WOOD-T. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

T. WOOD, (deceased), Covington, was born in Columbia county New York, and remained a resident of that state until he was about twenty-one years old. He then became interested in the stock trade, and for thirteen years was engaged in buying and shipping stock, with his headquarters at Chicago most of the time. In 1863 he came to Fountain county and located at Attica, where he engaged in the drug business, and continued it there for one year and then removed his store to Covington, where he was identified with the mercantile trade of that city until his death, which occurred in January 1878. He was an active and energetic business man, as well as a successful financier, and in addition to his having built up and established a good business in the drug line he was largely interested in the development of the coal interests of Fountain county, and in company with the proprietors of the Farmer’s Bank of Covington, he owned valuable tracts of coal lands. He never sought political preferment, but on the contrary he, from time to time refused to become a candidate for office. Mr. Wood was married in 1870 to Miss Julia Reese, a native of Livingston county New York, and who still survives him and since his decease, kept up the business interests that were established by him in Fountain county.