Turner County, SD Biographies.....Wood, W. R. 26 1859 - October
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OIF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

W. R. WOOD. Among the enterprising business men of Turner county there is probably
none so well known as the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. Mr. Wood was born
in Green Lake county, Wis., October 26, 1859, and is a son of Norman I. and Julia
(Welliver) Wood. The former is a native of New York and came to Wisconsin at an
early day, settling in Green Lake county, where he was one of the pioneers. He was a
farmer by occupation, and of Mohawk-Dutch descent. His wife was born in
Pennsylvania, of Pennsylvania-Dutch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are still living on
the old homestead in Green Lake county, Wis., and are the parents of four children,
viz.: Charles A., W. R., the subject of this biography, Bert N., and Ella, now the
wife of Harry L. Vesper, of Green Lake county, Wis.

W. R. Wood was the second child in order of birth, and passed his minority in his
native county, attending the common schools of the district, and later for three
years was a student at the Oshkosh State Normal school. After the completion of his
studies he located in Winterset, Iowa, where he remained for a year and then removed
to Sanborn, same state, as an agent in the lumber business. In the fall of 1883 he
came to Parker, Turner county, and engaged in the lumber business here as agent and
manager of the Oshkosh Lumber company. This he continued for five years and in 1888
bought a half interest in the company’s yards at Alexandria and Parker, the firm
name being changed from that time on to W. R. Wood & Co. Beside this business Mr.
Wood bought, February 12, 1895, Mr. Vale P. Thielman’s abstract, loan and
real-estate business, which he also conducts under the name of W. R. Wood & Co. In
this connection it might be stated that the abstract books purchased of Mr. Thielman
were the only records of the kind in the county at the time of the destruction of
the court house by fire, March 24, 1890. This conflagration also destroyed all of
book “N” of mortgages, with over eleven hundred transfers, and plat record No. 1,
containing all the town plats. Mr. Wood, therefore, has the only true and complete
set of abstract books in the county, and for these he paid a neat sum of money.


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