Wood, Fernando

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Father-in Law of Alexander Crawford Chenoweth, class of 1868.
Full name
Fernando Wood
Place of Birth
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
3
No. of Children
9
Family
Benjamin Wood (father), Rebecca Lehmann (mother), Benjamin Wood (brother), Anna W. Taylor (first wife, 1831), Ann Dole Richardson (second wife), Alice Fenner Wells (third wife)
Occupation
Politician
Businessman
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Government
Polk Administration (1845-49)
US House of Representatives
Local government
How to Cite This Page: "Wood, Fernando," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6905.