When William Abraham Wood was born on 2 March 1862, in Montrose, Lee, Iowa, United States, his father, John Faree Wood, was 30 and his mother, Roxana L. J. Hawkins, was 21. He married Hattie Marie Lewis on 17 August 1883, in Saylorville, Polk, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Dexter, Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1900. In 1900, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as rr repairman in Dexter, Dallas, Iowa, United States. He died on 31 March 1938, in Waukesha, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Prairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1868: Dallas Iowa, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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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