Alan Wood Jr. (July 6, 1834 – October 31, 1902) was a steel magnate and a

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. The nephew of John Wood, who also served in Congress, Alan Wood Jr. was born in

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, Pennsylvania. He attended private schools and was employed in his father's mill at the Delaware Iron Works, near

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. He moved to Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, in 1857, and was engaged in iron manufacturing and banking. Wood was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874, and served from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1877. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1876. He resumed his former business activities and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; he served as president of the Alan Wood Iron & Steel Co. In the 1890's he built the mansion known as Woodmont on a bluff overlooking Conshohocken and his steel works. He died in 1902 in Philadelphia. He is interred in

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* 1834 births 1902 deaths Politicians from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Politicians from Philadelphia Politicians from Wilmington, Delaware Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Burials at The Woodlands Cemetery 19th-century American legislators {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub

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