William E. Dodge Jr.

Dodge was born in New York City on February 15, 1832, the eldest son of Melissa (née Phelps) Dodge and William E. Dodge Sr. (1805–1883), a U.S. Representative from New York. His father and maternal grandfather, Anson Greene Phelps, were co-founders of the import firm of Phelps Dodge.{{cite news |title=William E. Dodge Dead. Had Been in Poor Health, but Condition Caused No Alarm. Heart Disease the Cause of Death. Many and Varied Activities of His Long Career |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F6091FF83C5D11738DDDA90994D0405B838CF1D3 |quote=William E. Dodge of New York died this afternoon at 5 o'clock at Stanwood, his Summer home here. Mr. Dodge had been in poor health for several months. He was a member of the New York metal house of Phelps, Dodge Co., and was seventy-one years of age. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 10, 1903 |accessdate=2011-03-15 }}

Dodge was very active in his support of the Union cause during the Civil War, becoming a member of the Union League Club and an advisor to the Women's Central Association of Relief. His service on a commission of the State of New York to supervise the conditions of New York State troops in the field led the New York Legislature to pass a resolution honoring him for his work.

He began working for the Phelps Dodge Corporation, and in 1864 was named a partner in the firm.Beach, Frederick Converse and Rines, George Edwin. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library. New York: The Americana Co., 1911. Dodge and his cousin, Daniel Willis James, transformed the Phelps Dodge company from a placid and profitable import business into one of the world's largest and wealthiest mining corporations. The Phelps Dodge company had decided to enter the mining industry, and hired professor of chemistry James Douglas to make an inspection of mining claims in the Southwestern United States. Douglas suggested that the two men invest in the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona, which owned a copper mining claim in Warren, Arizona.Cleland, Robert Glass. A History of Phelps Dodge: 1834–1950. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. In 1881, Phelps Dodge not only took a controlling interest in the Detroit Copper Mining Company but also purchased a minority interest in the adjoining Copper Queen Mine in Bisbee, Arizona.Whitten, David O.; Whitten, Bessie Emrick; and Sisaye, Seleshi. The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860–1914: Commercial, Extractive, and Industrial Enterprise. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. {{ISBN|0-313-32395-X}} After the Copper Queen and Detroit Copper both struck the Atlanta lode"Phelps Dodge Corporation." In International Directory of Company Histories. Vol. 75. Jay P. Pederson, ed. Florence, Ky.: St. James Press, 2006. {{ISBN|1-55862-579-8}} in 1884, Phelps Dodge bought out the remaining interest in the Copper Queen. The company merged its various mining interests into the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company in 1885, and installed Douglas as president and part-owner.

With production in the Bisbee expanding, Dodge and his business partners formed the Arizona and South Eastern Railroad (later more widely known as the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad) in 1888. In time, Dodge sat on the board of directors of a number of mining, railroad, real estate, water, and other companies, and Phelps Dodge was on its way to becoming one of the largest mining companies in the world.

Dodge had other interests outside of Phelps Dodge, too. He was a leader of the Ansonia Clock Company, American Brass Company, Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, Lackawanna Steel Company, Morningside Realty Company, United Globe Mines, and the New York Life Insurance Company. He was vice president of the New York Chamber of Commerce at the time of his death.

A Presbyterian, Dodge was president of the American branch of the Evangelical Alliance and the National Temperance Society (as his father was before him), and vice-president of the American Sunday School Union. He was active in the New York City chapter of the Young Men's Christian Association, and led the efforts to build the chapter's first and second buildings.

He was chairman of the National Arbitration Committee, and helped raise funds for and guide the Metropolitan Museum of Art (he was chairman of the executive committee), the American Museum of Natural History (he was vice-president for a time), and the New York Botanical Garden

He was a member of the Linnean Society, American Historical Association, New York Academy of Sciences, American Fine Arts Society, New York Geographical Society, New-York Historical Society, the New England Society of New York, the Century Association, and the National Academy of Design.

In April 1854, Dodge was married to Sarah Tappan Hoadley (1832–1909), daughter of David Hoadley, president of the Panama Railroad Company. Together, the couple had six children:{{cite book |last1=Dodge |first1=Joseph Thompson |title=Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Mass. 1629-1894: 1629-1898 |date=1898 |publisher=Democrat Printing Company |pages=606–607 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCJKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA598-IA20 |accessdate=21 March 2019 |language=en}}

