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From An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910)
JONAH H. WOOD (1874) is one of the early day settlers of Des Moines township. He owns the northeast quarter of section 27, a short distance west of Jackson.
The parents of J. H. Wood were Ahimaaz E., and Mary (Salmons) Wood, of old New England stock and of Scotch and German descent, respectively. The father died in Onondago county, New York, in 1845, aged 45 years. The mother came to Minnesota in the fall of 1856 and made her home with her sons. She died at the home of her son, J. H. Wood, in March, 1885, at the advanced age of 90 years. Si.x children were born to these parents. Mary E.. the eldest, died in 1906. Those living are Ardell (Mrs. Marcus Wescott), of Syracuse, New York; Jonah H., of this biography; Jesse S., of Fargo, North Dakota; Carrie J. Loop, of Eureka, Wisconsin; Ahimaaz E., of Fargo, North Dakota.
The subject of this biography was born in Onondago county, New York, December 8, 1833. He was brought up in the county of his birth and resided with his parents until his father died when he was twenty years of age. After his father's death he lived with his mother and worked at the trades of carpenter and joiner until he was twenty-two years old. In 1855 he came west, stopping one year near Delton, Wisconsin, with an uncle, Peter Fenton,
As printed in An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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