Tuscola-Sanilac County MI Archives Biographies.....Wood, Joseph 1828 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOSEPH WOOD, whose fine farm is an ornament to section 9, Watertown Township.
Tuscola County, is a son of John and Julia A. (Petrie) Wood, both Canadians, and
he was born in Canada, November 1, 1842. He is one of a family of two sons and
three daughters, and his father died in Canada in 1843, but his mother is still
living at the age of seventy-eight. Mr. Wood was a carpenter by trade. The
maternal grandfather of our subject, Joseph Petrie, was a soldier in the War of
1812.

  He of whom we write had his early education and training in Canada, and
remained there until he was twenty-two years of age, at which time he was
married to Naomi Young, a Canadian, and a daughter of William and Barbara Young.
Mr. Young was a native of Scotland, and Mrs. Young was born on Prince Edward's
Island. They became the parents of six sons and six daughters.

  Joseph Wood, Jr. came to Michigan in 1863, and took charge of a sawmill near
Sanilac for one summer, after which he went to Illinois and for a year worked
upon a farm, then returned to Michigan and settled upon a farm of forty acres
which he afterwards sold, before coming to where he now lives. He has here
cleared away the timber from a tract of forty acres and is considered a pioneer
of the township, as he settled here in 1865. He has a beautiful house that he
erected in 1890.

  To our subject and his wife four children have been born, namely: William,
Alexander, George and Julia M. William and George have been called from earth.
Mr. Wood has been a pronounced Democrat in his political affiliations since
1876, and before that was a Republican. He is highly respected in the
neighborhood and has the good will of all who have any dealings with him.


Additional Comments:
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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