Elenor Duncan Wood

(b. January 10, 1869, Philadelphia, Pa.; d. June 13, 1936, Maysville,
Ky). Eleanor Wood’s parents were Dr. Arthur F. Wood and Eleanor Duncan. Eleanor married Clarence L. Wood. A poet, she was one of 60 contestants who submitted poems in 1922 for the Memorial Building to honor those who died in World War I, which was being erected on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington. Wood’s poem, “In Memoriam,” was chosen to adorn the side of the Memorial Building. Wood published a collection of her poetry titled Largesse. Some of her poems appeared in magazines; for example, “The Conqueror” was published in Lippincott’s Magazine in 1913. Other poems of hers were “The Failure” and “In Nazareth.” Eleanor Wood died of heart failure in 1936 at age 67 and was buried in Washington, Ky.

Calvert, Jean, and John Klee, Maysville, Kentucky: From Past to Present in Pictures. Maysville, Ky: Mason Co. Museum, 1983.
Kentucky Death Certificate No. 17253, for the year 1936.
Noe, J. T. C. A Brief Anthology of Kentucky Poetry. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Extension Service, 1936.
Poets’ Corner, http://www.theotherpages.org/poems. “Prize Poem to Be Engraved on Memorial Building to Kentucky’s World War Dead,” KTS, April 18, 1922,27.
“Prize-Winning Memorial Poem in Kentucky,” KTS, October 2, 1922, 16.

Thomas S. Ward

Above excerpted from page 972 of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY ISBN 978-0-8131-2565-7