W. J. WOOD
W. J. Wood came to Cass County in the spring of 1870, and purchased land on sections 31 and 32, Pleasant Township. He is a native of Indiana, born in Putnam County, October 14, 1842. He is a son of Dobson and Mary (Tabor) Wood, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Kentucky. They were early settlers in Putnam County, and in 1850 removed to Iowa and settled in Wapello County. In the fall of 1850, Dobson Wood visited that county and entered eighty acres, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land. To this he moved his family, making the trip from Indiana with teams and bringing their household furniture with them. They were on the road thirty days. Dobson Wood resided in Wapello County until his decease in 1867. W. J. Wood remained with his parents till 1863, when he was married to Ella Marshall, a native of Preble County, Ohio. He then bought forty acres of land in Wapello County, which he lived upon until 1869, when he sold out and removed to Cass County. In the spring of 1870, he purchased unimproved land on sections 31 and 3a, which he has converted into his present valuable and highly cultivated farm. He has a good frame house, a frame barn with a stone foundation, a fine grove and also many fruit trees. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have four children-Warren E., Frederick E., Ella M. and Geneva L.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 812.
