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poor in ideas and ideals; and none more unfortunate than those rich in material floods and poor in ideas.

Charles Singleton Dodd, M. D. Wholly devoted to his professional labors in Petersburg, Virginia, Dr. Charles Singleton Dodd yet is able to hold close association with numerous outside interests in the city of his adoption, and although but a comparatively new member of the medical fraternity of that city is completely identified with all that is best in her institutions and civil life. Dr. Dodd is a native of Halifax county. Virginia, son of a veteran of the war between the states and grandson of a Veteran of the Mexican war. His grand-father. Ralph Dodd was a farmer and stock-raiser of Pittsylvania county, Virginia, where he died in 1870. aged fifty-nine years; he fought in the United States army during the Mexican campaign. He and his wife. Nannie (Johnston) Dodd. who died in 1887. were the parents of six children, of whom three are living: Lou, married James Yates, deceased, and resides at Elba, Virginia ; Robert, resides in Meadsville. Virginia ; and John, lives at Castle Craig, Virginia ; while the three deceased are Rebecca Robertson. Whitt, and William Samuel, of whom further.

William Samuel Dodd. son of Ralph and Nannie (Johnston) Dodd, was born at Chatham, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, August 16, 1840, and died at Brookneal, Campbell county, Virginia. He was a soldier in the Confederate States army from the beginning until the end of the war, in the Thirty-eighth Virginia Regiment. Wise's brigade. Pickett's division. Longstreet's corps. With this regiment he saw some of the hardest fighting of the four years of warfare, and was twice wounded, once on the battlefield at Gettysburg, and once at Bermuda Hundred. William Samuel Dodd married Fannie Taylor Owen, born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, November 10. 1870, now residing at Brookneal, Virginia, daughter of Anderson Owen, a farmer of Sandy Level, Virginia. Anderson Owen was the father of Kate Bennett, Susan Yates. Mrs. Cash Leftridge, Lizzie Robinson, Nannie Thomas, Fannie Taylor, of previous mention, married William Samuel Dodd, Peyton, and . William Samuel and Fannie Taylor (Owen) Dodd had issue: Lou Alice, married J. T. Terry, deceased, of Brookneal ; Nannie Kate, married David Marshall ; John Robert, a farmer of Brookneal, Virginia; Walter Thomas, a physician of Wylliesburg, Virginia ; Dr. Charles Singleton, of whom further : Jamison W., a farmer of Brookneal, Virginia; Ralph .Anderson, a dentist of Chase City, Virginia ; Whitt R.. a dentist of Crewe, Virginia; and Samuel Hudnall, a dentist of Crewe, Virginia.

Dr. Charles Singleton Dodd, son of William Samuel and Fannie Taylor (Owen) Dodd, was born at Meadsville, Halifax county, Virginia, January 5, 1881. His birthplace was his home until he was four years of age, when his parents changed the family residence to Brookneal, Campbell county, Virginia, where he attended the public schools until a lad of fifteen years. Preparing at the Mary Agnes Institute, of Brookneal, he matriculated at the Medical College of Virginia, completing his course and receiving his M. D. in 1904. For seven and one-half years after his graduation Dr. Dodd engaged in general practice in Rockingham county, Virginia, then pursued post-graduate courses in the Presbyterian Eye and Ear Hospital, at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Johns Hopkins University, subsequently studying in the University of Maryland. Thus equipped by thorough study and deep research he established in practice in Petersburg, and in that city specializes in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He is ophthalmologist to the Petersburg Hospital, and has also an extensive private practice to which he gives close attention. Dr. Dodd is highly esteemed in his profession and as a citizen, and has shown himself a supporter of all movements for the advancement and welfare of Petersburg during his short residence in that city. He holds the thirty-second degree in the Masonic order, also affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. His religious convictions are in accordance with the belief of the Baptist church.

Dr. Dodd married at Singer Glen. Rockingham county. Virginia, June 12, 1907, Pauline Funk, born at Singer Glen, daugh- ter of William Clay and Annie (Baer) h'unk. residents of Singer Glen, her father