| LC control no. | n 82132745 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3545.O465 |
| Personal name heading | Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944 |
| Variant(s) | Wood, C. E. S. (Charles Erskine Scott), 1852-1944 |
| See also | Graduate of: United States Military Academy Graduate of: Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Portland (Or.) |
| Birth date | 1852-02-20 |
| Death date | 1944-01-22 |
| Place of birth | Erie (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Los Gatos (Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Soldiers Lawyers Writers Artists |
| Found in | His A masque of love, 1904. Field, S.B. Is this a war for democracy, 1917: t.p. (Col. C.E.S. Wood) [Info. from CU] Wikipedia, Jan. 15, 2016 (Charles Erskine Scott Wood or C.E.S. Wood; born February 20, 1852, Erie, Pa., died January 22, 1944, Los Gatos, Calif.; American author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, attorney, and Georgist) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Erskine_Scott_Wood> Oregon encyclopedia, viewed January 31, 2023 (C.E.S. Wood (1852-1944); Soldier, lawyer, poet, painter, raconteur, bon vivant, politician, free spirit, and Renaissance man; born in Erie, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1852, the son of Rosemary Carson and William Maxwell Wood; graduated from West Point; aide-de-camp to General O.O. Howard in the Nez Perce (1877) and Bannock-Paiute (1878) campaigns; earning a law degree at Columbia University; became a member of the first law firm in Oregon, Durham and Ball, where he specialized in maritime law; Wood and his wife Nanny raised five children ... They had three sons, Erskine, Max, and Berwick, and two daughters, Nan and Lisa; At the age of fifty-eight and estranged from his wife, Wood fell in love with the beautiful poet and suffragist Sara Bard Field Ehrgott; he joined Sara in San Francisco; Wood died just before his ninety-second birthday on January 22, 1944) |
| Associated language | eng |
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