Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . -5— I iHN WOOD, 1860-1, and?%;*« the first settler of Quincy, III.,was born in the town of Sempro-\. niiis (now Moravia), Cayuga Co.,,:•? N. Y., Dec. 20, 1798. He wasthe second child and only son ofDr. Daniel Wood. His motlier,nee Catherine Crause, was ofGerman parentage, and diedwhile he was an infant. was a learned and skillfulphysician, of classical attain-ments and proficient in severalmodern lai guages, who, afterserving throughout
Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . -5— I iHN WOOD, 1860-1, and?%;*« the first settler of Quincy, III.,was born in the town of Sempro-\. niiis (now Moravia), Cayuga Co.,,:•? N. Y., Dec. 20, 1798. He wasthe second child and only son ofDr. Daniel Wood. His motlier,nee Catherine Crause, was ofGerman parentage, and diedwhile he was an infant. was a learned and skillfulphysician, of classical attain-ments and proficient in severalmodern lai guages, who, afterserving throughout the Revolu-tionary War as a Surgeon, settled on the land grantedhim by the Government, and resided there a re-spected and leading influence in his section until hisdeath, at the ripe age of 92 years. The subject of this sketch, impelled by the spiritof Western adventure then pervading everywhere,left his home, Nov. 2, 1818, and passed the succeed-ing winter in Cincinnati, Ohio. The following sum-mer he pushed on to Illinois, landing at Shawneetown,and spent the fall and following winter in CalhounCounty. In 1820, in company wi
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