Humphrey and others : a correspondence (1850-1867) : typescript, [ca. 1980] / edited by Betty Gegenheimer.

Hood family

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Hood, J. G. (Jeremiah Griffith), 1827-1855.

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Hood, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Smith), 1832-1904

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Benjamin S. Hood, a teacher in Jerseyville, Ill., & later a newspaper editor in Litchfield, Ill.; Humphrey H. Hood (1823-1903), Benjamin's brother, a physician, Civil War veteran, & businessman in Litchfield; and their brothers, sisters & descendants. Of the Hood family, originally from Philadelphia, all but one had settled by the late 1850s in or near Litchfield, where the Hood brothers' business interests over the years included a drugstore, newspapers, ins...

Hood, John L. (John Lambert), 1825-1865.

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Hood, Humphrey H. (Humphrey Hughes), 1823-1903.

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Physician, Civil War veteran, & businessman from Litchfield, Ill. Hood was a surgeon with the Union Army, mostly at Fort Pickering, near Memphis, from late 1862 until he was discharged in April, 1866. He served as First Asst. Surgeon of the 117th Illinois Infantry, Senior Surgeon of the First Tennessee Heavy Artillery, African Descent (renamed in 1864 the Third U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery), and Surgeon-in-Chief on the staff of General John E. Smith, District of West...

Gegenheimer, Elizabeth.

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Magazine editor, freelance writer, and family historian from Litchfield, Ill. Born Elizabeth Schutt, Betty Gegenheimer was the daughter of Josephine (Hood) Schutt, and the great-granddaughter of Joseph Hood. She graduated from Oberlin College. In 1937, she married author and American Literature Professor Albert Frank Gegenheimer. The couple have lived most of their lives in Tucson, Arizona, where the professor is on the faculty of the University of Arizona. F...