He never played golf, he said, because he was always seeking mushrooms on the fairways. City Manager William R. Hopkins, a lifelong friend of Stewart's visited him recently and received Stewart's well wishes for his fight to keep the city manager government for Cleveland. The widow, Laura Meriam Stewart, and six children survive. The children are Vance of New York, Paul M. of Portland, Ore., Mrs. Louis S. Carpenter, Montclair, N. J., Miss Virda Stewart, Orr Nash Stewart and Mrs. Peter Reed of Cleveland. Miss Virda Stewart is active in affairs of the Play House and the Adult Education Association of Cleveland. Mr. Stewart was a member of the Union and Country Clubs, and the Tippecanoe Club, honorary president of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, president of the Early Settlers' Association and a member of the Church of the Covenant. JAMES WOOD James Wood, long a member of the Early Settlers' Association, was born at Gravesend, England, in 1848, and came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Wood, to Cleveland, Ohio, at an early age. Arriving at manhood he became a member of the firm, headed by his father, of S. Wood and Sons and at a later period of the firm of Wood Brothers, construction contractors. During his active business career covering some fifty years. he was engaged in some of the most important sewer and other construction work in Cleveland. Among building construction the firm built the United Bank building at Lorain and West 25th Street, which has recently been replaced by the new building. Mr. Wood was a member of The Cleveland Engineering Society, The Chamber of Commerce, The Real Estate Board, The City Club, and was a member and Honorary Vice President of The Tippecanoe Club Company. During his active business career he did much work for Mr. John D. Rockefeller and often related his experience with him illustrating Mr. Rockefeller's integrity, exactness, and carefulness to the minute in meeting his appointments. His principal recreation was hunting and travel and he had a great fund of information drawn from his many tours and hunting trips. He is survived by his widow, formerly Miss Elizabeth Theobald, a daughter, Mrs. Fred Dresskell of Cleveland, a sister, Mrs. Walter Hanna of Columbus, Ohio, and two brothers, Thomas and Charles Wood. Henry W. S. Wood, President of the United Bank and another brother Walter Wood died some years ago. Mr. Wood died at his home at 1911 East 89th Street after a short illness on March 19th, 1928, at the age of eighty years. Antisdale, Mrs. Stella M. 1505 Rydalmount Rd., Cleve. Hts. Birth Baehr, Hon. Herman C. 1400 W. 25th St. 1866 Bartlett, Emma R. Beardsley, Joseph C. 4400 Euclid Ave. Brecksville, O. Brecksville, O. 1853 1851 1867 Black, Mrs. W. F. |