Wood, Reuben
soldier, lawyer, jur-pastorate in Booth Bay Harbor, Maine. ist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1792 in Rutland county, Vt. He served as captain of the Vermont volunteers in the war of 1812. After the war he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and was a member of the state senate from 1825 to 1828. He was made president judge of the third district of the state in 1830, serving until 1833, when he was elected judge of the supreme court of Ohio. He continued to hold that office until 1845, and was chosen governor of Ohio for the term beginning in 1850 and ending in 1853. was appointed United States consul to Valparaiso in 1853. He died Oct. 2, 1864, in Rockport, Ohio.
He WOOD, MRS. SARAH SAYWARD (BARRELL) (KEATING), author, was born in 1759 in Massachusetts. She was a novelist whose sentimental fictions include, Duval; Ferdinand and Almira; Amelia, or the Influence of Virtue; Tales of the Night; and The Illuminated Baron.
She died in 1855.