Sunday, Jan 11, 1920 page 10 Denver Rocky Mountain News. WOOD, Samuel Newell , Denver capitalist and banker, prominent for years in the financial life of the city, died yesterday noon of heart disease in his home at 1198 Grant Street. Mr. Wood was found unconscious on the floor of his bedroom Friday after he had collapsed while dressing. Medical aid was summoned immediately and Mr. Wood regained consciousness, remaining so until his death, but he did not rally. He had been in ill health for several years, but his condition had never been considered serious until Friday. Born near Jordan, a village of western New York, in 1844. Mr. Wood moved to Syracuse when he was a mere youth and engaged in the mercantile business there. Later he went to Madison, Wis., where he secured employment in a bank. He came to Colorado in 1870 and established connections with the Colorado National Bank, where he became assistant cashier when he was only 26 years old. In 1877, he went to Deadwood, S.D. and organized and promoted several large banking firms. In the early eighties, Mr. Wood returned to Denver and with Henry R. Wolcott, Col. D.C. Dodge and others founded the merchants National Bank, which merged with the First National Bank, a year later. He was made cashier of the institution succeeding George W. Kassler. He owned the controlling interest in the bank until late in the nineties when he sold his holdings to David H. Moffat, his intimate friend, and devoted his time solely to his personal interest. During his life Mr. Wood amassed a large fortune. Early in his career he realized that Denver would grow and thru wise financial investments placed for the most part in banks and financial concerns, he became a millionaire within a few years. During the administration of Gov. Alva Adams, Mr. Wood was a member of the Denver board of public works. He was a member of the Denver club, the Denver Country club and the Denver Athletic club and also held a membership in the Union League clubs of New York and of Chicago. Mr. Wood is survived by his wife, Mrs. Luella Frizell Wood, formally of Butler, MO., to who he was married in 1903. No other immediate relatives survive. Funeral arrangements have not been made