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{{about|Presbyterian missionary in the United States|first mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana|George W. Wood}}
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[[File:1901 Dr George W Wood Obit pic.jpg|thumb|300px| The elder Reverend [[George W. Wood]] as pictured in his 1901 obituary in the [[Missionary Herald]].]]
[[File:1901 Dr George W Wood Obit pic.jpg|thumb|upright|The elder Reverend [[George W. Wood]] as pictured in his 1901 obituary in the [[Missionary Herald]].]]


'''George Warren Wood''' (known professionally as '''George W. Wood''') (1814-1901<ref>{{cite book|last1=Greene|first1=Joseph K.|title=Leavening the Levant|date=1916|publisher=Pilgrim Press / Rowland & Ives, New York|location=Boston New York Chicago|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AhU2AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA91&ots=APO6GxhcfX&dq=%22george%20w%20wood%22%20bradford%20massachusetts&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q=%22george%20w%20wood%22%20bradford%20massachusetts&f=false|accessdate=14 April 2016}}</ref>) was a Presbyterian Minister and missionary who became the secretary of the Congregationalist [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]]. He was an early missionary to [[Armenia]] under [[Cyrus Hamlin]].
'''George Warren Wood''' (known professionally as '''George W. Wood''') (1814–1901<ref>{{cite book|last1=Greene|first1=Joseph K.|title=Leavening the Levant|date=1916|publisher=Pilgrim Press / Rowland & Ives, New York|location=Boston New York Chicago|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.87843/page/n126 89]|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.87843|quote=george w wood bradford massachusetts.|access-date=April 14, 2016}}</ref>) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary who became the secretary of the Congregationalist [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]]. He was an early missionary to [[Armenia]] under [[Cyrus Hamlin]].


His son, also named George Warren Wood, was also a Presbyterian reverend and missionary. G. W. Wood Jr. (born in 1844 in Turkey, died Jan. 21, 1924 in [[Fairhope, Alabama]]) served Presbyterian missions in [[Charlevoix, Michigan]] (1870s), the [[Montana Territory]](1880s), and the [[Michilimackinaw]] area (1890s) before retiring to Alabama in 1901 to help start the [[Fairhope Single Tax Corporation]].
His son, also named [[George Warren Wood Jr|George Warren Wood]], was also a Presbyterian reverend and missionary.


==Early life==
== Early life ==
Dr. Wood was born February 28, 1814 to Samuel and Mehitable (Peabody) Wood in [[Bradford, Massachusetts]], near [[Haverhill, Massachusetts]]. Wood attended [[Bradford Academy]] and then graduated from [[Dartmouth College]] in 1832.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=C.S.|title=Necrological reports and annual proceedings of the Alumni Association Volume 3: 1875-1932|date=1891|publisher=Princeton Theological Seminary|location=Princeton, N.J|pages=134–135|edition=Volume 3: 1875-1932|url=https://archive.org/stream/necrologicalrepo03prin#page/134/mode/1up|accessdate=8 July 2016}}</ref> After teaching in a religious school in [[Elizabeth, NJ]] for four years and studying theology, Dr. Wood entered [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] for 6 months before being licensed and ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of [[Elizabeth, New Jersey|Elizabethtown]].
Dr. Wood was born February 28, 1814, to Samuel and Mehitable (Peabody) Wood in [[Bradford, Massachusetts]], near [[Haverhill, Massachusetts]]. Wood attended [[Bradford College (United States)|Bradford Academy]] and then graduated from [[Dartmouth College]] in 1832.<ref name="auto3">{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=C.S.|title=Necrological reports and annual proceedings of the Alumni Association Volume 3: 1875–1932|date=1891|publisher=Princeton Theological Seminary|location=Princeton, N.J|pages=134–135|edition=Volume 3: 1875–1932|url=https://archive.org/stream/necrologicalrepo03prin#page/134/mode/1up|access-date=July 8, 2016}}</ref> After teaching in a religious school in [[Elizabeth, NJ]] for four years and studying theology, Dr. Wood entered [[Princeton Theological Seminary]] for 6 months before being licensed and ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of [[Elizabeth, New Jersey|Elizabethtown]].


==Career in missions==
== Career in missions ==


===Mission work in Constantinople and elsewhere===
=== Mission work in Istanbul and elsewhere ===
He was ordained a Presbyterian missionary, at [[Morristown, New Jersey|Morristown, N.J.]], on May 20, 1837.<ref name="auto1">{{cite book|last1=Chapman|first1=George Thomas|title=Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College|date=1867|publisher=Riverside PRess|location=Cambridge|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sju7AAAAIAAJ/page/n267 265]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sju7AAAAIAAJ|quote=George W. Wood Bebek Seminary Morristown, N.J.|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> With his wife Martha, he served in [[Singapore in the Straits Settlements|Singapore]] [[East India Company|East India]] (May 1838 – June 1840);<ref name="auto3" /> Smyrna (1842), [[Trebizond Eyalet]] in the [[Ottoman Empire]] (1842–1843),<ref>{{cite book|author1=Rev. M. P. Parmalee|author-link1=Sketch of the Trebizond Station|title=Proceedings of the ABCFM for the year 1892|date=1892|publisher=Samuel Usher|location=Boston|page=229|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8sWAQAAIAAJ&q=%22P.+O.+Powers%22+%22G.+W.+Wood%22&pg=PA229|access-date=May 1, 2017|quote=Trebizond was occupied as a missionary station in 1853... The following is a list of missionaries who have been connected with the station for at least one year: ... Rev. G. W. Wood, 1842 – 1843"}}</ref> eight years at Istanbul (March 1842 – July 1850),<ref name="auto3" /> and associated with the Rev. Cyrus Hamlin in the [[Bebek Seminary]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Proceedings of the ABCFM for the year 1850 (The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volumes 46–47)|date=1850|publisher=T.R. Marvin|location=Boston|page=6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jdlGAQAAMAAJ&q=George+W.+Wood+Bebek+Seminary&pg=PA6|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Chapman|first1=George Thomas|title=Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College|date=1867|publisher=Riverside Press|location=Cambridge|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sju7AAAAIAAJ/page/n267 265]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sju7AAAAIAAJ|quote=George W. Wood Bebek Seminary Morristown, N.J.|access-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref> He became in charge of Bebek's Theological department, the first of its kind in Asia Minor<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FT99CAAAQBAJ&q=George+W.+Wood+Bebek+Seminary&pg=PA25 | title=Educating across Cultures: Anatolia College in Turkey and Greece| isbn=978-1-4422-4347-7| last1=McGrew| first1=William| date=April 16, 2015| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Todd|first1=Thomas|title=The Missionary Herald, Volume 97|date=1901|publisher=Beacon Press (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM))|location=Boston|pages=357–360|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkEUAAAAYAAJ&q=George+W.+Wood+Bebek+Seminary&pg=PA358}}</ref>
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=== Return to the United States and work for the American Board ===
He was ordained a Presbyterian missionary, at [[Morristown, New Jersey|Morristown, N.J.]], on May 20, 1837.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chapman|first1=George Thomas|title=Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College|date=1867|publisher=Riverside PRess|location=Cambridge|pages=265|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sju7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA265&ots=-vIxhCAGGq&dq=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary%20Morristown%2C%20N.J&pg=PA265#v=onepage&q=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary%20Morristown,%20N.J&f=false|accessdate=11 April 2016}}</ref> With his wife Martha, he served in [[Singapore in the Straits Settlements|Singapore]] [[East India Company|East India]] (May 1838 - June 1840);<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=C.S.|title=Necrological reports and annual proceedings of the Alumni Association Volume 3: 1875-1932|date=1891|publisher=Princeton Theological Seminary|location=Princeton, N.J|pages=134–135|edition=Volume 3: 1875-1932|url=https://archive.org/stream/necrologicalrepo03prin#page/134/mode/1up|accessdate=8 July 2016}}</ref> Smyrna (1842), [[Trebizond Eyalet]] in the [[Ottoman Empire]] (1842-1843),<ref>{{cite book|author1=Rev. M. P. Parmalee|authorlink1=Sketch of the Trebizond Station|title=Proceedings of the ABCFM for the year 1892|date=1892|publisher=Samuel Usher|location=Boston|page=229|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8sWAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA229&ots=s9ohYJhAe2&dq=%22P.%20O.%20Powers%22%20%22G.%20W.%20Wood%22&pg=PA229#v=onepage&q=%22P.%20O.%20Powers%22%20%22G.%20W.%20Wood%22&f=false|accessdate=1 May 2017|quote=Trebizond was occupied as a missionary station in 1853... The following is a list of missionaries who have been connected with the station for at least one year: ... Rev. G. W. Wood, 1842 - 1843"}}</ref> eight years at Constantinople(March 1842 - July 1850),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=C.S.|title=Necrological reports and annual proceedings of the Alumni Association Volume 3: 1875-1932|date=1891|publisher=Princeton Theological Seminary|location=Princeton, N.J|pages=134–135|edition=Volume 3: 1875-1932|url=https://archive.org/stream/necrologicalrepo03prin#page/134/mode/1up|accessdate=8 July 2016}}</ref> and associated with the Rev. Cyrus Hamlin in the [[Bebek Seminary]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Proceedings of the ABCFM for the year 1850 (The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volumes 46-47)|date=1850|publisher=T.R. Marvin|location=Boston|page=6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jdlGAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA6&ots=F5RzFiUulJ&dq=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&f=false|accessdate=11 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Chapman|first1=George Thomas|title=Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College|date=1867|publisher=Riverside Press|location=Cambridge|pages=265|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sju7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA265&ots=-vIxhCAGGq&dq=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary%20Morristown%2C%20N.J&pg=PA265#v=onepage&q=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary%20Morristown,%20N.J&f=false|accessdate=11 April 2016}}</ref> He became in charge of Bebek's Theological department, the first of its kind in Asia Minor<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=FT99CAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA25&ots=KyHVGaFxH4&dq=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&f=false</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Todd|first1=Thomas|title=The Missionary Herald, Volume 97|date=1901|publisher=Beacon Press (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM))|location=Boston|pages=357–360|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JkEUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA358&ots=zcUF56YN6X&dq=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&pg=PA358#v=onepage&q=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&f=false}}</ref>
In 1850 he returned to the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=Personnel records for George W. Wood|url=http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/15854|website=Digital Library for International Research – American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection|publisher=American Research Institute in Turkey-Istanbul / Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul|access-date=August 24, 2016|quote=Ret. USA 1850–1852}}</ref> In September <ref name="auto3" /> 1852 he was elected Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions in New York City,<ref>{{cite web|title=Personnel records for George W. Wood|url=http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/15854|website=Digital Library for International Research – American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection|publisher=American Research Institute in Turkey-Istanbul / Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul|access-date=August 24, 2016|quote="Elected Sept 1852 Corresp. Sec'y Board, for N.Y. City"}}</ref> and continued in this position until 1871.<ref name="auto1" />


