Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.
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Spouse | Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge |
Children | Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr. |
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr. (February 28, 1881 – December 25, 1963) was the chairman of the board of
Biography
He was born on February 28, 1881, to Emma Hartley, who died from complication of childbirth on March 3, 1881, and Norman White Dodge.[2]
His paternal grandfather was
His maternal grandfather was Marcellus Hartley, a merchant and financier of Manhattan. His grandfather had provided a home on Thirty-seventh Street adjoining his on Madison Avenue for his daughter, Emma, as a wedding present when she had married Norman W. Dodge on May 6, 1880. Emma died on March 3, 1881, a few days after the birth of her son. [1] Several years after the death of his mother, his father remarried on January 5, 1897,[2] [3] and Marcellus was raised by his maternal grandparents. [4] Marcellus Hartley died in 1902 and left his grandson as heir to $60 million (approximately $2,112,923,000 today) at the age of twenty-one, while he was attending Columbia University and living with his grandmother, Frances Chester Hartley, at 282 Madison Avenue in Manhattan.
Education and early adulthood
In 1903, Dodge was graduated from
Upon his graduation, he and his maternal aunt, Helen Hartley Jenkins (Mrs. George W. Jenkins), presented the Hartley Hall dormitory to Columbia. The building became Columbia's largest dormitory and created more of a college atmosphere for the new campus in Morningside Heights.
Well known in society and an avid
Marriage
In 1907, Dodge became engaged and married to
Soon, they bought all of the land between two estates held by his family in Morris County, New Jersey, that lay between Spring Valley Road in the community of New Vernon and Madison Avenue in Madison. Most of the area is part of the Harding Township area that extends from Chatham to Morristown. The last portion purchased, that had belonged to Charles W. Harkness, the third largest stockholder of Standard Oil shares, named Giralda Farms, was purchased by Geraldine in 1923. She maintained it as a grand country estate among the rolling hills.
Eventually, they resided separately on the adjoining estates. He preferred the New Jersey setting and maintained his residence in New Vernon throughout his life, but his wife regularly stayed in her Manhattan residence for two or three days each week.
Dodge expanded the house at "Hartley Farms", which initially had been used as a country retreat associated with his family's charitable organization,
They had one child, Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., who died in an automobile crash in Mogesca, France in 1930.[4] His mother built an extensive memorial to him as a civic center in Madison along with the train station she built opposite the center. They also donated a structure on the campus of Princeton University, from which their son had been graduated shortly before his death.
At the time of his marriage, Dodge was the president and a director of the
An accomplished
Remington Arms Company
Eventually, Dodge became the chairman of
Following the business tradition established by his grandfather at the time of the
Columbia University board of directors
He was a member of the board of trustees of Columbia University, his alma mater. [5] As noted repeatedly in this article, he made many donations to the university and he was the founder of the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Cup that is awarded in crew. The Marcellus Hartley Dodge Award is bestowed in his honor.[6] A bronze plaque dedicated to Dodge and bearing his likeness is displayed at the university.
Champion of the Great Swamp
When the remnants of
Dodge was one of the first trustees of the North American Wildlife Foundation that completed the acquisition of enough of the Great Swamp to protect the massive natural resource. Legislation was introduced that was championed by
The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was dedicated in 1968. It was named the M. Hartley Dodge Wildlife Refuge,[6] in honor of his son.
Death
Dodge died on
Legacy
In
References
- ^ a b "Marcellus Hartley Dodge Dies. Ex-Remington Arms Chairman. Philanthropist Inherited $60 Million at 26. Married Ethel Rockefeller in '07. Wife's Fortune Larger. Columbia Benefactor". The New York Times. December 26, 1963. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge, honorary chairman of the board of Remington Arms Company, died here today at his home. He was 82 years old and lived at Giralda Farms.
- ^ "Emma Hartley Dodge". FamilySearch. Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,322,597. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
- New York Times, September 16, 1906
- New York Times. August 31, 1930. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., grand-nephew of J.D. Rockefeller Jr., was instantly killed and his companion on an automobile trip in France, Ralph Applegate, was seriously injured when their car
- The World's Work: A History of Our Time. XXXI: 321–333. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
- ^ "Marcellus Hartley Dodge Award" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-05-30.
- ^ "Letter from Marcellus Hartley Dodge to Nicholas Murray Butler". Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.fws.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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External links
- Marcellus Hartley Dodge letter at the Wayback Machine (archived September 7, 2006)