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Elijah Woodward Stoddard was born April 23, 1820. He was married July, 1852 to Eliza West Concklin of New York and after the death of his first wife, he married Mrs. Eliza Platt Stoddard on the 28 of November 1887. He died on October 30, 1913. Biographical sketch of Elijah Woodward Stoddard (1820-1913), who was a direct descendant in the eighth generation of English immigrant Anthony Stoddard. Anthony and his family emigrated in 1639 from London to Boston, Massachusetts. Elijah was a son of John Stoddard and Merab Parker, and was educated at Amherst and at Union Theolo- gical Seminary in New York City. He married Eliza West Concklin in 1852 and, after her death, married widow Eliza (Platt) Stoddard, widow of John F. Stoddard. Elijah served as a Presbyterian minister in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Tennessee before returning to New York City, and then to the Morris and Orange Presbytery, with headquarters at Succasuna, New Jersey.