William Ober Woods

Brief Life History of William Ober

When William Ober Woods was born on 6 March 1813, in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, United States, his father, Andrew Wood, was 27 and his mother, Hannah Obear, was 25. He died on 10 May 1821, at the age of 8.

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Family Time Line

Andrew Wood
1786–1850
Hannah Obear
1787–1830
Elisha Wood
1805–1886
Eleanor Wood
1806–
Andrew Woods
1808–
Rebecca Wood
1809–1890
Joseph Wood
1811–1828
William Ober Woods
1813–1821
Jonathan Fisher Wood
1815–1895
Woods
1815–
Betsy Woods
1817–1817
Hannah Baker Woods
1818–1819
Ellen Maria Wood
1820–1850
Hannah Baker Wood
1822–1892
William Allen Woods
1824–1825
Benjamin Stone Wood
1826–1881
Nancy "Jane" Judson Wood
1829–

Sources (2)

  • William Ober Woods, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
  • William-Obear Wood, "Maryland, Church Records, 1668-1995"

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World Events (3)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820

Maine is the 23rd state.

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.

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

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