COSHOCTON COUNTY OHIO - BIO: ODOR, Elwood SMITH, M.D. (published 1889)
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History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade, and Barton Counties, Missouri, 
1889, states:

ELWOOD SMITH ODOR, M.D.

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 collection tour, and had obtained a large 
sum of money, for which, 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 ony 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 institutuon he began to practice, and in 
1852-53 he took a course of lectures at the Ecectic 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 Mc Morris, a native of Virginia, and to 
them were born ten children, six living: Cecile, Joseph T., William S., a 
graduate of the American Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri and associated 
with his father in the parctice, Ottman C., Otho G. and John M. Dr. Odor has 
practiced his profesion for thiry-eight years, and has been very successful.

He is a Republican in politics.