John Wood Is Dead
Long Illness Proves Fatal To President of Iron Works.
Started Is Traced to Modest Jobbing Shop, Established in 1906—Six Children Survive Him.
John Wood, president of the John Wood Iron Works, and one of the oldest representatives of the Iron industry in Portland, died Tuesday at his home, 605 Holly street, after an illness of six months.
Mr. Wood was born at Rhymney, Wales, in England, November 28, 1856. He came to the United States in 1880. Since 1882, when he left Bethlehem, Pa., Mr. Wood had remained in Portland.
In 1900, after having been in charge of the construction of the several torpedo-boats and merchant ships built by the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, he assisted in founding the Columbia Engineering Works. It was due to his constant representations to the stockholders and his persistent enthusiasm that that firm put in operation the first steel foundry on the Pacific Coast, and, in fact, west of St. Louis.
In 1906 Mr. Wood started the John Wood Iron Works, which from a modest jobbing shop he raised, through prudent and painstaking management, to its present standing among the representative industrial establishments of the city.
Mr. Wood is survived by five children from his first wife, who died in 1895—Mrs. Dixon, of Oakland, Cal.; Mrs. H. E. Nelson, of Umatilla, Or.; Mrs. C. A. Schmeer, Mrs. E. H. Wise and Mrs. L. H. Ewing, of Portland—and by a son from his second marriage—John Wood Jr.
[The Oregonian, 14 Jan 1915, p18; w/photo]
Long Illness Proves Fatal To President of Iron Works.
Started Is Traced to Modest Jobbing Shop, Established in 1906—Six Children Survive Him.
John Wood, president of the John Wood Iron Works, and one of the oldest representatives of the Iron industry in Portland, died Tuesday at his home, 605 Holly street, after an illness of six months.
Mr. Wood was born at Rhymney, Wales, in England, November 28, 1856. He came to the United States in 1880. Since 1882, when he left Bethlehem, Pa., Mr. Wood had remained in Portland.
In 1900, after having been in charge of the construction of the several torpedo-boats and merchant ships built by the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, he assisted in founding the Columbia Engineering Works. It was due to his constant representations to the stockholders and his persistent enthusiasm that that firm put in operation the first steel foundry on the Pacific Coast, and, in fact, west of St. Louis.
In 1906 Mr. Wood started the John Wood Iron Works, which from a modest jobbing shop he raised, through prudent and painstaking management, to its present standing among the representative industrial establishments of the city.
Mr. Wood is survived by five children from his first wife, who died in 1895—Mrs. Dixon, of Oakland, Cal.; Mrs. H. E. Nelson, of Umatilla, Or.; Mrs. C. A. Schmeer, Mrs. E. H. Wise and Mrs. L. H. Ewing, of Portland—and by a son from his second marriage—John Wood Jr.
[The Oregonian, 14 Jan 1915, p18; w/photo]
John Wood Is Dead
Long Illness Proves Fatal To President of Iron Works.
Started Is Traced to Modest Jobbing Shop, Established in 1906—Six Children Survive Him.
John Wood, president of the John Wood Iron Works, and one of the oldest representatives of the Iron industry in Portland, died Tuesday at his home, 605 Holly street, after an illness of six months.
Mr. Wood was born at Rhymney, Wales, in England, November 28, 1856. He came to the United States in 1880. Since 1882, when he left Bethlehem, Pa., Mr. Wood had remained in Portland.
In 1900, after having been in charge of the construction of the several torpedo-boats and merchant ships built by the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, he assisted in founding the Columbia Engineering Works. It was due to his constant representations to the stockholders and his persistent enthusiasm that that firm put in operation the first steel foundry on the Pacific Coast, and, in fact, west of St. Louis.
In 1906 Mr. Wood started the John Wood Iron Works, which from a modest jobbing shop he raised, through prudent and painstaking management, to its present standing among the representative industrial establishments of the city.
Mr. Wood is survived by five children from his first wife, who died in 1895—Mrs. Dixon, of Oakland, Cal.; Mrs. H. E. Nelson, of Umatilla, Or.; Mrs. C. A. Schmeer, Mrs. E. H. Wise and Mrs. L. H. Ewing, of Portland—and by a son from his second marriage—John Wood Jr.
[The Oregonian, 14 Jan 1915, p18; w/photo]
Long Illness Proves Fatal To President of Iron Works.
Started Is Traced to Modest Jobbing Shop, Established in 1906—Six Children Survive Him.
John Wood, president of the John Wood Iron Works, and one of the oldest representatives of the Iron industry in Portland, died Tuesday at his home, 605 Holly street, after an illness of six months.
Mr. Wood was born at Rhymney, Wales, in England, November 28, 1856. He came to the United States in 1880. Since 1882, when he left Bethlehem, Pa., Mr. Wood had remained in Portland.
In 1900, after having been in charge of the construction of the several torpedo-boats and merchant ships built by the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, he assisted in founding the Columbia Engineering Works. It was due to his constant representations to the stockholders and his persistent enthusiasm that that firm put in operation the first steel foundry on the Pacific Coast, and, in fact, west of St. Louis.
In 1906 Mr. Wood started the John Wood Iron Works, which from a modest jobbing shop he raised, through prudent and painstaking management, to its present standing among the representative industrial establishments of the city.
Mr. Wood is survived by five children from his first wife, who died in 1895—Mrs. Dixon, of Oakland, Cal.; Mrs. H. E. Nelson, of Umatilla, Or.; Mrs. C. A. Schmeer, Mrs. E. H. Wise and Mrs. L. H. Ewing, of Portland—and by a son from his second marriage—John Wood Jr.
[The Oregonian, 14 Jan 1915, p18; w/photo]
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