Horace Elgin Dodge

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Horace Elgin Dodge Sr. (May 17, 1868 – December 10, 1920) was an American automobile design pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.

Early years and business

He was born in Niles, Michigan, on May 17, 1868. His father owned both a foundry and machine shop. Both as children and adults, Horace Dodge and his elder brother John Francis Dodge were inseparable. The Dodge brothers immigrated to Detroit, Michigan, where they worked at a boilermaker plant in 1886. They were hired as machinists at the Canadian Typograph Company across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, in 1894.

Anna Thompson, a Scottish immigrant born in Dundee, married Horace Dodge in 1896. Horace Jr., the couple's son, and Delphine, their daughter. Hugh Dillman was a child actor who was subsequently married after Thompson's death.

Although brother John Dodge was the sales-oriented manager, Horace was a natural mechanic and inveterate tinkerer. He invented the first dirt-proof ball bearing; in 1897, John arranged a contract for them to work with a third-party owner to produce bicycles. They sold the company after a few years, and, in 1901, they opened their own machine shop in Detroit. The Dodge brothers' company began making automobile parts during their first year of existence.

Personal life

Despite their wealth and increasing success in the business world, the red-haired Dodge brothers' sarcastic demeanor made them socially ineffective to the majority of the wealthy Detroit community. Horace Dodge built Rose Terrace, a red sandstone mansion in Grosse Pointe, in 1912. Lake St. Clair is overlooked by the massive home with formal gardens and a boat dock.

This was replaced by a second Rose Terrace, built in the 1930s by architect Horace Trumbauer for Mrs. Dodge and her second husband are among her second spouses. The mansion, according to architectural historian W. Hawkins Ferry, is "unquestionably Grosse Pointe's most regal residence." The Dodges bought a large winter estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in addition to Rose Terrace. Anna, Horace's wife, had studied music, and in the process, they were granted admission by the city's social order. Horace and Anna Dodge, two main benefactors of the new Detroit Symphony Orchestra, were instrumental in the orchestra's construction, and they will play a key role.

Horace Dodge, a speedboat and yachting enthusiast, became involved in the vessel's engines, leading him to establish a marine division as part of their car industry. He bought several steam yachts, each larger and more luxurious than the previous. The first two major yachts were all purchased by the government for World War I service, with the second being described as a "floating palace" shortly after completion, even as it was being stripped for Navy use shortly after completion. The last, which was designated by the Delphine for his daughter after observing the Nokomis tradition in the early stages of development, was a 257.8-meter (78.6 m) vessel. In 1920, construction began in 1920 and was completed in 1921, following his death. During World War II, the yacht suffered a sinking, a dive into rocks, and service as a United States Navy patrol boat. The Delphine went through several owners and owners before major repairs, and it now sails the Mediterranean as a luxury charter.

Johnny Dodge, Horace Dodge's great-grandson, is a film director.

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