Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
1887, Boone Co.

JOHN A. WOOD, M. D., was born in Boone County, Ky., March 6, 1833.  He
was one of eleven children born to Horatio R. and Martha D. Wood.
Horatio R. Wood was born in Maryland, and was a son of Eli Wood, who
immigrated to Kentucky at an early date, settled at Washington, Mason
County, and afterward moved to Boone County.  Horatio R. Wood was a
farmer and trader.  His wife was Martha Douden, daughter of Capt. John
Douden, of Mason County, Ky., who was an officer in the war of 1812.
John A. Wood was brought up on the farm, and received a common-school
education.  At the age of twenty he commenced the study of medicine
with Dr. B. M. Crisler, of Boone County, and in 1854 entered the Ohio
Medical College at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1857. He then
located at South Fork, in Gallatin County, and afterward practiced at
Warsaw for five years.  In 1874 he moved to his present location, 
Boone Springs, Boone County.  In 1857 he was married to Miss Delia
Sheets, a daughter of Andrew and Maca (Dudgeon) Sheets, of Boone 
County.  To this union have been born five children, viz: Cornelius K., 
Mattie D., Horatio F., Ruth and Willie T.; the latter died in infancy.  
Mr. Wood is a member of the F. & A. M., also the I.O.O.F.  Politically 
he is a Democrat.  He is a member of the Christian CHurch.  His wife is 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Wood Douden Sheets Dudgeon Crisler
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Washington-Mason-KY Gallatin-KY OH MD

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