San Francisco County
Biographies
FRED V. WOOD
FRED V. WOOD, of
the law firm of Wood & Sawyer, of Oakland,
was born in Sparta, Wisconsin,
October 6, 1866, a son of
Walter and Ellen M. (Armstrong) Wood, both natives of New
York. After
their marriage in Warsaw, New York,
they moved to Wisconsin. The father, by trade a bricklayer and
builder, enlisted in the Tenth Wisconsin Regiment Volunteer Infantry in 1861,
and served to the close of the war. He
was wounded in the battle of Perryville, and after returning to duty was in the
battle of Murfreesborough. He was taken prisoner at Chickamauga,
and was confined in Richmond, Danville
and Andersonville prisons
nineteen months. He escaped with some
others from Danville, but was
recaptured and held to the close of the war.
In 1885 he came to this coast with his wife and two sons, Fred V. and
Carl Franklin, arriving in Oakland November 3, 1885. He is a member of the Grand Army of the
Republic and of the Masonic order.
Grandfather Armstrong died in Michigan
about 1884, aged ninety-seven.
Fred V. Wood, the
subject of this sketch, received his early education in his native town, and
was graduated at its high school. Soon
after his arrival in Oakland he
became a law student and clerk of Edward C. Robinson, and was admitted from his
office to the bar of the Supreme Court of California, November 12, 1888. He remained with Mr. Robinson until December 1, 1889, when he opened an
office on his own account, and in May, 1890, formed a partnership with F. W.
Sawyer, under the style of Wood & Sawyer.
Mr. Wood is a member of Enterprise Lodge, No. 198, I.O.O.F., and of E.
D. Baker Camp, No. 5, Sons of Veterans.
He was elected Adjutant-General of the California Division Sons of
Veterans in 1889, and Colonel of the same in
1890. He is a young attorney of great
promise, and stands in the front ranks of the junior members of his profession.
Transcribed 8-24-05 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, Page 266, Lewis
Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2005 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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