San Francisco County
C. F. Wood
C. F. Wood, San Francisco, was born in New York in 1829, and was reared and educated in his native State. The glowing accounts of the discovery of gold in California induced him to make the voyage to this coast. In 1850 he left New York on board the ship Empire City, was detained five months on the Isthmus of Panama, and made the Pacific voyage in the steamer Sarah Sands, landing in California September 9, 1850, the day this State was admitted into the Union. Like all other newcomers to this coast at that time, he had his experience in the mines. He afterward took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar by Chief Justice Searle, in Nevada City, in 1857. A few years later, in 1861, he went to Nevada, and three years later came to San Francisco, and for more than a quarter of a century has been a resident of this city. He has been engaged in various business enterprises, and has been largely interested in mining operations.
Judge Wood is a consistent Republican. He was Sheriff of Nevada county in the early mining days, and held various other offices. He was elected Justice of the Peace in November, 1890, and since then has held that office.
Transcribed
by David Rugeroni.
Source: "The
Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, Page 218, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2005 David Rugeroni.