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{{Short description|American Presbyterian missionary (1814–1901)}}
{{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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'''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.|
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: 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|
== Career in missions ==
=== 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.|
▲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.|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 name="auto3" /> 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/?id=z8sWAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA229&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 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/?id=jdlGAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA6&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=[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.|accessdate=11 April 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/?id=FT99CAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA25&dq=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&f=false | title=Educating across Cultures: Anatolia College in Turkey and Greece| isbn=978-1-4422-4347-7| last1=McGrew| first1=William| date=2015-04-16}}</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/?id=JkEUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA358&dq=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&pg=PA358#v=onepage&q=George%20W.%20Wood%20Bebek%20Seminary&f=false}}</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
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=
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|
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
* He married again Martha Briggs (Daughter of William Briggs of Boston) on December 29, 1841, in Philadelphia,
* 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&
* In 1869, Wood married a fourth time, to Mrs. Sara Ann (McNair) Heylmun, who died August 17, 1901.
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