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George Warren Wood (known professionally as George W. Wood) (1814–1901) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary who became the secretary of the Congregationalist American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was an early missionary to Armenia under Cyrus Hamlin.

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  • George Warren Wood (known professionally as George W. Wood) (1814–1901) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary who became the secretary of the Congregationalist American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was an early missionary to Armenia under Cyrus Hamlin. His son, also named George Warren Wood, was also a Presbyterian reverend and missionary. G. W. Wood Jr. (born in 1844 in Turkey, died January 21, 1924 in Fairhope, Alabama) served Presbyterian missions in Charlevoix, Michigan (1870s), the Montana Territory(1880s), and the Michilimackinaw area (1890s) before retiring to Alabama in 1901 to help start the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. (en)
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  • Bebek was a small village 10 miles north of Constantinople on the Bosphorus. Owing to its location , the Bebek Seminary provided outreach to the local Greek and Armenian population through skilled trades and manufacturing. (en)
  • Wood, Jr. ministered in Wolf Point and Poplar Creek in northeastern Montana Territory from 1880 to 1889. In 1878, the Fort Peck Indian Agency had been relocated from what is shown on the map to its present-day location in Poplar because the original agency was located on a flood plain, suffering floods of the Upper Missouri River each spring. (en)
  • Wood, Jr. ministered in Charlevoix and Petoskey from 1872 to 1879. During this time period, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad opened its line north to Petoskey. He returned to Northern Michigan from ~1893 to 1901, where he published the Mackinaw Witness in Mackinaw City. (en)
  • Rail arrived in northeast Montana in 1887. Shown in this 1900 map are the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways. In 1886-8 Wood, Jr. and his son George H. Wood witnessed signing of an agreement between native tribal leaders and the US government which resulted in re-drawing Fork Peck Reservation boundaries in exchange for federal subsidies. Wood left Montana in 1889, the year Montana became a US State. (en)
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  • George Warren Wood (known professionally as George W. Wood) (1814–1901) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary who became the secretary of the Congregationalist American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was an early missionary to Armenia under Cyrus Hamlin. (en)
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