Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Wood, Harvey E 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Harvey E. Wood, a practitioner at the Joliet bar, was born in Jackson 
township, Will county, Illinois, April 2, 1876, son of William W. and Cleora 
C. (Edgerton) Wood, the former a native of St. Lawrence county, New York, and 
the latter of Vermont, In 1864 they came to Will county, settling on a farm in 
Jackson township, but since 1902 William W. Wood has lived retired in Joliet. 
The ancestry of the family has been represented in several of the early wars. 
In the family of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Wood were eight children: Hattie H.; 
Emma E.; Frank W.; Blanche, the wife of E. J. Pant, of Franklin, Missouri; 
Alice, the wife of W. A. Ohlhaver, of Aurora, Illinois; Jessie P.; Harvey E.; 
and Homer H., on the old homestead farm. The boyhood days of Harvey E. Wood 
were spent in the usual manner of farm lads of the locality and in the 
district schools he acquired his preliminary education. In 1892 he entered the 
Joliet high school, from which he was graduated in 1896. In the meantime he 
became a resident of the city of Joliet in 1895. In the fall of 1896 he 
matriculated in the University of Illinois and was graduated in 1900 with the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts and Economics. In 1899 he entered the law school 
and pursued a two years' course. Returning to Joliet, he continued the study 
of law in the office of Barr, Barr & Barr, and in the fall of 1902 was 
admitted to practice, since which time his attention has been given to his 
professional duties. He has made a very creditable record during the four 
years of his connection with the legal profession at Joliet and is recognized 
as a very industrious attorney, of discriminating mind, thorough in his 
preparations and logical in his reasoning. On the 30th of June, 1903, Mr. Wood 
was married to Miss Blanche Lindsay, a daughter of Benjamin F. Lindsay, of 
Onarga, Illinois. They are the parents of one child, Frances. The parents 
attend the services of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Wood belongs to the 
Knights of Pythias fraternity and also affiliates with the Modern Woodmen, the 
Eagles, White Cross and the Delta Tau Delta, a college fraternity. He has 
served for three years on the board of school inspectors of Joliet, but is not 
ambitious for political preferment, desiring rather to concentrate his 
energies upon the profession in which he has already made substantial 
advancement. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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