SidneyJ. Hood

 
SIDNEY J. HOOD, of the firmof Allard & Hood, publishers and editors of The Evening Starand The Star of the West of Beardstown, was born in Spring Green,Sauk county, Wisconsin, October 10, 1864. He was reared and educated atthat place and acquired a knowledge of the carpenter and mason trades,but later went into the newspaper business. His father, Captain ThomasR. Hood, came from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin when a small child with hisparents, Moses and Sarah Hood, natives of Pennsylvania, but who died inWisconsin. Thomas R. Hood grew up as a farmer and carpenter, and when thewar broke out he enlisted in the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment Light Artilleryas a volunteer and served three and one half years, and was honorably dischargedas Captain of his company. He had led his men through the battles of Corinth,Shiloh and other active engagements, and was much beloved by the membersof his company. He had married Eliza A. Seiders, daughter of Joseph andElizabeth (Keifer) Seiders. They had come West at a very early day, settlingin Sauk county on Government land, and the same on which Joseph Seidersand wife lived and where Mr. Seiders died, a very old man in the springof 1888. His wife, who is yet living, at the age of eighty, is yet veryactive and interested in her surroundings. She and her husband were membersof the United Brethren Church.

Our subject is the secondof three children, and since his thirteenth year he has supported himself.At the age of seventeen years he began work at his native home at SpringGreen on a paper known as the Weekly Home News. He has always regardedthese early days in Spring Green as the palmy days of his life as wellas of his newspaper work. In 1889 he came to Arenzville, Cass county, Illinois,and started the Arenzville Argus, and at the same time the ChapinBoomerang, and ran the papers for about sixteen months, when he soldout and came to Beardstown, where he has since lived. For some time, also,he was a worker on the Laramie (Wyoming) Sentinel, Bill Nye’sold “first love.” The first issue of the Daily Star took place March7, 1892; present firm was started February 24, 1892. Both the daily andweekly papers are very prosperous. Mr. Hood is a very energetic man, andbeing a practical printer understands thoroughly the management of a newspaper.

Mr. Hood is still unmarried.He is an ardent Republican.

Biographical Review ofCass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review PublishingCo., Chicago, 1892, page 271.

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