The Hon.
Josiah
Wood
Born in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Ancestors 
Son of Mariner Ayer Wood
and Louisa Cynthia Trueman
Brother of
Charles Harmon Wood
Husband of
Laura Sophia (Trueman) Wood
— married
14 Jan 1874 in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Descendants 
Father of
Eleanor Louisa (Wood) Black, Herbert Mariner Wood, Annie Laura Wood, Dora Beatrice (Wood) Nichols, William Trueman Wood and Hester Victoria (Wood) Cleminson
Died
at age 84
in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Aug 2017
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| Preceded by Lemuel John Tweedie |
13th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick March 6, 1912 – June 29, 1917 |
Succeeded by Gilbert Ganong |
Josiah Wood is Notable.
This profile is part of the Wood Name Study.
Biography
Josiah was born in 1843. He is the son of Mariner Wood.
- Member of Parliment for Westmorland
- Senator of Canada
- First mayor of Sackville, New Brunswick
- 13th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
- Considered to be the founder of Sackville.[1]
Sources
- The Wood family, Sackville, N. B., being a genealogy of the line from Thomas Wood, of Rowley, Mass., born about 1634, to Josiah Wood, of Sackville, N. B., born in 1843
- Josiah Wood biography
- 1851 census Sackville, NB
- 1861 census Sackville, NB
- marriage notice
- tombstone
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Wood
- https://tantramarheritage.ca/2003/04/remembering-sackvilles-founder-josiah-wood/
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