WOOD, Daniel H. 1831-1899

WOOD, HAMILTON, GIEADALL, JERSEY, COTANT

Posted By: Bruce Kuennen (email)
Date: 10/27/2018 at 11:54:00

At his residence 1403, 20th, Ave. East Davenport, Iowa, at 8 o'clock Saturday, Oct. 14th, occurred tho death of Daniel H. Wood, aged 68 years 2 months. Mr. Wood had been ill but two weeks with typhoid fever. his weakness, resulting from advanced age, rendered his recovery impossible. He was attended by Drs. Bowman. Baker and Kulp, of Davenport, and Dr. C C. Craig, of Rock Island, four of the best physicians of Davenport and Rock Island. This notes the passing of a well liked old genteleman, a life time member of tho Friends society and his death is regretted by all who knew him. He is survived by his wife and five children Mrs. Carrie E. Hamilton, Mrs. Dora Gieadall, Davenport, and B. C. Wood, Moline, and Mrs. Georgiana Jersey and Elliott N. Wood, Ottumwa, Iowa. The services were held at tho family residence Monday afternoon, Oct. 16th, and the interment was in New Oakdale cemetery.

Deceased was born in Orange county, N Y., Sept. 1, 1831 On July 27th, 1851 he was married to Matilda A Cotant at Greenwich, Ohio. Here a colony was formed and removed west, settling in Chickasaw county, Iowa, in 1836, constituting one of the first farming pioneer settlements in northern Iowa and the same year the great Indian massacre occured on the south shore of West Okoboji Lake, near Spirit Lake in Dickinson county.

The Indians frequently became troublesome in that part of the state, and several tribes passed through this Quaker settlement, as it was then known, but they wore always kindly treated and fairly dealt with, and it is said the several chiefs, through interpreters always expressed great satisfaction at their treatment when passing through the colonies.

In 1878 deceased retired from farming and took up his residence in New Hampton, and in 1885 removed to Davenport where he engaged to the Commercial College business and the typewriter and supply trado with his son, B. C Wood, who was then principal of the institution, after filling a chair in Mathematics for three years he retired from all active business life and has since resided in Davenport.

The Rev W S. Rollings, pastor of the Edwards Congregational church, Davenport who officiated at the funeral services, was brought up among the Friends in the Now England states and his eulogy of this ancient society and its principles were beautifully expressed. He said the great and good deeds dome by these people were a matter of history dating from Wm Penn's time down to the present.

Deceased also left an only brother, Samuel A. Wood, also a resident of Davenport. When the call to arms was sounded in 1961 for the civil war, and companies were being organized rapidly, deceased expressed a willingness to respond, but his brother. Samuel, said, "No, Daniel, thee remain at home with thy family, I am single and 1 will enlist at once and one from our immediate family will suffice." After due consideration this plan was adopted and Samuel A. joined the ranks shouldered his musket and went to the firing line and served three years and to the close of the war when he was honorably mustered out and returned to the colony. He suffered great hardship, had fever and ague but escaped severe injury. In this act, Samuel played the part of Damon as exemplified as exemplified in that great and noble order the Knights of Phythias, offering his life in defense of the honor of the stars and stripes and for his brother. There is more than ordinary brotherly love in the bosom of men whose pages in life's history is written with such great strokes of valor. Deceased leaves about one hundred relatives in Chickasaw county and hundreds of friends and acquaintances, who will regret to learn of his sudden death. He left an estate valued at $6,000.

Source: New Hampton Courier, October 26, 1899, accessed at New Hampton Public Library Digital Archives

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