Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Wood, Joseph E. 1833 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 19, 2005, 12:57 am Author: Warner, Beers & Co. JOSEPH E. WOOD, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born April 5, 1833, in Union County, Ohio, and is a son of Michael and Eliza (Thayer) Wood, both of English descent, the former a native of New York, the latter a native of Pennsylvania. His father was born April 3, 1801, and moved to Ohio at an early day, settling in Worthington, Franklin County, he died January 7, 1880. The subject of this sketch received a common school education, and has followed farming for his occupation. He married, May 11, 1856, a daughter of James W. and Lena A. (Davis) Boyer, the former of whom was a native of Delaware and died in 1859. Our subject's wife was born August 23, 1837, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and has had thirteen children, eight boys and five girls, viz., Celia, born September, 1856, died April 28, 1866; Joseph R., born January 14, 1860; Charles W., born October 14, 1857 ; Florence, born January 9, 1859; Laura, born March 17, 1862; Michael S., born January 17, 1866, died at the age of twenty months; William F., born March 18, 1865, died at the age of one mouth; Luther, born June 15, 1867 ; John J., born October 16, 1869; Howard W., born November 27, 1871; twins, born June, 1874, died in infancy; Hattie; born May 3, 1878; Charles, born______. Charles Wood was married, May 11, 1882, to Etta, daughter of Charles Smith; Laura Wood is the wife of William Lattimore, and has had two children, Beemer, born in October, 1879, and Bessie A., born February, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are members of the Christian Church. Six years ago Mr. Wood suffered a loss of about $1,000 from a fire that occurred in his absence. He owns 110 acres of land in Dudley Township; has filled the office of School Director, and in politics is a Republican. Additional Comments: Dudley Township Excerpt from "The History of Hardin County, Ohio" containing A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY; HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC. CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO. 1883 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/wood318bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb