(born 4 June 1845; dead by 1912), banker. Born in GC. Parents: Joseph S. Wood and his wife Helen McVichie or Ellen McVicar, or, by another account, Joseph Wood and his wife Jane Sutherland. He settled in Iron Mountain, Mich., in 1887, having previously prospected for minerals and been a mine manager, presumably in Michigan. Besides being president, probably from 1887, of the First National Bank at Iron Mountain, Mich., he was also one of the founders in 1887 of the Peninsula Bank at Ishpeming, Mich. He was married to Bessie Houston of Chatham, Ont. For the family background of John R. Wood, see also the life of his brother James Wood.

W. R. Nursey, The Menominee Iron Range (1891), 40-41, 88-89, portrait * M. L. Dulan and W. J. Cummings, Born from Iron: Iron Mountain, Michigan (1979?) * Dickinson County Library and the Menominee Range Historical Foundation Museum, A Historic Path through Downtown Iron Mountain (1980) * B. H. Boyum, The Peninsula Bank 1887-1987 (1987) * “Peninsula Bank Forty Years Old,” Daily Mining Journal (Marquette, Mich.), 27 Oct. 1927 * entries for First National Bank at Iron Mountain (“John R. Wood pres”), in Michigan State Gazetteer, 1889-1895 * Ross, Lancaster, 212 * Fraser, Gravestones, II, 214 (parents?) * autobiographical data sheet, compiled 1923, for his brother Joseph Wood (born at Lancaster, GC, 1843), in collections of Marquette County Historical Society, Marquette, Mich.