Wood, Iven
HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS
& HISTORY OF
MORGAN COUNTY
Munsell Publishing Company, Publishers,
1906.
WOOD, IVEN, a prominent farmer
residing on his farm on Section 9, Township 14, Range 9 (Pisgah Precinct),
Morgan County, was born on the Wood family homestead where he now lives,
February 24, 1841, the son of Samuel and Martha (Moore) Wood, a biography of
whom appears elsewhere in this volume in connection with the sketch of his son,
David Wood, an older brother of the subject of this sketch. During his active
business life Iven Wood has followed farming and the feeding and breeding of
cattle. As a boy he attended the local school and completed his education in the
High School at Jacksonville. In 1863 he bought 640 acres of land in Macoupin
County, Ill., five miles west of Palmyra, which he later sold, dealing also in
other lands in that county. At the present time he is the owner of 1,200 acres,
900 acres of which comprise the present hone farm. Mr. Wood's residence and
surroundings are equal to the best in this part of the county, being largely the
result of his own enterprise and established under his supervision.
Mr. Wood was married December 24, 1862, to Mary Camm, daughter of Samuel
Camm, a prominent farmer of Morgan County, and to himself and wife were born
eight children. One child (Mettie) died in infancy; Samuel died at the age of
twenty-seven years; and Emma, who was the wife of R. Y. Gibson, died leaving two
children - Freeman and Grace. The children living are: Charles, who is farming
on his father's estate; Minnie, wife of A. A. Curry, a farmer; Arthur, who is a
bookkeeper in the Jacksonville National Bank, in which his father is a
stockholder; Elizabeth, who resides at home; and Homer, who is attending the
Business College, in Jacksonville. Mr. Wood has served his district as School
Director; is a member of the Union Baptist Church, in which he has been a Deacon
for thirty years; has also been engaged in Sunday-school work as teacher and
Superintendent, and votes the Prohibition ticket.
1906 Index
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