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Fernando Wood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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(brother of Benjamin Wood), a Representative from New York; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 14, 1812; attended the public schools; moved with his father to New York City in 1820; was engaged in business as a ... Mushkat, Jerome. Fernando Wood: A Political Biography. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1990.
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Encyclopedia article about Wood, Fernando. Information about Wood, Fernando in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... Wood was elected mayor in 1854 and was reelected in 1856, but he displeased the other Tammany leaders in dispensing patronage and was ousted in 1857.
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WOOD, Fernando, mayor of New York city, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 June, 1812 ; died in Washington, D. C., 14 February, 1881. He was of Quaker descent, and went to New York city in 1820, where he early entered business and became a shipping-merchant.
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This Civil War Harper's Weekly features a Cartoon of Fernando Wood ... This site features an online archive of our extensive collection of Harper's Weekly newspapers. Harper's was the most popular illustrated newspaper of the day, and today it serves as ... REV. FERNANDO WOOD. "Peace on Earth, and Good-Will to Rebels."
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Fernando Wood was a Democratic U.S. congressman from New York (1841-43, 1863-65, and 1867-81) and mayor of New York City (1855-1858, 1861, 1862). In the 1850s the city was deeply divided along lines of class, ethnicity, religion, and race.
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Normally the sachems wanted their mayors to be respectable idlers but that year they nominated a Quaker businessman named Fernando Wood, blissfully unaware that Wood harbored ambitions of the most dangerous sort.
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The full decision of the Court of Appeals was read in the city papers yesterday morning. ... preservation of the peace, especially as the promulgation of the decision to-day it was thought might lead to disturbances and difficulties between the rival forces. ... FERNANDO WOOD, Mayor.
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The men of the late Municipal force in the First Ward were assembled at the Station-House over Franklin Market yesterday afternoon at 3’oclock, and the notice of dismissal was read to them, whereupon they proceeded to vest themselves of “city property,” stars, ... One of the policemen said: ... It is not a type-o.
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