Margaret Burke was the sister of Mathew Carey. Not long after her portrait was taken, she followed her brother to the United States. She married a Baltimore sea captain named James Burke, who presently abandoned her and their children. She moved to Philadelphia and for a while worked as a school mistress and a milliner., Gift of Mrs. H. Lea (Mary) Hudson, 1994.
Pastel portrait of Wood seated at a desk. Wood was the 30th President of the St. Andrew's Association. Exhibited in the Library Company of Philadelphia's exhibition, The Living Book: New Perspectives on Form and Function (2017-2018).
