Yolo-Yuba-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Wood, Henry Borden 1826 - before 1913
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Author: Tom Gregory

MRS. HENRY BORDEN WOOD

    The late Henry Borden Wood, whose widow, Mrs. Julia T. Wood, is one of the
most highly honored of the older citizens of Woodland, Yolo county, Cal., was
born at Little Compton, R. I., August 8, 1826, and died November 10, 1906. Mr.
Wood was a son of Borden and Harriet (Gray) Wood, natives of Rhode Island. When
he was fifteen years old his parents moved to New York City and his father
became a captain in the merchant marine service. A few years later the family
took up their residence at New Bedford, Mass., and Borden Wood became president
of a bank in that city. There the son completed his education and there he was a
clerk until 1849, when he and five others chartered a whaling vessel and sailed
around Cape Horn for San Francisco and thence up to Benicia. It was on
Washington's birthday that they left New Bedford and the journey was slow and
tiresome. Mr. Wood went to the mines, but soon established himself as a grocery
merchant in Sonora. Later he was in the shoe trade until in 1852, when he
returned to Massachusetts. After a stay there of five months he returned to
California by way of the Isthmus of Panama and opened a shoe store in
Marysville. In 1858 he removed to Yolo county and bought and improved and
operated a ranch near Charleston and in 1864 he entered upon a two years'
clerkship with Thomas & Laugenour at Knight's Landing. In 1866 he was appointed
deputy sheriff under Sheriff Charles Gray, but soon opened a hardware store on
Main street, Woodland, which he conducted successfully until his death. After
that event his widow continued the business a year and a half, then disposed of
it. She still owns a store building on Main street near First, her residence at
No. 827 Main street, and other property in the city.

   June 8, 1851, at Sacramento, Cal., Mr. Wood married Julia T. Hannon, a native
of Kings county, Ireland. When she was two years old she was adopted by her
grandparents, James and Elizabeth Prout, of Queens county, and was educated by a
tutor. In 1849 she came across the ocean to Boston, Mass., with her aunt,
Margaret Prout, who sent her to a young ladies' seminary at New Bedford. In 1859
she came to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, landing at San Francisco
July 30, thence she went to Sacramento, where she was married about two years
later. She bore her husband five children: Harriet E. died at the age of two
years and six months; Borden died in San Francisco in 1904 in his thirty-seventh
year; Henry died August 15, 1906; Augustine and James live in Woodland. Mrs.
Wood is a woman of strong character and ready sympathies, noted alike for her
business ability and for her unostentatious help of deserving persons in need.
She is a communicant of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church of Woodland. Her late
husband was in his political affiliations a Republican; in his religion he was
an Episcopalian; as a citizen he was generously public-spirited and helpful to
all worthy local interests.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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