His middle name was given to him in honor of his paternal grandmother who was a descendant of Samuel Jennings, the latter having been a deputy governor of West Jersey and later receiver general of Pennsylvania in the early 18th century.
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Wood was greatly admired by the Army's commanding general Jacob Brown who commissioned a monument in his honor at West Point and also had Fort Wood on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor on which the Statue of Liberty was built.
general Joseph W. Brown was the brother of major general Jacob Brown, the founder of Brownville, New York.