Butte-San Joaquin-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Wood, Jesse 1839 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    JESSE WOOD.—He was born October 29, 1839, in Appling, Columbia county,
Georgia. His father, John W. Wood, his grandfather, John Wood, and his
grandmother, were all natives of Georgia. His father died of pneumonia, November
16, 1840, and was a well-to-do farmer. When Jesse was ten years of age, his
mother married William E. Price, and removed to Barbour county, Alabama, where
our subject was educated in the academy and high school of Glennville. In
August, 1857, he entered the junior class of Emory and Henry college, Virginia,
and graduated June 8, 1859, having been tutor of mathematics during his senior
year. On the eighth of October, 1859, he received a license to preach in the
ministry of the Methodist church. He was admitted to the Alabama conference in
December, 1860, and was appointed to Union Springs. He was married January 29,
1861, to Alice Catherine Tison, daughter of James G. and Adriana (Ott) Tison,
natives of South Carolina. Miss Tison was a graduate of the Glennville female
seminary. Mr. Wood became president of the Tuskegee female college in 1863,
continuing in that position till the close of the war, when he was appointed two
years to the Tuskeegee circuit, and two years to Auburn station, in a
ministerial capacity. He came to California via the isthmus, arriving July 13,
1868, in San Francisco. He preached in Stockton till October, when, by
appointment of Bishop Marvin, he took charge of the church in San Francisco,
serving two years, seven months of which he was engaged as principal editor of
the Spectator. He was then appointed to Vallejo and Napa. Having freely made
known to the conference that he thought differently from it in matters of
doctrine and church polity, he asked to withdraw, but was persuaded to remain a
member. However, he retired to St. Helena, Napa county, and taught school for a
time, when he was appointed to preach at Chico, taking charge October 22, 1871.
In 1872, he taught in the public school of Chico, preaching at the same time.
Here he remained until May, 1870, when he accepted a position as deputy county
clerk under J. E. Robinson, and shortly after was invited to the pastorate of
the First Congregational church, which he accepted. Upon the resignation, in
July, 1877, of Mr. Robinson, Mr. Wood was appointed clerk, and served out the
unexpired term. In September, 1877. he was elected superintendent of public
schools, was re-elected in September, 1870, and still holds the position, being
a zealous and efficient guardian of the school interests of the county. Mr. and
Mrs. Wood have been blessed with a large and interesting family of ten children,
of whom six are girls and four boys. At their new homestead farm in Oregon
township, they have recently settled. The place is called Eyrie villa, because
of its elevation and the fine view to be seen. Many valuable improvements are
being made.

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HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

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