Emily Elizabeth WOOD

   Other names for Emily were Mrs. Emily Elizabeth RUSLING and Mrs. James Fowler RUSLING.

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  General Notes:

Emily Elizabeth Wood was the daughter of Isaac Wood, Esq., son of Moses Wood, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, b. 1819. Moses Wood was a descendant of Michael Wood, of Tinker Hey, North Dean, Halifax vicarage, Yorkshire, England, whose will dated 1537 is still in the possession of the Wood Family, Trenton, New Jersey. Isaac Wood was a man of character and fortune (made chiefly by himself, as merchant and investor, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Trenton, N. J.), and left six children-Isaac T., Emily E., Ira W. (now Member of Congress, Fourth District, New Jersey), Ella P., Edward S., and William P. Three of the sons became lawyers, Trenton, New Jersey.


ref Woman's Who's Who of America 1914-1915

Educated Wilkesbarre and Hartford, Conn @ Curtis School; m JF Rusling lawyer, brig-gen, USV in Cilil War; Vice Pres Woman's Aid of MercerHospital; VP Needlewook Guild, Trenton Branch. Methodist. mem DAR. Mem. NJ Soc. of the Colonial Dames of America. Charter mem Paulus Hook Chapter of Jersey City.

Emily married James Fowler RUSLING, son of Gershom RUSLING and Eliza Budd HANKINSON, on 30 Jun 1870. (James Fowler RUSLING was born on 14 Apr 1834 in Washington, NJ and died on 1 Apr 1918.)