Thursday, November 12, 2009

Treasure Chest Thursday - Samuel Wood, Ontario Canada c. 1905

Samuel WOOD, weaver, bee keeper, born 1820, Linthwaite, Yorkshire, England. He lived in Bean Hill (Norwich), Connecticut (1850s) and in Newark, New Jersey (1860s), and then near Nottawa, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada where he died in 1908.

Embroidered frame made likely by either one of his daughters, Mary Janet (WOOD) SCOTT, or by one or both of her daughters, Harriott or Annie.

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