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WOOD, George, author, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1799; died in Saratoga Springs, New York. 24 August, 1870. He studied under Samuel L. Knapp, and removed with his mother and family to Alexandria, Virginia, in 1816. He was a clerk in the war department in 1819-'22, and in the treasury in 1822-'45, after which he removed to New York, but returned to Washington, resumed his clerical labors in the treasury department, and became chief of the navigation division. Mr. Wood contributed to the "Knickerbocker Magazine" in 1846-'7, and to the "National Era," of Washington, and other periodicals. He published "Peter Schlemihl in America" (Philadelphia, 1848) ; "The Modern Pilgrim: showing the Improvements in Travel, with the Newest Methods of Reaching the Celestial City" (2 vols., Boston, 1855); "Marrying Too Late: a Tale" (New York, 1856) : and "Future Life, or Scenes in Another World" (1858). On the publication of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's "Gates Ajar," Mr. Wood's last-named book was reissued with the title "The Gates Wide Open" (Boston, 1869), and four editions were sold in one week.
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