George Wood Wingate
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George Wood Wingate (1840-1928) was an American lawyer and organizer of rifle practice. During the Civil War he served in a New York regiment, and later supervised the construction of elevated railways in Brooklyn. In 1867 Wingate drew up rules for systematic rifle practice by Company A, 22d regiment, New York National Guard, of which he was then captain. The publication of these rules (the first of the kind to be formulated in the United States) led to the organization (in 1871) of the National Rifle Association of America, of which he was first secretary and later president for 25 years. Besides special articles on military subjects he published:
- Manual for Rifle Practice (1872; seventh edition, 1880)
- The Great Cholera Riots (1880)
- Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback (1886)
- History of the 22d Regiment, N. G. N. Y. (1896)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
