CHARLES B. WOOD, M. a prominent physician and surgeon of Monongahela, is a son of Samuel A. Wood, a native of Virginia, whose family were of English birth. Samuel A. Wood was married to Lucy M. Curl, of Virginia, whose mother was a relative of Chiefjustice Gibbon, of Pennsylvania. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Wood were: Joshua G., an attorney of Topeka Kans.; Thomas S., who died in 1892, was principal of one of the Allegheny schools Lonis M., an architect of Denver, Colo.; Charles B., whose name opens this sketch; Mary G., living in Brownsville Penn., and Lucy, deceased. The parents are now living in Brownsville, Fayette county, retired from active business. Both are members of the Prebysterian Church. Charles B. Wood was born at Brownsville, Fayette county, Penn., where he passed his youth. He attended Oberlin College for four years, then read medicine with Dr. W. S. Duncan, of Brownsville, and completed his studies at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1876. He practiced at Monongabela for ten years, then attended the Polyclinic of New York, and in 1889 took a course in special studies at the Polyclinic Hospital and Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia. In 1887 he married Carrie, daughter of Hon. George V. Lawrence, of Monongahela. One son, Lawrence, blessed their union. Dr. Wood has given special study to the eye and ear, but is a general practitioner, and since 1881 has been surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He is what every true physician must be, enthusiastically devoted to his calling. His reputation is not confined to this domain, however, for Dr. Wood is equally a favorite in social and business circles, where his original ideas and store of information are ever fully appreciated. In politics he is a Republican, " born and bred." and has served as a member of the school board of Monongahela. He is a member of the American Medical Association; Pennsylvania State Medical Society; National Association of Railway Surgeons; and Washington County Medical Society.

Text taken from page 224 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed March 1997 by John R. Mort of Salt Pointe, NY as part of the Beers Project. Published March 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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