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Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The
Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties,
State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing
Co., 1904.
BYRUM S. DODD lives at St. Andrews,
in Douglas county, where he has a fine estate of four hundred and eighty
acres, which is in a high state of cultivation and cropped mostly to small
grains. He was born in Knox county, Ohio, on August, 12, 1851.
His parents, Josephus and Sarah (Rines) Dodd, were natives of Ohio and
pioneers to Illinois. In Whiteside county of the latter state our
subject received his education and there remained for thirty-four years,
engaged in farming. It was in 1890, that he came to Douglas county
and settled on a pre-emption, taking also later a timber culture and homestead,
which now make the estate mentioned above. The soil is very fertile
and is handled skilfully for the production of grain. Mr. Dodd has
a good orchard of well selected fruit besides various other improvements
on the farm. He raises cattle besides some other stock.
Mr. Dodd has one brother and three sisters,
Stephen, Mrs. Mary M. Austin, Mrs. Phoebe E. Seavey and Mrs. Vianne Bills,
deceased. At Morrison, Illinois, on December 15, 1874, Mr. Dodd married
Miss Charlotte A., daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Courtney) Elliott, natives
of New York city. Mrs. Dodd was born in New York city, on January
1, 1856, and has two brothers, John and Thomas. To Mr. and Mrs. Dodd
two children have been born; Sarah E., in Illinois, on March 11, 1876 and
is at present postmistress at St. Andrews; Alfred J., in Illinois, on August
12, 1880. Mr. Dodd is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the M. W. A.
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