Dodge
Dodge names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Dodge GRENVILLE MELLEN, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GRENVILLE MELLEN, an American military officer; born in Danvers, Mass., April 12, 1831; educated at Partridge's Military Academy and Norwich University; and was employed as an engineer in the construction of the Il-paign of Chancellorsville" (1881); a linois Central and Rock Island railroads. He entered the Civil War as colonel of the 4th Iowa Infantry; commanded a brigade at Pea Ridge in March, 1862, and became a Major-General of United States volunteers in June, 1864. He commanded a corps of General Sherman's army in the campaign against Atlanta (1864), and succeeded Rosecrans as com- Missouri mander of the Department of After the in December of that year. Union war he was chief engineer of the Pacific railroad and superintended its construction, and was a member of Congress from Iowa in 1867-1869. He succeeded General Sherman as president of the Association of the Army of the Tennessee in 1894, and was also president of Loyal the New York Commandery of the made chairman Legion. In 1898 he was to inof the President's Commission quire into the management of the War Department in the war with Spain. He died Jan. 3, 1916.
Dodge MARY ABIGAIL, an American journalist and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARY ABIGAIL, an American journalist and author; born in several Hamilton, Mass., in 1838. For in the High years she was instructor 1865 to School at Hartford, Conn. From editors of "Our 1867 she was one of the Young Folks." Besides numerous contributions to current literature, she has of "Gail written, under the pseudonym Days" (1863); Hamilton": "Gala "Woman's Wrongs" (1868); "The Battle Worth of the Books" (1870); "Woman's and Worthlessness" (1871); "The Insuppressible Book" (1885); "Red-Letter Days"; "Country Living and Country Miles from Thinking"; "Twelve a Lemon"; and "Biography of James G. Hamilton, Mass. Blaine." She died in , Aug. 17, 1896.
Dodge WILLIAM EARL, an American capitalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM EARL, an American capitalist; born in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 4, 1805. He received a common wholesale school education, entered the 1833 became dry-goods business, and in a member of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., retiring in 1879 with a large fortune. He was director of the Erie railroad, president of the New York Chamber trustee of Union Theologiof Commerce, cal Seminary, a founder of the Union ardent League of New York, and an died in New friend of the freedman. He York City, Feb. 9, 1883.
Dodge THEODORE AYRAULT, an American military officer and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THEODORE AYRAULT, an American military officer and writer; born in Pittsfield, Mass., May 28, 1842; abroad received his military education . he en- Returning to the United States, listed (1861) in the Union service as a colonel private, attaining the rank of , "The Cam- Dec. 2, 1865. He published; "Bird's-Eye View of the Civil War" (1883); "A Chat in the Saddle" (1885); called "Great and a series of studies Captains," comprising volumes on Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolphus, etc. He died Oct. 26, 1909.
Dodge MARY ELIZABETH MAPES, an American editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARY ELIZABETH MAPES, an American editor, author, and poet; born in New York City in 1838. the editor of Since 1873 she has been "St. Nicholas" (magazine), New York. Brinker, Her best-known work is "Hans or the Silver Skates" (1876), which has for foreign been translated into five languages. Among her other works, are: 1864); "Theo- "Irvington Stories" ( Along the philus, and Others" (1876); " and Dorothy" Way" (1879); "Donald Pluck." She died (1883); "The Land of Aug. 22, 1905.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All five people here were already dead when Collier's compiled this in 1921, and the biographies still stand as written — Grenville Dodge as chief engineer of the transcontinental railroad, Mary Mapes Dodge as the creator of "Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates," which has long since passed the "five foreign languages" Collier's credited it with and remains in print. What has changed is the name itself: by 1921 the most famous Dodges in America were John and Horace Dodge of Detroit, whose motor company (founded 1914, both brothers dead by 1920) was bought by Chrysler in 1928 and gave the surname its modern meaning as a car brand. The family firm Phelps, Dodge & Co., which made William Earl Dodge's fortune in dry goods, became a copper giant and survived until Freeport-McMoRan acquired it in 2007. Mary Abigail Dodge, once widely read as "Gail Hamilton," is now largely a subject for scholars of nineteenth-century women's writing rather than a household name.
Written for this edition, 2026.