Isaiah Wood

As printed in 1908

ISAIAH WOOD, one of the representative men of Pleasant Township, where he oAvns a small farm of fifteen acres, has been engaged for a number of years in raising fine horses and in dealing in live stock. He was born in Pleasant Township, Clark Coimty, Ohio, January 18, 1842, and is a son of Albert Wood.

His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Wood, removed from New Jersey to North Carolina about 1800. From there he went to Cincinnati and thence to the vicinity of Urbana, Champaign County. Ohio. About 1805 he came to Clark County. Albert Wood came to Clark County from New Jersey and married here some ten years later. His children were: Mary, Benjamin, S'arah, Juliet, Anna, Henry and Isaiah, five still surviving. Albert Wood was a well educated man and taught school. He died in 1843, aged thirty-five years.

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Endsley died, aged sixty-nine years, and Mrs. Endsley at the age of sixty-seven. Mr. Endsley served in the Civil War as a member of the Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, until after the battle of Bull Run, when he returned to Pleasant Township.

Mr. Wood has always lived in this section with the exception of a period of twenty-seven months, during which he was in the army. He enlisted in 1862 in the Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, starting in as a private, and for gallantry was promoted to the rank of corporal. He took part in the battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Resaca, at the latter receiving a serious wound that put an end to his military career. A bursting shell so shattered his left leg that it was necessary to amputate it, but before receiving surgical attention he had the painful experience of lying apparently deserted on the battlefield from one o'clock in the afternoon until ten o'clock at night. While Ajing in this position he received four additional woimds. Even after receiving aid he had to endure the pain of the amputation and the dressing of his other wounds while fully conscious, there being no anaesthetics at hand, and the danger of blood poisoning being also increased owing to the lack of that antiseptic treatment that forms an inseparable part of the surgery of today. In his weakened condition Mr. Wood was conveyed first to Chattanooga and thence to Nashville, and subsequently reached the hospital at Camp Dennison. There he remained for six months and finally was honorably discharged and received his papers in December, 1864.

After Mr. Wood returned to Pleasant Township he established a harness business at Catawba, in which he continued for eighteen years. Since then he has devoted his attention to raising fine horses and other stock. He owned the noted Helen P. and also American Boy, which had a record of 2:09y2, and which was the best race horse ever known in this section. He was also the owner of Ivanhoe and Gambetta, the latter a French horse; the former was valued at $2,000, and the latter at $1,600. He has also dealt extensively in cattle.

Mr. Wood has two sons and three daughters, namely: Addie, born in 1868, who married Albert Tavenner in 1891, and has one son, Ralph; Albert, born December 21, 1870, who married Annie Hoss, and has one child, Lois, born in 1903; Lorell, born in 1876, whp married Kemp Coffey; Roy, born in 1882, who was married in 1904, to Nora Runyan and they reside at Muncie, Indiana; and Blanche, who was born in 1885, and resides at home. Mr. Wood is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Catawba, and is a class leader. He belongs to the local Grand Army post. Mrs. Wood taught several terms of school before her marriage.

As printed in 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.