B. H. Wood, Calhoun County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Calhoun County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

B. H. Wood is a member of the firm of S. V. Wood & Co., general merchants at Summerville, and was born in Jackson Township, Calhoun
County, in 1862, the youngest of a family of twelve children born to William and Mary Wood. Our subject was reared on the farm and attended
the common schools of this county. He also attended the academy at Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas for one year, and at Mount Lebanon,
Louisiana, for two years, and the Commercial College of the Kentucky University at Lexington, Kentucky. After completing his education he
engaged in farming for one year. February 23, 1883, he started, in partnership with his two brothers, S. V. and J. B. Wood, the present business
at Summerville. They started with the small capital of $1,800 and have extended and increased their business every year since. They do a general
furnishing business, and carry a stock of from $4,000 to $5,000 of staples and fancy groceries, dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, hats, caps,
hardware, Queenware, and general plantation supplies. The business has, since it started, been under the charge and control of our subject,
who has built it into much he largest business in town. In September, 1884, Mr. Wood purchased a farm of 124 acres adjoining the village of
Summerville. It is now well improved with dwellings and all outbuildings; besides this he owns a four-acre lot in town, on which is a pleasant
home. He has eighty acres under cultivation, all of which is good land, well watered, etc. He devotes his attention principally to raising cotton,
which, with good cultivation, yields one half bale to the acre. Mr. Wood was married in 1884 to Miss Bula Harrell, daughter of Bennett Harrell,
an old pioneer of this county. To this union were born three children, viz: Mary Den , George Lusher, and an infant daughter unnamed. Mr.
Wood takes a deep interest in educational matters,and is a liberal supporter of all laudable enterprises. He is a staunch Democrat, and takes and
active interest in the politics of the county. February 16, 1886, he was appointed postmaster of Summerville, and still holds this office.