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247 Chapter 1: Influences of Youth 1. Hart Wood was also the great-grandson of James and Catherine Wood. James Wood (b. 1774/1775), an emigrant from Ireland, married into a German Lutheran family settled in York County, Pennsylvania. A farmer, James came to own significantly valued real estate by the mid-nineteenth century. The Wood family was large, with eight known sons and two daughters born between about 1800 and 1830 in Pennsylvania and Virginia. The children of James and Catherine Wood were John (b. 1801/1802), two other sons born between 1800 and 1810, Elizabeth (b. 1812/1813), Alexander (b. 1813/1814), William (b. 1814/1815), a daughter born between 1815 and 1820, Samuel (b. 1817), and two sons born between 1825 and 1830. (The dates of birth are approximate, derived from the ages of individuals listed in the census and taking into account the date of documentation .) Most of the male children became farmers. Two, however—William and Samuel— became carpenters. (See also n. 10.) “James Wood, Brownsville, Fayette County,” Pennsylvania Census, 1830, 221; Pennsylvania Census, 1850, 314; “Joseph Wood, Brownsville Township, Fayette County,” Pennsylvania Census, 1870, 2; and, “Elizabeth Wood, Luzerne Township, Fayette County,” Pennsylvania Census, 1870, 243. Also see the indices for the Pennsylvania and Virginia Census, 1800–1870. 2. Samuel Wood married Lucy Curl, daughter of James Curl. The James Curl family was also largely agrarian. James (b. 1876/1877) married into the John Hart family, German Lutherans with ties in both Pennsylvania and Virginia. (See also n. 10.) Lucy, like her husband, was born in Virginia (1818/1819). Known children of Samuel and Lucy Wood were Gibson (b. 1840/1841), Mary (b. 1842/1843), Thomas (b. 1844), Louis (b. 1846), Charles (b. 1848/1849), and Lucy (b. 1852/1853). “Samuel Wood, Bridgeport Borough, Fayette County,” Pennsylvania Census, 1850, 330; and Pennsylvania Census, 1870, 257. 3. Kansas, volume in The United States Biographical Dictionary (Chicago and Kansas City: S. Lewis & Company, 1879), 452–453. Louis Wood may have lived with his mother’s family, the Curls, while attending Waynesburg College. By about 1840, the James Curl family had settled in Cumberland, Greene County. Waynesburg College was N O T E S N O T E S T O PA G E S 2 – 3 248 located in the immediate vicinity. Following Waynesburg, Louis “took a two years special course in the study of architecture and kindred arts at Cornell University.” William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas (Chicago: Alfred T. Andreas, 1883), 583; John M. Peterson, John G. Haskell: Pioneer Kansas Architect (Lawrence: Douglas County Historical Society, 1984), 81–82; “James Curl, Cumberland, Greene County,” Pennsylvania Census, 1840, 106; and “Hiram, John, Remembrance, and Thomas Curl,” four Curl family listings, Pennsylvania Census, 1850, 114, 111, 117, and 100. Louis M. H. Wood’s university training in architecture was among the earliest of its kind in the United States. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had initiated formal study in 1868, with a two-year program in architecture. Cornell opened the second American program in 1871, but its formal courses were set up in a four-year framework (another first of its type). Both universities had only one professor of architecture for the course of study. Charles Babcock, trained in the office of Richard Upjohn in the 1850s, was Cornell’s architectural program during the first half of the 1870s. Morris Bishop, A History of Cornell (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1962), 160–161, 169. 4. “T. H. B. Wood, Hays, Ellis County,” Kansas Agricultural Census, 1885, 16. Children of T. H. B. and Maggie Wood were listed as Hart (b. 1880), Harry (b. 1882/1883), and Ada (b. 1883/1884). Also, letters from Mary Ann Thompson, Kansas Room Librarian , Hays Public Library, to Karen J. Weitze, November 10, 1986, and December 2, 1986. Ms. Thompson summarized T. H. B. Wood’s chronology of building trades employment in Hays, citing material appearing in the local newspapers and archival records. 5. Kansas, 1879, 452–453; and Peterson, John G. Haskell, 1984, 81–82. 6. Peterson, John G. Haskell, 1984, 1–6; Frank W. Blackmar (ed.), Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions, Industries, Counties, Cities, Towns, Prominent Persons, Etc. (Chicago: Standard Publishing Company, 1912); E. F. Caldwell, A Souvenir History of Lawrence, Kansas (Kansas City, Missouri: Lawton and Burnap, 1898); Richard Cordley (Plymouth Congregational Church), A History of Lawrence, Kansas, from the Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Rebellion (Lawrence...

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