Ancestry of Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood

Leader of the Rough Riders

Leonard Wood

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Charles Jewett Wood 
  • Mother:
  • Caroline Elizabeth Hagar   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Oct 1860 
  • Birth Location:
  • Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Aug 1927 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  • 16 Aug 1927 
  • Burial Location:
  • Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington Co., Virginia 
  • Notes: 

  • Leader of Teddy Roosevelt's “Rough Riders” during the Spanish-American War.

    Military Governor of Cuba

    Governor General of the Philippines

• Marriages for Leonard Wood

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  • Spouse:
  • Louise Adriana Condit Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Nov 1890
  • Marriage Location:
  • Washington, D.C.

• Sources for Leonard Wood

  • ¹ Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929, Death record for Leonard Wood.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Barnstable County, 1870, Sandwich, p. 91, Image 91 of 94.
  • ³ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, p. 335, Gen. No. 2071, Application for Major General Leonard Wood.
  • ⁴ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, p. 332, Gen. No. 2071, Supplemental for Major General Leonard Wood.
  • ⁵ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, p. 514, Gen. No. 2071, Supplemental for Major General Leonard Wood.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/25/2021).
  • ⁷ New Hampshire, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1714-1904, Birth record for unnamed son of Charles J Wood.
  • ⁸ Washington, D.C., U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1830-1921, Marriage record for Leonard Wood and Louise Adriana Condit Smith.
  • ⁹ Hobbs, William Herbert, Leonard Wood: Administrator, Soldier, and Citizen, New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons (1920).
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 479.