George Warren Wood

[3] With his wife Martha, he served in Singapore East India (May 1838 – June 1840);[2] Smyrna (1842), Trebizond Eyalet in the Ottoman Empire (1842–1843),[4] eight years at Istanbul (March 1842 – July 1850),[2] and associated with the Rev.

[9] In September [2] 1852 he was elected Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions in New York City,[10] and continued in this position until 1871.

[13] In addition to his other secretarial duties, Wood assisted in presiding over the historic closure and relocation of the original Broadway Tabernacle in New York City in 1857.

[15] When the New School Presbyterians withdrew from the American Board, Dr. Wood resumed his missions work in Constantinople for another 16 years from 1871 to 1886.

[16] While in Constantinople in 1879, Wood reported Turkish authorities in Amasia brutally persecuting Christian Armenian refugees from Soukoum Kaleh during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78).

The elder Reverend George W. Wood as pictured in his 1901 obituary in the Missionary Herald .