Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Wood, A. A. 1854 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    REV. A. A. WOOD, pastor of the Congregational church of Faulkton, was born

in Scott township, Wisconsin, April 28th, 1854. He spent his boyhood days on a

farm. On the death of his father in 1866 the farm was sold and the family moved

to Milwaukee. Here the author of our sketch spent four years as an employe in

the rolling mills of that city, after which he went to Oberlin, Ohio, where he

began a seven years' course of study—three in the academy and four in the

college proper—graduating in 1882 with A. B. degree. After spending three years

in the capacity of Superintendent of schools, he began a theological course in

the Boston University, graduating in 1888 with the S. T. B. degree, having

previously received the A. M. degree from Oberlin college. On graduating in

theology he immediately returned to Wisconsin where he began the work of a

Methodist minister, uniting with the Wisconsin M. E. conference in the fall of

that year.



    On December 18th, 1889, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Philpot of

Milwaukee, who is still his popular and helpful companion. After a few years in

the active work of the ministry that ever present thirst for knowledge for a

broader education became so overmastering that he secured a leave of absence

from the conference, releasing him from the active work for a season, with the

result that he at once began at the University of Chicago, an extended course of

four years in philosophy, psychology and kindred studies leading to the Ph. D.

degree.



    Mr. Wood enjoys the honor of having worked his way through the entire

fourteen years of college and university study.



    The impression grew upon him that he was better adapted to the independence

of the Congregational fold; hence in the fall of 1899 he secured from the

Wisconsin M, E. conference the customary "certificate of location" with which,

and other credentials, he united with the Congregational denomination in the

spring of 1900.



    On January 2nd, 1909 he received a unanimous call to the pastorate of the

Faulkton church, and entered upon .his work January 31st.



    He brings to the Faulkton field an extraordinary scholarship, a large and

successful experience in the ministry.





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