In Spring 1855, the ABCFM sent Dr. Wood to visit [[Choctaw Mission]] in Oklahoma to resolve a crisis over the abolition issue.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Spring|first1=Joel|title=The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763–1995: A Basket of Apples|date=1996|publisher=Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)|location=New York, London|isbn=0-8058-2303-4|quote=in 1855, the American Board decided to send George Wood to investigate the situation in Indian Missions... While visiting the Choctaw Nation, Wood spent 3 days each at the Wheelock and Spencer Academies, and 9 days at other schools}}</ref> After arriving in [[Eagletown, Oklahoma|Stockbridge Mission]], Wood spent over two weeks days visiting missions including the [[Goodwater Mission]], [[Wheelock Academy]], [[Spencer Academy]], and other mission schools. He met with missionaries to discuss [[Selah B Treat]]'s June 22, 1848, letter permitting them to maintain fellowship with slaveholders.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cassity|first1=Michael|last2=Goble|first2=Danney|title=Divided Hearts: The Presbyterian Journey Through Oklahoma History|date=2009|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman|isbn=978-0-8061-3848-0|pages=77–80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SHgCBQAAQBAJ&q=%22George%20Wood%22%20Choctaw%22&pg=PA77|access-date=August 24, 2016|quote="members of the mission met Wood at Goodwater Mission, a school that had been suspended since 1853 ... Part of the key [to cordial discussion] was Wood's decision at the outset to 'drop for the present' the contentious letter from the American Board of June 22, 1848"}}</ref> Ultimately, the crisis was not resolved, and by 1859, the Board cut ties to the Choctaw mission altogether.
===Return to the United States and work for the American Board ===
In 1850 he returned to the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=Personnel records for George W. Wood|url=http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/15854|website=Digital Library for International Research -- American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection|publisher=American Research Institute in Turkey-Istanbul / Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul|accessdate=24 August 2016|quote="Ret. USA 1850-1852"}}</ref> In September <ref>{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=C.S.|title=Necrological reports and annual proceedings of the Alumni Association Volume 3: 1875-1932|date=1891|publisher=Princeton Theological Seminary|location=Princeton, N.J|pages=134–135|edition=Volume 3: 1875-1932|url=https://archive.org/stream/necrologicalrepo03prin#page/134/mode/1up|accessdate=8 July 2016}}</ref> 1852 he was elected Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions in New York City,<ref>{{cite web|title=Personnel records for George W. Wood|url=http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/15854|website=Digital Library for International Research -- American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection|publisher=American Research Institute in Turkey-Istanbul / Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul|accessdate=24 August 2016|quote="Elected Sept 1852 Corresp. Sec'y Board, for N.Y. City"}}</ref> and continued in this position until 1871.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chapman|first1=George Thomas|title=Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College|date=1867|publisher=Riverside PRess|location=Cambridge|pages=265|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sju7AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA265&ots=-vIxhCAGGq&dq=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary%20Morristown%2C%20N.J&pg=PA265#v=onepage&q=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary%20Morristown,%20N.J&f=false|accessdate=11 April 2016}}</ref>


In 1856, Dr. Wood published a "Manual of Christian Theology" in Constantinople in association with Dr. [[H. G. O. Dwight]] and Rev. Dr. [[Edward Riggs]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ceowell|first1=E. P.|title=OBITUARY RECORD of Graduates of Amherst College for the Academical Year ending June 28, 1893.|publisher=Amherst College|page=293|edition=Fourth Printed Series, No. 1.|url=https://archive.org/stream/obituaryrecord9203amhe/obituaryrecord9203amhe_djvu.txt|access-date=January 5, 2017|quote="It has been found impossible to obtain a complete list of the works composed, edited or translated by Dr. Riggs. His principal publications are as follows :"... "Manual of Christian Theology, in association with Dr. H. G. O. Dwight and Dr. G. W. Wood. Constantinople, 1856."}}</ref>
In Spring 1855, the ABCFM sent Dr. Wood to visit [[Choctaw Mission]] in Oklahoma to resolve a crisis over the abolition issue.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Spring|first1=Joel|title=Books on Google Play The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763-1995: A Basket of Apples|date=1996|publisher=Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)|location=New York, London|isbn=0-8058-2303-4|quote="in 1855, the American Board decided to send George Wood to investigate the situation in Indian Misisons... While visiting the Choctaw Nation, Wood spent 3 days each at the Wheelock and Spencer Academies, and 9 days at other schools)"}}</ref> After arriving in [[Eagletown, Oklahoma|Stockbridge Mission]], Wood spent over two weeks days visiting missions including the [[Goodwater Mission]], [[Wheelock Academy]], [[Spencer Academy]], and other mission schools. He met with missionaries to discuss [[Selah B Treat]]'s June 22, 1848 letter permitting them to maintain fellowship with slaveholders.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cassity|first1=Michael|last2=Goble|first2=Danney|title=Divided Hearts: The Presbyterian Journey Through Oklahoma History|date=2009|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|location=Norman|isbn=978-0-8061-3848-0|pages=77–80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SHgCBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA77&dq=%22George%20Wood%22%20Choctaw%22&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=24 August 2016|quote="members of the mission met Wood at Goodwater Mission, a school that had been suspended since 1853 ... Part of the key [to cordial discussion] was Wood's decision at the outset to 'drop for the present' the contentious letter from the American Board of June 22, 1848"}}</ref> Ultimately, the crisis was not resolved, and by 1859, the Board cut ties to the Choctaw mission altogether.

