Biography

03/20/1837 - 02/24/1859


WOOD, George W., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, March 20, 1837 in Conshohocken, Montgomery County, Pa.; attended, mechanical engineering, Philadelphia Polytechnic College; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1859 term; died while in office, February 24, 1859 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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