Asa Wood

Asa Butler Wood (August 26, 1865 - May 7, 1945) was an American politician and newspaper publisher, serving as a state senator in the U.S. state of Nebraska from 1924 to 1930.

Life

Born in Wapello County, Iowa. Wood entered the newspaper business as a printer in his teens.[1] In 1887, at the age of 21,[2] he founded the Gering Courier, a newspaper he ran until his death in 1945.[1] He was known as "the dean of the newspapermen of the Nebraska Panhandle,”[1] and was at one time president of the Nebraska Press Association.[3] He was also a breeder of cattle,[4] and, like many publishers of that time, the local postmaster.[5][6]

In 1925, he was elected state senator of Nebraska's Thirty-third District.[7] He served as a Republican senator through 1930, and was known as an advocate of clean government and irrigation policy.[2][7]

Described as a "walking encyclopedia" of western Nebraska history,[5] he served as president of the Nebraska Historical Society from 1936 to 1938.[1]

He left the Courier to his son, Warren Wood, on his death in 1945.[5]

References
  1. "A B Wood". Nebraska History. Nebraska Historical Society. 26: 52–53. 1945.
  2. "Asa B. Wood". Lincoln Journal Star. 8 May 1945. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  3. "Editor Becomes Candidate". Lincoln Journal Star. 18 May 1922. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  4. "Editor Becomes Candidate (cont'd)". Lincoln Journal Star. 18 May 1922. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  5. "Publisher at Gering Dies". The Lincoln Star. 8 May 1945. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  6. Shumway, Grant Lee (1921). History of Western Nebraska and Its People: General History. Cheyenne, Box Butte, Deuel, Garden, Sioux, Kimball, Morrill, Sheridan, Scotts Bluff, Banner, and Dawes Counties. A Group Often Called the Panhandle of Nebraska. Western publishing & engraving Company. p. 334. Asa B. Wood.
  7. Nebraska Blue Book, 1930. Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska. Legislative Reference Bureau. 1930. p. 270.
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