In 1856, Dr. Wood published a "Manual of Christian Theology" in Constantinople in association with Dr. [[H. G. O. Dwight]] and Rev. Dr. [[Edward Riggs]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ceowell|first1=E. P.|title=OBITUARY RECORD of Graduates of Amherst College for the Academical Year ending June 28, 1893.|publisher=Amherst College|page=293|edition=Fourth Printed Series, No. 1.|url=https://archive.org/stream/obituaryrecord9203amhe/obituaryrecord9203amhe_djvu.txt|accessdate=5 January 2017|quote="It has been found impossible to obtain a complete list of the works composed, edited or translated by Dr. Riggs. His principal publications are as follows :"... "Manual of Christian Theology, in association with Dr. H. G. O. Dwight and Dr. G. W. Wood. Constantinople, 1856."}}</ref>


In addition to his other secretarial duties, Wood assisted in presiding over the historic closure and relocation of the [[Broadway United Church of Christ|original Broadway Tabernacle]] in New York City in 1857.
In addition to his other secretarial duties, Wood assisted in presiding over the historic closure and relocation of the [[Broadway United Church of Christ|original Broadway Tabernacle]] in New York City in 1857.


In December 1862, Dr. Wood sailed from New York on his way to assist the [[Western Turkey Mission]] with his skills in the [[Armenian language]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Annual Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1863)|date=1863|publisher=T.R. Marvin & Son|location=42 Congress Street, Boston|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYA1AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA159&dq=%22Wood%22%20%22Syria%20mission%22%201863&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=24 August 2016|quote=""As Dr. Wood was previously located there, and still retained his knowledge of Armenian, ... he sailed from New York ... December 6, 1862 ... Turkish Missions Aid Society detained him in England, a few weeks... did not reach his destination till the 7th of March"}}</ref> He stopped in London for several weeks to meet with the [[Turkish Missions Aid Society]] and arrived in Constantinople on March 7, 1863. During this time he also visited the [[Syria Mission]]. He returned to the United States June 6, 1864.<ref>{{cite web|title=Personnel records for George W. Wood|url=http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/15854|website=Digital Library for International Research -- American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection|publisher=Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul|quote="Returned to Cons'ple Mar 7, 1863, as Secy, &visited [illegible] & Syria Mission... ret to USA June 6, 1864"}}</ref>
In December 1862, Dr. Wood sailed from New York on his way to assist the [[Western Turkey Mission]] with his skills in the [[Armenian language]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Annual Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1863)|date=1863|publisher=T.R. Marvin & Son|location=42 Congress Street, Boston|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYA1AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Wood%22%20%22Syria%20mission%22%201863&pg=PA36|access-date=August 24, 2016|quote=As Dr. Wood was previously located there, and still retained his knowledge of Armenian, ... he sailed from New York ... December 6, 1862 ... Turkish Missions Aid Society detained him in England, a few weeks... did not reach his destination till the 7th of March}}</ref> He stopped in London for several weeks to meet with the [[Turkish Missions Aid Society]] and arrived in Constantinople on March 7, 1863. During this time he also visited the [[Syria Mission]]. He returned to the United States June 6, 1864.<ref>{{cite web|title=Personnel records for George W. Wood|url=http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/15854|website=Digital Library for International Research – American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection|publisher=Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul|quote="Returned to Cons'ple Mar 7, 1863, as Secy, &visited [illegible] & Syria Mission... ret to USA June 6, 1864"}}</ref>


=== Return to missions in Turkey ===
=== Return to missions in Turkey ===
When the [[Old School–New School Controversy|New School Presbyterians]] withdrew from the American Board, Dr. Wood resumed his missions work in Constantinople for another 16 years from 1871 to 1886.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volume 97|date=September 1901|publisher=Beacon Press|location=Boston|pages=357–360|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5zNAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA357&ots=sPYzbx3-y9&dq=%22george%20w.%20wood%22%20mission&pg=PA358#v=onepage&q=%22george%20w.%20wood%22%20mission&f=false|accessdate=13 April 2016|quote="On account of the withdrawal of the New School Presbyterian body from the support of the American Board"... "In the second period of his missionary life at Constantinople (1871 - 1886)"}}</ref> While in Constantinople in 1879, Wood reported Turkish authorities in [[Amasya|Amasia]] brutally persecuting Christian Armenian refugees from [[Soukoum Kaleh]] during the [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)]]. He was able to coordinate with British Diplomat [[Edward Malet]] to bring the matter to the attention of the [[Sublime Porte]], and then to the British foreign secretary [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil]] (the [[Marquess of Salisbury]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 80|date=1880|publisher=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|location=Constantinople|pages=70–72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1UTAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA3-PA72&ots=M82VaAZP8P&dq=%22Reverend%20George%20W.%20Wood%22%20%20-revolvy&pg=RA3-PA70#v=onepage&q=%22Reverend%20George%20W.%20Wood%22%20%20-revolvy&f=false|accessdate=3 January 2017}}</ref>
When the [[Old School–New School Controversy|New School Presbyterians]] withdrew from the American Board, Dr. Wood resumed his missions work in Constantinople for another 16 years from 1871 to 1886.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volume 97|date=September 1901|publisher=Beacon Press|location=Boston|pages=357–360|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5zNAAAAMAAJ&q=%22george+w.+wood%22+mission&pg=PA358|access-date=April 13, 2016|quote="On account of the withdrawal of the New School Presbyterian body from the support of the American Board"... "In the second period of his missionary life at Constantinople (1871–1886)"}}</ref> While in Constantinople in 1879, Wood reported Turkish authorities in [[Amasya|Amasia]] brutally persecuting Christian Armenian refugees from [[Soukoum Kaleh]] during the [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)]]. He was able to coordinate with British Diplomat [[Edward Malet]] to bring the matter to the attention of the [[Sublime Porte]], and then to the British foreign secretary [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Robert Gascoyne-Cecil]] (the [[Marquess of Salisbury]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 80|date=1880|publisher=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|location=Constantinople|pages=70–72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1UTAAAAYAAJ|access-date=January 3, 2017}}</ref>


==Personal life==
== Personal life ==
Dr. Wood had four wives over the course of his life.

