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HOOD, ROBERT, stock-dealer and shipper; residence Payson; is the third of a family of four children of James and Annie (Elliott) Hood. His father was a native of Ireland; his mother, of Pennsylvania, in Chester county of which State he was born, Feb. 12, 1835. He remained there till he was seventeen years of age, when he came to Adams county. He engaged in farming till 1864, then spent four years in the milling business, and for the last ten years has been buying and shipping livestock extensively. He married Mary K. Mann, Dec. 12, 1860, who was also born in Pennsylvania. She died, April 12, 1875, having been the mother of six children, four of whom are living: Mary J., Joseph, Lillie and Josephine. Mr. Hood was married again, Sept. 10, 1878, to Augusta M. Leach. She was born in Fort Madison, Iowa, Feb. 14, 1847, and brought up in Payson. Her parents, Harvey Leach, of Ohio, and Mary (Cowley) Leach, of Virginia, both died when she was very small.