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 | | David was born in Shirley, Massachusetts, November 17, 1837, the eighth in a line of descendants from Richard Dodge who came from England and settled in Salem, Massachusetts in 1638. |
 | | Col. Dodge started a lifetime career in railroading 1853, as a survey crew chairman working on construction of the Chicago and North Western Railway in Illinois, just a few months after his 15th birthday. |
 | | The small, rare, privately-printed, leather-bound book, published in 1923 by his devoted wife, Nannie O. Smith Dodge, described many interesting details of David Dodge's life, while a larger volume is made up of tributes from former associates and friends. |
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