* Dr. Wood married Martha Maria Johnson (Daughter of Silas & Mary Johnson) on April 24, 1838, and she died in childbirth March 9, 1839.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pcmorristown.org/about-us/graveyard/alphabetical-index-of-interments/w-alpha-grave-yard|title=The Presbyterian Church in Morristown W Alpha Grave Yard|website=pcmorristown.org|access-date=April 13, 2016|archive-date=April 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423220929/http://www.pcmorristown.org/about-us/graveyard/alphabetical-index-of-interments/w-alpha-grave-yard|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===Marriages===
* He married again Martha Briggs (Daughter of William Briggs of Boston) on December 29, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary bore four children (Sarah Johnson 1842, George Warren 1844, Louisa Whitehead 1846, and Henry Magie(sp?) 1849) in Turkey before she returned to the USA 1850–1851 on account of health, and died May 13, 1852.<ref>{{cite web|title=Personnel records for Martha Briggs Wood|url=http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/15857|website=Digital Library for International Research – American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection|publisher=American Research Institute in Turkey-Istanbul|access-date=August 24, 2016}}</ref>
Dr. Wood had four wives over the course of his life.
* He married a third time, to Mary C Hastings (daughter of [[Thomas Hastings (composer)|Thomas Hastings]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Hermine Weigel|title=Thomas Hastings: An Introduction to His Life and Music|date=2005|publisher=iUniverse, Inc|location=New York Lincoln Shanghai|isbn=978-0-595-81089-5|page=50|edition=e-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RMTT1nmh6mkC&q=%22daniel+bond%22+hamilton+college+hastings&pg=PA50|access-date=April 13, 2016|quote=footnote #6: Their daughter Mary was married first to Rev Daniel Bond... then to the Rev. George W. Wood}}</ref> of New York City, and widow of Daniel Bond<ref>{{cite book|title=General Catalogue of the Auburn Theological Seminary|date=1883|publisher=Daily Advertiser and Weekly Journal Printing House|location=Auburn, NY|pages=[https://archive.org/details/generalcatalogu01unkngoog/page/n210 208]|url=https://archive.org/details/generalcatalogu01unkngoog|quote=daniel bond hamilton college.|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref> ) on January 18, 1855.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chapman|first1=George Thomas|title=Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College|date=1867|publisher=Riverside PRess|location=Cambridge|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sju7AAAAIAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sju7AAAAIAAJ/page/n267 265]|quote=George Warren Wood married.|access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref> Mary died March 4, 1862.
* Dr. Wood married Martha Maria Johnson (Daughter of Silas & Mary Johnson) on April 24, 1838, and she died in childbirth 9 Mar 1839.<ref>http://www.pcmorristown.org/about-us/graveyard/alphabetical-index-of-interments/w-alpha-grave-yard</ref>
* He married again Martha Briggs (Daughter of William Briggs of Boston) on December 29, 1841 in Philadelphia, PA. Mary bore four children (Sarah Johnson 1842, George Warren 1844, Louisa Whitehead 1846, and Henry Magie(sp?) 1849) in Turkey before she returned to the USA 1850-1851 on account of health, and died May 13, 1852.<ref>{{cite web|title=Personnel records for Martha Briggs Wood|url=http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/15857|website=Digital Library for International Research - American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection|publisher=American Research Institute in Turkey-Istanbul|accessdate=24 August 2016}}</ref>
* He married a third time, to Mary C Hastings (daughter of [[Thomas Hastings (composer)|Thomas Hastings]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Hermine Weigel|title=Thomas Hastings: An Introduction to His Life and Music|date=2005|publisher=iUniverse, Inc|location=New York Lincoln Shanghai|isbn=978-0-595-81089-5|page=50|edition=e-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RMTT1nmh6mkC&lpg=PA50&dq=%22daniel%20bond%22%20hamilton%20college%20hastings&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q=%22daniel%20bond%22%20hamilton%20college%20hastings&f=false|accessdate=13 April 2016|quote=footnote #6: Their daughter Mary was married first to Rev Daniel Bond... then to the Rev. George W. Wood}}</ref> of New York City, and widow of Daniel Bond<ref>{{cite book|title=General Catalogue of the Auburn Theological Seminary|date=1883|publisher=Daily Advertiser and Weekly Journal Printing House|location=Auburn, NY|pages=208|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lEtNAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA208&ots=Sv3NrxeAGG&dq=%22daniel%20bond%22%20hamilton%20college&pg=PA208#v=onepage&q=%22daniel%20bond%22%20hamilton%20college&f=false|accessdate=13 April 2016}}</ref> ) on January 18, 1855.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chapman|first1=George Thomas|title=Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College:|date=1867|publisher=Riverside PRess|location=Cambridge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sju7AAAAIAAJ&dq=George%20Warren%20Wood%20married&pg=PA265#v=onepage&q=George%20Warren%20Wood%20married&f=false|accessdate=13 April 2016}}</ref> Mary died March 4, 1862.
* In 1869, Wood married a fourth time, to Mrs. Sara Ann (McNair) Heylmun, who died August 17, 1901.
* In 1869, Wood married a fourth time, to Mrs. Sara Ann (McNair) Heylmun, who died August 17, 1901.


=== Death===
== References ==
Dr. Wood and his 4th wife (S.A. H. Wood) both died in 1901 and are buried together in the Mount Morris City Cemetery in [[Livingston County, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|title=George W. Wood|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=wood&GSiman=1&GScid=1253372&GRid=150085950&|website=Find a Grave|accessdate=22 August 2016|quote="George W. Wood, Minister, Missionary" on the gravestone}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sarah A. Wood|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=wood&GSiman=1&GScid=1253372&GRid=150085951&|website=Find a Grave|accessdate=22 August 2016|quote="S.A.H. Wood, Wife of Rev. G.W. Wood" on the gravestone}}</ref>

===Children ===
Dr. Wood was survived by one son and one daughter.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=C.S.|title=Necrological reports and annual proceedings of the Alumni Association Volume 3: 1875-1932|date=1891|publisher=Princeton Theological Seminary|location=Princeton, N.J|pages=134–135|edition=Volume 3: 1875-1932|url=https://archive.org/stream/necrologicalrepo03prin#page/134/mode/1up|accessdate=8 July 2016}}</ref>

==George Warren Wood, Junior ==

Dr. G.W. Wood's son, also named George Warren Wood, was also a Presbyterian reverend and missionary.

=== Early life ===
G. W. Wood Jr. was born in 1844<ref>{{cite book|title=Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living|date=1912|publisher=Successful Americans|location=Chicago, IL|pages=453|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unkPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&pg=PA453#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&f=false}}</ref> in Turkey <ref>http://charlevoix.migenweb.net/births/birth033.htm</ref> as his father was a missionary there. After graduating from [[Hamilton College (New York)|Hamilton College]] in [[Clinton, Oneida County, New York|Upstate New York]] in 1865,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bates|first1=William H.|last2=Betts|first2=Truman|last3=Hall|first3=George W|title=The Hamiltonian (1886)|url=http://dlib.hamilton.edu/hamiltonian/Hamiltonian1865.pdf|website=hamilton.edu|publisher=Hamilton College|accessdate=14 March 2017}}</ref> he taught and pursued advanced studies at the [[City College of New York|college of the City of New York]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tompkins|first1=Hamilton Bullock|title=Biographical Record of the Class of 1865, of Hamilton College|date=1877|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAUTAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA78&ots=AmyghC6p5M&dq=%22George%20W.%20Wood%22%20evangelist&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q=%22George%20W.%20Wood%22%20evangelist&f=false|accessdate=11 April 2016}}</ref> He graduated from [[Union Theological Seminary (New York City)|Union Theological Seminary]] in New York City in 1869.<ref>{{cite book|title=Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living|date=1912|publisher=Successful Americans|location=Chicago, IL|quote="graduated from Union Theological seminary in 1869"|pages=453|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unkPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&pg=PA453#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&f=false}}</ref>

