page_title: Leonard Wood
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Leonard Wood / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: "The Woman Citizen" Mrs. Leonard G. Woods https://books.google.com/books?id=KtMRAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA252
context_page_description: Leonard Wood was a United States Army major general, physician, and public official. He served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Military Governor of Cuba, and Governor General of the Philippines. He began his military career as an army doctor on the frontier, where he received the Medal of Honor. During the Spanish–American War, he commanded the Rough Riders, with Theodore Roosevelt as his second-in-command. Wood was bypassed for a major command in World War I, but then became a prominent Republican Party leader and a leading candidate for the 1920 presidential nomination.
  Born in Winchester, New Hampshire, Wood became an army surgeon after earning a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School. He received the Medal of Honor for his role in the Apache Wars and became the personal physician to the President of the United States. At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Wood and Roosevelt organized the Rough Riders, a volunteer cavalry regiment. Wood was promoted to the rank of brigadier general during the war and fought in the Battle of San Juan Hill and other engagements.
context_section_description: Wood was serving in Monterey, California in 1888 when he met Louise Adriana Condit Smith (1869–1943), who was vacationing with her uncle and legal guardian, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field.  They married in Washington, DC on November 18, 1890 with the entire Supreme Court in attendance.   The Woods were the parents of three children, Leonard, Jr., Osborne, and Luisita (Louise).
  Leonard Wood Jr. (1892-1931) was a Cornell University graduate who attained the rank of captain while serving in the Army during World War I, but was plagued by financial difficulties and ill health afterwards.
  Osborne Cutler Wood (1897-1950) left Harvard University to serve in World War I, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel after the war.  After leaving the Army he relocated to New Mexico, where he was commissioned as a brigadier general and appointed as adjutant general of the New Mexico National Guard.
  Louise Barbara Wood (1900-1960) served with Anne Morgan's American Friends in France relief organization during World War I.  Louise Wood took an interest in preserving her father's legacy.  In 1952, she attended the opening of a park in Cuba which included a plaque commemorating her father's Spanish-American War service and the shack in which Walter Reed conducted the research that proved mosquitoes are the cause of malaria.
caption: Louise Adriana Condit Smith Wood (1918)
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