Steuben County, Indiana Biographies

Sol A Woor

Sol A. Wood is one of the representative members of the Allen county bar and is engaged in the successful general practice of law in the city of Fort Wayne. That he holds also the degree of Doctor of Medicine gives evidence of his versatility of talent and also of his broad mental attainments. He has been emphatically a man of ambition and resolute purpose, and in the various stages of his career has shown'that high sense of personal stewardship that ever makes for effective service. Mr. Wood was born in Steuben county, Indiana, on April 11, 1857, a son of Dr. Warren A. and Louvina B. (Thompson) Wood, the former of whom was born at Bainbridge, Chenango county, New York, and the latter in Williams county, Ohio. The father prepared himself thoroughly for the exacting work of the medical profession and was for many years one of the leading physicians of Steuben county, Indiana, where his death occurred in 1868, the subject of this review being the only survivor of their four children. His widow continues to make her home in Angola. Sol A. Wood continued his studies in the public schools until he had profited duly by the advantages of the high school at Angola, the judicial center of his native county. In fortifying himself for the profession that had been dignified and honored by the character and services of his father, he finally entered the Fort Wayne Medical College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1879, and from which he received the desree of Doctor of Medicine. For the ensuing two years he was engaged in successful general practice in Steuben county and was then elected county auditor, a position of which he continued the incumbent for eight years. Within this period he gave close attention to the study of law and after his retirement from office and his admission to the bar was for two years associated with Judge Frank Roby in the general practice of law at Angola. At the expiration of the period noted the partnership alliance was dissolved, and thereafter he continued in the independent practice of law at Angola, where he built up a substantial law business to which he gave his attention until 1901, when he found a broader field of professional endeavor by establishing his residence in the city of Fort Wayne. For two years he was here a member of the law firm of Gilbert, Berghoff & Wood, and since that time has controlled a representative general practice of representative order. He has served as referee in bankruptcy for North Eastern Indiana, embracing eleven counties, since 1905, but has otherwise given his undivided attention to the demands of his substantial law business, in connection with which he is known as a resourceful trial lawyer and able and reliable counselor. Dr. Wood gives unqualified allegiance to the Republican party and has been a loyal advocate of its principles and policies. He is an active member of the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, is identified with the Fort Wayne Commercial Club, has received in the Masonic fraternity the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being affiliated with the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church. On April 10, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wood to Miss May Huss, of Wheeling, West Virginia, she being a daughter of John and Emeline Huss, both of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have two children—Carver C., who now resides in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Harold L., who has established his residence in Louisville, Kentucky. Source: The pictorial history of Fort Wayne, Indiana: a review of two ..., Volume 2  By Bert Joseph Griswold, Samuel R. Taylor

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