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Submitted: 4/12/14 • Approved: 4/12/14 • Last Updated: 4/19/18 • R67315-G67314-S3
Monument:
Bronze plaque on front of monument:
ERWIN E. WOOD
BORN ON FARM IN PLAINFIELD FEB. 6, 1848
1860 - 1863 STUDENT NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE
1864 PRIVATE COMPANY C, 32 D ILLINOIS
VOLUNTEERS CIVIL WAR
1865 - 1870 STUDENT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
1870 - 1873 EDITOR & PUBLISHER NEWS COVINGTON, NEB.
1872 MARRIED MISS THERESA A. FRISBIE, CHICAGO
1874 - 80 EDITOR ON CHICAGO EVENING JOURNAL
1876 - 80 WEST CHICAGO PARK COMMISSIONER
1879 - 81 CHARTER MEMBER CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE
1882 - 83 MEMBER ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1885 - 86 U. S. COMMISSIONER NEW ORLEANS WORLD EXHIBITION
1886 - 87 EDITOR NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER
SEC'Y CHICAGO OUTER BELT E. J. & E. Railway
1898 ADJUTANT FIRST REGIMENT ILLINOIS
VOLUNTEERS, SPANISH WAR
1907 - 1908 EDITOR "BIT AND SPUR", LONDON AND CHICAGO
1909 - 1916 FARMER & AUTHOR, "Woodfarm" Homestead
1917 SEAGT. COMMANDING U. S. ARMY
RECRUITING STATION, GRANT PARK, CHICAGO DISTRICT WORLD WAR
1918 - 1925 FIELD SEC'Y CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1919 - 1921 COMMANDER HISTORICAL POST NO. 64, STATE HISTORIAN AMERICAN LEGION
1921 - 1924 MEMBER FACULTY CHI. LAW SCHOOL,
CHAIR OF DIPLOMACY
1922 - OCT. 9, GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
WITH TRUST UNFALTERING WE WAIT
At base of stone:
WOOD
Headstone:
TRELTON, ERNA, THERESA, ERWIN
Note: There is a bronze bust of Erwin at the top of the monument.
Section B
Contributed on 4/12/14 by pasteffen99
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