When James Eli Wood was born in 1853, in Cornwall, Stormont, Canada West, British North America, his father, John Samuel Wood, was 37 and his mother, Lucy Ann Harley, was 29. He married Margaret Victoria Waldroff on 30 December 1885, in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Cornwall, Stormont, Upper Canada, British North America in 1861 and Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 1 April 1914, in Tupper Lake, Franklin, New York, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Long Sault, South Stormont Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
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English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .
English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).
Americanized form of French Gadbois .
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