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* DODGE. 349 DODINGTON. juvenile verse and prose, of which the more uotewortliy ate Uuns lirinkcr; or, the Silver Skates (1SG5; a new illustrated ed., I'.'Ol ; trans- lated into live European languages and crowned by the Krenoh Academy), already recognized as classic in its deparlnienl of llclion; Tlicuiiliilus and Others ( 1870) ; Donald and Dorothy ( ISS.i) ; and The Land of Pluck {IS'M}. She also pub- lished two collections of poems, Along the Way (1880), and 'When JAfe is Young (1894). DODGE, TiiEODOKE Aykault (1842 — ). Aa American soldier and military historian. He was born in Pittsticld. ilass., and was educated abioad, studying military science in Berlin under General Von Frohreich of the Prussian Array and graduating at the University of London in 1801. He then returned to the United Stales, enlisted as a private in the Federal Army, lost a leg at Gettysburg, and rose to the rank of major in the Veteran Reserve Corps in 1804. He was brevetted colonel of volunteers in December, 1805. was appointed captain in the regular ser- vice in July, 1800. was brevetted lieutenant- colonel in the regular army in 1SG7. and served as chief of the Bureau of Enrollment in the War Department rmtil 1870, when he was retired. He is best known as a military historian and critic, and his Bird's Eye View of Our Civil War ( 1882; later ed. 1897 ) is perhaps the best brief popular account of the various campaigns of 1801-65. His Campaign of Chancellorsville (1881) has also been highly connnended. Besides many articles for the magazines, he has also published: Patro- clus and Penelope: A Chat in the Saddle ( 1883) ; flreat Captains (1880): Riders of Many Lands (1893); Alexander (1888); Hannibal (1889); Coesar (1892) ; and Gustavns Adolphus (1896), the last four works forming part of a projected history of the art of w'ar, to be completed in six volumes. DODGE, ViM.i.M Earle (1804-83). An American merchant and philanthropist. He was born in Hartford. Conn. : was educated in the public schools, and worked for a short time in his father's cotton-mill near Norwich. Removing to Xew York with his father, he entered a whole- sale dry-goods store, and finally, after eight jears, went into business by himself. In 1833 he became a member of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. He became interested in railroad and in- surance corporations, and invested largely in mines and woodlands. He was interested in temperance and religious work and was one of the most generous supporters of the Young Glen's Christian Association and the Frcedman's Bu- reau. He was a member of the peace convention of 1801. and was :i Kepublican member of Con- gress in 1866. President Grant appointed him a member of the Indian Connnission. At his death he left large bequests to religious and charitable institutions. Consult llartin, Wil- liam E. Dodge, the Christian Merchant (New York. 1890).' DODGE'VILIiE. A city and the county-seat of Iowa County. Wi'^., 47 miles west by south of Madison, on the Illinois Central and the Chi- cago and Xorthwestern railroads (^lap: Wis- consin. C 6). Deposits of lead and zinc occur in the vicinity, and the city has considerable trade in live stock, agricultural and dairy prod- ucts, and manufactures of wagons, plows, canned goods, flour, etc. In the district are several creameries conducted on the cooperative plan. Dodgeville was the early home of the Territorial Governor Dodge, from whom it is named. Popu- lation, in 1890, 1722; in 1900, 1805. DODGSON, ddj'son, CiiAHLKs Eltwidge (1832- 98). . English autlior, best known by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll. He was born in the village of Dai'esbury, near Warrington (Chester), England. Educated at Oxford, he took deacon's orders in 1801, and from 1855 to 1881 he was mathematical lecturer at t'hrist Church. He was an acute mathematician, with a penchant for the intricate and ingenious, and made to mathemati- cal literature a contribution of liigh rank in his Euclid and His Modern liirals (1879). eccentri- cally east in dramatic mold and interspersed with jokes. Ilis further publications in this de- partment include a Syllabus of Plane Algebraical (Icometry (1860) and An Elementary Treatise on Determinants (1867). But he is best known as the originator of a unique literary genre in his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1805), with its continuation in Through the Look in ij -(I lass and What Alice Found There (1871). both admirably illustrated by Sir .John Tennicl. These books display a delightful combination of mad absurdity and subtle fancy. Their grotesque sit- uations compose a peculiar literary tradition. The Hunting of the Snark (1870), an episode none the less enjoyable because its meaning re- mains imsolved, w-as nearly as successful. Sylvie and Bruno (1889) and Sylvie and Bruno Con- cluded (1893) were inferior to the previous works. A dramatization of the Alice volumes by Saville Clarke was presented in London in 1886. For a good account of Dodgson's interesting per- sonality, consult the I^ife and Letters, edited by Colling'wood (London, 1898). DOD'INGTON, George Buub, Baron Mel- combe (1091-1762). An English politician. He was the son of Jeremiah Bubb, but took the name of Dodington in 1720. on inheriting a large estate from an uncle of that name. He was educated, it is said, at Oxford, was elected member of Par- liament for Winchelsea in 1715. and in the same year was appointed envoy extraordinary to Spain, remaining at Madrid until 1717. He became very wealthy, and controlled five or six votes in Parliament, which made his friendship much souglil after by the politicians of the day. Dodington had an inordinate desire to become himself a power in politics and to be elevated to the peerage, and bartered away his votes first to one party and then to another, according to the size of the promises made him, and the pos- sibility of their being fulfilled. He entered poli- tics as a follower of Walpole. deserted to the Prince of Wales, and was later allied in turn to Argyll. Henry Pelham. Newcastle, and Bute. His variability in politics and the venality of his half-dozen votes made him the freqvient butt of political satire and caricature. He was a Lord of tlie Treasury from 1724 to 1740. became Treasurer of the Navy under Henry Pelham in 1744. and in 1755 held the same position under the Newcastle-Fox coalition. For his support of Lord Bute in 1701, he was rewarded Iiy lieing created Baron Atelcombe of Jlelcombe Regis, por- sftt-ihire, Dodington was one of the last of the 'patrons,' and gathered about him some of the best-known literary men of the time, including Y'oung, Thompson, and Fielding. His Diary,