Wood, Alexander

WOOD

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Date: 9/21/2019 at 17:09:44

Alexander Wood

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.539)
ALEXANDER WOOD, Alderman at large, and a resident of the First Ward of Council Bluffs, was elected to his present position first in 1882, serving two years, and was re-elected in March 1890. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1836, a son of James and Jennie (GLASS) WOOD, both of Scotch descent. The parents died when Alexander was quite young, and he went to live with an uncle in Ayrshire, Scotland, where he made his home until he reached his majority. He then came to America, locating at Florence, Nebraska, and in 1870 came to Council Bluffs, where he has since made his home. Shortly after he came to this county, he established a vineyard of 12 acres and an orchard of 2 acres in the corporate limits of Council Bluffs. The average yield of this place is about 6,000 pounds to the acre, and he has turned his whole attention to horticulture, and has made a decided success. He is a live, energetic businessman, and strives to promote the welfare of the public good. He affiliates with the Republican party, and is a member of the Western Iowa Horticultural Society, and also of the Pottawattamie County Fruit Growers’ Society.

Mr. WOOD was married in 1870 to Mrs. PYPER, nee Ellen WATSON, a native of Ayrshire, Scotland. She had one child by her former marriage, William PYPER.