Alameda County Biographies

THOMAS S. WOODS

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler, Sept. 2004

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

Was born in Lewis County, Missouri, in August, 1854, on the farm of Latney 
Woods.  At three years of age he was taken to Russia by Tom Colwell, with whom 
he resided until he became nineteen years of age, being chiefly employed in 
tobacco-raising.  In 1872 he went to Galveston, Texas, with Joseph Colwell, and 
remained a year, engaged in attending to his horses after their purchase.  
Thence he proceeded to Salt Lake City, and two months afterwards started to 
California by railroad, where he arrived in 1873.  Finding employment with Mr. 
Spates in Yolo County for a time, he subsequently was engaged in herding sheep 
for Mr. Culvertson.  After this he spent a year in Sacramento, and then came to 
Oakland, worked for Mr. Sawyer, thereafter five years for Joseph Alexander, and 
then took up one hundred and sixty acres of good land on the line dividing 
Contra Costa from Alameda County, where he is making many improvements.  
Unmarried.
 
�History of Alameda County, California�, M. W. Wood, Publisher, Oakland, 1883.