Person

William Benjamin Wood, Sr. (Kenton County, Kentucky, banker. )

b. 1809-08-31 d. 1887-04-22

Kenton County, Kentucky, banker. Connecticut native. Son of Benjamin Wood and Fanny Loomis Wood. Married to Abby Ann Withington Wood on November 1, 1835. Father of William Benjamin Wood, Jr., and Abby Ann Wood. Married to Emily Ormond Honeywell Wood on June 10, 1844. Father of Benjamin Franklin Wood, Fannie Elizabeth Wood, William Frederick Wood, Charles Honeywell Wood, Angelica Crockett Wood, Josephine Wood, Joseph Wood, Kate Josephine Wood, Laura Emily Wood, Lucy Mary Wood, Nina Charlotte Wood, and Robert Honeywell Wood. Banker in Kenton County in 1860. Employed Catherine Elker and Josaphine Hais as domestic servants in Kenton County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington/Ward 4, p. 668.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington/Ward 4, p. 243B.

Elias Loomis, The Descendants [by the Female Branches] of Joseph Loomis, (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, 1880), pp. 772-773.

"William Benjamin Wood (1809-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial #86190924, accessed July 2, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86190924/william-benjamin-wood.

Citation

Wood, William Benjamin, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207139 (January 18, 2026).

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