The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-05
warren B. WOOD
ANSWERS LAST
CALL
Distinguished Citizen Died at
His Home Yesterday Even.
ing at 6 O'Clock.
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE
Was q Prominent Business
Man and Widely Known
in State.

The pale horse and his rider passed
this way last evening and laid the
hand OF death heavily upon one of the
most honored and respected citizens
of this city, when Warren Bennett
Wood answered the cali Of the Master
of the universe to pass the tide water
of eternity. After brief illness of
two weeks. he passed peacefully to
the great unknown at o'clock last
evening. While he had been confined
to his rooms for several days he was
not thought to be in any danger and was
even planning to get down stairs,
when stroke of apoplexy yesterday
morning rendered him unconscious for
some time, and while he rallied later
in the day, it was evident from the
time the stroke came that his death
was only a matter of few hours at
least.
He was born in Portage county,
Wisconsin, November 26, 1858, and was
therefore past 4S years Of age. At an
early age he was left an orphan. his
father having been killed while fight
ing at the front in the union army in
1862, and his mothers death follow
ing the next year at her old home in
New York. At the age of six years he
was sent to Wisconsin and placed in
the care of guardian with whom he
grew to manhood. He was educated in
the common schools of that state, and
while he rapidly absorbed all the adj
vaatages which they afforded they
did not satisfy his ambition and he
grew to manhood a broad-minded,
though self educated man. He came to
Grand Forks in 1880, and has made
his home in this community ever since.
For several years he was engaged In
the business Of farm real estate and
loans for the Corbin Banking company
Of New York, one Of the greatest
banking houses Of the east which was
identified with the early development
Of the northwest. He was elected to
the lower branch of the state legis-
lature in 1894 and reelected In 1896,
serving in both sessions with marked
distinction. He was the author OF
the Wood law, and while he was con-
sentative in his advocacy of measures,
he is remembered by the men who
served with him as wise and safe
counselor and man thoroughly de-
voted to the interests of his consti-
tuents and the state. In 1898 he
formed business partnership with ].
D. Bacon and they erected the Da-
cotah hotel of the city. Mr.. Wood has
been giving much of his personal at
tention during the last few years to
the business Of the hotel, but has a
number of other investments and bust
nesses.
He. was married In 1884 to Miss Dora
Tabor of Wisconsin, who with a
daughter, Miss Viola M, born Decem-
Der Is, 1891, survives him. His home
in the Dacotah has been the gathering
place Of many of the leading men of
the state and the kindly and generous
hospitality which has greeted every
one who passed the portals has made
it one of the most popular homes in
the state.
Mr.. Wood was lodge man of con-
siderable importance. He was men,
Der Of the Elks, the X. p, the Masons
and the Woodmen. In his death the
community loses one of its truly, re-
spected and we'll beloved citizen.
When the casket which contains all
that Is mortal of Warren Bennett
Woods is consigned to the eternal en-
brace Of mother earth, the heads of
hundreds of friends will bow reverent-
ly and sadly, and the tears of sorrow
will abundantly flow for the memory of
one Of the truest and bravest friends
that. it Is possible to have in this
life, and IL there is an enemy he too
will bow reverently. at the bier of a
man who never struck in the dark
and was as manly and generous to foe
as he was true and loyal to friend.
He will be missed In the community in
which his life-work has been made,
and in the immediate circle of his
home vacancy will be found which
truly can never be filled. If the SYM
patty of the friends could lift the bur-
den of sorrow from the loved ones he
has left behind it would be done. But
no sympathy however profound, can
fill the place of the tender and loving
husband and the devoted father who
has passed the portals which separate
eternity from time.
The funeral wilhbe held tomorrow
at 3 o'clock in the parlors of the Da-
cotah. The funeral sermon will be
preached by Rev. DR.. Frank Harper
Hayes of Chicago, and the obsequies
will be in charge of B. P. o. E. No. 255.
The pail bearers will be Steve Collins,
VIM. Bulge, State Auditor H. L.
Holmes Of Bathgate, Secretary of State
E F.. Porter of Bismarck, State Sena-
tor A. D. Stevens of Crookston, Min
nesota and w. H. Kelsey. The re-
mains can be viewed by friends from
10 o'clock a. m. to 2 O'Clock p. nj. at
the Dacotah parlors.
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