A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . stu-dious nature he secured the best training affordedby that dav. and when, at the age of seventeenyears, the burden of the family fell upon himselfand older brother through the death of both par-ents, he found himself equal to the his parents he moved to Clark countv. from that point Mr. Wood offered^ his ser-vices in the Alexican war, but owing to the regi-ment being filled he was not needed. In 1849 ^Ir. Wood and
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . stu-dious nature he secured the best training affordedby that dav. and when, at the age of seventeenyears, the burden of the family fell upon himselfand older brother through the death of both par-ents, he found himself equal to the his parents he moved to Clark countv. from that point Mr. Wood offered^ his ser-vices in the Alexican war, but owing to the regi-ment being filled he was not needed. In 1849 ^Ir. Wood and his older brother be-came members of a band of one hundred menwho set out for California—the wonderful El-dorado that was attracting the attention of theentire world—their journey being made bymeans of the slow-moving ox teams over thedesert, and plains. October 8 of the same yearfound them at their journeys end in spite ofmany hardships and dangers, chief among whichwere the ravages made bv the dread disease ofcholera. L^pon his arrival in the state at once sought work in the mininsr regionsand for several years followed this
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