Wood then studied for his Bachelor of Divinity degree at Yale and completed it in 1892, the same year he met and married his wife, Katherine Hastings.

[1] Katherine bore him two children, Constance and Edna, who both went to get collegiate degrees.

He taught for a short time at the University of Chicago before taking a job as a professor of Biblical literature and comparative religion at Smith College in 1893.

Wood had served on Ginling's Board of Founders for an extensive period of time.

He retired from Smith College in 1930 and took trips back to China to guest lecture at Ginling and visit his daughter, who was a missionary.