Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Wood, Isaac
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   ISAAC WOOD quarryman, P.O. Lumberville, was born in 
Plumstead township, November 14, 1848, and is a son of Hiuel 
and Sophia (Black) Wood.  His grandparents were John Wood, a 
farmer of Plumstead township, and Catherine Ridge, his wife, 
by whom he had six children:  John, Hiuel, Clarissa, 
Charlotte, Julia and Susan.  Hiuel was a farmer of Plumstead 
township, and is now retired.  He has had twelve children, 
of whom seven are now living:  Ira C., Sally (Mrs. 
Shaddinger), Jonathan, Isaac, Marshal, Ella (Mrs. Samuel 
Hand) and Winfield.  Our subject was reared in Plumstead 
township and learned the wheelwright's trade, which he 
followed several years. For the past five years he has 
resided in Lumberville, being in the employ of Kimball 
Brothers in their quarries.  He married Emma, daughter of 
Francis S. and Mary (Myers) Rush, of Plumstead township.  By 
her he has had seven children:  Francis, Iris, Lauretta, 
Samuel, Stella, Alice and Kemble.