The Woods of New York
Fernando Wood was a canny and corrupt politician during the Gangs of New York days. As mayor during the Civil War, he suggested that New York City secede from both the country and the state. He bought his Congressman brother Benjamin a newspaper, which became a house organ of southern sympathizers in the north. Benjamin Wood is today better known as the husband of Ida Wood. Ida had arrived in New York high society as the aristocratic New Orleans beauty Ida Mayfield. In 1931, Ida made headlines at age 93, when she was discovered living frugally as a recluse with a half million dollars in $10,000 bills stuffed in her clothes.
While settling her nearly $1 million estate, investigators found she had been born Ellen Walsh, from a poor Irish family who never heard from her after she left home at 19.
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