William Doddridge Wood
William Doddridge Wood is the oldest child of Daniel and Tabitha (Leach) Wood, and was born in this county on the 27th of February, 1841. The genealogy of the Wood family appears in connection with the biography of Daniel Wood.
Our subject was fairly educated in the common schools of his neighborhood, and acquired studious habits, which he still retains. He gave the years of his minority to hard work on his father's farm. He was married, February 27, 1866, to Mary Parker, second daughter of Elder Joseph Parker, of Warren County, Ohio. She bore one son, John F., born January 19, 1867 ; died April 27, 1875. Mrs. Wood was born, May 17, 1843, and died July 15, 1871.
Mr. Wood married his present wife. May 2, 1872. She is the fifth child of Thomas and Rebecca (Lefever) Swope, of Fairfield County, Ohio. Her father came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, in 1801, when Thomas was one year old. Mrs. Wood was born, August 31, 1834. They have two sons: Thomas A., born March 23, 1874, and Arly P., born November 13, 1879. Mrs. Wood's uncles and aunts, on the father's side, were : Lawrence, John, David, Rachel, Ann, Mary, and Louisa.
Mr. Wood has a fine record as a soldier. He enlisted in Company A, of the fifty-fourth Ohio Infantry, in September 1861, and served faithfully until August, 1865. The fifty-fourth marched during its term of service a distance of three thousand, six hundred and eighty-two miles, participated in four sieges, nine severe skirmishes, fifteen general engagements, and sustained a loss of five hundred and six men killed, wounded and missing.
Mr.Wood gives his attention to farming, and in this pursuit is successful. He owns a well improved farm in Madison Township, and carries on a tile factory near by. He is a member of the Old School Predestinarian Baptist Church, and has in his possession a copy of the Bible, printed in 1599.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County