George Ingersoll Wood (May 20, 1814 – January 9, 1899) was an American Congregationalist clergyman and a founding member of Yale's Skull and Bones Society.
[2][3] He graduated from Yale College in 1833 and the Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1838.
Wood was ordained in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 1840, and pastored the Second Presbyterian Church there for a year.
[3] He was then pastor in several of the Congregational churches of Connecticut: West Hartford (1842–1844), North Branford (1844–1850, 1855–1858), Ellington (1850–1854, 1869–1870), and Guilford (1858–1867).
[2] During these years he had repeated bronchial sickness that required him to take leave from his pulpit.