Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Elwood Smith ODOR, M. D.
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri  1889, published by Goodspeed, Pg. 685
Polk County Biographies Section

    Elwood Smith Odor, M. D., of Bolivar and vicinity, was born
in Culpeper County, Va., October 11, 1818, and is the son of 
Elwood and Nancy (Wigfield) Odor.  The father was a farmer by 
occupation, and had been a soldier in the War of 1812.  In 1823 
he went on a collecting tour, and had obtained a large sum of 
money, for which, it is supposed, he was killed, as nothing was 
ever heard of him.  The family subsequently, in 1830, moved to 
Coshocton County, Ohio, where the mother died in 1861, at the 
age of eighty years.  She was a member of the Baptist Church.  
In their family were seven children, four sons and three daughters,
and Dr. Odor is the only one now living.  He was reared to farm 
life, and received his education in the common schools, and also
by individual study.  Having farmed until thirty years of age, he
began to read medicine on account of his poor health.  After 
spending some time in a private institution, he began to practice,
and in 1852-53 he took a course of lectures at the Eclectic 
Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio.  He then practiced in Ohio
until 1861, when he moved to Illinois.  In December, 1867, he
came to Bolivar, and has enjoyed a good practice since.  April 7,
1842, he married Miss Martha McMorris, a native of Virginia, and
to them were born ten children, six living: Celia, Joseph T.; 
William S., a graduate of the American Medical College, St. Louis,
and associated with his father in the practice; Ottoman C., Otho G. 
and John M.  Dr. Odor has practiced his profession for thirty-eight
years, and for twenty-one years in this county, and has been very
successful.  He is a Republican in politics, and he and wife are
members of the Baptist Church.
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