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John Wood (Governor of Illinois 1860-1861)

b. 1798-12-20 d. 1880-06-04

Adams County, Illinois, farmer and Governor of Illinois. Moravia, New York native. Married to Anna M. Street Wood on January 25, 1826. Father of Emily Wood, Henry C. Wood, Ada J. Wood, Anna E. Wood, Daniel C. Wood, John Wood, Joshua Wood, James T. Wood, and Eveline Wood. Farmer in Adams County, Illinois, in 1850. Employed John Cass as a laborer in Adams County in 1850. Mayor of Quincy, Illinois, from 1844 to 1847, 1852 to 1853, and 1856. Member of the Illinois State Senate from 1850 to 1854. Lieutenant governor of Illinois from 1857 to 1860. Resident of Adams County in 1860. Republican Governor of the State of Illinois from March 18, 1860, to January 14, 1861. Delegate to the Washington peace convention in 1861. Appointed quartermaster-general of Illinois in 1861. Served in the 137th Illinois Volunteer Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Adams County, Quincy Ward 3, p. 286B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Adams County, Quincy Ward 4, p. 196.

Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, National number 61631, State number 3761.

"John B. Wood I (1798-1880)," Find A Grave, Memorial #6624158, accessed August 18, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6624158.

The History of Adams County Illinois..., (Chicago, Illinois: Murray, Williamson & Phelps, 1879), 160, 454-55.

Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 1, (Westport, Connecticut: Meckler Books, 1978).

Citation

Wood, John. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208173 (November 12, 2026).

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