Hood, Benjamin S.

Born: 1832-XX-XX Pennsylvania

Died: 1904-02-15 Kansas

Flourished: Litchfield, Illinois

Benjamin S. Hood spent his childhood in Philadelphia until his family, consisting of five sons and two daughters, moved to Litchfield, Illinois. He served as the editor of the Litchfield Monitor, one of the town's first newspapers. He also served as town and city clerk in 1857, 1861, 1863, and 1877, and was active in civic affairs. In July 1858, Hood was elected secretary of the Litchfield Republican Club. He also briefly partnered with his brother Joseph to run the Hood Brothers's Drug Store. When the Civil War broke out, Hood enlisted in Company D, 7th Illinois Infantry, although he only served for three months.

Hood had two children by his first wife, Mary Tanner Jackson Hood, who died in 1866. He remarried in 1881.

The Centennial History of Litchfield, Illinois (Salam, MA: Higginson Book, 1953), 58; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Litchfield, Montgomery County, IL, 86; Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, eds., Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Montgomery County, ed. by Alexander T. Strange (Chicago: Munsell, 1918), 2:924;Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; The Wellington Journal (KS), 15 February 1904, 1:3; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Jersey County, 28 April 1859, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Illinois, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1800-1940, Jersey County, 12 March 1881, (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016); Gravestone, Elmwood Cemetery, Litchfield, IL.