Dodge, Martin
lawyer, state senator, was born in 1851 in Auburn, Ohio. He attended Hiram college for four years, and the Buchtel college for one year.
He then entered the Ohio State and Union Law college, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. During 1879-82 he practiced law in Kansas, and since that time in Cleveland, Ohio. For six years he was engaged in real estate and building operations; and for three years was business manager of The Sun and Voice. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Ohio house of representatives from Cleveland; and in 1893 was appointed chairman of the Ohio road commission.
He received the re-election to the seventy-first and seventy-second general assemblies; and in 1897 was elected a state senator. In 1898 he was a candidate for congress.
DODGE, MARY ABIGAIL-Gail Hamilton-essayist, magazinist, was born in 1838 in Hamilton, Mass. She was a noted essayist and magazinist of Hamilton, Mass. She is the author of a A New Atmosphere; Gala Days; Woman's Wrongs; Red-Letter Days; Summer Rest; Battle of the Books; Twelve Miles from a Lemon; Sermons to the Clergy; First Love is Best; What Think ye of Christ?; Country Living and Country Thinking; Skirmishes and Sketches; Wool-Gathering; Woman's Worth and Worthlessness; Little Folk Life; Nursery Noonings; Our Common School System; Divine Guidance; The Insuppressible Book; A Washington Bible Class; and Biography of James G. Blaine. She died in 1896.