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About Aaron Wood
Aaron Wood
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 73081497
Aaron Wood, son of Aaron and Rebekah (Wheeler) Wood, was born at Pepperell, Massachusetts on May 30, 1776, died at Rensselaerville, New York on June 4, 1848. He removed to Mason, New Hampshire, where he resided many years and engaged in trade with marked success. By reason of unwise endorsements he lost heavily and returned to Massachusetts, for a time, from thence removing to Rensselaerville, Albany County, New York, where he made wagons and was among the first to manufacture the celebrated "Jethro Wood" cast iron plow.
He carried on a successful manufacturing business, but his greatest success was in training and developing in his machine shops, the founder of a great business, the product of which is adding to the world's comfort and wealth somewhere, every month and week in the year. Like the shot fired at Lexington, the click of the reaper is "heard round the world."
Aaron Wood married (first) Eady Curtis, born January 10, 1778, died at Mason, New Hampshire on August 13, 1811.
Children: Beckey, Mary, Aaron Curtis, Suky, Benjamin F. and Eady.
He married (second) February 2, 1812, Rebeckah Wright, of Westford, Massachusetts.
Children:
- William Anson, a manufacturer and for fifteen years associated with his brother, Walter A. Wood, as head of a department, later of the William Anson Wood Reaper and Mower Company, of Youngstown, Ohio. He died November 18, 1884. He married Jane Dodge, daughter of Judge Luther Carter, and had two children, Mary Janette, Frank, who married Alice Cranford Thayer, of Hoosick Falls, New York.
- Eliphalet, merchant of Albany, New York, partner of Gaylor Sheldon & Company, later Sheldon & Wood. In 1854 sold his Albany interests and removed to Chicago, where he engaged in the lumber business under the firm name of the Newaygo Company. There he became an exceedingly wealthy and prominent man. He was well known in business and political circles, was nominated for mayor of Chicago in 1860, but declined the honor; was of incalculable value to the government, and the Union cause, through his work on the Union defense committee; was active and liberal in church relation; was trustee and treasurer of the Presbyterian North West Theological Seminary, retaining his interest until 1869, when he retired to Irvington-on-the-Hudson. He associated with the Walter A. Wood Company and was manager of their New York City office. He married Mary J., daughter of Swelton Grant, of Hobart, Delaware county, New York, and had eight children, seven dying in infancy. Caroline Whitely, the only surviving child, married Joseph Ormsby Butter, of Chicago, Illinois, a banker of that city.
- Rebeckah Ann, born on May 16, 1821, died unmarried February 5, 1851.
- Sarah Jane, born on March 18, 1823; married E. D. Selden, of Saratoga Springs; no issue.
- Harriet Newell, died in infancy.
- Susan, died in infancy.
- Luther Wright, died at the age of five years.
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Aaron Wood's Timeline
| 1776 |
May 30, 1776
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Pepperell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1813 |
August 3, 1813
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Mason, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
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October 23, 1815
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Mason, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
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February 1, 1819
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Washington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States
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1821
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| 1823 |
March 18, 1823
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Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York, United States
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1825
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1826
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1830
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