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Source:
1795
History of
Clermont County, Ohio

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Philadelphia:
Louis H. Everts
Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia
1880

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  M. A. WOOD.    The first settlement made in Southern Clermont and the second permanent one in the county, was by the Wood family in Washington township.  This family is of pure English extraction, coming down from the Revolutionary era with an honorable record for services to the patriot cause in the days of 1776.
     David Wood, born and living in Virginia, was a soldier in "The Virginia Line on the Continental Establishment," and his son David Wood married a Miss Smith, descended from the early immigrants to that States from Germany, just before the old French and Indian war.  About the year 1791.  David and his brother, John Wood, emigrated to Kentucky and settled at Washington, then the leading town of the northern part of that State. In the fall of 1795 the two Wood brothers, David and John, accompanied by Elisha, Nathan, and Richard Manning (brothers), who had married respectively three sisters of the two brothers Wood, moved over from Kentucky into what is now 'Washington township and built what was called 'Wood and Mannings' Station," at which time the only other building of any kind in what is now Clermont County was the log cabin of Col. Thomas Paxton, erected a few weeks before, back of the present town of Loveland.
     "Wood and Mannings' Station" was built with a stockade, and was partly a fort and partly a double cabin, being used as a dwelling und also for protection against predatory bands of Indians and wild beasts.  At its old-fashioned hearth of heaped logs, with its cheerful fire, in the winter of 1795-96 sat many nights Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, and Cornelius Washburn, who had been Indian-fighters and hunters in Kentucky with the Woods and Mannings, and recounted their exploits and laid plans for future expeditions.  Shortly afterwards the Buchanans, the Sargents, and other settlers came in.
     John Wood was one of the three first associate judges of the Common Pleas Court, appointed in 1803, and died while filling judicial office in 1807.  David Wood died at a ripe old age about 1848, leaving a son, Dr. David Wood, who had married Mary Day, a daughter of Joseph Day and Deborah (Lambert) Day, married in 1819 and both still living.  Mrs. Deborah Day was a daughter of the Mr. Lambert who lived at Williamsburgh at a very early period, and who was one of three English soldiers who settled in America.  Dr. David Wood died in 1854, and his widow subsequently married L. D. Page, and by him had one child, - Amanda J. Page.  The children of Dr. David and Mary (Day) Wood were Hercelia, married to Thomas M. Padget; Almina, married to Thomas J. Ashley; Marcellus Augustus, the subject of this sketch, born May 14, 1846; George A.; and Sarah C., married to Leonard B. Dixon.
     Marcellus A. Wood was educated in the district and at the Felicity schools, and completed his studies at the Lebanon (Ohio) Normal School.  He received a teacher's certificate at eighteen years of age, and immediately began teaching, following that calling ten successive years in Washington, Franklin, and Pierce. townships, acquiring a merited reputation as one of the best educators in Clermont.  He was a member all that time of the County Teachers' Institute, prominently connected with its annual sessions, and served on its executive committee and as its secretary for one year.  Five years he served as assessor of Washington township, and in 1874 was elected recorder of Clermont County, and in 1877 was re-elected by nearly a thousand majority, leading his ticket by several hundred votes.  His second term will expire in January, 1881, and in six years of official duties his administration of this important office has been marked by an efficiency that stamps him as an able and trustworthy official. He was married Dec. 17, 1874, by Rev. H. M. Keck, to Miss Ada H. Richards, daughter of Robert J. and Bena (Smith) Richards, of Franklin township.  They have no children, and reside at Glen Este, in Union township, on the noted "Peticolas" fruit-farm of seventy-one acres, which Mr. Wood purchased in the spring of 1880 and to which he immediately removed.  He belongs to no denomination, but his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In 1876 he joined Batavia Lodge, No. 136, of I. O. O. F., and has passed all its chairs.  He is a Democrat in politics, and has taken the liveliest interest in all political campaigns.  By being accidentally thrown from a spirited horse in August, 1867, his left leg was broken so as to require its amputation.  Mr. Wood, as a man, neighbor, citizen, and public official, has the confidence and esteem of the community in an eminent degree, and it would be difficult to find in Clermont a, man who stands higher in the public estimation than he.
Source: 1795 History of Clermont County, Ohio, Publ. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts - Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia - 1880 - Page 280

 

 


 

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