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William Barry Wood Sr.

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William Barry Wood Sr.

Birth
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
29 May 1948 (aged 68)
Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
Burial
Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Caladium Path, Lot #4327
Memorial ID
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Son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Lowell Hancock (Moriarty) Wood. Husband of Emily Niles (Lockwood) Wood.
Attended Hopkinson School in Boston. He received his Bachelors of Science degree, in General Science, at Harvard in 1902. While at Harvard, he played varsity baseball and football.
He married at the Church of Our Redeemer in Lexington, Massachusetts on June 1, 1907, with Reverend William H.P. Hatch officiating.
He at one time held residence at Canton Avenue and Adams Street in Milton and had a summer residence on Hatherly Road in Scituate.
He had worked in the banking business briefly for E.C. Stanwood and Company in Boston and had worked in the cotton business for E.A. Shaw and Company in Boston. Continuing in the business involving the manufacturing of cotton goods, Mr. Wood became treasurer in the office of the Continental Mills at 31 Bedford Street in Boston with mills along the Androscoggin River at Lewiston, Maine.
Vice-Commodore of the Scituate Harbor Yacht Club.
Wood Avenue, off Hatherly Road and near Egypt Beach in Scituate, is named in his honor.
He enjoyed playing golf, tennis, and squash.
Member of the Exchange Club, Harvard Club, and Episcopalian Club in Boston; Milton Club; Scituate Yacht Club; Cohasset Golf Club; and the Hoosic-Whisick Club in Ponkapoag.

1880 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YYB-PWW?mode=g&i=52&cc=1417683
Son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Lowell Hancock (Moriarty) Wood. Husband of Emily Niles (Lockwood) Wood.
Attended Hopkinson School in Boston. He received his Bachelors of Science degree, in General Science, at Harvard in 1902. While at Harvard, he played varsity baseball and football.
He married at the Church of Our Redeemer in Lexington, Massachusetts on June 1, 1907, with Reverend William H.P. Hatch officiating.
He at one time held residence at Canton Avenue and Adams Street in Milton and had a summer residence on Hatherly Road in Scituate.
He had worked in the banking business briefly for E.C. Stanwood and Company in Boston and had worked in the cotton business for E.A. Shaw and Company in Boston. Continuing in the business involving the manufacturing of cotton goods, Mr. Wood became treasurer in the office of the Continental Mills at 31 Bedford Street in Boston with mills along the Androscoggin River at Lewiston, Maine.
Vice-Commodore of the Scituate Harbor Yacht Club.
Wood Avenue, off Hatherly Road and near Egypt Beach in Scituate, is named in his honor.
He enjoyed playing golf, tennis, and squash.
Member of the Exchange Club, Harvard Club, and Episcopalian Club in Boston; Milton Club; Scituate Yacht Club; Cohasset Golf Club; and the Hoosic-Whisick Club in Ponkapoag.

1880 U.S. Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YYB-PWW?mode=g&i=52&cc=1417683

Inscription

WOOD
Charles Henry Wood
1843-1923
Elizabeth Lowell Hancock Moriarty Wood
1844-1929
William Barry Wood
1879-1948
Emily Niles Lockwood Wood
1880-1956



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  • Created by: John Anderson
  • Added: Nov 4, 2008
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31127367/william_barry-wood: accessed ), memorial page for William Barry Wood Sr. (5 Oct 1879–29 May 1948), Find a Grave Memorial ID 31127367, citing Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by John Anderson (contributor 46511536).