Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 972
JOHN W. WOOD

John W. WOOD, a farmer and stockraiser, of section 2, township 79, range 43, came to Harrison County in the spring of 1865, and settled in Magnolia, where he engaged in the mercantile business in partnership with P.J. Rudasill and James Low, and was in that business until 1871. He was elected to the office of County Treasurer, in the fall of 1872, and served two terms, and after going out of office he remained in Magnolia, until the spring of 1877, when he purchased the farm he now lives upon which then consisted of two hundred and forty acres. He now has seven hundred and twenty acres.

He was born in Rappahannock County, Va., in December, 1833, in 1854 came to Missouri, and embarked in the mercantile business and remained until the time he came to Harrison County in 1865.

Our subject was married in Atchison County, Missouri, in September 1859, to Eliza HOPKINS, and by this marriage eleven children were born: Charles, Mary, William, Frank, Kate (deceased), Anna E., Lucy, Ella, Effie, J.B., and Edward J.

Mrs. WOOD was born in Clinton County, Mo., in 1842, and remained with her parents until the date of her marriage. Mr. WOOD is a member of the Masonic lodge at Logan. In his political belief is a Democratic, and in religious matters he and his wife are connected with the Baptist Church.

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