Emily Wood

Name/Title

Emily Wood

Entry/Object ID

2025.215.9

Description

Emily Katherine Wood was born in August 1900 in New York to Samuel Wood and Catherine Kelly, the seventh of their eight children. Her parents had both emigrated to the United States – her father from England, and her mother from Ireland. By 1910 the family had moved to Stonington, where her parents and older siblings were employed by the American Velvet Company. She graduated in the class of 1919 from Stonington High School, and later attended the Hartford Hospital Training School for Nurses. In 1925 she married Andrew H. McGowan of Stonington. They were wed on July 2nd, at Saint Mary’s Church. After their marriage, they settled on Edgewood Street in Hartford, where Andrew had a job at the Aetna Life Insurance Company. Emily worked as a nurse. It appears that Emily and Andrew had no children. In the 1970s, they moved to Florida, after living in Manchester, Connecticut. Emily died in January 1991, at the age of ninety.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Tingley, Geo. E.

Role

Photographer

Date made

1919

Time Period

20th Century