Samuel Newitt Wood

Samuel Newitt Wood was an American attorney, newspaper editor, and member of the Kansas House of Representatives. He was also a Free State advocate in Kansas and an early supporter of Women's Suffrage. Wood had been a member of various political parties leaning left. He was assassinated in 1891 in a bitter fight over the naming of a new county seat in the state's southeastern corner.

30 December 1825

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