Lacrosse-Dane-St.Croix County WI Archives Biographies.....Wood, E. D. 1845 - 
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E. D. WOOD, Principal of the High School and Superintendent of Graded Schools 
of West Salem, was born in Massachusetts in 1845; went to Illinois in 1854, 
thence to Minnesota; came to Wisconsin in 1868; taught a school in the town of 
Roxbury, Dane Co., the following winter; taught the following winter in the 
town of Dane; went thence to Paoli, where he taught three terms; also taught 
one term in Belleville. In the meantime, Mr. Wood had attended several terms 
at the State University at Madison, where he graduated in 1874. After his 
graduation, he went to Baldwin, St. Croix Co., and engaged in teaching; also 
established a book-store at that place, which he still owns; assumed his 
present position in the fall of 1878. Mr. Wood was married at Paoli, Dane Co., 
in 1872, to Miss Mary C. Matts; she died in November, 1878, at Paoli. His 
present wife was Miss Mary C. Van Waters, daughter of William C. Van Waters; 
she was formerly a teacher in the school at West Salem. They have one 
daughter - Cora Blanche.

Additional Comments:
From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 832.

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