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Silas Wood

WOOD, Silas, legislator, born in Suffolk county, New York, in 1769; died in Huntington, New York, 2 March, 1847. He was graduated at Princeton in 1789, and during the succeeding five years was a tutor there. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice at Huntington, New York He was afterward elected to congress as a Democrat, serving from 6 December, 1819, till 3 March, 1829. He is the author of "Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island, with their Political Condition to the End of the American Revolution" (Brooklyn, 1824 ; with a biographical memoir and additions by Alden J. Spooner, 1865).

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