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Lieut Stephen Mosher Wood

Birth	:	10 Jun 1832 Mount Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio, USA
Death	:	24 Dec 1920 Elmdale, Chase County, Kansas, USA
Burial	:	Columbus City Cemetery, Columbus City, Louisa County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.2625000, -91.3744400
Description	:	Stephen M. Wood, farmer and stockraiser of Elmdale, Kan., was born at Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, June 10, 1832. He was brought up on a farm and received a common school education. On May 22, 1853, he married Miss Caroline Breese, who was born at Mount Gilead in 1833. In 1855, he moved his family to Cedar county, Iowa, and engaged in farming until the war broke out, when he enlisted in November 1861, as second lieutenant of Company B, Sixth Regiment, Missouri cavalry. On the first of August, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant and quartermaster of... Read More	Stephen M. Wood, farmer and stockraiser of Elmdale, Kan., was born at Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, June 10, 1832. He was brought up on a farm and received a common school education. On May 22, 1853, he married Miss Caroline Breese, who was born at Mount Gilead in 1833. In 1855, he moved his family to Cedar county, Iowa, and engaged in farming until the war broke out, when he enlisted in November 1861, as second lieutenant of Company B, Sixth Regiment, Missouri cavalry. On the first of August, 1863, he was promoted to first lieutenant and quartermaster of the regiment; April 12, 1864, was detailed as brigade commissary of subsistence, of First Brigade Cavalry Division, Department of the Gulf; Nov. 25, 1864, was detailed as quartermaster of the Pontoon Brigade and was mustered out of service at New Orleans, Sept. 12, 1865. Most of his service was in Missouri, Mississippi and Louisiana. The spring after coming home from the army he came to Kansas, located in Diamond Creek township in Chase county, two miles southwest of Elmdale. He still has his original homestead, upon which are valuable improvements, also 1,000 acres of improved land in Chase county, and is actively engaged in farming and stockraising. Mr. Wood is a brother of the famous Samuel N. Wood, and has taken quite an active interest in county and state politics and has been elected to many county and minor offices. Twice he represented Chase county in the legislature, and once represented Chase, Marion and Morris counties in the state senate. Mr. Wood was a member of the board of trustees of the State Blind Asylum during Governor Osborne's administration, 1873 to 1875. In the year 1877 he was appointed one of the regents of the State Agricultural College and was reappointed in 1880. During the last four years he held this office, he was presiding officer of the board and no small part of the present prosperity of the institution is due to his clear insight in all matters of a financial or practical nature and his earnest and energetic performance of the duties of his trust. He served two years, 1872-74, on the Board of State Railroad Tax Assessors. He and Mrs. Wood celebrated the fifty-eighth anniversary of their wedding in 1911 and each were presented with a solid gold napkin ring, set with diamonds, by the members of U. S. Grant Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Elmdale, of which Mr. Wood is post commander. Of their children, Sidney B. died Aug. 11, 1906; Clarence D. is living on his father's homestead; Wallace A. is a fancy stockbreeder in Chase county; and Carrie lives at home with her parents. Mr. Wood is a member of the Christian church. In 1910, he was appointed postmaster at Elmdale, resigning in 1911, when he became mayor. Harry C. Holmes, the present postmaster, is his grandson. Pages 394-395 from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. --------------------- Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Dec 25 1920 STEPHEN M WOOD, PIONEER AND PHILANTHROPIST, DIES Elmdale Man was in Legislature in Early 60's Donated Land to State Y.M.C.A. Camp, Served in Civil War and was KSAC Regent Stephen M Wood, 89, one of the most widely known pioneers in this section of the state, died at his home in Elmdale last night, following a short illness from pneumonia. Mr. Wood had lived in Kansas since 1865. He was a member of the state legislature during the late 60's and also had served a number of years as regent of Kansas State Agriculture college. at Manhattan. During the Civil War Mr. Wood was quartermaster in Sam Wood's regiment, Company A of the Sixth Missouri Calvary. Several years ago when the state YMCA camp south of Elmdale was established, Mr. Wood was donor of the land upon which the camp is located and by honoring him for this gift the camp now bears his name. The funeral will be held at the Wood home in Elmdale