Judge John Howland Wood, Jr.
31 December 2008
We had mentioned here in a previous post that a Stoutenburgh descendant, Judge John Howland Wood, Jr., was the first federal judge assassinated in the United States. It seems appropriate that we should provide more information about Judge Wood.
John Howland Wood, a grandson of Maria Stoutenburgh and Richard DeCantillon, went off to Texas in 1835 to fight for the Texas Republic. It was his great, great grandson, Judge John Howland Wood, “Maximum John,” that was assassinated. Strangely, I can only find pictures of his killer and the man who paid for the killing but not the judge himself.
