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A. WILSON DODS, M.D. a leading physician of Fredonia, was born at Dingwall, Dumfries county, Scotland, January 27, 1854, and is a son of Thomas P. and Catherine (Wilson) Dods. John Dods, (great-grandfather) was born in the same place about the year 1770. His son, Marcus Dods, was born in Dumfries county, about 1800 and was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he attained the degree of A.M. He removed to Belford, England, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church until his death, which occurred in 1837. He married Sarah Palliser, between 1817 and 1820, and had three sons and four daughters, five of whom are still living. The maternal grandfather was Abraham Wilson. He tilled the soil and was commander of a company of militia in his native town and married Mary Tod, about 1811, who became the mother of three sons and four daughters. One of each is dead. Mr. Wilson was a strict member of the Scotch Presbyterian church. Thomas P. Dods was born at Belford, Northumberland county, England, March 2, 1823, and moved to Edinburgh, Scotland and studied at the university and later farmed at Edington Main, Scotland, afterwards going to Wigtonshire, Scotland, and engaging as land agent for an estate. He was married to Katherine Wilson, who was born in Edington Main, Scotland, June 3, 1819, in 1848, and had six children, three sons and three daughters: Marcus (dead), A. Wilson, John (dead), Mary Tod (dead), Sarah P. (dead), and Katherine W., at home. Mr. Dods has been engaged as a land-agent, lawyer, valuer and farmer all his life, part of the time having charge of the Aylesby estate at Lincolnshire, England, and now lives at Northumberland, England, politically a liberal unionist, and an elder in the Presbyterian church.

A. Wilson Dods came to America when eighteen years old. The first year was spent working on a farm at West Charleston, New York, and in November 1873, he came to Fredonia and attended the Normal school, doing farm work through vacation. He graduated in June, 1875, and went to the Syracuse Medical University for one year, and in 1876 was a student in Dr. Couch’s office. During 1877 he attended the lectures of the New York Homeopathic Institute, and graduated at Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, in Feb., 1878. Dr. Dods then settled at Silver Creek, this county, and practiced until 1885, when he went to Scotland and took a post-graduate course in the Edinburgh Medical university, and was assistant to Dr. George S. Woodhead, pathologist of the Royal Infirmary. He returned to Fredonia in June, 1886, where he has since been practicing.

December 12, 1878, Dr. Dods married Aura S. Porter, daughter of John N. Porter, of Brocton, and has four children: Thomas P., dead, born in 1879; John P., born in 1881; Katherine W., born in 1883; and Marcus, born in 1890.

Dr. A. W. Dods is a democrat, a member of the Presbyterian church and is the Worthy Master of Forest Lodge, No. 66, F. & A. M. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Homeopathic Society of western New York, the American Society of Microscopists and the Buffalo Microscopal Club. He is deeply interested in research of all scientific matters, is a fine physician, has the confidence and esteem of his patients, and the respect and admiration of his professional associates.