Curtis A. Wood (1855-1945)

WOOD, CORY, BEATTY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/28/2023 at 17:25:00

From Nevada Evening Journal January 29, 1945 (page 4)

Curtis A. Wood Died Saturday, Burial Tuesday

Curtis A. Wood of Iowa Center, 89, oldest native son of Story county, and former resident of Nevada, passed away on Saturday morning at 10:40 a. m. at the University hospital in Iowa City after a brief illness.

Funeral services will be held from the home in Iowa Center Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m. with the Rev. C. R. Fitz of the Maxwell Methodist church in charge of services. Burial will be in the Nevada cemetery.

Mr. Wood was a son of the late Wm. K. and Malinda Cory Wood, who located in Iowa Center in 1849. He was born to them on Oct. 9, 1855 and spent his boyhood and young manhood in that section of the county. He attended the Iowa Center Schools and later in Des Moines.

Mr. Wood became familiar with the duties of farm life at a very early period, his father being a well-to-do agriculturalist. He entered Iowa State college in 8172 where he continued to pursue his studies until graduation in the spring of 1876.

He immediately began buying and shipping stock to Chicago, an enterprise which he continued to within a short time before his death.

He was married Sept 13, 1877 to Miss Rose E. Beatty at Leesburg, Indiana. Returning to Iowa Center Mr. and Mrs. Wood established their home and Mr. Wood taught school after which he launched out in the buying and selling of livestock until being elected Sheriff in 1887. With their two sons Claude, born in 1878 and Walter, born in 1880, they moved to Nevada before the first of January, 1888 when Mr. Wood assumed the duties of the office.

After serving Story County very capably as sheriff for four years Mr. Wood and his family remained in Nevada in the home at 922 Fifth street, now owned by Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Warrick. During this time Mr. Wood was on the road in the livestock business.

During the year 1900 the son Claude who had become a graduate dentist, passed away and the nest year the hoe was transferred to Chicago. There Mr. Wood engaged in the livestock commission business which he continued for 27 years. During this time he was associated with his son Walter in the commission business known as Wood and Son.

Seventeen years ago, seeking more ease and retirement, Mr. and Mrs. Wood returned to Iowa Center and built and established their home in comfortable cottage in the brow of the hill overlooking Indian Creek and within a short distance of the old Wood homestead.

He is survived by his wife, Rose Beatty Wood and one son, Walter R. Wood.

Perhaps no man in Story county enjoyed so wide an acquaintance as Mr. Wood. His friends were legion.

Mr. Wood entered the University hospital in Iowa City on January 16 and passed away at the hospital on Saturday morning, Jan. 27.