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James Mapes Dodge ( Manhattan, June 30, 1852 – Germantown, Philadelphia, December 4, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, industrialist and president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1903–1904.
One of her sons died in 1881, and the other, James Mapes Dodge, was a successful inventor and manufacturer, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. James Mapes Dodge (Josephine Kern), was the sculptor of The Good Fairy Statue in 1916.
At the age of twenty-one Mapes married a Long Island lady, Sophia Furman, two years his junior, daughter of the Judge Garret Furman, of Maspeth, Long Island. They had at least four children: Mary Mapes Dodge, born Mary Elizabeth Mapes (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905), an American children's writer and editor; Sophy Mapes Tolles, an artist
As an inventor Mr. Dodge is singularly resourceful and direct, reaching his results by the short cut rather than the travelled road, and it has been noted that his original models and designs have rarely been improved by alteration.
James Mapes Dodge, 1852-1915, mechanical engineer, inventor, pioneer in industry by George Paull Torrence
James Mapes Dodge was a talented inventor, an excellent businessman, and a leader in the engineering profession. He was awarded more than 200 patents.
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