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{{about|identically named (father and son) Presbyterian missionaries from 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|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''') (
His son, also named [[George Warren Wood Jr|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 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:
== Career in missions ==
=== Mission work in
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>
=== 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|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.
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 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&
=== 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&
== 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>
* 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>
* 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.
* In 1869, Wood married a fourth time, to Mrs. Sara Ann (McNair) Heylmun, who died August 17, 1901.
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