[2] He was also heavily involved in the Arizona State Fair, was a Maricopa County under-sheriff, had a real estate company, and was postmaster of Phoenix.

[9] Wood resigned as from the state fair committee in 1914, and its success during his two year tenure was credited largely to him.

[11] Shortly after, on October 31, 1915, Wood died in a house fire at his home on Black Canyon Pike.

[18] He sponsored a bill signed into law which created a state home for the destitute, homeless, depraved women and abandoned children, and established a funding appropriation for same.

[19] During the legislative term, he broke ranks with his fellow Maricopan, Davis, and felt that there should be a new election in November 1912, and the members of the first legislature should only serve a single year, rather than three.

[22] In the second session of the legislature, Wood authored a bill which created a state reclamation program.