JETHRO WOOD; 



filial affection than by hope of gain, they 

 were making a final effort to secure from Con- 

 gress a proper recognition of their father's 

 claim as an inventor. It is entirely safe to 

 say that if Mr. Adams had been spared to the 

 end of the Congress then in session, that 

 claim would have been then duly recognized, 

 and the name, services and genius of Jethro 

 Wood become familiar to the American public. 

 Jethro Wood was born at Dartmouth, Mass- 

 achusetts, on the sixteenth day of the third 

 month of 1774. His parents were members 

 of the Society of Friends. His mother, Dinah 

 Hussey Wood, was a neice of Ann Starbuck, 

 a woman of remarkable ability and high 

 standing in colonial annals. Ann Starbuck 

 was virtually governor of Nantucket. The 

 neice was a woman of excellent intellect, and 

 most winsome character. Her conversation 

 sparkled with genial wit and good cheer. Her 



