WI BIO - Winnebago Co - WOOD, E. Barton

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1167

E. Barton WOOD, principal of the high school at Oshkosh, Winnebago County, 
Wisconsin, was born in 1838 at Whitestown [Oneida County], New York. In 1864 
he graduated at Hamilton College in Clinton [County], New York. Mr. WOOD 
enlisted in 1863 in the Third Artillery, New York Volunteers. He was 
promoted to Regiment Commanding Sergeant, then to Regiment Quartermaster 
Sergeant, then Second Lieutenant. Soon after he was promoted to First 
Lieutenant. He was in command of a battery a number of months under General 
Schofield. He joined General Sherman at Goldsboro, and went to Raleigh. 
Lieutenant WOOD was allowed a furlough to return to Hamilton College in 1864, 
having kept up his college studies. He resigned from the army in May 1865. 
He was clerk in the Quartermaster's department until August 1865.

E. Barton WOOD then engaged as principal of a ward school in Troy [Renssalaer 
County], New York. In 1866 he was principal of Loweville Academy. In 1867 
an offer was made to Lieutenant WOOD from Romeo [Macomb County], Michigan, to 
establish a system of graded schools. He left there in 1873 for Racine 
[Racine County, Wisconsin] to be the principal of high school there. He came 
to Oshkosh [Winnebago County, Wisconsin] in 1874, and has been principal of 
the high school there ever since. He is a very popular man, and his teaching 
is highly successful. His graduates take high positions as teachers.

In 1865 he [E. Barton WOOD] married Sarah TOLMAN [a maiden name?] of Medford 
[Middlesex County], Massachusetts. She [Sarah WOOD] died in July 1867. In 
1879 he [E. Barton WOOD] married again, to Helen PALEN [a maiden name?] of 
Romeo [Macomb County], Michigan. They [E. Barton and Helen WOOD] have three 
children: (1) Jessie P., aged nine years; (2) Alfred E., seven years of 
age; and (3) Clinton, aged five years. Mr. WOOD is a member of the First 
Presbyterian Church here [Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin], and is now 
elder and trustee..

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