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George W. (George Warren) Wood
1814–1901
An early American missionary, church leader, and writer, he spent decades helping shape Protestant missions from the Ottoman Empire to the United States. His life joined on-the-ground service with influential administrative work for one of the 19th century's major missionary boards.
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Report of Mr. Wood's Visit to the Choctaw and Cherokee Missions. 1855
by George W. (George Warren) Wood
About the author
Born in 1814, George Warren Wood was known professionally as George W. Wood. He was a Presbyterian minister and missionary who later became secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, a role that gave him a major hand in directing missionary work in the 19th century.
Before moving into leadership, he served as an early missionary in Armenia under Cyrus Hamlin. Sources on his life also connect him with mission work in places including Singapore, showing how widely his career ranged across the missionary world of his time.
Wood died in 1901. Remembered both as a field missionary and as a longtime organizer behind the scenes, he represents a generation of religious workers whose letters, reports, and published accounts linked distant missions to readers back home.