Representative Andrew Jackson Wood View All Years

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Andrew Jackson Wood

Poweshiek County

Born in Montgomery County, New York, July 10, 1835. In 1855 came to Illinois, and in 1858 came to Iowa, locating in Johnson county. In 1862 he came to Brooklyn where he entered into the hardware business in one of the first stores built near the railway depot, then known as West Brooklyn. He was always a very successful business man and acquired a considerable fortune. He was a republican from the organization of that party and a political leader in Poweshiek County. He was a justice of the peace, member of the board of education, member of the board of supervisors and for two terms was the representative of his county in the Iowa legislature, being in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth General Assemblies, in 1878 and 1880 respectively. He was a man of independent thought and action, one whose integrity and honor were universally respected and honored by his fellow men. His work as a legislator was especially commendable and won for him the highest praise. Mr. Wood was a leading member of the A. F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F. fraternities and an active member of the Presbyterian Church. He married Fadilla I. Carson of Iowa City in 1862. Mr. Wood was a good example of a self made man who raised himself from poverty to competence and influence by his own unaided exertions. He was one of the best political managers in the state, one of the most successful business men and a man of integrity and uprightness, whose character may well be emulated by young men.

House District 36