===Early missionary career in Michigan===
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Rev. Wood, Jr became ordained as a Presbyterian pastor in the [[Saginaw Presbytery]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Minutes of the Synod of Michigan|date=1883|publisher=Tribune Book and Job Office|location=Detroit|pages=42–43|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUniAAAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA43&dq=%22Geo.%20W.%20Wood%22%20charlevoix&pg=RA2-PA43#v=onepage&q=%22Geo.%20W.%20Wood%22%20&f=false|accessdate=4 May 2016|quote="The Sagniaw Presbytery reports... Geo. W. Wood has received ordination"}}</ref> and domestic missionary for the [[Presbyterian Board of Home Missions]] in [[Au Sable, Michigan|Au Sable]] and [[Oscoda, Michigan|Oscoda]] in January 1872.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Presbyterian Monthly Record of the PCUSA Volume 22|date=1871|publisher=Presbyterian Board of Publication|location=Philadelphia|page=70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5DYUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA70&ots=r7BaiZC3sD&dq=%22Geo.%20W.%20Wood%22%20presbyterian&pg=RA1-PA70#v=onepage&q=%22Geo.%20W.%20Wood%22%20presbyterian&f=false|accessdate=4 May 2016}}</ref> He married Harriet Snyder in May 1872 in [[Iosco County, Michigan|Iosco County]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dibean|first1=Jack|last2=Dibean|first2=Marianne|title=Iosco County, Michigan Dibean Marriage Index|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/iosco/vitals/marriages/dbn/iosco-dbn-jun2014-w.txt|website=files.usgwarchives.net|accessdate=10 May 2016}}</ref> and then arrived in Charlevoix, Michigan in late November 1872.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rosa Nettleton excerpts from the Charlevoix Sentinel for the year 1872|url=http://www.charlevoixlibrary.org/sites/default/files/RogerGowell/Nettleton/1872.htm|website=Charlevoix Public Library|accessdate=4 May 2016|quote="The Presbyterian Society of this place have secured the clerical services of Rev. Geo. W. Wood, late of Au Sable, who arrived lately with his family and household effects. He will preach at the school house at 7 P.M."}}</ref> to be appointed a Home Missionary in that place in 1873.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Presbyterian Monthly Record of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America: Being the Organ of the Boards of Home Missions, Education, Foreign Missions, Publication, Church Erection, Relief for Disables Ministers, Missions for Freedmen, and Aid for Colleges and Academies, Volume 24|date=1873|publisher=Presbyterian Board of Publication|location=Philadelphia|page=78|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYc1AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA78&dq=%22Geo.%20W.%20Wood%22%20presbyterian&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=%22Geo.%20W.%20Wood%22%20presbyterian&f=false|quote="Home Mission Appointments made in January 1873...Rev. Geo. W. Wood, Charlevoix ch., Mich."}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Nettleton|first1=Rosa|title=Highlights of Charlevoix History 1869 to 1906 from the Charlevoix Sentinel|url=http://www.charlevoixlibrary.org/sites/default/files/RogerGowell/Nettleton/1893.htm|website=http://www.charlevoixlibrary.org/sites/default/files/RogerGowell/Nettleton/nettleton-main.htm|accessdate=14 April 2016|quote="The work of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions in this field twenty or more years ago, should not be confounded with the origin of the present Congregational Society. Back almost as far as local history reaches, the Presbyterians had a mission here. The pastor in charge of the work was Rev. George W. Wood. He labored here about six years, when, for some cause unknown to the writer that denomination abandoned the work here; but, unquestionably from that early Christian movement sprang the present prosperous Congregational Church of Charlevoix."}}</ref> Wood, Jr. ministered in [[Charlevoix, Michigan]] and [[Petoskey, Michigan|Bear River, Michigan]] from January 1874<ref>{{cite book|title=Presbyterian Monthly Record of the PCUSA Vol 25|date=1874|publisher=Presbyterian Board of Publication|location=Philadelphia|page=70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iuYqAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA70&ots=D66zx97iqV&dq=%22george%20w%20wood%22%20charlevoix&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q=%22george%20w%20wood%22%20charlevoix&f=false}}</ref> to 1879.<ref>{{cite book|title=Minutes of the General Assembly of the PCUSA - United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Volume 5, Part 2|date=1879|publisher=Presbyterian Board of Publication|location=New York|page=888|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpI6AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA888&ots=upKuaEutl0&dq=%22george%20w%20wood%22%20charlevoix&pg=PA888#v=onepage&q=%22george%20w%20wood%22%20charlevoix&f=false|accessdate=14 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Tompkins|first1=Hamilton Bullock|title=Biographical Record of the Class of 1865, of Hamilton College|date=1877|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAUTAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA78&ots=AmyghC6p5M&dq=%22George%20W.%20Wood%22%20evangelist&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q=%22George%20W.%20Wood%22%20evangelist&f=false|accessdate=11 April 2016}}</ref> During 1877-1879, he worked as a [[Colportage|colporteur]] in the same region (reaching mainly [[Homesteading|homestead]]ers throughout [[Emmet County, Michigan|Emmet County]] and [[Charlevoix County, Michigan|Charlevoix County]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Sixtieth Annual Report of the American Bible Society|date=1876|publisher=American Bible Society|location=New York|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MhvPAAAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA59&ots=Q6thm9YH7A&dq=%22American%20bible%20Society%22%20Charlevoix%201878&pg=RA2-PA59#v=onepage&q=%22American%20bible%20Society%22%20Charlevoix%201878&f=false|accessdate=12 July 2016|quote="Charlevoix and Emmet Counties... have been throughly explored by Rev. G.W. Wood, who was employed as a colporteur by the American Bible Society... The people are extremely impecunious at present, being mainly homesteaders...the colporteur has gone on foot... [with] his Bible laden knapsack, in paths where no vehicle could go, and by boats on the lakes and rivers"}}</ref> for the [[American Bible Society]] rather than for the [[Presbyterian Board of Home Missions]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living|date=1912|publisher=Successful Americans|location=Chicago, IL|quote="He was under the American bible society in 1877, 78 and 79"|pages=453|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unkPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&pg=PA453#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&f=false}}</ref>

===Missionary work in Dakotas and Montana===
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He was a missionary at the [[Dakota Mission]] ([[Fort Peck Indian Reservation|Fort Peck]]/[[Wolf Point, Montana|Wolf Point]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Crawford|first1=Suzanne|last2=Kelley|first2=Dennis|title=American Indian Religious Traditions, An Encyclopedia: A-I|date=2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, California / Denver, Colorado / Oxford, England|isbn=1-57607-517-6|page=536|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SEopBoB8ch0C&lpg=PA536&ots=sI0Q7HiVBo&dq=george%20w.%20wood%20mission%201887&pg=PA536#v=onepage&q=george%20w.%20wood%20mission%201887&f=false|accessdate=13 April 2016|quote="In 1880 George W. Wood established a Presbyterian mission at Fort Peck"}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Church at Home and Abroad, Volume 2|date=1887|publisher=Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work (General Assembly of the PCUSA)|location=Philadelphia, PA|page=71|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpAkAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22george%20w.%20wood%22%20missionary%20kansas%201887&pg=PA71#v=onepage&q=%22george%20w.%20wood%22%20missionary%20kansas%201887&f=false|quote=Wolf Point, Montana Territory: On the Missouri river... 1883; missionaries, Rev. George W. Wood Jr., and his wife.}}</ref> from 1879<ref>{{cite book|last1=Herringshaw|first1=Thomas William|title=The American Blue Herringshaw's American Book of Biography: Prominent Americans of 1914|date=1914|publisher=American Publishers' association|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=1005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LGcfAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA1005&ots=6ZlWpz34Kz&dq=%22Mackinaw%20Witness%22%20George%20warren%20wood&pg=PA1005#v=onepage&q=%22Mackinaw%20Witness%22%20George%20warren%20wood&f=false|accessdate=10 May 2016}}</ref>-1889.<ref>{{cite book|title=Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living|date=1912|publisher=Successful Americans|location=Chicago, IL|pages=453|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unkPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&pg=PA453#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Foreign Missionary (containing particular accounts of the work of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church and selected articles and facts from the missionary publications of other protestant societies) Volume 44|date=1885–1886|publisher=Mission House (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions)|location=New York|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srEnAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA59&dq=%22george%20w%20wood%22%201885%20presbyterian&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q=%22george%20w%20wood%22%201885%20presbyterian&f=true}}</ref> The first Presbyterian presence on the [[Fort Peck Indian Reservation]] began when Wood worked with the Native American (primarily [[Assiniboine]] and [[Sioux]]) population in 1881 and established a mission [[day school]] for children in 1883 on the north bank of the Missouri River, about three-quarters of a mile from present-day Wolf Point.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Plestina|first1=John|title=First Presbyterian Church Celebrates Centennial In November|url=http://northeastmontananews.com/wph/index.php/wp-news/local-news/2780-first-presbyterian-church-celebrates-centennial-in-november|accessdate=21 February 2017|agency=The Herald News|publisher=northeastmontananews . com|date=November 2014|quote="The 133-year Presbyterian history on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation began with Rev. George Wood working with the Native American population in 1881 and establishing a mission day school for children in 1883 on the north bank of the Missouri River, about three-quarters of a mile from present-day Wolf Point."}}</ref> During this period, the natives grappled with the establishment of [[Camp Poplar River]] by the [[11th Infantry Regiment (United States)#Department of Dakota|11th Infantry]], construction of the [[Montana Central Railway]] (later known as the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]]), arrival of white settlers, US bans on the [[Sun Dance]] and other cultural practices, extinction of the Buffalo in northeast Montana, starvation during [[Winter of 1886–87|extremely harsh winters]], and ultimately an agreement with the US government to [[Dawes Act|re-drawing the boundaries of the Fort Peck reservation in exchange for federal subsidies]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shanley|first1=James|last2=Smith|first2=Dennis|last3=McGeshick|first3=Joseph R.|last4=Miller|first4=David Reed|title=The History of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, 1800 - 2000|date=2008|publisher=Fort Peck Community College|location=Poplar, MT|page=497|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oODHaHr674oC&lpg=PA497&ots=K3KmqeAxzC&dq=George%20wood%20Assiniboine&pg=PA497#v=onepage&q=George%20wood%20Assiniboine&f=false|accessdate=21 February 2017}}</ref> The Presbyterian community he started there became "Union Church" in 1914 and celebrated its centennial in 2014 as "First Presbyterian Church" in Wolf Point.

