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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wood, John 1775-1822 (search)
removed to Richmond, Va., where he was employed in making county maps. He wrote History of the administration of John Adams; Full statement of the trial and acquittal of Aaron Burr; Full Exposition of the Clintonian faction, and the Society of the Columbian Illuminati; Narrative of the suppression, by Colonel Burr, of the history of the administration of John Adams, with a biography of Jefferson and Hamilton. etc. He died in Richmond, Va., in May. 1822. Pioneer; born in Moravia, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1798; moved to Illinois in 1819, and three years later erected the first cabin in the present city of Quincy; was prominent for sixty years in the affairs of that place; member of the State Senate in 1850-54; elected governor of Illinois in 1859. He was made colonel of the 137th Illinois Volunteers in 1864, and prior to that date was quartermastergeneral of his State for three years. He died in Quincy, Ill., June 4, 1880. A monument was unveiled to his memory in Quincy, in July, 1883.