History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, MO
Cedar County Biography Section

     Dr. Madison B. Wooldridge, physician and surgeon, of 
Paynterville, Mo., was born in Christian County, Ky., on the 
22d of December , 1832, and is a son of Edward and Margaret 
(Brasher) Wooldridge, natives respectively of Virginia and 
Tennessee.   The father was of Irish descent, a farmer by 
occupation, and died in the State of Kentucky when his son, 
Madison B., was an infant.  His wife was born in 1798, and 
died in 1886, having borne a family of seven children, three 
of whom survive.  Madison B. Wooldridge made his home with his
mother until twenty-three years of age, and received his 
education in the common schools of Kentucky.  He then 
commenced the study of medicine under Dr. J. P. Bailey, in 
Christian County, and, after remaining with him about three 
years, entered the Medical College at Nashville, Tenn., from 
which he graduated March 2, 1857.  He at once entered upon the
practice of his profession in Kentucky, but the following year
located in Cedar County, Mo., where he has since resided.  He 
has become well known throughout the county as one of its able
physicians, and his practice extends over a large area.  In 
1864 he enlisted in Company A, Fifteenth Missouri Volunteer 
Cavalry, and after serving eleven months, received his 
discharge and returned to Cedar County, where he married, in 
1865, Miss Ann E. Morgan, a native of Tennessee, born in 1845,
and a daughter of John and Sarah Morgan.  The former died in 
1868, but the latter is living.  Edward W., Clara M., Lulu M. 
(deceased), Carrie Lee, John F. and Madison B. are the 
children born to Dr. Wooldridge.  The Doctor has been a 
resident of Paynterville since 1880, where he has a one-acre 
lot, and besides this owns 116 acres of land near the village.
He is a Mason, and in 1888 was elected to the office of county
coroner by the Democrats, but has never qualified.  

History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties,
Missouri, published by Goodspeed, 1889--Page 790
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