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Marin Journal
Thursday, August 2, 1917

Marin Loses One Of Foremost Men

One of Marin county’s wealthiest and most prominent men was taken by death Monday with the passing of E. K. Wood, president and heaviest stockholder in the E. K. Wood Lumber and Mill Company.

Ill for more than six months, t here had been small hope held by his sorrowing family for his recovery. He was 77 years, 5 months and 13 days old.

He had returned from a sanitarium at St. Helena a few weeks ago, where he had gone for the benefit of his health.

Mr. Wood’s life was successful in the full meaning of the term. Through exercise of his naturally endowed business talent he had attainted a high position in the esteem of big business men and had amassed a fortune which ranks with those of the wealthy men of the state.

Born in 1840 in New York, he enlisted in 1861 in Company K, Seventeenth New York Volunteer Infantry, and served to an honorable discharge in 1863 with the northern army in the Civil War. Shortly after the war he engaged in the lumber business. The E. K. Wood Lumber Company now owns great plants in t his state and in Washington with the offices, yards and mills located at Bellingham, Washington; San Pedro, Los Angeles, Oakland, Fresno, San Rafael, San Anselmo, and San Francisco.

For many years past he has been a liberal contributor to charity and has taken a keen interest in the civic betterment of the communities in which his great interests were located. He had done much t o aid the Presbyterian Orphanage.

He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Marian S. Wood, and two sons, Frederick J. Wood, of Bellingham, and Walter T. Wood, of Berkeley.

The funeral was held yesterday at the San Anselmo home under the direction of Dr. F. E. Sawyer, and splendid tributes were paid to the character of the deceased by Dr. Landon, of the Theological Seminary and Rev. Duncan. There was an unusually large attendance at the services. The interment was private at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.