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    CHARLES A. WOOD

    The deserved reward of a well-spent life in an honored retirement from business, in which to enjoy the fruits of former toil. Today, after a useful and beneficial career, Mr. Wood is quietly living at his pleasant home in Piqua, Ohio, surrounded by the comforts that earnest labor has brought him. Mr. Wood was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, February 24, 1820, the seventh son of Deacon Phillip and Dorothy Davis Wood. Deacon Phillip Wood was born in 1780, at the family homestead which is now standing in Dracut, Massachusetts, and was the son of Abijah and Ester (Lewis) Wood. Abijah Wood was the son of Benjamin Wood, who was the great- grandfather of General Leonard Wood, of Cuban fame. They were of English Puritan stock and came to the colony of Massachusetts in 1635 from Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, leaving there on account of religious persecution. Both the paternal and the maternal grandfathers of the subject of this sketch were soldiers of the Revolution; his grandfather Wood, according to Massachusetts records, was at the battle of Concord, Massachusetts, at Bennington, Vermont, and at the capture of Burgoyne. His grandfather Davis was at the siege of Boston, under Washington, and at Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain.

    Charles A. Wood, the subject of this review, was reared in his native town where he attended school a few weeks each winter until sixteen years of age, when, having to make his own living, he worked on a farm in the summer seasons and in the woods in the winter months cutting wood until his twenty-third year, when he came to Piqua, Ohio, and engaged in farming and various other occupations until 1870. He and his eldest son, C. L. Wood, engaged in the store and lumber trade, at Dunkirk, Indiana, for eight years, then came back to Piqua and, in company with C. L. Wood started the Piqua planing mill and lumber yard. In 1870, after fifty years of incessant toil, Mr. Wood gave up all active business.

    In 1840 Mr. Wood was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Washer, of Bedford, New Hampshire, and their union has been blessed with the following children; Charles Leonard, who resides in Piqua, Ohio; George Philip, who resides in Kokomo, Indiana; and Marcus Davis, who resides in Dunkirk, Indiana. In 1873, some years after the death of his first wife, Mr. Wood married Mrs. Sarah Brown, who still lives and makes a happy Christian home for their declining years.

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