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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Dodds, Ozro

J.,

soldier, lawyer, congress-

man, was born March

1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was promoted lieutenantcolonel of the first Alabama cavalry. He was elected to the legislature of Ohio in 1869. In 1871-73 he Was a representative from Ohio to the forty-second congress. 22,

Dodds, Susanna W., physician, author. She a noted hygienic physician of St. Louis, Mo. She is the author of a work entitled Health in the Household. Dodge, Augustus Caesar, was born Jan. 2, 1812, in Ste. Genevieve, Mo. In 1841-47 he was a. territorial delegate from Iowa to twenty-seventh, the the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth congresses; presidential a is

elector for the state of Iowa in 1848; and in

1847-55 he was United States senator from Iowa; anil was the first United States senator from Iowa. In 1855-59 he was United States minister plenipotentiary the to court of Spain. 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 in 1838-41 held the office of register of the land office at Burlington, Iowa. He died Nov. 20, 1883, in Burlington, Iowa.

Dodge, Charles Cleveland, soldier, was bom New Jersey. In 1861 he was captain in the first regiment of New York volunteer mounted rifie; and in 1862 attained the rank in

brigadier-general of volunteers.

Dodge, Charles Richards, journalist, scienwas born July 17, 1847, in Mississippi. For ten years he has had charge of the

tist,

agricultural museum in Washington, D.C. Since 1890 he has been special agent in charge of textile fibre investigation; and has been officially connected with ten international expositions. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. Dodge, Charles Wright, educator, author, was bom Jan. 15, 1863 in Cape Vincent, N. Y. He is professor of biology at the university of Rochester. He is the author of Introduction to Elementary Practical Biology.

Dodge, David Low, merchant, author, was born June 14, 1774, in Brooklyn, Conn. He was the first president of the New York peace society. He 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. Dodge, David Stuart, educator, clergyman, missionary, was born Sept. 22, 1836, in New York City. He was president of the board of home mission of the presbyterian church.

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In 1903 he was president of the National temperance society and publication house. He has been a missionary in Syria. Dodge, Ebenezer, educator, author, was born April 22, 1819, in Salem, Mass. He was a baptist clergyman; and in 1868-90 president of Madison, now Colgate university. He was the author of Evidences of Christianity and Christian Theology. He died Jan. 4, 1890, in Hamilton, N.Y. Dodge, Francis Stafford, soldier, was born Sept. 11, 1842, in Danvers, Mass. In 1861 he was a private soldier in the twenty-third regiment Massachusetts infantry; and in 1904 was brigadier-general and paymastergeneral. He was awarded a medal of honor for gallantry in action against Indians in 1879.

Dodge, Frederick, lawyer, jurist, was born April 24, 1847, in Cambridge, Mass. He was United States district judge for Massachusetts for the term of 1905-09. Dodge, George Dudley, manufacturer, poet, 4, 1836, in Hampton Falls, N. H. He has been a cotton manufacturer and merchant; and in 1880 was the nominee ot the prohibition party for governor of New Hampshire. He was a delegate to the national convention of the prohibition party in 1884; and one of its nominees ever since. Dodge, George S., soldier, was born in Vermont. He served in the civil war; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volun-

was born May

teers.

He

died in 1908.

Dodge, Grace Hoadley, reformer. In 1886 she was appointed by the mayor of New York City one of the board of school commissioners. She has been a prominent member of the New York state charities association; is president of the Working girls' society; and vice-president of the Industrial education association. Dodge, Grenville Mellan, soldier, civil eno-ineer,

railroad president, congressman, was 12, 1831, in Danvers, Mass.; and

born April

the son of the late Dodge of Sylvanius Rowley, Mass. In 1853the he explored 61 country west of the Missouri river; became a resident of Council Bluffs in 1854; and he became an organizer of the banking concern is

which

is

now

the Coun-

Bluffs savings bank. In 1856 he was captain of the Council

cil

Bluffs guard. In 1861 he was appointed colonel in the fourth regiment Iowa infantry; was commissioned colonel in the same year; and commanded expeditions to Houston and Salem, in which the enemy was defeat-

ed in both engagements. In 1864 he was assigned in command of the first brigade, fourth division array of the Southwest; in 1862 defeated Gates at Blackburn mills; and