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| Jonathan “Johnson” Wood (1854 - 1938) | Jonathan “Johnson” Wood (1854 - 1938) |
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| Jonathan Wood and his brothers Walter Benjamin and Chief Isaac were born in the Ketchumstock/Mansfield Lake area in Alaska. Their father came from the Tanana River region. Isaac lived at Forty Mile when he was young and Bishop Bompas gave him his Christian name Isaac. Jonathon was a lay reader at the St. Barnabas Church in Moosehide, and Walter Benjamin presided at the Episcopal Church mission in Eagle, Alaska.((Joy Isaac, //Chief Isaac’s People of the River.// 2018 website: http://chiefisaac.com/the_isaac_family.html)) | Jonathan Wood and his brothers Walter Benjamin and Chief Isaac were born in the Ketchumstock/Mansfield Lake area in Alaska. [A now abandoned Hän community off the road on the Mosquito Fork.]((Robert Jarvenpa, //Northern Passage: Ethnography and apprenticeship among the subarctic Dene.// Waveland Press, 1998: 22.)) Their father came from the Tanana River region. Isaac lived at Forty Mile when he was young and Bishop Bompas gave him his Christian name Isaac. Jonathon was a lay reader at the St. Barnabas Church in Moosehide, and Walter Benjamin presided at the Episcopal Church mission in Eagle, Alaska.((Joy Isaac, //Chief Isaac’s People of the River.// 2018 website: http://chiefisaac.com/the_isaac_family.html)) |
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| Jonathan Wood served as a catechist in Moosehide between 1908 and 1916 and also taught at the mission day school. In 1916, he moved to Fort Selkirk and his son Jimmy Wood took over teaching in the Moosehide school whenever Reverend Totty was away.((Heather Green, “The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and the Great Upheaval: Mining Colonialism, and Environmental Change in the Klondike, 1890-1940. Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, 2018: 153, 158-161.)) | Jonathan Wood served as a catechist in Moosehide between 1908 and 1916 and also taught at the mission day school. In 1916, he moved to Fort Selkirk and his son Jimmy Wood took over teaching in the Moosehide school whenever Reverend Totty was away.((Heather Green, “The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and the Great Upheaval: Mining Colonialism, and Environmental Change in the Klondike, 1890-1940. Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, 2018: 153, 158-161.)) |
