George W. Wood
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George W. Wood | |
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| 1st Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana | |
| In office March 1, 1840 – July 5, 1841 | |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Morgan |
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| Born | 1808 New York (state) [1] |
| Died | 1871 (aged 62–63) |
| Profession | Newspaperman [1] |
George W. Wood (1808–1871) was an American politician and newspaperman. He was elected as the first mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1840. He served only 16 months before resigning on July 5, 1841. He continued in later life as a newspaperman in the Fort Wayne area.
Wood was born in 1808 in New York state. He studied law,[2] but then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1834 and then to the backcountry pioneer village of Fort Wayne in 1836.
Newspaper life
Rather than being a lawyer, Wood joined with Thomas Tigar to work on the Fort Wayne Sentinel, which was founded in 1833. Four years after its founding, Wood bought ownership of the newspaper sometime around the Panic of 1837, and he promptly sold the paper in 1840 to I.D.G. Nelson.[3]
