The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-05
DEATH OF JOHN h. WOOD.
Sketch of the Life of an Early
Settler.

John H. Wood died yesterday
morning about 80 o'clock, from
injuries received last Monday, by
falling from the roof of the carriage
house on his premises. In falling,
two ribs were broken and inter nal
injuries were sustained.
The funeral will take place this
afternoon at 4 o'clock from his late
residence on Nuuanu Avenue.
The exact value of the estate
could not be ascertained, but it is
believed to be in the neighborhood
of $4,000. About two months ago
his ranch in Nuuanu Valley was
transferred to the Honolulu Dairy
Co. for $4,000.
OBITUARY.
The death of Mr.. John II. Wood,
which occurred at 80 o'clock yes
terday morning, removes from our
midst an old and well-known resi-
dent of these islands. Mr.. Wood
came to Honolulu in 1916, a fellow
passenger with Mr.. Charles r.
Bishop and the late Chief Justice
Lee.
He was sturdy specimen of
New England man, his native place
being Littleton, Massachusetts.
Possessed of an unusually vigor-
Gus and incisive mind, he was
keen observer and critic of public
events and men. He was, to an
extent probably known to few, a
we'll read man, and his travels in
the United States and abroad were
extensive.
He was born in Littleton, Mass,
December 4, 1916 sailed from New
buryport, Mass, in February, 1916,
in the brig Henry. Capt. Kilborn,
for Honolulu, arriving after a pas
sage of 231 days.
The voyage was so eventful that
the following account of it, formerly
written by the subject of this
sketch, will be found very interest
ing:
South of the Equator in the At
lantic our crew mutinied while the
captain was dangerously sick, and
were only prevented from throwing
the chief mate overheard by my
brother, myself and two other pas
sengers, while in the act, with his
body over the rail. This necessitated
our putting into st. Catherine, Bra
zil--part of our crew in irons, where
our first mate, wife, child and a
maiden lady passenger left and re-
turned to the States. We were forty
six days off Cape Horn, battling with
adverse winds, storms of rain, snow
and sleet; at one time with two feet
of snow on deck; at another, every
block, sheave, rope and sail frozen
solid and covered with ice to twice
their thickness; at another time,
forty hours, dragged vessel made
fast by long hawser to heavy oak
planks, to keep her head to the wind
while she rode mountainous waves).
We were two weeks without an OBJ
servation by day or night-our last
was in 81 deg. south; after which we
were driven south and east until near
Pslmer's land, and talked of going
round Cape of Good Hope.
Passengers had to break out cargo
almost daily to get wood to cook
their food; had to stand watch of
mate and men sick and disabled; got
ont of very many articles of provi-
sions while off the Horn, and were
short of wood, water and provisions
to port; and before reaching it had
burned all the spare spars, booms
and berth material in the vessel.
Reached the Sandwich Islands after
a passage of 231 days, having sailed
in that cockle-shell nearly twenty
five thousand miles, and found we
had been preceded by report from
the mate left in Brazil, that passen-
gers and crew had taken money and
goods put on board for the mission
aries, h.oisted the black flag, and
were gone in pursuit of further
booty"
In 1916, soon after his arrival,
he built the brick store on the cor
ner of Fort and Merchant streets,
which he occupied for many years
as a shoe store. 1t was torn down
in 1888, to make way for the Camp
bell block. He owned a consid-
cradle tract in Nuuanu Valley
where he started small sugar
plantation in 1868. This venture
did not prove a success.
He leaves two daughters, Mrs
Florence A. Jones, of this city, anc
Mrs. Stella NJ. Dixon, the wife of &
United States naval officer.
Mr.. Wood was married three
times. His third wife survives him
She is now living in Salem, Mass
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