Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hood, Samuel 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

SAMUEL HOOD, a retired physician, resides on section 16, Crete Township. He 
was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, June 25, 1815. His father, Samuel Hood, 
Sr., a native of Ireland, but of English ancestry, came to America in 1840 and 
settled on new land in Cook County, Ill., remaining there until his death at 
eighty-seven years. He married four times, the mother of our subject being 
Maria E. Vanhaften, who was born in Bombay, and was first married to a surgeon-
general in an East Indian Company. After his death she married Mr. Hood. Of 
her two children our subject alone survives. He began to study medicine when 
he was eighteen years of age, first serving three years in an apothecary shop 
and then entering a medical college in London, England. Three years later he 
graduated, after which he set sail for America. For a number of years he 
practiced in different places in Pennsylvania, then moved to Gentry County, 
Mo., and after four years came to Illinois, where he carried on practice for 
twenty years. In Butler County, Pa., Dr. Hood married Ellen Stewart, who was 
born in County Donegal, Ireland, and came to America with her parents in 
girlhood. Nine children were born to their union, but death has removed a 
number of these from the home they once brightened by their presence. Thomas 
died when twenty-one, Samuel when eighteen and David when seven. Two died in 
infancy. John J. became a farmer in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Mary 
married Nelson Seymour, a farmer at Homewood, Cook County. Maria married Henry 
Seymour, engineer of the Crete Manufacturing Company. Harriet became the wife 
of Robert Hewes, a farmer of Crete Township.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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