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Charles Singleton Dodd, M. D. Wholly (ie\-oted to his professional labors in Pe- tersburg, 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 com- ]:>aratively new member of the medical fra- ternity 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. \'irginia, son of a veteran of the war between the states and grandson of a \eteran of the Mexican war. His grand- father. Ralph Dodd was a farmer and stock- raiser of Pittsylvania county, X'irgmia, where he died in 1870. aged fifty-nine years ; he fought in the United States army dur- ing tlie 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, Vir- ginia ; Robert, resides in Meadsville. Vir- ginia ; and John, lives at Castle Craig, Vir- ginia ; 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 sol- dier 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. Long- street'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 Sam- uel Dodd married Fannie Taylor Owen, born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, No- vember 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, !-^usan Yates. Mrs. Cash Leftridge, Lizzie Robinson, Nannie Thomas, Fannie Taylor, of previous mention, married William Sam- uel Dodd, Peyton, and. William

Samuel and Fannie Taylor (Owen) Dodd

had issue: Lou Alice, married J. T. Terry, deceased, of Brookneal ; Nannie Kate, mar- ried David Marshall ; John Robert, a farmer of Brookneal, Virginia; Walter Thomas, a physician of Wylliesburg, Virginia ; Dr. Charles Singleton, of whom further : Jami- son 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 Wil- liam 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, \'irginia, 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 \'irginia, 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 Rock- ingham county, \'irginia, 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 Univer- sity, subsequently studying in the L^niver- sity of Maryland. Thus equipped by thor- ough 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 ex- tensive private practice to which he gives close attention. Dr. Dodd is highly es- teemed in his profession and as a citizen, and has shown himself a supporter of all movements for the advancement and wel- fare of Petersburg during his short resi- dence in that city. He holds the thirty-sec- ond degree in the Masonic order, also affi- liates 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. Rock- ingham county. \'irginia, 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