Stephen Mosher Wood (June 10, 1832 – December 24, 1920) was an American politician. Mr. Wood represented Chase County, Kansas in the

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in 1871 and 1875, and was a member of the Kansas Senate in 1876 after replacing S. R. Peters who resigned.

Early life and family

Stephen Mosher Wood was born at Mount Gilead, Ohio, June 10, 1832, to David and Esther Ward (Mosher) Wood. Mr. Wood married Caroline Halsey Breese on May 22, 1853, and was the father of Wallace Alfred Wood, Clarence David Wood, Carrie Wood and Sidney Breese Wood.

Military career

During the

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, Stephen M. Wood was a

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in the 6th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry as part of his brother,

Samuel Newitt Wood Samuel Newitt Wood (December 30, 1825 – June 23, 1891) was an American attorney, politician, newspaper publisher-editor, and Free State advocate in Kansas. Wood, who was also an early supporter of Women's Suffrage, was assassinated in 1891 i ...

's Battalion and later was Brigade Commissary of Subsistence in the

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Legacy

Stephen M. Wood was appointed a Regent of the Kansas State Agricultural College in 1877, and reappointed in 1880.Walters, John Daniel "History of the Kansas State Agricultural College," 1909. Mr. Wood also donated the land for the State

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camp south of

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which now bears his name.

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* http://www.campwood.org/about/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Stephen Mosher People from Mount Gilead, Ohio People from Chase County, Kansas 1832 births 1920 deaths People of Kansas in the American Civil War Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives Republican Party Kansas state senators