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Grace Hoadley Dodge

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Miss Grace Hoadley Dodge, noted for her philanthropic activities in New York, left a net estate of $ 6,977,747 when she died on December 27, 1914, according to the appraisal filed in the office of the State Controller yesterday by Transfer Tax Appraiser Kopp. More than $ 1,500,000 was bequeathed
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Committed to helping working girls, she organized the first Working Girls Society among a group of silk workers in 1884. According to Dodge, the specific objectives of the Society were to "furnish pleasant rooms where its members can pass the evening; to organize classes for mutual enjoyment and
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in Manhattan, on December 27, 1914, aged 58. She left an estate valued at $ 6,977,747 of which $ 1,500,000 was bequeathed directly to religious, charitable, and educational institutions. Among her estate was her home, known as Greystone, and various artworks, including a landscape painting by
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On February 16, 1885, eleven of the clubs in New York City united to form the Association of Working Girls' Societies, with Dodge as founder and driving force. She negotiated the merger of two opposing young women's groups into the
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in 1907 to protect female travelers from falling victim to vice, especially the so-called "white slave traffic" (the coercion of white women into prostitution). She had called for the creation of a National
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improvement; to collect a circulating library for use of members; and to develop co-operative measures which shall be for the benefit of the members."
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between 1872 and 1874. As a young woman, she taught Sunday school at the Madison Square Chapel and, later, at industrial schools for the
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She donated millions of dollars and years of service to philanthropic work. She was instrumental in forming the
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The Grace Dodge Career and Technical Education High School, named in her honor, was located in the
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Grace was born in Manhattan on May 21, 1856, the eldest of six children born to Sarah Tappan (
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Grace was mostly educated at home by private tutors, but also spent two years at
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directly to religious, charitable, and educational institutions.
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Society, but died before this could be accomplished.
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Index

Manhattan
New York
Miss Porter's School
William E. Dodge Jr.
Cleveland H. Dodge
Mary M. H. Dodge
William E. Dodge
David Hoadley
philanthropist
New York Board of Education
née
William Earl Dodge Jr.
Cleveland Hoadley Dodge
Mary Melissa Hoadley Dodge
Alice Clinton Hoadley Dodge
William Church Osborn
U.S. Representative
William E. Dodge
David Low Dodge
Anson Greene Phelps
Phelps Dodge
David Hoadley
Panama Railroad
David Hoadley
Miss Porter's School
Farmington, Connecticut
Children's Aid Society
Kitchen Garden Association
Teachers College
Columbia University

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