James Eli Wood

Brief Life History of James Eli

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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James Eli Wood
1853–1914
Margaret Victoria Waldroff
1866–1941
Marriage: 30 December 1885

Sources (6)

  • James E Woods in household of Samuel Woods, "Canada Census, 1881"
  • James Eli Wood, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
  • James E Wood, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"

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World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1867 · Ontario Founded

On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

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 .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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