Background
Wood, John M. was born on November 17, 1813 in Minisink, New York, United States.
Wood, John M. was born on November 17, 1813 in Minisink, New York, United States.
Born in Minisink, New York, Wood attended the common schools.
He engaged in railroad construction in New Jersey and moved to Portland, Maine, in 1846. He was one of the contractors in the construction of the Atlantic & Saint Lawrence Railroad, and he also engaged in banking. He was owner and publisher of the Portland Daily Advertiser from 1853 to 1857.
Wood was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859).
He was the contractor for building the Air Lincolnshire Railroad between Woonsocket and New Haven, Connecticut. Wood died while on a visit in Boston, Massachusetts, and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New New York
He served as member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1852 and 1853.