Greene-Sullivan County IN Archives Biographies.....Wood, John Freeland 1845 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   JOHN FREELAND WOOD, a merchant of Newark, Ind., is a native of Sullivan
County, and was born January 8, 1845. Lacy and Jane (Reneau) Wood are his
parents, who bore a family of fourteen children. Mr. Wood received a good
education, graduating from the Southwestern Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio,
August 15, 1867, when he received the degree of Bachelor of Science. After this
he engaged in teaching school thirty-seven months, part of the time in the town
of Sullivan, Ind. On February 18, 1865, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred
and Forty ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, but the war ending soon
after, he was honorably discharged September 27, 1865. In the spring of 1872, he
began the merchandise business at Pleasantville, in the firm of Parks, Wood &
Co., but in the fall of 1873 the firm became L. B. & J. F. Wood. In this manner,
it remained until the spring of 1875, when he went into the same business at
Linton, which he followed for about two years before he went into partnership
with J. P. McIntosh. In the fall of 1878, in partnership with his brother, he
began business at Newberry, Ind. This he continued until July 8, 1881, when he
became one of the firm of J. P. McIntosh & Sons, at Newark, where he has ever
since been. On August 1, 1876, he was married to Mary H. McIntosh, by whom he is
the father of two children, Bessie M. and Orion L. In the winter of 1877 and
1878, he attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was formerly a member of the fraternity of Odd Fellows, although he now holds
a withdrawal card. Mrs. Wood was born November 17, 1859, and is a daughter of J.
P. McIntosh. Mr. Wood is firm in advocating the principles of the Republican party.

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Beech Creek Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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