Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a18.
 
JOHN R. HOOD

     was born June 27, 1833, at Inverness, the captial of the Highlands, in
Scotland. His birth place, where his youth was spent and education received, is
a historic city, around which cluster events of the past, familiar where the
English language is spoken. It was five miles from Inverness that Cumberland
defeated, at Culloden, Prince Charles, the Pretender, in 1746, and scattered the
clans of Scotland. It was to this ancient city that the unfortunate Mary Queen
of beauty and of Scotland fled for safety. Cradled among the scenes where
Scotland's proudest chivalry had carved with spear and lance their bravest deeds
upon the tablets of fame, it gave to the lad an instinct that grew with age, to
go out into the world and seek fortune and adventure in foreign lands. Following
that ruling passion, he left his home at seventeen years of age, and after
stopping as an academic professor at Glasgow a year and a half, he sailed for
the East Indies. Two years later he was Second Officer of an East India merchant
ship, and rising to the position of First Officer, continued for eleven years to
follow the high seas. The adventures of such a life would fill a volume, and we
omit them, regretting the necessity of so doing. In 1860 he retired from sea
life, and settled at Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was married to Miss
Catharine Moar on the lot of September of that year. Mrs. Hood is a native of
Sandwick in the Orkney Isles, Scotland. In April, 1861, he moved to Walla Walla
valley, where he now resides, one of the substantial men of the country. He has
a farm of 320 acres, all inclosed and under cultivation, the general appearance
of which, may be seen in a view of it accompanying this work. He has two
children, boys, named John A., aged 20, March 10, 1882; Charles E., aged 14,
June 16, 1882.


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