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Alan Wood Jr. (July 6, 1834 – October 31, 1902) was a steel magnate and aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
The nephew ofJohn Wood, who also served in Congress, Alan Wood Jr. was born inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended private schools and was employed in his father's mill at theDelaware Iron Works, nearWilmington, Delaware. He moved toConshohocken, Pennsylvania, in 1857, and was engaged in iron manufacturing and banking.
Wood was elected as a Republican to theForty-fourth Congress in 1874, and served from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1877. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1876. He resumed his former business activities and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; he served as president of the Alan Wood Iron & Steel Co. In the 1890's he built the mansion known asWoodmont on a bluff overlooking Conshohocken and his steel works.
He died in 1902 in Philadelphia. He is interred inThe Woodlands Cemetery.
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