Wood, Benjamin
journalist, state senator, congressman, author, was born Oct. 13, 1820, in Shelbyville, Ky. He made several voyages to the West Indies and along the South American coast, and before reaching manhood had traveled through nearly every state in the Union.
His business was principally transacted in New York, where he became very wealthy. He was a state senator in 1866 and 1867, and was elected a representative from New York to the thirtyseventh, thirty-eighth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat. He is the author of Fort Lafayette, or Love and Secession.