Biographical Sketch of John M. Wood, Springfield, Greene County, MO

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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John M. Woods is a son of John and Elizabeth (Morris) Wood, and was
born in what was then a wilderness, but now Rockford City, Illinois,
upon the 19th of September, 1836.  His parents soon after moved to
Tennessee, where young John received his education.  His father was
a cottonspinner and also ran a tanyard.  John worked with his father
in Tennessee until they moved to Springfield, Missouri, in May, 1853.
His father bought a farm five miles northwest of Springfield, where
John lived with his parents until 1858, when he accepted a clerkship
in the general store of Charles Shepard, in Springfield, where he 
remained eighteen months.  In 1860 he embarked in the mercantile busi-
ness for himself in partnership with Joseph Weaver.  The war coming on
soon paralyzed all business, and the firm closed business.  In 1864 he
engaged in the grocery trade and remained in that business until 1880.
He is now of the general merchandise firm of Wood & Williams.  Mr. 
Wood joined the Christian Church in Tennessee, and is now elder and
treasurer of that church, and has been a member of the city council.
He was married in September, 1860, to Miss Sarah A., daughter of Dr.
William Shackelford of this county.  Their union has been blest with
six children, three boys and three girls, all living.  Mrs. Wood is 
of the same religious faith as her husband, and the family is one of
the county's "salt of the earth."

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