Career
Stephen Mosher Wood was born at Mount Gilead, Ohio, June 10, 1832, to David and Esther Ward (Mosher) Wood. Mr. Wood married Caroline Halsey Breese on the 22nd of May 1853 and was the father of Wallace Alfred Wood, Clarence David Wood, Carrie Wood and Sidney Breese Wood. Stephen M. Wood was appointed a Regent of the Kansas State Agricultural College in 1877, and reappointed in 1880.
Mr.
Wood also donated the land for the State Young Men’s Christian Association camp south of Elmdale, Kansas which now bears his name.
