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Woods, Charles Coke

clergyman, was born Oct. 8, 1860, near Springfield, Ill. In 1879 he was licensed to preach at Belton, Mo.; is a graduate of the Garrett Biblical institute of Evanston, Ill., and the McKendree college of Lebanon, Ill.

He has attained success as an eminent clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; is a popular lecturer, and fills the chair of theological science in the Itinerant's Theological institute of southwestern Kansas, Eldorado, Kan., where he also fills the pastorate in his church.

He is an able, zealous and uncompromising advocate of the prohibition cause, and was elected as a delegate to the world's temperance congress in 1893.

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