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American politician
Stephen Mosher Wood
(June 10, 1832 ? December 24, 1920) was an American politician. He Wood represented
Chase County, Kansas
in the
Kansas House of Representatives
in 1871 and 1875, and was a member of the
Kansas Senate
in 1876 after replacing S. R. Peters who resigned.
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Early life and family
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Stephen Mosher Wood was born at
Mount Gilead, Ohio
, June 10, 1832, to David and Esther Ward (Mosher) Wood. On May 22, 1853 he married Caroline Halsey Breese, and was the father of Wallace Alfred Wood, Clarence David Wood, Carrie Wood and Sidney Breese Wood.
Military career
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During the
Civil War
, Wood was a
First lieutenant
in the
6th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry
as part of his brother,
Samuel Newitt Wood
's Battalion and later was Brigade Commissary of Subsistence in the
Department of the Gulf
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Legacy
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Wood was appointed a Regent of the
Kansas State Agricultural College
in 1877, and reappointed in 1880.
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Mr. Wood also donated the land for the State
YMCA
camp south of
Elmdale, Kansas
which now bears his name.
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