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George W. (George Warren) Wood
1814–1901
A 19th-century missionary and church leader, he spent years in the Ottoman Empire before helping guide one of America’s major foreign mission boards. His life joined travel, ministry, education, and administration in a way that opened a window onto a fast-changing religious world.
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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 Massachusetts in 1814, George W. Wood—George Warren Wood—became a Presbyterian minister and missionary. Sources agree that he is best known for work in the Ottoman Empire and later for serving as secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
He was educated at Hamilton College and went overseas as an early missionary connected with work in Armenia, where he was associated with Cyrus Hamlin. Later, he took on a larger administrative role in American Protestant missions, helping direct and organize overseas efforts during the mid-19th century.
Wood died in 1901. Though not widely remembered today, his career reflects a period when American religious life was closely tied to education, publishing, and global missionary networks.