at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Interment will be in the Elmdale cemetery. Mr. Wood is survived by a daughter, Miss Carrie Wood, a granddaughter, Miss Gracia Wood, with who he made his home, a son H. P Wood and a daughter, Mrs. James Thurston, all of Elmdale. Mrs Wood died last winter, following a short illness. --------------------- Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Dec 31 1920 STEPHEN WOOD DEAD Stephen Wood died at his home in Elmdale on Christmas Eve, following an illness as the result of pneumonia which had entended over several weeks. While his death was not unepected, yet it comes as a great shock to his children and relatives and many friends and the whole community in general for he was one of its most prominent men. The funeral services were held at the Wood home in Elmdale at 2:30 o'clock last Sunday afternoon, after which interment was made in the Elmdale Cemetery. Mr. Wood was one of the oldest settlers of Chase county as he came here in the year 1865. He served as a member of the State Legislature during the late sixties and was for a number of years a regent of the State Agricultural College. A few years ago whent the State YMCA Camp was organized and the site selected, Mr. Wood donated land on which it was located south of Elmdale and in memory of the gift the camp now bears his name. --------------------- Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Dec 24 1920 Obituary of Stephen M Wood: Stephen Mosher Wood was born near Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, June 10, 1832. His parents were pioneers of that country and in his boyhood he knew the hardships of a land so new that all things bought and sold must be transported by private conveyance a hundred miles to the lake at Cleveland. In 1853 Mr. Wood was married to Caroline Breese, and shortly after they went to eastern Iowa, then the frontier and for years struggled with a new country. In 1862 he enlisted in the federal service in the war of the states and served until the fall of 1865. A few weeks later he came to Cottonwood Falls to look after the land belonging to his brother, S N Wood who on a trip with a freight train to Santa Fe, had broken his leg. In April of 1866 Stephen Wood returned to Iowa, settled up his affairs and brought his family to Kansas. He had acquired some land in the Cottonwood Valley near where Elmdale now stands. He took a homestead on the uplands, and there built a home that endured for fifty years. He was an industrious, frugal man; one to whom the best interests of his community in a moral and material way were very dear, his active life was spent in the fifty years between the Civil War and the world war, years showing the greatest development and advance for the United States. He always took a great interest in things political in the state and nation, twice he represented his county in the state legislature and once he served as state senator. He had a personal acquaintance with the men who were state leaders at that time, he was elected railroad assessor when there was such a position. He was appointed a regent of the State Agricultural College by Gov. John P St. John and was a member of the board of managers of the State Asylum for the blind. He was actively a part of an army of young men who built up the great west and made it a desireable home land for the millions who now occupy it. Always a pioneer he had no patience with those who live by the sweat of others men's brows or those who exploit their fellow men. He was one of the last of his day and generation and the world will see his kind no more, for there are no new lands to open and there will develop no more of the hardy men and women who went fourth to conquor the wilderness. They built an empire, builded better than they knew, and we who come after inherit the fruits of their toil, hardships and self denial. Mr. Wood's death occurred at his home in Elmdale on the evening of December 24, 1920 following an illness of three weeks, the first illness of his life. A little less than a year ago he had lost his wife who had been with him for almost sixty six years. He is survived by two sons W A Wood and C D Wood and by his daughter, Carrie Wood.

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Lieut Stephen Mosher Wood's memorial is located at: Columbus City Cemetery, Columbus City, Louisa County, USA.
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Lieut Stephen Mosher Wood death on 24 Dec 1920 in Elmdale, Chase County, Kansas, USA
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Latitude: 41.2625000
Longitude: -91.3744400

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Caroline Halsey Breese Wood

(1833 - 1920)

Siblings

(unknow - unknow)

Joseph Mosher Wood

(1824 - 1886)

Jonathan Wood

(1828 - 1911)

Children

(1856 - 1936)

(1859 - 1926)

(1868 - 1960)

(1871 - 1906)

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