Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Wood, Berwick B. 1887 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com May 15, 2009, 9:14 pm

Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     BERWICK B. WOOD is one of the leading bond and investment dealers of 
Portland and possesses an intimate knowledge of industrial, commercial and 
public utility conditions, which enables him to render valuable service to his 
clients, who necessarily must to a very large extent rely on his judgment, and 
his record in the relation of an advisor in financial affairs has gained him a 
high place in public confidence.

     Mr. Wood was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1887, and is a son of C. E. S. 
and Nanny (Smith) Wood. He received his preliminary education in the Portland 
Academy and, after graduating, entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, 
from which he was graduated in 1911. On his return to the coast he located in 
eastern Oregon, where he was successfully engaged in farming until 1920, when 
he returned to Portland and for three years was connected with the Blythe-
Witter Company, at the end of which period he formed a partnership with Scott 
Redfield, under the firm name of Redfield & Wood, and they have since 
specialized in the handling of investment bonds and preferred stocks, in which 
they have met with a large measure of success, having gained a well earned 
reputation as one of the most reliable and dependable concerns in their line 
in this section of the state. They have built up a large business and employ 
two assistants in the office.

     In 1911 Mr. Wood was united in marriage to Miss Alice Howe, a daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Howe, of Carlton, Yamhill county, this state. To this union 
have been born three children, Addison, Bryson and Elizabeth.

     Mr. Wood maintains an independent attitude in political affairs and is a 
member of the Chi Phi college fraternity, the University Club, the Arlington 
Club, and the Multnomah Club, of which he is a life member. In all of his 
business relations he is candid and straightforward, is actuated by a sincere 
desire to be of real service to those who deal with him, and has established 
himself firmly in the esteem of his fellowmen, while in social circles he is 
extremely popular.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
686



File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/wood639gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/

File size: 2.8 Kb