page_title: George Warren Wood
section_title: Progressive Era Politics and Retirement in Alabama
hierarchical_section_title: George Warren Wood / George Warren Wood, Junior / Progressive Era Politics and Retirement in Alabama
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Mobile Bay, Alabama, and surrounding towns.
context_page_description: George Warren Wood 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. served Presbyterian missions in Charlevoix, Michigan, the Montana Territory, and the Michilimackinaw area before retiring to Alabama in 1901 to help start the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
context_section_description: During the Progressive Era, Wood, Jr. moved to Fairhope, Alabama around 1900 (as early as 1897 or 1898). His daughter Sarah Louise Wood married Fairhope pioneer Clement LeFavre Coleman in 1902, and in 1903, George Wood became a charter member  of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. He was Secretary of the FSTC in 1905, and was its treasurer from 1908 to at least 1912. In 1912, Wood, Jr.'s biography was listed in Herringshaw's American blue book of biography. As part of the FSTC, Wood became a member of the Fairhope Wharf Company in December 1912 and became president of the wharf company in January 1913. Wood, Jr. lived in Fairhope as late as 1919, where he complained to the National Voters' League about extortion by the railway companies. His wife Harriet Snyder Wood, after bearing Wood, Jr. two sons and five daughters, died in Mount Pleasant, Washington, D.C. in 1922.  George Warren Wood Jr. died in 1924.
caption: The Fairhope colony was established in 1894 between Battles and Dauphne on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. Wood Jr. arrived in the late 1890s and spent over 20 years there. (Map from 1914)
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