Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: E. Barton Wood

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History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement,
growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties,
cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories,
biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views
of county seats, etc.
Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1167

E. Barton Wood, M.D., Principal of High School; born in 1838, at
Whitestown, N.Y.; graduated at Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1864;
enlisted in 1863, in 3d Artillery, N.Y. Vol.; promoted to Reg. Com.
Sergeant., then to Regt. Q. M. Sergeant; then 2d Lieutenant.  Soon after
promoted to 1st Lieutenant.  He was in command of a battery a number of
months, under Gen. Schofield; joined Gen. Sherman at Goldsboro, and went to
Raleigh.  Lieutenant Wood was allowed a furlough to return to Hamilton
College in 1864, having kept up his college studies.  He resigned from the
army in May, 1865.  Was clerk in Quartermaster's department till August,
1865; engaged as Principal of Ward School, in Troy, N.Y.  In 1866,
Principal of Loweville Academy.  In 1867, an offer was made to Lieutenant
Wood from Romeo, Mich., to establish a system of graded schools; left there
1873, for Racine, to be the Principal of High School; came to Oshkosh in
1874, and has been Principal of the High School ever since.  He is a very
popular man, and his teaching is highly successful.  His graduates take
high positions as teachers.  In 1865, he married Sarah Tolman, of Medford,
Mass.; she died July, 1867.  He married again in 1879, Miss Helen Palen, of
Romeo, Mich.  They have three children- Jessie P., aged nine years, Alfred
E., seven years, and Clinton, of five years.  Mr. Wood is member of the
First Presbyterian Church here, now elder and trustee.