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JOHN H. WOOD.

The name of Wood is one of the best known and most highly honored at the Union Stock Yards, where many bearers of the patronymic have not only achieved financial success, but

have also built up enviable reputations for clearheadedness, sound judgment and sterling moral worth. Among the largest and most prosperous firms at the “Yards,” for many years, has been that of Wood Brothers, of which Mr. John H. Wood was one of the organizers, and for many years a member.

Both his parents, Andrew and Barbara (McPherson) Wood, were of Scotch nativity, while he himself was born in Embro, Oxford County, Canada, on September 21, 1835. At the age of fourteen years he resolved to begin life’s battle for himself, and, leaving his father’s house, for three months he drove stage on a route of twenty-five miles. He soon perceived, however, that this employment offered little promise for the future, and determined to learn a trade.

Going to Brantford, Canada, he served an apprenticeship of three years in carriage-trimming. For a year thereafter he worked as journeyman for the house which he had served as an apprentice, his skill and fidelity commanding the full confidence of his employers.

From Brantford he went to Guelph, and after a short residence there crossed the boundary, and came to what Canadians are fond of designating as “the States,” seeking employment. At that time the prevailing high wages had overstocked the labor market, and after traveling from Cincinnati to New Orleans, and failing to secure work at his trade, he wheeled coal for a time on the docks at New Orleans for two dollars and fifty cents per day, his fellow-laborers being negro slaves.

From New Orleans he went to Medina, N. Y., where he bought an unfinished livery stable and carriage shop, the material for which, with the pluck and enterprise of a true Chicagoan, he shipped to Chicago. From 1859 until 1861 he conducted a large stable at the corner of Kinzie Street and LaSalle Avenue, where it was his custom to furnish conveyances for such magnates as S. W. Allerton, W. M. Til-

den and Peter Nottingham, on their early morning trips to the Stock Yards. In 1861 he disposed of his livery business, to enter the employ of W. M. Tilden as a buyer of hogs at the Fort Wayne Yards, retaining that position for four years.

He then entered upon the live-stock commission business for himself, and from this beginning ultimately developed the great house of Wood Brothers. In 1880 he withdrew from the firm, preferring to carry on business alone.

Mr. Wood’s domestic life has been exceptionally happy. It was on January 15, 1856, that e married Mary McDonald, at Brantford, Canada, who became the mother of his eight children. Of this family only four are living: James, William, John E. and Hazel Viola, who became Mrs. J. F. Kirkendall, July 3, 1898. Mr. Wood is a cordial host, and his pleasant home is always a center for refined gatherings. Generous to a fault towards his friends, he is liberal to the poor and a generous contributor to both public and private charities. An earnest advocate of temperance, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and their numerous reform clubs, find in him a zealous and liberal supporter.

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Boone County Democrat 1915

Mrs. S.T. Stanfield, who had been suffering with heart trouble for the past year, passed peacefully away at the family home on Greene street at 5:00 o'clock Monday afternoon, May 31st. She had suffered patiently for more than a year with heart trouble and other complications. The funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock from the home and at 2:30 from the First M.E. church, conducted by the Rev. R. Burton Sheppard and the Rev. Geo. D. Crissman, and attended by many sorrowing relatives and friends. Countless beautiful floral tributes attested the general esteem in which she was held. The ladies of the Pythian Sisters, of which order she had been a faithful member, attended in a body. The funeral was by automobile from the church to the cemetery.

Elizabeth A. Franklin was born February 20, 1857, in Dumontsville, Ohio, and after a serious illness of more than a year died in Boone Iowa May 31, 1915, aged 58 years, 3 months and 11 days. In the spring of 1864 she came by railroad with her parents to Colo, Story county, Iowa, thence by stagecoach to what was then Boonsboro, Iowa, and has lived in this community from that time. On September 11, 1873, she was married to S.T. Stanfield, to which union nine children were born, three of whom have passed into the life beyond: Harry E., who Died October 31, 1888; Mary E., January 12, 1899, and Bessie L., January 11, 1900. She leaves to mourn her loss, besides a host of friends and other relatives, her aged mother, Mrs. Amanda Franklin, who has passed the 88 year mark, and who has lived with her daughter for seven years; one brother, T.R. Franklin, of Boone; her husband S.T. Stanfield, and her six children, Alice M. Wheeler, of Boone; John F., of Omaha; Edith Leone, Ethel L. Blanchard, Bertha A. and Ruth M., of Boone; and thirteen grandchildren.

She was united with the Marion Street Methodist Episcopal church when she was fourteen years of age and has been a member of that church ever since. She was also a member of Gem Temple No. 52 of the Pythian Sister, the second Past Chief to pass into the Great Beyond, Mrs. Dr. Lyle, whose funeral occurred last week, having been the first.