User:Elfalem/David Low Dodge
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David Low Dodge was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, on June 14th 1774 and died in New York City, April 23rd, 1852. He was at first a teacher, but later began selling dry goods in Hartford, Connecticut. He also managed the first cotton factory built in Connecticut, near the town of Norwich. In the early 1800s he relocated to New York City. He helped to establish the New York Peace Society and was a founder of the New York Bible Society and the New York Tract Society. He was the father of William E. Dodge and great-grandfather of Grace Hoadley Dodge.
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[edit] Biography
David Low Dodge was born on June 14th, 1774 in Brooklyn, Connecticut. His parents were David Earl Dodge and Mary Stuart. David Dodge was an English and Welsh colonial stock. His mother is said to be the daughter of a Scotch nobleman. From the age of seven to fourteen, except two months of district school in winter, he was working on a farm in Hampton, Connecticut. He was a teacher at the age of nineteen first in community schools then in private ones. On June 7, 1798, he married Sarah, the daughter of Rev. Aaron Cleveland.
[edit] Founded Organizations
- New York Peace Society
- New York Tract Society
- New York Bible Society
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- The Mediator's Kingdom not of This World (1809)
- War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ (1812)
[edit] External link
[http://www.famousamericans.net/davidlowdodge/ Short Biography]

