Robert H. Wood

    Robert H. Wood, one of the most enterprising and progressive farmers of Jefferson County, was born in Jefferson County, in 1852, March 25, and is a son of Ezra and Cassandra T. (Mayfield) Wood. Mr. Ezra Wood is a native of New York State. His father, Thurston Wood, came to Jefferson County in 1837, and bought a quarter section of land in Madison Township, bordering on the line of Monroe Township. Cassandra Mayfield was a native of Trimble County, Kentucky, and came to Indiana with her father in 1834. Ezra was born in 1827. Served in the Home Guards during the war of 1861-65. Was elected to different township offices and as justice of the peace.

    The subject of this sketch is the second child of six sons and three daughters. Was educated in the common schools of the county. He was for two years gardener at the State House of Refuge, in Hendricks County, this state. He owns sixty acres of land and farms it in vegetables, fruit and flowers, and is in good substantial condition in business. June 12, 1879, he was married to miss Clara T. Seidel, a native of Carrolton, Kentucky, whose parents are Germans. They have four children: Jessie A., Alfred C., Nelda A. and R. Emmet.

    Mr. wood is a director in patrons Mutual Insurance Company; also director of Jefferson County Agricultural Society.

    Mr. Wood is the larges grower of vegetables under glass in the county. He was the first man in the county to put in a system of pipes for supplying water for stables, dwellings, greenhouses, etc. In 1887 he built three greenhouses, 20 x 50 feet.

    He is more extensively engaged in  market gardening than any man in the county, and besides, in connection with general farming, he is interested in breeding thoroughbred Jersey cattle and fancy poultry.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.