US Congressman. Educated in Quaker schools, he worked in his father's tool making business. He moved to Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and was an ironmaster for forty years. He later became the Borough of Conshohocken's justice of the peace, and first burgess. In 1859, along with William T. and Richard S. Bate, he founded a shop along the Schuylkill River manufacture of steam boilers in addition to blacksmithing and general work. As a Republican he would represent the Pennsylvania 5th District in the Thirty-Sixth Congress from 1859 to 1861. He was the brother of steel manufacturer Alan Wood, and the uncle of another US representative, Alan Wood, Jr.
US Congressman. Educated in Quaker schools, he worked in his father's tool making business. He moved to Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and was an ironmaster for forty years. He later became the Borough of Conshohocken's justice of the peace, and first burgess. In 1859, along with William T. and Richard S. Bate, he founded a shop along the Schuylkill River manufacture of steam boilers in addition to blacksmithing and general work. As a Republican he would represent the Pennsylvania 5th District in the Thirty-Sixth Congress from 1859 to 1861. He was the brother of steel manufacturer Alan Wood, and the uncle of another US representative, Alan Wood, Jr.
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