William Earl Dodge (1805-1883)

Industrialist, U.S. Congressman & President of the N.Y. Chamber of Commerce

He was married at New York in 1828 to Melissa, daughter of Anson Green Phelps with whom he founded Phelps, Dodge & Co. They had 7-sons (listed) who lived to adulthood and two daughters who died in early childhood.

Parents

David Low Dodge

Dry Goods Merchant & Cotton Manufacturer of New York City

1774-1852

Sarah (Cleveland) Dodge

Mrs Sarah (Cleveland) Dodge

1780-1862

Spouse

Melissa (Phelps) Dodge

Mrs Melissa (Phelps) Dodge

1809-1903

Children

William Earl Dodge, Jr.

Senior Partner in Phelps, Dodge & Co., New York City

1832-1903

Anson Greene Phelps Dodge

Anson Greene Phelps Dodge, of Chicago

1834-1918

Rev. David Stuart Dodge

D.D., Professor of Modern Languages in Syria & of Bellehurst, Simsbury, Connecticut

1836-1921

Gen. Charles Cleveland Dodge

Brigadier-General Charles C. Dodge, of the 1st New York Mounted Rifle Regiment

1841-1910

Norman White Dodge

Norman White Dodge, of New York

1846-1907

George Egleston Dodge

Merchant, of Dodge, Meigs & Co., New York

1849-1904

Arthur Murray Dodge

1852-1896