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Joseph Atwood was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Atwood was born in the United States in the 1780s.

Atwood was accepted on trial as a circuit rider in 1822 by the Genesee circuit. In 1823, he was assigned to the Smith's Creek circuit, where he rode alongside Samuel Belton. The pair oversaw an increase in church membership of 31.