STEUBEN COUNTY, INDIANA
Obituary
of
| Dr. Frederick B Wood |
| Steuben
County Dr. Frederick B. Wood, Whose Case Puzzled the Doctors Angola, Indiana, March 2. Dr. Frederick B. Wood, of Garrett, died at the home of his brother, Dr. T. F. Wood, in Angola, at 11 o’clock last night. He had been ill several weeks, his malady puzzling the medical fraternity. Last Thursday he went to Chicago, accompanied by his brothers, Drs. Theodore F. and H. D. Wood, of Angola, and Friday he was examined by some of the most eminent medical men of that city. Saturday he was attacked with vomiting and hemorrhage from the stomach, which continued till Sunday afternoon. Yesterday he was brought to Angola. About 10 P.M. he had another hemorrhage, dying an hour later, presumably from cancer in the stomach. He spent his boyhood at Metz, in this county. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and was in the Anderson Ville Prison pen about a year during the war. After the war he studied medicine, and, locating at Big Rapids, Michigan, practiced there fifteen years, since which time Garrett, in De Kalb County, has been his home. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, and acquired considerable prominence in his profession. He leaves a widow and two grown sons. Indiana State Journal - March 9, 1898 Transcribed and contributed by: Frances Coole |