************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

Submitted by Cheryl Van Wormer.



				HARVEY W. DODGE.

HARVEY W. DODGE, who is now engaged in the grocery business in Saranac, has lived in Ionia County
since 1856, when, a youth of sixteen years, he accompanied his parents hither.  He has seen many 
changes in this region and has done much for the advancement and improvement thereof, especially 
of the town in which he is now living.  This was a village containing but eight or nine houses 
when he first set eyes upon it, and all but two of the brick stores that now adorn its streets 
were built under contracts he made.
	Mr. Dodge was born in Wyoming county, N. Y., July 24, 1840, and is a son of William R. 
and Mary S. (Noble) Dodge.  His parents were born in New York, the one being of German and the 
other of English descent.  The father was a mason and followed his trade the greater part of his 
life, but is now living in retirement in Saranac.  He is now seventy-seven and his wife 
seventy-two years old; both belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
	Our subject was reared in Wyoming County, N. Y., and received a common school education 
there.  When he accompanied his parents to this State he found employment on a farm and continued
to labor as a farm hand two years.  He then began work at the mason's trade, which he thoroughly 
mastered and at which he worked summers until 1888.  During the winter months he worked in a 
sawmill.  At the date mentioned he went to Lake Odessa and for ten months ran a hotel there, 
then returned to Saranac and remodeled a hotel here and carried it on about five months.  The 
building was then destroyed by fire and in the fall of 1890 he embarked in the grocery trade and
 still carries it on with good results.
	Mr. Dodge was married to Miss Mary J. Campbell of Lowell, November 6, 1860, and two 
children have been born of the union.  Carrie, the first-born is deceased, but Melvin still 
gladdens the home by his love.  Mrs. Dodge is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.  Mr. Dodge is a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge in Saranac and of the society of the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen.  His political connection is with the Prohibition party.  Both 
Mr. and Mrs. Dodge command the respect of their associates and number many sincere friends among 
them.



This biography is taken from "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, 
MICH."  Chapman Brothers.  Chicago, Illinois.  1891.  Pages 816-817.