Sacramento Valley Biographies

JOB K. WOOD

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, June 2009.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

         Conspicuous among the successful agriculturists of Sutter county, Job 
K. Wood is one of the early pioneers who have been largely responsible for the 
growth and development of this community. After reaching the coast it was 
necessary to borrow $60, with which to make a start, but at the present time he 
owns a valuable ranch. Born in Scioto county, Ohio, June 13, 1837, he is a son 
of Abner B. Wood, a native of New York. The latter was reared  in his native 
state until he reached manhood, when he removed to Virginia and engaged at his 
trade as a carpenter. In 1824 he went to Ohio and in addition to running the 
farm which he purchased, also built saw-mills, a line of endeavor which proved 
very remunerative. Selling out his Ohio interests in 1840, he went to Clark 
county, Ill., and upon the land which he then entered and cleared he spent the 
remainder of his life