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Charles Wood correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-026

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of eight volumes of the compiled correspondence of Charles Wood. Each volume contains personal correspondence from family and friends related to Wood's education, news of his family, and discussions of social outings and cricket. This collection is foldered.

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1862-1869
  • Creation: 1862-1928

Creator

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Charles Wood (1851-?) was born June 3, 1851, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of John T. Wood and May Lyon Wood. Wood was educated at Haverford College, where he received his bachelor's in 1870 and master's in 1873, and Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was given the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1885. After his graduation from Princeton, Wood was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church. He served as a pastor at the Central Church, Buffalo, New York (1873-1878), the First Church at Germantown, Pennsylvania (1886-1896), the Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1896-1908), and the Church of the Covenant of Washington D.C. (1908 until his retirement in 1928).

Charles Wood was also an author, and his works included "Saunterings in Europe" (1882), "Beginning Life" (1887), "Friends and Foes of Youth" (1898), and "Some Moral and Religious Aspects of War" (1915).

Charles Wood married Mary Hollingsworth Morris in 1883, and the couple had six children: Margaret E. (1883), William P. (1884), Emily (1887), James S. (1889), Mary E. (1890), and Catherine N. (1891). After the death of Mary in 1891, Wood married Alice Cox in 1905.

Charles Wood died in New York in 1936.

Extent

1.16 linear ft. (8 volumes, 1 folder)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Charles Wood was born a Quaker and later became a Presbyterian minister. This collection is comprised of eight volumes of his compiled correspondence. Each volume contains personal correspondence from family and friends related to Wood's education, news of his family, and discussions of social outings and cricket.

Acquisition

Unknown.

Related Materials

  • HC.MC.1140 Morris Wistar Wood papers
  • HC.MC.1192 William Warder Cadbury and Catherine J. Cadbury papers

Processing Information

Processed by Kara Flynn; completed August, 2015.

Subject

Title
Charles Wood correspondence, 1862-1869
Author
Kara Flynn
Date
August, 2015
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

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