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  2. Nov 13, 2009 · John Dodge died that month, while Horace passed away later that same year, on December 10. In 1925, the brothers’ widows sold the Dodge Brothers Company to an investment bank for $146 million.

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    Founded as the Dodge Brothers Company machine shop by brothers Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge in the ... in return for $10,000 worth of ... (net) profit ($ ...

  4. Nov 10, 2020 · The brothers epitomized the American dream of rising from humble beginnings to vast wealth. They were rough and tumble, hard drinking blue-collar men from Niles, Michigan. John Francis was born in 1864, Horace Elgin in 1868. Their grandfathers, father and uncles were machinists. Both were mechanically inclined.

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  5. Other articles where John F. Dodge is discussed: Horace E. Dodge and John F. Dodge: …first vehicles produced by the Dodge brothers. In 1901 they opened a machine shop in Detroit, making stove parts and, later, auto parts. The Dodge Brothers Company in 1910 established a large auto-parts plant in Hamtramck, Michigan. There the brothers made engines and other auto parts for the Ford Motor…

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    John Francis Dodge was born October 25, 1864, in Niles, Berrien, Michigan, USA, son of Daniel Rugg Dodge and Maria Duval Casto.John spent his childhood in Niles, Michigan. John married Ivy S. Hawkins September 22, 1892 in Detroit, Michigan.Their children included Winifred born 1894 in Michigan; Isabel C. born circa 1897 in Michigan; and John Duval ...

    Mechanics was a family affair, as John's father was a machinist who owned his own foundry and machine shop in Niles.John and his brother had their beginnings there, but worked toward their own endeavours. John and his brother Horace moved to Detroit in 1886, where they started working for a boilermaker. By 1894, they were working at the Canadian Ty...

    Both Dodge brothers died in 1920, after attending an auto expo in New York City. John passed away January 14, 1920, in Manhattan, Kings County, New York of the Spanish Flu, which he had contracted at the expo. He was buried 17 January 1920 at Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit.

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  6. Apr 20, 2021 · John Francis Dodge III (b.1982) He was brought up by his mother, a former actress and beauty queen who squeezed $20 million from the Dodge family in the 1960s, only to be declared bankrupt in 1978. She was also charged with raiding John's trust fund.

  7. Sep 23, 2018 · John Francis and Horace Elgin Dodge were born in 1864 and 1868, respectively, to Daniel and Maria Dodge, in Niles, Michigan--a quick gallop north of South Bend, Indiana, where their father, Daniel, operated a small foundry and machine shop along with two of his brothers. Despite their separation in age--John had a sister only a year older than ...

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