Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-15
Council Bluffs
Mp, DODGE WESTERN PIONEER
Intimately Connected with Growth Of
Iowa and Nebraska.
GEN. DODGE TELLS OF HIS LIFE
Prepares short sketch, Telling Of
Early StruEEIe in Community
Funeral Monday Afternoon
At Late Home.

~ hANN hNAANa
The announcement Of the death Of N.
p Dodge Friday morning brought uni
versaI expressions Of sorrow in Council
Bluffs II was known that he was quite I'll,
but no one was prepared for the shock
caused by the news of his death. He died
shortly after midnight yesterday morning
at his home on the corner of Third street
and Fifth avenue in the fine new home
which he had occupied with his family for
the last two years Arrangements for the
funeral were made yesterday. II will be
held on Monday afternoon at o'clock
at the residence. Burial will be In Walnut
HIN cemetery.
No one could feel the weight Of the be-
reavement more keenly than does Gren-
willie NJ. Dodge his distinguished brother
They were bound together by ties even
stronger than simple brotherhood. Each
relied upon the other TO the fullest extent
and every act of the life OF each. so far
as It related to the other wes a helpful
act
General Dodge Tells of Life.
Yesterday General Dodge prepared this
simple biography of the brother he loved
so well:
Nathan Phillips Dodge was born August
90 1887, at South Danvers, now Peabody,
Mass. He was a son of Sylvanus and Julia
Teresa Dodge, both citizens of this city
for a long time.
He received his education in the COM
mon and high school OF Danvers, and
spent his boyhood days in his fathers
book store and the postoffice, his father
being the postmaster In May, 1854, he
came west to Iowa City and Joined his
brothers, Major General Grenville NJ,
Dodge, engineering corps, then surveying
the Rock Island railroad through Iowa He
continued with the engineering party I'M
I'll March, 1858, when his father came
west
They purchased team and drove from
Davenport to the Elkhorn river in Ne
braska, where his brother was settled and
had made, claims for his father and
brother. He pre-empted and entered his
claim and still owned It at the time OF
his death. They remained on the Elkhorn
river, building their cabins and opened up
the farms, until driven out by the Indians.
The Pawnee village WIS only twelve miles
from the cabins. directly southwest across
the Platte river, and during the summer
there opened up a conflict between the
different tribes OF Indians which ended
finally in the killing of three or four set
tiers north of their cabins and all the
settlers were obliged to abandon their
homes and move to Omaha.
Move to Omaha.
There the Dodge family occupied a log
cabin, just south of the present Burlington
station. Troops were sent out to the Elk
horn and lived in the deserted cabins
Tn February, 1885, he N. p. Dodge, en-
tered the service of Baldwin & Dodge,
bankers and real estate agents, and had
charge Of their business until 1878, when
| they organized the Pacific National bank.
| turning over all their real estate business
to N. p. Dodge. He soon after formed a
partnership with Judge Caleb Baldwin,
which was continued until the death of
Judge Baldwin. He had continued the real
estate business up to the time Of his death.
his last partner being Mr.. Robert Wallace.
He was also for several years the presi-
dent of the Council Bluffs Savings bank
and was a director of that institution lid
to this time During 1857 and 1858 he was
| a hard student and on June 20 1857 be
said: I found the need OF more education
and was ready to take ADVANTAGE Of any
opportunity which presented itself wherebv
] could study and at the same time per-
form my office duties. 1 generally had TO
get my lessons after p. M, but studied
faithfully, and II was a great future ban
eft to me-
MI Dodge. from the time he settled IN
Council Bluffs as a young man, took an
active part in everything that interested
the city and especially an active interes,
In everything that was done for the aid ot
the soldiers in the field in the civil war
and from that time until this he had beer
one OF its most valued and active citizens
prominent in all charity and church work
being prominent member OF the Congre-
gational church, and was never appealed
to in vain.
interested in History.
During all his life he had taken a great
interest in the history Of the western coun-
try, and had gathered together and util.
lied a very large amount of valuable ma,
terial, and was probably the best posted
man in the history of this vicinity from tn,
| time he came here until the present. HI,
papers on early pioneer days and the early
settlers. and especially his last paper
printed in the Nonparen last wednesda,
on the WOmans aid and Sanitary com
| missions during the civil war. show how
/ thoroughly he had studied that subject
There has never been anything written II
Iowa that gives as accurate an account al
this paper.
Ever since 1870 he had had entire charg,
e OF all his brothers personal business H,
was a man devoted TO his family, retirinl
and modest avoiding all publicity-to,
Z much so. He-w known by all men VIII,
{ have ever transacted any business Will
! him as being the soul OF honor. and Mi
word was as good as a bond. No one wa
e ever known to question it, and his dealt
! will be mOurned not only by our city, bu
r by all those companies and people VIII,
e have had business relations with him
ION September % 1854 he married Mis-
% Susanne Lockwood, who was a devote,
wife and survives him. Their children
4 were Carrie Louise Dodge, John Lockwood,
9 Dodge, Nathan Phillips Dodge, Euel
e Dodge, now Mrs. f. H. Scott OF Omaha
: and Grenville Mellen Dodge, who was borl
. August 30, 1880, and died July r. 1881"
THEY WERE DRESSED in the country
. bunch of fine spring chickens, TODAY a
n 1915 cents per pound. We have more O
a those fine tangerine oranges, / cent each
large navels at 30 cents dozen; Ben Davi
At panta narks Z