Marshall-Coffey County KS Archives Biographies.....Wood, Orlin Pearl 1880 - living in 1917
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Author: B. F. Bowen

ORLIN PEARL WOOD, M. D.

    Of the many progressive and well-known men of Oketo, Marshall county, who
have won distinction in their chosen work and have met with a large measure of
success, is Dr. Orlin Pearl Wood, who was born in Coffey county, Kansas, the son
of William H. and Emma Alice (Beaumont) Wood.

    William H. Wood was born in Ohio in 1840 and his wife is a native of the
state of Maryland. They are. of old and well-established families, whose lives
have been closely associated with the growth and development of American
institutions. Representatives of the family won distinction in the occupations
and professions of their home communities and were ever held in high regard by
the residents of their home districts. William H. Wood was reared in his native
state and there he received his education in the common schools and engaged in
agricultural pursuits. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was one of the first
to offer his services in the defense of the flag of his country, and enlisted in
the First Ohio Regiment, Light Artillery. He saw much active service and at the
battle of Chancellorsville he lost his right arm. Being unfitted for further
service he returned to his home in Ohio, where he remained until 1866, when he
came to Kansas and homesteaded a tract of land, six miles from Burlington, in
Coffey county. This farm he later developed and improved into one of the
well-cultivated farms of the district. He was an excellent farmer and a good
manager and soon became recognized as one of the prominent and successful men of
the county. After many years of active life on his homestead he retired to
Burlington, where he now resides. His life has been an active one, and he is
today honored and respected by his neighbors and friends.

    Doctor Wood was born on November 7, 1880, and received his early educational
training in the public schools of Coffey county and later attended the high
school at Burlington. After completing his high school work he engaged in
teaching and for one year followed that profession with marked success. In 1897
he entered the medical school of the Kansas University, at Kansas City, this
state, and was graduated from that institution in 1900. He entered the practice
of his profession at Hall Summit, Kansas, where he remained for twelve years. He
then came to Oketo in 1912, and here he has met with much success, and is today
known as one of the prominent men in the profession in the county. He gives care
and attention to his patients and by his professional dignity and close
attention to business, he has won the confidence of the entire community. Some
years ago he took postgraduate work in the University of California, in order to
better prepare himself for his work. His worth as a physician and surgeon has
been recognized by the management of the Union Pacific railroad and is their
district surgeon.

    In 1904 Doctor Wood was united in marriage to Jessie A. Barnard, of Hall
Summit, Kansas, and to them has been born one child, Merrill, aged ten years.
Doctor and Mrs. Wood are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church and
have long been prominent in the social and the religious life of the community,
where they are held in high regard. Mrs. Wood is an excellent woman and by her
kindly disposition has made friends.

    Fraternally, Doctor Wood is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politically, he is identified with the
Republican party and has always taken a keen interest in the affairs of the
community. His worth was recognized in 1915, when he was elected as mayor of the
home town. During his administration, he has given the people of Oketo excellent
government and many reforms and much progress have been made. Today, Oketo with
its enforcement of law and order, excellent streets and splendid walks and its
own electric light plant, is one of the model and progressive towns of the
county. To Doctor Wood is due much of the credit for the new life that has been
inaugurated in the little city.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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