Fred A. Dodge

DODGE

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 19:40:31

Fred A. Dodge, editor of the “Eclipse,” was born in Dunham Township, McHenry county, Illinois, on December 2, 1858. He was the youngest son of Elisha and Susan Dodge, who settled in that locality in 1839. He was brought up on the farm where he enjoyed the privilege of attending district school until eighteen years of age, when he moved with his family to Howard, Illinois, where he attended the high school until September, 1878, at which date he came to Parksburg (sic), Iowa, and began work at the printer’s trade in the “Eclipse” office, then owned by Frank L. Dodge. In September, 1880, he bought an interest in the “Eclipse,” and when they established the Allison “Tribune,” in the spring of 1881, he assumed editorial control of the “Eclipse,” which position he is now filling, and is also associated with Frank L. Dodge in the publication of the Allison “Tribune.”
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 316