• Grace Hoadley Dodge (1856–1914), who co-founded Teacher's College and was the first woman to sit on the New York City Board of Education.{{cite news |title=Miss Dodge Left $6,977,747 Estate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/12/31/archives/miss-dodge-left-6977747-estate-teachers-college-and-ywca-to-share.html |quote=Miss Grace Hoadley Dodge, noted for her philanthropic activities in New York, left a net estate of $6,977,747 when she died on Dec. 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 directly to religious, charitable, and educational institutions. |newspaper=New York Times |date=December 31, 1915 |accessdate=2011-03-15 }}
• William Earl Dodge III (1858–1886), who married Emmeline Harriman (1859–1938), daughter of Oliver Harriman, in 1879. After his death, she married Stephen Henry Olin.{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special To The New York|title=MRS. EMELINE H. OLIN IS DEAD AT NEWPORT; Daughter of Oliver Harriman Is Stricken After Brief Illness |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/08/14/96834072.pdf |accessdate=25 August 2017|work=The New York Times|date=14 August 1938}}
• Cleveland Hoadley Dodge (1860–1926), who followed his father into the family business and founded the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation in 1917.[http://www.chdodgefoundation.org/history.shtml History of the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation].
• Mary Melissa Hoadley Dodge (1861–1934), who did not marry.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05E2D91F30E233A2575AC0A9669D946697D6CF "Miss Dodge acquires Warwick House", New York Times, 9 Oct 1907]
• Alice Clinton Hoadley Dodge (1865–1948), who married philanthropist William Church Osborn who served as the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Morris Jesup Dodge (1867–1875), who died young.{{cite book|last1=Dodge|first1=Phyllis B.|title=Tales of the Phelps-Dodge Family|date=1987|publisher=New-York Historical Society|location=New York|page=Inside cover-family chart}}

William E. Dodge Jr. died of heart failure on August 9, 1903, at his summer home in Bar Harbor, Maine.

In 1905, Sarah Tappan Hoadley purchased the Willamette Meteorite, and after displaying it at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, she donated it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where it has been on display since 1906.{{cite web |url=https://ingeniumcanada.org/channel/articles/tomanowos-a-visitor-from-the-sky-or-moon-a-brief-look-at-the-largest-north |title=Tomanowos, a visitor from the sky or Moon: A brief look at the largest North American meteorite known today |first=Rénald |last=Fortier |website=ingeniumcanada.org |publisher=Ingenium |date=February 6, 2022 |accessdate=February 14, 2025}}

In 1863,1863 is the date of the design, according to John Zukowsky, "Castles on the Hudson" Winterthur Portfolio 14.1 (Spring 1979:73–92, ) pp. 79–81, illus. fig. 11, showing the later addition above the deep verandah. The house was completed in 1864, a date often cited. Dodge built a summer retreat known as Greyston, a gambrel-roofed Gothic Revival mansion of granite designed by James Renwick Jr., in Riverdale, Bronx, New York City.Ultan, Lloyd and Hermalyn, Gary. The Birth of the Bronx: 1609–1900. New York: Bronx County Historical Society, 2000. {{ISBN|0-941980-38-3}}. With Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, and Ingleside, Dobbs Ferry, it is one of only three mid-nineteenth century survivors along the intensely redeveloped lower Hudson.Zukowsky 1979:79–80. His Dodge heirs donated it in 1961 as a conference center for Teachers College, Columbia University, who used it until the 1970s, then sold it to Zen Buddhist Community, who sold it again.{{cite news |title=A Renwick Design; Gothic Revival In Riverdale |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D71530F93BA15755C0A961948260 |quote=The current owner and occupant is the Zen Buddhist Community, a religious group whose president is Bernard Glassman. But the house was originally built as a summer retreat for William E. Dodge Jr., a merchant and philanthropist whose family helped found Columbia University's Teachers College late in the 19th century. |newspaper=New York Times |date=June 28, 1978 |accessdate=2011-03-15 }}

{{chart top|width=75%|Family Tree of William Earl Dodge Jr.{{cite book|last1=Dodge|first1=Phyllis|title=Tales of the Phelps-Dodge Family|date=1987|publisher=New York Historical Society|page=Inside front cover}}}}

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(1774–1852)|MAR1=Married
1798|SC=Sarah Cleveland
(1780–1862)|AGP=Anson Green Phelps
(1781–1853)|MAR2=Married
1806|OE=Olivia Egleston
(1784–1859)}}

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Sarah Hoadley
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Rebecca Grew
(1836–1927)
m(2).1886
Rachel Rose Voorhees
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(1836–1921)
m(1).1860
Ellen Ada Phelps
(1838–1880)
m(2).1885
Elizabeth Scott Boyd
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(1841–1910)
m.1863
Maria Theresa
Bradhurst Schieffelin
(1840–1910)|NWD=Norman White Dodge
(1846–1907)
m(1).1869
Grace Gillette
(1848–1870)
m(2).1880
Emma Hartley
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Dodge
(1849–1904)
m.1874
May Cossitt
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(1852–1896)
m.1875
Josephine Jewell
(1855–1928)}}

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(1858–1886)

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Emmeline Harriman
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(1860–1926)
m.1883
Grace Parish
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(1861–1934)|ACHD=Alice Clinton Hoadley Dodge
(1865–1948)
m.1886
William Church Osborn
(1861–1951)|MJD=Morris Jesup Dodge
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