Dod, Albert Baldwin – Dodge, Nehemiah
Dod, Albert Baldwin
clergyman, author, was born March 24, 1805, in Mendham, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman and professor of mathematics at Princeton college in 1830-45. Theological Essays was his only published work. He died Nov. 20, 1845, in Princeton, N. J.
Dod, Daniel
mechanician, was born Sept. 28, 1788, in Virginia. He removed, in 1821, to New York city, where he was reputed the most successful engine builder in the United States. He died May 9, 1823, in New York city.
Dodd, Amzi
lawyer, jurist, was born March 2, 1823, in Bloomfield, N. J. He served one term from Bloomfield, N. J., in the assembly of the state legislature; in 1871 he filled the office of vice chancellor; in 1878 was judge of the court of errors and appeals; and in 1882 became president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance company of Bloomfield, N. J.
Dodd, Mrs. Anna Bowman
author, was born in 1855 in Long Island. She is a New York writer whose volumes of travels have been very popular. She is the author of The Republic of the Future, or Socialism a Reality; Cathedral Days; Glorinda: a Story; Three Normandy Inns; and in the Norfolk Broads. DODD; EDWARD, merchant, congressman, was born in 1805 in Salem, N. Y. He was a member of the constitutional convention of New York in 1846; and was a representative in congress from that state in 1855.
Dodd, James B
mathematician, was born in 1807 in Virginia. He was chosen professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy in Centenary college, Mississippi, in 1841; and in Transylvania university in 1846, of which institution he was acting president from 1849 till 1855. He died March 27, 1872, in Greensburg, Ky.
Dodd, Mary Ann Hanmer
poet, was born March 5, 1813, in Hartford, Conn. Among her best poems were The Lament; The Dreamer; The Mourner; and To a Cricket. A volume of her poems was published in Boston in 1843.
Dodd, Stephen
clergyman, author, was born March 8, 1777, in Bloomfield, N.
J. He was a founder and trustee of the Connecticut theological institution at East Windsor, and gave it his valuable library. He published a History of East Haven (1824); Family Record of Daniel Dodd; and Revolutionary Memorials. He died Feb. 5, 1856, in Morristown, N. J.
Doddridge, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born in 1769 in Pennsylvania. He was an episcopal clergyman of western Virginia, and the author of Logan, a drama; and Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Country, 1763-83. He died in November, 1826, in Wellsburg, Va.
Doddridge, Philip
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1772, in Brooke county, Va. He was a delegate from Brooke county to the legislature of Virginia in 1815, and was a member for some years. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1829 to 1832.
He died Nov. 19, 1832, in Washington, D. C.
Doddridge, William Brown
railroad manager, was born Oct. 19, 1848, in Circleville, Ohio. In 1884 he was engaged in the Anaconda Copper Smelting company, as business manager. In 1886 he became superintendent of the Central branch Union Pacific railroad of Atchison, Kan.; and in 1889 was appointed general manager of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas railroad.
Dodds, Ozro J
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 22, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the first Alabama cavalry. After the war he studied law and was admitted to practice. He was elected to the legislature of Ohio in 1869; and was elected to the forty-second congress.
Dodds, Susanna W
physician, author. She is the author of a work entitled Health in the Household, which has become very popular. She has attained prominence as an eminent hygienic physician of St. Louis, Mo.
Dodge, Augustus Caesar
was born Jan. 2, 1812, in Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
He was a delegate to co congress from the territory of Iowa from 1841 to 1847; a presidential elector for the state of Iowa in 1848; and a senator in congress from the state of Iowa from 1848 to 1855. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1864, and also to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866, as well as the New York convention of 1868; and from 1838 to 1841 he held the office of register of the land office at Burlington, Iowa. He died Nov. 20, 1883, in Burlington, Iowa.
Dodge, David Low
merchant, author, was born June 14, 1774, in Brooklyn, Conn. He was a New York merchant who was the first president of the New York Peace society, and was the author of The Mediator's Kingdom not of this World; and War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ. He died April 23, 1852, in New York city.
Dodge, Ebenezer
educator, author, was born April 22, 1819, in Salem, Mass.
He was a baptist clergyman, president of Madison (now Colgate) university, 1868- 90, and the author of Evidences of Christianity; and Christian Theology. He died Jan. 4, 1890, in Hamilton, N. Y.
Dodge, George Dudley
manufacturer, poet, was born May 4, 1836, in Hampton Falls, N. H. He is a successful cotton manufacturer and merchant; and in 1880 was the nominee of the prohibition party for governor of Georgia. He was afterward chairman of the state executive committee, and a delegate to the national convention of that party in 1884.
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.
Dodge, Henry
soldier, statesman, was born Oct. 12, 1782, in Vincennes, Ind.
He was brigadier-general of Missouri troops in 1812; and distinguished himself especially in the Black Hawk war. He was appointed governor of Wisconsin territory, and superintendent of Indian as affairs, serving such from 1836 to 1841, and from 1845 to 1848. He was a delegate to congress from Wisconsin from 1841 to 1845; and a senator in congress from the state of Wisconsin from 1848 to 1857. He died June 19, 1867, in Burlington, Iowa.
Dodge, Horace O
physician, surgeon, was born Dec. 13, 1840, in Milton, Ill. He is one of the foremost physicians of the west at Boulder, Colo.; was president of the Colorado State Medical association in 1886; and department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1896-97.
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.
Dodge, Mrs. Mary Barker
author, poet, was born in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Belfry Voices; and The Gray Masque and Other Poems.
Dodge, Mrs Mary
(MAPES), author, poet, was born in 1838 in New York city. She is a writer of New York city who has edited the Saint Nicholas Magazine since 1873. Her writings for young people include Hans Brinker; Donald and Dorothy; Rhymes and Jingles; Irvington Stories; A Few Friends; The Land of Pluck; When Life is Young, poems for young people. She has also written Theophilus and Others; Along the Way; and a volume of Short Poems.
Dodge, Nathaniel Shatswell
author, was born Jan. 10, 1810, in Haverhill, Mass. He was a Boston litterateur who was the author of Stories of a Grandfather about American History.
Dodge, Nehemiah
was born in Providence, R. I. He was the first manufacturing jeweler in America. Jabez Gorham and other noted jewelers and silversmiths served apprenticeship with him. His work was of the finest quality of gold and silver, and of choicest design. Mr. Dodge married Miss Crawford of Providence, a lady of the old school, who was descended from Gabriel Bernon.
Mr. Dodge, through his success in the manufacture of jewelry, became one of the wealthiest citizens of Providence.