=== Later missionary career in Northern Michigan ===

In 1892, Wood, Jr. was in [[Boyne, Michigan]] publishing a newspaper called "The Ensign"<ref>{{cite web|title=About The ensign. (Boyne, Mich.) 1892-1???|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn98066456/|website=Chronicling America|publisher=Library of Congress|quote="Title:The ensign... Publisher:George Warren Wood...Frequency:Monthly"}}</ref> From 1892 to 1893 Wood, Jr. was a home missionary in [[Lakefield Township, Luce County, Michigan|Lakefield, Michigan]] in the upper peninsula of Michigan.<ref>{{cite book|title=Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living|date=1912|publisher=Successful Americans|location=Chicago, IL|pages=453|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unkPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&pg=PA453#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&f=false}}</ref> Starting in 1892,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rowell|first1=George|title=Rowell's American Newspaper Directory|date=1893|publisher=Geo P. Rowell & Company|location=New York|page=377|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWQ3AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA377&ots=MMRJrfufmn&dq=%22G%20W%20Wood%22%20%22Sunday%20School%22%20michigan&pg=PA377#v=onepage&q=%22G%20W%20Wood%22%20%22Sunday%20School%22%20michigan&f=false|accessdate=31 May 2016|quote="Mackinaw City, Cheboygan County"... "WITNESS: Saturdays; four pages 16x22; subscription $1.50; established 1892; Rev. G. W. Wood, editor and publisher."}}</ref> Wood was the editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper at [[Mackinaw City, Michigan|Mackinaw City]] called the "[[Mackinaw Witness]].

In 1894, Wood hosted Alabama native and missionary, Dr. [[George Weaver (educator)|George A. Weaver]], as a fundraiser for the [[American Sunday School Union]] in the Mackinaw area.<ref>{{cite news|title=Country Cousins: all the nest from Granherdom gathered for the Democrat|url=https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/cgi-bin/michigan?a=d&d=CheboyganCD18940707-01.1.5&srpos=14&e=-------en-10--11--txt-txIN-%22G.+W.+Wood%22---------|accessdate=4 January 2017|agency=Cheboygan Democrat|issue=19|publisher=Forsyth & Bunnell|date=7 July 1894|page=5|quote="The missionary, George A. Weaver, made an address, and a collection was taken for the [[American Sunday School Union]], amounting to $3 The school has grown in about a year from fifteen to more than eighty members. He pronounces it a model school Mr. Weaver and his family were guests of P. 0, Munroe, the veteran settler after whom the t iwnskip is named, ns well as Rev. G. W. Wood of Mackinaw City. "}}</ref>

In 1894 Wood's ''Witness'' was listed as the sole newspaper published in Mackinaw City,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Donaldson|first1=W. H.|title=The Donaldson, Guide: Containing a List of All Opera-houses in the United States and Canada|date=1894|publisher=Donaldson|location=Cincinnati, OH|page=167|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JPkyAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA167&ots=psfm60ud3N&dq=%22G.%20W.%20Wood%22%20editor&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q=%22G.%20W.%20Wood%22%20editor&f=false|accessdate=31 May 2016|quote="Newspaper -- Witness, Rev. G.w. Wood, editor"}}</ref> and continued to be published by him in 1897. "<ref>{{cite book|last1=Clark|first1=C.F.|title=Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1897 (Volume 13)|date=1897|publisher=R.L Polk & Co.|location=Detroit|page=1138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5AcdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA1138&ots=r78kWcVX6w&dq=%22Mackinaw%20Witness%22%20George%20warren%20wood&pg=PA1138#v=onepage&q=%22Mackinaw%20Witness%22%20George%20warren%20wood&f=false|accessdate=10 May 2016|quote="[Mackinaw] has a weekly newspaper, The Mackinaw Witness" ... "George H. Wood, publr... Wood, Rev George W (Presbyterian)}}</ref> In October 1897, the [[Cheboygan Democrat]] profiled the struggling Mackinaw Witness news operation and remarked that Rev Wood and his son George H. Wood were editor and manager respectively. The review noted that the Witness contained much "curious information" including railroad timetables, [lost] "cats and dogs", minor news, Sabbath Readings, [[New Earth]] columns, and "snide advertising" for questionable gold mining companies, [[single tax]] theory, crank books, and the [[Scientific American]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Forsyth|first1=Edward|title=We And Our Neighbors|url=https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/cgi-bin/michigan?a=d&d=CheboyganCD18971016-01.1.4&srpos=15&e=-------en-10--11--txt-txIN-%22G.+W.+Wood%22---------|accessdate=4 January 2017|agency=Cheboygan Democrat|issue=18th Year No. 30|publisher=Forsyth & Bunnell|date=16 October 1897|page=4|quote="One of the Democrat's Interesting exchanges Is the Mackinaw Witness, pub ■ fished at Mackinaw City, by Rev. G. W. Wood, editor, and Geo. H, Wood, manager...."}}</ref> In November 1897, Wood wrote a letter in the Witness regarding his new colony on [[Mobile Bay]] in Alabama called the [[Fairhope Industrial Association]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Letter dated 1/8/1898 to Rev. G. W. Wood in Fairhope, Alabama from Charles S. Hampton in Petoskey, Michigan.|url=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com/archive/AF64EBE7-0552-425E-863A-901115803397|website=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com|accessdate=4 January 2017|quote="I was considerably interested in a letter which you wrote The Witness and which was published in the issue of No13th, concerning the Fairhope Industrial Assn." ... "a .. colony on the east shore of Mobile Bay, where I understand your colony is located"}}</ref>

