Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-04
GENERAL DODGE,
WAR VETERAN,
CALLED To REST
Prominent Resident of Council
Bluffs Succumbs at the Age
of Nearly Eighty-Five
Years.
PIONEER RAILROAD BUILDER
One Of the Men Who Joined the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
with Links of Steel.
TO HAVE MILITARY FUNERAL

General Grenville NJ. Dodge died
Monday afternoon at o'clock fol-
lowing a long illness at his home in
Council Bluffs.
General Dodge became very i'll
some time ago and for the last week
was unable to take any nourishment.
Arrangements have been made for
a military funeral. Four companies
of the Iowa militia from Council
Bluffs, Red Oak, Shenandoah and
Glenwood will form the Iowa bat
talon, and five companies of the Ne
braska National guard from Omaha
will take part.
The Generals Family,
General Dodge had three daughters,
Mrs. Montgomery. Mrs. Frank NJ. Pusey
and Miss Annie Dodge. Both of the
latter two reside In New York, where the
generals wife also lives and\ has lived
for many years. All live on Riverside
drive. Mrs. Dodge went to New York
many years ago for the purpose of per-
AhiAtihS uduBnlSIs <Annles TO prose-
cute her art studies. Mrs. Dodge did
not come. She is old and very i'll. They
, have been estranged for many years, but
the husband amply provided for her and
her daughter. They never ceased to be
friendh
General Dodge had several grandchil-
dren. Grenville and Langford Mont
gomery, sons OF his daughter, are men OF
prominence. Grenville lives in Philadel-
phia. and Langford is a naval officer
He is commander of the destroyer Hamil-
ton. Mrs. Eleanor Parker is the daughter
of Mrs. Montgomery. She is in New York
with the other members of the family
There is one great-grandson, Grenville
Montgomery, In Philadelphia. The gen.
eral has one sister, Mrs. Baird, al
Boulder. Colo.
The Generals Career.
The death of General Grenville Melleu
Dodge marks the passing of one of Iowa &
most distinguished and best loved citi-
zens. 1t marks the passing of man who
was known not only throughout the
length and breadth of his adopted state
but a man whose name was familiar
throughout the United States and one
whose fame had spread to foreign lands.
General Dodge was the last of the de-
partment commanders Of the federal
armies OF the civil war. He was also the
last of the men who conceived and VIC rked
to a conclusion the problem OF linking
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans together
by rail, for it was General Dodge who in
great measure was responsible for the
construction of the Union Pacific rail-
road. much of which was builded under
his supervision, thus placing his home
city and Omaha on the great transcon-
tinental highway.
Eishty-FOur Years old.
General Dodge was born in Putnam
vile, near Danvers, Mass, April 1e, 1881
His father conducted a little bookstore
in the postoffice building in South Dan
vers and here young Dodge worked even
ings during the winter. He was great
reader and recently he told caller that
when a boy in the store he read about
all the books on the shelves, liking best
those that dealt with scientific topics
not caring for fiction or anything Of the
kind.
Summers young Dodge found employ
ment driving the delivery wagon for the
village butcher. In due time he was
graduated from the village school and In
1876 entered the Norwich university al
Norwich VT, taking the military and
scientific course. Four years later he wal
graduated as a civil engineer and the
following year he entered Captain Part
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