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About Sydney Woods (politician)
- Sydney Woods (September 13, 1853 – after 1895) was a merchant and politician in Newfoundland.
- He represented Bay de Verde in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1894 to 1895 as a Liberal.He was born in St.
- John's and was educated at the General Protestant Academy there.
- He began work with his father's firm and later worked as a bookkeeper in several firms.
- In 1885, he established his own hardware business.
- His store was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1892 but he resumed business soon afterwards in a new premises.
- Woods was a prominent Methodist and served as president of the Methodist Academic Literary Institute.
- He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in an 1894 by-election held after his brother Henry J.
- B.
- Woods was unseated.
- He resigned his seat in 1895 to allow his brother to run for reelection.Woods married Emma Burns, who was originally from Nova Scotia.
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