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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 8/2/1881
Birth Place: New York State
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 2 (1848)
Home County: Clayton
Sidney Wood
Clayton County
Sidney Wood was born August 2, 1818, in New York State. He married Adeline Eliza Francis on July 13, 1843, in Clayton County, Farmersburg Township, Iowa. Wood was a farmer and a Methodist minister. The family crossed the plains in 1853 with a team of oxen and settled at Oregon City, where they resided until 1858, when they moved to Columbia County, near Westport, Oregon. Wood died on August 2, 1881, in Columbia County.
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House District 22
Committees
2nd GA (1848)
Legislation Sponsored
2nd GA (1848)