Albert Baldwin Dod

Dod was born on March 24, 1805, in Mendham, New Jersey. He was the son of Daniel Dod (1778–1823) and Nancy (née Squire) Dod (1780–1851).{{cite web|title=Nancy Squire Dod|url=http://librarycollections.stevens.edu/items/show/377|website=librarycollections.stevens.edu|publisher=Stevens Digital Collections|access-date=23 September 2017}} His mother was the sister of Dr. Ezra Squire, of Caldwell, New Jersey.

After a religious awakening while at college in Princeton, where he graduated with the class of 1822, Dod became affiliated with the influential Princeton Theologians. He published frequently in the group's chief outlet, the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, edited by Charles Hodge.{{cite book|title=Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Vol. 17 No. 4|date=1845|publisher=The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review|page=505|url=http://scdc.library.ptsem.edu/mets/mets.aspx?src=BR1845174&div=2|access-date=23 September 2017|language=en}} Among his publications there, an attack on Transcendentalism (perhaps written with James Waddel Alexander; published in the January 1839 issue) attracted wide notice and was later republished by Andrews Norton.{{cite book|last1=Dod|first1=Albert B. (Albert Baldwin)|title=Essays, theological and miscellaneous, reprinted from the Princeton Review : Second series, including the contributions of the late Rev. Albert B. Dod, D.D|date=1847|publisher=Wiley and Putnam|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/essaystheologica00doda|access-date=23 September 2017}}

For much of his life he taught mathematics at the college, and participated in theological discussion and preaching at the Seminary, in Princeton.{{cite book|last1=Smith, A. M|first1=Francis H.|title=The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review Vol. 13 No. 4|date=1841|location=Princeton, New Jersey|url=http://scdc.library.ptsem.edu/mets/mets.aspx?src=BR1841134&div=2&img=1|access-date=23 September 2017|language=en}} The Doctorate in Divinity, though, was conferred on him by the University of North Carolina and by New York University.{{cite book|title=The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Index Volume (1825-1868) Part II. Index to Authors|location=Princeton, New Jersey|page=112|url=http://scdc.library.ptsem.edu/mets/mets.aspx?src=BR1825-1868&div=2&img=112|access-date=23 September 2017|language=en}}

Dod married Caroline Smith Bayard (1807–1891), the daughter of Samuel Bayard (1766-1840) and granddaughter of Continental Congressman John Bubenheim Bayard (1738-1808), all descendants of Peter Stuyvesant.{{cite book|last1=Bulloch|first1=Joseph Gaston Baillie|title=A History and Genealogy of the Families of Bayard, Houstoun of Georgia: And the Descent of the Bolton Family from Assheton, Byron and Hulton of Hulton Park, by Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch ...|date=1919|publisher=J. H. Dony, Printer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XQc7AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA6|access-date=September 23, 2017|language=en}} Together, Albert and Caroline had eight children:{{cite book|last1=Dod|first1=Stephen|last2=Dod|first2=Daniel|title=Family record of Daniel Dod, who settled with the colony of Branford, 1644, where he died in 1665; and also of his descendants in New Jersey|date=1839|publisher=East Haven, Conn., author|url=https://archive.org/stream/familyrecordofda00dodd/familyrecordofda00dodd_djvu.txt|access-date=23 September 2017}}

• Martha Bayard Dod (1831–1899), who married Edwin Augustus Stevens (1795–1868), founder of Stevens Institute of Technology.
• Caroline Bayard Dod (1832–1859), who married Richard Stockton (1824–1876), son of Robert F. Stockton and grandson of Richard Stockton, both U.S. senators.{{cite news |title=Obituary Notes. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-obituary-notes/171253844/ |access-date=2025-04-27 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=4 |date=6 April 1876 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• Albert Baldwin Dod (1835–1880), a Captain during the U.S. Civil War{{cite book|last1=Lee|first1=Francis Bazley|title=Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ...|date=1910|publisher=Lewis historical Publishing Company|page=205|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZE-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205|access-date=23 September 2017|language=en}}{{cite news |title=Miss Rose Stover to be June Bride; Betrothal of Stamford Girl to A, B. Dod Jr. Announced by Her Parents. Both are of Old Families; Descended From Leaders of Colonial Days -- BridegroomElect Princeton Senior. |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1936-05-10_85_28596/page/n47/mode/1up |access-date=2025-04-27 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=N5 |date=10 May 1936 |via=Internet Archive}} who married Elizabeth A. Mcintosh on June 16, 1858.
• Julia Washington Dod (1836–1837), who died young.
• Samuel Bayard Dod (1837–1907), who married Isabella Williamson Green (1840–1883),{{cite news |title=Samuel B. Dod Dead.; He Was a Financier, a clergyman, and an Educator and Artist. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-samuel-b-dod-dead/171254049/ |access-date=2025-04-27 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=9 |date=21 April 1907 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |title=Recent Weddings in Orange.; The Dod-Colgate Marriage the Chief Event of the Week. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1894/10/21/archives/recent-weddings-in-orange-the-dodcolgate-marriage-the-chief-event.html |access-date=2025-04-27 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=18 |date=21 October 1894}} the granddaughter of Ashbel Green, 8th President of Princeton University.
• Susan Bratford Dod (1840–1912), who married her brother-in-law Richard Stockton after her sister's death in 1859.{{cite news |title=Died. Stockton |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-died-stockton/171254170/ |access-date=2025-04-27 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=9 |date=6 August 1912 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• Charles Hodge Dod (1841–1864), a Captain on the staff of Maj. General Winfield Scott Hancock during the civil war who died in service.
• Mary Dod (b. 1843).

The 1840 US census records Dod as owning one female slave aged ten to twenty-four.{{cite web |last1=Mack |first1=Jessica R. |title=Albert Dod |url=https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/albert-dod |website=Princeton & Slavery |publisher=The Trustees of Princeton University |access-date=31 May 2023}} This is the latest known instance of a Princeton professor owning slaves; Dod was also one of the last slaveholders in the community of Princeton as well as New Jersey overall. The state adopted a system of gradual emancipation in 1804, meaning that the woman in Dod's household was born to an enslaved mother between 1816 and 1830, and that she would be manumitted when she came of age.

Dod died of pleurisy after a brief illness on November 20, 1845.{{cite book|last1=Sprague|first1=William Buell|title=Annals of the American Pulpit: Presbyterian|date=1858|publisher=R. Carter|page=[https://archive.org/details/annalsamericanp18spragoog/page/n752 737]|url=https://archive.org/details/annalsamericanp18spragoog|access-date=23 September 2017|language=en}}

In 1869, his son Samuel Bayard Dod (Princeton Class of 1857) established an Endowed Professorship at Princeton University in mathematics in memory of him.{{cite web|title=Endowed Professorships|url=http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/endowed_professorships.html|website=etcweb.princeton.edu|access-date=23 September 2017}} In 1926, his great-grandson, Richard Stockton III, commissioned a bust of Dod which was placed at Dod Hall, the undergraduate dormitory named in his honor.{{cite news |title=Dod Bust for Princeton.; Gift of Professor's Great-Grandson to Be Placed in Dod Hall. |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1926-07-18_75_25012/page/n8/mode/1up |access-date=2025-04-27 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=9 |date=18 July 1926 |via=Internet Archive}}

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