JAMES EDGAR WOOD (1871-1939), Home Builder
James Edgar Wood was born in Toledo, Ohio, on July 14, 1871, the fifteenth of seventeen children born to Thomas Haskell Wood (1809-1890) and Mary Amanda Demarest Wood (1831-1897). Only ten of these children survived to adulthood, due to disease and accidents: Jane Ann Wood, William Henry White Wood, Alfred Olando Wood, Francis Ellery Wood, Charles Augustus Wood, Rachel Ellen Wood, Marion Elton Wood, Mary Emma Wood, Robert Orrin Wood, and James himself.
James apprenticed as a painter at age 18, then became a carpenter like his father and most of his older brothers. He married his first wife, London-born Mary Slatter, in Toledo on September 21, 1898. By early 1901, they had moved to Cleveland, where their four children were born: Edgar James Wood (1903-1986), Wallis Walter Wood (1905-1957), John Andrew Wood (1908-1980), and Theodore William Wood (1910-1968).
In Cleveland, James was in the business of building single-family homes, many of which are still standing. His wife Mary introduced their sons to music with an upright piano and lessons on violin and trumpet. Unfortunately, Mary died of heart problems at age 55 on April 24, 1925. James buried her in Highland Park Cemetery. Within 18 months, he remarried to Alice Hopperton Unger on September 1, 1926. He filed for divorce in March, 1927, Alice counterfiled, and they were finally divorced in the spring of 1928.
On October 22, 1928, James married his third wife, Carolina Foltz Cragg (1871-1935). Carrie was the widowed mother-in-law of James's nephew, and this match of two older people was arranged and encouraged by the Wood family. The couple lived in Jackson, Michigan after their wedding, where James continued his construction business. After Carrie died in 1935, James remained in Jackson for several years and then in early 1939 he visited three of his sons in Cleveland. There he died of heart problems on January 14, 1939, at the age of 67. He was buried next to his first wife, Mary, Highland Park Cemetery.
James Edgar Wood was born in Toledo, Ohio, on July 14, 1871, the fifteenth of seventeen children born to Thomas Haskell Wood (1809-1890) and Mary Amanda Demarest Wood (1831-1897). Only ten of these children survived to adulthood, due to disease and accidents: Jane Ann Wood, William Henry White Wood, Alfred Olando Wood, Francis Ellery Wood, Charles Augustus Wood, Rachel Ellen Wood, Marion Elton Wood, Mary Emma Wood, Robert Orrin Wood, and James himself.
James apprenticed as a painter at age 18, then became a carpenter like his father and most of his older brothers. He married his first wife, London-born Mary Slatter, in Toledo on September 21, 1898. By early 1901, they had moved to Cleveland, where their four children were born: Edgar James Wood (1903-1986), Wallis Walter Wood (1905-1957), John Andrew Wood (1908-1980), and Theodore William Wood (1910-1968).
In Cleveland, James was in the business of building single-family homes, many of which are still standing. His wife Mary introduced their sons to music with an upright piano and lessons on violin and trumpet. Unfortunately, Mary died of heart problems at age 55 on April 24, 1925. James buried her in Highland Park Cemetery. Within 18 months, he remarried to Alice Hopperton Unger on September 1, 1926. He filed for divorce in March, 1927, Alice counterfiled, and they were finally divorced in the spring of 1928.
On October 22, 1928, James married his third wife, Carolina Foltz Cragg (1871-1935). Carrie was the widowed mother-in-law of James's nephew, and this match of two older people was arranged and encouraged by the Wood family. The couple lived in Jackson, Michigan after their wedding, where James continued his construction business. After Carrie died in 1935, James remained in Jackson for several years and then in early 1939 he visited three of his sons in Cleveland. There he died of heart problems on January 14, 1939, at the age of 67. He was buried next to his first wife, Mary, Highland Park Cemetery.
JAMES EDGAR WOOD (1871-1939), Home Builder
James Edgar Wood was born in Toledo, Ohio, on July 14, 1871, the fifteenth of seventeen children born to Thomas Haskell Wood (1809-1890) and Mary Amanda Demarest Wood (1831-1897). Only ten of these children survived to adulthood, due to disease and accidents: Jane Ann Wood, William Henry White Wood, Alfred Olando Wood, Francis Ellery Wood, Charles Augustus Wood, Rachel Ellen Wood, Marion Elton Wood, Mary Emma Wood, Robert Orrin Wood, and James himself.
James apprenticed as a painter at age 18, then became a carpenter like his father and most of his older brothers. He married his first wife, London-born Mary Slatter, in Toledo on September 21, 1898. By early 1901, they had moved to Cleveland, where their four children were born: Edgar James Wood (1903-1986), Wallis Walter Wood (1905-1957), John Andrew Wood (1908-1980), and Theodore William Wood (1910-1968).
In Cleveland, James was in the business of building single-family homes, many of which are still standing. His wife Mary introduced their sons to music with an upright piano and lessons on violin and trumpet. Unfortunately, Mary died of heart problems at age 55 on April 24, 1925. James buried her in Highland Park Cemetery. Within 18 months, he remarried to Alice Hopperton Unger on September 1, 1926. He filed for divorce in March, 1927, Alice counterfiled, and they were finally divorced in the spring of 1928.
On October 22, 1928, James married his third wife, Carolina Foltz Cragg (1871-1935). Carrie was the widowed mother-in-law of James's nephew, and this match of two older people was arranged and encouraged by the Wood family. The couple lived in Jackson, Michigan after their wedding, where James continued his construction business. After Carrie died in 1935, James remained in Jackson for several years and then in early 1939 he visited three of his sons in Cleveland. There he died of heart problems on January 14, 1939, at the age of 67. He was buried next to his first wife, Mary, Highland Park Cemetery.
James Edgar Wood was born in Toledo, Ohio, on July 14, 1871, the fifteenth of seventeen children born to Thomas Haskell Wood (1809-1890) and Mary Amanda Demarest Wood (1831-1897). Only ten of these children survived to adulthood, due to disease and accidents: Jane Ann Wood, William Henry White Wood, Alfred Olando Wood, Francis Ellery Wood, Charles Augustus Wood, Rachel Ellen Wood, Marion Elton Wood, Mary Emma Wood, Robert Orrin Wood, and James himself.
James apprenticed as a painter at age 18, then became a carpenter like his father and most of his older brothers. He married his first wife, London-born Mary Slatter, in Toledo on September 21, 1898. By early 1901, they had moved to Cleveland, where their four children were born: Edgar James Wood (1903-1986), Wallis Walter Wood (1905-1957), John Andrew Wood (1908-1980), and Theodore William Wood (1910-1968).
In Cleveland, James was in the business of building single-family homes, many of which are still standing. His wife Mary introduced their sons to music with an upright piano and lessons on violin and trumpet. Unfortunately, Mary died of heart problems at age 55 on April 24, 1925. James buried her in Highland Park Cemetery. Within 18 months, he remarried to Alice Hopperton Unger on September 1, 1926. He filed for divorce in March, 1927, Alice counterfiled, and they were finally divorced in the spring of 1928.
On October 22, 1928, James married his third wife, Carolina Foltz Cragg (1871-1935). Carrie was the widowed mother-in-law of James's nephew, and this match of two older people was arranged and encouraged by the Wood family. The couple lived in Jackson, Michigan after their wedding, where James continued his construction business. After Carrie died in 1935, James remained in Jackson for several years and then in early 1939 he visited three of his sons in Cleveland. There he died of heart problems on January 14, 1939, at the age of 67. He was buried next to his first wife, Mary, Highland Park Cemetery.
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