Wood, Henry
merchant, author, was born Jan. 16, 1834, in Barre, Vt. He has been a member and officer in various ethical, philosophical and humanitarian associations, and is the author of several books of wide circulation, on fiction, philosophy and metaphysics, entitled God's Image in Man; Ideal Suggestion; Studies in the Thought World; Political Economy of Natural Law, and 1855 he emigrated to other works. In the west, began a successful career in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, whence he removed to Chicago in 1863. After ten years, owing to ill-health, he retired from the active wholesale trade in which he had been engaged, and removed to Boston in 1882.
He says that he has never attempted poetic form, but no critic can deny that his prose is imbued with a poetic spirit.