W. Raymond Wood, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Thomas Fanning Wood was born on February 23, 1841, in Wilmington, North Carolina.

He was a physician, medical journalist, and public health administrator. After completing his secondary education in the Wilmington public schools, he worked in a local drugstore and studied medicine under several physicians. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he volunteered for military duty in 1861. While serving as a hospital steward in Richmond, Virginia, he attended lectures at the Medical College of Virginia. After he passed a medical examination, the Army Medical Board appointed him an assistant surgeon with the rank of captain. Dr. Wood served with the 3rd North Carolina Regiment, Jackson's Corps, participating in several important battles, e.g., Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. When the war ended in 1865, he established a successful medical practice in Wilmington. In 1877, the State Medical Society elected Dr. Wood Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Health, a position he held until his death. In 1878, he founded the North Carolina Medical Journal and became its editor. In 1886, he started to compile and edit the Board of Health's Bulletin, a monthly newsletter. Dr. Wood served as secretary (1867–1871) and president (1881–1882) of the North Carolina Medical Society. In 1868, he was awarded an honorary M.D. degree by the University of Maryland and, in 1890, an honorary LL.D. degree by the University of North Carolina. In his free time, he studied botany and was recognized as one of the state's leading botanists.

In 1875, he married Mary Kennedy Sprunt (1848–1932). He died on August 22, 1892, in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Thomas Bond Wood was born on March 17, 1844, in Lafayette, Indiana.

He was a Methodist missionary, educator, and social reformer. He graduated from Indiana Asbury, later DePauw University, (M.A., 1866) and Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut (M.A., 1867). During his studies, he taught German and natural science at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts (1864–1867). The New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church ordained him deacon in 1867 and elder in 1868. He transferred to the North-West Indiana Conference, where he served as president of Valparaiso College (1867–1869) before he was appointed a missionary to Argentina in 1877. At Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina, Wood initially served the English-speaking congregation but within a year conducted services in Spanish, German, and Portuguese. In 1873, he was appointed as U.S. Consul in Rosario, serving until 1878. In 1875, he qualified to practice law in Argentina. From 1877 to 1881, he served in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he founded the first Spanish Protestant religious newspaper, El Evangelista, in 1877. In 1884, he became director of a Protestant day school in Uruguay and then returned to Argentina, where he was president of the Buenos Aires Theological Seminary (1889–1891). He translated the Book of Luke into the language of the Incas. Wood organized a Latin American chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and founded a chapter of the Good Templars. He also introduced Methodism in Panama, initiated the Y.M.C.A. and the University Club for Americans there and promoted education for the natives of the Canal Zone. After a nervous breakdown, he returned to the U.S. in 1913 and retired in 1915.

In 1867, he married Ellen Dow (1840–1926). He died on December 18, 1922, in Tacoma, Washington.