A.P. WOOD, retired, Dubuque; is a native of Little Compton, R.I. and was born in 1817; at the age of 12 he began working in a newspaper office in Fall River, Mass., and, with the exception of some time afterward spent in school, he continued to bo so employed until he reached his majority; subsequent to this he worked at printing. and during most of one year read law, with a view to entering the legal profession; early in 1841, he was invited to become the editor of the Iowa Standard, a Whig paper established at Iowa City, then the seat of government for the Territory of Iowa; he accepted the invitation, and continued in that position about four years. The Whig party being steadily in a minority, the Standard failed to receive sufficient support; Mr. Wood determined to remove to Dubuque; this purpose was carried into effect in the fall of 1846, and he established the Dubuque Tribune; in 1848, a rival journal was established, and the rivalry continued about two years, when the opposition paper became absorbed in the Tribune, which from that time held the position of the leading Whig paper of Northern Iowa; in 1854, on account of impaired health, brought about by excessive application to business, he relinquished the management of the Tribune to other hands; after retiring from newspaper business, he became somewhat largely engaged in real estate operations, which were brought to a sudden and disastrous close in 1857; during several months of 1857, he became editor and publisher of the Dubuque Republican, a daily and weekly paper, devoted especially to the advocacy of the present Constitution of the State of Iowa, which was adopted in the fall of that year; soon after that the Republican was discontinued; soon after this, Mr. Wood entertained the purpose of writing a history of Iowa as a Territory and State, but gave it up in favor of a history of the part taken by the State in the war of the rebellion, and to the preparation of this work, which is now completed, he has given years of time and valuable research. In the spring of 1844, Mr. Wood was united in marriage to Miss Mary S. Murdey, from Ohio, they have had six children-four survive.
"The History of Dubuque County" http://members.tripod.com/~Doreen_3/DBBIOAB.htm
"The History of Dubuque County" http://members.tripod.com/~Doreen_3/DBBIOAB.htm
A.P. WOOD, retired, Dubuque; is a native of Little Compton, R.I. and was born in 1817; at the age of 12 he began working in a newspaper office in Fall River, Mass., and, with the exception of some time afterward spent in school, he continued to bo so employed until he reached his majority; subsequent to this he worked at printing. and during most of one year read law, with a view to entering the legal profession; early in 1841, he was invited to become the editor of the Iowa Standard, a Whig paper established at Iowa City, then the seat of government for the Territory of Iowa; he accepted the invitation, and continued in that position about four years. The Whig party being steadily in a minority, the Standard failed to receive sufficient support; Mr. Wood determined to remove to Dubuque; this purpose was carried into effect in the fall of 1846, and he established the Dubuque Tribune; in 1848, a rival journal was established, and the rivalry continued about two years, when the opposition paper became absorbed in the Tribune, which from that time held the position of the leading Whig paper of Northern Iowa; in 1854, on account of impaired health, brought about by excessive application to business, he relinquished the management of the Tribune to other hands; after retiring from newspaper business, he became somewhat largely engaged in real estate operations, which were brought to a sudden and disastrous close in 1857; during several months of 1857, he became editor and publisher of the Dubuque Republican, a daily and weekly paper, devoted especially to the advocacy of the present Constitution of the State of Iowa, which was adopted in the fall of that year; soon after that the Republican was discontinued; soon after this, Mr. Wood entertained the purpose of writing a history of Iowa as a Territory and State, but gave it up in favor of a history of the part taken by the State in the war of the rebellion, and to the preparation of this work, which is now completed, he has given years of time and valuable research. In the spring of 1844, Mr. Wood was united in marriage to Miss Mary S. Murdey, from Ohio, they have had six children-four survive.
"The History of Dubuque County" http://members.tripod.com/~Doreen_3/DBBIOAB.htm
"The History of Dubuque County" http://members.tripod.com/~Doreen_3/DBBIOAB.htm
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