JETHRO WOOD, 



INVENTOR OF THE 



MODERN" PLOW. 



A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE, SERVICES, AND TRIALS; 



TOGETHER WITH FACTS SUBSEQUENT TO 



HIS DEATH, AND INCIDENT TO 



HIS GREAT INVENTION. 



" No citizen of the United States has conferred greater economical 

 benefits on his country than Jethro Wood none of her benefactors 

 have been more inadequately rewarded." Wm. II Seward. 



