Biographical Sketch of John Ellis Rodley, M. D., Franklin County, MO

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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John Ellis Rodley, M. D., a prominent citizen of Pacific, was born in
Leeds, England, February 1, 1852.  He attended the high school of his
native city, and subsequently spent three and one-half years at the
Mountain City School, of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he took a classical
course, and graduated at the head of his class in the spring of 1870.
The following three years he attended the university of Edinburgh, and
in 1873 immigrated to the United States, settling first at Lebanon, Mo.
where he engaged in the practice of his chosen profession.  He attended
the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, in 1879 and 1880, and also
in 1880 and 1881, graduating in the latter year, when he returned to
Lebanon, resumed his practice until 1882, when he moved to his present
location.  As a medical practitioner he has achieved unusual success, 
commanding a large and lucrative patronage.  He was married September
20, 1881, to Mary E. Dowdell, a native of Union, Mo., and a daughter 
of J. W. and Louise E. (Mitchell) ? Bowdell.  Dr. and Mrs. Rodley have 
had three children: Edward (deceased), Herbert Ellis and Wilmer (de-
ceased).  The Doctor is a Democrat in politics, a Master Mason, Knight
of Pythias, and a member of the A. O. U. W.  He was the youngest of
five children (three deceased) of Edward and Sarah (Ellis) Rodley, na-
tives of Leeds, England, where the mother died.  Mr. Rodley came to the
United States with his son, and is at present residing at Lebanon, Mo.,
a farmer by occupation.  His father, Benjamin Rodley, was a woolen man-
ufacturer of Leeds.  Mrs. Sarah Rodley was a daughter of Benjamin Ellis
also a woolen manufacturer of Leeds.

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