Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14802298473)

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Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine -- Indiana Indiana -- History Indiana -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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s the business founded so many yearsago. Clarence R. Rhodes, only son of hisparents, was born at Clinton, Illinois, in1873 but was reared and educated in Indi-anapolis. He had a thorough businesstraining under the eye of his father and in1895 was made a partner in the business.He is now its sole owner. Clarence R.Rhodes married Miss Gertrude L. Henry.They liave one daughter, )\Iary Adelaide. Charles A. Wood has for many yearsbeen identified with the lumber business atiluncie which was established by his father,and is now active head of tlie Kirby-WoodLumber Company. He was born in Randolph County. Indi-ana, October 25, 1870, son of Julius C. andClara (Morgan) Wood. His father, whowas born in Wayne Count.v, Indiana, in1846, was a carpenter and farmer in hisnative county. He was a boy when thewar broke out and in 1863 at the age ofseventeen, enlisted in Company I of the124th Indiana Infantry and saw activeservice to the end. His regiment was withSherman at Atlanta, and also on the march
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1359 to the sea. An uncle of Julius C. Woodwas Valentine Wood, who for many yearsconducted and published the RichmondPalladum. J. C. Wood after retm-ningfrom the army assisted in the newspaperoffice for several years. In 1880 he re-moved to ^Muncie and engaged in the sawmill and lumber business under the nameJ. C. Wood and Company. A few jearslater the firm was changed to the Kirb.y-Wood Lumber Company. J. C. Wood wasone of the eminent Masons of Indiana, at-taining the supreme honorary thirty-thirddegi-ee in the Scottish Rite. He was arepublican and member of the MethodistEpiscopal Church. Charles A. Wood was educated in thehigh school at Muncie and for three yearswas a .student in De Pauw University atGreencastle. For seven years he was inthe city engineers office at Muncie, andthen became associated with his father inthe sawmill and lumber business, a con-nection which continued until his fathersdeath, and since then he has been activehead of the Kirliy-Wood Lu