George Augustus Wood
George Augustus Wood was born on October 3, 1816, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to John and Elizabeth Wood. He married Susanna Seraphina Wood on March 22, 1843, and their daughter Emma was born around 1848. They lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he worked as a merchant. By 1870, they owned $100,000 of personal property. He traveled abroad with his wife in 1878, and his passport application described him as 5 feet, 3 inches tall, with gray hair and “bluish gray” eyes.
According to a local writer, he served as a “vestryman of St. James’ Protestant Episcopal Church, and was associated with the management of a number of private and public charities.” He served as president of the Crane Iron Company and a director of the Westmoreland Coal Company and the Buck Mountain Coal Company. He was also president of the local children’s hospital from 1870 until 1875, and he helped oversee the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. He died of pneumonia in Philadelphia on March 14, 1883.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (4828) | Wood, George Augustus | 1816-10-03 | 1883-03-14 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (13376) [writer] ~ George A. Wood to Mother, 30 June 186X
People - Records: 6
- (4828) Wood, George Augustus is the [sibling-in-law of] (4815) Wild, Edward Augustus
- (4828) Wood, George Augustus is the [sibling-in-law of] (4816) Wild, Walter Henry
- (4828) Wood, George Augustus is the [sibling-in-law of] (4817) Phipps, Laura Matilda
- (4828) Wood, George Augustus is the [husband of] (4818) Wood, Susanna Seraphina
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1850 and 1870 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915, available from Ancestry.com; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Death Certificates Index, 1803-1915, available from Ancestry.com; U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925, available from Ancestry.com; The Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer, 17 March 1883; Josiah Granville Leach, The History of the Girard National Bank of Philadelphia, 1832-1902 (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1902)
