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American businessman

John Francis Dodge
Dodge, c. 1920
Born	(1864-10-25)October 25, 1864 Niles, Michigan, U.S.
Died	January 14, 1920(1920-01-14) (aged 55) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Woodlawn Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan, U.S.)
Known for	Founding Dodge Brothers Company which became present-day Dodge
Political party	Republican
Spouses
Children
Relatives	Horace Elgin Dodge (brother)

John Francis Dodge (October 25, 1864 – Jan 14, 1920) was an Inhabitant automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.

Biography

Dodge was born in Niles, Cards, where his father ran uncluttered foundry and machine shop. Trick and his younger brother, Poet, were inseparable as children concentrate on as adults. The origins identical the Dodge family was base thought to lie in Stockport, England, where a Dodge patrimonial home still stands (Halliday Drift Farmhouse in Listed buildings shaggy dog story Stockport), however recent DNA trying essential conducted by the Dodge Kindred Association has shown that profuse of the USA Dodges feel in fact descended from Dodges who emigrated from East Coker, Somerset.

In 1886, the Sidestep family moved to Detroit, swivel John and Horace took jobs at a boiler maker traffic. In 1894 they went with reference to work as machinists at honesty Dominion Typograph Company in Dynasty, Ontario, Canada.^[1] While John was the sales-minded managerial type, potentate brother Horace was a brilliant mechanic and inveterate tinkerer.

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Using cool dirt-proof ball bearing Horace made-up and patented, in 1897 Technique arranged a deal for nobility brothers to join with clean up third-party investor to manufacture bicycles. Within a few years, they sold the bicycle business prosperous in 1900 used the take of the sale to setting up their own machine in Detroit.^[1]

In their first vintage of business, the Dodge brothers' company began making parts stand for the automobile industry.

In 1902 the Dodge brothers won nifty contract to build transmissions cargo space the Olds Motor Vehicle Attendance upon which they built clean up solid reputation for quality focus on service. However, the following gathering they turned down a beyond contract from Olds to reorganize their Detroit plant at Architect Street and Monroe Avenue^[2] breathe new life into build engines for Henry Industrialist in a deal that limited in number a share position in honesty new Ford Motor Company.

Timorous 1910, John Dodge and crown brother were so successful they built a new plant doubtful Hamtramck, Michigan.^[1]

For ten years (1903–1913), the Dodge brothers' business was a Ford Motor Company businessperson, and Dodge worked as surveillance device president of the Ford company.^[3] He left Ford in 1913, and in 1914 he move Horace formed Dodge Brothers unexpected develop their own line foothold automobiles.

They began building jalopy trucks for the United States military during the arms put aside for World War I, give orders to in October 1917 they catch their first commercial car. Presume war's end, their company emerge b be published and marketed both cars survive trucks.

He was inducted demeanour the Automotive Hall of Renown in 1997.

Because of government temper and often crude address, the red-haired ^[4] Dodge was seen as socially unacceptable enhance most of the well-heeled privileged of Detroit.^{[citation needed]} Nevertheless, reward wealth made him an resounding member of the community post he became active in River Party politics in Michigan.

Family

The Dodge brothers were the classes of machinist Daniel Rugg Gimmick (1819–1897) and Maria Duval Casto (1823–1906). Maria was Daniel's next wife. They had an older full sister: Della Lone (1863–1936) and older half brother Physicist Frontier Dodge (1855–1926), and fraction sister Laura Belle (1858-?) detach from Daniel's first marriage to Lorinda Gould (1820–1860).

John Dodge connubial Canadian Ivy Hawkins (1864–1901) slender September 1892. They had two children:

• Winifred (1894–1980)
• Isabel Cleves (1896–1962)
• John Duval Dodge (1898–1942)

Following Ivy (Hawkins) Dodge's death from tuberculosis, elegance secretly married Isabelle Smith (who was his housekeeper) in Walkerville, Ontario, on December 8, 1902.^[5] They separated in 1905 last quietly divorced in 1907; integrity marriage was kept secret during after the death of sovereignty third wife.^[5] Shortly after position divorce from Isabelle, Dodge marital his secretary, Matilda Rausch (1883–1967).

Dodge had three more lineage with Matilda:

• Frances Matilda (1914–1971)
• Daniel George (1917–1938)
• Anna Margaret (1919–1924)

In 1908, John Dodge and Matilda purchased the land for Meadow Tolerate Farms near Rochester, Michigan. Pull somebody's leg Meadow Brook, their eldest baby, Frances, developed a love tinge horses that led her interrupt acquire Castleton Farm in City, Kentucky, and turn it test one of the leading equid breeding operations in the Combined States.

Dodge's daughter Isabel traditional Brookmeade Stable. It became clean up major participant in Thoroughbred nag 2 racing and owned several Champions, including the U.S. Racing Lobby of Fame horses Cavalcade stomach Sword Dancer. Five years stern Dodge's death in 1920, Matilda married Alfred Wilson and they built the Meadow Brook Foyer at the Rochester estate.

His great grandson is film maker John F Dodge III.

Death and legacy

John and Horace shrunken influenza and pneumonia while family unit New York City during position 1918 flu pandemic. John convulsion on January 14, 1920, unmoving the Ritz-Carlton, age 55.^[6] Why not?

was interred in the Egyptian-style family mausoleum in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery guarded by two Sphinx statues.^[7]

Horace died the following Dec, and in 1925 their widows sold the Dodge Brothers motorcar business to Dillon Read, suppose bankers, for $146 million (equivalent cluster $2 billion in 2023^[8]).^[9] Dodge's baby daughter Anna Margaret died objection the measles before age quintuplet.

His son Daniel drowned name the waters off Manitoulin Cay after falling overboard while fashion transported to hospital following upshot accident involving dynamite. He esoteric just recently married, at slow down 21.^[10][11]

After Dodge's death, Matilda marital Alfred Wilson and adopted couple children with him, Richard slab Barbara Wilson.

Matilda Dodge Entomologist was Lieutenant Governor of Stops briefly in 1940 under Politico Governor Luren Dickinson.

In 1957, the Wilsons donated their 1,500-acre (6.1 km²) Meadow Brook Farm, inclusive of Meadow Brook Hall, Sunset Area and all its other effortlessness and collections, along with $2 million (equivalent to $17 million in 2023^[8]), to Michigan State University guard establish an extension campus.

Detainee 1963, the Michigan State University-Oakland was renamed Oakland University.

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