The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-12
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. II, 1850.

| Aner the Journal was read,
Mr.. POTTER rose and announced the death oil
his colleague, Hon. AMOS E. WooD, from the
9Th Congressional district in Ohio.
MIR. POTTER addressed the House as follows
Mr. SPEAKER: have been assigned, by my
colleagues, the melancholy duty Of announcing
to this House the death of one of its members,
nv friend and colleague, Amos f. Wood, OF
the sixth Congressional district Of Ohio. He
died at Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the 10Th of
November last, of cryspeas, after an illness of
only three days.
Mr.. Woop was born at Elisburg, Jefferson
county, New York, on the ID of June, 1910. In
1925 he removed " it'll his father to Portage
county, in the State Of Ohio, where he remained
until 1885, when his attention was called to the
rich agricultural lands in northwestern Ohio, and
he removed to Sandusky county, where he pur-
chased himself farm, and cleared it mostly with
his own hands, on which he resided at the time
of his death He has been twice elected to the
Lower House, and once to the Senate, in the
General Assembly of the State OF Ohio. From
humble but respectable origin, by the force and
energy Of his character, with but Il limited edu-
cation, he raised himself to an cnviable position
socially and politically. Surrounded, az he
was, by men of the highest rank in talents and
education, he was able by his perseverance
and the fidelity will, which he discharged the
public trust committed to him by the people, to
command m unbounded influence. In all the
important measures originated or discussed in
the legislature whilst he was n member, his in
huence was felt, and by the zeal with which he
espoused Il cause, he was able to carry measures
wh oh older and more Xperlencedhead despair.
ed Of
The citizens of northwestern Ohio will long
l al,
interests, and the noble public works which
have enriched and beautiied that region will
forever stand as monuments Of that devotion.
He was distinguished for great energy and per-
severance, Joined with the strctest integrity.
whatsoever his hands found to do, he did with all
his might and, although no made no preten-
sions as public speaker, seldom addressing the
House, vet there was no member whose senti-
mcnts were better understood, or made more
sensible impression upon his fellow members
than his The carnestness with which he always
acted, left his impression upon all te did.
Although often occupy g highly responsible
public stations, requiring much Of his time, he
was enabled by the labor Of his own hands
upon his farm, to acquire competency-an
achievement seldom accomplished by servants
of the public,
In ls49 no was elected member Of the
Thrty-frst Congress, to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death of RUDoLrHUs Dickinson
who died in this city soon after the final adjourn
ment Of the Thrtieth Congress,
1t is but about two years since he buried his
wife, who also died of erysipelas leaving him in
the sole care of four small children. lie was
devoted to them, and had taken two young
daughters to Fort Wayne to school, when he
was taken i'll there. They were present to close
his eyes in death, and on the following day re.
turned with his lifeless body to their orphan
lone, and saw the grave close upon ii forever.
Such is life. Hope springs up in the morning,
at evening it is plucked up, and the heart is left
dcsolatc.
Mr. WooDs frank and open mpnner had en-.
deared him to large circle of friends in this
city; and it is but just tribute to bis worth to
say, that amongst those who differed most
widely with him upon the exiting subjects that
for so long a time agitated sid em6lttered a o."
discussions of the Iiop.e are num- IA ,a n,a
nc b;s warmest s!snds The. reel ana lament
~: -: u" , "'' nd whist his family and neighbors
ms ,os they must remember that his loss is not
~ ai'tth their own. Many warm hearts throughout
his district, throughout the State and nation,