Sonoma-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Wood, Ben S. 1847 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Wood, Ben S. County Recorder and ex-officio County Auditor of Sonoma county; was
born in Jackson county, Missouri, October 18, 1847. He emigrated with his
father's family to California and settled in Napa City in 1853. In the Spring of
1854 he moved with the family to Petaluma in this county, at which place he
continued to reside until 1864, when he was sent to the Pacific Methodist
College. He graduated from that institution with the degree of A. B. in the
Class of 1869, the degree of A. M. being conferred by the same institution two
years later. After spending almost two years in the Coast Range mountains, he
was appointed Deputy County Surveyor by his father, John B. Wood, who was then
living in Healdsburg, and holding the position of County Surveyor for the fifth
term. This appointment he continued to hold, engaged principally in office work,
until March, 1874, at which time he moved to Santa Rosa, having been elected on
the Democratic ticket at the Fall election of the preceding year to the office
of County Recorder and ex-offtcio Auditor. In March, 1876, he was appointed
Deputy Sheriff under Joseph Wright, and resigned the same after serving as
deputy for nineteen months. He was again elected on the Democratic ticket as
Recorder and Auditor at the general election in 1877, which term he is now
filling, having been elected for the third time for the term beginning January
1, 1880. Mr. Wood is married, and has two children.

Additional Comments:
Santa Rosa Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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