David John Mosher Wood (March 4, 1840 – August 16, 1918) was an American Indian agent and Methodist minister.

He served in the military during the Civil War, was a Methodist minister and Indian agent appointed by President Benjamin Harrison.

On March 6, 1861, Eliza Mary Johnson was listed as married contrary to discipline in the Mount Gilead Monthly Meeting records.

On November 5, 1874, John "Berty" Wood died and was buried in Otter Creek Cemetery at Liberty Center, Warren County, Iowa.

Wood's service in the Civil War began as a private in Co. D, 33rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment,[1] he took part in the Battle of Newtonia in Newton County, Missouri.

They were spotted by General James G. Blunt’s Union cavalrymen, McLain’s Colorado light Artillery, supported by the 15th Kansas Cavalry opened on the rebels.

On June 18, 1893, Wood was replaced by James P. Woolsey of Rogers, Arkansas, appointed by Grover Cleveland.

On September 11, 1887, Wood was sent as a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary from the Des Moines conference to the Indian territory and was stationed at Catoosa in the Cherokee nation.

[8] On October 18, 1888, the eighth conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church met at Catoosa, Oklahoma, where Wood was made superintendent of the territory south and west of Arkansas River and Pawhuska.

David's brother, Joseph Mosher Wood, was a delegate from the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends that petitioned President Ulysses S. Grant to take a more gentle approach with the American Indians.