Person:William Wood (171)

The obituary of Judge Freeman Wood is posted in his notes and was provided by Anthony Troha, Ph.D., of the Canal Society of NJ. The obit mentions that Maj. William J. Wood was a prominent citizen of Hartford, Conn., died in 1885.

From Page 431 of source book: William Jackson Wood, b. 1835 at Rockaway, NJ; graduated at Princeton 1856; studied law with Lyman A. Chandler, and admitted to bar of NJ 1859, and formed law partnership with Mr. Chandler. In 1863 was a member of NJ Legislature; commissioned Paymaster US Vols. and served in Southern Department; after the war removed to Troy and then to Hartford, Conn., where he was Superintendent and afterwards President of the Collins Manufacturing Co., and occupied many positions of importance in Hartford; m. Miss Frances P. Howe; d. at Hartford, Oct. 25, 1885; left one daughter, Ethel Wood. 3.— Susan L. Wood, m. Montague Phelps Neff, Feb., 1863; ..."

1850 Census, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey Freeman Wood 41 M Farmer NJ Mary B. Wood 31 F NJ William J. Wood 14 M NJ Susan L. Wood 11 F NJ Anna W. Wood 8 F NJ John S. Wood 5 M NJ Charles Finney 50 M Laborer Ireland Allice Mulligan 20 F NJ

1860 Census Rockaway, Morris, New Jersey (pgs 80 & 81) Freeman Wood 57 M retired Iron Master 8,000. 1000. NJ Mary B. Wood 48 f birth state n/g William J ----- 24 M attorney 10,000. 500. n/g Susan L. 22 F Anna W. 19 F John F. 14 M Florence 9 F J Clements Wood 6 M NJ Charles Tinney 75 M laborer Ireland Catherine Oflerity 22 F domestic Ireland (image looks like O'Flarety to me) Apparently this enumerator does not write in the birth state unless it changes from the prior line.

1. ↑ United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
   Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey.
2. ↑ Halsey, Jacob Lafayette; Francis Whiting Halsey; and Edmund D. (Edmund Drake) Halsey. Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton, Long Island, 1591-1679: with his American descendants to the eight and ninth generations
   431.
3. ↑ Obituary.

   The obituary of Judge Freeman Wood is posted in his notes and was provided by Anthony Troha, Ph.D., of the Canal Society of NJ.

4. ↑ New Jersey, Morris, Dover newspaper "The Iron Era" rtlibrary.org/iron era/1899/1899-08-25.pdf
   Volume XXIX, Number 40, Pg 4, Col 2.
5. ↑ Halsey, Jacob Lafayette; Francis Whiting Halsey; and Edmund D. (Edmund Drake) Halsey. Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton, Long Island, 1591-1679: with his American descendants to the eight and ninth generations.
6.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   18.
7.   United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
   1860 Census, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey.
8.   Grant, Arthur Hastings. The Grant family: a genealogical history of the descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn., 1601-1898. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
   pgs 308-309.