Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Josiah Wood | |
Order: | 13th |
Office: | Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick |
Predecessor: | Lemuel John Tweedie |
Successor: | Gilbert Ganong |
Term Start: | 6 March 1912 |
Term End: | 29 June 1917 |
Governor General: | The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn The Duke of Devonshire |
Premier: | James K. Flemming George J. Clarke James A. Murray Walter E. Foster |
Office2: | Senator for Westmorland, New Brunswick |
Appointed2: | Mackenzie Bowell |
Term Start2: | 1895 |
Term End2: | 1912 |
Constituency Mp3: | Westmorland |
Parliament3: | Canadian |
Predecessor3: | Albert James Smith |
Successor3: | Henry Absalom Powell |
Term Start3: | 1882 |
Term End3: | 1895 |
Birth Date: | 1843 4, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada |
Death Place: | Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada |
Relations: | Frank Bunting Black, son-in-law |
Party: | Conservative |
Children: | 4 daughters, 2 sons |
Josiah Wood (18 April 1843 - 13 May 1927) was a Canadian lawyer, entrepreneur, mayor, parliamentarian, and the 13th Lieutenant Governor of the province of New Brunswick. He was born in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1843.
He was the son of Mariner Wood and his wife Louisa Trueman of Point de Bute. On 14 January 1874, Wood married Laura S. Trueman of Sackville. He died on 13 May 1927 in Sackville, New Brunswick.
After attending public school in Sackville, he entered Mount Allison Academy; later he became a member of the first graduating class of the newly founded university, then known as Mount Allison Wesleyan College. In 1866 he was awarded a Master of Arts degree with admission to the Bar of New Brunswick occurring later in the year.
He entered the family business and built Mariner Wood & Sons into a company involved in retail, wholesale, shipbuilding, shipping, farming and lumbering, banking, real estate, including a large farm in Midgic plus the Wood Block in downtown Sackville. To this was later added investments in a variety of enterprises in Moncton.