Charles Henry Wood
Charles H. Wood was born in Sheffield in about 1831. He was the son of Samuel Wood, a table knife cutler living in Sylvester Street in 1841, and his wife Esther. Charles, too, was trained as a table knife cutler and later established his own enterprise. He became insolvent in 1858. However, he appeared in Business Directory of Sheffield (1862) at Headford Works, Headford Street, as a specialist Bowie knife maker (alongside only four other Bowie manufacturers) In 1867, Wood was arrested and tried....