=== Progressive Era Politics and Retirement in Alabama ===
[[File:NSRW Mobile - Mobile Bay.jpg|thumb|right|400px| The Fairhope colony was established in 1894 between Battles and Dauphne on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. Wood Jr. arrived in the late 1890s and spent over 20 years there. (Map from 1914)]]
During the [[Progressive Era]], Wood, Jr. moved to [[Fairhope, Alabama]] around 1900<ref>{{cite web|title=George W. Wood papers (ID#02878)|url=http://dplbibdiv.pbworks.com/f/bhc02878.html|website=Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection|accessdate=14 April 2016|quote="Biographical/Historical note:Born in Constantinople to missionary parents, George W. Wood became a Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans in Michigan, the Dakotas and Minnesota. He lived in Fairhope, Alabama about 1900 and was treasurer of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. George W. Wood died on Jan. 21, 1924."}}</ref> (as early as 1897<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wood|first1=George Warren|title=The Country Gentleman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1igiAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA535&dq=%22Baldwin%20county%20%22%20%22G.%20W.%20Wood%22&pg=PA535#v=onepage&q=%22Baldwin%20county%20%22%20%22G.%20W.%20Wood%22&f=false|accessdate=19 April 2017|date=1905|publisher=Luther Tucker & Son|location=Albany, New York|page=535|edition=Volume 70 (June 8, 1905)|quote="this (Baldwin) county [is] 'nature's great sanitarium.' I was here during the epidemic of yellow fever in 1897" - G. W. Wood, talking about Fairhope's healthful climate}}</ref> or 1898<ref>{{cite web|title=Letter dated 1/21/1898 to Rev. G. W. Wood in Fairhope, Alabama from Charles S. Hampton in Petoskey, Michigan.|url=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com/archive/60E8566D-202E-4C30-BCC8-205312032211|website=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com|accessdate=4 January 2017|quote="Letter dated 1/21/1898 to Rev. G. W. Wood in Fairhope, Alabama"}}</ref>). His daughter Sarah Louise Wood married Fairhope pioneer<ref>{{cite news|title=Land and freedom|url=https://archive.org/stream/landfreedom32newyrich/landfreedom32newyrich_djvu.txt|accessdate=19 April 2017|agency=Single Tax Pub. Co|date=June–July 1943|location=New York City :|pages=190-110|quote="CLEMENT L. COLEMAN is dead at the age of eighty. He was one of Fairhope's pioneers and served for two years as member of the Fair- hope Town Council. He is survived by his wife and two children, Genevieve and Henry George Coleman. He was long a subscriber to LAND AND FREEDOM."}}</ref> Clement LeFavre Coleman in 1902,<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Watrous|editor1-first=Jerome A.|title=Memoirs of Milwaikee County|date=1909|publisher=Western Historical Association|location=Madison, WI|page=161|edition=Volume II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yp4yAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Henry%20George%20Coleman%22%20fairhope&pg=PA161#v=onepage&q=%22Henry%20George%20Coleman%22%20fairhope&f=false|accessdate=19 April 2017|quote="...Fairhope Ala., in which latter place he [Clement LeFevre Coleman] has made his home for the last fourteen years. He married on Sep 30, 1902 Sara L., daugher of Rev. George W. Wood of Petoskey, Mich. Their children are Henry George coleman (1903)... and Genevieve Coleman (1906)"}}</ref> and in 1903, George Wood became a charter member <ref>{{cite book|last1=Huntington|first1=Charles White|title=Enclaves of Single Tax or Economic Rent: Being a Compendium of the Legal Documents Involved together with a historical description|date=1922|publisher=Warren Fiske / Merrymount Press|location=Boston|page=23|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=udZXAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA23&ots=NKYUTKi-tR&dq=%22george%20w.%20Wood%22%20fairhope&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q=%22george%20w.%20Wood%22%20fairhope&f=false|accessdate=14 April 2016}}</ref> of the [[Fairhope Single Tax Corporation]]. He was Secretary of the FSTC in 1905,<ref>{{cite web|title=Membership Certificate # 70 in the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (on the old Fairhope Industrial Association form) issued to William A. Baldwin on 3/7/1905|url=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com/archive/9E3D23A3-EC84-4FCB-9360-513083413066|website=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com|accessdate=4 January 2017}}</ref> and was its treasurer from 1908 to at least 1912.<ref>{{cite book|title=Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living|date=1912|publisher=Successful Americans|location=Chicago, IL|pages=453|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unkPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&pg=PA453#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%20married&f=false}}</ref> In 1912, Wood, Jr.'s biography was listed in [[Herringshaw's American blue book of biography]]. As part of the FSTC, Wood became a member of the Fairhope Wharf Company in December 1912<ref>{{cite web|title=Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 12/16/1912|url=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com/archive/C95CAE29-229F-4B40-8546-935611033490|website=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com|accessdate=4 January 2017|quote=G. W. Wood replaces the deceased J. M. Beckner.}}</ref> and became president of the wharf company in January 1913.<ref>{{cite web|title=Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 1/30/1913 in which G.. W. Wood is elected president.|url=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com/archive/AEE7DB63-6B32-4E15-B324-434293100743|website=http://fairhopesingletax.pastperfectonline.com|accessdate=4 January 2017}}</ref> Wood, Jr. lived in Fairhope as late as 1919, where he complained to the [[Lynn Haines|National Voters' League]] about extortion by the railway companies.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wood|first1=G.W.|editor1-last=Haines|editor1-first=Lynn|title=The Searchlight on Congress, and on the Democracy which Gives it Existence, Volumes 4-5|date=1919|location=United States|page=29|edition=Volume IV, Number 4 (August 1919) page 29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCo4AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA3-PA29&ots=Oebf_Knoj5&dq=%22Mackinaw%20Witness%22&pg=RA3-PA29#v=onepage&q=%22Mackinaw%20Witness%22&f=false|accessdate=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCo4AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA3-PA29&ots=Oebf_Knoj5&dq=%22Mackinaw%20Witness%22&pg=RA3-PA29#v=onepage&q=%22Mackinaw%20Witness%22&f=false|format=The Searchlight newsletter|quote=1 column editorial entitled "Where Blanton Blundered","Fairhope, Ala, 11 July 1919.", signed by "G.W. Wood"}}</ref> His wife Harriet Snyder Wood, after bearing Wood, Jr. two sons and five daughters,<ref>{{cite book|title=Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living|date=1912|publisher=Successful Americans|location=Minnesota / Chicago IL|page=453|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unkPAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA453&ots=oZKBx0meWD&dq=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%201844&pg=PA453#v=onepage&q=%22George%20Warren%20Wood%22%201844&f=false|accessdate=8 July 2016}}</ref> died in [[Mount Pleasant, Washington, D.C.]] in 1922.<ref>{{cite news|title=DEATHS|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1922-07-06/ed-1/seq-2/|accessdate=4 January 2017|agency=The Washington herald|date=July 6, 1922|page=2|quote="Harriet Snyder Wood, 77, The Earlington" (The Earlington is now called Claiborne Apartments at 3033 16th St)}}</ref> George Warren Wood Jr. died in 1924.<ref>{{cite web|title=George W. Wood papers (ID#02878)|url=http://dplbibdiv.pbworks.com/f/bhc02878.html|website=Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection|accessdate=14 April 2016|quote="Biographical/Historical note:Born in Constantinople to missionary parents, George W. Wood became a Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans in Michigan, the Dakotas and Minnesota. He lived in Fairhope, Alabama about 1900 and was treasurer of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. George W. Wood died on Jan. 21, 1924."}}</ref>

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Revision as of 21:17, 29 May 2024

This article is about identically named (father and son) Presbyterian missionaries from the United States. For first mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, see George W. Wood.

The elder Reverend George W. Wood as pictured in his 1901 obituary in the Missionary Herald.

George Warren Wood (known professionally as George W. Wood) (1814–1901[1]) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary who became the secretary of the Congregationalist American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was an early missionary to Armenia under Cyrus Hamlin.

His son, also named George Warren Wood, was also a Presbyterian reverend and missionary.

Early life

Dr. Wood was born February 28, 1814, to Samuel and Mehitable (Peabody) Wood in Bradford, Massachusetts, near Haverhill, Massachusetts. Wood attended Bradford Academy and then graduated from Dartmouth College in 1832.[2] After teaching in a religious school in Elizabeth, NJ for four years and studying theology, Dr. Wood entered Princeton Theological Seminary for 6 months before being licensed and ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown.

Career in missions

Mission work in Istanbul and elsewhere

He was ordained a Presbyterian missionary, at Morristown, N.J., on May 20, 1837.[3] With his wife Martha, he served in Singapore East India (May 1838 – June 1840);[2] Smyrna (1842), Trebizond Eyalet in the Ottoman Empire (1842–1843),[4] eight years at Istanbul (March 1842 – July 1850),[2] and associated with the Rev. Cyrus Hamlin in the Bebek Seminary.[5][6] He became in charge of Bebek's Theological department, the first of its kind in Asia Minor[7][8]

Return to the United States and work for the American Board

In 1850 he returned to the United States.[9] In September [2] 1852 he was elected Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions in New York City,[10] and continued in this position until 1871.[3]

In Spring 1855, the ABCFM sent Dr. Wood to visit Choctaw Mission in Oklahoma to resolve a crisis over the abolition issue.[11] After arriving in Stockbridge Mission, Wood spent over two weeks days visiting missions including the Goodwater Mission, Wheelock Academy, Spencer Academy, and other mission schools. He met with missionaries to discuss Selah B Treat's June 22, 1848, letter permitting them to maintain fellowship with slaveholders.[12] Ultimately, the crisis was not resolved, and by 1859, the Board cut ties to the Choctaw mission altogether.

