Anna Cogswell Wood

Anna "Annie" Cogswell Wood (born in Winchester, VA, August 2, 1850, died in Florence, Italy, February 9, 1940) was an American writer, art collector, teacher, and the co-founder of Leache-Wood Seminary in Norfolk, Virginia.

In 1850 he moved his wife and newborn daughter, Annie Cogswell Wood, to New York.

Anna Wood was a student and Irene Leache was a newly hired faculty member.

[1] Wood's great-grandfather's name was Dr. Nathaniel Cogswell, a shipping merchant and gunrunner in the mid 18th century.

[1] Wood and Leache are both buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk City, Virginia.