Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Wood, Samuel 1824 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County 1882

Samuel Wood, farmer, P. O. Morris, was born in England, January 4, 1824, and 
lived there until 1850, when he came to the United States, and settled in 
Pennsylvania, near the Ohio line. Here he worked one year in a brick yard and 
in a coal-bank. He next went to Canada and worked in the copper mines for some 
months. From Canada he came to Peoria, where he worked for two years at 
mining, at the end of which time, the spring of 1854, he settled in Morris, 
where he and Daniel Williams opened the first coal bank ever started in the 
vicinity of Morris. For the next ten years, he worked at farming in the summer 
and mining in the winter. April 24, 1855, Mr. Wood married Miss Maria 
Claypool, born February 2, 1840, daughter of Perry A. and Miss (Foster) 
Claypool, who were among the first families to settle in Grundy County. Mr. 
Claypool was born in Ohio, June 5, 1815, and died October 15, 1846. Mrs. 
Claypool was born April 24, 1819, and is still living. Soon after his 
marriage, Mr. Wood bought eighty acres of land in Section 17, Wauponsee 
Township, which he has added to until he now has 495 acres, valued at $50 per 
acre, and all under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have a family of five 
children - David, born November 26, 1862; Charles, born December 9, 1865; 
Sarah, born October 25, 1868; James, born December 13, 1872, and Mary, born 
May 17, 1875. They have also buried four children. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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