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AlexanderWood (January 1772 – September 11, 1844) was a merchant and magistrate in Upper Canada, who was the center of a gay sex scandal in 1810.
Powell was the appointing authority, and refused to appoint Wood on moral grounds because of the rape investigation.
Wood remained in York, and in 1827 he purchased 50 acres (0.2 km²) of land at Yonge and Carlton Streets, which became mockingly known as "Molly Wood's Bush".
The pioneer physician was in a great number of instances less refined than the medical doctor and surgeon of to-day, but his unselfish, self-sacrificing and fearless devotion to duty has not been and never will be excelled.
The roll of physicians, who settled here in recent years, embraces the names of a few of the older men, and a brief sketch of some of their lives is given.
Conant, as told in the chapter on the Bench and Bar, and in that on Political affairs, was closely connected with the administration of Wood county from 1820 to 1835, and, prior to 1820, held the commission of justice of the peace for Erie county, from the Governor of Michigan Territory.
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