John S. Atwood

    John S. Atwood, a native  of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and one of Millersburg's best citizens, was born on the 8th day of February, 1849. He is the fourth son in a family of seven children born to the marriage of Abel Atwood and Mary Smith, who were natives of Vermont and Ohio, respectively. These parents were wedded in the Buckeye State and from there moved to Spencer County, Indiana, in 1866, where Mr. Atwood afterward died. Mrs. Atwood survives her husband, and now makes her home with the subject of this sketch.

    John S. Atwood received a good common school education in youth, and from his twenty-second year to 1883 was principally engaged in in school teaching. February  11, 1883, he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Emmick, daughter of Arthur and Sarah J. (Lloyd) Emmick, and one child (E.B., born March 25, 1884,) has blessed them.

    Mr. Atwood is a Democrat in politics, and by his courteous ways and readiness to oblige has won a large amount of patronage in the dry goods and grocery trade, in which he is at present engaged.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.