Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Wood, Clinton S. 1818 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

CLINTON S. WOOD. This prominent resident of section 6, Atlas Township, Genesee
County, is a son of New York, being born in Yates County, that State, September
8,1818. He is a son of Barnabas and Betsey (Davis) Wood, pioneers of Livingston
County, N. Y. When only a youth our subject learned the cooper's trade which he
followed for many years and his father was a cooper before him. Few educational
advantages were offered him but he improved conscientiously every opportunity
and has become a man of intelligence and broad information, mainly through his
own efforts since reaching manhood.

  Lucinda Palmatier was the name of the lady who became Mrs. Clinton Wood in New
York in 1842, and their wedding day was November 19. She was born in Delaware
County, March 17,1820, and her parents were John and Betsey (Weaver) Palmatier,
both natives of New York and the father was a soldier in the War of 1812. When
she was about fifteen years old she removed with her parents to Steuben County,
and there spent her youth and young womanhood, receiving her elementary
education in the primitive schools of that time.

  After the marriage of this couple Mr. Wood worked for about two years as a
farm hand at $10 a month and then went to farming for himself in Livingston
County, N.Y., where he resided for many years in connection with his trade. In
1866 he sold that property and coming to Genesee County, Mich., settled on his
present farm in Atlas Township, where he has since resided. Much hard work has
been bestowed upon this farm, and he has made it thoroughly cultivated and
highly productive. He has done much ditching and tiling. The first home here was
in an old log house which some years later was removed and the present
commodious and attractive residence built in its stead. In his accumulation of
this handsome property he has been ably seconded by his faithful, prudent and
wise counselor and helpmate, and they now own one hundred and sixty acres of
excellent land.

  Mr. Wood is warmly attached to the doctrines of the Republican party but is
not a wire-puller or office-seeker, as he feels himself better adapted to the
management of a farm than the management of affairs of State and prefers that
more ambitious men fill the offices of the township and county. Mr. and Mrs.
Wood are among the most esteemed and highly respected citizens of the township
and have a large circle of warm friends. As neighbors they are regarded as most
friendly and accommodating, and their integrity and uprightness give them the
confidence of all with whom they have dealings.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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