Dodge, Grenville
MELLEN, soldier, railroad president, civil engineer, congressman, was born April 12, 1831, in Danvers, Mass. In 1862 he was appointed brigadier-general for services at Pea Ridge; was promoted to be a major-general on the recommendations of Generals Grant, Sherman, and McPherson. He was subsequently in command of the departments of Wisconsin, Kansas and the Plains. Soon after resigning his commission in the army he was elected a representative from Iowa to the fortieth congress. He is president of the Fort Worth and Denver City railway.