Biographical Sketch of C. Ransom Woodson, Agency Township, Buchanan 
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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C. Ransom Woodson, physician and surgeon, Agency, was born in Knox
County, Kentucky, May 17, 1848, and with his parents emigrated to
Missouri in 1855.  Then located for one year in Lafayette County, 
then permanently settling in Buchanan County.  He was raised a farmer
and had good school advantages.  He first studied medicine under Dr.
James A. Day, of Halleck, Missouri and was graduated March 6, 1871, in
St. Louis Medical College.  He had practiced eleven months before com-
pleting his course.  Dr. Woodson has been actively and successfully en-
gaged in practice ever since.  He is a member of the Northwestern Dis-
trict Medical Society at St. Joseph, having filled the chair as their
President.  He is a skillful and successful surgeon, and especially so
in ophthalmic cases, but is unostentatious and charitable, having al-
ways practiced for the poor, widows and orphans graits.  He is a 
member of the I.O.O.F. and of the Christian Church.  He has 587 1/2
acres of land acquired by his own industry, all of which has been made
since he located in Agency and established himself in the practice of
medicine.  Over 500 acres of this land is under fence with good improv-
ements, and he also has a good house and barn in Agency.  He was 
married February 26, 1873, to Miss Julia Taber, a native of Missouri,
born September 21, 1853.  They have one child, P. Gervais, born on
November 18, 1874.

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