George Warren Wood

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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.

Missionary career

He was ordained a Presbyterian missionary, at Morristown, N.J., in 1837.[2] With his wife Martha, he served in Singapore (1838); Smyrna (1842), eight years at Constantinople, and associated with the Rev. Cyrus Hamlin in the Bebek Seminary.[3][4] He became in charge of Bebek's Theological department, the first of its kind in Asia Minor[5][6]

In 1852 he became Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, and continued in this position until 1871.[7]

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.[8]

Personal life

Dr. Wood married Martha Maria Johnson (Daughter of Silas & Mary Johnson) on April 24, 1838, and she died in childbirth 9 Mar 1839.[9] He married again Martha Briggs (Daughter of William Briggs of Boston) on December 29, 1841 in Philadephia, PA. He married a third time, to Mary C Hastings (daughter of Thomas Hastings[10] of New York City, and widow of Daniel Bond[11] ) on January 18, 1855.[12]

His son, also named George Warren Wood, was born in 1844[13] in Turkey [14] After graduating from Hamilton College in 1865, he taught and pursued advanced studies at the college of the City of New York. [15] Rev. Wood, Jr became ordained as a presbyterian pastor in the Saginaw Presbytery[16] and domestic missionary for the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions in Au Sable and Oscoda in January 1872[17] and then arrived in Charlevoix, Michigan in late November 1872.[18] to be appointed a Home Missionary in that place in 1873[19] [20] Wood, Jr. ministered in Charlevoix, Michigan and Bear River, Michigan from January 1874[21] to 1879[22] [23] and at the Dakota Mission (Fort Peck/Wolf Point)[24][25] from 1880-1889.[26][27] From 1892 to 1893 Wood, Jr. was a home missionary in Lakefield, Michigan in the upper peninsula of Michigan.[28] He briefly published a newspaper at Mackinaw called the "Mackinaw Witness" before he moved to Fairhope, Alabama around 1900[29] and became a charter member (in 1903)[30] of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. He was its treasurer from 1908 to at least 1912. .[31] George Warren Wood Jr. died in 1924.[32]

References

  1. ↑ Greene, Joseph K. (1916). Leavening the Levant. Boston New York Chicago: Pilgrim Press / Rowland & Ives, New York. p. 89. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Chapman, George Thomas (1867). Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College. Cambridge: Riverside PRess. p. 265. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  3. ↑ 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 11 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Chapman, George Thomas (1867). Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College. Cambridge: Riverside Press. p. 265. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Todd, Thomas (1901). The Missionary Herald, Volume 97. Boston: Beacon Press (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)). pp. 357–360.
  7. ↑ Chapman, George Thomas (1867). Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College. Cambridge: Riverside PRess. p. 265. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  8. ↑ The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad, Volume 97. Boston: Beacon Press. September 1901. pp. 357–360. Retrieved 13 April 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 misisonary life at Constantinople (1871 - 1886)
  9. ↑ http://www.pcmorristown.org/about-us/graveyard/alphabetical-index-of-interments/w-alpha-grave-yard
  10. ↑ 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 13 April 2016. footnote #6: Their daughter Mary was married first to Rev Daniel Bond... then to the Rev. George W. Wood
  11. ↑ General Catalogue of the Auburn Theological Seminary. Auburn, NY: Daily Advertiser and Weekly Journal Printing House. 1883. p. 208. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  12. ↑ Chapman, George Thomas (1867). Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College:. Cambridge: Riverside PRess. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  13. ↑ Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living. Chicago, IL: Successful Americans. 1912. p. 453.
  14. ↑ http://charlevoix.migenweb.net/births/birth033.htm
  15. ↑ Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock (1877). Biographical Record of the Class of 1865, of Hamilton College. p. 77. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  16. ↑ Minutes of the Synod of Michigan. Detroit: Tribune Book and Job Office. 1883. pp. 42–43. Retrieved 4 May 2016. The Sagniaw Presbytery reports... Geo. W. Wood has received ordination
  17. ↑ The Presbyterian Monthly Record of the PCUSA Volume 22. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1871. p. 70. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  18. ↑ "Rosa Nettleton excerpts from the Charlevoix Sentinel for the year 1872". Charlevoix Public Library. Retrieved 4 May 2016. 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.
  19. ↑ 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. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1873. p. 78. Home Mission Appointments made in January 1873...Rev. Geo. W. Wood, Charlevoix ch., Mich.
  20. ↑ Nettleton, Rosa. "Highlights of Charlevoix History 1869 to 1906 from the Charlevoix Sentinel". http://www.charlevoixlibrary.org/sites/default/files/RogerGowell/Nettleton/nettleton-main.htm. Retrieved 14 April 2016. 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. External link in |website= (help)
  21. ↑ Presbyterian Monthly Record of the PCUSA Vol 25. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1874. p. 70.
  22. ↑ Minutes of the General Assembly of the PCUSA - United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Volume 5, Part 2. New York: Presbyterian Board of Publication. 1879. p. 888. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  23. ↑ Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock (1877). Biographical Record of the Class of 1865, of Hamilton College. p. 77. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  24. ↑ Crawford, Suzanne; Kelley, Dennis (2005). American Indian Religious Traditions, An Encyclopedia: A-I. Santa Barbara, California / Denver, Colorado / Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO. p. 536. ISBN 1-57607-517-6. Retrieved 13 April 2016. In 1880 George W. Wood established a Presbyterian mission at Fort Peck
  25. ↑ The Church at Home and Abroad, Volume 2. Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work (General Assembly of the PCUSA). 1887. p. 71. Wolf Point, Montana Territory: On the Missouri river... 1883; missionaries, Rev. George W. Wood Jr., and his wife.
  26. ↑ Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living. Chicago, IL: Successful Americans. 1912. p. 453.
  27. ↑ 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. New York: Mission House (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions). 1885–1886. p. 59.
  28. ↑ Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living. Chicago, IL: Successful Americans. 1912. p. 453.
  29. ↑ "George W. Wood papers (ID#02878)". Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection. Retrieved 14 April 2016. 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.
  30. ↑ Huntington, Charles White (1922). Enclaves of Single Tax or Economic Rent: Being a Compendium of the Legal Documents Involved together with a historical description. Boston: Warren Fiske / Merrymount Press. p. 23. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  31. ↑ Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day: Containing Biographies of Prominent Americans Now Living. Chicago, IL: Successful Americans. 1912. p. 453.
  32. ↑ "George W. Wood papers (ID#02878)". Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection. Retrieved 14 April 2016. 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.


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