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Dodge was born in Niles, Michigan, where his father ran a foundry and machine shop.John and his younger brother, Horace, were inseparable as children and as adults.The origins of the Dodge family was earlier thought to lie in Stockport, England, where a Dodge ancestral home still stands (Halliday Hill Farmhouse in Listed buildings in Stockport), however recent DNA testing conducted by the ...
Horace Elgin Dodge Sr. (May 17, 1868 – December 10, 1920) was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company. Early years and business [ edit ]
Chrysler was founded by Walter Chrysler on June 6, 1925, [1] when the Maxwell Motor Company (est. 1904) was re-organized into the Chrysler Corporation. [2]Walter Chrysler had originally arrived at the ailing Maxwell-Chalmers company in the early 1920s, having been hired to take over and overhaul the company's troubled operations just after a similar rescue job at the Willys car company.
CONVOY (45A: Group of vehicles) The mere mention of the word CONVOY (or it's appearance in a crossword) is enough to get the 1975 song of that name going through my head.
Henry Dodge (1782–1867), nineteenth-century politician; Henry Percival Dodge (1870–1936) Horace Elgin Dodge (1868–1920), automobile pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company; Jeremiah Dodge (1809–1877), Wisconsin pioneer; Joe Dodge (1922–2004), American jazz musician; John Dodge (disambiguation), multiple people
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After her husband died (only 11 months after his brother and Dodge-cofounder John Francis Dodge), she became a substantial owner of the Dodge company. She and John's widow Matilda sold the company in 1926 for US$146 million (equivalent to $2.51 billion in 2023) [ 2 ] to Dillon, Read & Co. , which was the largest cash transaction in history at ...
Matilda Dodge Wilson (née Rausch; October 19, 1883 – September 19, 1967) was an American politician and heiress who was the 43rd Lieutenant Governor of Michigan. Ranked as one of the wealthiest women in the world, [ 1 ] she was the widow of John Francis Dodge , who co-founded the Dodge motor car company in Detroit with his brother Horace ...