Ernest H. Wood Biography


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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 938-939

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ERNEST H. WOOD, county superintendent of schools of Jerauld county, is 
one of the rising young men of South Dakota. He has not yet passed his 
twenty fifth year, but his efficient work in the instruction of young 
minds, and his management of the educational matters entrusted to him, 
have given him a high rank as a gentleman of intellectual ability and 
honor. Mr. Wood was born in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1874. His father 
was a native of Vermont and was a carpenter by trade, and followed 
contracting and building. His mother was a native of New York, and his 
parents were united in marriage in Wisconsin. The family lived in 
Minnesota, and later in Wisconsin. and from there came to Dakota in 
1882. At the time they settled in Beadle county there was but one other 
family in the vicinity. 

Our subject received a liberal education in the public schools of 
Minnesota and Dakota and the high school of Janesville, Wisconsin. His 
father engaged in the hardware business in Alpena, Jerauld county, in 
1894, and our subject divided his time between clerking in his father's 
store and teaching. He entered the school room as instructor at the age 
of seventeen years, and rapidly became a favorite with officers and 
scholars alike. He was elected to his present position in 1898, and is 
discharging the duties of his office in a manner satisfactory to all 
and credit to himself. The fact of his being the first Republican 
elected to that office during the past ten or more years, and also by 
the largest majority of any candidate elected in the county, evidenced 
his popularity. 

Mr. Wood is a man who is thoroughly awake to the matters most important 
for the welfare of the people, and he takes an active part in political 
affairs. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.