Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . growing around him,and under his auspices and aid, overspreading thewild hills and scraggy forest a teaming city, secondonly in size in the State, and surpassed nowhere inbeauty, prosperity and promise ; whose people recog-nize as with a single voice the proverbial honor andliberality that attach to the name and lengthenedlife of their pioneer settler, the old Governor. Gov. Wood was twice married,—first in January,1826, to Ann M. Streeter, daughter of Joshua Streeter,formerly of Salem, Washington Co., N. Y. They hadeight children.

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Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . growing around him,and under his auspices and aid, overspreading thewild hills and scraggy forest a teaming city, secondonly in size in the State, and surpassed nowhere inbeauty, prosperity and promise ; whose people recog-nize as with a single voice the proverbial honor andliberality that attach to the name and lengthenedlife of their pioneer settler, the old Governor. Gov. Wood was twice married,—first in January,1826, to Ann M. Streeter, daughter of Joshua Streeter,formerly of Salem, Washington Co., N. Y. They hadeight children. Mrs. W. died Oct. 8, 1863, and inJune, 1S65, Gov. Wood married Mrs. Mary A., widowof Rev. Joseph T. Holmes. Gov. Wood died June 4,1880, at his residence in Quincy. Four of his eightchildren are now living, namely: Ann E., wife ofGen. John Tillson; Daniel C, who married Mary ; John, Jr., who married Josephine Skinner,and Josliua S., who married Annie Bradley. Thelast mentioned now resides at Atchison, Kansas, andall the rest are still at

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