Alan Wood Jr. (July 6, 1834 – October 31, 1902) was a steel magnate and a
Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania.
The nephew of
John Wood, who also served in Congress, Alan Wood Jr. was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended private schools and was employed in his father's mill at the
Delaware Iron Works, near
Wilmington, Delaware. He moved to
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Conshohocken ( ; Lenape: ''Kanshihàkink'') is a borough on the Schuylkill River in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in suburban Philadelphia. Historically a large mill town and industrial and manufacturing center, after the decline of industry i ...
, 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
The Woodlands Cemetery
The Woodlands is a National Historic Landmark District on the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. It includes a Federal-style mansion, a matching carriage house and stable, and a garden landscape that in 1840 was transformed into a ...
.
See also
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Woodmont
Sources
The Political Graveyard
External links
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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
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