Later Years
From 1925 until his death in 1944 he lived with his second wife, Sara Bard Field, in Los Gatos, California, in a house named "The Cats."
During his lifetime, he numbered among his friends Chief Joseph, Emma Goldman, Ansel Adams, Robinson Jeffers, Clarence Darrow, Childe Hassam, Margaret Sanger, and John Steinbeck.
Wood was the father of Nan Wood Honeyman, Oregon's first U. S. congresswoman.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“Perhaps you have forgotten me. Dont [sic] you remember a long black fellow who rode on horseback with you from Tremont to Springfield nearly ten years ago, swimming your horses over the Mackinaw on the trip? Well, I am that same one fellow yet.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“He sighed with relief. He had got the job. He was safe.
Putting on his gown, he prepared for the long years to come....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)