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

   T. Wood (deceased), Covington, was born in Columbia county, New York, and
remained a resident of that state until he was about twenty-one years old. He
then became interested in the stock trade, and for thirteen years was engaged in
buying and shipping stock, with his headquarters at Chicago most of the time. In
1863 he came to Fountain county and located at Attica, where he engaged in the
drug business, and continued it there for one year and then removed his store to
Covington, where he was identified with the mercantile trade of that city until
his death, which occurred in January 1878. He was an active and energetic
business man, as well as a successful financier; and in addition to his having
built up and established a good business in the drug line he was largely
interested in the development of the coal interests of Fountain county, and, in
company with the proprietors of the Farmers' Bank of Covington, he owned
valuable tracts of coal lands. He never sought political preferment, but on the
contrary he, from time to time, refused to become a candidate for office. Mr.
Wood was married, in 1870, to Miss Julia Reese, a native of Livingston county,
New York, and who still survives him, and has, since his decease, kept up the
business interests that were established by him in Fountain county.

Additional Comments:
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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