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About Samuel Newitt Wood
Samuel Newitt Wood was an American attorney, newspaper editor, and member of the Kansas House of Representatives. He was also a Free State advocate in Kansas and an early supporter of Women's Suffrage. Wood was a speaker at the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Convention in 1856 that established the Republican party. He was assassinated in 1891 in a bitter fight over the naming of a new county seat in the state's southwestern corner.
Everything about Samuel Newitt Wood →- Occupation
- lawyer, politician, judge
- Position held
- member of the Kansas House of Representatives, member of the State Senate of Kansas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 30, 1825
- Died
- June 23, 1891