milling of iron and steel; first burgess of Conshohocken, Pa.; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for renomination in 1860; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; died in Conshohocken, Pa., May 28, 1898; interment in Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Montgomery County, Pa.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Wood, John," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.2039 Original Sources, accessed December 9, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TD8KJBAFYVRFD1.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "Wood, John." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.2039, Original Sources. 9 Dec. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TD8KJBAFYVRFD1.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Wood, John' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.2039. Original Sources, retrieved 9 December 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TD8KJBAFYVRFD1.
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