Wood Joseph Jr.

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Biografie:
geboren in Pittsburgh/Pa (USA)
gestorben in Horsham/Pa. (USA)

Joseph Wood, Jr. (1890 – 1958)
Joseph Wood, Jr., was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 7, 1890, and died at his home, Jebelwadi Farms, Horsham, Pa., on October 7, 1958. He was the son of Joseph Wood, an official of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Jennie (Boas) Wood. He married Nancy Correy Smith, June 17, 1915.
He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N .H., and graduated from Yale (Sheffield Scientific School) in 1911. In Army Air Service, Sept. 1917 to Jan. 1919, first at Aerial Observation, Post Field, and School of Fire, Fort Sill, Okla., then transferring to Washington, D.C., to co-ordinate instruction in Observation Schools at Tours and Chatillon-sur-Seine. Assigned to active duty with 1st Observation Squadron, 1st Army; contact patrol with 35th, 1st and 42nd Divisions during Argonne battle; recommended for Majority ; Croix de Guerre (1919)·
A life-long friend and climbing companion of W. Symmes Richardsan (A.J. 25. 524), with whom he climbed in the Alps in 1914. Wood had travelled in North Africa and western Kashmir, and also visited the volcanoes of Java. In 1925 he enjoyed a season of remarkable climbs in the Dolomites.
He operated his model farms, but also lived for long periods in Europe, often at Gstaad. He was a competent skier and between 1922-30 made winter ascents on ski of about one hundred minor peaks in the Oberland and other districts of Switzerland. He was a skilled artist and had experimented with lithography. Elected to the American Alpine Club in 1915 on the basis of two long seasons in the Chamonix and Zermatt areas, he joined the Alpine Club in 1924.
J. Monroe Thorington
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 64. Nr. 298, 1959, Seite 106-107


Geboren am:
07.03.1890
Gestorben am:
07.10.1958