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     Captain Thomas R. Hood was a carpenter in 1860. In September 1861 at Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, Buena Vista Flying Artillery on its way to Racine passes through town including company officer T R Hood.

     In 1892 Sidney J. Hood, of the firm of Allard & Hood, publishers and editors of The Evening Star and The Star of the West of Beardstown, was born in Spring Green, Sauk county, Wisconsin, October 10, 1864. He was reared and educated at that place and acquired a knowledge of carpenter and mason trades, but later went into the newspaper business. His father, Captain Thomas R. Hood, came from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin when a small child with his parents, Moses and Sarah Hood, natives of Pennsylvania, but who died in Wisconsin. Thomas R. Hood grew up as a farmer and carpenter, and when the war broke out he enlisted in the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment Light Artillery as a volunteer and served three and one half years, and was honorably discharged as Captain of his company. He had led his men through the battles of Corinth, Shiloh and other active engagements, and was much beloved by the members of his company. He had married Eliza A. Seiders, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Keifer) Selders. They had come West at a very early day, settling in Sauk county on Government land, and the same on which Joseph Seiders and wife lived and where Mr. Seiders died, a very old man, in the spring of 1888. His wife, who is yet living, at the age of eighty, is yet very active and interested in her surroundings. She and her husband were members of the United Brethren Church. Our subject is the second of three children, and since his thirteenth year he has supported himself. At the age of seventeen years he began work at his native home at Spring Green on a paper known as the Weekly Home News. He has always regarded these early days in Spring Green as the palmy days of his life as well as of his newspaper work. In 1889 he came to Arenzville, Cass county, Illinois, and started the Arenzville Argus, and at the same time the Chapin Boomerang, and ran the papers for about sixteen months, when he sold out and came to Beardstown, where he has since lived. For some time, also, he was a worker on the Laramie (Wyoming) Sentinel, Bill Nye's old "first love." The first issue of the Daily Star took place March 7, 1892; present firm was started February 24, 1892. Both the daily and weekly papers are very prosperous. Mr. Hood is a very energetic man, and being a practical printer understands thoroughly the management of a newspaper. Mr. Hood is still unmarried. He is an ardent Republican.

     JONATHAN WHITAKER HARRIS, son of John Harris and Mary HAMILTON, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania 7 August 1799. He grew to manhood, and after the death of his father in 1816, took up the westward march. He went to Ohio
where some of his brothers had gone. He lived with his brother James. He married Abigail C. CRACROFT daughter of Joseph CRACROFT and Ruth CHASE 29 August 1822. They had fifteen children. They built a home and farmed in Bloomfield township in Richland County, Ohio. In 1846 they removed to the Territory of Wisconsin. He erected a home on goverment land on Section 18, Township 9, Range 5 east in what is now Troy Township, Sauk County,
Wisconsin. On September 14, 1860 his wife Abigail died. He married Mrs. Catherine SHOARDS of Baraboo, Wisconsin for his second wife 7 May 1861. He died 3 October 1872 at the age of seventy-three. He and his wife Abigail are buried in the Harrisburg cemetery in Troy, Wisconsin. Jonathan Whitaker Harris and Abigail C. Cracroft immigrated in 1846.

     Abigail C. Cracroft had 15 children. She and Jonathan Whitaker Harris immigrated in 1846.

     From 1893 to 1895 Reedsburg city leader.³

     ABIGAIL EMELINE HARRIS, daughter of Jonathan W. Harris and Abigail C. CRACROFT was born in Richland County in 1843. She went with her parents to Sauk County, Wisconsin in 1846, being only three years old. She married Wilson HOOD 19 Jan 1865 by whom she had three children. They removed to Iowa soon after their marriage and operated a country store. Mr Hood was postmaster and ran a creamery. They returned to Spring Green at a few years and Mr. Hood worked for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company. Abigail Emeline Harris immigrated with Jonathan Whitaker Harris and Abigail C. Cracroft in 1846. Abigail Emeline Harris had 3 with 3 living in 1900 children.

     LUCY ADALINE HARRIS, daughter of Jonathan W. Harris and Abigail C. CRACROFT was born in Richland County, Ohio in 1845 and was just a baby when her parents went to Sauk County, Wisconsin in 1846. After the death of her mother, who died in
1860, she went to live with her sister, Mrs. Thomas McDill, at Plover, Wisconsin. She lived with her brother A.L. Harris for a time and engaged in the occupation of a nurse. She
married Francis L. TWIST a widower with one child and moved to St. Peters, Minnesota in 1888. They had one son. Lucy Adaline Harris immigrated with Jonathan Whitaker Harris and Abigail C. Cracroft in 1846. Lucy Adaline Harris migrated in 1887 at St. Peters, Minnesota. She was a boardinghouse keeper in 1900. She had 2 with 2 living in 1900 children.