WI BIO - Dane Co - WOOD, William S.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, p 435

William S. WOOD, engaged in the leaf tobacco business in Stoughton [Dane 
County, Wisconsin], was born in Stanstead County, Canada on 31 December 1852 
[Stanstead, at that time in Canada East, is just across the Vermont-Canada 
line in Quebec], a son of Hiram O. and Lucy A. (WHEELER) WOOD, also natives 
of that county. The father's people came from England, and the mother's from 
Montpelier [Washington County], Vermont. The parents were married in Canada, 
and reared a family of six children, four sons and two daughters. The father 
[Hiram O. WOOD], a farmer by occupation, died in 1860.

William S. WOOD, the subject of this sketch, attended school until fourteen 
years of age, and then began work in an hotel in Coaticook [Quebec] Canada, 
where he remained until 1874. He then remained two years in Milwaukee 
[Milwaukee County, Wisconsin]; in 1876 took charge of the Lake George Hotel, 
at Lake George [Warren County], New York; the following summer went to 
Faribault [Rice County, Minnesota]; in December 1876 engaged in general 
merchandising with his brother, George, at Stoughton [Dane County, 
Wisconsin], under the firm name of Wood Brothers, and in 1880 our subject 
[William S. WOOD] sold his interest and began keeping the Houston House of 
this city [Stoughton]. Since 1882 he has been in the employ of A. COHN & 
Company, of New York, in buying Wisconsin leaf tobacco. Mr. [William S.] 
WOOD takes no active interest in politics, but votes with the Republican 
party. He has served as Alderman of the Second Ward of Stoughton two terms, 
and is also Chief of the fire department of Stoughton. Socially he holds the 
office of P. C. of the K. of P. [Past Commander of the Knights of Pythias].

On 10 September 1884, Mr. [William S.] WOOD was united in marriage with 
Carrie PIERPONT, who was born in Two Rivers [Manitowoc County], Wisconsin, 17 
August 1857, a daughter of Hon. H. S. and Lidia A. (GARDNER) PIERPONT, 
natives of New York. The father was a lawyer by profession. Our subject and 
his wife [William S. and Carrie (PIERPONT) WOOD] have two children: Hiram 
O., born 12 February 1886; and Pierpont, [born] 12 August 1890. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly