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Submitted by Debbie Barrett June 13, 2001
mrsgrinnin@home.com

HIRAM N. WOOD, farmer, P. O. Ono, Pierce county, is a son of Gardner and 
Fanny (Cook) Wood.  His father was born in New York in 1800, and married
Fanny, daughter of R. and N. Cook, who bore him ten children: Betsy, Mrs.
Hubbard; Eleanor, Mrs. Gray; Hiram N.; Josiah; Casper; Nancy, deceased;
Sally, deceased; Permelia, Mrs. Holt; Harriet, Mrs. Steel, and Mary, deceased.
Hiram N. was born February 27, 1826, in Fulton county, N. Y., and lived there
the first seventeen years of his life.  In 1843 he moved with his parents
to Dodge county, Wis., and lived there until 1856, when he married Ellen,
daughter of C. and M. Marsh, and then moved to Pierce county, Wis., and
settled on his present farm in what is now Union township.  It was then in
the woods nine miles from the nearest neighbors, and he was the first 
settler in the township.  His wife did not see the face of a white woman 
the first six months she was there, and their first house was twelve by
fourteen feet, with a few loose boards for a roof, and blankets for doors.
Eight children were born to them, as follows:  Mary (Mrs. Ogilvie), Charles,
John, Wilber, Millie (Mrs. Thompson), Lucy (Mrs. Young), Amy and Herbert,
the two last named are living at home.  In 1880 he bought a portable saw-mill
and ran that one year.  Then he put up a regular saw-mill which he has 
operated since, and which has been of great help to the other settlers 
coming in.  He built the first school-house in the township and it is still
standing, but has been superseded by a modern brick building.  He has held 
all of the town and school offices.  Mr. Wood has never drank a glass of
liquor, and until injured a few years ago, was a very rugged man. 
Politically he is a prohibitionist.

--Taken from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley;
Ancestral Records fo Leading Families; Biographies of Representative Citizens,
Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men.  Edited by George Forrester.
Published in Chicago, Illinois by A. Warner. Publisher. 1891-2. Pages 571-572