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Summary Information
George H. Wood Papers
1808-1950
- Wood, George H., 1815-1890s
Mss 1005
2.6 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 1 flat box)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of George H. Wood, a land speculator and attorney in the Green Bay area during Wisconsin's early statehood. The majority of the papers in this collection document Wood's business activities and correspondence to and from his family. Significant portions of the collection relate to Wood's land speculation business with his partner and brother-in-law James Prentice, Wood's journey to Colorado to try his luck in the Pikes Peak gold rush with the rock boring and crushing machine he had invented, correspondence revealing his family's experience in Cairo (Ill.) during the Civil War, and his wife's correspondence to friends and relatives illuminating the family's experiences. The collection contains numerous letters from his daughters Georgia Pangborn, Candace P. Wood, Jessie Wilson, and Katherine Wood during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Also included are deeds, land contracts, property maps, diaries, some news clippings, a photograph of George Wood, legal documents, a book of diagrams and plans for the rock drill, and correspondence and announcements relating to Wood's drill.
English
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