Biography

07/20/1843 - 12/29/1923


WOODS, John Franklin, a Representative from Franklin County; born, July 20, 1843 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pa.; teacher (8 years); proprietor, J.F. Woods & Co. and Woods & Breckenridge, mercantile businesses; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1882; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1884); tailor; died, December 29, 1923 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.


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