Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Wood, Samuel F. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Samuel F. Wood, attorney, Covington, has been a member, of the Fountain
county bar for eighteen years, and is a native of Fountain county. His father,
Wm. Wood, settled in this county as early as 1833. He selected a location on
Osborn prairie, Troy township. The early life of S. F. was spent on his father's
farm. He received such education as the school system of that date afforded, and
in 1857 he entered Asbury University, graduating in 1859, and then went to
Bloomington, Illinois, to complete the study of law. He read there about one
year, and then returned to Covington, and in 1862 was admitted to the bar, and
was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Indiana in 1866. In the fall of
1862 he was elected prosecuting attorney in the district composed of the
counties of Parke, Vermilion, Fountain, Montgomery, Boone, Clinton and Warren.
In 1864 he was reelected, and also again in 1866, making a total term of service
of six years. Judge J. M. Cowan, of Crawfordsville, was the presiding judge at
the time. In 1868 he was elected state senator from the district of Fountain and
Warren counties. He was one of the senators that voted for the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution of the United States. Mr. Wood is at present
associated with Mr. W. A. Tipton in the practice of law, the style of the firm
being Tipton & Wood. He is a member of Fountain Lodge, No. 60, A. F. and A. M.

Additional Comments:
Troy Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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