DODGE, WILLIAM EARL

(18041883), merchant and philanthropist, 6. Hartford, Conn. He received a common school education and as a boy worked in his father’s cotton mill at) Norwich. Father and son came to New York City in 1817 and he became an office boy in a wholesale dry-goods store. Hight years later he went into busine for himself, married the daughter of Anson G. Phelps, and with the latter formed the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., which dealt largely in metals. He acquired great railroad, insurance and lumber interests as well as mining properties. He was always interested in temperance and religious work, generously supported the Y.M.C.A. and willed substantial