In 1856, Dr. Wood published a "Manual of Christian Theology" in Constantinople in association with Dr. H. G. O. Dwight and Rev. Dr. Edward Riggs.[13]

In addition to his other secretarial duties, Wood assisted in presiding over the historic closure and relocation of the original Broadway Tabernacle in New York City in 1857.

In December 1862, Dr. Wood sailed from New York on his way to assist the Western Turkey Mission with his skills in the Armenian language.[14] He stopped in London for several weeks to meet with the Turkish Missions Aid Society and arrived in Constantinople on March 7, 1863. During this time he also visited the Syria Mission. He returned to the United States June 6, 1864.[15]

Return to missions in Turkey

When the New School Presbyterians withdrew from the American Board, Dr. Wood resumed his missions work in Constantinople for another 16 years from 1871 to 1886.[16] While in Constantinople in 1879, Wood reported Turkish authorities in Amasia brutally persecuting Christian Armenian refugees from Soukoum Kaleh during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78). He was able to coordinate with British Diplomat Edward Malet to bring the matter to the attention of the Sublime Porte, and then to the British foreign secretary Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (the Marquess of Salisbury).[17]

Personal life

Dr. Wood had four wives over the course of his life.

  • Dr. Wood married Martha Maria Johnson (Daughter of Silas & Mary Johnson) on April 24, 1838, and she died in childbirth March 9, 1839.[18]
  • He married again Martha Briggs (Daughter of William Briggs of Boston) on December 29, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mary bore four children (Sarah Johnson 1842, George Warren 1844, Louisa Whitehead 1846, and Henry Magie(sp?) 1849) in Turkey before she returned to the USA 1850–1851 on account of health, and died May 13, 1852.[19]
  • He married a third time, to Mary C Hastings (daughter of Thomas Hastings[20] of New York City, and widow of Daniel Bond[21] ) on January 18, 1855.[22] Mary died March 4, 1862.
  • In 1869, Wood married a fourth time, to Mrs. Sara Ann (McNair) Heylmun, who died August 17, 1901.

References

  1. ^ Greene, Joseph K. (1916). Leavening the Levant. Boston New York Chicago: Pilgrim Press / Rowland & Ives, New York. p. 89. Retrieved April 14, 2016. george w wood bradford massachusetts.
  2. ^ a b c d Robinson, C.S. (1891). Necrological reports and annual proceedings of the Alumni Association Volume 3: 1875–1932 (Volume 3: 1875–1932 ed.). Princeton, N.J: Princeton Theological Seminary. pp. 134–135. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  3. ^ a b Chapman, George Thomas (1867). Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College. Cambridge: Riverside PRess. pp. 265. Retrieved April 11, 2016. George W. Wood Bebek Seminary Morristown, N.J.
  4. ^ Rev. M. P. Parmalee (1892). Proceedings of the ABCFM for the year 1892. Boston: Samuel Usher. p. 229. Retrieved May 1, 2017. Trebizond was occupied as a missionary station in 1853... The following is a list of missionaries who have been connected with the station for at least one year: ... Rev. G. W. Wood, 1842 – 1843"
  5. ^ Proceedings of the ABCFM for the year 1850 (The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volumes 46–47). Boston: T.R. Marvin. 1850. p. 6. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  6. ^ Chapman, George Thomas (1867). Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College. Cambridge: Riverside Press. pp. 265. Retrieved April 11, 2016. George W. Wood Bebek Seminary Morristown, N.J.
  7. ^ McGrew, William (April 16, 2015). Educating across Cultures: Anatolia College in Turkey and Greece. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-4347-7.
  8. ^ Todd, Thomas (1901). The Missionary Herald, Volume 97. Boston: Beacon Press (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)). pp. 357–360.
  9. ^ "Personnel records for George W. Wood". Digital Library for International Research – American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection. American Research Institute in Turkey-Istanbul / Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul. Retrieved August 24, 2016. Ret. USA 1850–1852
  10. ^ "Personnel records for George W. Wood". Digital Library for International Research – American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection. American Research Institute in Turkey-Istanbul / Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul. Retrieved August 24, 2016. Elected Sept 1852 Corresp. Sec'y Board, for N.Y. City
  11. ^ Spring, Joel (1996). The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763–1995: A Basket of Apples. New York, London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). ISBN 0-8058-2303-4. in 1855, the American Board decided to send George Wood to investigate the situation in Indian Missions... While visiting the Choctaw Nation, Wood spent 3 days each at the Wheelock and Spencer Academies, and 9 days at other schools
  12. ^ Cassity, Michael; Goble, Danney (2009). Divided Hearts: The Presbyterian Journey Through Oklahoma History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 77–80. ISBN 978-0-8061-3848-0. Retrieved August 24, 2016. members of the mission met Wood at Goodwater Mission, a school that had been suspended since 1853 ... Part of the key [to cordial discussion] was Wood's decision at the outset to 'drop for the present' the contentious letter from the American Board of June 22, 1848
  13. ^ Ceowell, E. P. OBITUARY RECORD of Graduates of Amherst College for the Academical Year ending June 28, 1893 (Fourth Printed Series, No. 1. ed.). Amherst College. p. 293. Retrieved January 5, 2017. It has been found impossible to obtain a complete list of the works composed, edited or translated by Dr. Riggs. His principal publications are as follows :"... "Manual of Christian Theology, in association with Dr. H. G. O. Dwight and Dr. G. W. Wood. Constantinople, 1856.
  14. ^ Annual Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1863). 42 Congress Street, Boston: T.R. Marvin & Son. 1863. p. 36. Retrieved August 24, 2016. As Dr. Wood was previously located there, and still retained his knowledge of Armenian, ... he sailed from New York ... December 6, 1862 ... Turkish Missions Aid Society detained him in England, a few weeks... did not reach his destination till the 7th of March{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  15. ^ "Personnel records for George W. Wood". Digital Library for International Research – American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection. Amerikan Bord Heyeti (American Board), Istanbul. Returned to Cons'ple Mar 7, 1863, as Secy, &visited [illegible] & Syria Mission... ret to USA June 6, 1864
  16. ^ The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volume 97. Boston: Beacon Press. September 1901. pp. 357–360. Retrieved April 13, 2016. On account of the withdrawal of the New School Presbyterian body from the support of the American Board"... "In the second period of his missionary life at Constantinople (1871–1886)
  17. ^ Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 80. Constantinople: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. 1880. pp. 70–72. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  18. ^ "The Presbyterian Church in Morristown W Alpha Grave Yard". pcmorristown.org. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
  19. ^ "Personnel records for Martha Briggs Wood". Digital Library for International Research – American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection. American Research Institute in Turkey-Istanbul. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  20. ^ Williams, Hermine Weigel (2005). Thomas Hastings: An Introduction to His Life and Music (e-book ed.). New York Lincoln Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-595-81089-5. Retrieved April 13, 2016. footnote #6: Their daughter Mary was married first to Rev Daniel Bond... then to the Rev. George W. Wood
  21. ^ General Catalogue of the Auburn Theological Seminary. Auburn, NY: Daily Advertiser and Weekly Journal Printing House. 1883. pp. 208. Retrieved April 13, 2016. daniel bond hamilton college.
  22. ^ Chapman, George Thomas (1867). Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College. Cambridge: Riverside PRess. p. 265. Retrieved April 13, 2016. George Warren Wood married.
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