Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wood, O. Scott 1915
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Unidentified Publication, 1915

Pioneer Business Man and Always Active Citizen Passes Into the Great Eternal
Beyond - Merchant In Ionia In Early Life.

O. Scott Wood died at 2 o’clock on Sunday morning, not entirely unexpected, for
life had been hanging by the merest thread for the several preceding days.  Mr.
Wood had been a semi-invalid for about a year, and a month ago his condition
became serious, and he remained at home, performing his directory work from
there, but with characteristic pluck he braved the severe weather a day or two
week before last, and spent a portion of the time at his desk in the Electric
office, and while the effort perhaps did not hasten death, there was an apparent
relapse, and he grew steadily weaker.

O. Scott Wood was born in Muskegon county, Michigan, in 1850.  He came to Ionia
from Paw Paw, Mich., while yet a mere boy, and in 1870, under the age of 20
years, he became a member of the dry goods firm of Cooper, Wilson & Wood, which
firm succeeded Cooper & Northrop, for whom he clerked.  Upon the retirement of
this firm from business, in the days when lumbering was the one big industry in
this section, he went to Sheridan, where he conducted a general store for a
time, but in three years returned to Ionia, which city has been his home town
continuously since.

For the fifteen years last past he has been the directing head of the Ionia
Electric and Water Power Company, following the reorganization by Hon. H.R.
Wagar, beginning his career with the company as book-keeper, and finally
becoming the managing head of the large concern, which has developed into a
profitable business as well as a business of considerable magnitude.

He was a business man of keen and even judgment, and backed it with a confidence
which was indomitable and unwavering, and in his every relation he was possessed
of the best ethical ideas. 

The sole surviving member of the family is the wife, whom he married in 1873 as
Clara E. Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Smith, their only child, a
son, having died some years ago in his ‘teens.

Deceased was a member of the Masonic fraternities, a Knight Templar and a
Shriner, and was also an Elk.

Funeral services on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, at the late home, 236 East
Washington street, Rev. A.R. Mitchell officiating, assisted by Rev. Cyrus
Mendenhall.  The remains will be placed in the Wagar mausoleum in Highland Park.

Friends are asked to please omit flowers.


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