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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: [INMONROE] Dr. James F. Dodds Dies
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 16:28:12 -0500

Bloomington (IN) Republican Progress, Dec 22, 1886, p. 2. NOTE: If there
was an obit for Dodds on page three, I didn't get it.

As was forshadowed in last week's paper, Dr. James F. Dodds died on
Wednesday night last at his home in this city, with pneumoniaa. The
"County History" says of him:

"Dr. J. F. Doddss, second son and child in a family of eleven children,
born Nov. 1, 1807, was reared in Lincoln County, Kentucky. His parents,
Samuel and Rachel (Rhemhart) Dodds, natives of Virginia and Kentucky
respectively, came to Bloomington in 1819, where our subject was educated
in the district schools. When 20 years of age he entered the State
University from which he graduated in 1834. He taught for several years in
the University and for one year in Cumberland College, Kentucky. In 1839
he began reading medicine, and soon after entered the Louisville Medical
College. August 1840 he entered into a partnership with Dr. Mitchell and
began the regular practice in Corydon, Indiana, where he remained for five
years, constantly busy, in a lucrative practice. He has been an elder in
the Presbyterian Church for several years. From 1862 to 1882, he was
examining surgeon in the Pension Department. On December 12, 1838, he was
married to Mary A. Wylie, a daughter of Dr. Samuel Wylie, first President
of the State University. They have eight children. Politically he was a
Republican."

It will be seen that this is full of inaccuracies. The sketch on the third
page is correct.

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