Charles Carroll Woods

Background

Woods, Charles Carroll was born on July 4, 1838 in Rocky Mount, Virginia, United States. Son of Samuel Hairston and Cicely (Patterson) Woods.

Education

Educated Trinity College, North Carolina, 1855, Central College, Missouri, 1859-1860. Doctor of Divinity, Trinity, 1878.

Career

Ordained Mechanical Engineering, South. ministry, 1860. Chaplain Parson’s division, Missouri state troops, in C.S.A., and of Camp Saint Louis, U.C.V. Pastor in various Missouri cities beginning, 1867.

Presiding elder, 1875-1879 and 1882-1886. President Scarritt College, Neosho, Missouri, 1888-1896.

Associate editor 1898-1914, editor in chief, 1914-1918, Saint Louis Christian Advocate (emeritus).

Secretary South.W. Missouri Conference Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 42 years. Member General Conference, 1882, 86, 94, 98.

Achievements

• Charles Carroll Woods has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: The Passing Years (poems), 1911.

Membership

Member General Conference

Connections

Married Mary M. Nicolds, May 10, 1860 (died 1863). Married second, Anna M. Nicolds, July 30, 1866. Children: Mistress Minnie C. Hall, Samuel Hairston.

Father:

Samuel Hairston Woods

Mother:

Cicely (Patterson) Woods

Spouse:

Anna M. Nicolds

Spouse:

Mary M. Nicolds

child:

Mistress Minnie C. Hall Woods

child:

Samuel Hairston Woods