WOOD, James W - Col

WOOD

Posted By: Mary E Boyer <mebgen@yahoo.com>
Date: 2/15/2007 at 12:55:33

COLONEL JAMES W WOOD
(1883 History of Bremer County - page 861)

COLONEL JAMES W. WOOD located in Waverly in 1868, and became a member of the Bar of Bremer County, remaining for a number of years. He is now located at Steamboat Rock, in Hardin County. He is one of the oldest settlers and the oldest practicing attorney in the State of Iowa. He was born in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, April 30, 1800. He was admitted to the Bar at Lewisburg, Virginia, in March, 1827, and immediately came west and located in Illinois, where he practiced law for some years, and was contemporaneous with Lincoln, Douglas, Baker, Shields, Trumbull, Browning, Walker and others of the most prominent men of the State. In 1853, in the company with five others, he crossed the Mississippi near where Burlington now stands, and built a cabin, but did not make a permanent settlement until 1834. In 1837, he was appointed the first city solicitor of Burlington, and was secretary of the first senate, in 1846-7. From 1847 to 1854, he was clerk of the Supreme Court of Iowa. The Colonel has always taken a part in the politics of the State, and has been a democrat in the strictest sense.

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