The Woods
- Fernando Wood (1812–1881), U.S. Representative from New York 1841-1843 1863-1865 1867-1881, Mayor of New York City 1855-1858 1860-1862. Brother of Benjamin Wood.
- Benjamin Wood (1820–1900), U.S. Representative from New York 1861-1865 1881-1883, New York State Senator 1866-1867. Brother of Fernando Wood.
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Famous quotes containing the word woods:
“In the woods of Powhatan,
Still ‘tis told by Indian fires
How a daughter of their sires
Saved a captive Englishman.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country’s champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)