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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  HENRY C. WOOD, Secretary of the Florence Land, Mining and Manufacturing
Company, Florence, Ala., was born at this place February 5, 1831. and is a son
of Alexander H. and Mary E. (Evans) Wood. [See W. B. Wood, this volume.]

  He was educated at LaGrange, Ky., and St. Joseph College, Bardstown, Ky. In
1856, he engaged in the drug business at Florence and followed it until April,
1861, when he enlisted in the Florence Guards: was made orderly sergeant;
went-at once to Fort Morgan, and joined General Hardee. He served over four
years, leaving the army with the rank of major. He was promoted to lieutenant in
August, 1861, and was acting adjutant of the Sixteenth Alabama when assigned as
aide-de-camp to General Wood in February, 1862. He was on the staff of General
Wood in 1863, when in January of that year, he was promoted to major and made
brigade-commissary. He surrendered at Greeensboro, N. C., under Gen. Joe
Johnson, returned to Florence at the end of the war, and engaged in mercantile
business. At the end of four years he sold out and, from that time up to the
organization of the company with which he is now connected, was in the cotton
and insurance business. He was married at Richmond, Va., October 9, 1857, to
Miss Sallie Shepard, and has had born to him two sons and three daughters. The
eldest son is a civil engineer. The family are of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and Major Wood is a member of the legion of Honor.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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