A Third volume containing local history and personal sketches [of Saginaw and Lenawee counties, Michigan].

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PERSONAL SKETCHES FOR LENAWEE COUNTY

He began his business career as a clerk in the shoe store owned by
Barse & King, where he remained a few years. Later and for
more than twenty-five years prior to his death, he was employed as
a traveling salesman for the Simmons Boot and Shoe company of
Toledo, Ohio. During his long and faithful service for this company he became one of the best and most favorably known salesmen of southern and western Michigan. Mr. Dodge was married
at Adrian, December 27, 1894, to Florence Winnifred Weaver,
daughter of Clement Earle and Mary (Race) Weaver, of Adrian.
Mr. Weaver is remembered as having been an attorney-at-law,
prominent not only in his own locality but throughout the state
for nearly fifty years. He was attorney for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway company for more than thirty-five years.
Winnifred (Weaver) Dodge was born at Hudson, Michigan, July 4,
1864. She is, like her late husband, a descendant of honored pioneer
forebears. She is in the ninth generation from Clement Weaver,
who came from England in 1640 and was one of the originally
landed proprietors of Newport, Rhode Island. Her great-grandfather, Richard Weaver, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War
and her grandfather, William Weaver, was a Michigan pioneer in
1835. To Mr. and Mrs. Dodge was born a son, Frank Riley Dodge,
September 16, 1895, at Adrian. He was graduated from the high
school in his native city, 1913, attended Adrian College for one
year and in 1914 was appointed a midshipman at the United States
Naval Academy, Annapolis. Because of the World war, his class
was graduated in 1917, one year in advance of the appointed time.
He served throughout the war on the U. S. S. South Dakota, a
cruiser engaged in convoy duty. In 1918 he was advanced to the
rank of lieutenant, senior grade. In 1922 the Navy accorded him
a post-graduate course in radio engineering, and he was graduated
from Harvard University in June, 1924, receiving a master's degree
in electrical communication engineering. He was then assigned to
duty as communication officer on the staff of the commander of
Destroyer Squadron No. 11, and was with the battle fleet on the
Australian cruise of 1925. He is still engaged in duty with the Pacific fleet. He was married, May 29, 1918, to Miss Dorothy Graves
Clement, daughter of Mrs. Florence Graves Clement. of Adrian.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Dodge have one daughter, Elizabeth Winnifred, born in New York, August 3, 1919. Frank Philip Dodge was
a member of the Knights of Pythias and Elks lodges. In politics
he was a Democrat, but never an office-seeker, only interested ih
good citizenship and good government. He died in Adrian, January 8, 1921. He was a man of high character, upright and honorable in all his contacts in life. Though quiet and unassuming
by nature, he was possessed of a magnetic personality that made
and held a wide circle of friends. Mrs. Winnifred W. Dodge was
graduated from the Adrian high school in 1882, and besides her
home duties has been for years actively engaged in matters of
community welfare. She is a member of the Episcopal church and