My Genealogy Hound

JOHN WOOD, hotel keeper at Greenlane, belongs to an old Montgomery county family, long resident in Plymouth township. He was born in Norristown, January 20, 1870. He was educated in the public schools, and on reaching manhood accepted a position in the hotel, at Zieglerville, Montgomery county, where he remained some time, and then went to the city of Philadelphia, where he secured a position with the Union Traction Company. He continued in that employment until 1901, when he went to Greenlane, in Montgomery county, as foreman in the Hendricks Brewery, located at that place. He filled this position satisfactorily until the year 1903, when he purchased the hotel at the railroad station in Greenlane borough, which he has ever since successfully conducted.

Mr. Wood married, in 1892, Miss Ella Keyser, daughter of Daniel Keyser, a farmer, of Upper Salford township, in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. The couple have one child, George. Mr. Wood is emphatically a self-made man, owing his success in life entirely to his own exertions. He is an earnest Republican in politics, and actively interested in its success. Fraternally he is a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, of the Improved Order of Red Men, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his family attend the Reformed church.

James Wood, grandfather of John Wood, the subject of this sketch, was born at Hickorytown, in Plymouth township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, acquiring an ordinary education in the schools of the vicinity, he became a farmer which pursuit he followed successfully. Politically he was a Whig, and later, on the organization of that party, an earnest Republican. Among his children was Henry H., who was born on the homestead at Hickorytown, father of John.

Henry H. Wood was educated in the schools of Plymouth township and learned the plastering trade, in which occupation he has been engaged for many years, and has also given attention to farming. He is still living. He married Miss Rile, of Blue Bell, the couple having eleven children, of whom two died and the others are living. Henry H. Wood is a thoroughgoing Republican. Fraternally he is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men.