Leonard J. Wood

WOOD, LEONARD J., farmer and trader; b. 27 July 1865, at Mt. Herbert, son of Leonard Wood and Margaret Irving; m. 3 May 1889 Jessie May Stewart, and there were no children; United; d. 13 April 1957. Wood, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1904 for 3rd Queens. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1915 and 1923. He was defeated in the general election of 1919. On 12 January 1916, he was appointed as a Minister without Portfolio in the Mathieson* and Arsenault* Administrations. On 5 September 1923, he was again appointed Minister without Portfolio, this time in the Stewart* administration. Wood received his education in the local school, and was a farmer and a trader in Hopeton. Leonard Wood died 13 April 1957. Jessie Wood was the daughter of Charles and Sarah Stewart. She was born 8 January 1870 at Mt. Albion, Lot 48. She died 13 December 1959.