Benjamin Wood

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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 16

WOOD, Benjamin, broker, was born in New York city, June 10, 1871, son of Fernando and Alice F. (Mills) Wood, and a descendant of Henry Wood, a native of England, who came to America about 1640, and settled at Peashore and Woodbury, N. J. He was William Penn ’s agent among the Indians. His father, Fernando Wood (q. v.), was mayor of New York city for three terms and represented his state in congress for twelve years, and his brother, Henry A. Wise Wood (q. v.), is a mechanical engineer and an inventor of note. Benjamin Wood was educated in private schools at Media, Pa., and began his business career in 1890 as a clerk in the employ of the Sawyer-Mann Electric Co. After a short time with this firm he antered the service of the Campbell Printing Press and Manufacturing Co., of which his brother, Henry A. Wise Wood, is president. In 1905 he entered the banking and brokerage business, becoming associatcd with the firm of E. F. Hutton & Co. He is also treasurer and general manager of the Henry A. Wise Wood Co., manufacturers of automatic machinery, invented by his brother. He is a. member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Manhattan Club, the Friars, the Watchung Hunt Club of Plainfield, N. J., and the Balusrol Golf Club He was married, May 25, 1897, to Grace, daughter of James Hutton, and has one son, Curtis Hutton Wood.

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404. WOOD, BENJAMIN. 4504.

New York City. With Campbell Printing Press & Manufacturing Co. Born in New York, June IO, 1871. Son of Fernando Wood and Alice Mills, grandson of Benjamin Wood and Rebecca Lehman, great-grandson of Henry Wood, jd, and Hannah Edridge, etc. [See Benjamin Wood, No. 220.]