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6 lessons in the rudiments of art from his mother at the age of fifteen years. In 1881 he accompanied her, with the other children, to Munich, where she engaged in the study of art. and became a portrait painter of that place. He became a student in the Colasrissi School of Drawing from Life in Paris under Prof. Raphael Collin; after a rigid examination he passed number one among five hundred applicants for admission to the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, under Geroeme. When but seventeen years of age, he painted "The death of Minnehaha," which received a gold medal at an American exhibition in 1889, and second and third prizes, and one first prize at Ecole des Beaux Arts. This painting was first sold for three thousand dollars and subsequently for five thousand dollars. It inspired a German composer to write a symphony on the death of Minnehaha. In 1889 he received third medal at the Paris Exhibition, and exhibited paintings in the Paris Salon in that and the following year. He also gave exhibitions in American art galleries in 1890. Few American artists have been awarded as many prizes at foreign exhibitions as Mr. Dodge. His famous picture "David and Goliah" painted in Paris, was burned at the Old Guard Armory in New York. He painted the famous panorama of the great Chicago fire, which was exhibited for many years in that city. In 1892 he again went abroad to continue his studies in Paris. In 1897 his picture "Ambition" was exhibited there, and in 1901 he gave a series of exhibitions of his work in New York City, Chicago and St. Louis. Since that time he has been industriously at work in his studio in New York City, and has just completed a commission from the Panama Pacific International Exposition. He received the Chicago World's Fair medal in 1893. In that year he painted the dome of the Administration Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, and has since executed mural paintings, among which may be named the Northwest Corner Pavilion of the Library of Congress, which includes the painting "Ambition," above named; ceilings in private apartments of the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria in 1895; ceilings in the country home of Pierre Lorillard, Esq., 1899; frieze and entrances. Cafe Martin, New York, 1901; entrance, lunettes and curtain. Majestic Theatre, Boston; Keith's Theatre, 1902; frieze 180 by six feet in the lobby of King Edward Hotel, Toronto; Empire Theatre, New York, 1903; four paintings in lobby of Hotel Astor, New York, 1904; one hundred and thirty feet of frieze in Hotel Devon, New York; Union Exchange Bank, New York, all gilding and color scheme of ground floor and mural painting, 1905; ceilings in residence of Webb Morton, Middletown, New York; twelve mural paintings in the steamship "City of Cleveland"; east wall of cafe Hotel Algonquin, New York; mural paintings in Court House, Syracuse, New York; all mosaic designs for main lobby, Hall of Records, New York; four ceilings in auditorium, Hotel Annex, Chicago, 1906; Academy of Music, Brooklyn, all interior decorations, ten mural paintings, 1908; twelve large paintings in Cafe de L'Opere, New York, 1910; interior decorations, Winter Garden, New York; three mural paintings and color scheme, Folies Bergere, New York; Lowe's Theatre, New York; twenty-two mural paintings, steamship "City of Detroit"; fifteen mural paintings for steamship "Bee and See," of Detroit; eight panels for the residence of Prof. Michael Pupin, at Norfolk, Connecticut; eight panels in steamships for Holland & Harmsworth, on the Delaware river. Mr. Dodge is a member of the Players Club and Fencers Club and the Virginians of New York City.

He married, March 31, 1897, Fanny Pryor, daughter of Hon. Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia and New York, judge of the Supreme Court of New York, and his wife, Sarah Agnes Rice. The latter is the author of a "History of Jamestown, Virginia," and other works, illustrated by Mr. Dodge. Mrs. Dodge was born December 24, 1868, at Petersburg, Virginia, and is the mother of two children: Roger Pryor, born January 21, 1898, in Paris, and Sarah Pryor, July 14, 1901, in New York City.

Tench Francis Tilghman, "At a court holden for ye county of Kent," March 25, 1676, Mrs. Mary Tilghman, executrix of Richard Tilghman, obtained judgment against a debtor of her late husband.

Dr. Richard and Mary Tilghman, previously mentioned, came to America in the year 1660 and settled at the Hermitage on Chester river, in Talbot, now Queen Anne county, Maryland. It is said that Dr.