Historical records matching William Otho Dodd
view all 16
Immediate Family
-
wife -
-
mother
-
father
-
brother
-
sister
-
sister
-
brother
-
brother
-
brother
-
sister -
brother
About William Otho Dodd
William Otho Dodd was born in Kosciousko, Mississippi, December 25, 1843 and died in Louisville, December 13, 1886. He was the son of Allen and Charlotte (McKee) Dodd whose ancestors had settled in Virginia more than two hundred years earlier. His grandfather, George A. Dodd came from Virginia to Kentucky in 1790. His father was born in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1808 and moved to Mississippi in his young manhood. The father, William O. Dodd was a prosperous Mississippi planter prior to the Civil War and the son was well trained and well educated prior to the war
Enlisting in the Confederate Military Service in 1861, he was mustered into the 40th Mississippi Infantry Regiment and soon became a participant in the stirring events of the war. In September, 1862 at the bloody battle of Iuka, Mississippi, he received a serious wound which later led to his being transferred to another branch of the service. Rejoining his regiment before he was fully recovered from his wound, he was in Vicksburg during the siege and was, with the Confederate forces, when they surrendered to General Grant. After being held for a time as a prisoner of war, he was returned to the Confederate service through an exchange of prisoners and then found himself suffering his old wound to such an extent that he sought and obtained a transfer to the Calvary service. He was assigned to General N. B. Forest, where he served faithfully and bravely under his command until the close of the war.
His father's fortune had been swept away by the war. He adopted the motto "brains spurred by necessity make the man" and worked his way through the University of Mississippi supporting himself by teaching, graduating in 1868 at the head of his class. He was a close personal friend with L. Q. C. LaMar then professor of law at the university, later United States Senator and Supreme Court Justice. In 1869, he located in Louisville declining a flattering proposition to associate himself with Judge LaMar in the practice at Oxford, Mississippi. As a lawyer in Louisville, he gave special attention to commercial and corporate law and became a distinguished practitioner in these departments of professional work.
William O. Dodd was married to Lottie Lee Pierce, daughter of Charles B. Pierce of Maysville, Kentucky and a great-granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee of Revolutionary fame.
http://www.doddattorneys.com/CM/Custom/Our-History.asp
- Military service: Served in the Civil War - Confederate Army - 40th Mississippi Infantry - 1861
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: May 31 2017, 20:54:31 UTC
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: May 31 2017, 20:54:31 UTC
- Military service: Served in the Civil War - Confederate Army - 40th Mississippi Infantry - 1861
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: May 31 2017, 21:06:08 UTC
view all
William Otho Dodd's Timeline
| 1843 |
December 25, 1843
|
Kosciusko, Attala County, MS, United States
|
|
| 1874 |
1874
|
Kentucky
|
|
| 1886 |
December 13, 1886
Age 42
|
Louisville, Jefferson County, KY, United States
|
|
|
December 13, 1886
Age 42
|
Cave Hill Cem., Jefferson Co., KY
|