| Birth: | Jun. 14, 1812 | | Death: | Feb. 14, 1881 | 
Civil War New York City Mayor, US Congressman. Served as Mayor of New York City from 1854 to 1858, and Congressman from New York from 1863 to 1865 and 1867 to 1881. A Northern Radical who did not support the Civil War, he tried to have New York City declared a "free city", which would have allowed it to continue to trade with the South. (bio by: Russ Dodge)
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Ann Dole Richardson Wood (1822 - 1859)*
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Search Amazon for Fernando Wood | | | Burial:
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum
Manhattan
New York County
New York, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Mar 21, 1999
Find A Grave Memorial# 4880 |
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Added: Jun. 14, 2011 |
Hartford Courant, Ct.-Obituary:The Hon.Fernando Wood, member of Congress from the Ninth New York district, died at Hot springs, Arkansas, at 10 o'clock Sunday night, aged 69. Mr.Wood was of Quaker parentage in Philadelphia, June 14,1812. His father remove...(Read more)
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Paul V. Isbell
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