El Paso-Pueblo-Kit Carson County CO Archives Biographies.....Wood, Harry L. 1880 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

HARRY L. WOOD.

    Active, energetic, alert and determined, Harry L. Wood has made for himself
a creditable position among the representatives of commercial activity in his
section of the state, being now proprietor of a well appointed store at Ramah.
He comes to Colorado from Illinois, his birth having occurred in Fairfield,
Wayne county, that state, on the 20th of April, 1880. His parents were William
R. and Nancy (Carpenter) Wood, the former a native of Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
and the latter of Marietta, Ohio. The father was a cabinetmaker and carpenter by
trade and in 1885 removed with his family to Norton, Kansas, where his son,
Harry L., attended the public schools.

    When a youth of fourteen years Harry L. Wood put aside his textbooks and
entered the employ of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company as a
telegrapher. After one year spent in that connection he was sent to Falcon,
Colorado, where he served as telegraph operator for a year and later spent two
years as relief agent with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, being sent to
various points along the line during that period. He was agent at Ramah for
three years, also agent at Burlington, Colorado, for a year, and in 1901 he
established himself in a mercantile business at Ramah, where he is now located.
He is enjoying a large and growing trade, carrying a carefully selected line of
goods, and his patronage is constantly increasing by reason of the fact that he
puts forth earnest effort to please his customers and is thoroughly reliable in
all of his business dealings. He is also the owner of a farm of four hundred
acres, two and one-half miles east of Ramah, from which he receives a good rental.

    In 1903 Mr. Wood was married in Burlington. Colorado, to Miss Minnie Kernes,
a native of Pueblo, who was reared on a farm south of Ramah. They have become
parents of three children: F. Edward, born March 17, 1905; Leslie A., born
October 16, 1907; and Willie R., born March 11. 1909. Mr. Wood is a member of
the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America and he gives his
political allegiance to the republican party. He is well liked by all who know
him and has long been numbered among the prosperous merchants and esteemed
citizens of his community.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918



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