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Rev. and Mrs. Jesse Wood and their children. Magnolia, Jessamine (Mrs. R. A. Green), Earnest, Hazel, Tison, Homer, Walton, Eugenia, Alice May, Willie

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Title: Rev. and Mrs. Jesse Wood and their children. Magnolia, Jessamine (Mrs. R. A. Green), Earnest, Hazel, Tison, Homer, Walton, Eugenia, Alice May, Willie
Date Created and/or Issued: 1879
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2018-3188.
Formal group portrait. History of family handwritten on verso (dated 1957).
Jesse Wood was born in Georgia, into family which migrated from Scotland in 1730; graduated from Law School, University of Virginia; married Alice Tison. Ran school for girls near Tuskeege; came to California via Panama about 1872; settled in Chico where was preacher; moved to Oroville; became publisher/owner of the Oroville Mercury, Colusa Daily Chronicle, Chico Record; became County Superintendent of Schools for Butte County. Died in 1921.
Removed from: William R. Parker Collection, SMC, Box 924.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001638016CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Wood, Jesse--Family--Portraits
Scotish Americans--California--Oroville--Portraits
Lawyers--California--Oroville
Clergy--California--Oroville
Newspaper editors--California--Oroville
Government officials--California--Butte County
Oroville (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Chico (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Group portraits
Place: California
Oroville
Butte County
Oroville (Calif.)
Chico (Calif.)

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