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south of the Brick Store, which was burned on July 8, 1892. 

 Mr. Wood attended lectures at the Harvard Medical School 

 during the sessions of 1858-59 and 1859-60; and in the cat- 

 alogue of that institution he appears as a resident of Groton, 

 with Dr. Miles Spaulding as his instructor. He received his 

 degree for M.D. from the Eclectic Medical College of Penn- 

 sylvania, Philadelphia, in the year i860, an institution now 

 extinct. He began the practice of his profession at Dana, 

 Massachusetts, but soon afterward removed to Hardwick, an 

 adjoining town, where he remained but a short time. While 

 a resident of this place he was appointed Hospital Steward 

 of the Forty-second Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts 

 Volunteer Militia, then about to leave for the seat of war; 

 and he was mustered into public service on Oct. 14, 1862. 

 He continued in that capacity until the regiment was mus- 

 tered out, on August 20, 1863. On leaving Hardwick, soon 

 after his return from the army, he took up his abode at Po- 

 casset, a village then in Sandwich, but now a part of the new 

 town of Bourne, where he died on August 25, 1880. In the 

 treatment of disease he was eminently successful, and at his 

 death he left the enviable name of a physician who had won 

 the love and respect of his patients. 



Dr. Wood was a son of Leonard and Malvina Fitzalan 

 (Reed) Wood, and he was born at Leicester, on February 

 18, 1829. His father was born at Brookfield, on February 

 16, 1802, and his mother at Abington, on May 26, 1807; and 

 they were married on April 20, 1828. His mother's mother 

 was Susanna White, a descendant of Peregrine White. The 

 son was married, on July 21, 1859, to Caroline Elizabeth 

 Hagar, daughter of Jacob and Sophia (Cutler) Hagar, of 

 Weston ; and they have been blessed with three children. 



As Dr. Wood at one time called himself a resident of 

 Groton, the town will claim a little reflected honor from the 

 remarkable career of his distinguished son, both as a statesman 

 and a military officer. General Wood is the eldest child of 

 his parents, and was born at Winchester, New Hampshire, on 

 October 9, i860. 



