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.[1]
Rev. George Ingersoll Wood was born in Stamford, Connecticut. He was the son of Hon. Joseph Wood and Frances Ellsworth, daughter of Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth.[2][3]
He graduated from Yale College in 1833 and the Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1838. While at Yale he was a founding member of The Skull and Bones Society. He and his wife Susan, married in 1840, had four children.
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.[2] Beginning in 1868, he took a year and a half of respite in St. Cloud, Minnesota, serving in the town's First Congregational church.[2]
He died at age 84 in Washington, D.C.
Family
editHe married Susan Townsend Merwin, daughter of Rev. Samuel Merwin and Clarina B. Taylor, on 28 April 1840 at New Haven, Connecticut.
Children of Rev. George Ingersoll Wood and Susan Townsend Merwin:
- Emily Merwin Wood+ b. 11 Feb 1841, d. 18 May 1916
- Brig. Gen. Oliver Ellsworth Wood+ b. 6 Jun 1844, d. 4 Dec 1910
- George Ingersoll Wood b. 12 Feb 1850, d. 15 Apr 1877
- Joseph Wolcott Wood b. 12 Oct 1851, d. 3 May 1877
References
edit- ^ Millegan, Kris (2003). "The Skeleton Crew". Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society. Walterville, OR: Trine Day. pp. 597–690. ISBN 0-9720207-2-1. "This list is compiled from material from the Order of Skull and Bones membership books at Sterling Library, Yale University and other public records. The latest books available are the 1971 Living members and the 1973 Deceased Members books. The last year the members were published in the Yale Banner is 1969."
- ^ a b c d Smith, Ralph Dunning (1877). The History of Guilford, Connecticut: From Its First Settlement in 1639. Albany, NY: J. Munsell. pp. 114–115. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ^ a b Yale University (1900). Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor. pp. 590–591. Retrieved 5 November 2017.