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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
1795
History of
Clermont County, Ohio
with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
of its
Prominent Men and Pioneers
Philadelphia:
Louis H. Everts
Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia
1880
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M.
A. WOOD. The first settlement
made in Southern Clermont and the second permanent one
in the county, was by the Wood family in
Washington township. This family is of pure
English extraction, coming down from the Revolutionary
era with an honorable record for services to the patriot
cause in the days of 1776.
David Wood, born and living in Virginia, was a
soldier in "The Virginia Line on the Continental
Establishment," and his son David Wood married a
Miss Smith, descended from the early immigrants
to that States from Germany, just before the old French
and Indian war. About the year 1791.
David and his brother, John Wood, emigrated
to Kentucky and settled at Washington, then the leading
town of the northern part of that State. In the fall of
1795 the two Wood brothers, David
and John, accompanied by Elisha, Nathan, and
Richard Manning (brothers), who had married
respectively three sisters of the two brothers Wood,
moved over from Kentucky into what is now 'Washington
township and built what was called 'Wood and
Mannings' Station," at which time the only other
building of any kind in what is now Clermont County was
the log cabin of Col. Thomas Paxton, erected a
few weeks before, back of the present town of Loveland.
"Wood and Mannings' Station" was built
with a stockade, and was partly a fort and partly a
double cabin, being used as a dwelling und also for
protection against predatory bands of Indians and wild
beasts. At its old-fashioned hearth of heaped
logs, with its cheerful fire, in the winter of 1795-96
sat many nights Daniel Boone, Simon
Kenton, and Cornelius Washburn, who
had been Indian-fighters and hunters in Kentucky with
the Woods and Mannings, and recounted
their exploits and laid plans for future expeditions.
Shortly afterwards the Buchanans, the Sargents,
and other settlers came in.
John Wood was one of the three first
associate judges of the Common Pleas Court, appointed in
1803, and died while filling judicial office in 1807.
David Wood died at a ripe old age about
1848, leaving a son, Dr. David Wood,
who had married Mary Day, a daughter of
Joseph Day and Deborah (Lambert) Day,
married in 1819 and both still living. Mrs.
Deborah Day was a daughter of the Mr.
Lambert who lived at Williamsburgh at a very
early period, and who was one of three English soldiers
who settled in America. Dr. David
Wood died in 1854, and his widow subsequently
married L. D. Page, and by him had one child, -
Amanda J. Page. The children of Dr.
David and Mary (Day) Wood were Hercelia,
married to Thomas M. Padget; Almina,
married to Thomas J. Ashley; Marcellus
Augustus, the subject of this sketch, born May 14,
1846; George A.; and Sarah C., married to
Leonard B. Dixon.
Marcellus A. Wood was educated in the district
and at the Felicity schools, and completed his studies
at the Lebanon (Ohio) Normal School. He received a
teacher's certificate at eighteen years of age, and
immediately began teaching, following that calling ten
successive years in Washington, Franklin, and Pierce.
townships, acquiring a merited reputation as one of the
best educators in Clermont. He was a member all
that time of the County Teachers' Institute, prominently
connected with its annual sessions, and served on its
executive committee and as its secretary for one year.
Five years he served as assessor of Washington township,
and in 1874 was elected recorder of Clermont County, and
in 1877 was re-elected by nearly a thousand majority,
leading his ticket by several hundred votes. His
second term will expire in January, 1881, and in six
years of official duties his administration of this
important office has been marked by an efficiency that
stamps him as an able and trustworthy official. He was
married Dec. 17, 1874, by Rev. H. M. Keck, to
Miss Ada H. Richards, daughter of Robert J. and
Bena (Smith) Richards, of Franklin township.
They have no children, and reside at Glen Este, in Union
township, on the noted "Peticolas" fruit-farm of
seventy-one acres, which Mr. Wood
purchased in the spring of 1880 and to which he
immediately removed. He belongs to no
denomination, but his wife is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. In 1876 he joined Batavia Lodge,
No. 136, of I. O. O. F., and has passed all its chairs.
He is a Democrat in politics, and has taken the
liveliest interest in all political campaigns. By
being accidentally thrown from a spirited horse in
August, 1867, his left leg was broken so as to require
its amputation. Mr. Wood, as a man,
neighbor, citizen, and public official, has the
confidence and esteem of the community in an eminent
degree, and it would be difficult to find in Clermont a,
man who stands higher in the public estimation than he.
Source: 1795 History of Clermont County, Ohio, Publ.
Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts - Press of J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia - 1880 - Page 280 |
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