225:. 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. Several years after the death of his mother, his father remarried on January 5, 1897, and Marcellus was raised by his maternal grandparents. 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
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Manhattan residence for two or three days each week.
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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
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in 1930. His mother built an extensive memorial to him as a civic center in
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in 1959 to protect it by purchasing properties to assemble for donation to the government as a federal park. Dodge, being close to the area and fiscally capable, joined their efforts.
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1096:Columbia College (New York) alumni
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295:Well known in society and an avid
245:In 1903, Dodge was graduated from
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1101:Burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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543:E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company
467:Bridgeport Gun Implement Company
463:Union Metallic Cartridge Company
1071:People from the Upper East Side
922:"Marcellus Hartley Dodge Award"
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1026:Marcellus Hartley Dodge letter
881:"America, A New World Arsenal"
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217:His maternal grandfather was
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609:Champion of the Great Swamp
444:Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr.
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702:Low Memorial Library
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502:Spring Valley Hounds
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741:The New York Times
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